Dear DH, Taking out the garbage is your chore. You are welcome to do it at your leisure, up until the point it is overflowing. When it gets to be 110% full and smelly, I am going to make you take it out whether you want to or not. Don't grumble at me that it is cold/rainy/late and you will do it later when it's been full for at least a day. Signed Perfectly reasonable
I am completely flummoxed as to what you want our life to look like, beyond apparently "be so filthy rich neither of us has to work anymore". That's never going to happen.
Look, dude, I make about $300,000 per year. That's pretty damned good. I'm getting a little sick of you acting like we are poor. When we started talking about D.C. this morning and you said that moving there would be "throwing in the towel" and acted like it meant we were just resigning ourselves to the ghetto, I wanted to punch you.
I realize that you lived in a big effing house in California as a young child and neither of your parents worked very hard. Let me tell you a secret: that's because your grandmother was subsidizing the shit out of your family. Your dad spent his inheritance, leaving you with pretty much nothing. Which is still a butt load more than we will ever get from my family. Most of my family still lives in trailer parks or one very tiny step up from them.
So buck up, cupcake. You weren't born a Rockefeller. Neither was I. That means we work for a living. Or I work for a living while you sit around and act like I'm not a good enough provider.
Sincerely,
Your Wife (who makes more money than she ever had a right to expect to make)
Your wife makes more than most people in the US make combined. On her OWN, she's in the top 3% of the effing country. Pull your head out of your ass and start bowing down before her.
Signed, Someone who makes a damned good salary that isn't anywhere near $300k.
I realize that you're going out of town in a few weeks for a ski trip and feel guilty about it. Your offer to pay the neighbor to make extra of his family dinners and drop them by because I don't cook is nice, but a bit insulting. I CAN COOK. I ENJOY COOKING. But I have a kid who doesn't eat anything unless it's neon orange and a husband who doesn't 90% of what I cook... so I DON'T cook. The neighbor would just be bringing over stuff that no one would eat.
Signed, The wife who isn't sure how she feels about this whole scenario.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Feb 13, 2017 6:02:55 GMT -5
Dear self,
Great job on doing all the stacked up chores this weekend...not sure you can call it a win when you put all the christmas ornaments away and then prep the valentine cards for Tuesday
Post by erinshelley21 on Feb 13, 2017 7:11:02 GMT -5
Dear body, Do not let this baby come out before 2/28. Even though our house is 90% ready and work is 75% ready, she is not! No more contractions ok? Signed, I do not want another 36 weeker. A 35 weeker isn't okay either.
k3am, hi, lurker here. I busted my knee snowboarding, board rotated, knee did not. I, however had to be put on a sled and brought down. Pain killers and alcohol were my friend until the trip was over. I went to the doctor and had a sprained acl. All I could do was take it easy and wear a brace.
k3am , hi, lurker here. I busted my knee snowboarding, board rotated, knee did not. I, however had to be put on a sled and brought down. Pain killers and alcohol were my friend until the trip was over. I went to the doctor and had a sprained acl. All I could do was take it easy and wear a brace.
YAY for not lurking!
The advice line says don't bother coming in unless it's still awful in 4 weeks. It has it's moments where it feels almost like normal now, but mostly it's at like 50-60%
Dear body, Do not let this baby come out before 2/28. Even though our house is 90% ready and work is 75% ready, she is not! No more contractions ok? Signed, I do not want another 36 weeker. A 35 weeker isn't okay either.
If it makes you feel better, my girls were 35 weekers with zero NICU time and no issues with growing/feeding or anything. I know it's not ideal, but I always try to share that it can turn out ok. Fingers crossed your little one stays put though! More time is always better.
Dear body, Do not let this baby come out before 2/28. Even though our house is 90% ready and work is 75% ready, she is not! No more contractions ok? Signed, I do not want another 36 weeker. A 35 weeker isn't okay either.
If it makes you feel better, my girls were 35 weekers with zero NICU time and no issues with growing/feeding or anything. I know it's not ideal, but I always try to share that it can turn out ok. Fingers crossed your little one stays put though! More time is always better.
I know there are plenty of 35 weekers that thrive from the moment they are born. DS and I just struggled for the first few weeks and a lot of it had to do with him being born early. Of course I have the "if I knew then what I know now" list of things that will help if I do have to do it all over again so it hopefully won't be as bad.
Post by traveltheworld on Feb 13, 2017 16:04:17 GMT -5
Dear in-house position;
Please make me an offer. I promise I will think about it very carefully, and at the rate my work is going, I'm fairly certain I'll take it.
Signed, Someone feeling very trapped
Dear Job for DH that I spent two hours updating his cover letter/resume for:
Please make DH an offer. He is a wonderful employee and would be so perfect for this job. If I get my offer and you make DH an offer, then our decision to move would be a super easy one.
Signed, Wife who is really needing to get out of private practice but doesn't want her DH to not have a job.
Dear body, Do not let this baby come out before 2/28. Even though our house is 90% ready and work is 75% ready, she is not! No more contractions ok? Signed, I do not want another 36 weeker. A 35 weeker isn't okay either.
If it makes you feel better, my girls were 35 weekers with zero NICU time and no issues with growing/feeding or anything. I know it's not ideal, but I always try to share that it can turn out ok. Fingers crossed your little one stays put though! More time is always better.
I didn't remember that yours were 35 weekers. Our hospital automatically sends any babies born before 36 weeks to the NICU.
If it makes you feel better, my girls were 35 weekers with zero NICU time and no issues with growing/feeding or anything. I know it's not ideal, but I always try to share that it can turn out ok. Fingers crossed your little one stays put though! More time is always better.
I didn't remember that yours were 35 weekers. Our hospital automatically sends any babies born before 36 weeks to the NICU.
Really? We all went home after 3 days. Vaginal delivery and no NICU time, so nothing different from a single birth. But they were pretty big for 35 weeks. 5lbs 3 oz and 6 lbs 3 oz.
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