MBF 05/11 Edition

[anotherdreamer]

I hadn't backed up my photos since the end of January... I somehow accidentally deleted all the kids photos last night... It left the folders, but all the photos were gone. DH used software to recover some but a lot were corrupted. I think I have a lot on Shutterfly and FB but a lot are also just gone. I am an idiot I don't even know how it happened. DH maintains I couldn't have done that, but I believe I have stupid magic technology powers because how could that just happen?

[mamanorris]

The baby has an ear infection and ds1 has a sinus infection. Taking them to the doctors was rough, they are both miserable. I have gone to the pharmacy 2x to get the prescriptions and they still aren't ready. And I have to pee. Bad.

[Liv]

May 11, 2015 10:40:17 GMT -5 anotherdreamer said:

I hadn't backed up my photos since the end of January... I somehow accidentally deleted all the kids photos last night... It left the folders, but all the photos were gone. DH used software to recover some but a lot were corrupted. I think I have a lot on Shutterfly and FB but a lot are also just gone. I am an idiot I don't even know how it happened. DH maintains I couldn't have done that, but I believe I have stupid magic technology powers because how could that just happen?

I'm so sorry!!! I did that a couple weeks ago and had a total sobfest. It was only a few weeks' worth of pictures that I lost but it's so maddening and sad! 

[liziz]

I have been at work for almost 2 hours and my computer isn't working, yet. Fun times just sitting here!

[mamanorris]

They finally filled them and both kids fell asleep on the way home! Woot woot!

[mamanorris]

anotherdreamer, sorry you lost your pics. That really sucks.

[Deleted]

May 11, 2015 11:00:35 GMT -5 @zerozeroone said:

May 11, 2015 10:00:11 GMT -5 @iheartmyshiba said:

#1 MIL- we invited you to dinner Sat morning for tonight. Mbug is only 9 months old- she goes to bed at like 7-7:30 maaaaybe 8 pm. Why would you commit to something else that starts at 4, ends at maybe 5ish so you'd be over here at 6-6:30? For real? I'm not keeping my child up past her bedtime because you don't know how to grow a pair or schedule appropriately. Not sorry.

My brother does this and it's fucking annoying. He then criticizes me for being strict with DS's schedule. His wife is due with their first in November and I can't wait for them to see what a hot mess their baby is when a schedule isn't followed.

My husbands friend does this. He gets pissed when we leave at 6 because I want L in bed by 7. Sorry I worked my goddam ass off to get on this schedule and I'm not going to ruin it just because you want to hang out. Come to our house if you really want to see us that bad.

[jnnfrrose6]

I didn't bring enough food for lunch. I finished an hour ago. I'm still hungry and won't be home for 5 more hours.

[mary1217]

May 11, 2015 10:40:17 GMT -5 anotherdreamer said:

I hadn't backed up my photos since the end of January... I somehow accidentally deleted all the kids photos last night... It left the folders, but all the photos were gone. DH used software to recover some but a lot were corrupted. I think I have a lot on Shutterfly and FB but a lot are also just gone. I am an idiot I don't even know how it happened. DH maintains I couldn't have done that, but I believe I have stupid magic technology powers because how could that just happen?

That super sucks!! Sorry!

I lost about a month worth of photos when my phone got stolen. Losing photos is the worst.

[mary1217]

May 11, 2015 10:58:28 GMT -5 @zerozeroone said:

My coworker has had a nasty cold for a week and the constant coughing is annoying the shit out of me. Take some freaking cold medicine if you're going to bring that shit to work. I know she doesn't cover her mouth because I hear her typing while she's coughing. I felt crappy all weekend and took immune boosters like it was my job thanks to her. She's sick probably 6x more than everyone else and then has the nerve to bitch when anyone comes in with a cold.

I've lysol'd people before.  I don't play!

[mary1217]

Baby why you no nap? DD woke up at 6 am yesterday, only slept for 25 minutes for her first nap then was awake for 5 hours than only slept for 45 minutes. SLEEP!

[lucanjo14]

Dinner last night for Mother's Day consisted of my parents at one end of the table, me and the baby at the other, and my DH, BIL, and MIL in the middle. They pretty much talk to each other the whole time they're together, dominating the conversation. My poor dad looked so disappointed. I talked to him on the phone today and he mentioned it. I feel so bad.

[gingergrant]

May 11, 2015 12:19:25 GMT -5 mary1217 said:

May 11, 2015 10:58:28 GMT -5 @zerozeroone said:

My coworker has had a nasty cold for a week and the constant coughing is annoying the shit out of me. Take some freaking cold medicine if you're going to bring that shit to work. I know she doesn't cover her mouth because I hear her typing while she's coughing. I felt crappy all weekend and took immune boosters like it was my job thanks to her. She's sick probably 6x more than everyone else and then has the nerve to bitch when anyone comes in with a cold.

I've lysol'd people before.  I don't play!

When I was professoring last year, students used to come to my office sick ALL THE TIME to prove to me how sick they were (and I had a very generous illness policy). I wouldn't let them past the threshold if I could avoid it and when they left I would Lysol the hell out of everything. My colleagues thought I was hilarious, but no way did I want to teach sick as well as pregnant.

[walterjenne]

May 11, 2015 10:40:17 GMT -5 anotherdreamer said:

I hadn't backed up my photos since the end of January... I somehow accidentally deleted all the kids photos last night... It left the folders, but all the photos were gone. DH used software to recover some but a lot were corrupted. I think I have a lot on Shutterfly and FB but a lot are also just gone. I am an idiot I don't even know how it happened. DH maintains I couldn't have done that, but I believe I have stupid magic technology powers because how could that just happen?

I'm sorry! This happened to me too after Christmas. Luckily I had just gotten our Christmas morning pictures off the camera and I only lost the pictures from a Christmas party we went to a couple of weeks before.

It also happened a couple months later after our first day at Disney. I now refuse to use that camera and told DH that I wanted a new camera body for Mothers Day. We didn't get to the camera store before yesterday so my present is late. It's okay though because I want a reliable camera before DSs birthday in a couple months.

[soon2bmrsn]

May 11, 2015 10:00:11 GMT -5 @iheartmyshiba said:

#1 MIL- we invited you to dinner Sat morning for tonight. Mbug is only 9 months old- she goes to bed at like 7-7:30 maaaaybe 8 pm. Why would you commit to something else that starts at 4, ends at maybe 5ish so you'd be over here at 6-6:30? For real? I'm not keeping my child up past her bedtime because you don't know how to grow a pair or schedule appropriately. Not sorry.

My ILs still do this. I mean, we're almost six years into this parenting thing. They should know I like my kids in bed by 7:30/8:00. Don't come down at 6:00 and then cause my kids to throw a tantrum when it's time to go to bed and you just got there. I get you, shibes. Super annoying.

[soon2bmrsn]

May 11, 2015 10:40:17 GMT -5 anotherdreamer said:

I hadn't backed up my photos since the end of January... I somehow accidentally deleted all the kids photos last night... It left the folders, but all the photos were gone. DH used software to recover some but a lot were corrupted. I think I have a lot on Shutterfly and FB but a lot are also just gone. I am an idiot I don't even know how it happened. DH maintains I couldn't have done that, but I believe I have stupid magic technology powers because how could that just happen?

I would FREAK. I am so sorry.

[soon2bmrsn]

I can't decide if mine is petty or not. I noticed that DS's birthdate was wrong on the hospital bracelet from yesterday's ER visit. Which means that DH gave them the wrong date. In fairness, he had the correct month but the date (29th) of our other son's birthday. He could have also been a little stressed filling out the intake forms. But, shit. Does he not know his own child's birthdate? Or do we just have too many kids!? Haha.

[gingergrant]

May 11, 2015 13:05:07 GMT -5 soon2bmrsn said:

I can't decide if mine is petty or not. I noticed that DS's birthdate was wrong on the hospital bracelet from yesterday's ER visit. Which means that DH gave them the wrong date. In fairness, he had the correct month but the date (29th) of our other son's birthday. He could have also been a little stressed filling out the intake forms. But, shit. Does he not know his own child's birthdate? Or do we just have too many kids!? Haha.

My dad still doesn't know my birthday. He always thinks it's my sister's. Oh well, no big deal. It's not an indicator of love.

[soon2bmrsn]

May 11, 2015 13:13:21 GMT -5 gingergrant said:

May 11, 2015 13:05:07 GMT -5 soon2bmrsn said:

I can't decide if mine is petty or not. I noticed that DS's birthdate was wrong on the hospital bracelet from yesterday's ER visit. Which means that DH gave them the wrong date. In fairness, he had the correct month but the date (29th) of our other son's birthday. He could have also been a little stressed filling out the intake forms. But, shit. Does he not know his own child's birthdate? Or do we just have too many kids!? Haha.

My dad still doesn't know my birthday. He always thinks it's my sister's. Oh well, no big deal. It's not an indicator of love.

Just what I needed to hear. Thanks! (For what it's worth, I haven't and didn't plan on saying anything to DH about it...)

[Deleted]

May 11, 2015 13:05:07 GMT -5 soon2bmrsn said:

I can't decide if mine is petty or not. I noticed that DS's birthdate was wrong on the hospital bracelet from yesterday's ER visit. Which means that DH gave them the wrong date. In fairness, he had the correct month but the date (29th) of our other son's birthday. He could have also been a little stressed filling out the intake forms. But, shit. Does he not know his own child's birthdate? Or do we just have too many kids!? Haha.

When I'm at the doctors I always feel I have to race to get all the paper work done before they call me. It makes me feel in a rush! I can only imagine he was worried about your son and rushing to fill out the paperwork. I'm sure it was an honest mistake and he knows his birthday. I'd totally quiz him tonight though :-P

[GrrArgh]

I don't know what phone ya'll use but with dropbox you can set it to automatically upload your photos so it's not something you have to remember. They have a pretty generous free plan too. Pretty sure it is available for IOS and Android.

My bitch, DH is away for a few days and he is the morning person and Aviv has been waking up at 5 AM. I am so sleepy.

[Deleted]

Hi Mommas, I haven't been here in forever, but can I come back?

anotherdreamer,I am sorry about the photos, that suuuucks!

I had a really nice Mother's Day and this morning I thanked DH again for the great day while we were on our way to work. He responded: "Oh great, so all I have to do is get up at 4:30AM and do shit for you all day?" I am beyond pissed off because in the end all that he really did "for me" was play with our son while I slept until 7:30, make me breakfast, and get me a card and flowers (which he did the morning of while I was getting the baby down for a nap). When I asked him what the F he was talking about he cited the following as other things he had done "for me": going to the arboretum with the family, getting takeout lunch (while I cleaned up a baby and a ton of puke from said baby's car seat), putting in our A/Cs, folding and putting away HIS OWN laundry, and going out to dinner with HIS mother.

And now I am pissed about Mother's Day.... Nice.

[bigrock74]

@superkim13, boys are dumb.

[dawnfire]

May 11, 2015 10:40:17 GMT -5 anotherdreamer said:

I hadn't backed up my photos since the end of January... I somehow accidentally deleted all the kids photos last night... It left the folders, but all the photos were gone. DH used software to recover some but a lot were corrupted. I think I have a lot on Shutterfly and FB but a lot are also just gone. I am an idiot I don't even know how it happened. DH maintains I couldn't have done that, but I believe I have stupid magic technology powers because how could that just happen?

I'm paranoid about losing all of my pictures. I've had some pretty cataclysmic hard drive failures in the past.  About a week ago I signed up for ThisLife which is run by shutterfly.  Unlimited photo storage and it has really nice organization.  You can set your phone to auto-upload, too!  I'm really happy with it so far and just added the video storage last night.

I want to cackle maniacally every time I see my 6000+ photo collection.  I'm going to put all the things there.  IT WILL BE GLORIOUS.

[dawnfire]

@iheartmyshiba, hmm, I haven't done that but it says they are full resolution downloads on the thislife site. I love that I can pull my pictures up now on any PC, my phone, or tablet!

[Deleted]

Thanks, ladies! I feel better now. DH said he was sorry and that he was tired. Ha! Now maybe he appreciates what I do since I get up with DS 95% of the time.

[Deleted]

May 11, 2015 17:22:02 GMT -5 @iheartmyshiba said:

May 11, 2015 16:47:39 GMT -5 dawnfire said:

I'm paranoid about losing all of my pictures. I've had some pretty cataclysmic hard drive failures in the past.  About a week ago I signed up for ThisLife which is run by shutterfly.  Unlimited photo storage and it has really nice organization.  You can set your phone to auto-upload, too!  I'm really happy with it so far and just added the video storage last night.

I want to cackle maniacally every time I see my 6000+ photo collection.  I'm going to put all the things there.  IT WILL BE GLORIOUS.

Do you loose image quality/size if you try and download them back to a device?

This sounds amazing!

[anotherdreamer]

@iheartmyshiba, I'm going to. Right now we're putting them on external hard drives, but I think storing them online somewhere will make me feel a lot better.

soon2bmrsn, I was. I was totally in shock, I still don't even know how that could happen

Sorry that so many people can relate! And thanks for the recommendations, will look into them! I do have all the monthly photos because I left those on my SD card in my camera (at least I thought ahead there) and a few of the photos are salvageable but man... so many are gone. I know I put a lot on Shutterfly up to Easter, ordering prints, but I haven't ordered any since then so it's going to be a matter of what was salvaged and what I put on FB unfortunately

[anotherdreamer]

Another MBF- DH's work still hasn't said anything to him about his job. They know he has a family to support, but can't just be straightforward and give him a timeline or anything. JUST TELL US WHAT IS HAPPENING. It's not that hard -_-

[Lola]

May 11, 2015 17:22:02 GMT -5 @iheartmyshiba said:

May 11, 2015 16:47:39 GMT -5 dawnfire said:

I'm paranoid about losing all of my pictures. I've had some pretty cataclysmic hard drive failures in the past.  About a week ago I signed up for ThisLife which is run by shutterfly.  Unlimited photo storage and it has really nice organization.  You can set your phone to auto-upload, too!  I'm really happy with it so far and just added the video storage last night.

I want to cackle maniacally every time I see my 6000+ photo collection.  I'm going to put all the things there.  IT WILL BE GLORIOUS.

Do you loose image quality/size if you try and download them back to a device?

I've used ThisLife for a while and love it. We have both of our phones set to sync to the same account. When you DL the image back its high resolution. You can also email or share it however you'd like.

Eta: it also syncs all of our videos.