It's NOT the freaking weekend :(

[cabbagecabbage]

Happy Monday, everyone. Four more weeks of dragging my kid to babysit at 7:30 and then I'm done. I know I should be so grateful for this job but it's getting hard on me too. Spring can decide to arrive any time now. That would be helpful. At least I have my coffee.

[ellebelle]

I had the Sunday night blues bad last night. Not any better this morning. I calculated I have 24 work days until the end of the school year. I'm just kind of over this right now and the crappy weather isn't helping.

[cabbagecabbage]

We can commiserate together. I don't want to wish away my pregnancy but also, I totally do.

[melody330]

May 2, 2016 6:44:42 GMT -5 ellebelle said:

I had the Sunday night blues bad last night. Not any better this morning. I calculated I have 24 work days until the end of the school year. I'm just kind of over this right now and the crappy weather isn't helping.

We are at 30 school days left. I agree- very much over it! Bonus is we didn't use a snow day so now we have a four day weekend for Memorial Day! Woohoo extra day off!

[melody330]

A good friend of mine is missing. She hasn't been seen or heard from since 5pm last night. She has a 7 year old son who is thankfully with his father, but I'm so scared for her. Something's wrong. She would never leave her kid.

[sarcaztic10]

melody330, I hope your friend is ok, I will keep her in my thoughts.

We shopped at a nice consignment store in the very wealthy area this weekend and found some good deals on baby stuff that we needed.

We still have a few things to buy but I am feeling better about our progress.

[acorn99]

I am over this Monday already. It is raining and I am so tired. I slept like crap because my hips hurts, then because I toss and turn so much, my hips hurt even more. Vicious cycle. Now I can hardly walk today.

melody330, I hope everything is alright with your friend!

[cocobellaf]

melody330 , I hope everything is OK.

Went to the chiro on Friday. Did a scan, got an EP Score of 212. Basically, the majority of my spine is red... way out of alignment, as well as my pelvis. He did some adjustments on me Friday and I had a little relief! I have another appointment after work today, and then we're going to set me up with a schedule/plan to get my pelvis in alignment for birth and get my spine back into alignment as much as possible.

I was up at 1 AM throwing up this morning.  Yesterday, I didn't even make it out of the shower so I puked in there and used the walls to hold myself up.  This is ridiculous.

Had our 4D last week!!!!

[housecarder]

melody330 that's so scary! I'll be thinking of her and her son.

[melody330]

Thanks everyone. She just showed up at her house, a hot mess. She said she fell asleep at her friends house but her story is shady as hell. I hope she's ok, but her story makes no sense.

At least she's home. Thanks everyone

[cabbagecabbage]

Oh, I'm really glad she's ok. I was scared reading that.

[melody330]

May 2, 2016 9:02:18 GMT -5 cabbagecabbage said:

Oh, I'm really glad she's ok. I was scared reading that.

I'm scared for her. She is so unbelievably thin, and now with this erratic behavior I'm nervous. Heroin is an epidemic over here, and I hope to god it's not that. But we've had so many friends OD that it's hard not to jump right to it

[mrss44]

May 2, 2016 6:29:05 GMT -5 cabbagecabbage said:

Happy Monday, everyone. Four more weeks of dragging my kid to babysit at 7:30 and then I'm done. I know I should be so grateful for this job but it's getting hard on me too. Spring can decide to arrive any time now. That would be helpful. At least I have my coffee.

I understand completely. I have until July 1st.

[madamewaffles]

I hope your friend is alright, melody330.

I'm pulling my hair out over the expense report software my company uses. I help admin the reports turned in and a recent software update totally fucked up the reports. I am trying to deal with the software company but they do not even have a telephone support line unless you buy a phone support plan (annually!). So I have to do it over e-mail. Seriously?!

[cabbagecabbage]

May 2, 2016 9:09:10 GMT -5 melody330 said:

May 2, 2016 9:02:18 GMT -5 cabbagecabbage said:

Oh, I'm really glad she's ok. I was scared reading that.

I'm scared for her. She is so unbelievably thin, and now with this erratic behavior I'm nervous. Heroin is an epidemic over here, and I hope to god it's not that. But we've had so many friends OD that it's hard not to jump right to it

That's a horrifying thought. I had a cousin who got hooked on meth when she had a little kid. It happens all the time. I hope she's ok.

[rungirlrun]

Glad your friend turned up melody330. Thinking of her and hope all is ok.

Yay for some relief cocobellaf (well except for the puking)! Hopefully you'll start to feel better soon!

Another Monday blues over here as well. DS did not nap yesterday so he was less than pleasant all evening. He was up for 2 hours last night for who knows what reason. I was up for even longer. Dragging my feet today. At least it's a beautiful day!

[tikoberry99]

melody330 I hope your friend is ok, sending positive vibes.

I had a shitty ass work week last week...I made 3 mistakes I would never make normally and broke down to my coworker. My first full on pregnancy cry. 7 more weeks of work until my maternity leave starts and I'm counting down the hours!

[littlesthobo]

melody330 I'm glad your friend came home, I really hope she pulls it together and that it's not heroin.

Add me to the "don't want to work" club. I keep going back and forth in my mind about asking my OB to write me out. But I've worked so hard with this group of kids and want to see some things through to the end. One day at a time.

[legomyago]

I'm a little over a week into 3rd Tri and I hate it already. Did not feel this way at all the first time around. My pubic bone hurts when I walk. I get really bad back pain on my left side at night when I go to bed. The good news is that we had a birth refresher course this weekend and the doula gave me some stretches to try for some relief. And I learned more about my previous labor and some ways to avoid some of the things that didn't go great (though overall it was a good experience). Yay for insight and moving forward!

[housecarder]

So I got a call today that even though I was originally told my leave would be covered on short term disability that they are now denying my claim stating it was a pre-existing condition.

[ellebelle]

Omg housecarder! That sucks! I had a horrible experience with short term disability when I went out on leave with my DD. Even though I had the policy for a year before having DD they still denied my claim because I had a vaginal birth and not a c-section. That was never explained to me when I got the policy and they said they would cover maternity leave if you had the policy for a year. I was so pissed and canceled my policy immediately. I've purposely not signed up for short term disability at other employers since then because of how horrible that experience was. Can you appeal at all?

[housecarder]

May 2, 2016 10:57:22 GMT -5 katelou said:

Noooooo housecarder!! Is there any way you can appeal? I'm so sorry

There is an appeal process but I guess the policy states that you have to have it for a year before you qualify for pregnancy related claims. So even though my policy started in August and I didn't get pregnant until October I don't qualify.

[mcktymck]

melody330 I hope your friend is okay and that it's something other than heroin, that's such a tough situation to be in.

legomyago are you wearing a pelvic support band? I had to start wearing one last week per my OB due to suspected SPD, and it's helped me a lot. Let me know if you want a recommendation and I can PM you the link.

housecarder that's so shitty, I didn't know pregnancy was considered a "pre-existing condition"? I hope you're giving them hell since they told you it would be covered.

+100 to the Monday blues. I've got it easy since I work from home, but I'm still just done. We had a really busy weekend with lots of walking around shopping as well as walks around the neighborhood, I definitely overdid it and am paying for it right now!

[housecarder]

May 2, 2016 11:07:20 GMT -5 mcktymck said:

melody330 I hope your friend is okay and that it's something other than heroin, that's such a tough situation to be in.

legomyago are you wearing a pelvic support band? I had to start wearing one last week per my OB due to suspected SPD, and it's helped me a lot. Let me know if you want a recommendation and I can PM you the link.

housecarder that's so shitty, I didn't know pregnancy was considered a "pre-existing condition"? I hope you're giving them hell since they told you it would be covered.

+100 to the Monday blues. I've got it easy since I work from home, but I'm still just done. We had a really busy weekend with lots of walking around shopping as well as walks around the neighborhood, I definitely overdid it and am paying for it right now!

My HR person told me it was covered but she has left the company, and I even asked her a few different times if she was sure because the policy stated differently.

[tootsie]

That's so weird about your friend melody330, I hope everything is ok with her.

Sorry housecarder, I hate insurance so much. What is pre-existing? Pregnancy? So dumb.

[housecarder]

I mean I get it, most young healthy women wouldn't pay for a policy until they found out they were pregnant if they didn't limit it some, but it still blows for us.

[acorn99]

I'm sorry housecarder!

[tootsie]

May 2, 2016 11:09:26 GMT -5 housecarder said:

May 2, 2016 11:07:20 GMT -5 mcktymck said:

melody330 I hope your friend is okay and that it's something other than heroin, that's such a tough situation to be in.

legomyago are you wearing a pelvic support band? I had to start wearing one last week per my OB due to suspected SPD, and it's helped me a lot. Let me know if you want a recommendation and I can PM you the link.

housecarder that's so shitty, I didn't know pregnancy was considered a "pre-existing condition"? I hope you're giving them hell since they told you it would be covered.

+100 to the Monday blues. I've got it easy since I work from home, but I'm still just done. We had a really busy weekend with lots of walking around shopping as well as walks around the neighborhood, I definitely overdid it and am paying for it right now!

My HR person told me it was covered but she has left the company, and I even asked her a few different times if she was sure because the policy stated differently.

Oh man, that sucks. HR people should know that shit.

[tootsie]

The weekend totally wore me out. My MIL came for a visit and she brought my almost 3 year old niece. It's so fun to have them, but JFC two 3 year olds is more than I can handle. My child is such a shit sharer, she needs a sibling like woah.

On the bright side, my H and I are making progress on our nightmare wallpaper removal project in our bedroom. We worked on skim coating the entire bedroom this weekend, so hopefully we can paint in the next couple days and I will have the BEAUUUUTIFUL bedroom I've been dreaming of. We had to sleep downstairs on an air mattress because our bedroom was too fumey.

[tikoberry99]

Shit housecarder I'm so, so sorry. Insurance just freaking sucks.