It's Monday.. vent away

[k3am]

I have a lot. 

1. I'm sick (cold), and DD spent most of Saturday night puking, so I spent most of Sunday doing laundry.
2. We recently ordered new closet organizers for my and DH's closets. Mine went up without a hitch last weekend. But apparently the schematic was wrong and we used one of the pieces from DH's closet in mine. It took us forever to figure out what went wrong, but I remembered that they had called asking if they could modify our order slightly and have the same functionality. We said sure. They modified it, but didn't change it on the schematic. So mine should have used two long pieces and a short piece, but instead we used 3 long pieces. So now DH's is useless. Hopefully they'll send out another long piece and not make us pay. 
3. I still haven't gotten my offer letter. I know it's coming, they told me last Monday it would take a few weeks and it's only been ONE, but damnit, I want it NOW!

[laketide]

New here and jumping in

1. I feel awful - I can't breathe, coughing, and one eye is watering like crazy (so one eye has zero make up left and the other is normal - my coworkers are super impressed I'm sure)
2. DD has been coughing- all night long so I'm exhausted. I know she feels awful which makes me feel terrible about taking her to daycare but we have missed so much that I just have to go to work. The winter is so hard on her.
3. Its raining and nasty out and I have to drive all day for meetings in different towns.
4. We completely reorganized our kitchen cabinets and shampooed all our carpets this weekend so my house is clean but at the same time so out of place where we haven't had a chance to put anything up.
5. I'm already counting down to the weekend.....

[RiseAndWine]

There is construction going on outside our house and they accidentally cut our Verizon Fios line last week. No cable or wifi since last Tuesday and I'm going insane. I couldn't watch the Grammy's. I couldn't watch Downton. Or The Bachelor. Or PLL. And DS can't watch Bubble Guppies so all hell is breaking loose. They are SUPPOSED to come out for the 3rd time today and hopefully get the line reconstructed. If they don't I'm seriously going to lose my mind.

[k3am]

@riseandwine - that sounds AWFUL. Our power was out for a few hours last night and DD was driving me insane with her requests for more Elmo. I can't imagine going a week.

[librarychica]

I'm back at work. I've been here 3+ hours and I still have access to none of my files and my manager and her manager are both out of office.

My family has colds, including the baby, again.

k3am, congrats on the expected offer!

[twinmomma]

1. It's snowing again. So DH and the kids are home and I'm working from home for yet another snow day. This shit is getting ridiculous. It's been a weekly event for like a month now. I'm gonna lose it.
2. I spent $40 on new curtains and new throw pillows at Walmart yesterday because our couch is ripped and ugly and I'm trying to make myself feel better about us not buying a new one any time soon. DH won't shut up about how I'm wasting money/spending too much/I'm a shopaholic. I also suggested we buy a new trash can, since the step/lid is broken on ours and it doesn't open automatically anymore. Apparently that also means I'm ridiculous and spending too much money and need to keep my spending in check... You'd think I was driving us into excessive credit card debt with the way he's acting. Dude, I got a raise and heating oil payments are over for the year. We can afford $100 on household crap if we want it. And if I can't buy a new couch anytime soon, you can bet I'm buying other stuff to spruce up the living room!

[judyblume14]

RiseAndWine - I'm sorry you couldn't watch PLL. Last week's is still on my DVR - I haven't found time to watch it!

1) LO slept like shit last night. Ergo, I slept like shit.
2) I interviewed for a new position a few weeks ago. But they had to re-post the position because they needed to make it clear that location didn't matter. And they need to leave it posted internally for 10 business days. So I won't hear anything for a least another week or so. Ugh.

Hi! I'm a lurker trying to be more participative

[RiseAndWine]

Feb 9, 2015 10:18:50 GMT -5 k3am said:

@riseandwine - that sounds AWFUL. Our power was out for a few hours last night and DD was driving me insane with her requests for more Elmo. I can't imagine going a week.

Yes. Good thing the weather got nice for the weekend so we could play outside at least. It wouldn't be so terrible except I had to take my telecommute day as an off day last week to wait for Verizon (because we have no wireless access now I couldn't work) and they came and told us it would be a while before it got back up and running. Then they scheduled the fix for Saturday as an all day appointment and called at 5:30 pm to tell us they weren't going to make it out - after we wasted the entire day at home waiting! And now DH is taking today to wait for them again. If they don't come today I am seriously going to cut someone.

Oh can I have another vent too? We are having more issues with E's daycare. The in-home DCP's daughter had a baby last week after a rough pregnancy. The baby ended up with the cord wrapped and was in NICU. She went to stay with her daughter the entire week, which I understood. But here we are week 2 and it will be a sub AGAIN. I wouldn't even care except we don't see the sub at all. It's the DCP's husband (certified) there when I drop-off and pick-up. There is the regular assistant there also but she doesn't speak any English. So the only English-speaking caregiver that is there all day with my child I don't even get to see or talk to. For the 2nd week in a row. Unacceptable.
Thank GOD we found a new place for him and registered him this weekend to begin the day he turns 2. May can't come quickly enough!

[ellabee]

Feb 9, 2015 10:26:57 GMT -5 twinmomma said:

1. It's snowing again. So DH and the kids are home and I'm working from home for yet another snow day. This shit is getting ridiculous. It's been a weekly event for like a month now. I'm gonna lose it.

This 100%. How do I get 8+hrs of work done during nap time.

[ericalee27]

DS2 woke up 5 times last night. 5 fraking times. He is 2 years old, not 2 months old. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz And drop off at his new daycare (last Monday was his first day) was a total mess today. And I have a cold. Boo

[MamaPhD]

We have had ZERO hot water since Friday. We rent our home and the property management company did not deem it an emergency so it wasn't dealt with over the weekend. I finally received a call from the repair man who gave me a window of 10:00-2:00 to come take a look at it. When I pressed for a more precise time he couldn't give me one (our nanny is with DD but they have activities this morning and I need to let her know what time to be back from gym class to let him in). All I know is this needs to be fixed ASAP!

[jazzra369]

I'm super sick of workplace cliques and middle school mean girl BS. Thank goodness I have other social outlets than just work.

[ladylonghorn]

1. Our previous nanny ("M") who worked with us for 2+ years from 2009 - 2011 was starting today to help us for 1 month. She was supposed to be here at 8 AM. I called, texted and emailed her starting at 8:10 b/c she wasn't here. Then after spending 30 minutes starting to figure out a new plan (DD2's isn't supposed to start her new FT DC/preschool until 3/16, the door bell rings and here is the old nanny. "M" thought the start time was 9 (it was never 9 the whole time she worked for us). I get people make mistakes, but seriously didn't need this stress to start the week.

2. Why the hell is it so hard for men to communicate!?!?!?!?!?!?

[alioop1028]

Feb 9, 2015 10:17:20 GMT -5 RiseAndWine said:

There is construction going on outside our house and they accidentally cut our Verizon Fios line last week. No cable or wifi since last Tuesday and I'm going insane. I couldn't watch the Grammy's. I couldn't watch Downton. Or The Bachelor. Or PLL. And DS can't watch Bubble Guppies so all hell is breaking loose. They are SUPPOSED to come out for the 3rd time today and hopefully get the line reconstructed. If they don't I'm seriously going to lose my mind.

I am imagining utter chaos in your house. Lol Omg. Hang in there!

[alioop1028]

My vent is, I am jealous of all the teachers who get today and next Monday off. At the same time I really couldn't do your guy's job. I would die, you guys deal with a lot and deserve the days off. I'm just selfish and want all your days off without the responsibility. Like winning the lotto. Haha

[doodler]

My dog is sick and has been on a high dosage of prednisone for the last two weeks. It has made him better (thank goodness!) but has also made him incontinent. He is an 80 lb dog who produces copious amounts of pee. Between cleaning up pee, figuring out who is going to be able to go home during the day to let him out, and setting alarms to let him out every few hours at night...we are exhausted.

Then last night DS woke up at 3:30 am with a diaper blow out like I have never seen before. I'm talking bad, BAD. After a middle of the night bath I was finally able to get him settled down and back asleep around 4:30 but there was no more sleep happening for me!

[supertrooper1]

DH kept getting in my way last night when I was putting away the groceries and getting DS his dinner. But he's the one that went to bed pissy for some reason. This morning as he was stomping around getting ready for work, he told me the hot water heater was going out because he had to turn the hot water up in the shower. I took my shower this morning and turned the hot back to normal, he just had it too cold.
He also blamed me for losing his comb. I found it behind the pile of his shit on the bathroom counter.
He's sure that DS has a fever along with his cough. Nope. DS is just fine.
But somehow it's all my fault?

[somebabiesmom]

Friday we had pizza. Saturday we had pizza leftovers. DH bought Doritos, cookies, and ice cream. Only the ice cream remains. My healthiest meal the whole weekend was 2 regular tacos from Taco Bell and a diet coke. My other meals consisted of mac n cheese, cereal, pulled pork sandwiches, and bacon/egg/cheese on a roll. DH also bought a couple of dunkaccinos from Dunkin Donuts. On Sunday, he bought Reeses hearts for DS's valentines. I ate 4 yesterday. I'm pretty sure they'll still be in the house when I get home. I need an intervention.

[librarychica]

From the runaround I'm getting, evidently I'm the only person in this giant company to ever take FMLA. My poor manager is in another state and calling me every hour "are you turned back on yet? Still no?"

[kendraj426]

I hate snow. It needs to stop snowing. Or I need to move to a warmer climate. This is getting ridiculous!

DD has a sinus infection. I spent all day yesterday dealing with a crying baby, soothing her to sleep on my lap (cause she wouldn't stop rubbing her eyes which made her cry more) and then not being able to move cause I had a sleeping baby in my lap, then woke up at least 3 times with her last night to soothe her back to sleep. Then this morning, DH told me that I had to take her to the doctor. Not 'She needs to go to the doctor, how are we going to handle this', but 'You have to take her to the doctor'. After I got all mad at him, and then he explained why he figured it made more sense for me to take her, it was fine, but I wish he would be more team oriented when it comes to taking care of DD instead of making a decision and telling me what I have to do.

My Remote Desktop connection is not working. I emailed my local IT dept, and they sent me to corporate. I contacted corporate IT, and they said that they don't handle Remote Connections and I need to contact my local IT. I asked my boss and he said 'We'll have to figure it out'. So, today instead of working from home, I took DD to the dr, then to the pharmacy which doesn't open till 10, then home, then to work in the freaking snow! I got here about 3 hours late.

[tas1883]

Its raining cats and dogs and my lights are flickering I don't need the power to go out today.

DD worked really hard making H a valentine yesterday. She cut the heart out herself wrote I love U and did the sticker decorations. She was so excited to show him and he blew her off as he was busy in the garage. He finally comes in and she shows him and he blew off again. I laid into him after she was asleep and told him he needed to take his valentine to work because that is what DD wanted. Guess who forgot it this morning which got DD all upset when she woke up and found it on the table. I wish my H would learn how to appreciate holidays even Hallmark holidays.

[CoverGirl82]

My vent is pretty weak. I'm just tired and could use one more day to the weekend. DD's bday was Sunday, but Friday was party prep, Saturday was the party, and then yesterday (Sunday) we went to the museum to do something fun on her actual birthday. What I would have loved to do today is take the day off and kick back on the couch watching TV.

[ss265]

DS2 slept really crappy last night and since I BF, I was up with him for most of the night. Praying that it was a one night thing and that he sleeps better tonight. I have a massage scheduled for 8pm tonight and I almost want to cancel because I would rather go to bed than go get a massage.

[k3am]

ss265 get your massage! You'll sleep better after it.

[harperandco]

New here - left TB.

1. The partner is here from our main office the entire week so I can't be in my usual office attire of yoga pants and a tank top. FWP #1

2. IT has blocked all news websites. FWP #2

3. My baby turns 1 in 17 days.

I thought being a working mom got easier as your child got older. Definitely not true.

[acmama]

1. Major structural changes at work were announced on Friday. Half the people are pissed, half the people are happy. It's hard to talk to anybody.
2. DD2 is still sick with the stomach bug. She's had constant vomit/ bad diapers since Friday. I split the day today with DH. He fed her hot dogs while I was at work this morning. Five minute after he leaves for work, the hot dogs reappear. Seriously??? She's sick--feed her crackers.

[20thirteen]

I've been battling sleeplessness the past 3 weeks, it's driving me nuts.  And at work, there isn't enough to do to keep me busy while I'm here (which makes it harder not to take a short nap).  If I tell my boss every time, then they're going to think that I'm slow like this all the time.  This has never happened before and I've been here almost 6 years.  I worry all the time that I'm going to lose my job with how slow things have gotten.  To the point where I've started grinding my teeth.  I'm always reassured that I would never be fired, but I can't help but have that suspicion. 

I could really use some coffee. And a hug from DD.

[k3am]

I just got my performance review. Apparently I'm "too direct" in my communications. WTF does that mean?

Also, from a peer - I have RBF.

Thanks.

[harperandco]

Feb 9, 2015 14:48:18 GMT -5 privacy said:

Feb 9, 2015 14:38:05 GMT -5 harperandco said:

New here - left TB.

1. The partner is here from our main office the entire week so I can't be in my usual office attire of yoga pants and a tank top. FWP #1

2. IT has blocked all news websites. FWP #2

3. My baby turns 1 in 17 days.

I thought being a working mom got easier as your child got older. Definitely not true.

It does and it doesn't.   I find from 1-near 2 to be the hardest phase.  They  are so fun, but not quite verbal enough to tell you about their day etc.  It gets easier as they get older....and also as they start to become little terrors and you happily drop them off on Monday so you get a break from the tantrum 

Haha, good to know! There are days that I am happy to return to work and leave my tantrum throwing 11-month old at home with DH, but today was not one of them.

[callmeKD]

I'm in a crappy mood. DH didn't get either job that he interviewed for last week. He also played in a curling tournament this weekend so I was solo parenting. I'm tired and didn't get any down time.