And now it's Wednesday.

[stinybean]

Good morning! No randoms yet, so here you go.

As boring as ever this morning, but one step up from yesterday I already had my coffee. Oh and J figured out how to open the bathroom door by turning the handle last night, that was a fun little surprise.

[Widget123]

Today is the beginning of the holiday meals at work. One cafeteria is doing their Thanksgiving lunch today, another is doing it tomorrow. Next week my boss says she is getting Olive Garden catered in one day. Heaven help my diet

[erbear]

Morning! I feel like I'm going to be running around all day today - I'm planning on going to the gym this AM, then to my Drs to get my depo shot, and then I need to take advantage of target's $10 off $50 grocery purchase and get the rest of my thanksgiving stuff bought. I also want to get one of those toddler felt trees for LO and I'm hoping they still have them!

[pghtruelove]

J and I both have a cough. She slept almost all day yesterday and all night last night but is still feeling like crap. I really need to pick out what we are wearing for family pictures on Friday and also need to get stuff for thanksgiving.
Jules has a new obsession with Cookie Monster. She keeps putting her hands up to her mouth and pretends to eat cookies like CM.

[blueskiessmiling]

DD insisted on sleeping with her baby doll for the first time last night. She's getting so sweet and affectionate (...at times😉).

My dad is off today and is coming over to play with DD this morning. She has been asking for "Gramp-ga" constantly lately so she will be thrilled.

[jillywilly]

It's just Wednesday here too. I woke up feeling exponentially better today, which is nice, but now my eye feels weird. I tried explaining it to H, but I couldn't, it just feels weird. I'm guessing I just need to take a contact break this weekend, but could my body please just keep it together until the holidays are over?

It's also double star day for me, I brought my coffee from home, but the post office is conveniently located right by Starbucks, so I plan on a latte as my reward for getting my ornament in the mail later over lunch!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Leaving work early to attend a wake:( my college bestie's mom passed away this weekend unexpectedly. It's a 2.5hr drive each way but it's worth it if it brings even a tiny bit of comfort to her. The rest of my Wednesday looks good though- I finished all of my "to-do" list yesterday so I can take it easy today.

[blueskiessmiling]

So sorry about your friend mrsmonogrammed. You're a great friend to make that drive for her.

[veggiemo]

mrsmonogrammed, so sorry to hear that. You are a good friend.

Morning ladies. We have a deposition going on in our conference room right now and our cleaning lady is flapping her mouth at the receptionist right outside the door, talking about how excited she is that Trump won. She needs to get the hell out of here.

[tiffbot]

Sorry to hear that mrsmonogrammed

[mrsmonogrammed]

Thanks ladies. It was definitely a gut punch from reality:(

[billyhorrible]

mrsmonogrammed - she's going to really appreciate you being there.


I have a splitting headache. I actually went to bed with it last night and it stuck around. I have to deal with the stupid insurance company for my MIL's claim which is not going to help the headache.

When is it Saturday again?

[dmoney]

I need your ladies thoughts on something. DD hardly ever says Momma. She comes running to me when i pick her up from day care and lunges for me at bed time or whenever she sees me. But she looks me straight in the eye and says Dada, or when we show her pictures and say whos that she identifies DH, The dog and when we point to her she taps her belly. But when we point to my picture she just looks at us like we have 5 heads. Dh thinks im over reacting for being upset and that she knows who I am and loves me just cant say Mama. But she says so many other words.

So am I crazy for being upset that she looks at DH says DADA looks at the dog says his name and just stairs at me blankly when I say who am I?

[pghtruelove]

dmoney one of my best friends 3 year old just started saying mommy/mama. She always called her dada. I wouldn't worry.

[mrsdee1982]

I got a bill from the hospital for my emergency room visit when I had the pregnancy complications back in August. It was a $50 bill for the dr I saw. I thought it was weird, since I've already paid my $200 co-pay and I've never ever received a separate bill for an ER dr. So I called to find out why.

They are trying to bill me for an after hour charge, since it was 3 am on a Saturday when I went into the ER. You know, the 24/7 ER.

I told them that was ludicrous. What was I supposed to do when I woke up in a pool of blood? Wait until Monday morning at 8 am? They told me they would resubmit to the insurance. I called the insurance to find out WTF. They told me what the hospital was trying to do was against the law in the state of CA. My insurance put me on hold for about 10 minutes and came back to tell me that they called the hospital and explained the law and that my hospital would not be sending me any further bills.

Money grabbing assclowns. This has made me very cranky today. I could have died. My baby could have died. I didn't go in at 3 am because I had a splinter. >:/

[veggiemo]

dmoney , LO calls DH "mama" even though he can cleary say "dah dah" or "papa". I think it's just what word comes out easiest to them, I wouldn't think twice about it.

Story time. So depositions have been going on all morning in my office. I've had to poop and I've been waiting and waiting for the depositions to be over so I can go poop without worrying about using our one-room/one toilet bathroom, because I know someone else is going to need to use it as soon as I go in there. I finally just said F-it and went. Sitting there taking my poo, checking my phone, and one of the guys from the deposition opens the door on me. AHHHHH!!! The knob doesn't lock, instead the door has like a little hook and eye type lock, so the door can still open about an inch and a half. He totally just saw my naked ass pooping on the toilet. OMG I don't know if I'm more embarrassed or if he should be! Who opens a closed bathroom door that has the light on and a fan running??

ETA: this is a TINY bathroom so my ass is literally right there. Like he was standing 2 feet from me.

[ashbash]

Nov 16, 2016 12:58:49 GMT -5 budders said:

Nov 16, 2016 11:56:14 GMT -5 dmoney said:

I need your ladies thoughts on something. DD hardly ever says Momma. She comes running to me when i pick her up from day care and lunges for me at bed time or whenever she sees me. But she looks me straight in the eye and says Dada, or when we show her pictures and say whos that she identifies DH, The dog and when we point to her she taps her belly. But when we point to my picture she just looks at us like we have 5 heads. Dh thinks im over reacting for being upset and that she knows who I am and loves me just cant say Mama. But she says so many other words.

So am I crazy for being upset that she looks at DH says DADA looks at the dog says his name and just stairs at me blankly when I say who am I?

V has been calling H dada forever. He can say mama, but never uses it to specifically call me or identify me. I wish he would, but I've made my peace with it.

Same. Come on kid, throw me a bone

[tiffbot]

Omg veggiemo guaranteed he's more embarrassed but awkwaaard! 😂

[veggiemo]

Ok, it got worse. I ended up having to make a bazillion copies for him! I was trying to hide in my office and then I ended up having to go out in the reception area and be with him for like 20 minutes! He was just shooting the shit as if nothing happened and then left. So afterward I told the receptionist I think he saw my naked ass on the toilet and she verified it was true! She said he told her after he did it! WTF?

[belle0720]

Happy Hump Day Ladies

Poor Gianna seems to keep getting more sick. Yesterday my mom kept her home all day to rest. When I got home at 5 she seemed happy as usual, but followed me around the house while I changed and stuff and then wanted a bottle of milk. After she finished her milk we were sitting on the couch and she snuggled up against my mom and fell asleep. She NEVER takes a nap after I get home from work so I know she really wasn't feeling well. Her fever was up and down all night and I held her basically all night long because she would get upset any time I tried to put her down.

I emailed the doctor's office yesterday but basically all they said was to use saline and try to keep her sinuses clear with a snot sucker. Anyone give their LOs Benadryl yet? My coworker said it really helped her baby get better last week when he had a lot of congestion and a cough.

I'm really hoping that she is feeling better this weekend. We're having a dinner party at a winery restaurant for my birthday on Saturday and we leave for NY on Sunday so we just have a lot going on and I would hate for her to be sick the whole time.

[belle0720]

veggiemo Oh geez! He could have at least left it to himself. What a dummy. Did he apologize when he initially opened the door on you?

[veggiemo]

Nov 16, 2016 14:59:28 GMT -5 belle0720 said:

veggiemo Oh geez! He could have at least left it to himself. What a dummy. Did he apologize when he initially opened the door on you?

All I heard was a surprised "oh" but I was concentrating on getting that door shut so I didn't hear if he said anything else. He definitely didn't apologize later when he was chatting me up. I should have said something like "hey, did you like that nice view you got earlier?". Haha.

[jessila]

dmoney, O hardly ever calls me Mama to my face but he says it to everyone else. It had kind of irked me until I was chatting with my mom one day while O was still there. He heard me on the phone and kept saying Mama. My mom then told me that he goes around saying Mama all day when I'm at work. I just never get to hear it.

I think they know that they don't have to say our names for us to respond to them. If he starts whining, crying, or saying 'stuck' I'll go help him.

[holliberry28]

mrsmonogrammed, I'm sorry for your friends loss. You're a really good friend for making that drive to see her.

[ashbash]

Pssst @jemomma look what I did. It felt so good, you should do it too #treepusher

[Widget123]

veggiemo If I were you I would get a sign for that bathroom door that says at minimum "Please knock before entering" or even "occupied" for when you are in there, because I would not want to risk something like that happening again.