I am sick for about the third time in the last three weeks. I called out of work AGAIN. I think I've been home more than at the office in the last month. Daycare is opening at 9am and DD is driving me bananas. You have to go the f to school, kid. I can see the car is encased in a sheet of ice in the driveway and I don't want to scrape it. H could scrape it but he's playing with DD right now so I can lay back down. Can't decide if it would be less strenuous to chase the toddler or to scrape the windshield.
Post by librarychica on Mar 2, 2015 8:42:18 GMT -5
I have a pile of stuff to do but every moment of concentration has been hard-won this morning. I want to be home with my babies. Just not into it this morning.
Also my husband "put away" my phone charger and now we can't find it. Fun thing to discover at 6AM when I was leaving for work. Thanks, hon.
Post by erinshelley21 on Mar 2, 2015 9:00:06 GMT -5
My second biggest customer called Friday to tell me he is switching insurance agencies. My biggest customer won't answer my phone calls or return messages. This has led to me spending my morning looking into going back to school to get my degree in accounting. This self-employed shit is for the birds sometimes.
Mostly that it is Monday. The next 7 weeks are going to be very stressful at work, actually probably 10 weeks because we just hired a new person are in the middle of construction and are switching to a new software. It is sort of a hot mess right now, and I would rather be home than working right now.
Post by indyrowergirl on Mar 2, 2015 9:22:01 GMT -5
If it can be dropped, I have managed to drop it this morning, including the protein shake/breakfast that managed to splash all over the clothes I had laid out for the day. Ugh. And, as soon as I turned my computer on, someone is all over my a$$ looking for feedback on a document that they said on Friday they needed feedback on by tomorrow. Dude. You sent it out Friday afternoon. It's first thing Monday. No, I haven't looked at it yet. You said you needed it tomorrow. You'll get it tomorrow. Time to put on my happy face and try to turn this day around. Let's hope this cup of coffee I just poured doesn't end up down my shirt!
I realized this weekend that basically, life is going to suck until the school year ends. I'm trying to be positive, but seriously, it's going to blow. I have to travel for the next two weeks straight. Then my dad needs a bunch of time off/schedule adjustments to his babysitting days. Then MIL's busy season kicks in and she's going to want days off. Then I have several trade shows pop up so I'll be travelling more. Then DH is directing a musical at school so he'll be swamped with that. And all this is why we're switching to a daycare center instead of this babysitter BS for next year. But until then, it's like one thing after the other and I already feel like I'm drowning. I am going to be treading water and barely surviving until June.
And I swear... if my work wife decides to not come back from maternity leave, I will die. (Ok, maybe that's an exaggeration. But it will be really hard to survive here.)
Post by somebabiesmom on Mar 2, 2015 10:27:05 GMT -5
Why won't my coffee stay hot? Why do Cheetos not magically appear in my desk drawer? Why isn't my merry godfather a massage therapist? Why don't I have a merry godfather? Why am I here? Where is my coffee? Why is it cold?
-My version of a Dr. Seuss book for adults titled "Work Doesn't Get Done." I'm also thinking of writing a self-help book titled, "Work doesn't do itself: The painful irony of doing work's work"
The project manager for our construction project is a cumtard. I seriously am so very, very ragey with him, I can't see straight. The owner is back on Tuesday, and the designer will get in touch with him, but I'm 100% doubting the fact that they'll be done on Friday in time for DD's party on Saturday. You know, the one that was supposed to be LAST week, and in our contract but we rescheduled after we saw how flakey they were? We have no option to reschedule. 35 people are heading to our house on Saturday, two of them are flying into town and planning to stay with us. And I want to kill the man.
I'm sick (but not sick enough to call out), was up half the night with a sick baby, and I get to look forward to a long, looooong day of absolutely nothing to do. I would kill to just have some data entry to do or something. Pathetic state of affairs.
I'm sick (but not sick enough to call out), was up half the night with a sick baby, and I get to look forward to a long, looooong day of absolutely nothing to do. I would kill to just have some data entry to do or something. Pathetic state of affairs.
DH was promoted last year after the raise cycle at his company, so he didn't get any more $$ at the time. There was a discussion that he would be taken care of this year. His boss is kind of a disorganized mess, so I reminded DH to talk to his boss again before the cycle hit. He told me I was silly, he was absolutely getting a raise, he deserved 10% because of all of his additional responsibilities! blah blah...
Raises came out today. Guess what? DH's boss gave DH the same COL that everyone got. And OMG I try to NEVER say I told you so, but I actually yelled, "I TOLD YOU!!! WHY DIDN'T YOU TALK TO HIM??"
So DH is pissed at me and his boss. I'm pissed that he once again discounted my advice and it bit him in the ass.
I'm on a second round of antibiotics. This one may be killing the infection, but it's also making me wretch. I had to pull off the freeway this morning to dry heave into a plastic bag. And I'm not even sure it's killing the sinus infection.
DS has learned the power of the scream. He doesn't cry. He screams like a flipping wildcat. Then he looks at you like, "Are you going to give me my way or am I going to make that noise again?" Also he's a genius at knowing exactly the one thing in a room he isn't allowed to have and going for it. Moth to flame. Bee to honey. Baby to hot coffee cup.
DH wears a ridiculously expensive Omega watch. Just had it repaired and serviced, like 2 weeks ago. It's broken again. He has to drive 35 miles to the place that can send it back to Switzerland to fix it. We paid almost $2000 for the maintenance and repairs. If they didn't offer a full 2 year warranty, I would be losing my shit. As it is, I'm just really annoyed.
After volunteering at my kids' school Friday night and Saturday until 2 am, I need a weekend from my weekend. Thankfully, I will spend my day driving and going to meetings where I am not in charge, and they feed me. Now to just get through the day until after our 7 pm gymnastics class.
She just wants to be held. By me. Dad is ok if I'm not in the room, but if she sees me, she starts crying and reaching out to me. It makes for so much mom guilt!
And I have been watching everything I eat and passing on all the good stuff for weeks and still can't get the 5 pounds off I have gained this winter. Damn it!!!
She just wants to be held. By me. Dad is ok if I'm not in the room, but if she sees me, she starts crying and reaching out to me. It makes for so much mom guilt!
I discovered how much DD liked me when my parents came to visit and everytime they came to grab her, she'd turn and bury her head in my shoulder and I'd feel her little baby fists dig into the arms of my sweatshirt. I lurve it.
I am sick for seriously the 6th time this winter. Most recent time before this was back in January (New Years) when I had the flu. The flu induced cough lasted another month after that so I basically was healthy for 28 days.
Also, so much poop this morning. DD woke up screaming with diaper full of all the poo!
She just wants to be held. By me. Dad is ok if I'm not in the room, but if she sees me, she starts crying and reaching out to me. It makes for so much mom guilt!
I discovered how much DD liked me when my parents came to visit and everytime they came to grab her, she'd turn and bury her head in my shoulder and I'd feel her little baby fists dig into the arms of my sweatshirt. I lurve it.
It makes me feel special, that's for sure. Just makes me more conflicted about running around trying to do everything during the weekend, when I also want to spend time with her.
What would really be ideal is if she would nap on the weekends anywhere but in the ergo - we'd have a happier, more independent baby, and we could get stuff done while she was asleep. No such luck.
DD has an ear infection, and has been a total mess since Friday. So.much.snot., and constantly inconsolable. Very out of character too - these EIs usually don't slow her down for a second. And now the lovely antibiotic-related diarrhea has kicked in, and she had the most massive poomageddon I've ever experienced this morning. Bath for her, change of clothes for me, load of laundry, and just got done disinfecting her room and the tub.
I'm home with her today, and she's napping right now, so I'm taking the opportunity to lie here and do absolutely nothing. I could make the coffee I never got this morning, but even that would require too much effort. 30 weeks pregnant + parenting = hard.
I discovered how much DD liked me when my parents came to visit and everytime they came to grab her, she'd turn and bury her head in my shoulder and I'd feel her little baby fists dig into the arms of my sweatshirt. I lurve it.
It makes me feel special, that's for sure. Just makes me more conflicted about running around trying to do everything during the weekend, when I also want to spend time with her.
What would really be ideal is if she would nap on the weekends anywhere but in the ergo - we'd have a happier, more independent baby, and we could get stuff done while she was asleep. No such luck.
I totally understand. I wasn't trying to be a Pollyanna. My only solution has been to let her cry (so long as I know she is changed, fed, and rested - or I'm working on getting her changed, fed, or rested).
Post by mustardseed2007 on Mar 2, 2015 12:35:32 GMT -5
Work vent: I'm working on a project that is all about the principal of the thing and there is no end game other than to make a certain group of people realize that we are justifiably offended. I am having a hard time conjuring up passion for this project.
IL Vent: My ILs watched our kids at our home last (so great of them!). Two things 1) About 30 minutes before we leave our house, SIL and BIL call and ask my ILs if they can drop their kids at our house so the ILs can watch them too. No one asks US, which is at minimum rude, but the nephews are 11 and 13 so no real harm done. By the time we get home, though, the nephews are still there and my ILs are thinking of leaving them with US bc BIL had said they would be back in 2 hours. It had been WELL over 2 hours and BIL and SIL weren't answering their texts. Um NO! We didn't sign up for that! Not to mention the thing they went to is at least 45 minutes away from our house, so the "we'll be gone for 2 hours" comment was total BS from the start.
2) I also found out that while my ILs are on vacation this next week DH had agreed (long ago apparently) that we would watch their large, indoor dog. We have 5 cats and a hole in our fence. So smart DH. Better get to fixing the fence in the copious amounts of free time you have.
Its Monday and feels like Friday. Working 7 days a week sucks only 6 more weekends of work before the deadline. The in-law and H drama continues with neither keeping me in the loop so trying not to think about it. Just have a grumpy H Can someone please send us some snow and rain...all this sunshine and spring weather is making for a long dry fire season plus it is to early for all the bushes to bloom.
My DH has developed, in response to snow and ice last week, a permanent electronic appendage. I get that his work schedule wasn't "normal" but there comes a point where he needs to draw a line. He wanted to leave church early so he could reply to email in the hallway before we picked up the kids. He ate dinner between the table and the bar, where his laptop is. Batman was saying things to DS like "These villains didn't edit this slide the way I told them to". So now DS says that. As a result, I didn't get to log on and read/handle the 143 emails I got after 3:00 on Friday (I usually work late on Friday). I just caught up and might be a little resentful.
And he washed ALL of his laundry in small loads all weekend, so none of the sledding wet mess is clean, none of the kids have clean clothes and I have no clean clothes. He was on his laptop in the laundry room, so I could not even sneak a load in!
Post by CoverGirl82 on Mar 2, 2015 13:33:56 GMT -5
I know this is a trivial one, but... I wear heels to work 95% of the time, but due to a foot injury I have to wear flats for the next few weeks. I really miss my heels!
Post by erinshelley21 on Mar 2, 2015 13:48:34 GMT -5
An update to my first vent: the biggest customer is now out the door. You can't really blame someone for not wanting crop insurance if they aren't even going to be freaking farming anymore.
Following up on my earlier vent, DH confirmed that his boss FORGOT that he promised him a raise. Hmm... What could have mitigated that? A F-ING CONVERSATION, THAT'S WHAT!!!
Now I need to be supportive and give hair pats about how unfair it is.
Following up on my earlier vent, DH confirmed that his boss FORGOT that he promised him a raise. Hmm... What could have mitigated that? A F-ING CONVERSATION, THAT'S WHAT!!!
Now I need to be supportive and give hair pats about how unfair it is.
I would refuse to give hair pats and be supportive. He just screwed your family out of more money because he didn't want to take your advice. I am so ragey for you!!!
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