BFM June 29th

[fishbulb]

I'll start!

I feel like I've been sick all month. J brought home a cold in late May, which I caught, then it was the stomach virus from hell, and now the leftover cold has morphed into a sinus infection.

On a good note, I found out last week that employees can use the health services center on campus and that if you carry the university's insurance your copay is waived for sick visits. At least that saves us $35 today!

[ellabee]

Sorry you guys have been sick fishbulb. I feel like we just had the same stomach bug followed by a sinus/nasal congestion cold too. Not fun.

BF: I usually suck it up when I'm sick, but when DH gets sick he's a big manbaby. It blows my mind that men try to act all tough and strong, but the smallest cold can make them so whiney.

Also, not really a bitch, but something I need to share: I haven't nursed E since last Tuesday. I'm shocked (and more upset than I'll admit out loud) at how easy weaning is (was? are we really done??). Sigh... all the feels... prob doesn't help that AF is here today too.

[zandeela]

my bitch: we are still trying to close on our DAMN house.. this is taking forever. My neighbor would not sign the paperwork to transfer the waiver of the septic to the new owners, so we had to spend 10k to put a new damn septic system in. the buyers have been living in the house for 2 months now and the contract states that the are living there as if they bought it, so they are responsible to all the upkeep and fixing whatever breaks. we get a text from the buyers saying that the ac is not blowing cold, Sorry lady not my problem. Our realtor had to send her an email reminding her that she is responsible at this point. I mean come on you have been living there 2 months and it just now is not wanting to work? the house is on a dirt road, you have to "clean" the intake 9use high pressure water to rinse the external coils) once a year to keep it from freezing up. am I going to tell her this? NOPE again not my problem. if she was nicer, I would have shared with her
we close on the 6th, THANK GOD. so, so ready to be done and over it..

[fish8412]

Jun 29, 2015 9:21:03 GMT -5 ellabee said:

Sorry you guys have been sick fishbulb. I feel like we just had the same stomach bug followed by a sinus/nasal congestion cold too. Not fun.

BF: I usually suck it up when I'm sick, but when DH gets sick he's a big manbaby. It blows my mind that men try to act all tough and strong, but the smallest cold can make them so whiney.

Also, not really a bitch, but something I need to share: I haven't nursed E since last Tuesday. I'm shocked (and more upset than I'll admit out loud) at how easy weaning is (was? are we really done??). Sigh... all the feels... prob doesn't help that AF is here today too.

It's ok to feel upset about weaning!  My LO only nurses at bedtime and some nights it's only for a few minutes.  I get sad sometimes.  Have you offered the boob?

[fish8412]

My bitch is that I called the dermatologist this morning and was on hold for 7 minutes (to just make an appointment).

[zandeela]

sometimes I am jealous of you ladies that were able to nurse your LO's. I had to pump and bottle feed it since I did not produce enough and had to monitor how much she was getting. I never had the closeness of nursing, so weaning was a blessing because no more pumping.

[sanibel21]

LO slept 10 minutes in the car on the way home from a play date. I think she thinks that was her nap today because she came in all playful and just ate lunch. If she doesn't go down in a few, I will be livid.

[ellabee]

fish8412 - we did "don't offer, don't refuse" for the last few nights. She didn't ask and I gave her some milk in a sippy and cuddled in our nursing chair together. I'm sure if I offered, she'd nurse, but we're going to start TFAS this month and mentally I know weaning now is for the best. I just get a bit teary eyed when I think of our last session - had I known it was going to be our last I might have cherished the moment a bit more.

zandeela - major kudos to you for pumping though. There was a good stretch of time where I was pumping more than nursing and it was tough. I wanted to go all office-space on my pump by the end.

[bebeski]

Our movers were 6 hours late. Ok, whatever. Now they are saying they are delivering our stuff 2 weeks late. What??! We paid them In March and now they are saying they don't have enough drivers. How can they keep our stuff hostage?

Ugggghhhhhhhh.

Never use Allied to move. Ever.

[babycaps]

OH man, zandeela, you just reminded me yet again why I LOVE condo living and not having to worry about things like how to clean AC units. I would be lost! I hope all that gets figured out soon! Huge kudos on all the pumping!


bebeski, that's ridiculous!

sanibel21, that's so annoying when those 10min snooze end up being a nap!!!


fishbulb, feel better!!!

fish8412, I had the same thing today!!! on hold forever!!!

ellabee, when I realized M was really not going to nurse anymore I cried BIG tears.

My bitch: I have to go to a meeting now!

[mrssmith613]

I got one today.. So I about two months ago my ILs approached us with a good investment opportunity. They are buying our house so that we can buy one that they have on some land and just paying for the house they are gifting us the land. Anyways, we are supposed to close on the house tomorrow and LAST WEEK my mother in law starts working on getting the property released from the bank. ( they divided the parcel that her house is on and moved a house in that was going to be demolished and refurbished it so it’s like brand new) Now she is having problems getting it released and we can’t close tomorrow. I am so mad because they have been rushing me this whole time to get my shit in order and now my DH and I are all set and good to go and they are the ones farting around now. They have had this project in the works for almost a year and known that this was going to have to take place before they could sell it. WHY ARE YOU WAITING TIL THE END TO DO THIS WOMEN AND DELAYING MY MOVING PROCESS!!!

[fishbulb]

zandeela and mrssmith613, you all are giving me homebuying flashbacks. I don't want to live in Arkansas forever but I never want to go through the buying process again. If we leave, we'd have to sell too.

[angelsnight]

For the last few months I've been considering upgrading our SUV to a bigger one since mine just doesn't have enough cargo space. But MH kept being the voice of reason, saying we don't need to spend more. After selling my car, we would have been spending about $9000 on a new (used) SUV. I finally accepted that we do not need a new one, with only one kid the one we have will be fine.

So the last few days MH has been talking about getting a new (used) truck. I am not thrilled about it, but ours has been acting up and the garage can't find what is wrong with it. So tonight he calls, saying we can use his dad's A plan on a new one. Um, our truck is 12 years old and it cost about 12K. How does he think we are going to go from that, to a brand new 60K truck? Especially when spending 9K on a new SUV was a bad financial move.

I've never been a brand new car person, they are totally not worth it IMO, but I'll be damned if I buy a brand new vehicle that cost more than our house did!

[lakecountrygal]

Three of my coworkers have rearranged and moved everything in my classroom. Supplies that my assistant organized have been moved and I can't find them when I go in to get supplies for summer school (I'm in a different building for summer school). Then yesterday I went to stop by to pick some stuff up and one of them had the nerve to tell me she needed notification before I picked up any of my supplies/classroom toys/materials before I picked them up. FU lady it's my classroom and you are not the boss of me.

I really hate my job right now and from the 20 I've applied for I've only had 2 interviews and so far a rejection from one (still waiting to hear from the other). The worst part is a principal that begged me to apply at her school rejected me, why beg me to apply if you have no intention of hiring me, I've now wasted my time and yours.