Gettin Down on Friday Spam

[mrsclark731]

Aug 28, 2015 9:28:27 GMT -5 tortor4 said:

Aug 28, 2015 9:27:09 GMT -5 mrsclark731 said:

I'm pissed about an etsy review I received. I have over 400 sales and 108 reviews, all of which were 5 out of 5 stars until last night. Here is my 4 star review:

"Loved the agenda/thank you cards for my destination wedding. The size was bigger than I had thought which is actually better. Also, it was very easy to work with Valerie as she accommodated a few edits. Quick response and speedy delivery. I would recommend."

SO THEN WHY DID YOU ONLY GIVE ME 4 STARS?!

I wrote her a message asking why because I'd like to fix whatever problem she had. No response. Grrrrr

That's crazy. Sounds like a 5 star review to me.

Right?!

I will also add that the size is clearly stated in the item listing.

[tortor4]

Aug 28, 2015 9:30:37 GMT -5 mrsclark731 said:

Aug 28, 2015 9:28:27 GMT -5 tortor4 said:

That's crazy. Sounds like a 5 star review to me.

Right?!

I will also add that the size is clearly stated in the item listing.

I guess some people don't bother reading the details! If I'm ordering something and need it to be a certain size I will literally pull out a ruler so I can be sure it's what I'm expecting. It would drive me nuts though to have all those 5 star reviews and this one 4 star. Maybe she only put 4 by mistake

[kaydee0402]

Aug 28, 2015 7:35:46 GMT -5 WittyLittle said:

I love how often we think we're pregnant nowadays. Everyone's always peeing on stuff

So much this.  I'm feeling a bit pukey this morning and my coworkers instantly made the leap to pregnant.  I almost vomited for real at that one. 

We struggled for three years with infertility.  It would be an absolute joke if we got pregnant without even trying, lol. 

[lilyelayne]

Speaking of @alyllyra, anyone heard from her in a while? She's overseas so our time zones don't match up at all. Bat signal! How're you doing, lady?

[kaydee0402]

My mom flew in late last night and we spent the night at my sisters. We had to co-sleep and my son woke me up at 6 a.m. by jabbing his finger up my nose. I can't wait until he's a teenager. Revenge is going to be AWESOME.

I'm spending six hours in a car today with my five month old, my mom and my husbandman. I'm hoping Little Man will sleep most of the way instead of crying like he's been doing every time we dare to put him in a car seat. We're stopping halfway through the trip for a brewery tour. Yaaaaay beer!

[hollydfromtn]

mumomma13 I'm within about 30-45 mins from Pigeon Forge. It is such a tourist trap though, so we rarely go unless my mom wants to go to the outlets.

[taberbtb]

I'm still here! I have survived! Finally my crazy summer has *almost* come to an end. I love the summer season but ways end up hating July-Aug because it's just too damn busy to be anything close to enjoyable.

I don't know if I mentioned this earlier but my sisters and I were selected to be featured in a calendar put out by our provincial ag group. Yesterday was the photo shoot and interview for it. It went really well, B was included, and a fantastic model. We saw a couple of shots on the camera but they will be emailing all the images over next week for final approval. I am so. Freakin. Excited.

DH and I are headed to a friends wedding this weekend and leaving DD with my parents/sister. Our friends are getting married on the farm and it's in the middle of nowhere so most of the guests are bringing tents/trailers to stay since there are no accommodations anywhere close, DH and I included. I am looking forward to it since the groom is a high school friend of mine and most of the guests will also be friends from our old "group".

I briefly skimmed through the posts I missed from the last week/10 days. I will be joining the fb group so I have a way to keep in touch if this place dies but will still mostly post here. I rarely post on my own fb as it is so I doubt that will change much. I love our little group really hope it sticks around.

[aggiebug]

dmorgendorffer, Southwest airlines has awesome reusable bags that fit both our car seat and stroller for $15. I would see if you can pick one up from them. IF you aren't flying them I would call and see if you can purchase one from them at the airport anyway.


ETA and I think it would fit our BOB and our infant seat if we put it in right. Its huge! And cheap!

[jensoprano82]

Aug 28, 2015 9:07:07 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

Aug 28, 2015 8:36:06 GMT -5 jensoprano82 said:

Guys I just woke up and the baye was asleep in the rnp like this:

This is why I gave mine away.

Yup! Crib transition will happen along with the move starting Tuesday.

[cginge]

LO is still on eastern time and resisting naps. He's going to sleep at night at his normal time but waking up two hours early. Mama is gonna need some caffeine! H works tonight and Sunday. I'm going to find some stuff to do to get out and let H sleep tomorrow.

[lilyelayne]

taberbtb I didn't know about the calendar. That's awesome!!

[FlutterOfYoshis]

cginge, Random: every time I see your sn, my brain perceives it as "color a dog ginger" and I imagine a cocker spaniel.

Alternately, I also think of this comedian's song (warning: don't watch around kids, pretty sure he drops the f-bomb): m.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

My brain works in mysterious ways these days...

[cougarette]

Aug 28, 2015 8:26:34 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

cougarette can MIL keep LO so you can clean? I remember she's not your fav but can't remember if she has babysitting privileges.

She can and does babysit. The thing I don't like when she babysits is that she thinks babies only cry because they're hungry. And I never leave him enough in the bottle.

But we may let her watch him for a bit.

[cougarette]

Aug 28, 2015 7:09:23 GMT -5 danitaec said:

I had some puffy feet yesterday, which has never happened in my life until I got pregnant. POAS may happen this weekend just to make me feel better.

Animal loving friends: we have stray cats that come and go at our house. I leave food out for them, and we generally have one that will stay around for a while before moving on to the next place. My question is: can I slip them some wormer/flea stuff when they eat? I know they're just strays, but I feel the need to take care of them as best I can.

Happy Friday, y'all! I'm gonna sleep in so hard tomorrow.

If they'll let you get close enough I think you should! Also check to see if a local shelter has a trap-neuter-release (TNR) program.

Edit - late to the party, I see this was already covered.

[misshart00]

Oh my child. He won't take a bottle. He turns his nose up at other food. But he has no problem stealing my ENTIRE pork chop.

[cougarette]

Aug 28, 2015 8:12:14 GMT -5 wimcgrath said:

Morning, ladies! I'm getting very sad as I go back to work on Monday, and that makes today my "last day" with A! Wahhh!
Teacher work week starts and I'm a bit annoyed because, as team leader (again!), my week is filled with meetings when I really need to be in my room! There's a first year teacher on my team (there are only 3 of us as it is), a summer program was in my room so there is literally NOTHING remaining furniture-wise or on the walls, and open house is Thursday morning. Sorry to be a whiner, but I hate feeling like I'm already behind (especially since I've been in maternity leave brain fog), yikes!

Many hugs and glasses of wine!

[PikoPiko]

2nd day of succumbing to the MIL bug. I made it home last night at 6ish, had a fever of 101.5F and the chills, went to bed promptly. Thankfully LO slept thru the night again. I'm feeling a bit better now, but have lost my voice a bit.

I woke up this morning to a host of new emails from work, apparently my hardware scored the top failure rate last night, now management realllllly know me. The coughing and my voice are making conference calls extremely challenging. So much for a quiet sick day.

My little sister is coming tomorrow with her bf. I'm really looking forward to some sister time. We're planning to go up to Vancouver for a day trip. I really need to get better fast so we can hang out! I'm somewhat considering baking something, but prob not a good idea with my germs.

[Mom2Ms]

Howdy. Not much going on here today. It's like 9000 degrees, which makes doing anything outside ridiculous. DH's kids have their first football games today, I feel like I should go and be supportive. However, the vile hog wart has flown in (his ex wife who is currently living in the middle east) and I am sure that she will be there. I don't think she will speak to me, but I just want nothing to do with her. Just the thought of having to look at her or anything churns my stomach. Plus she's a stupid bitch (sorry) and will think its perfectly acceptable to approach me after accusing me of molesting her children, physically abusing her children, and physically abusing the baby. That bridge has been burned. Forever.

I got shitastic news on Tuesday. I DO have to have another knee surgery after I recover from this one. It's much worse than they thought. Which blows cause they told me I would be 3 months non weight bearing and then 4-6 months rehabbing and learning to walk again before I can go back to work. And my work is refusing to pay me my workers comp benefits, so we are going to be losing any and all income for me. Ugh. And our landlord wants to raise our rent $500 a month. The same one who keeps telling us its not in foreclosure, despite the notices we get on our door. I have never wanted to be a homeowner until now. Sick of the instability. I shouldn't bitch, people have it much worse than me.

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 28, 2015 7:36:52 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Aug 28, 2015 7:20:12 GMT -5 danitaec said:

Oh yeah, and finally have our six month appointment today! The grandparents love to play "guess the baby's stats". I know we're not the youngest baby here, but I always feel behind on the stat threads.

Our appointment isn't until Sep8 so you're not last!

Ours is next Friday. 6 months on the dot....

[Mom2Ms]

aggiebug- that is so scary. Hope things get better for your little one. mrsclark731 I can remember buying DD coloring book sets with markers that would only write on the paper, that would be a good one. Or a simple craft set, like making a tooth fairy box or something like that. Michaels makes a lot of these type of things, I would check it out. wimcgrath - Good luck!! dmorgendorffer - When we gate checked, we did not put our stiller in anything. It came back unharmed. Just smile a lot at the people, that usually works so they don't bang up your stuff....

[Mom2Ms]

Aug 28, 2015 12:19:17 GMT -5 PikoPiko said:

2nd day of succumbing to the MIL bug. I made it home last night at 6ish, had a fever of 101.5F and the chills, went to bed promptly. Thankfully LO slept thru the night again. I'm feeling a bit better now, but have lost my voice a bit.

I woke up this morning to a host of new emails from work, apparently my hardware scored the top failure rate last night, now management realllllly know me. The coughing and my voice are making conference calls extremely challenging. So much for a quiet sick day.

My little sister is coming tomorrow with her bf. I'm really looking forward to some sister time. We're planning to go up to Vancouver for a day trip. I really need to get better fast so we can hang out! I'm somewhat considering baking something, but prob not a good idea with my germs.

Feel better!!! That's awful, especially with a LO on top of it. Get some rest this weekend.

[WittyLittle]

Aug 28, 2015 8:51:18 GMT -5 dmorgendorffer said:

I have a head cold and along with E's terrible sleep this week it has been rough. So happy Friday has finally arrived. We're going to visit my parents this weekend and dropping our dogs off up there for them to dogsit because we are flying out to visit H's grandmother in West Virginia next weekend - will be DD's first time on an airplane!

Ladies who have flown with baby before - I bought a case so we can check our car seat but I plan to gate check the stroller. Should I buy some kind of bag for the stroller? Its a Maclaren Techno XT and I'm worried it wont fit in the generic umbrella stroller bag on Amazon but the Maclaren bag is sold out or ridiculously expensive where I've been able to find it.

I sewed two fleece blankets together and stuck our stroller in there, did the job! But you can often rent these special cases also!

[mamabutt2]

LO is working on a 3 hour nap. Thank God lol He only slept for an hour yesterday so last night was rough. He woke up every 45 minutes until I have up and brought him to bed with DH and I.

LO gets his 6 month pictures taken today! If it doesn't rain anyway. The location is at a park near me but if it's raining, our "pretty areas" are limited because the covered areas aren't very picture friendly. We may end up rescheduling. Then it'll be 7 month pictures lol

Happy Friday ladies!

[GeekBeagle]

Aug 28, 2015 13:24:28 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

Aug 28, 2015 11:00:19 GMT -5 FlutterOfYoshis said:

cginge, Random: every time I see your sn, my brain perceives it as "color a dog ginger" and I imagine a cocker spaniel.

Whenever I see GeekBeagle SN I think Geek Bagel. Like a dorky bagel.

Hahaha! Well, I do like bagels!

[mrsclark731]

Thank you everyone for the 3 year old art supply suggestions! This is what I ended up getting her:

[osumegs]

miniwheat, hope you're feeling better!
toadandbuggie, good luck with dinner out. If others give you dirty looks, you're right - they are a-holes!
aggiebug, hope Aspen is doing better!
missys, for sleep training we stayed in the room. We could always smell if she pooped (though she isn't much for night poops). We missed it once, though, and I felt like a total d-bag parent.
PikoPiko, hope you start feeling better soon.
mrsclark731, maybe she was one of those, "nobody is perfect so I don't give out fives" people, which are annoying for reviews?
hollydfromtn,I so want to come down to that area now thinking of how pretty it is. I've never been in fall but I love the mountains. We usually rent a cabin in the Gatlinburg area and avoid the touristy crap.
dmorgendorffer Hope the head cold goes away quickly!

[osumegs]

We went to the mall today to pick up an outfit at Gymboree I was in love with for DD. Sold out, but still online. I have to get on ordering it come to think of it. MIL is coming over for dinner tonight. I invited her because DH says she feels like she's intruding when she comes if DH isn't home. I need to get better at inviting people to do things (or actually making plans!) I'm used to working weird hours and not really having a social life as a result. I have to get in the hang of actually interacting with people.

[GeekBeagle]

osumegs Name the time and we're there!

[babycfeb2015]

So scary thing happened today-a car hit my stroller with LO in it. Total hit and run. We had the crosswalk and the car appeares to be waiting to turn right but was totally stopped. I started crossing the street and he turned right into us. Everyone was fine and LO just got jostled-I think he only cried because I was freaking out. Asshole who hit us drove away without getting out. We had people all around getting out of their cars to check on us but no one got the guys license plate. Super scary!

[mrsclark731]

Aug 28, 2015 17:10:11 GMT -5 babycfeb2015 said:

So scary thing happened today-a car hit my stroller with LO in it. Total hit and run. We had the crosswalk and the car appeares to be waiting to turn right but was totally stopped. I started crossing the street and he turned right into us. Everyone was fine and LO just got jostled-I think he only cried because I was freaking out. Asshole who hit us drove away without getting out. We had people all around getting out of their cars to check on us but no one got the guys license plate. Super scary!

You had a guardian angel! 

That is beyond scary. I'm so glad you guys are ok! 

Did anyone get the tag number? Did you call the police? That is really shitty that this person hit you but even shitter that they fled!

edit--I just saw that no one got the plate