Too much coffee TUESDAY

kvruns · January 2021

I signed up for the Panera 3 months of free coffee and i'm cashing it in every day. Lots of iced coffee in my future even though it's not that good

climbingsingle · January 2021

Second Monday. Blah.

Also, I'm warning all of you, don't read the disturbing DMs going around from Armie Hammer. You can't unsee it.

I hate this time of year. My skin is dry AND breaking out. My hair is flat. And spring feels so damn far away.

VarunaTT · January 2021

I think I did read some of the Hammer DMs and I've blocked it. I just remember "OMG, EW".

I'm still so excited to be at work, it's ridiculous. I also went out for dinner last night with a friend to a hot pot restaurant and it was so delicious. It feels so good to see people still. I'm sure I'll be back to my humanity hating self soon, but not yet.

Otherwise, SSDD. I went to bed at like 8:30 last night. Depression is still kicking my behind, so I think it's going to take awhile to get back to where I was before all of this (which wasn't super awesome, but better than it is right now).

CharmedPam · January 2021

This is the first I heard of panera coffee club. There’s not one On my way to work or anything so I won’t look into it, but neat!

Yesterday I was SO proud of myself for getting up and working out. Today was a no go. I am hoping to do it tonight, but lets get real, my “move to night workouts” never happen.

kvruns · January 2021

I dont know who or what Armie Hammer is but I don't think I wnt to know

kvruns · January 2021

Speaking of workouts, I've started doing Up to the Beat Fitness on YouTube. It's low impact, walking based for the most part through you can increase impact. Kind of like dance/zumba stuff and I'm liking it. Sadly I did a higher impact one yesterday with some lunges and my knees hurt so much I could barely do them. My knees/hips have been falling apart the last few years and with the pandemic I pretty much stuck to walking outside and nothing else so it's going to be a long road to get back to my old self (well OK not my old self, I dont see running marathons/ultras in my future anymore!)

ILoveBeachMusic · January 2021

@CharmedPam I am totally a morning workout person. With DS2 working from our house right now I have to finish working out by 7:45 because he works in the room where the elliptical lives. I normally workout around 8 or 8:30. It is sooo difficult to drag my butt in there before 7 but if I don't it won't get done when he finishes work for the day!

Nothing much today. Just keeping a close eye on the puppers. She is pretty lethargic but is eating little bits and drinking some. As long as she does that we will keep going. She doesn't seem to be in any pain. A friend who is a retired vet told me that renal failure doesn't normally lead to pain but rather to unresponsiveness. DS1 called yesterday. I could tell he was crying about the situation. We got her when he was a sophomore in high school (I think).

I need to finish my book club book for this month. It is Eleanor, a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. It is really long, and I have a little over a week to finish it. I'm a little more than half way through. Hopefully it will get done. I'm learning some things but it does get kind of dry.

mrsconn23 · January 2021

Tuesday, blerg. At least it's sunny out.

I had to do this 'respect in the workplace' training this morning, which is just diversity and harassment prevention packaged in a new way. It was run of the mill, but I did notice that a lot of people in the stock videos and stills were...white. Maybe we should rethink who gets represented in diversity training, even if it is just stock images?

The 'History of Swearing' series on Netflix is amusing. It made me love Nic Cage again. The episodes are only 20 min too.

DH is going to be gone Thu-Sun. My sister and dad are going to be gone this coming weekend too. It's supposed to snow Friday and Saturday. I may have to take DefConn to get some Red Box movies or something. We also have some project kits that we've let collect dust. I may see if my younger sister wants to come over for dinner one night with foster nephew. I need to find things to do, other than be sad panda that DH is gone and the weather is crappy and cold.

SSDD otherwise.

MissKittyDanger · January 2021

So idk who all is on my instagram {feel free to add me if you want @misskt }
but my nana passed yesterday morning.

https://instagram.com/p/CJ6naZHFqqf/embed/

She wasn't well and went downhill really fast and basically on Sunday morning my aunt msg'd my mum and I saying to go and say our goodbyes.
She didn't look like herself. She was a rounder lady for years and she looked pretty skeletal. She wasn't lucid either, but my mum said she saw her eyebrows move as my mum spoke, so I feel it gave my mum something to go on.
This is my dad's mum. She was 92 and would have been 93 in March.

Service is Friday for just immediate family.
This just sucks.

climbingsingle · January 2021

@MissKittyDanger So sorry for your loss. It's so hard to lose a grandparent.

Casadena · January 2021

@kvruns Free coffee is good coffee!

Feeling a lot better today, H handled the babe for the majority of the day (usually we split the day pretty evenly) bc i just could not. Nerves and hormones got the better of me and i cried about 10 times for no reason.

My boss and my insurance company are irritating me. Boss is overall really great, but sometimes assumes that I know things (deadlines, major strategy shifts) that I have no way of knowing unless he tells me. Except he doesn't tell me. It's been so much worse since we've been WFH and we don't run into each other 50 times a day. My week is now super busy bc "oops, i guess we do have a board meeting coming up". *eye roll*

And i just want a list of all the stuff that's covered. Not the "summary" that they give you to try and make a decision on which plan to sign up for, like a list of visits and procedure types, how many are allowed, and what the level of coverage is. Every insurance company i've ever had until this one has provided that. It's incredibly frustrating.

charlotte989875 · January 2021

Oh @MissKittyDanger I’m so sorry for your loss.

charlotte989875 · January 2021

Casadena said:

@kvruns Free coffee is good coffee!

Feeling a lot better today, H handled the babe for the majority of the day (usually we split the day pretty evenly) bc i just could not. Nerves and hormones got the better of me and i cried about 10 times for no reason.

My boss and my insurance company are irritating me. Boss is overall really great, but sometimes assumes that I know things (deadlines, major strategy shifts) that I have no way of knowing unless he tells me. Except he doesn't tell me. It's been so much worse since we've been WFH and we don't run into each other 50 times a day. My week is now super busy bc "oops, i guess we do have a board meeting coming up". *eye roll*

And i just want a list of all the stuff that's covered. Not the "summary" that they give you to try and make a decision on which plan to sign up for, like a list of visits and procedure types, how many are allowed, and what the level of coverage is. Every insurance company i've ever had until this one has provided that. It's incredibly frustrating.

This is infuriating. I hate that it’s so hard to find out exactly what is covered.

CharmedPam · January 2021

@MissKittyDanger so sorry for your loss. I have been following and I know you said she wasn’t doing so well.

mrsconn23 · January 2021

I'm so sorry for your loss @MissKittyDanger.

charlotte989875 · January 2021

It’s dreary and cold and I’m cranky today. I worked late last night and really trying to avoid doing that again tonight. It’s our super busy time and I just don’t have the patience for it.

H is cranky too and I have little patience for that as well; he’s all in on sleep training with the babe but he’s also not getting up with him all night. He’s also pissed about the whole world and it’s super fun to be around.

And it’s only Tuesday.

kvruns · January 2021

@MissKittyDanger so sorry for your loss

@Casadena request a copy of the insurance certificate it will list everythng that is covered. It wont be in a concise manner

mrsconn23 · January 2021

charlotte989875 said:

It’s dreary and cold and I’m cranky today. I worked late last night and really trying to avoid doing that again tonight. It’s our super busy time and I just don’t have the patience for it.

H is cranky too and I have little patience for that as well; he’s all in on sleep training with the babe but he’s also not getting up with him all night. He’s also pissed about the whole world and it’s super fun to be around.

And it’s only Tuesday.

OH hellz no. He needs to pitch in or pipe down. Time for mom to get a hotel room for a night...alone. Hee.

charlotte989875 · January 2021

mrsconn23 said:

charlotte989875 said:

It’s dreary and cold and I’m cranky today. I worked late last night and really trying to avoid doing that again tonight. It’s our super busy time and I just don’t have the patience for it.

H is cranky too and I have little patience for that as well; he’s all in on sleep training with the babe but he’s also not getting up with him all night. He’s also pissed about the whole world and it’s super fun to be around.

And it’s only Tuesday.

OH hellz no. He needs to pitch in or pipe down. Time for mom to get a hotel room for a night...alone. Hee.

Is that heaven? Because that’s what it sounds like to me!

To be fair he definitely pitches in, but the baby is still eating a few times at night so I’m getting up to feed him. And he just learned how to roll all the way over then realizes he doesn’t want to be on his tummy and cries. Silly baby hasn’t learned he’s doing it to himself. But H doesn’t wake up, I do.

H has done the bedtime sleep routine and takes him in the morning so I can get back to sleep. I do get annoyed though when he sighs (loudly) when the baby wakes up at 5; because he just got to sleep uninterrupted for like 5 hours. And he could get even more sleep if he went to bed earlier. I know it’s hard for everyone and I’m trying to be patient. But damn. Just don’t complain about sleep. I know it’s not a tired olympics but if it was I think I’d win.

MissKittyDanger · January 2021

charlotte989875 said:

It’s dreary and cold and I’m cranky today. I worked late last night and really trying to avoid doing that again tonight. It’s our super busy time and I just don’t have the patience for it.

H is cranky too and I have little patience for that as well; he’s all in on sleep training with the babe but he’s also not getting up with him all night. He’s also pissed about the whole world and it’s super fun to be around.

And it’s only Tuesday.

Night training isn't bad. I was the only one getting up with BK, but M was also my rock when we started to try a bit of CIO Which is not for all, and not for all kids - worked for BK to a degree because we went with the suggestions of our dr {let her cry for 10min, if not settle then we could go in and settle her. Next time is 15min, then 20min, etc}

We really didn't get to it until BK showed she could do a long spurt - which was 9hrs at 9m, so there's that.

charlotte989875 · January 2021

MissKittyDanger said:

charlotte989875 said:

It’s dreary and cold and I’m cranky today. I worked late last night and really trying to avoid doing that again tonight. It’s our super busy time and I just don’t have the patience for it.

H is cranky too and I have little patience for that as well; he’s all in on sleep training with the babe but he’s also not getting up with him all night. He’s also pissed about the whole world and it’s super fun to be around.

And it’s only Tuesday.

Night training isn't bad. I was the only one getting up with BK, but M was also my rock when we started to try a bit of CIO Which is not for all, and not for all kids - worked for BK to a degree because we went with the suggestions of our dr {let her cry for 10min, if not settle then we could go in and settle her. Next time is 15min, then 20min, etc}

We really didn't get to it until BK showed she could do a long spurt - which was 9hrs at 9m, so there's that.

Yeah I just don’t think Baby M is there yet, he’s still eating every 2-4 hours (still breastfeeding). H really thinks he should be sleeping through the night because his sisters kid did by this point (he is formula fed). I’m trying to be patient about “every kid is different” but it’s hard.

kvruns · January 2021

solidarity hugs @charlotte989875 mine was all about the sleep training it MUST BE DONE blah blah blah and lasted approximately 1 hour (not joking) before he flipped his shit on baby B and started the demise (well ok fueled the fire) of this relationship. I have no sympathy for people trying to write checks they can't cash so I hope your H will listen to you since you're the one still having to get up. If he really wants to do it then he needs to do the nighttime wakeups with a bottle

MissKittyDanger · January 2021

charlotte989875 said:

MissKittyDanger said:

charlotte989875 said:

It’s dreary and cold and I’m cranky today. I worked late last night and really trying to avoid doing that again tonight. It’s our super busy time and I just don’t have the patience for it.

H is cranky too and I have little patience for that as well; he’s all in on sleep training with the babe but he’s also not getting up with him all night. He’s also pissed about the whole world and it’s super fun to be around.

And it’s only Tuesday.

Night training isn't bad. I was the only one getting up with BK, but M was also my rock when we started to try a bit of CIO Which is not for all, and not for all kids - worked for BK to a degree because we went with the suggestions of our dr {let her cry for 10min, if not settle then we could go in and settle her. Next time is 15min, then 20min, etc}

We really didn't get to it until BK showed she could do a long spurt - which was 9hrs at 9m, so there's that.

Yeah I just don’t think Baby M is there yet, he’s still eating every 2-4 hours (still breastfeeding). H really thinks he should be sleeping through the night because his sisters kid did by this point (he is formula fed). I’m trying to be patient about “every kid is different” but it’s hard.

There are ways to do breastfeeding and night train. BK was formula fed but was tiny, so she seemed to require extra food.
Since it's YOU breastfeeding, I personally feel it's a YOU decision here. I would talk to your dr about it if you want to, that way they can give idea and maybe some direction.

Jen4948 · January 2021

I thought my new job was going well, until I discovered this week that my boss scheduled the launch of my big project simultaneously with a "company retreat" where everybody does character assessments according to DISC. And they keep making one-line wisecracks and laughing it up. I don't know these people and I have a huge deadline to meet, but I'm supposed to sit there listening to people do their character assessments.

Tremendous waste of my time. These meetings go on every morning, and the time I have to spend on them, and everyone else in the company, is delaying the launch of the project they sounded like they were in such a hurry for during my job interview and when I first started.

@MissKittyDanger, I'm so sorry for your loss.

charlotte989875 · January 2021

kvruns said:

solidarity hugs @charlotte989875 mine was all about the sleep training it MUST BE DONE blah blah blah and lasted approximately 1 hour (not joking) before he flipped his shit on baby B and started the demise (well ok fueled the fire) of this relationship. I have no sympathy for people trying to write checks they can't cash so I hope your H will listen to you since you're the one still having to get up. If he really wants to do it then he needs to do the nighttime wakeups with a bottle

Thank you so much for this!! This is how I’m feeling. Like, I would love the baby to sleep through the night but I’m sure he’s just not ready for it yet. And even our doctor said since he’s breastfeeding he might still need to be up a few times.

Casadena · January 2021

@MissKittyDanger I am so incredibly sorry for your loss.

Casadena · January 2021

charlotte989875 said:

kvruns said:

solidarity hugs @charlotte989875 mine was all about the sleep training it MUST BE DONE blah blah blah and lasted approximately 1 hour (not joking) before he flipped his shit on baby B and started the demise (well ok fueled the fire) of this relationship. I have no sympathy for people trying to write checks they can't cash so I hope your H will listen to you since you're the one still having to get up. If he really wants to do it then he needs to do the nighttime wakeups with a bottle

Thank you so much for this!! This is how I’m feeling. Like, I would love the baby to sleep through the night but I’m sure he’s just not ready for it yet. And even our doctor said since he’s breastfeeding he might still need to be up a few times.

I totally 10000000% agree with this. Baby M takes a bottle sometimes right? I would HIGHLY recommend at least one of the times he gets up in the night that H gets up and gives him a bottle. No Fing way he gets to complain if he's not even getting up.

levioosa · January 2021

I’m so sorry for your loss @MissKittyDanger

@ILoveBeachMusic I read about the pup yesterday. I’m so sorry.

Yesterday went slightly better. FI’s BFF got off the vent! Fingers crossed he stays on the recovery trajectory and doesn’t regress. I honestly feel like I never left work last week. We had some bullshit shenanigans happen with our vaccines that should have never happened in the first place. I ended up staying at work until after 9pm on Friday. It was exhausting.

One of my staff is going to take FMLA. I’m glad they’re taking it because honestly I think they might snap if they don’t and everything that’s happened to them in the last 12 months would be too much for anyone to handle. It’s definitely going to make our lives at work a little more difficult but that’s okay.

Otherwise SSDD. Trying to keep up with dry January, and no junk food M-F.

MyNameIsNot · January 2021

@MissKittyDanger, I'm so sorry for your loss.
@mrsconn23, we watched the swear show too. It was funny, but also interesting to think about how some swears are offensive for different reasons and what will be considered offensive in the future.

Nothing much interesting going on here today. I'm trying to avoid getting sucked into tictok, but it's really hard right now. The no fly clips are pretty funny. And you just reminded me, Ilovebeachmusic, I need to get going on my book club book! Good thing I'm off Monday.

kvruns · January 2021

what book are you reading @MyNameIsNot

banana468 · January 2021

@charlotte989875 FWIW there was ZERO semblance of sleep training Chiquito until 9 mo and even then he was up 1-2 times/night to nurse.

It wasn't until he was 2 years old that I went away for a business trip for 5 nights and got home late the 5th. When he woke up in the middle of the night DH said, "Don't you DARE nurse him." (and we'd had the agreement this was IT) and it was only at that time that i stopped.

Your LO is SUPER young. I get it. The deprivation and loss of self in this phase is part of the reason that I did not push for a 3rd. But you also can't force a person to do things because you're tired. You may need to make DH go to bed earlier, sleep more on weekends or come up with another option.

Regarding the staying up after you, is it possible that your H needs some time to himself? I know that H is someone who needs his alone time. And I am not saying this like, "He's in the basement working on his sound," but it's a respect for his mental health that he needs that time. It's about creating that balance so if he's up late because he needed that hour to himself that he also acknowldeges something for you later - like YOU get a 3 hour Saturday nap. Sometimes DH would agree to stay up late with the kiddos and I'd go to bed so I could be up in the middle of the night.

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