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[Thorn]

YSR> You don't need a nursery theme. AngryWife was baby crazy and the farthest she went was having the paint & curtains match. Most of the baby stuff you get will be completely worthless and there will be a moment when you're surrounded by mountains of baby/toddler stuff and you realize that about 5% of it is necessary. For example, JR has a train table that gets very little use, yet we have four distinct and incompatible complete sets of trains, tracks and accessories (two sizes of wooden train sets, one Lego set, one Thomas the Train set) sitting on it.

DO NOT GET A TRAIN TABLE UNLESS YOU HAVE A MASSIVE HOME

My dad and I made a little frame out of plywood, felt, and molding to fit over a cheap coffee table. When not in use, it slid easily under a couch or bed.It looked astonishingly well-built for about $5 in material, table included, at least until we let my sister-in-law borrow it, and her ####### husband drove nails through it "because it came off the table if you lifted up on it".:trainwreck: :cantfindemoticonsoniPad: :thisupdatesuks:

WHO IS RUSTOLEUM

 

[strykerpks]

YSR> You don't need a nursery theme. AngryWife was baby crazy and the farthest she went was having the paint & curtains match. Most of the baby stuff you get will be completely worthless and there will be a moment when you're surrounded by mountains of baby/toddler stuff and you realize that about 5% of it is necessary. For example, JR has a train table that gets very little use, yet we have four distinct and incompatible complete sets of trains, tracks and accessories (two sizes of wooden train sets, one Lego set, one Thomas the Train set) sitting on it.

VERY "Here's 156 outfits that she'll only wear once before she outgrows it". I wish I could have convinced Mrs. SLB to return half the crap we were given for store credit.

We did this but didn't want to tell anyone and upset them.bag

The beauty about not finding out the sex of the baby is that everyone gets you stuff that you actually have on your registry for showers...and not outfits. Then once you have the kid(s), they get you outfits anyway. Double win

We also didn't find out the sex until he was born (man, what a rush), but still ended up with tons of stuff we didn't need.

We didn't either.

But GB older siblings who are now done with kids (of both sexes) that have given us all the clothes we will need. We missed a bit on the 9-12mo clothes by one season so we might have to buy our first clothes once it gets hot out. We made it nearly a year

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

 

[strykerpks]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

Our theme is "baby's room"

 

[Frostillicus]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

Our theme is "baby's room"

Ours is "storage area with a crib"

 

[cosjobs]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

Our theme is "baby's room"

Ours is "storage area with a crib"

and a baseball influence

PS Glad you're not dead

 

[Frostillicus]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

Our theme is "baby's room"

Ours is "storage area with a crib"

and a baseball influence

PS Glad you're not dead

WE DID IT!

 

[strykerpks]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

Our theme is "baby's room"

Ours is "storage area with a crib"

and a baseball influence

PS Glad you're not dead

Likewise, Trippy McChickenKiller

 

[cosjobs]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

who tf remembers what their nursery was decorated like?

I barely remember a few things when I was 3-4 years old and those were traumatic things, no what color my nursery was painted.

 

[Frostillicus]

P and S. My bro and his wife did a baseball themed nursery so we ended up giving them that picture, Cos. They were ectastic. I hope you don't mind. We loved it but it totally fit their room and they loved it.

 

[cosjobs]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

Our theme is "baby's room"

Ours is "storage area with a crib"

and a baseball influence

PS Glad you're not dead

Likewise, Trippy McChickenKiller

I'm thinking of renaming the chicken coop Dachau

 

[cosjobs]

P and S. My bro and his wife did a baseball themed nursery so we ended up giving them that picture, Cos. They were ectastic. I hope you don't mind. We loved it but it totally fit their room and they loved it.

I hand picked it for you and you gave it to an even better fit. Pay it forward, my friend.

 

[cosjobs]

Bob- those cheap can liners you sent me had to be quadrupled-bagged and then put into a carboard box to accommodate 8 dead hens. I thin some sort of a rebate/refund may be in order/

 

[Frostillicus]

P and S. My bro and his wife did a baseball themed nursery so we ended up giving them that picture, Cos. They were ectastic. I hope you don't mind. We loved it but it totally fit their room and they loved it.

I hand picked it for you and you gave it to an even better fit. Pay it forward, my friend.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Frosty, lets take Tony 5dimes' money. Whaddya say?

 

[Frostillicus]

Frosty, lets take Tony 5dimes' money. Whaddya say?

Yeah I'm in. What you got?

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Frosty, lets take Tony 5dimes' money. Whaddya say?

Yeah I'm in. What you got?

FrostyProps

 

[Frostillicus]

Frosty, lets take Tony 5dimes' money. Whaddya say?

Yeah I'm in. What you got?

FrostyProps

5dimes props blow. I'll keep running 'em and do what I can but we need sportsbook to get going

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids. I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme. I'm just saying.

Our theme is "baby's room"

Ours is "storage area with a crib"

and a baseball influence PS Glad you're not dead

WE DID IT!

¡Lo hicimos!

 

[Homer J Simpson]

since Shuke used his Golden Corral gift certificate.

Even I have standards. Albeit low. I was just thinking tonight, if I was single, I'm not sure what would prevent me from getting one of those $5 Little Caesers pepperoni pizzas 7 nights a week.

Ummmm, because they're not good and then you'd be a fat #### that no one would want to bang if they weren't legally obligated to do so.

No idea why I have this sudden animosity toward the shuke.

I know I love him, but sometimes I just feel like I need to be mean to him. It's weird.

Oh, and I have like 4 pages to catch up on, so enjoy the 5am drunkeling!!!

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I really can't wait to hear the Uni vs Stu story tomorrow.

Seriously the only interesting thing posted in the last 3 pages.

Nothing really exciting. I was kinda hoping Stu's big friend Dan (who I drunkenly kept calling Don all night by mistake, damnit) would pull a Homer and dump beer all over a stripper or something, but everything was fairly tame. It had been a long time since I had been to a strip club.. Not sure exactly how much I spent but there were multiple trips to the ATM involved. Way too drunk. I'm a big fat idiot.

I felt bad because I think Stu had to be up at 8 this morning to take his son camping or some such. We got there around 6 and were originally planning to just stay for an hour or two at most. I think it was after midnight and I was still forcing Stu to stay because I fell in love with one particular blonde girl. We smoked many cigarettes on the patio. Very classy. She was probably the hottest 26 year old with four kids (ages 11, 8, 6, and 3) I've ever met... She dialed her number in my phone and said we should go out sometime. Seems like a great idea, what could go wrong?

Was a fun day though. I want to do Opening Day every weekend.

ETA: Just remembered that I made out with blonde stripper for several minutes. I think I have an assigned seat on Stu's Herpes Bus now. Never hanging out with that degenerate again.

This is what makes me happy about being alive.

Uni, you're the reason I took a cab home tonight.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Corporate chat related: We found out on Tuesday (the first day back from spring break) that one of the principals in our district suddenly resigned. When somebody in education resigns in the middle of the school year there is usually some major drama behind it. So far everybody has been pretty tight-lipped about it. The rumor-mill has been pretty quiet. Just yesterday I heard one version of what happened. I'd put the odds at 2-1 that it is true. There have been complaints about Gary's management and leadership skills for the last 3 years or so. Nothing major but most of his teachers don't like him. I've also heard that some parents aren't too crazy about him either. So I guess it all came to a head the week before Spring Break. Our superintendent, we'll call him Chalmers, goes to see Gary in his office. Chalmers: I'll get right to the point. We're really not happy with your style of leadership and there have been way too many complaints. Gary: Chalmers: We think the best thing is to reassign you to the district office until August [when our contracts run out]. That will give us a chance to evaluate the situation and give you time to maybe look elsewhere for a position. Gary: Chalmers: This has been going on for a few years, Gary. You know this is a fair resolution to the problem, right? Gary: F*** you. So the next day they hold an emergency board meeting where Gary just turns in his resignation. Not sure why he didn't take the offer since it would be about 5 months free salary for doing a jerk-off job. Hopefully, since he's no longer an employee of the district, we'll get the full story soon.

Both awesome and idiotic at the same time.

I've never really understood Gary. At one point he was the VP at my school and I got along with him very well. He was also the first admin (during my tenure) to host a Christmas party where booze was served (our principal at the time was a very uptight Baptist woman).

What was really weird about him is that he and I were hired at the same time. He was probably about 35-36 at the time. He had been working as a supervisor/manager for one of the big oil companies. Pretty sweet gig...company car, bonuses etc.

Some people just want to get out of the rat-race and do something "that matters". I thought that's what he was doing. But within a couple of years of teaching he starts working towards his admin degree. After only 5-6 of teaching he starts climbing the administrative ladder...VP, Dean, and finally Prinicipal of one of the elementary schools.

Essentially less than 10 years after he leaves a high paying administrative/management position in the private sector he's doing the same thing in education. He could have just stayed in oil and made about $75k more a year.

F'n Gary. What can you do, man?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

JR and I went for breakfast tacos and beer about 8:30 this morning. If everything breaks right, we won't have to leave the house again today.

If you ever need a hetero life partner, lemme know. Cool?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Updates:

Spoiler

As of yesterday, I am 7 months pregnant, which freaks me right the eff out for some reason. I feel like I've been pregnant for forever, but it now seems to be progressing in warp speed. In the last 2 weeks, I've had a tremendous amount of anxiety, and though I've had a really, really easy pregnancy thus far, I think a lot of this has to do with hormones. My heart is racing, I can't sleep at night, etc. I'm just thinking about how we will support this child - right now, we get by on my salary but Romo is "in between jobs" and all I can think of is how I can find a part time job to make a little bit of a cushion until he lands on his feet. Blah blah blah, but if any of you has a spouse who is doing something part time (not selling oils) that a 7- months pregnant person can do, can you send me some information?

I have Wires ready to send to T Bell, but strangely work picked up last week and I was unable to do so. It should go out Monday, without fail. What sucks is that I promised a care package to Frosty almost a year ago and I haven't delivered. So, I will give Redman instructions to mail to Frosty upon completion, and from there it can go anywhere.

Because Dollywood was cancelled, I determined that today was going to be a clean out day. We have a "rental properties" shed in our backyard that houses a lot of things like extra toilets, refigerators, etc. But it's become a catch-all for other junk as well. I want to organize that shed in order to free up space so that we can move some bins from our basement to the shed and then move things from our upstairs into our basement. You know, in order to create some kind of nursery.

And speaking of, someone asked me the other day what my "theme" for my nursery is. My initial response was something along the lines of "um, crib, dresser, dressing table?". Babies don't really need a whole lot in the first month or two, right? Right??

My crazy coworker is still crazy. She told me the other day that when evaluating a new boy (as she still calls them), she feels that if he uses marijuana, that's as big a turn off as it would be if he believed in abortion. I thought that to be a pretty fair comparison.

That's all for now. I think.

We should probably make out.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

FYI, tonight I was offered cocaine twice, weed twice, and fat girl p#### once.

All offers declined, but I'm sort of regretting my decision on the weed.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Christ, I'd take corporate or baseball or even dry cleaning chat every day of the week before babysleep chat.

Seriously, I thought corporate chat was as bad as it could get. Once again, I'm wrong.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Christ, I'd take corporate or baseball or even dry cleaning chat every day of the week before babysleep chat.

So you guys think this Chris Davis thing is legit, or what? And what is up with Trevor Bauer?

I remember ERIC Davis. I didn't say I'd be good at baseball chat.

>K4 > I agree. Babies scare me and I had one.I'm on a meat smoking binge... Got any tips from your Mi

Mteam??

Sadly I dropped out of my BBQ team for the year. Somehow I'm on a team (or was) where I have to pay a lot of money AND work. Given the impending vow of Nica poverty, I thought it was something I could stand not to spend several hundred dollars on. :( E-mailed our leader a few days ago and no response, so I guess it's the ol' don't let the door hit you on the way out.

ETA: And to actually answer the question...no tips. I never did any cooking. I burnt a freaking English muffin today; no one lets me near heat.

Sorry to hear about your money problems.

I'm 45 years old and would like never to work again.

<_<

:too old:

 

[Homer J Simpson]

my day

Been working way too hard and long, so I decided to drive out to the country and buy some laying hens. Guy had 10 to sell me, so I am off to the west side of Elgin. Guy told to take the highway toward Bastrop, which I assumed was 21, but that was actually 17 miles past 95, that I had passed close to half an hour ago. I loop around and go back, only baout an hour late.

We go into his coop, stepping over the foot and a half fence at the bottom of the coop door, He uses some kind of big chicken net to snare thee hens and put them in the box, which lift up and carry off to the car. Forgetting the foot and a half fence in the doorway, that of course trips me. I go sprawling forward, holding the box in front of me nad it hits the ground, shortly followed by my chin that smacks onto the edge of it. My knees and elbows are skinned and I'm literally seeing stars. A few moments later I regain my senses and load the box in the back of the car. We repeat twice (both times with me standing safely outside the coop, safe from the nefarious threshold.

I get all three boxes loaded into the back of the car and to make sure they don't escape, I thorw a piece of memory foam on top of the boxes to hold the lid down. I thought I was being smart, since if I hit the brakes hard, the foam wouldn't fall off. I finally get home an hour later and back up to my coop to let the hens out and in the first box only two are alive, the other two dead. THe other two boxes each contain three dead chickens. They felt hot as hell. I guess their body heat with the memory foam on top just made them to hot and they all freaking died.

Now my wife's pissed and our friend staying with us is back in her bedroom crying.

Nice to have a few hours off on a Saturday afternoon...

fml

I'm gonna file this under "Things I Will Never Experience, Even Tangentially."

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Sorry to hear about your chickens, Cos.

worst thing is that I feel I hardly had time to get to know them. Hug your chicks a little tighter tonight my friends.

to both. Jebus, I'm dying right now.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

JFC: The hits just keep on coming.

My aunt Karen (my mom's youngest sister) passed away today due to complications from surgery.

She was in a serious motorcycle accident a couple of years ago (she was riding on the back of her "boyfriend's" bike...he was killed) and she's been in a wheelchair ever since.

Karen was one of the funniest people you'd ever want to meet and just a damn cool lady.

This is her meeting Dr. Dre on an airplane a few years ago.

God, I hate you. Sorry for your loss, ###hole.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I'm 35 years old and I'm looking at 25-30 more years of work

This is me. Very jealous of you early retirees. If only I was smart.

I think I fall into this category. I only work 3 days a week and I'm drunk and surly most of the time. Plus, there's the incontinence...

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Man, I really gotta stop this whole drinking-til-sunrise crap.

 

[UniAlias]

Man, I really gotta stop this whole drinking-til-sunrise crap.

<_<

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Man, I really gotta stop this whole drinking-til-sunrise crap.

<_<

K, nevermind.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Just set my alarm for 4:46 this afternoon...gotta get up for work.

Anyway, hold my calls. Thanks!

 

[bentley]

Mornin GMTAN. I am going to be joining about 20k other runners in the biggest 10K in Texas in about an hour. Objectives in order:

- Don't poop myself

- finish

- don't have to walk because I wasted all my energy following the chick with the super hot ### that was clearly way faster than me

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Bob- those cheap can liners you sent me had to be quadrupled-bagged and then put into a carboard box to accommodate 8 dead hens. I thin some sort of a rebate/refund may be in order/

Band name

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Mornin GMTAN. I am going to be joining about 20k other runners in the biggest 10K in Texas in about an hour. Objectives in order:- Don't poop myself- finish- don't have to walk because I wasted all my energy following the chick with the super hot ### that was clearly way faster than me

Following a hot ### >>> not pooping yourself >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> finishing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not walking

also if you stare at the hot ### long enough, you just might finish

 

[Tiger Fan]

anyone ever de-thatch a lawn?

I tried with a hand thatch rake, but I must have done it wrong because all I did was tear up part of my yard.

yeah, I've got about 6000sq ft to dethatch...gonna need something powered

Buy your kids some golf shoes with extra long spikes, feed them a couple pounds of skittles, then let a greased pig loose in the yard and tell them whoever catches it gets $20.

 

[YSR]

Updates:

Spoiler

As of yesterday, I am 7 months pregnant, which freaks me right the eff out for some reason. I feel like I've been pregnant for forever, but it now seems to be progressing in warp speed. In the last 2 weeks, I've had a tremendous amount of anxiety, and though I've had a really, really easy pregnancy thus far, I think a lot of this has to do with hormones. My heart is racing, I can't sleep at night, etc. I'm just thinking about how we will support this child - right now, we get by on my salary but Romo is "in between jobs" and all I can think of is how I can find a part time job to make a little bit of a cushion until he lands on his feet. Blah blah blah, but if any of you has a spouse who is doing something part time (not selling oils) that a 7- months pregnant person can do, can you send me some information? I have Wires ready to send to T Bell, but strangely work picked up last week and I was unable to do so. It should go out Monday, without fail. What sucks is that I promised a care package to Frosty almost a year ago and I haven't delivered. So, I will give Redman instructions to mail to Frosty upon completion, and from there it can go anywhere. Because Dollywood was cancelled, I determined that today was going to be a clean out day. We have a "rental properties" shed in our backyard that houses a lot of things like extra toilets, refigerators, etc. But it's become a catch-all for other junk as well. I want to organize that shed in order to free up space so that we can move some bins from our basement to the shed and then move things from our upstairs into our basement. You know, in order to create some kind of nursery. And speaking of, someone asked me the other day what my "theme" for my nursery is. My initial response was something along the lines of "um, crib, dresser, dressing table?". Babies don't really need a whole lot in the first month or two, right? Right?? My crazy coworker is still crazy. She told me the other day that when evaluating a new boy (as she still calls them), she feels that if he uses marijuana, that's as big a turn off as it would be if he believed in abortion. I thought that to be a pretty fair comparison. That's all for now. I think.

First, LMFAO at your previous Dollywood post. Second, hang in there GB. You're going to be an awesome mother. Plus just think, you can get all drunked up on wine in a couple of months. Third, how many times you peeeing in an hour? Three, four? At least three times an hour. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever experienced.

YSR> You don't need a nursery theme. AngryWife was baby crazy and the farthest she went was having the paint & curtains match. Most of the baby stuff you get will be completely worthless and there will be a moment when you're surrounded by mountains of baby/toddler stuff and you realize that about 5% of it is necessary. For example, JR has a train table that gets very little use, yet we have four distinct and incompatible complete sets of trains, tracks and accessories (two sizes of wooden train sets, one Lego set, one Thomas the Train set) sitting on it.

Thanks. This is my thought as well. Another thing to mention is that we are going to move to SC ASAP after she's born, so there's no real reason to fancy her room up in this house (we also live in one of our smaller rental houses right now and it's terrible and I just can't get excited about creating a living space for her here). I did at least register last weekend and picked out her crib set (which, as we've found out, was on clearance so I think I have to go pick out a new one ).

Updates:

Spoiler

As of yesterday, I am 7 months pregnant, which freaks me right the eff out for some reason. I feel like I've been pregnant for forever, but it now seems to be progressing in warp speed. In the last 2 weeks, I've had a tremendous amount of anxiety, and though I've had a really, really easy pregnancy thus far, I think a lot of this has to do with hormones. My heart is racing, I can't sleep at night, etc. I'm just thinking about how we will support this child - right now, we get by on my salary but Romo is "in between jobs" and all I can think of is how I can find a part time job to make a little bit of a cushion until he lands on his feet. Blah blah blah, but if any of you has a spouse who is doing something part time (not selling oils) that a 7- months pregnant person can do, can you send me some information? I have Wires ready to send to T Bell, but strangely work picked up last week and I was unable to do so. It should go out Monday, without fail. What sucks is that I promised a care package to Frosty almost a year ago and I haven't delivered. So, I will give Redman instructions to mail to Frosty upon completion, and from there it can go anywhere. Because Dollywood was cancelled, I determined that today was going to be a clean out day. We have a "rental properties" shed in our backyard that houses a lot of things like extra toilets, refigerators, etc. But it's become a catch-all for other junk as well. I want to organize that shed in order to free up space so that we can move some bins from our basement to the shed and then move things from our upstairs into our basement. You know, in order to create some kind of nursery. And speaking of, someone asked me the other day what my "theme" for my nursery is. My initial response was something along the lines of "um, crib, dresser, dressing table?". Babies don't really need a whole lot in the first month or two, right? Right?? My crazy coworker is still crazy. She told me the other day that when evaluating a new boy (as she still calls them), she feels that if he uses marijuana, that's as big a turn off as it would be if he believed in abortion. I thought that to be a pretty fair comparison. That's all for now. I think.

Spoiler

Baby words - i No, you don't need a theme for your nursery. You don't even need to call it a nursery. I remember Mrs. CC and I feeling overwhelmed like this when the Flaming Bird was on the way, especially since we lived 3000 miles away from any family. Just try to relax. It's an anxious time but it'll all work out fine. That sounds so terribly cliche, but it's totally true. Your baby will live on your hip for the first month or two. We lived in a one-bedroom apartment when Flaming Bird was born and it was fine because he slept in a bassinet attached to our bed. They're such fragile little boogers when they're that young, and they cry, cry, cry. Letting the baby sleep in a separate room only means you have to get out of bed five times a night to check and cuddle it. If s/he's right there in the bassinet, you just roll over while still half asleep, flop out a booby or cuddle it close, and then you're both back to sleep in no time.

Terrible advice here (well the first paragraph was ok) Ok. You liked getting up out of bed a couple times a night?At 2 weeks our kids were on a 4 hour schedule. We alternated the 3 am feeding. 8 weeks slept thru the night. Refresh my memory: was it shuke's kid or Pickles' kid who was the Sleep Through the Night SuperBaby?

 

[YSR]

Christ, I'd take corporate or baseball or even dry cleaning chat every day of the week before babysleep chat.

Sorry! If it helps, I'm not concerned as much about keeping the child alive and sleep schedules and the like. I know she'll be my entire focus. I am more concerned about all the other #### that seems to surround us right now.

And don't forget the hormones.

JFC: The hits just keep on coming.

My aunt Karen (my mom's youngest sister) passed away today due to complications from surgery.

She was in a serious motorcycle accident a couple of years ago (she was riding on the back of her "boyfriend's" bike...he was killed) and she's been in a wheelchair ever since.

Karen was one of the funniest people you'd ever want to meet and just a damn cool lady.

This is her meeting Dr. Dre on an airplane a few years ago.

No!!! I remember this picture when you posted it before. That is so sad. RIP cool Karen.

Updates:

Spoiler

As of yesterday, I am 7 months pregnant, which freaks me right the eff out for some reason. I feel like I've been pregnant for forever, but it now seems to be progressing in warp speed. In the last 2 weeks, I've had a tremendous amount of anxiety, and though I've had a really, really easy pregnancy thus far, I think a lot of this has to do with hormones. My heart is racing, I can't sleep at night, etc. I'm just thinking about how we will support this child - right now, we get by on my salary but Romo is "in between jobs" and all I can think of is how I can find a part time job to make a little bit of a cushion until he lands on his feet. Blah blah blah, but if any of you has a spouse who is doing something part time (not selling oils) that a 7- months pregnant person can do, can you send me some information?

I have Wires ready to send to T Bell, but strangely work picked up last week and I was unable to do so. It should go out Monday, without fail. What sucks is that I promised a care package to Frosty almost a year ago and I haven't delivered. So, I will give Redman instructions to mail to Frosty upon completion, and from there it can go anywhere.

Because Dollywood was cancelled, I determined that today was going to be a clean out day. We have a "rental properties" shed in our backyard that houses a lot of things like extra toilets, refigerators, etc. But it's become a catch-all for other junk as well. I want to organize that shed in order to free up space so that we can move some bins from our basement to the shed and then move things from our upstairs into our basement. You know, in order to create some kind of nursery.

And speaking of, someone asked me the other day what my "theme" for my nursery is. My initial response was something along the lines of "um, crib, dresser, dressing table?". Babies don't really need a whole lot in the first month or two, right? Right??

My crazy coworker is still crazy. She told me the other day that when evaluating a new boy (as she still calls them), she feels that if he uses marijuana, that's as big a turn off as it would be if he believed in abortion. I thought that to be a pretty fair comparison.

That's all for now. I think.

Spoiler

Baby words -

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No, you don't need a theme for your nursery.

You don't even need to call it a nursery. I remember Mrs. CC and I feeling overwhelmed like this when the Flaming Bird was on the way, especially since we lived 3000 miles away from any family. Just try to relax. It's an anxious time but it'll all work out fine. That sounds so terribly cliche, but it's totally true.

Your baby will live on your hip for the first month or two. We lived in a one-bedroom apartment when Flaming Bird was born and it was fine because he slept in a bassinet attached to our bed. They're such fragile little boogers when they're that young, and they cry, cry, cry. Letting the baby sleep in a separate room only means you have to get out of bed five times a night to check and cuddle it. If s/he's right there in the bassinet, you just roll over while still half asleep, flop out a booby or cuddle it close, and then you're both back to sleep in no time.

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Terrible advice here (well the first paragraph was ok)

Ok. You liked getting up out of bed a couple times a night?

Yeah......I didn't do this.Most didn't...I think ours was sleeping through the night at 3 or 4 mumfs. But it's fun to scare YSR anyway, right?

 

[YSR]

If you have some extra gambling money to burn, Louisville at 14-1 is an absolute steal right now. I just threw a pretty large wager on it. I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't at least make the Final Four, so hedging opps would abound as well. No brainer, imo.

Anyone pay attention to this?

I did. Threw $5 on it when you posted it in December. My money woes will soon be a thing of the past!

The inability to multiquote and edit posts down sucks balls too. Somebody explain to me the advantages of this upgrade?

I'm using multi-quote for the first time this a.m., but it still has the limitations of number of quotes. I actually like it a little bit more, though. And I finally figured out how to edit the posts while multi-quoting (had to delete a few due to quoting too many people).

 

[Tiger Fan]

K4 > I agree. Babies scare me and I had one.I'm on a meat smoking binge... Got any tips from your MiM team??

Stay away from Virginia.

and Lexington

Steele

 

[Guster]

Updates:

Spoiler

As of yesterday, I am 7 months pregnant, which freaks me right the eff out for some reason. I feel like I've been pregnant for forever, but it now seems to be progressing in warp speed. In the last 2 weeks, I've had a tremendous amount of anxiety, and though I've had a really, really easy pregnancy thus far, I think a lot of this has to do with hormones. My heart is racing, I can't sleep at night, etc. I'm just thinking about how we will support this child - right now, we get by on my salary but Romo is "in between jobs" and all I can think of is how I can find a part time job to make a little bit of a cushion until he lands on his feet. Blah blah blah, but if any of you has a spouse who is doing something part time (not selling oils) that a 7- months pregnant person can do, can you send me some information? I have Wires ready to send to T Bell, but strangely work picked up last week and I was unable to do so. It should go out Monday, without fail. What sucks is that I promised a care package to Frosty almost a year ago and I haven't delivered. So, I will give Redman instructions to mail to Frosty upon completion, and from there it can go anywhere. Because Dollywood was cancelled, I determined that today was going to be a clean out day. We have a "rental properties" shed in our backyard that houses a lot of things like extra toilets, refigerators, etc. But it's become a catch-all for other junk as well. I want to organize that shed in order to free up space so that we can move some bins from our basement to the shed and then move things from our upstairs into our basement. You know, in order to create some kind of nursery. And speaking of, someone asked me the other day what my "theme" for my nursery is. My initial response was something along the lines of "um, crib, dresser, dressing table?". Babies don't really need a whole lot in the first month or two, right? Right?? My crazy coworker is still crazy. She told me the other day that when evaluating a new boy (as she still calls them), she feels that if he uses marijuana, that's as big a turn off as it would be if he believed in abortion. I thought that to be a pretty fair comparison. That's all for now. I think.

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First, LMFAO at your previous Dollywood post. Second, hang in there GB. You're going to be an awesome mother. Plus just think, you can get all drunked up on wine in a couple of months. Third, how many times you peeeing in an hour? Three, four?

At least three times an hour. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever experienced.

YSR> You don't need a nursery theme. AngryWife was baby crazy and the farthest she went was having the paint & curtains match. Most of the baby stuff you get will be completely worthless and there will be a moment when you're surrounded by mountains of baby/toddler stuff and you realize that about 5% of it is necessary. For example, JR has a train table that gets very little use, yet we have four distinct and incompatible complete sets of trains, tracks and accessories (two sizes of wooden train sets, one Lego set, one Thomas the Train set) sitting on it.

Thanks. This is my thought as well. Another thing to mention is that we are going to move to SC ASAP after she's born, so there's no real reason to fancy her room up in this house (we also live in one of our smaller rental houses right now and it's terrible and I just can't get excited about creating a living space for her here). I did at least register last weekend and picked out her crib set (which, as we've found out, was on clearance so I think I have to go pick out a new one ).

Updates:

Spoiler

As of yesterday, I am 7 months pregnant, which freaks me right the eff out for some reason. I feel like I've been pregnant for forever, but it now seems to be progressing in warp speed. In the last 2 weeks, I've had a tremendous amount of anxiety, and though I've had a really, really easy pregnancy thus far, I think a lot of this has to do with hormones. My heart is racing, I can't sleep at night, etc. I'm just thinking about how we will support this child - right now, we get by on my salary but Romo is "in between jobs" and all I can think of is how I can find a part time job to make a little bit of a cushion until he lands on his feet. Blah blah blah, but if any of you has a spouse who is doing something part time (not selling oils) that a 7- months pregnant person can do, can you send me some information? I have Wires ready to send to T Bell, but strangely work picked up last week and I was unable to do so. It should go out Monday, without fail. What sucks is that I promised a care package to Frosty almost a year ago and I haven't delivered. So, I will give Redman instructions to mail to Frosty upon completion, and from there it can go anywhere. Because Dollywood was cancelled, I determined that today was going to be a clean out day. We have a "rental properties" shed in our backyard that houses a lot of things like extra toilets, refigerators, etc. But it's become a catch-all for other junk as well. I want to organize that shed in order to free up space so that we can move some bins from our basement to the shed and then move things from our upstairs into our basement. You know, in order to create some kind of nursery. And speaking of, someone asked me the other day what my "theme" for my nursery is. My initial response was something along the lines of "um, crib, dresser, dressing table?". Babies don't really need a whole lot in the first month or two, right? Right?? My crazy coworker is still crazy. She told me the other day that when evaluating a new boy (as she still calls them), she feels that if he uses marijuana, that's as big a turn off as it would be if he believed in abortion. I thought that to be a pretty fair comparison. That's all for now. I think.

Spoiler

Baby words - i No, you don't need a theme for your nursery. You don't even need to call it a nursery. I remember Mrs. CC and I feeling overwhelmed like this when the Flaming Bird was on the way, especially since we lived 3000 miles away from any family. Just try to relax. It's an anxious time but it'll all work out fine. That sounds so terribly cliche, but it's totally true. Your baby will live on your hip for the first month or two. We lived in a one-bedroom apartment when Flaming Bird was born and it was fine because he slept in a bassinet attached to our bed. They're such fragile little boogers when they're that young, and they cry, cry, cry. Letting the baby sleep in a separate room only means you have to get out of bed five times a night to check and cuddle it. If s/he's right there in the bassinet, you just roll over while still half asleep, flop out a booby or cuddle it close, and then you're both back to sleep in no time.

Terrible advice here (well the first paragraph was ok) Ok. You liked getting up out of bed a couple times a night?At 2 weeks our kids were on a 4 hour schedule. We alternated the 3 am feeding. 8 weeks slept thru the night. Refresh my memory: was it shuke's kid or Pickles' kid who was the Sleep Through the Night SuperBaby?Shuke had SuperBaby

 

[Tiger Fan]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

lmao

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Holy chicken murderer.

 

[T Bell]

FYI, tonight I was offered cocaine twice, weed twice, and fat girl p#### once.

All offers declined, but I'm sort of regretting my decision on the weed.

It's sort of like the Very Dysfunctional Hungry Caterpillar.

 

[T Bell]

Back when I used to work at juvy hall one of my jobs was to compile data from questionaires and interviews they gave the kids.

I remember that something like 86% of all the kids we locked up were raised in a nursery without a theme.

I'm just saying.

lmao

This

 

[Guster]

Holy chicken murderer.

 

[T Bell]

I'm now 4.5 days into a terrible sore throat and walking cold, and now I've completely lost my voice after coaching my son's t-ball game yesterday. And I have a presentation to give tomorrow.

It all makes me want to kick a chicken.