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  1. #1501
    Cat, it's not uncommon to do something and not remember it, especially if it's a "routine" thing. You are used to getting up with the baby, so maybe your conscious mind didn't retain the memory of waking up a bit, getting the baby, and moving into the living room.

    Good luck with your doctor search. A person should try to have a doctor they like, trust, and are comfortable with. I realize that's not always realistic, but it should be a goal in health care. I like my doctor, and am very comfortable with him. I also know if I present with something he doesn't understand, or something that he can't treat here, he is more than willing to either call someone to try to get answers or send me to Casper to a specialist.
    I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
    Atari bullshit refugee!!

  2. #1502
    It's his duty on the weekends. He's lucked out recently; she's been sleeping straight through 10 hrs until this last teething business which started Sunday night.

    I'm sure he would do it on the weekdays occasionally too, but I sleep closer to the door and thus hear her first, so my instinct is to just jump up and get her.

  3. #1503
    Yeah, but your maternal instinct isn't helping YOU over time. It's left you sleeping "with one ear open at all times". I remember that....it's really tough over time and not sustainable. You may have to talk with your husband about taking turns every night, or every other night, not just on weekends. Plus, it helps K learn to find comfort from both parents, which is a good thing.



    Late night edit for cat: See, I'm still 'suffering' maternal instinct, and my youngest is 15 yrs old! He has a concussion, so instead of laying in bed worrying and fighting sleep, I decide to stay awake just in case. I check on him every few hours while he sleeps. Then I hang around here and post like a maniac.

    Difference being he's actually been injured, and no one else is around to monitor him but me, and his dad is a jerk. Sounds like you have a helpful and *dedicated* mate who cares about you, and is willing to participate in your daughter's care and your family's health.....

    So, my suggestion is for you to readily include him as your primary family support system. Not just on weekends. Not to rely on your mother or best girl friend, but the father of your child, your spouse. You don't need to feel guilty about asking him to help out more, just because he 'works outside the home'. What you do as a stay-home mom is incredibly difficult and stressful, often undervalued or ignored, but also immensely important.




    Edit #2, because I'm a posting maniac. Unless a husband needs his sleep because he's a brain surgeon or space shuttle pilot or something, he can feed infants, change their diapers, calm teething or colicky babies in the middle of the night, clean up puke, hum a lullabye, get Cindy Lou Who a cup of water at midnight..... and try to let their spouse sleep. Daddies can walk the halls and be caretakers, too. Maybe not all the time, but most of the time. Same guys were once paper training their puppies, or taking their dogs out to do their duty at 3am and didn't mind then. Why would they mind now when it's their own child? They don't. They shouldn't.

    My ex used to pull this "but you don't really have to do anything tomorrow" angle. Right, like after he left for work we'd just all go back to sleep or something. When I'd take a break for a fucking weekend to visit my sister or something, I'd come back Sunday night to find he and the kids frantic, exhausted, overwhelmed, frustrated. The kids would be dirty or disheveled, crying with boo-boos, eating candy and watching PG13 movies, the house a mess, cat litter boxes not cleaned, all things (and I mean ALL things) in disarray. Everything would fall apart if I was gone, almost enough to keep me caged at home, see how that works?

    Hard to believe I stayed in that marriage as long as I did. /rant
    Last edited by GGT; 04-27-2011 at 08:18 AM.

  4. #1504
    Cat, GGT is right! Let your hubby help out during the week too! Yes, he has to get up and "go to work" in the morning, but you never have a time that you are not "at work", when the baby is around. If he really can't get up a couple nights during the week too, because his job won't allow him to be sleep deprived, then ask him to pitch in with the laundry or cooking or whatever, so that you don't have quite as much to do!

    GGT is also right that you never outgrow the "Mom ears" either! When I was staying with Mommymunchkin and The Kid last spring, I heard every sound he made at night, she heard every sound either he or I made, and he was listening for Mom to have a problem in the night! We were sorta like the Three Stooges!

    I also hear every little noise in the apartment, or in my hallway. I can tell you if the lady in 225 is leaving on time for work, or if she is running late, etc! It's rather ridiculous but it's just the way I am. *Hmmm, maybe this is why my insomnia is so bad!
    I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
    Atari bullshit refugee!!

  5. #1505
    Thanks. He is a good helper, when I let him. I'm the domineering one in the relationship, so I think he feels I push him aside when it comes to baby rearing. So I have to work on letting that go and letting him do his thing.

    He does put her in her jammies, gives her her last bottle every night and puts her to bed so I can finish cleaning up, or fart around on Facebook.

  6. #1506
    cat


    That Super Cell of storms was wild! Felt the tail of it last night (tornado watches) and this morning. Heavy winds and rain, blowing things over, flash floods. Terrible damage in the south with lots of tornadoes and deaths. Don't mess with Mother Nature.


    http://www.tornadovideos.net/

    http://blogs.discovery.com/storm_chasers/


    Storm chasers must be a bit crazy. They're driving INTO the tornado.
    Last edited by GGT; 04-29-2011 at 04:22 AM.

  7. #1507
    My friend did that for her internship actually. She was in the storm chasers vans. The storm also got to where I was; there were two tornado warning sirens. Miraculously I managed to sleep through the first, which is likely an old WWII air raid siren.

  8. #1508
    Hope is the denial of reality

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    I really don't know what to say to this...
    . . .

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    I have been told today that, as a bicyclist, I cannot expect not to be run over by cars on a bicycle lane (behind a curb next to a pedestrian way). And that I first hid behind a tree 30 meters away, only to accelerate to full speed in a near instant, teleporting in front of the car.

    At least that's how I interpreted the idiot driver's statement.
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  12. #1512
    Teleporting bicyclists are a menace, to be sure.

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    Talking to much, definitely a reason to turn on the blue lights, stop a train, have her name made public and to show her face without blur
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    When Timi Robertson found out her middle-schooler son was being questioned by the Secret Service and the police at his Tacoma, Wa. school, she says she "just about lost it," — especially after they told her it was over a Facebook post the boy had written warning President Barack Obama of suicide attacks in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death...
    http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2...-facebook-post
    Hope is the denial of reality

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    Actually more of a funny: after a car crash in Istanbul the reason for the crash was looked into. Turned out that there were two men in the car who had gotten into a fight over a deal to sell gold coins. The reason for the fight? Both the gold coins and the money to pay for it turned out to be false.
    Congratulations America

  16. #1516
    Got this email from Netflix today:
    "How was the Picture Quality of "Whitney Cummings: Money Shot?"

    Now I sure didn't watch something with that title, and I was unaware of Netflix getting into that business. So I was dying to ask Brandy what she had discovered...

    Turns out its the shock title for some dumb bitch trying her hand at comedy.

    Quote Originally Posted by earthJoker View Post
    Talking to much, definitely a reason to turn on the blue lights, stop a train, have her name made public and to show her face without blur
    The lady sat in a quiet car and loudly talked on her cellphone for 16 hours. But the train wasn't stopped because of that, there is no legal or official policy to enforce the quiet car rules. She was booted off the train because she started to get threatening when the other riders started addressing her about talking in a quiet car for 16 god damn hours.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

  17. #1517
    Head teacher appeal to school run 'pyjama parents'



    A Middlesbrough head teacher has asked parents to get properly dressed before the school run.

    It follows sightings of a number of them still wearing their pyjamas when they brought their children to school.

    Some people were even attending meetings at Pallister Park Primary school in their nightwear.

    This prompted the school's head, Chris Wain, to send out letters to parents urging them to think about what they were wearing.

    Ms Wain said: "What we were seeing was people staying in their pyjamas all day.

    "They were dropping their children off in the morning and collecting them in the afternoon wearing the same pyjamas."

    Outside the school, one parent, accompanied by a friend in slippers, was wearing leggings over her pyjamas.

    She said: "I have to cover up otherwise the school goes mad."

    In 2007, the principal of a Northern Ireland primary school also reprimanded parents who regularly turned up at the school gate in their pyjamas.

    He said the trend set a bad example to pupils and made staff uncomfortable.


    How fucking lazy can you get!
    Quote Originally Posted by Steely Glint View Post
    It's actually the original French billion, which is bi-million, which is a million to the power of 2. We adopted the word, and then they changed it, presumably as revenge for Crecy and Agincourt, and then the treasonous Americans adopted the new French usage and spread it all over the world. And now we have to use it.

    And that's Why I'm Voting Leave.

  18. #1518
    Quote Originally Posted by Timbuk2 View Post
    How fucking lazy can you get!
    ...what does it matter so long as they are wearing clean clothing every day? Remember to use logic in your reply that can't be used to explain why women should wear burkas, and men should be expected to wear yarmulkas, or any other societal/traditional clothing cultural norms...
    . . .

  19. #1519
    I walk Brent to the bus stop, sometimes take Ocean to up to her classroom in my PJs. If its my day off there is no reason on Earth for me to waste a good set of clothes for such tasks.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by earthJoker View Post
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    Talking to much, definitely a reason to turn on the blue lights, stop a train, have her name made public and to show her face without blur
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    The lady sat in a quiet car and loudly talked on her cellphone for 16 hours. But the train wasn't stopped because of that, there is no legal or official policy to enforce the quiet car rules. She was booted off the train because she started to get threatening when the other riders started addressing her about talking in a quiet car for 16 god damn hours.
    As OG pointed out, it was a car where cellphone use is prohibited. I ride in that car about 50% of the trips I take, mainly because it's often a bit emptier and more relaxing without people having really loud work conversations in the car. Also gives me an excuse not to take work calls for a few hours.

    But the rules of the Quiet Car are actual rules of the train. Passengers have to follow the rules and listen to a conductor. If you don't, they can throw you off the train. Especially if (as reported) the cell-talker refused and become confrontational.

  21. #1521
    Quote Originally Posted by Timbuk2 View Post


    How fucking lazy can you get!
    "Casual fashion" is confusing in the US. Women wearing what look like bras as tops, or men's boxers as shorts. Lounge pants that look like jammies. Jammies that look like sports wear.

    I see college kids at the grocery store wearing fuzzy slippers, sweat pants exposing hips and navels, and sports bras.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Illusions View Post
    ...what does it matter so long as they are wearing clean clothing every day? Remember to use logic in your reply that can't be used to explain why women should wear burkas, and men should be expected to wear yarmulkas, or any other societal/traditional clothing cultural norms...
    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    I walk Brent to the bus stop, sometimes take Ocean to up to her classroom in my PJs. If its my day off there is no reason on Earth for me to waste a good set of clothes for such tasks.
    Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
    "Casual fashion" is confusing in the US. Women wearing what look like bras as tops, or men's boxers as shorts. Lounge pants that look like jammies. Jammies that look like sports wear.

    I see college kids at the grocery store wearing fuzzy slippers, sweat pants exposing hips and navels, and sports bras.
    Maybe I'm old fashioned. Nothing less than a tailored suit and cravat if I'm out in public. A bowtie on sundays.

    Lazy, good for nothing, should be banned from the streets, fuckers.
    Quote Originally Posted by Steely Glint View Post
    It's actually the original French billion, which is bi-million, which is a million to the power of 2. We adopted the word, and then they changed it, presumably as revenge for Crecy and Agincourt, and then the treasonous Americans adopted the new French usage and spread it all over the world. And now we have to use it.

    And that's Why I'm Voting Leave.

  23. #1523
    pip pip old boy! Would Spandau Ballet require a top hat and tux, or a tutu?

  24. #1524
    What what. Lawks a muzzy.

    More outrageous hair, spandex, dodgy make up and shoulder pads.

    Quote Originally Posted by Steely Glint View Post
    It's actually the original French billion, which is bi-million, which is a million to the power of 2. We adopted the word, and then they changed it, presumably as revenge for Crecy and Agincourt, and then the treasonous Americans adopted the new French usage and spread it all over the world. And now we have to use it.

    And that's Why I'm Voting Leave.

  25. #1525
    Tornado hit about 4 miles west of here. Sky turned nearly black. Don't think it was a particularly serious one though.
    Hope is the denial of reality

  26. #1526
    A common practice for Chinese labor camps to force prisoners to bust boulders and dig ditches, but a former inmate has recently come forward to shed some light on a little-known practice that goes on behind the scenes: virtual labor. Liu Dali spent three years in one such labor camp, and claims that after a hard day's work was completed, he and up to 300 of his fellow detainees were forced to make virtual money in online games like World of Warcraft, for the benefit of prison guards.

    The guards would then use the virtual cash for their own means, including trading it for real-world money. Dali claims he overheard guards bragging that they could make close to $1,000 a day off of the efforts of the inmates, none of which ever made its way into the hands of the workers. He also claims that certain quotas were set, and that those who didn't raise enough virtual cash would be physically beaten.

    Raising large amounts of credit in online games through the use of multiple accounts and individuals is known as "gold farming." The practice is typically frowned upon due to the nature of the work and the fact that those involved are usually paid very little. The problem is especially widespread in China, where the government was forced to ban the practice in 2009, though it continues to be an issue to this day. Chinese officials have denied the allegations, and insist that because playing an online game would constitute "contact with the outside world," prisoners would never be allowed to engage in such activity.
    If they really wanted to punish the prisoners, they would make them do 5-man pickup groups.

  27. #1527
    The Bug's (so-called) father got arrested again today. What a fucking idiot! He stole a pickup from behind one of the bars, raced down the alley that dead-ends about half way down the block, and crashed! He totally wiped out a gas meter, and knocked down a power pole with a transformer on it! He then crashed his way out to the golf course, where he promptly ran off in the pond! FFS, he just got out of jail a week ago, and now he is back. Guess he likes the "3 hots and a cot" deal! He is actually lucky the cops caught him before the guy who owns (owned?) the pickup found out it was missing!

    Oh well, I guess we don't have to worry about running into him when we have Bug out in the world! What a complete jackass!
    I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
    Atari bullshit refugee!!

  28. #1528
    munch, your world sounds like a fabrication. But if you've been writing it all down....maybe you have the next great real life book?

  29. #1529
    Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
    munch, your world sounds like a fabrication. But if you've been writing it all down....maybe you have the next great real life book?
    When the newspaper comes out next week, I'll buy one and send you the headine! It's all true. unfortunately! The sad thing is that the guy who owns the pickup is one of those guys who is always in trouble. When Barb called him to ask just what the hell he thought he was doing, he was stunned. He was having a beer in another bar at the time and didn't even realize his pickup was missing! For once, Don was completely innocent!

    Years ago I thought I should write a soap opera, but I decided no one would buy it because real people don't live this way!
    I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
    Atari bullshit refugee!!

  30. #1530
    Years ago I tried to tell you to write this shit down, then find an editor or publisher! Of course most people don't live the way you do....that's why it makes for a good story!

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