September 21, 2006
BAH. Yesterday sucked. Could you tell? I mean, S.U.C.K.E.D. I’ve been a poor single Mom, going to college full-time and working full-time and still don’t feel like I ever was under as much stress as I am now. Which means my stress threshold must have lowered significantly in the last eight years. So - I will use this week’s Thursday Thirteen to allow me to vent the really lame things I’m stressing out about.
Thirteen Things That Are Making Me A Wee Bit Anxious Lately
- There are stressful “issues” at work that I wish I could talk about but (a) It would bore you to death and (b) It would bore me to death.
- NikkiZ is refusing to eat cereal, the ONE thing during the last month we could always guarantee she would eat, even when she was sick. Since she hates fruit, I’m going to have to give her teachers squash to feed her for breakfast. Yum. Squash for breakfast.
- LilZ is suffering from an inability to remember anything I ask him to do. EVER. You know, like bring home the lunch box that he left at school a week ago. (My Dad likes to call this affliction, “Being Just Like His Mother.”)
- There’s a constant war waging between Zoot - She Who Can Do Everything Without Asking for Help and Zoot - If She Doesn’t Get Some Help Around the House She May Kill Someone
- I’m still trying to lose the last 5-8 lbs of pregnancy weight that I’ve been losing and gaining back bits and pieces of for about 2 months now. I’ll be like, “Yay! I’m almost there!” and then binge for the next week putting it all back on. I know my pre-pregnancy weight is just a random number and if I’m this close I should be happy. BUT - it’s the number that will make it OVER. I feel like until I reach that number on the scale, I’m still “carrying pregnancy weight” and I just want to be able to know I’m done with that. It will be a year in six weeks, I need to reach the goal by then.
- I have my 5K on Saturday. Can you believe me, the queen of EXCERCISE IS EEEVIL, is running a 5K on Saturday. EEK.
- So much TV. So little time.
- One of my long time best friends may be moving to Las Vegas. This makes me very sad. She is only a short drive away right now, and where I may not take advantage of that as much as I should? It was nice knowing she was that close. Las Vegas is a wee more than a weekend drive away.
- NikkiZ seems to have successfully transitioned to sleeping through the night. This fact is NOT stressing me out. However, she is doing it In. Her. Crib. I miss her in bed with us so bad. I sleep HORRIBLY now. I know that sounds moronic to those of you who don’t co-sleep, but if you co-sleep - you understand, right? I miss her.
- There’s a certain baby’s birthday coming up soon and I guess I should, maybe, plan her a party? I guess?
- My house. There are so many things I need to be doing in my house. Carrying up the stuff to the attic that I’ve been putting of for six months would be one thing. Let’s don’t discuss the closet on the floor or the books boxed up for the last year.
- I still haven’t begun to read the Series of Unfortunate Events books and the last one comes out in a few weeks. I MUST READ THEM ALL BEFORE THEN. Why? Because I told myself I would. And Myself gets very angry when I don’t do things I tell her I’ll do.
- I have an anniversary coming up. I have no ideas for presents and very little extra cash to spend on the ideas I don’t have. What is the 3rd anniversary? Traditional: Leather. Contemporary: Crystal/Glass. MrZ always gets me stuff that follows the guidelines but I can never think of anything good that does. So I always get him something lame. Like a book. Well, last year I gave him a baby, but you know - it’s usually a book.
My hubs and I don’t follow the traditional things. This year was our 8th and since we have just moved and bought our house we didn’t have much money. But I do know what he does like. I got him a Night Sky magazine and we layed out on the trampoline and stargazed for our anniversary. I think it’s one of the best we’ve had so far.
I decided to go Traditional/Contemporary w/ your gift…
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I think the baby should get you off the hook for this year.
It’s our third this year too, and boy howdy are those guidelines sucky.
I am very important! I have many leather bound books… hey if it’s good enough for Ron Burgandy… it can be good enough for Mr.Z! So leather bound books it is!
It’s best to look at the pregnancy weight like this - once you get back down to your pre-pregnancy weight, but then put a few pounds back on, what the hell are you going to blame then?
Hope you unstress sometime soon.
seriously…way too much tv…way too little time!!
I know what you mean about co-sleeping. It sounds like the worst is over though and NikkiZ is sleeping soundly. It’s just you that has to adjust now…
The Snicket books won’t take you any time at all. The first few are a like 10 pages each. I think I read the first one in an hour. Oh, and they don’t really get good until a few books into the series.
I love that you stress about the little things…I thought maybe I was the only one who actually got stressed out about not having enough time to watch all my TV shows (can they just move some stuff from Thursday to another day? That’d lighten my load!)
Re: 7 and 12 — Once I was very stressed that I had been given a guitar as a gift and I didn’t have time to learn to play it, so I was just ignoring it, which made me feel terribly guilty. My mom said to me, “Ruth, your hobbies shouldn’t be stressful.” I found that quite liberating and try to remember it from time to time. It’s bad enough to be stressed out about work and life without finding ways to feel guilty about the things that are supposed to be relaxing and fun, don’t you think?
It took me 15 months to lose my pregnancy weight and I only gained 27 lbs. to begin with. I’m not counting the 5 I gained after he was born due to laying on the couch and vegging out, but still 15 months. Don’t sweat it, it will eventually come off.
And a 1 year olds party?? Just have family and food. Other than that, nothing matters. Well, except maybe for gifts!! But our gift to our son was his party.
Re #7: do what i do….skip work to stay home and get caught up w/ tivo.
Re #8: of course, w/ that great work ethic of mine…you might not have to worry about anyone hiring me far, far away….or anywhere for that matter. btw, do you have spare rooms for us? i’ll buy you pretty, pretty pens!
How about a leather thong with crystal embellishments? Ha! Just kidding …
i think arranging dinner alone at home with you, some alchohol and some cleavage would always be a good anniversary gift.
This is my first time commenting on your blog- I love your writing though!
I co-sleep with my 5 month old and I want to move her to her crib but I know I will miss her so much!
My question is- how did you do it?! She cries when we put her in and I can’t do CIO- at least not right now.
Advice? Please? Anyone…?
My Monday blog post was about having a case of the Mondays! My husband and I have never followed the traditional anniversary guidelines, except before this year. It was our 5th, so it was the “Wood” anniversary. He got a block of knives and I got a jewelry box.
You can always visit your friend here in Vegas. I hear we’re one of the top vacation destinations.
Just teasing, I know what you mean about friends living far away, my best friend lives in Idaho and it’s tough to know it would be a major trip to see her. Especially since she doesn’t have internet access right now. How does she live?
Good luck with the 5K.
Don’t stress about Lilz. He is entering the “teen years” where they can’t remember, can’t hear and need lots and lots of sleep. It’s a fun hormonal time!
GOOD LUCK on that 5K!! haha. I do not envy you! It would probably damn near kill me.
And don’t feel so bad. Pre-teens/Teens. They never remember anything unless it has to do with their current crush or friends
Hope things will get less stressful for you Zoot. I understand completely. Hubbster thinks since he works 7 days a week with no days off that he doesn’t go out of his way to help around the house. If he doesn’t start helping I’ll have to introduce my foot to his ass.
happy TT
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Breathe Woman! And let the house stuff go ( I say that while typing standing up in the kitchen surroundecd by dirty dishes and unfolded laundry) You will never win the house battle. Even if you staye dhome allthe time and had a nanny, there would still be the medicine cabinet full of medicine from 1992 or the Refrigerator all unclean..not to mention poop on you and the house. Can yuou imagine how many more dishes there would be if we actually learned too cook? I mean besides the slow cooker.
I hate the house messy. But I’mnot a house elf. I do not live to serve, and some one better learn where the clothe hamper is (same place for ten years! not our bed!) soon because he is running out of underwear!
I don’t know….i think we are trapped in this whole WE MUST DO IT OURSELVES and our HUSBAND SHOULD KNOW WHEN TO TAKE OVER but WE MUST DO IT ALL OURSELVES. Our generation like each before us is learning new roles and the expectations don’t alway meet the reality of the exposure.
hang in there….drink more diet coke
Series of Unfortunate Events are the coolest. Well- ALMOST as cool as HP. But not quite. Good luck trying to read all 12- they can take a couple of days each, depending on how fast you read and how much time you have (apparently you don’t have a lot of time lately…?)
Series of Unfortunate Events are really quick reads. Grab one and you’ll be done in a day or two at the most. Seriously. You can get it done…lol!
Have you tried giving NikkiZ any of the cereal mixtures? My daughter LOVED oatmeal with pears and cinnamon. She probably would have eaten that for every meal if we would have let her. She would and still will eat pretty much anything, though, so I don’t know if that’s really helpful! lol!