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sober baby showers can be v creepy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 October 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't been to a baby shower possibly since high school though and that was thrown by church ladies for a teen mom so my experience may not be typical.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 5 October 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
I keep making posts that keep getting eaten so speaking if eating and baby showers:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/baby-shower-cakes-made-of-nightmares
― carl agatha, Saturday, 5 October 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
I was still in the process of murmuring, "No, no, no, no" from #10 when I got to #14 and started laughing hysterically.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 5 October 2013 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
#28!!!
― excited about the intentional phallus-y (sarahell), Saturday, 5 October 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
I hate doctors too, but I am really glad I started looking for ones who listen to me. Now I have a really awesome dietician and nurse practitioner (both women) who are finally giving me the care I needed. But they don't take insurance, of course.
― homosexual II, Saturday, 5 October 2013 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
Okay here's an update: I have officially turned a corner into HUNGRY ALL THE TIME land. Holy shit. I got up at midnight to eat cheese, had a Popsicle at 4:30, and had Jeff make me toaster waffles when he got up to run at 6. Then I went back to sleep until now and I am starving again.
Run Francie... I don't know if I can control the hunger...
― carl agatha, Saturday, 5 October 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
I think she's under the bed if you're looking.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 5 October 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
I got up and ate oatmeal and a banana and now we're out in search of brunch.
This is how vampires must feel.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 5 October 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
Well, let us know if the pulsing vein in Jeff's neck starts to look tempting--until then enjoy the fried eggs and pancakes!
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 5 October 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
carl i think you may have a dangerous addictionto F{BL)OOD
― Untt (La Lechera), Saturday, 5 October 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
what should i know about baby showers?That they are the worst.
― kate78, Monday, 7 October 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 October 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
People having babies like Target gift cards, and if they don't, FUCK 'EM.
― even the beatles had a coinstar machine in their living room (Crabbits), Monday, 7 October 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
i think there is a registry thing that the hostesses sent guests a link to
― excited about the intentional phallus-y (sarahell), Monday, 7 October 2013 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
I have never known a parent-to-be who did not appreciate a gift card if you don't feel like futzing around with something from the registry.
― carl agatha, Monday, 7 October 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
I think the only potentially wrong move is getting a thing that is not on the registry or getting a different version of something that they registered for (admittedly may be projecting there).
― carl agatha, Monday, 7 October 2013 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
with these online registry things, it keeps track of whether someone else has bought a particular item, I'd hope?
― excited about the intentional phallus-y (sarahell), Monday, 7 October 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
The last baby shower I went to was men and women (which I am sort of against in principle) and it was fun.
The grandfather-to-be found his son-in-law's brother asleep in truck bed so I guess someone had fun.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 7 October 2013 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
It does if the person buys the thing through the registry or a parent makes the thing as purchased, but there's no guarantee. Just get a gift receipt and it will all be fine.
― carl agatha, Monday, 7 October 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
I think the thing w both wedding and baby showers is that many times the other guests are all family or friends of your friend that you don't know. Sometimes that's great bc what you have in common is how much you love the bride/mother-to-be but sometimes you distinctly don't click with the other guests and you basically have to put up and shut up, them's the rules. This is where drinking helps.
Of course if it's mostly people you already know and like, then you can safely think of both types of occasion as just awesome parties to celebrate for and with your friend.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 7 October 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
FYI with those online registries that corral a bunch of websites you usually buy on one site then go back to the list to indicate you purchased the item.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 7 October 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone in this piece experience super localized pain on both sides w/ ovulation?
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 7 October 2013 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
Sometimes yeah.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Monday, 7 October 2013 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
Well at least Ive always assumed thats what it was from the timing.
ive just started getting that. i dont know why it waited til now. haw.
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 7 October 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I (used to) get that every month starting around my mid/late-20s, on both sides but worse on one side. It's called "mittelschmerz" which is fun to say and not so fun to have.
Painkillers didn't have much effect and it was getting so bad I just wanted to spend 2 days a month curled up in a ball so I went on the pill to stop ovulation, which came with some exciting side-effects of its own. I've been off the pill for 2-3 months now and it hasn't been as bad as it used to be but I suspect it's building back up.
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 7 October 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah its a sharper more kick in the guts pain.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Monday, 7 October 2013 09:10 (eleven years ago) link
I get that too! Only since I've been off the pill though. It's a good reminder for me that I am about to board the rollercoaster, so it doesn't really bother me that much.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
Huh, interesting. I think I might also get that? It's hard to tell between the cramps and the vagaries of my digestion at any given moment--I can have stomach pains at p much any time unless I've been super careful w diet.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
I just didn't know what it was because it didn't make sense for it to hurt on both sides.
Ovaries are like abdominal drudge sirens.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
I get those ovary pains, which seems odd because I don't ovulate (thanking u, pill).
Although I've been on the same pill for aaaaaaages, my PMS has been worse in the past several months. I've always had breakouts (controlled by spironolactone, thankfully), a hunger that isn't so much hunger as a compulsive need to be eating something all of the time, and one day where I prefer to be close to a bathroom (progesterone-induced diarrhea), lately I've had feelings of anxiety/depression/general grumpiness. These feeling suck worse than the other symptoms. Advice?
― quincie, Monday, 7 October 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
menstrual cycles are fucking shit, man. if i believed in god i might actually agree with fundies who think he hates women.
i'm interested to see if the AD i'm now on has any effect on the anxiety/depression/general grumpiness that precedes my period, since thinking about, it definitely got worse when everything else got worse months ago.
i get the compulsive hunger, too, quincie - and it really is compulsive.
― just1n3, Monday, 7 October 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
I started getting premenstrual depression/anxiety a few years ago and it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. Part of me knew that it was hormonal and if I waited a couple of days, I'd be in the clear, but the fun part of depression/anxiety is that you can logically tell yourself whatever the hell you want and no matter how true it is, it won't mean shit.
― carl agatha, Monday, 7 October 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
yep
― just1n3, Monday, 7 October 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't want you to think I slept on this, I've had this image in my head all morning.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 7 October 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
I used to know someone who had red and blue navigational stars tattooed under her hip bones, and now I can't stop seeing drudge sirens in the same place.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 7 October 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
hahayour friend aimed a little low if she was aiming for ovary tattoos
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 7 October 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
I hear you, carl. I tell myself "OK don't freak out this is just hormonal thing and you will be fine in 2 days," but in truth I am thinking "holy shit I am losing it, will never feel OK again, wtf wtf wtf wtf is wrong with me HALP."
― quincie, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
roxy i started getting that just in the last year!
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Monday, 7 October 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
!
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 7 October 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
I got tons of blood drawn today at the doc - they're trying to figure out which connective tissue disease I have. The nurse who took me back was like "this is a really cool test. You find out a lot about yourself from it."
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 7 October 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
my appt is tomorrowreally nervous but treating myself to a trip to the middle eastern place for lunch + record store to convince myself to not canceli will apparently submit to having my blood removed from my body in exchange for a spinach pie + falafel salad for dinner
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 7 October 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
no shame in that!
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 7 October 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
I am a big believer in Buying Yourself a Present when you have to undergo unpleasant things. I still owe myself for seven trips to the dentist in the past two months.
― quincie, Monday, 7 October 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
LOL now Im imagining drudgesirens lighting up and going WOOT WOOT in my belly and it is making me roffle much.
― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
xp - i chose my dentist based on his proximity to my fave record store and book store
― excited about the intentional phallus-y (sarahell), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
^^^smart lady!
― quincie, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
and i did not give 1 (one) fuck that the right side of my mouth was swollen while paying for my records
― excited about the intentional phallus-y (sarahell), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link