Probably because if you aren’t an allergy sufferer (as I am not), you aren’t really aware of ‘allergy season’. I do support pitting the ‘ew’ part of the question, though. I try to display empathy if I think someone is sick.
I find the level of “help” I get with my daughter from my husband to be deeply frustrating but I also realize that I am a control freak. When something stresses me out, (like making sure we are doing all the things necessary to keep our child alive) I feel the need to control the hell out of it. I have to know all the appointments, pay all the bills, make sure all the things are happening. And if I don’t have it, I get anxious. So I do have to tell my husband when I want things done. And that’s ok. At least he wakes up easily enough.
In this same vein, but anti-ranty - My new year’s resolution was to actually ask my husband for what I wanted and to not get mad when he didn’t meet my unvoiced expectations. It has made my life SO MUCH HAPPIER. I am not being such a crazy person to him.
But now for my real rant - My child is 4 and is not potty trained yet. Everything has been this 3 steps forward, 2 steps back nonsense. Recently, she’s decided that pooping in the potty is the best thing in world but won’t pee in the potty for anything. Why is this happening! Before you ask, she does have a doctors appointment but her pediatrician was booked until May.
I potty trained a bunch of kids. Don’t despair all kids are different. Keep in mind all kids go to college potty trained. (usually)
My oldest son was so hard to train, that I still worry about him, he’s almost 30. (Heh).
She’s going to go to college in pull ups!
But seriously though, I’ve been really stressed out about it because when I was potty training, I got an epic kidney infection that lasted for over a year. I don’t want her to go through that and I’m afraid she might be! It’s so stressful!
I remembed another small minirant on my way to work today. Many clothing designers seem to think that women can’t be both fat and tall. My ankles were very cold in this morning’s wintery weather.
Also, many designers only make “skinny” jeans. If I wanted to wear tights I’d just slap on my running tights; I don’t need help showing off my ass because it’s big enough you really can’t miss it.
And as for the potty training, something will click at some point - I think your primary concern at this point is trying not to feel guilty and/or too pissed off (and not feeling guilty about being pissed off - seriously, everyone gets tired of cleaning up pee at some point). It’s amazing how judgmental a lot of people can be about parenting, and kids don’t read those parenting books, so if other parents are being assholes about it, tell them to stuff it.
Anecdotally, I just outlined for my son what he could have if he was potty trained and what he couldn’t do without it and told him to just tell me when he was ready. He was fully potty trained 4 days later (this was at age 3.5). But all kids are different.
My daughter potty trained pretty much overnight when she was told she could wear “pretty panties” once she reliably used the potty. Took her underwear shopping and boom, that was that.
She’s 27 now, and still loves clothes.
for my brother it was cowboy boots. He was told only big boys wear cowboy boots, big boys use the potty. He does not wear them now but he did buy some really expensive Italian shoes.
They don’t do short and fat well, either. I’ve finally found pants that fit right, but there were quite a few years when I had the back of the pant leg dragging on the ground because the damn things were too long. Or found myself trying to insert toe of shoe into front of pant leg for the same reason.
Well, time for another corporate level complaint.
Got out this morning and stopped at McDonalds for breakfast while running around.
I pull up to the second speaker to order. I get “welcome to McDonalds” and silence. Two seconds later, same voice is taking the order from the truck behind me. WTF??? I give my order. Silence. I say “Hello?” twice. Silence. Truck drives around me to the window.
I drive up to the pay window and ask if I’m allowed to order. Girl is churlish but takes my order, then says “Happy Birthday!” and slams shut her window.
I drive up to the pickup window. The idiot there hands me a straw that is soaking wet from end to end. OH FUCK NO, I’m not taking your unsanitary straw. :eek:
Went inside and complained to the manager about the whole setup. Now I’m going to go on-line and complain to corporate about it.
My first pair of shoes after baby shoes were cowboy boots. As my dad was a rodeo cowboy and mom was in rodeo club, it probably didn’t have anything to do with potty training.
My current rant. Something is biting me, I have a bunch of welts that itch like crazy. I have no pets, not seen any mosquitos or fleas. I have checked the mattress and bedding for bedbugs and no sign. I purchased a bedbug trap anyway (some sort of pheromone sticky trap) and after an hour nothing. The welts aren’t linear and none are below the knee, below the elbow or on my head/ neck, the areas that are the most exposed. Not around my ankles so most likely not chiggers. I have moved the trap to another location by my bed to see if that makes a difference. I have some no pets strips but not supposed to put those in where a human will be Foote than four hours. I don’t even know where it is happening…work car home. I dont particulary notice new ones when I wake up so it could be happening elsewhere. 
Maybe it is a soap allergy. Changed soaps or washing powder lately?
Bedbugs are skittish things that disappear at the first sign of activity and are super fast. You’re not going to find evidence after one hour.
Check the seams of your mattresses, around the edges. Look for black spots, which will be their excrement (and used to be your blood).
Nope, no changes. I did stay in a hotel a few days before this started so that is why I am sweating the bedbugs.
I stripped the bed and checked all of the way around the mattress, both sides. No black spots,no blood spots, no rice looking things and nothing moving. No box springs but I also checked the bed skirt, sheets, blankets and pillows down to the bottom layers.
The trap say that the pheromones will attract them within an hour. Since I am not seeing any evidence on the bed/bedding and the trap isn’t attracting anything, and the welts aren’t following normal bedbug patterns (welts in a line, on the more exposed areas) I am hoping bedbugs can be eliminated. I will leave the trap under the bed by the leg and check again in the morning.
It is strange it’s just on your torso and upper limbs. Have you checked your pjs?
No new body lotion or deoderant?
Food allergies?
Sometimes you do. I thought I was having a bad allergy attack last Friday. Nope, it’s a real cold and I’m still sick. Just as soon as I kick this the black walnuts and pecans will start pollinating and my sinuses will rebel again.
I really want that flip-top head from the old Reach toothbrush commercials. Only in my version the flip is above the nose so I can hose out my sinuses during allergy season.
There are times during allergy season or when I have a bad cold I find myself wishing for a vacuum attachment for sinuses.
I’ve always wondered why this wouldn’t work. hopefully, it would suck the phlegm out, or at least jiggle stuff around so that it might be easier to blow out.
We used to suck snot out of our toddlers with a bulb, “vacuuming” out their sinuses. Is there a medical reason not to do that as an adult? Or maybe a vacuum is either not efficient enough, or too strong and there’s a danger of sucking brain cells out.
I had an ENT use one of these on me after deviated septum surgery. It looked like a 6 inch shepherds crook that was hollow. He went all the way up with it. I pretty much just sat in a chair and screamed. It was the worst experience of my life. Mind you, I’ve had chemo and radiation for cancer, and it was still worse than those.