Uh, what’s a four month sleep regression?? My boy is 3 months old now. What new hell is he going to put me through?
Interesting concept, but she has short black* curly hair, and I have longish blondish super-straight hair. My stylist would laugh her head off at any request to copy that. And if asked if my hair color is natural, she will tell the truth – though I would think that ought to be confidential, if I didn’t care to divulge.
*Colored, as she cheerfully acknowledges, and why shouldn’t she? There’s nothing in the world wrong with it. She just seems obsessed with getting me to “admit” it, too.
I think next time she asks, I WILL confess, and cop to being a ginger.
Ahh, that makes sense then. Thanks for clarifying.
I have no rants to contribute…so far. It’s still early though.
Hey, mine is three and a half months! We must’ve been doing this in parallel 
The four-month sleep regression is when their sleep patterns shift out of newborn mode and start maturing into proper sleep cycles. So they suddenly don’t know how to get to sleep or how to stay asleep, and they have to learn.
In practice, what it means is their sleep goes horribly fucked for a few weeks. Like, till this week Small was falling asleep easily around 9pm, waking up around 5 to eat and going straight back to sleep till around 8.30 (plus one big long nap and a couple of smaller ones during the day). Now it takes forever to get her to sleep, and we have to do it a few times per night. I spent most of last night, off and on, trying to get her back to sleep while she made furious growling noises into her soother. That’s also how I spent most of yesterday. Funsies.
I’m not sure all babies do it, so fingers crossed you get lucky! But everyone should be warned about this. With our first kid, we had no clue what was going on - we thought her lovely regular sleep pattern was broken for good, we were completely freaking out for a few weeks trying to work out how to fix it, till she got the hang of this and went back to a decent sleep pattern. Months later, someone told me about the four-month regression and I went ‘Omigod, THAT’s what that was!!’ This time I’m still not happy about it, but at least I know it’ll almost definitely be over in a few weeks, so it feels a lot more survivable.
Argh, people who have a store and don’t know how much things cost!
Wanted to grab a granola bar on the way to a meeting, and there’s a brand I particularly like and remembered that one local deli usually stocks it. So I get there, get a beverage and a granola bar, want to pay – this could not be MORE of a “grab and go” situation. I have grabbed my items and I would like to pay you and go because I have someplace to be.
And the cashier, who I think is also the son-in-law of the owner, it’s a family business, just STANDS there because he doesn’t know how much the granola bars cost. He is standing there and I am standing there, apparently at an impasse. I WOULD LIKE TO BUY THIS GRANOLA BAR THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR STORE, BECAUSE IT IS A STORE AND I AM IN IT, AND WOULD LIKE TO EAT A GRANOLA BAR. AND I HAVE MONEY THAT I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS GRANOLA BAR.
According to him, that was the end of our transaction. He doesn’t know how much it costs, so I can’t buy it. GAWD. If you aren’t going to sell me things in your store, don’t have a freaking store. THIS IS NOT HOW A STORE WORKS.
I was especially peevy because I went to that particular store to get this particular item. And it’s a GRANOLA BAR. It’s not like I’m trying to buy a wide screen TV, and want you to make up a price on the spot. How much of a loss could you possibly incur on this granola bar no matter what price you charged me?
Why can’t people learn to stand in lines properly? I encounter this in different types of lines - at the bus and at the bank, especially. When someone leaves way too much of a gap in a line, I’m tempted to go in and fill that gap.
I just want to tell you I fully stand by your rant! Fuck heartburn and fuck not being able to sleep because I have to constantly change positions. Oh, and my 18 month old has decided that bedtime is no earlier than midnight. How the hell is that going to work when I’m sleep deprived with the newborn?!?!
It’s totally true that you forget about all the bad stuff with your other pregnancies/kids. We must be built that way so we continue to reproduce! Haha
My 13 year old gets stuck taking care of her siblings, especially in the summer. I do feel bad about that at times, but I try to make it up to her. I make sure that she gets to do things with her friends and I bring her special little treats just because. I hope she knows that I really appreciate the help!
This is my first time being large preggo during the summer. I never realized how fucking hot I would be!! And by the time we’re this far along, shouldn’t there be less room for them to be moving around in there? Rolling maybe, but violent rib/bladder kicking? No. I’m still trying to talk my doc into inducing at the end of August. I don’t really want to be in labor on Labor Day!
I just want a fucking piece of cake.
There’s a tiny girl at country dancing that I hear had an awful pregnancy. Apparently, her heartburn was so bad that all she could keep down was cake and other sweets.
We should all have that kind of misery- cake and ice cream for three meals a day.
Also, when I order a bra in a cup-size E, do not email me and ask if I mightn’t want the D instead. I said ‘E’ for a fucking reason, fuckos.
Heh, I had this happen at a grocery store so the urgency to leave wasn’t there…it was for a watermelon.
Cashier: Is this a seedless watermelon?
Me: Uh, I donno.
Cashier: stare
Me: I got it from the bin by the door. I didn’t see the sign on it.
Cashier: stares at the watermelon. Wishes it would talk
Me: not in a hurry. Check out the cute pharmacy assistant
Cashier: I don’t think it is.
Me: Thinking - “Why are pharmacy assistants always cute??”
Cashier: I’ll ring it up as a regular one.
Me: Cool!
I got it home, and turns out it was seedless. So, I saved like 40 cents.
My daughter lost her job today–they told her it just wasn’t working out. She’s only been there 3 months, so was just at the end of her probationary period. I don’t know all the details yet.
She and her boyfriend moved back in with me a few months ago to save money. They are planning to buy a newly-built house in a development that offers assistance to lower-income buyers. She signed paperwork last week. If she doesn’t get a new job within a few weeks, she will no longer be eligible for the program.
Fuck–they are never moving back out now, are they?
My doctor questions my use of Trazadone as a sleep agent every time we meet. Two weeks ago he was practically grilling me about it, but I was firm. So ok, now that some of the stress is gone from my life, I decide I’ll give it a week and see if I can sleep fine without it. Did so for the first two and a half nights. Woke up at 4:24am this morning (alarm at 6am) and then started the old spin cycle again. Oh no, not doing that shit again! Back on the drugs tonight.
I really, really, really need a day to myself. No kids, no dogs, no husband, no grocery shopping or back-to-school shopping, no bill paying. Just a day. Even a couple of hours.
Being the only introvert in a houseful of extreme extroverts sucks sometimes.
Thanks; I wish it were, but I have been wearing silicone covers and no bra for some time now.
Oregonian drivers should all be put to death. Painfully. It’s bad enough that I have to bypass the entire state when driving to Washington, but they’ve infested the freeways in the rest of the country as well.
Why is it that all vehicles with Oregon plates are driven by people who have absolutely zero concept of pulling over into the right hand lane when being overtaken or when driving at a slower speed than the rest of the traffic? AND no Oregonian would be caught dead within 10 miles per hour of the speed limit. So they putter along at 55 mph on the 15 between LA and Vegas, IN THE LEFT LANE!
Die, you blights on the American freeways! DIE! DIE! DIE!
Let’s just nuke the whole fucking state.
Preach it brother!
Would it be okay, or bad, of me, to pit people who complain about bad drivers?
I’m a bad driver. I’m still trying to learn to drive. I don’t know how one becomes a good driver, except through trying really hard, and practicing a lot, and spending lots of time as, yes, a bad driver before being able to be good.
I drive slowly because I’m still learning and don’t want to make mistakes. And I still suck at lane changing.
I’m not trying to apologize for bad drivers or anything. But I think people should, in general, go easier on people that they, through a few seconds’ judgement, have considered bad drivers. Besides, sometimes even a good driver makes mistakes.
If you’re pitting drivers doing something illegal, like talking on the phone while driving - now that I can get behind. 
(I realize that this post will probably get people to throw rotten fruit at me. puts up umbrella)
Seriously. You should see how bad they are off the freeways - I just got done driving thru central Oregon on state highways.
Which is probably why my back is out, god dammit. Supposed to be in WA for over a week, my physical therapist is 2000 miles away!
Emily, there is only one of you. The entire state of Oregon are bad drivers. Pathetic drivers. It ought to be legal to shoot them on sight.
It’s probably because they’re not allowed to pump their own gas.
You are spelling ‘Rhode Island’ incorrectly.