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I'm almost 40. I drink plenty of water. I quit drinking the one Coke a day habit a few weeks ago. Why in the hell am I still getting zits?! And why haven't I lost any weight? I'm not eating junk food. I've increased my activity level. I quit pop. I don't have stress. I get about 7-8 hours of sleep a night.

I've been thinking why quit the coke if it's not going affect my weight?

padresfan619 no one on earth could drive me as crazy as my MIL. When I knew she was coming to visit, I turned into a not so nice person. She really only came to see her son and that was it. I encouraged my husband to go see her without me since that was what she wanted and she loved it.

At a family function last night, my SIL spent 20 minutes trying to convince me and my 16 year old ds that he should be a city bus driver in a few years because they make $27/hr.  Except, he's really good at math and wants to attend post secondary school in an engineering field. He also has ADHD, so sitting for 40hrs/week for 35 years would be kinda absurd.   BTW she is a city bus driver and has previously told us how much she hates her job.  She also has 2 sons in their 20s who have lower paying jobs. Maybe she should talk to them first? Strange woman.

I would have died.  Mine sat like a prune and stared at me and pretended she couldn't hear me if I talked.  It was so uncomfortable.  Finally I just said I was out and left the area.  No way could I have dealt with being left alone for more than five minutes.  In the 33 years I knew her, I would say we talked five minutes.  It was weird.

I vented some stuff on the other vent thread from a couple days ago. But more stuff has been added. I am 38 weeks pregnant, my due date is Easter Sunday. Thankfully we got through dd's birthday party on Saturday, but her actual birthday is the 23rd, she'll be 5. We also have a 3 year old ds.

I know that we are very lucky, dh has very generous paternity leave. But he is driving me nuts. He has a bunch of stuff that he feels like he needs to get done before the baby comes. Stuff that he has known about for at least a month, if not longer. But he decided to take dd to colorado to go skiing for four days a couple weekends ago. He spent last Mon-Wed skiing with work. And now is stressing and has been held up in the home office all day working. He came up to eat and informed me that he has a meeting tomorrow night, dinners Tuesday and Wednesday night. Wednesday night is the one night a month that is supposed to be mine - I have bookclub, my one non-child thing a month. I told him it was fine, but that I'm getting a sitter because I am going to book club, I read the book, I am the designated dessert bringer and I don't know if I am going to be able to go the next couple months.

I have been trying for months to get him to help me with moving the kids rooms around in anticipation of the baby coming. He decided a week or so ago that we should finally do it. I am on restrictions from lifting too much and he knows this. But I can't get him to finish doing it.

I just hope this baby stays in at least another week. I need to finish getting dd's birthday stuff and easter together and whatever else I can manage.

At least we got the car we have been trying to get for the last couple weeks we finally took delivery on Friday. But while we were there we learned that the other car that we have on order with them - that we weren't supposed to get till end of 3rd quarter/early 4th quarter of this year may be here in 2 weeks. So now instead of having 6 months to figure out payment we have 2 weeks. On a very expensive car and dh's stock sale window just closed and doesn't reopen till April. We talked to them and reminded them that we have a baby coming so we might have to push back delivery on the car a week or two, which thankfully they were okay with. But seriously how do you tell someone as recently as a week ago that their car won't be ready till Sept/Oct and then just kidding it will be ready in 2 weeks??!?!

No because I am not overweight, my periods are regular with no problems attached, and do not have any other symptoms. I just want to lose 5-10 pounds so I'm not overly worried about it. Just annoyed. You hear how others give up their pop/soda habit and lose 5 pounds practically overnight. I give it up and I lost maybe a pound. I probably just need to increase the walks and cut out the beer. 

I feel your pain. Want to run away together?

This is my life.  The DVR could be backed up with a week's worth of TV shows we both watch and instead he'll opt to watch some syndicated show for the 10,000th time or some really annoying movie.  

I'm not sure how many mood changes my dd had yesterday. She went from scowling to smiling and back again quicker than I could blink.

Absolutely! Let's meet at the beach. I'll bring the wine!

Thanksgiving weekend I started with the replacement of my bathtub. Not the whole bathroom mind you, just the tub. The old all-in-one piece just wasn't comfortable enough to take a bath in. That's all I wanted, was to take a bath.

Between one thing and another ("contractors" that didn't do things right), I'm still waiting to take a bath. My friend who very reluctantly has been helping me, failed to show to finish before he went away for a few days. My niece is coming Tuesday to stay for a while, and I still don't have my tub functional. There are two bathrooms, and I'll just have to shower in "hers", but this was a deadline we were supposed to have made. I'm so pissed.

(men suck)

I'll be there!