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Just married, Mom of a 7 y/o.... currently preggers with #2, taken on a new position that requires alot of time in-office and at home with a pay that doesn't quite match yet, and just start home-schooling DS.
Today feels overwhelming, but most days I'm pretty good.
Right now I'm sitting in a very quite house where all I can hear is the keys I'm typing... it's SO refreshing! Otherwise I enjoying praise & worship music to help get me back to clarity, and LOVE watching documentaries when I'm bored.. (well when I like to act bored). lol
Oh... and goodluck with your studies! One day I'll be adding that one to my plate as well! (but for now I won't think about that... lol)
Whew! You are busy!
I feel so overwhelmed that it is getting harder to get out of bed and tackle the day. I have the busiest semester I have ever had, and it is my second to last semester.
I have a wedding coming up in 2 weeks, that I am planning from long distance. There is still so much to do.
I am supposed to be done applying for graduate school by December 1st, and I have hardly started.
We moved 2 months ago, and there are STILL boxes everywhere. I made a goal to have everything put away by the wedding...in 2 weeks.
I am an officer in an honor society that takes SO much of my time, I am never done with projects for it.
I am volunteering with a Domestic Violence shelter this semester, and I feel like I am always there.
I never have time to keep my house clean or do laundry :(
The only thing that gets me through the day is knowing it will be over by Christmas! Ahh! And T.V., and the Bee. Hehe
Sometimes it feels good to air it all out.
My aunt is having open heart surgery tomorrow. They're replacing her aortic valve.
I'm moving across the country in two months, from the midwest to the desert. My husband is planting a church. I have a job lined up (ish) that's in the field I want to be in with an amazing company.
Both of my grandmothers have alzheimers, and they just moved one into a care unit. My mom's mom lives with my parents. My dad's mom is in an alzheimer's care facility... it's really bad. That disease is horrible. I cried for an entire day when they moved her from her home.
I have an entire mountain of laundry and my dryer takes three #$(@$*!_ cycles to dry anything.
My outlets are crafting anything I possibly can (wreaths, pottery, anything), walking, aaaand shopping. Having a good night in with my husband or my friends. driving. and sadly, sometimes, burying myself in work lets me get my mind off of it all.
Well we lost power due to the snow storm this past weekend, and the best estimate until that is restored is Thursday at the earliest. Until then, no power so... my freezer continues to defrost, my milk sits outside, I cant cook cause my stove is electric, no heat - the house is 45 deg right now, no water cause I'm on well water. And my husband JUST called and told me the we're about 1/2 inch from flooding the basement. How ironic, not a single drop of water where I want it, but tons of it is about to ruin my finished basement at any minute.
@opus - looove the pic! too cute & made me chuckle, which i needed :) wow - you've DEF got a lot on your plate girl! the best thing to do is just take it day by day! i find craft projects are a great outlet for sure, but i always end up with 1/2 finished projects because i get distracted... by life!
@amnystik - congrats on #2! a quiet house is the best thing in the world for me! i have to make the hubs turn down (or off) his video game sounds to hear the myself type on the keyboard! i love it!
i'm totally going through the more responsibility and not more pay situation at my job. i've always worked crazy hours, but for at least 3/4 of one of the projects i'm working on, i've been doing the job of two people, and i'm still expected to commit time to 2 other projects. no thanks! ugh - it's so frustrating. what's more is that we don't necessarily have "standards" for each position in my company, so two people who have the same job don't always have the same level of responsibilities. so that is my main vent.
otherwise i'm helping to plan my mom's 50th bday, which i'm psyched about. what i am not psyched about is that grown ass people do not know how to RSVP to a formal invitation. i have 2 cousins who my mom *insisted* on inviting to my wedding: one never RSVP'd, and the other RSVP'd late - that she wasn't coming. does mom learn her lesson? no. she makes me invite them to her bday party to be 'polite'. except that i handmade all her invites, so i actually wasted at least 45 mins of my own time on these people. surprise surprise, neither one RSVP'd, and when I emailed them both after the fact, only one responded (the one who RSVPd late to my wedding), saying that her husband works nights so its hard for her to do anything because she has to stay w/the kids and can't make it. she clearly wasn't making an attempt to find childcare so she could come, so why did she not RSVP no in the first place? i could understand if she was like - "i was trying to find a sitter and my hubs was trying to get off work, but we couldn't work it out. sorry i RSVP'd late, but unfortunately we can't make it". but no. she got the invite, and did nothing. as for the other one: crickets. nothing. it REALLY irks me. not to mention someon else who only RSVP'd when I reached out to him and gave me a 1/2-assed reply: We'll come if I can find the invitation... what is WRONG with you people?!??!?!
so there's that....but now i'm mostly over it and now trying to plan the fun parts. gotta do some floral arrangement samples at some point this week!
I really needed this thread today!
One of the main things I decided to DIY on are the STDs and invites.
I'm a designer, but my friend is a print designer while I'm web, so she offered some help. No problem, right?
WRONG.
She's now working overtime at her company and offers maybe half an hour a week around midnight a couple times a week before she has to go to bed. She's doing it as a wedding gift so I can't really complain too much about the lack of time, but at the same time, she knew we were on a deadline. It's been such a frustrating process that I feel so trapped now. She nixes anything I attempt, which is fine because she's a better designer than me. Our friendship is more important than some pieces of paper, but I really, really want to use someone else. But...I can't.
So if you bees are considering friendors, please evaluate just how important that friendship is before you get stuck in a situation like me.
Wow- that's a lot of stuff going on! Too bad there's no pause button on time.
OOoh, I love you for this!
I've been feeling so run down lately. I'm in my last year of law school, 3 weeks left in this semester (which is great because I'm almost done for the semester, but horrible b/c everything is wrapping up with large finals or final projects). I'm on the board of two different orgs, I work at school, I am also doing a job for academic credit, and I have a weekend shift as a server, so I feel like I'm burning up all the hours in my week. Add to that looking for the ever-elusive job. LDR for now with Mr.ND *and even a few months after we're married :-(* and planning the wedding from over an hour away. Money is always tight, but I'm budgeting like crazy and *praying* that my car holds on through winter. It's just been one crazy, crazy semester.
To de-stress, I like to SLEEP, enjoy time at Mr.ND's house, read for fun (but never during the semester, my brain would explode), listen to Christian music, and WB/net surf to just burn up some time.
*phew* Thanks, OP. It's always nice to see that other bees have it just as crazy or crazier than I do. It's a good reminder to center and just keep on keeping on. :-)
Thank you for this outlet!
I am overwhelmed daily. All I can do is pray, be thankful for my health, and take it day by day.
I am graduating law school in 6 weeks. Which means, I start studying for the bar in 6 weeks.
I take the bar in February.
I get married in June.
I currently have no job offers.
My grandmother is very sick with bone cancer and I hope she makes it for the wedding. Every day when my mom calls I get anxiety it will be the call I dread. The other day I nearly had a panic attack over it.
My mom had breast cancer this past year and now has a lymphoma.
All the while, I am too busy to spend time with them/help out.
I have a part time law clerking job and the other 2 quit for the semester, so I'm left with all 3 of our work loads.
I'm trying to lose weight and getting nowhere.
That's all for now.
2 months til the wedding:
Everyone in my house has strep throat (& serious fevers!).
I had my first 5 law midterms last week. My highest mark was 65 (lowest was almost half that!) :(
Went for my first dress fitting and had the least cooperative seamstress of life.
Contact sports are my outlet. Spent all weekend tackling boys! To be more specific: Friday, a bunch of us got together to play an alumni game against my college's current mens rugby team then played tackle football with Mr Rugbee and his friends on saturday. Needless to say I'm PRETTY SORE!!
@FutureMrs - please rest up and take vitamins and such! i got sick the week before my wedding and it sucked! don't overdo it with the sports either :) also, i'm sorry to hear about your exams! ugh! i'm sure you studied hard for them!
@MrsCoach - big hugs to you too! what terrible news about your mom & your grandmother! but it sounds like your mom is a survivor so hopefully she'll kick this too! just do the best you can - one day at a time!
Um today or always?
Today I woke up and found out our painter had decided to back out on us because apparently I offended him. I have a 100 point test tomorrow and zero idea how to study for it. Our house is a disaster because our washer doesnt work and our landlord (SO's parents) haven't decided to replace it or not. I have another test tomorrow and I don't really understand the material at all. I worked tonight and barely made any money. And to top it all off.... I backed into another car today. FML. My car looks like a piece of shit now because I hit a deer with my car but the damage wasn't enough to cover my deductable and now the damage still isn't enough to cover my deductable. I hate my life.
What else you ask? Were in the middle of remodeling the home we bought as a business deal with my dad and the entire progect has gone to shit including our relationship with my father. It has been nothing but a battle and I don't even want to be apart of it anymore. We thought we were going to be able to move into our first home but my father has just turned it into a way for him to make money and suggesting we not even move now. So add looking for a second first home as well as me going to school full time and working and I just basically want to shoot myself.
I guess you could say reading is my outlet but it's hard to want to read when you have to read for school all the time. Plus I don't have a spare minute to devote to it anymore.
I constantly feel overwhelmed. Thanks for letting me vent!
I have a 20 month old daughter. My FI works nights so I am basically a single-parent. I never have a moment to myself. She even comes to work with me because I work in a gym daycare. I make $75/week. My FI makes enough to pay the bills and that's it. We can barely afford food most weeks. We're stuck living in a one bedroom apartment because we cant afford to move. No one will rent us a lower priced apartment because they say that we technically can't afford it. FI has to drive an hour to and from work everyday and it makes him grumpy. We have no savings because we just spent the last $400 we had in there to fix FI's brakes. I'm taking four classes this semester (online luckily) but there is still so much work. My car has no heat so I have to bundle up my daughter in blankets just to drive anywhere. I've applied everywhere to get a better job but I don't even recieve calls for interviews. Even if I could find a better job it would have to pay at least double my current rate with me working full time just in order to pay for daycare - making it pointless. We can't afford the $200 engagement ring that I want. Obviously, most of my worries come from not having money. We've never missed a payment on anything and stretch every dollar to the limit but it's just not enough.
I'm thankful that I live close to family. Hanging out with my cousins and aunt makes me feel better. Splurging and buying my daughter a winter jacket makes me feel good. Buying clothes that aren't from a thrift store makes me happy. Cuddling with my daughter (when she's behaving!) makes me happy. Seeing my FI on weekends for a couple hours relaxes me. And when we can afford it - we buy some gouda and gruyere and a bottle of wine and have a date while watching a movie. Those are my favorite nights.
@MrsCoachBtoBee: I'm so sorry about your mom and grandmother's health, I wish them and you the best, that has to be so hard.
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I thought it'd be fun to share/vent about all the things we've got going on. Plus share a bit of what helps keep sanity somewhat intact.
Me: I've got school and all it's pleasures (medical field, 28 units with 2 exams a week average), wedding planning, a long distance relationship, research for buying our first home, plus all that comes with being a dual military couple. My outlets are creative projects, the bigger the better, guilty pleasure TV shows and the occasional glass of whine wine.
How about you?