I am officially PMSing.
Consider yourself warned. God do I ever hate hormones sometimes. You know, before having Ryan I never had such “intense” (for lack of a better word) ovulations, bouts of PMS and periods. But since then? Not only am I mostly as regular as rain (that is such a cool old-fashioned saying, in my opinion), but I definitely get all of the side effects:
Ovulation: bring on the manly goods!
PMS: weight gain, fatigue, extreme irritability.
Period: blood, cramps, blood, muscle aches, blood, fatigue, blood, pain, blood. Oh, and did I mention blood?
I keep track of my periods using Monthly Info and My Monthly Cycles, and I even get email reminders. So I know when PMS is about to kick in. And when it is about to or already has, I do my best to keep calm and not flip the hell out over such major incidents like the table not being wiped or Dan forgetting to bathe the kids.
And on that note…
(Warning: this is most likely the PMS talking. Take with a grain of salt.) When will people (family members & a few others) get it through their heads that I am a WIFE, a MOTHER and a somewhere-between-PT-and-FT-employee?! I have three meals to prepare, make, serve and clean up after, drinks and snacks to dish out. Diapers to change. Grubby preschooler bodies to bathe. Children to play with, read to, entertain and herd around. Cat litter to scoop every day. A dog to take outside. Cats to be petted and a dog to play with. Frogs and hermit crabs to check on. Laundry to wash. Carpets to vacuum. Floors to sweep and mop. Glass and mirrored surfaces to wipe down. Bathrooms to clean. Kitchen counters and appliances to clean. Groceries to buy. A husband and work to do. And once in a while, a book I’d like to read, a blog I’d like to write, a few photos I’d like to take, nails I’d like to paint, television that I’d like to watch, or a nap I’d like to indulge myself in.
Translation: I am a very busy person. Every single day I hit the ground running. There are days when I have dressed the kids, served them breakfast, scooped cat litter and tossed a load of laundry into the washer before I even PEE, let alone brush my teeth or put in my contacts or get dressed or get something to eat for myself. I do not have the time, the energy, and in a lot of cases the desire, to drop everything I need and WANT to do and go running around just for the sake of getting out of the house. Unlike others (again, this is in reference to multiple people), I don’t have the luxury of sitting around and GETTING bored. Wait, let me re-phrase that. I DO get bored — bored of cooking, bored of thinking up meals, bored of changing trash cans and scooping litter and washing clothes and folding bed sheets. But getting bored over chores and tasks does not mean that they suddenly no longer need doing.
And when I do have some free time, I think I’m entitled to sit at home on my ass, go to Panera Bread for some uninterrupted downtime (yes, Panera may be a public place and it certainly isn’t as quiet as a library, but I can tune out the background noise. I can hardly do the same with a husband, kids and pets. ;) ), or simply read or lounge around.
In summary, I have a lot of commitments and daily, practically HOURLY obligations. I am not the person to seek out if you want someone who is basically on-call whenever you want to go out and do something. I am not that person. I keep saying no or not returning phone calls and emails and such for a REASON. And here, in what I hope is plain English, is that reason.
Excuse me for taking the passive-aggressive approach to this, but rather direct hints don’t seem to do the job.
Look! I’m e-famous!
Damita @replied me on Twitter to let me know that she saw me listed on PayPerPost’s top earners section! Awesome!
DIE DIE DIE
Dan took a screenshot of his Facebook page and saved it on our external hard drive with the title “DIEDIEDIE”. Why? My ex, who is on my friends list, keeps being suggested as a friend for Dan. Heh…
Catheter please?
TMI: I can’t stop peeing. My work keeps getting interrupted. I’m about ready to drag my laptop and one of the TableMate trays into the bathroom and just set up shop on the toilet.
Aww Jenn! I feel for you. I am almost all the time free even when I am busy I am actually busy doing nothing so its difficult to imagine being in your place but god it must be hard! You definitely need some kind of break once in a while and do whatever you want to ….indulge yourself and relax. Periods and being bloated sucks and the PMSing must get on nerves when you can not simply take a break from the daily chores…I hope people around you understand and are able to help in any way possible.
Lol Dan is sweet being so pissed with the ex showing in friend suggestion! And wow that pay per post thing really works for you! Maybe I will try i sometime.
P.S: You write really well and your blogs are always so entertaining! :] just had to let you know that
OMG I realized just now that my comment was very long
sorry!!
Also, thanks for the link to the monthlyinfo site, it looks good!
Sometimes you just gotta vent and it looks like you got it out here. Shrugging people off is hard sometimes but you seem to be pretty good at staying focused and just doing what you know you need to do. Congrats on being a top earner for PPP.
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congrats on being a top earner! that’s a huge sum of money there :o
i know how you feel with the pms.. what drives me nuts is when you warn people that you are feeling explody, and then they tick you off, and then they get insulted when you get ticked off.. hello! i told you i was feeling explody! aaahhh!
anyway, just breathe and relax, and vent!
oh yes, i take my laptop into the bathroom with me all the time LOL! my parents are always looking at me like i’m a weirdo when they catch me coming out of there with my laptop.
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Oh honey I feel for you . You are entitled to have some time to yourself . Forget everybody and you keep doing what needs to be done. Congrats on being a top earner on PPP
Aw, I’m sorry you are PMSing. That is never fun. You always have the coolest resources for tracking everything online though. I saw you made the top earnings on Flickr too. I don’t completely understand it because I don’t do the whole paid blogging thing but I know that’s pretty awesome so congratulations.
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I haven’t had children yet, but my periods have gotten progressively worse as I have gotten older. In high school, they lasted about 3 days, were very light, and I rarely cramped. Now, I’m up to about 4-5 days, very heavy in the middle of it, and wanted to lay in the fetal position and cry for the first 2 days (unless medication is taken exactly every 4 hours). You’re kinda scaring me about how they can get worse after childbirth!
Venting is what blogs are for, so don’t feel bad. Some people can’t take the hint that those who work online DO actually work, and that being a mom can be a full time job as well. I commend you for all you have to handle.
Yay for being a top earner!
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Gah, now you posted his picture out here for everyone to see… it probably wouldn’t bother me so much if he didn’t look so GOOD
DIEDIEDIE