Jun 27, 2012

Totally Pea-Nuts

Picture it: I'm appearing by phone for a deposition in Miami.  The deponent is lying her rear off.  I start to get annoyed.  Really annoyed.  My questions are getting a little more intense, my tone slightly clipped.  I may have thrown in a few side comments like, "give me a break," "you do realize what you're saying makes no sense, and "ma'am, you understand you're under oath, right?" I sounded like a TV lawyer.  That's not a good thing.

Suddenly, the deponent's attorney interrupts me to tell me that I am badgering his poor, lying client.   Five years of depositions, and I've never been accused of harassing a witness.

You know what?  It was totally warranted criticism.  I was being totally rude for no good reason.  My bad.  Will a smiley face emoticon make it better? :-)



I naively thought my hormonal roller coaster days were behind me when I finished the last of my fertility medications.  Nuh-huh.  It's worse.  I'm Running Pea-nuts, able to burst into tears or flames at the drop of a hat!

A few things that drove me to tears this week:
  • Forgetting to buy milk at the store and not realizing it until 10 p.m.
  • J and I buying our first present for the baby, a stuffed Pluto.  I quite literally cried tears of joy in the middle of Downtown Disney.  Like that's not embarrassing or anything
  • The Olympic trials.  Oh, the drama!
  • Realizing J picked up non-organic fat free milk instead of organic 1%.  Holy crap.  I'm officially insane and obsessed with milk.  Who am I?
And a few things that maybe, kinda, just a little bit ticked me off this week:
  • My office ceiling was leaking thanks to Tropical Storm Debby.  The building's solution was to stick a bucket in the ceiling over the tiles. So now there's a bucket of stagnant rain water right over my desk.   Is that really an acceptable solution?
  • The women smoking immediately outside the entrance to our building.  I mean, really?  If you're going to smoke, you deserve to be exposed to gale force winds.
  • My co-worker who told me that she sees me eating "all the time."  Hello, I'm hungry.  Now get out of my way so I can make my afternoon PB&J.
  • Speaking of co-workers, the ones who tell me, "just you wait.  It's going to get sooo much worse" and "you're gonna be huge!"  Well, thanks for the encouragement, bitches.
So - on a scale of 1 to 10, just how crazy am I?



8 comments:

  1. Haha, nice, you crack me up! For the record, I think a lot of your gripes are justifiable, pregnant or not :)

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  2. When I was pregnant with Braeden people would hover right around the door smoking too -- even though there was a designated smoking area. I got so pissed one day, I finally shouted at them. They just looked at me like I was crazy. Thankfully, I worked at a smoke-free environment when I pregnant with Livie. Just the smell of cigarettes makes me nauseous NOW.
    I definitely went through hormonal highs and lows when I was pregnant (more so with B than L). I remember telling Dan to "F*ck off" (as in screaming it) while hosting a dinner party. I was quite klassi. Thankfully, nobody held it against me. Sometimes it's nice to get a pass, because I'm sure that moment was warranted. Ha ha.

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  3. Your post made me laugh so hard!! Just blame it on the hormones and enjoy it, this is the only time you are allowed to behave like that! :)

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  4. totally crazy? hardly. totally pregnant? completely.

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  5. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would say you're totally normal. My therapist tells me it's a strength that I'm "so in touch with my emotions." Which is just a fancy way of saying that everything makes me cry. At least you made it to 10 pm!

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  6. I am 100% with you lady! Today I am all about the anger. I am so irrationally angry at people. I know I don't have a right to be and that is life. but I am!! I can't help it. You are not crazy in the least. Ride the wave for a while, it will be worse if you don't experience the emotion, but once you do try to turn your mind to somethign else. Sounds crazy but try acting opposite

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  7. HAHA! I don't think you are crazy at all! In fact, I am pretty sure I would have blown up at all of those people and cried in those same situtations ... and I am not pregnant. Oh ... maybe I am crazy too?

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  8. Haha, I think we all have extra-snippy days. I sure do, even without pregnancy hormones!

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