Standing in line at the grocery store last week, I spotted the rack of gossip magazines.
There were four magazines on offer, and the headline of every single one was celebrity baby news.
Honestly, I think I’d rather have toe nail fungus updates.
It’s Whiny Wednesday; what’s under your skin (or toe nail) today?
Just recently FIVE of my close friends and family members have been fighting cancer or have lost their battle with cancer. The recent loss of my 47 year old cousin who fought breast cancer for 7 years has completely shattered my family. I am feeling so angry at cancer and in many ways the medical community. I guess I’m in the anger and blame stage of grief and it just sucks! 🙁
I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. 🙁 hugs
I’m so sorry, Heather. Thoughts of peace to you and your family.
So sorry for your loss Heather. Put’s into perspective for me that life is so fragile and to enjoy the life that has been given me…whether it’s the life I wanted it or not.
My coworker’s 13 year old daughter was just diagnosed (for the 2nd time since 2008) with leukemia. She was clear of it for two years and it just came back worse than ever. I can’t imagine what her parents and older sister are feeling and how hopeless they must feel.
Enjoy your life my Tribe…you never know what’s around the corner!
Heather, I’m so sorry. 🙁
I am feeling snowed under at work — and it’s only just the start of the busy year-end season, which will stretch from now through to Christmastime. The number of meetings I’ve had to attend lately has left very little time to do the actual WORK. :p I’ve been at this in one capacity or another for 27 years — I know what’s coming & I am dreading it and feeling sorry for myself. And we are changing leadership this fall too — current CEO retiring, new one coming in, and all the changes that go along with that — so it’s going to be an even busier than usual fall this year. :p
I keep thinking about the mat leave I never got take (which is now one year long here in Canada) & feeling resentful — I know it’s not a vacation, but it is a break from the usual. I will be eligible for early retirement in 2.5 years & believe me, I am counting down… :p
Like Loribeth, I am overwhelmed at work, doing my own job and covering the maternity leave of a colleague. My hours are long and I do more at weekends at home and still never feel like I’ve finished.
I want my mat leave too!
Workers who cover for co-workers’ maternity leaves should be given a bonus. It doesn’t stop there. She’ll have to take off work to take the kid to the doctor too.
-Kathryn
I’m the only infertile in an office with five mothers. Three of them are grandmothers. They can pop up with baby stories or pictures at any given time. Without any warning “wait til I tell you what Johnny did or said”. I never asked you to tell me lol. Or ” wait til you see the Cutiest picture”. It’s like mommy circle every day regardless of my lack of interest. They just can’t stop. They still talk about their labor like it just happened. It sure does suck.
I’m getting ready for work this morning and the news broadcasts a new photographer who wants to take pictures of women’s bodies after they have given birth to celebrate the great sacrifice and amazing journey of being pregnant. I was so mad I yelled at the T.V. My husband turned the channel to help me calm down. I was so angry at how the anchor women were all talking about their pregnancies. They never concerned themselves with the thought of women who can’t experience what they take for granted and assume all women can achieve. Then later on in the day my brother calls me with all the highlights of my niece’s experiences at daycare. I have to be polite and listen to him. I love my niece, brother and sister in law but I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel like sometimes living in a baby free bubble. It just seems like everything everywhere screams Baby! Please keep this site going. It helps so much. The community is a great form of support.
I have a whine today. I’ve been having some pain in my abdomen & some other issues for the last 7 weeks or so. My doctor has ordered many tests to figure out what’s going on. I recently had an ultrasound & Hida scan which ruled out gallbladder. Next is a CT scan which I’ve been waiting to have scheduled. My doctors office called today because they needed to know if I could be pregnant, this was holding up my scan being scheduled. I mean really.. shouldn’t my file have a big X marked on it somewhere or bold letters across the top stating this lady cannot have children. This isn’t the first time I’ve been asked by them if I could be pregnant. Maybe they have to, but it’s just sad.
My whine is something Simon Cowell said in a recent People magazine. He said: “If I dropped dead and the only thing I had were my shows, it would be quite pathetic. It sounds corny, but you have to have a legacy in life.”
Really? Because if you don’t have a child, it’s pathetic? I think he’s overcompensating because he didn’t want children (per past interviews I’ve read) and is unexpectedly having one now. Comments like that sting because I know people who believe that.
I’m having a good old giggle at this line – “Honestly, I think I’d rather have toe nail fungus updates”. It’s really made me laugh. I so agree!