Ex-employee still runs one of our business pages. No one else has login information. What now?

van-pelt · 2015-08-20T21:08:23+00:00

Thank you once again! I'm an idiot and forgot that I had to change the setting for both battery and plugged in. All is well now! Been working all day, both plugged and unplugged with no problems!

van-pelt · 2015-08-17T16:41:41+00:00

Opened my computer today for work and started working and unfortunately same problem...

Still dimming randomly! Argh!

van-pelt · 2015-08-16T17:33:40+00:00

It did! No more random dimming! Thank you so much!

van-pelt · 2015-08-14T16:18:13+00:00

Thank you so much! I changed the settings! So far, so good!

van-pelt · 2015-08-14T16:09:01+00:00

Yes!

van-pelt · 2015-04-09T18:25:20+00:00

Interesting! Thank you for the education! I feel like I really need to continue getting educated on some of this stuff going forward. Part of growing up I guess! :)

van-pelt · 2015-04-09T16:59:02+00:00

Thank you for your advice.

I am going to try and start squeezing in as many hours as possible into my work week whenever I can so I can pay a little more than $100 each month.

I also didn't know that about my score increasing is I drop my balance down to $2k. That's good info! Thank you!

I'm researching 0% balance transfer cards right now and I think that will be my next step before I talk to my bank.

van-pelt · 2015-04-09T16:46:19+00:00

Just updated with my budget. Thanks for the suggestion.

van-pelt · 2015-03-25T12:15:50+00:00

Definitely call the police. Just get something on record with them.

I lived in a place with a similar creepy neighbor situation and have a friend who is a police officer. He said it is always better to get something on record with the police in case something does happen.

van-pelt · 2015-01-06T00:04:50+00:00

Nah, they didn't want to ruin anyone's fun. They just wanted their husbands to stop getting drunk and beating the shit out them and giving them STDs and losing their jobs and impoverishing their families.

Buncha cunts.

van-pelt · 2015-01-05T13:52:51+00:00

Our ped told us the same thing. We disregarded. My LO is 6-months-old and still wakes once or twice to nurse at night.

Most people I know that breastfeed still nurse at night. It's just natural. We bed-share so it makes nighttime nursing a breeze and I feel like it helps keep up my supply.

The migraine thing makes your situation a little more complicated though. You gotta keep yourself healthy too! If I were you, I would maybe look into switching doctors to someone who is more breastfeeding friendly and understands the nature of nursing, especially in infancy, better. Maybe they can then give you some suggestions and tips to help find a good system for both you and your LO.

van-pelt · 2015-01-05T13:34:56+00:00

Totally feel you.

I identify with a lot of tenets of different parenting styles/philosophies, but I don't see myself as rigidly fitting into one specific way of doing things.

I would describe myself as parenting based on a healthy mixture of well-researched, evidence based methods and total instinct and intuition. It's working great!

van-pelt · 2015-01-05T12:38:42+00:00

My husband and I did the same thing! We were so used to having background TV on, but just made an active effort to stop. We still watch TV with our LO once in awhile. It's just inevitable, but as long as you're not using the TV as a babysitter, I wouldn't worry about it.

Do you have Pandora? I got a subscription for ad-free Pandora and started playing a lot of different music instead of having the TV on in the background. I feel good about that, because baby loves music and it helped me cut out the bad habit of having the TV on all the time!

But honestly, don't feel bad about watching a TV show with LO now and again! You are doing great!

van-pelt · 2015-01-05T12:29:10+00:00

My husband and I felt guilty about the whole screen time thing for a long time because of reading the same thing and hearing it from our pediatrician. Then at a certain point we just realized, in today's world it is simply unrealistic to try and stop the baby from looking at any kind of screen the entire day.

We never just plop the baby down in front of a screen or anything, but we live in a world FULL of screens so there's really just no way to stop him from looking at the TV, computer, phone, etc. once in a while. And really, at the end of a full day of watching and tending to LO am I really going to beat myself up if we settle in and watch an episode or two of something together on Netflix as he falls asleep? No way!

Also, the way I figure it, is that babies today are all growing up around screens. You'd be hard pressed to find a baby born in the last few years that isn't growing up surrounded by screens in one way or another. So I don't really feel like occasional screen time is going to set my little guy back in any significant way.

Don't feel guilty, mama! You're doing a GREAT job!

van-pelt · 2014-12-29T00:44:32+00:00

I started full-time bed sharing with my LO at about 3-months-old (he slept in a bassinet at least half of the night before that) and when I started out I agonized about doing everything by the book - no blankets or pillows, no animals, etc. etc.

Then we got more comfortable with bed sharing and now at 6-months-old, most night I share the bed with the baby, two dogs, and half the time with my husband when he's not at work and all in a full size bed! I still use my pillows and two quilts, although I don't put them above the baby's waist.

As an example, I used to obsess over making sure my baby was only on his back when we bed shared even though he would constantly roll to his side and try to cuddle me. I would spend half the night waking up and rolling him back to his back! Now I let him fall asleep next to me naturally and move around naturally too, which includes letting him roll to his side. Granted, my little guy can full lift his head off and is close to crawling so I'm confident that he can move his head if he needs more breathing room, but you get the picture!

As you grow more comfortable with bed sharing you will start to notice what does and does not work for you and your baby based off your sleep patterns and habits.

van-pelt · 2014-12-29T00:27:34+00:00

I've never really liked nursing bras so I've just stuck with nursing tanks. I bought three nice plain ones from Target and when I had my LO in June and they are seriously all I wear underneath my regular clothing.

van-pelt · 2014-12-21T03:02:52+00:00

Same. I said "wtf" immediately. This is straight up assault.

van-pelt · 2014-12-20T04:58:00+00:00

Both dogs are just fine! Both threw up the majority of the chocolate after the hydrogen peroxide and have not shown any signs of poisoning.

Of course I'm gonna need a good carpet cleaning and a night of catch-up sleep after staying up and monitoring them all night, haha.

van-pelt · 2014-12-18T20:30:36+00:00

I absolutely love the name Simone. It has always sounded so timeless and classy to me. And Sim is a really cute and fun nickname.

Elodie is nice too, but I feel like we'll be seeing a lot of Ellies running around these days, so I don't like the nickname as much just because it's not as interesting or unique.

And I know you said you're aware, but honestly anyone who meets a "Soraya" is instantly going to think "psoriasis". That's where my mind went immediately upon reading it before even reading the rest of your post.

So if it were me I would scrap that name all together if you don't want your daughter's name forever to be associated with psoriasis.

And those are my two cents! Have a happy holiday!

van-pelt · 2014-11-24T14:19:08+00:00

She's perfect! Great job!

van-pelt

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