I'm feeling really frustrated this morning and just wanted to try to work through some of this.
So, we moved a few weeks ago. Move went relatively easily, but there's a bunch of stuff in the apartment that needs fixing. It took a long time to schedule the owner's maintenance person--he finally came yesterday. The following stuff needed to be fixed: kitchen faucet doesn't work properly and needed to be replaced; fridge motor needed to be oiled; oven burner is broken; electrical socket in bedroom didn't work. Although he knew the problems in advance, he didn't bring most of the supplies he needed, and the sink ended up needing a bigger repair, so all he was able to do was the electrical outlet. Now we'll have to schedule ANOTHER meeting, which means another day I'll have to waste at home rather than getting done what I need to get done, plus the worry that stuff won't actually be finished before baby arrives.
On top of this: our air conditioning conked out last night. It's 80 degrees and humid in DC and I'm in my last month of pregnancy. Building is *trying* to get someone to look at it, but it's a weekend...blah blah blah.
On top of this: my sister emailed me this morning. She was originally supposed to bring the car this weekend, then her plans changed and she was going to bring it down on Wednesday, with my mom. Fine. I was looking forward to seeing them, and we really want to install our carseat, be able to do our last minute errands, and not have to worry about birth center transportation. This morning she emails me to let me know that she can't come Wednesday after all, can dh go up to NYC next Sunday and pick up the car. He can't. He has to work. We've discussed with her several times that he's working every day between now and when the baby comes, and I'm not comfortable with him being away for 10+ hours when I'm 38 weeks pregnant, anyway. So now we don't know what to do. We have no other contingency plan in place, because we were expecting the car on Wednesday. We're going to need to get a bunch of rental cars for next week to do all the errands we had scheduled between Wednesday and Sunday, try to make plans with friends to borrow a car, if need be, and we still don't know when/if we can get my sister's car. Of course, it's so nice of her to lend it to us, that I don't feel I can get cranky with her about the situation.
What makes all of this so frustrating (besides the fact that it's coming on tops of weeks of fighting with the cable company, the phone company, and other services) is that I really feel I need to be spending this time dealing with my own internal stuff to prepare for the baby. I simply don't have the mental energy to deal with every single logistical thing that comes down the pike. I just want to be able to focus on my baby and my birth, and I'm getting afraid that all this crap in undermining my ability to be prepared and rested.
P.S. If you've made it this far, you're a saint!
So, we moved a few weeks ago. Move went relatively easily, but there's a bunch of stuff in the apartment that needs fixing. It took a long time to schedule the owner's maintenance person--he finally came yesterday. The following stuff needed to be fixed: kitchen faucet doesn't work properly and needed to be replaced; fridge motor needed to be oiled; oven burner is broken; electrical socket in bedroom didn't work. Although he knew the problems in advance, he didn't bring most of the supplies he needed, and the sink ended up needing a bigger repair, so all he was able to do was the electrical outlet. Now we'll have to schedule ANOTHER meeting, which means another day I'll have to waste at home rather than getting done what I need to get done, plus the worry that stuff won't actually be finished before baby arrives.
On top of this: our air conditioning conked out last night. It's 80 degrees and humid in DC and I'm in my last month of pregnancy. Building is *trying* to get someone to look at it, but it's a weekend...blah blah blah.
On top of this: my sister emailed me this morning. She was originally supposed to bring the car this weekend, then her plans changed and she was going to bring it down on Wednesday, with my mom. Fine. I was looking forward to seeing them, and we really want to install our carseat, be able to do our last minute errands, and not have to worry about birth center transportation. This morning she emails me to let me know that she can't come Wednesday after all, can dh go up to NYC next Sunday and pick up the car. He can't. He has to work. We've discussed with her several times that he's working every day between now and when the baby comes, and I'm not comfortable with him being away for 10+ hours when I'm 38 weeks pregnant, anyway. So now we don't know what to do. We have no other contingency plan in place, because we were expecting the car on Wednesday. We're going to need to get a bunch of rental cars for next week to do all the errands we had scheduled between Wednesday and Sunday, try to make plans with friends to borrow a car, if need be, and we still don't know when/if we can get my sister's car. Of course, it's so nice of her to lend it to us, that I don't feel I can get cranky with her about the situation.
What makes all of this so frustrating (besides the fact that it's coming on tops of weeks of fighting with the cable company, the phone company, and other services) is that I really feel I need to be spending this time dealing with my own internal stuff to prepare for the baby. I simply don't have the mental energy to deal with every single logistical thing that comes down the pike. I just want to be able to focus on my baby and my birth, and I'm getting afraid that all this crap in undermining my ability to be prepared and rested.
P.S. If you've made it this far, you're a saint!
I felt the exact same way at 38 weeks, thankfully things smoothed out and now I'm just waiting for baby. 
Hang in there!
Hugs to you!
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