I’m quite prolific over on Twitter. Sending a tweet is a quick way to connect with people, muse “out loud” and purge my head of random clutter, e-scream to the Universe that my kid’s STILL AREN’T NAPPING. Whatever.
But sometimes I sit down to my computer or pen Tweetdeck on my phone and start to type a tweet and then realize it’s lame/gross/untweetable/requires explanation and I don’t send it.
Thus, “Tweets I didn’t send.”
Tweet #1:
Postpartum hair loss is for the birds. I’m molting! Molting! #BirdJoke
Somehow, I felt that tweeting the above, while there would be those who would understand my plight, was maybe a waste of characters? An insult to birds? I don’t know. But I didn’t send it.
I lose so much hair every time I lather, rinse, and repeat that it’s a complete miracle to me that I still have hair in my head at all. So much hair is in fact that I almost took a picture of one of the hair balls and made an entire blog post about I but quickly realized that 1) that was borderline disgusting and 2) y’all would unfollow me en masse. So, you’re welcome?
(But seriously? Enough with the hair loss. So. tired. of. it.)
Tweet #2:
Both of my kids are sleeping! It’s Mommy Christmas come early!
Any time I have every publicly bragged about sleep, the Universe has blown the good sleeping up in my face. So as a rule, I’m just not tweeting about it when either of my kids sleeps well. I do, however, reserve the right to use up every avenue of social media to complain when they aren’t sleeping.
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Additionally, having the two of them sleep at the same time almost never happens, so there’s nothing to tweet. The above is merely the stuff dreams are made of.
Tweet #3:
You know you’re on day four hair when you start to shampoo and there’s no lather. #DryShampooFTW
Now I’m not saying that Tweet #1 and Tweet #3 are related. But they’re probably related. My hair is in a top knot of some sort more days than not and I’m struggling to find time to shower every day. So if I do find time to shower, I’m always gambling on whether or not there’s time to wash my hair too. And a lot of the time I feel like there’s not time so I don’t wash and then when I eventually wash it’s so dirty I have to wash twice and there’s so much hair I could make a wig. Maybe a doll wig. But a wig.
Yay! Don’t you all want to hug me right now so you can be close to my maybe clean hair?
Tweet #4:
Do you have any idea how hard it is to squirt breastmilk into your baby’s eye? Freaking hard.
Fun fact: breastmilk is the great cure-all. Baby’s got a stuffy nose? Squirt some milk up there. Baby’s got a scratch? Put some milk on it. Baby’s got a clogged tear duct? Milk in the eye! Except 1) my baby is wiggly and I can’t keep her head still, and 2) my boobs do not cooperate and will neither squirt nor drip on command.
I’m not a leaker by nature and am rarely engorged and I thank my lucky stars for that regularly. Except it’d be great to be able to get the milk out when I need it. Like turning on a faucet. Just a little pinch and dripdripdrip right into the eye. Work with me, girls! I buy you nice bras!
I have more Tweets I Didn’t Send, but see Tweet #2. Both children are awake (that lasted not at all) and I should maybe not neglect them.
What tweets didn’t YOU send? Or what tweets do you wish had never been sent?
Too funny. Did not know about the breast milk cure all! Oh well, too late for me now.
It’s MAGIC! I remember Joshua scratching his face as an infant, rubbing some breast milk on it, and the scratch being gone in less than 24 hours. MAGIC!
I didn’t know that about breast milk either. But I unfortunately do leak and spray. And I have squirted my son in the eye on accident and it was not a pretty sight. On top of that I’m fallen asleep nursing, rolled on my back, breast exposed, and squirted straight in the air, which came back down on my face. Also, while falling asleep nursing, my nipple got turned facing me (I would still like to know the logistics of that) and shot myself in the face like a super-soaker. So, I can attest, the ability to spray is HIGHLY overrated.
This made me chuckle. Which is much needed. Except I know it doesn’t make YOU chuckle so I feel bad for chuckling.
But I have squirted myself in the eye before. It’s…not awesome? And somehow hilarious?
True story. I needed to put breastmilk on Bronwyn’s eye when I was nursing her for some goopies. I couldn’t aim so I took a well washed shot glass, hand expressed into the glass and dripped it in 🙂
LOL! I LOVED #3!
i lost a lot of hair after i had louise too. i started taking an iron supplement and about two weeks later it stopped, maybe that would solve your problem too.
tee hee! i’m with ya on the BM in the eye one! R had some kind of gunk going on months ago and it worked like a charm. (i think you were the one who tweeted the strategy to me actually! ha!)
Uh – not one of these was inappropriate. All funny and awesome.
Of course I just finished a post a few minutes ago about the free vibrator Trojan was giving away at BlogHer.
I almost tweeted a picture of my shower-hair-loss too, but like you, I realized that would be the end of my online life. But seriously, I DREAD showers now since I spend most of my time de-tangling myself from the hair.
Also, LOLed at the milk in eye thing. Mainly because often I’ll look down at my baby and realize he HAS milk in his eye because I unknowingly squirted him in the face while nursing him. And he’s just laying there, trying to blink the darned stuff out while also trying to drink.
For the record, I would have laughed out loud and responded to #1. #tweettweet And I always forgot how you were supposed to squirt breast milk on baby situations. I’ll tuck that away for hopeful future use!
I clicked through based on the title of the post, which I saw off on the sidebar of my own blog, with the other BlogHer posts featured. I just had to click because I frequently compose tweets I never send for one reason or another! What a great idea for a post! Thanks for sharing yours. The molting one had me cracking up. I have so been there.
This made me laugh so hard that the baby startled while I was giving her a nighttime bottle. Motling — OMG. I’m so. over. it. I’m 4 months postpartum and it’s driving me CRAZY! Takes me twice as long to take a shower and I already don’t have enough time to bathe on the regular. Gah!