Friday! Weekend plans?

[bunnymendelbaum]

How was your week? Weekend plans?

[bunnymendelbaum]

Week was super stressful and my nanny was on vacation. Glad it is over. Got the key to the rental yesterday tho!

This weekend we aren't sure. We heard our buyers might be in town and might want to see the house. I hope not! We don't want to clean. Ha!
Saturday night we have a neighbor party. Sunday I'm not sure what they have planned for Mother's Day.

[TBM]

This was a weird week. It shouldn't have been too stressful, since things are moving ahead on the house, but I reached meltdown mid week, and the jerk flooring guy didn't help matters.

Thankfully, our GC got everything straightened out and the flooring guys will be here tomorrow to apply two coats of the finish, then come back and sand by hand so that they can apply the last two coats on Monday.

I am planning to leave DH in charge tomorrow, and I'll go to the Benjamin Moore store for some paint samples.

The cable/internet is getting installed on Saturday too, so I plan to hijack DH's laptop and get some design inspiration, while watching something ( anything) on television. It will be nice to see images on a computer larger than my phone screen, and to see television other than the many public television and Spanish language stations we are currently getting. ;p

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[munkii]

By the time I get home from work, there will be new lights throughout my house, a repaired outlet wire, and disconnected ovens. Later, we'll probably focus on reorganizing the family room, aka the storage room, so we can start moving things around. I need to find a new home for my 2nd piano, and it will probably only fit in the FR.

Saturday we're going to visit my mom and help her purge.

Sunday will be regular errand and chores day. Maybe we'll make time to take care of a few other things.

[simpsongal]

Planting a good portion of the garden (e.g., tomatos and peppers). DH is mowing our amazon-like grass.

In other news, I must have pried up 1000 dandelions in my front yard last night. Holy cow!

Mother's Day festivities with the in laws too.

[tarheels]

I'M GRADUATING TOMORROW!! I'm so, so sad to leave. This has been the best time of my life. (I have another year to do at a different university in a different but related program.)

I have 8-10 people who are going to be around this weekend. I've got so.much.cooking to do. (This is a teeny tiny town (pop.15,000; with students in session: 30,000) that's expected to swell to something like 60,000 this weekend...allow me to state the obvious that it is impossible to eat out on graduation weekend, hence all the cooking I have to do.) My inner Martha's a little sleep deprived after finals, so she doesn't have much get up and go at the moment, but I hope she shows up soon, because I've got to be "on" when people start arriving this afternoon!

[thewop]

Working tomorrow. :-( Not sure what I'm going to do after work. Sunday we have nursery duty at church and then....I want to RELAX! As of right now I have 50 hours at work and it's not even 10:00 am. I'm looking at 60+ hours this week. I'm so tired I could cry.

[lb2006]

Lots of Mother's Day plans and packing up our house. Our reno begins June 1 and we're working on finding a short term rental. I'm excited and stressed about it all at the same time!

[emoflamingo]

Monkey's party is tomorrow. And I'm at the farmer's market, so I'll be up at 5:30 tomorrow morning to be there at 6:30 a.m., there until about 11:30 and then I have to go pick up the cake and buns, then home so I can get the last bit of cleaning done by the time guests start arriving. This is the cleanest this house has been since it was emptied out from the first owners, so I'm pretty excited. Also, because we had pretty much finished our last house, decor wise, I am basically done decorating the new house and then we can start saving for renovations! New landscaping, redoing 2 bathrooms, redoing a kitchen and finishing the basement are on the list!

Back on track, I plan on doing a lot of nothing on Sunday. Maybe go get frozen yogurt and watch TV.

[FoxInFiji]

Tomorrow is the one day a year I go crazy at plant sales! Most of our plant sales are in May but for some reason the day before mother's day has turned into the day every garden club, organization, and arboretum wants to have their plant sale. So I'm getting up early and driving all over the place until my car is stuffed full or my wallet is empty. Last year I fit a small tree in the passenger seat of my car with two stacks of potted perennials all around it because my trunk and backseat were packed full.

After all that fun I'll need to plant everything if the rain stays away. I also have more painting and cleaning to do. DH will be gone all weekend which is a bummer because we don't see each other during the week working opposite shits.

Then I'm up bright an early sanding trim with my dad on Sunday. I also need to finish my mother's day present for my mom tonight and Saturday night. Sunday night I'll stop by my MIL's...probably without DH...to give her her mother's day present. I always buy her fun perennials or bulbs for her flower beds from the plant sales. She's a huge veggie gardener but doesn't like to spend money on flowers. She loves seeing them bloom and taking pictures of them every year though so her flower beds are looking better and better every year because of me. I'm always making a mental note of when she needs more things blooming or what grows best where when I visit.

[downtoearth]

Hmmm, no major plans. Was thinking I might finally start painting the main rooms and finish a dresser I haven't gotten to. Other than that, we are having dinner/happy hour with friends tonight, then I'm golfing with my mom on Saturday, then I'm off to soccer for kid #2 (with team snacks in tow), then a birthday party for a friend's kid. Sunday we have a soccer game for kid#1 (again our snack weekend) and I plan to go on a bike ride without anybody else for my mother's day. I also want to get some of our garden in and also start building the next raised bed, but I'm not sure we'll get to the building this weekend. Three kids take up all my home/decorating time?!

Last year we went camping on Mother's Day and it sounds way more relaxing.

[mrs.jacinthe]

This week was ok. I've stepped up my workouts and I'm exhausted and sore. I've got a 4-mile run planned for this evening and I'll be lucky if I get out the door.

Remember last week when I was all "I'm going to paint ALL the things?" Well, this weekend, I'm going to paint THE REST of the things. I'm so tired of paint.

Also, this may be a bit of a confession, but I'm really tired of R picking things to do off our to-do list (house related) that don't do a freaking THING for the visual of the house. Last week he built a rack to store his wood collection and put rain boots on the stink pipes on the roof. Plus a few other things. Seriously, I have guests coming in 3 weeks. I need the house to be READY. Like, finish the floor trim. Tear out the bathroom floor and install the vinyl. Regrout or caulk (or whatever the heck you're going to do with it) the upstairs tub so, you know, it's useable. Install the vanity in the guest bedroom. DO SOMETHING THAT IMPROVES THE LOOK AND FUNCTION OF OUR HOUSE. ARGH. I feel guilty for even complaining, because he *is* working hard on the house. It's just that he seems to pick the stuff that doesn't matter. Sigh.

[SusanBAnthony]

We are hopefully getting the whole veggie garden ready to go and maybe even planted (need to keep an eye on the forecast as it might freeze). I am also trying to get the dining room, aka dumping ground, cleaned up.

[sierramist03]

Week has been blah!! DH has been super busy at work and super grumpy because of it. We really haven't had time to facetime or really talk. This week has also been super stressful between accepting the job offer and trying to find a house from long distance and a DH who doesn't have time to look at houses grr. I'm just hoping that we get accepted for the rental we put an application in on. I don't love the kitchen at all but I love everything else about the house.

Plus I'm still waiting on the background check for my new job and I don't really want to give notice at my current job until it's official but I'm running out of time

I'm super excited for the weekend. DH is coming home for the weekend so we get to spend it together at our house Hopefully it doesn't turn into a crazy busy weekend. We do need to run some errands though.

[davescatch]

My week was work work work....and then there was work. OH... and physical therapy.

Weekend plans: moving our boat from southern Maryland back to home port and getting it ready to move to the beach in a couple of weeks. Sunday I will be alone so I plan to just keep busy with things around the house.

Happy early Mother's Day to you all moms,moms to angels (like me), moms-to-be and anyone who sacrifices and takes care of people/pets in their lives

[simpsongal]

May 10, 2013 10:21:30 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

Whine alert!

I'm so irritated with my mom and sister. The last two weeks have been awful m/s, exhaustion, and TMI, bloat/constipation. And I have a fucking rash all over my legs, and one of my arms. I'm a mess. Maybe I'm dramatic, but you know, we always pussyfoot around my sister and her kid because she's the one with the kid. I'm growing one and need a nap.

I just hosted 35ish people last weekend for our annual Kentucky derby party. My mom whined when I asked her to bring buns with the hotdogs she was supposed to get. I couldn't even shop all week until Friday, and had to go to THREE stores and work all day. My sister never even called and asked what to bring, and so I called her to see if she could bring camp chairs, she had already been to the store and THEN asked what she should bring. And didn't like my suggestion. She ended up bringing great stuff but overall between the two of them, I was disappointed they didn't offer to help me out because I was flipping wiped out.

FF to this week. Nobody has planned Mother's Day. Everyone still has no effing idea what to do. Mom asked what I wanted. I said a nap and I suggested driving to parents house was too far because it is two hours from IL's. sister swears she doesn't want anyone over because her neighbors dog will bark (really?! Who gives a flying fuck). I suggest we can have people over, but I prefer only of we do takeout because I'm whipped from last week. I just cannot cook for everyone.

Everyone is snotty with me. Mom calls Gma and says we are going to sisters house. Then mom says "why do I always have to plan this?!" I flip on her because iiiii always plan because I was never a mom. Its dads bday too so he doesnt plan either. And sorry ladies, but I'm fucking over it this week. I bought my gifts and am done. Peace out.

I don't want to even go. I can't believe my mom suggested she planned it just because she called grandma. Like, get off your high effing horse.

I'm curious about food. WTF am I expected to bring? Last night I nearly threw up cooking ground beef (and trying to eat it). Not to mention I have to go grocery shopping on the weekend now because I don't know what we are doing.

/end whiney, ranty moment. And entitlement. I'm sure they all think I'm an entitled bitch whore. I'm just not in the mood to deal with them.

((Hugs)) Merida.  I hate family event planning.  I vote for you buying something for this shin dig - call up mom and say "what can I pick up from the store?"

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This week kind of sucked. The weather rotated between great and crappy by the 5 minutes so I never knew what to plan for. All of our haycrop pretty much winter killed do the drought last summer and the never ending winter this year.  There was also just a lot going on. E. student all of a sudden decided to still be a jacka$$ after we made concessions and had a little meeting. H and I really had to lay down the law (Umm...as in don't tell the bossman it's not fair you're working more hours than him when a) the Bossman works as many hours as you and then some b) it takes twice as long for you because you have screw ups to fix becuase you didn't listen the first time!). Which is sad. I don't why they all turn this way at some point. It's frustrating. He's good today though. Hopefully the weather was just hard on him and he comes around again. I really do like him. Wednesday was my birthday so that was great!

This weekend...fieldwork finally! We also have a meeting with the girl we hired to get her situated and ready to start June 1st. My cousin's confirmation tomorrow night. Hopefully lots of outside with Rubes!

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May 10, 2013 10:38:41 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

Tomorrow is the one day a year I go crazy at plant sales! Most of our plant sales are in May but for some reason the day before mother's day has turned into the day every garden club, organization, and arboretum wants to have their plant sale. So I'm getting up early and driving all over the place until my car is stuffed full or my wallet is empty. Last year I fit a small tree in the passenger seat of my car with two stacks of potted perennials all around it because my trunk and backseat were packed full.  

I'm so happy I missed that jazz! Usually MIL and I do it too. However, my sister moved to Mennonite Country, so if they don't milk cows they have greenhouses. They have a huge auction one day a year that was 2 weeks ago. My sister brought me, my mom and MIL tons of stuff on the cheap because they all come in lots of 35m 50, 96..lol.

Some of it isn't what I would pick exactly, but it's all great and healthy so whatever. I don't love flowers enough to be picky about it.

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Merida: Suggest you just all go out for Mother's Day. Problem solved.

Or in times like this, I just let someone else step back and figure it out. They can let me know where and when I need show up. Sometimes it's not worth the stress on my part!