Really Weird Day

[partiallysunny]

I fell asleep last night trying to get my son to sleep. I had plans to paint my son's closet, but... I never woke up. Didn't brush my teeth or wash my face. Nothing. Just slept. I feel like I took a nap and went to work this morning. It's so strange.

Weekend plans?

I'm going to finish my sons room this weekend if it kills me! I did tape off the stripes I want to paint last night, before passing out. I need to paint those and get his closet finished and I can move him in. He won't have curtains yet (I'm still sewing them), but there are blinds, so he'll be fine.

I don't know whos more excited, him or me.

[cuddlyevil]

DS #2 slept through the night! But of course the jerkface dog woke me up at 2 am to go outside.

H asked about our therapy session last night (haven't scehduled it but it's on the to do list for today). He asked me to let him know when/where it is, but to also let him know when mine are so he can make sure he's available to take care of the kids.

We're going to DD's soccer games if the storms stay away. Then maybe taking the clay bar to my car.

[partiallysunny]

Oct 4, 2013 8:18:18 GMT -5 cuddlyevil said:

H asked about our therapy session last night (haven't scehduled it but it's on the to do list for today). He asked me to let him know when/where it is, but to also let him know when mine are so he can make sure he's available to take care of the kids. 

That's... nice of him. Just be cautious... Which I'm sure you're being anyway... I'm going to stop talking now.

[cuddlyevil]

I know and I am, it just surprised me because I wasn't sure if he was going to sweep it under the rug.

I might get to make angry phone calls today

[gault]

If I was there, partiallysunny, I'd so help you paint. I love painting. Crank up the ipod and rock out with a paintbrush or roller.

I'm watching reruns of the daily show at home. weehoooo

[dixienormous]

Exterminator came for the last time yesterday. Only 3 more weeks until we can unpack our apartment!

Today is dead at work due to everyone being at the BOD meeting in Minnesota. So I'm working on finding the clip art and photos for making PF a communication book. It will be pictures on velcro so she can start telling us what she wants.

Tomorrow we're going to 6 Flags with a friend of ours. H and PF will ride the kiddie rides while my friend and i do the roller coasters. H hates heights. I'm so excited.

Sunday H will be studying for his healthcare law midterm and I will be having a practical interview with a potential nanny that we met with on Wednesday.

[Muddled]

How does he not already know when your sessions are? You've been going for over a month. I know you are feeling optimistic, but I'm just annoyed. Sorry. I'll shut my face and go sit next to PS.

My back hurts. It's too early for this. I feel like i just finished my period.

[partiallysunny]

Good luck with the potential nanny, dixie! You always come up with the best ideas for PF. I sort of want to make one for Kid so he can stop getting mad at me when I don't know what he's saying, lol.

gault, I'll pretend you're there in spirit.

I usually love painting, but the closet sucks. I get paint all over me and my arms start to hurt, lol.

[dixienormous]

Oct 4, 2013 10:03:02 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

Good luck with the potential nanny, dixie! You always come up with the best ideas for PF. I sort of want to make one for Kid so he can stop getting mad at me when I don't know what he's saying, lol.

Totally not an original idea. Got it from a blog that I read. The mom made one for her non-talker daughter before starting to use an iPad app. I want to do this for PF before we move her to the high tech communication help.

[partiallysunny]

Oct 4, 2013 10:04:42 GMT -5 dixienormous said:

Oct 4, 2013 10:03:02 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

Good luck with the potential nanny, dixie! You always come up with the best ideas for PF. I sort of want to make one for Kid so he can stop getting mad at me when I don't know what he's saying, lol.

Totally not an original idea. Got it from a blog that I read. The mom made one for her non-talker daughter before starting to use an iPad app. I want to do this for PF before we move her to the high tech communication help.

Still, at least you are putting effort into it and implementing the technique. That's more than I can say for a lot of parents, myself included.

[cuddlyevil]

Oct 4, 2013 10:01:29 GMT -5 Muddled said:

How does he not already know when your sessions are? You've been going for over a month. I know you are feeling optimistic, but I'm just annoyed. Sorry. I'll shut my face and go sit next to PS.

My back hurts. It's too early for this. I feel like i just finished my period.

I haven't been telling him because they sessions have been scheduled during my work day, so there wasn't any arranging to do in terms of who's picking up the kids, etc. But I guess I should have been telling him? I don't know.

I'm sorry your back hurts. My body is in the pre-AF weird place too, so I'm all jumpy because my cycle hasn't been predictable the last few months. :/

[motzie]

Oct 4, 2013 8:15:34 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

I fell asleep last night trying to get my son to sleep. I had plans to paint my son's closet, but... I never woke up. Didn't brush my teeth or wash my face. Nothing. Just slept. I feel like I took a nap and went to work this morning. It's so strange.

Weekend plans?

I'm going to finish my sons room this weekend if it kills me! I did tape off the stripes I want to paint last night, before passing out. I need to paint those and get his closet finished and I can move him in. He won't have curtains yet (I'm still sewing them), but there are blinds, so he'll be fine.

I don't know whos more excited, him or me.

You must have needed the sleep. Don't sweat it.

Tell me more about the stripes. I need to finish them in our playroom but I've been procrastinating. Did you do wide, narrow? Horizontal or vertical? Laser measure or some other method?

[partiallysunny]

Oct 4, 2013 10:55:49 GMT -5 motzie said:

Oct 4, 2013 8:15:34 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

I fell asleep last night trying to get my son to sleep. I had plans to paint my son's closet, but... I never woke up. Didn't brush my teeth or wash my face. Nothing. Just slept. I feel like I took a nap and went to work this morning. It's so strange.

Weekend plans?

I'm going to finish my sons room this weekend if it kills me! I did tape off the stripes I want to paint last night, before passing out. I need to paint those and get his closet finished and I can move him in. He won't have curtains yet (I'm still sewing them), but there are blinds, so he'll be fine.

I don't know whos more excited, him or me.

You must have needed the sleep. Don't sweat it.

Tell me more about the stripes. I need to finish them in our playroom but I've been procrastinating. Did you do wide, narrow? Horizontal or vertical? Laser measure or some other method?

Wide stripes. His room is white and on two of the walls (the walls his crib will be in the corner of) I'm doing two yellow horizontal stripes, evenly spaced with the white walls. Worked out to be 18" each.

I used a laser measure. This one, from WalMart. Only about $20. Really easy to use. No bells or whistles but great for doing the stripes and helping me level the tub surround. Just used a tape measure to find my measurement and put the level laser line on the mark.



Then I used the green frog tape to tape off the laser line. Just need to actually paint now.

[motzie]

Alright, partiallysunny you are my motivation now. I have all the stuff, I just have to do it. It sounds like your son's room and A's playroom will be very similar. I picked a very yellow toned chartreuse. Wide, horizontal stripes on the long walls, solid color on the ends.

Must get it done...

[partiallysunny]

Oct 4, 2013 11:25:26 GMT -5 motzie said:

Alright, partiallysunny you are my motivation now. I have all the stuff, I just have to do it. It sounds like your son's room and A's playroom will be very similar. I picked a very yellow toned chartreuse. Wide, horizontal stripes on the long walls, solid color on the ends.

Must get it done...

Do it! We'll share pictures on Monday!
* As long as I don't fall asleep again, lol

[cuddlyevil]

I'm jealous of you people and your striped walls.

[motzie]

cuddlyevil You can come paint my stripes for me! I will provide the wine!

[captainmel]

motzie and partiallysunny are invited to my house to paint my kitchen.

It is fucking freezing outside and I just want to stay in my bed all day and have someone feed me soup. Because taking my arms out from underneath the covers is too hard.

[partiallysunny]

Oct 4, 2013 12:30:36 GMT -5 captainmel said:

motzie and partiallysunny are invited to my house to paint my kitchen.

It is fucking freezing outside and I just want to stay in my bed all day and have someone feed me soup. Because taking my arms out from underneath the covers is too hard.

Sometimes I hate you for your young adult/student problems. GET A "REAL" JOB AND BE FORCED TO GET OUT OF YOU COZY BED!

I mean that with the utmost love.

[cuddlyevil]

Oct 4, 2013 12:27:48 GMT -5 motzie said:

cuddlyevil You can come paint my stripes for me! I will provide the wine!

I'll be there in 8 hours!

[captainmel]

Oct 4, 2013 12:33:49 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

Oct 4, 2013 12:30:36 GMT -5 captainmel said:

motzie and partiallysunny are invited to my house to paint my kitchen.

It is fucking freezing outside and I just want to stay in my bed all day and have someone feed me soup. Because taking my arms out from underneath the covers is too hard.

Sometimes I hate you for your young adult/student problems. GET A "REAL" JOB AND BE FORCED TO GET OUT OF YOU COZY BED!

I mean that with the utmost love.

I don't know how to respond to this without backpedaling. I have two jobs and full time school! I am awake and dressed in real clothes even though my bed is really cozy. Backpedal, backpedal, backpedal.

[partiallysunny]

Oct 4, 2013 12:51:54 GMT -5 captainmel said:

Oct 4, 2013 12:33:49 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

Sometimes I hate you for your young adult/student problems. GET A "REAL" JOB AND BE FORCED TO GET OUT OF YOU COZY BED!

I mean that with the utmost love.

I don't know how to respond to this without backpedaling. I have two jobs and full time school! I am awake and dressed in real clothes even though my bed is really cozy. Backpedal, backpedal, backpedal.

lol. I know TIP does not equal an accurate picture of everyones day and I assume after you "gloat" about being in bed, you get up and get dressed like everyone else. I also know you work very hard in school and at your jobs. Plus you are in a different time zone, so it seems like you sleep in til 1pm to me, which I'm sure isn't the case.

It's just you post about all the happy and cuddly things and I get jealous.

Not meaning you should stop posting about the happy and cuddly things in life. This is a "me" problem and not a "you" problem.

[captainmel]

We are on the same page partiallysunny. Maybe one day you can make you H take your kid to the museum and you can sleep in and have coffee in bed.

[tiramisu]

I'd just like to go on record as saying fuck this day.

One of the students ran away from school today, was gone for a couple hours, and may have self-injured while gone. So it's been a really chaotic day. That's not the only student having trouble today, just the one with whom I was most involved this morning.

[captainmel]

Oct 4, 2013 14:31:41 GMT -5 tiramisu said:

I'd just like to go on record as saying fuck this day.

One of the students ran away from school today, was gone for a couple hours, and may have self-injured while gone. So it's been a really chaotic day. That's not the only student having trouble today, just the one with whom I was most involved this morning.

Hugs. I hope everything is OK.

[tiramisu]

Oct 4, 2013 14:34:05 GMT -5 captainmel said:

Oct 4, 2013 14:31:41 GMT -5 tiramisu said:

I'd just like to go on record as saying fuck this day.

One of the students ran away from school today, was gone for a couple hours, and may have self-injured while gone. So it's been a really chaotic day. That's not the only student having trouble today, just the one with whom I was most involved this morning.

Hugs. I hope everything is OK.

Thanks. It will be. This is the kind of stuff I signed up to deal with on a regular basis. I just hate it when I feel like I can't do anything to help effectively.

[partiallysunny]

Oct 4, 2013 14:37:00 GMT -5 tiramisu said:

Oct 4, 2013 14:34:05 GMT -5 captainmel said:

Hugs. I hope everything is OK.

Thanks. It will be. This is the kind of stuff I signed up to deal with on a regular basis. I just hate it when I feel like I can't do anything to help effectively.

You are an amazing woman. I don't know of I could do what you do. :: hugs::

[partiallysunny]

Oct 4, 2013 14:04:31 GMT -5 captainmel said:

We are on the same page partiallysunny. Maybe one day you can make you H take your kid to the museum and you can sleep in and have coffee in bed.

Maybe. More than likely I'll have to wait until kid's a preteen, lol.

[tiramisu]

Oct 4, 2013 15:59:15 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

Oct 4, 2013 14:37:00 GMT -5 tiramisu said:

Thanks. It will be. This is the kind of stuff I signed up to deal with on a regular basis. I just hate it when I feel like I can't do anything to help effectively.

You are an amazing woman. I don't know of I could do what you do. :: hugs::

Thank you :-) I try not to talk too much about what I do, but I was overwhelmed today. Luckily the student didn't cut. But there was a police helicopter that was part of the search at one point. Still not the most WTF-worthy day I've had. Honestly, we all have different strengths. I couldn't do the things many people here do, so I just see it as us all finding what we do well and what we enjoy.

[starrieskies]

Wow, I feel like so much happened today and I missed it all!

Ps, I would help you paint if I was closer!

Tiramisu, I hope everything is ok with your student.

Today has been a very up and down kind of a day. I feel like I've been stuck on a roller coaster. Some great ups and some strange downs.

My vacation time was approved! Yay! A real vacation, and 6 days out of state! I'm beyond excited about this!

Also, I found out stbx has been telling his friends that there's "another guy". Now I know this is stupid, and obviously if he believes that there is someone else he doesn't have to accept responsibility for our marriage falling apart. Logically I know this. Why does it bother me so much? One of his friend texted my friend (while she was in my office) too tell her that I was lying and he just saw some dude driving MY car... she was the only one who stood up for me when stbx started this little lie. She replied by telling him he is an idiot and sent him a picture of our cars parked next to each other in the parking lot.