Tuesday AM randoms

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I went to bed at 8 pm last night, so now I'm up about an hour before the kiddo.  Which is kind of awesome, I'm enjoying the quiet house.

The church across the street from us just put in a bright ass spotlight.  It's illuminating our bedroom, too.  I'm kind of pissed, but I'm not sure there's anything I can do about it- besides get dark curtains  

It's my H's birthday today and I have so much shit to do.  I have to go to Whole Foods and pick up our turkey, get his birthday cake and go to Costco to get a pumpkin pie, then we're going out to dinner tonight.  Not a bad day, just really busy.  

What's everyone else up to today? 

[Bernadine]

I just had leftover baguette and brie cheese for breakfast, and I'm about to have a few slices of summer sausage. I'm in heaven. I wish I could eat this breakfast every morning.

I took a xanax last night, and I have a xanax hangover. I always feel just slightly spacey the day after I take one.

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that sounds like a delicious breakfast! I loved in Europe when I would get stuff like that. Yum.

[candreco]

I brought oatmeal for breakfast, but forgot to grab the big mug I usually use for it out of the dishwasher, so I grabbed breakfast from the cafeteria. Their hashbrown casserole thing is like crack, so good and so bad.

I cannot wait to be done with work today, because then it's five days off! My sister and niece are in town and DD has so much fun stuff planned for their visit, it's so cute.

Like every year, I'm starting to be tempted by BF shopping, but I know that come Friday morning I will have no desire to get up early and deal with that many people in enclosed spaces.

[Deleted]

we decided to drive down to my parents' for the holiday tonight instead of tomorrow night to try and avoid snow on the roads. It is going to SUCK but I am gritting my teeth and just doing it. Ugh. 8 pm-midnight drive after a long workday.

I am getting takeout for dinner tonight though. Not cooking, no way. So at least there is that to look forward to.

I scheduled a showing of that dream house I found for Sunday. I can only hope that H will fall in love with it. The 1200 sq foot heated garage and workshop should help.

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I'm going to feed Japanese biscuits to deer.

[CurlyQ284]

DH was going to put up christmas lights yesterday. We normally just have a few strands of icicle lights. He went and bought new lights so we have icicle along the porch roof, colored lights on the porch columns, white lights wrapped around the railings and colored lights on all the bushes. He's getting on the roof to do more lights on the second story today.

I love christmas but my dad is a huge jerk and wouldnt do outdoor lights when i was a kid. They wouldn't let me do it because they thought I would electrocute myself. My house looks like it belongs in a christmas village. I can't wait to go home today.

[Deleted]

I'm going to a puja this afternoon that my boss is having. I love getting to wear my kurti and seeing a Hindu ceremony firsthand. Her husband also may have found DH a job via one of his good friends. Fingers crossed!

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Nov 26, 2013 8:03:57 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

DH was going to put up christmas lights yesterday. We normally just have a few strands of icicle lights. He went and bought new lights so we have icicle along the porch roof, colored lights on the porch columns, white lights wrapped around the railings and colored lights on all the bushes. He's getting on the roof to do more lights on the second story today.

Weve been having trouble lately but I was so so happy with him last night. I love christmas but my dad is a huge jerk and wouldnt do outdoor lights as a kid. They wouldn't let me do it because they thought I would electrocute myself. My house looks like it belongs in a christmas village.

I am envious! I love love love Christmas everything, especially lights, and I wish H shared my enthusiasm. Its taken every ounce of effort just to get him interested in a tree over the last 8 years. How sad is that.

I want blinking reindeer in my front yard, dammit

[callalily]

I realized this morning that I am only 10lbs lighter than I was when I was 30 weeks pregnant with twins. I need to make some serious dietary and lifestyle changes. While the weight startled me - I know exactly how I got there, and I need to really change my eating habits. Right before the holidays is a horrible time for this realization, but it is what it is.

[AHappierHour]

I've been up since 3am my throat is killing me and my nose is stuffy. I just took a Tylenol PM hoping to go back to sleep.

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The weather here is supposed to be really shitty tomorrow, I am not looking forward to driving to work in it... especially because it will be a short day AND I just don't want to be here!

I spent $200 at the grocery store last night. Holy shit, I know it's Thanksgiving and we got a ton of food, but that is a lot of money.

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Nov 26, 2013 8:15:27 GMT -5 AHappierHour said:

I've been up since 3am my throat is killing me and my nose is stuffy. I just took a Tylenol PM hoping to go back to sleep.

I hope that you get some sleep and that you are feeling better for the holiday.  

I heard that gargling with warm salt water and honey helps too.  And my doctor said to gargle like you are an opera singer, moving up and down octaves- that it helps to soothe the whole throat.

Feel better!

[Deleted]

Dh and I have a date night tonight but we're in the middle of a big fight. Ugggggh.

[CheshireGrin]

We are home from our thanksgiving adventure, ate leftovers for breakfast, and are now cuddled on the couch with a dog and three cats who missed us terribly, trying to work up the motivation to be productive today. H and I both have to work the rest of the week and it's weird to me to remember that the rest of the world hasn't had Thanksgiving yet.

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Nov 26, 2013 8:20:47 GMT -5 @stellasmom said:

Dh and I have a date night tonight but we're in the middle of a big fight. Ugggggh.

Ugh, I hate when that happens.

Try and make up today and then make a deal that whatever you were fighting about will NOT be discussed on the date.

And then have make up sex!

[AHappierHour]

Nov 26, 2013 8:20:48 GMT -5 calamity said:

Nov 26, 2013 8:15:27 GMT -5 AHappierHour said:

I've been up since 3am my throat is killing me and my nose is stuffy. I just took a Tylenol PM hoping to go back to sleep.

I hope that you get some sleep and that you are feeling better for the holiday.  

I heard that gargling with warm salt water and honey helps too.  And my doctor said to gargle like you are an opera singer, moving up and down octaves- that it helps to soothe the whole throat.

Feel better!

Thanks! I'm going to try the warm salt water and honey right now.

[sonrisa]

Three weeks from today, I'll have a second kid. On the one hand, I'm not ready. We are not ready. On the other, I'm so over pregnancy. Hence the insomnia. I'm already sick so being up since 4:30 is just going to make today suck. 

[noodle]

In a moment of frustration I trimmed my own bangs yesterday. Looked ok until I washed and dried my hair this morning. They are totally lopsided and look ridiculous but I just can't work up the energy to care.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Ummmm that Zane dude from one direction? Is really cute

[alzi]

I am loving this staycation. Getting shit done around the house, cooking, playing with the kiddo. Love.

Also, creme brûlée coffee creamer is amazing.

[sonrisa]

Nov 26, 2013 8:00:19 GMT -5 @missusbee said:

I scheduled a showing of that dream house I found for Sunday. I can only hope that H will fall in love with it. The 1200 sq foot heated garage and workshop should help.

That is the same size of my entire four bedroom house. 

[tacocat]

I did my Thanksgiving shopping last night. I already remembered one thing I forgot, but I don't need it until Saturday so I'll have time to run by the store and get it before then.

We're having a work lunch today and I'm not very excited about it because we're having chili. It's not my favorite thing to eat, but everyone from my department is going and I didn't want to be the party pooper.

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Nov 26, 2013 8:51:21 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

Nov 26, 2013 8:00:19 GMT -5 @missusbee said:

I scheduled a showing of that dream house I found for Sunday. I can only hope that H will fall in love with it. The 1200 sq foot heated garage and workshop should help.

That is the same size of my entire four bedroom house. 

lol. I know. Its almost the size of our current 3bd. Ridiculous right?

[eddy]

Washer&Dryer Gate 2013 is better in the Eddy household. For those of you who didn't see my H bought me a brand new W&D as a "suprise." I appreciate the gesture, but I didn't think we needed it. Turns out our washer is 16 years old, but whatever. Plus I would have like to have been consulted on the money spent. He also got a crazy good deal, but still.

Anyways I crushed his dreams by not being excited. But damn man, suprise me with diamonds not W&D.

I think we are to a good place now. I am sure I will love the thing. It has a ton of buttons that do fancy things. I explained to him that for the last two years I have held back on buying myself pretty much everything as we have bought a house, new furnace and air conditioner, had a baby etc etc etc. Although I appreciate he has found us amazing deals on all of these things (and he really has)I am tired of being pratical. He loves pratical. Nothing makes him happier then buying a W&D and calling it an xmas gift.

Also he thought I would love them because I have talked numerous times about how I miss my HE W&D we left at our old house. They were the first nice appliances I have ever owned and then I downgraded to an older set (in a much nicer, fancier house!) when we moved. I had come to peace with it, but he didn't know that. So again his heart was in the right place.

I told him that on the boards everyone and their mom were buying Frye boots at crazy discounts. And I didn't because I respect that we are trying to build up our cash reserves. And although a w&d is a need, those weren't a need this very second. And I have no frye boots to show for my efforts lol. So next time he wants to suprise me I told him to be frivilous lol.

[eddy]

Nov 26, 2013 8:20:47 GMT -5 @stellasmom said:

Dh and I have a date night tonight but we're in the middle of a big fight. Ugggggh.

Did he buy you a washer and dryer without asking. :-)

[sonrisa]

Nov 26, 2013 8:56:50 GMT -5 eddy said:

Nothing makes him happier then buying a W&D and calling it an xmas gift.

Lol. DH knows fully well that an appliance or similar item is *not* a gift for me. If we discuss it ahead of time, we can call it an anniversary gift to us, but there is no way laundry is my present. 

[picaflora]

DH, the dog, and I all fell asleep across the bed around 7pm last night. Woke up around 11 cold, and crawled under the covers. I haven't slept that good in a LONG time.

My boss brought in spiral ham and hawaiian rolls for breakfast. Mmmm... so good. And better than the donuts she normally brings.

[eddy]

Nov 26, 2013 9:01:50 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

Nov 26, 2013 8:56:50 GMT -5 eddy said:

Nothing makes him happier then buying a W&D and calling it an xmas gift.

Lol. DH knows fully well that an appliance or similar item is *not* a gift for me. If we discuss it ahead of time, we can call it an anniversary gift to us, but there is no way laundry is my present. 

I tried oh so gently to explain this. At one point he was like "This isn't a vacuum" because we know of a couple that the H bought a vacuum for a gift.

I was like....ummm it pretty much is the same damn thing.

It is hard to explain this to him. I can't stress enough about how practical he is. And that is awesome. It is great to be married to someone like that. But dammit I am NOT so buy me shiny things every once in awhile lol.

We weren't doing gifts this year because we are taking two vacations. I was fine with that. But then he suprises me with these and was like "Oh it is like a joint xmas gift." ummmm, no

[lpcats]

Our company holiday party is in a week. I'm not going because I'm not very social and don't know many people at the company. Now apparently the president (the company only has 200 people, half of which are in this office) is asking for a list of who RSVPed no. WTF?