::tap tap:: is this on?

[partiallysunny]

How was everyone weekend?

Birthday party went well and so did my parents visit. Pleasantly surprised.

[cuddlyevil]

I wish my folks were able to stay longer It would've been nice to just hang out with them without doing any real work or moving.

[Muddled]

Apr 7, 2014 9:29:18 GMT -5 cuddlyevil said:

I wish my folks were able to stay longer It would've been nice to just hang out with them without doing any real work or moving.

How's the new place?



doglove, I miss you.

[starrieskies]

This weekend was pretty good! Nice and quiet. My brother spent most of the weekend at his girlfriend's house, so DS and I had the entire house to ourselves! It was amazing! He was in a great mood all weekend and so was I.

I stayed up too late last night talking with my brother about our respective plans for the coming year. I'm anxious about his, but am hesitant to say much. He tends to not take criticism well, and I don't want to come across the wrong way. I am going to have to think on this for a while and carefully ponder how or if to continue that conversation. But all in all, it was a nice talk. It meant only about 4.5 hours of sleep though. I'm tired.

DS's dcp is closed this week for spring break, so he's spending the week at his old daycare. He's thrilled about it. He misses his old friends and his old teachers. But it addds 40 minutes onto my morning commute.

[margarita]

The weekend was great! A whole lot of nothing on Saturday besides laundry, good conversation and good food, but I liked it that way! It was very needed.

On Sunday, we went out for lunch with the IL's for MIL's birthday. She seemed really happy to see us.

[partiallysunny]

starrieskies that's a tough commute anyway stbx can help out?

Edit: oops

[tiramisu]

My weekend was pretty good. I had fun hanging out with friends and with introducing them to M. M and I had a long talk on Saturday night and have agreed to try to start fresh and see how it goes. I will be pleasantly surprised if it works out well, but I'm not holding my breath.

[partiallysunny]

Apr 7, 2014 10:49:29 GMT -5 tiramisu said:

My weekend was pretty good. I had fun hanging out with friends and with introducing them to M. M and I had a long talk on Saturday night and have agreed to try to start fresh and see how it goes. I will be pleasantly surprised if it works out well, but I'm not holding my breath.

you are a patient woman

[starrieskies]

Apr 7, 2014 10:36:07 GMT -5 partiallysunny said:

starrieskies that's a tough commute anyway stbx can help out?

Edit: oops

He could, but he won't.  I'm still not even sure if he's going to split the cost of having DS at his old daycare this week or if the entire $150 is coming out of my pocket...  He said he'd split it, but I'm not holding my breath.   He will be picking up DS after he gets off work on Wed, Thurs, and Friday though so that helps a little.  It's our normal schedule though.  Nothing extraordinary from him.

Really, it's a beautiful drive on country backroads to get there, so it's kind of nice.  It just means that we have to get out the door earlier, and I'm spending more on gas. 

[PinkSquirrel]

We went to Western MA with a houseful of friends. Such a good time, but I got no sleep and am ready to crawl under my desk and take a nap.

[cuddlyevil]

Apr 7, 2014 10:14:40 GMT -5 Muddled said:

Apr 7, 2014 9:29:18 GMT -5 cuddlyevil said:

I wish my folks were able to stay longer It would've been nice to just hang out with them without doing any real work or moving.

How's the new place?



doglove, I miss you.

Muddled, the new place is great. The kids are comfortable and so am I. I am surprised by how comfortable I am in the place--even when they're asleep and the house is dark. We're mostly unpacked, I need to get a few more things from stbx's place but will get those this weekend. I'm making the trip to the appliance store and maybe to ikea (again) this weekend so I can get our washer/dryer and a bookcase + chest for DD's room.

All of our clothes are unpacked, I have about two more dishwasher loads of stuff to do before the kitchen is totally unpacked (really, my family took care of damn near everything--I need to pick up a pot & pan set plus some small forks for the kids to use).

I have a billion thank you notes to write this week because I'm just stunned by how much stuff they gave me. I have more curtains and blankets than I have need of--it's crazy.

[gault]

Apr 7, 2014 10:49:29 GMT -5 tiramisu said:

My weekend was pretty good. I had fun hanging out with friends and with introducing them to M. M and I had a long talk on Saturday night and have agreed to try to start fresh and see how it goes. I will be pleasantly surprised if it works out well, but I'm not holding my breath.

I would love for you to extrapolate on this, but I am nosy. I'm glad the talk went well, though.

[neonpink]

Hi!
This weekend was good. I had fun with friends for most of the weekend. danced, ate, drank, picnicked and was just cheery. Sunday I made an awesome pineapple teriyaki pork sandwiches in my crockpot, finished some wedding invitations for my bosses wedding and found a dress for my BIL's wedding. I tried it on in one color at the store and came home and found it in black and 90 dollars cheaper online!

I also bought new jeans and a blazer for Milan! Yippee in 3 days I'll be in Italy!

[Chirp]

My weekend was good. First weekend alone with DS. I picked him up after my nephew's funeral (most of it anyway, STBX was getting pissy because the funeral was running long so I had to leave early) on Friday and I have him until I drop him off on Friday morning. Then STBX's turn again for a week.

I got DS mostly potty trained this weekend. I'm still reminding him every so often to go and he still needs a diaper at night, but he's mostly good. We'll see if it sticks.

My mom is annoying the shit out of me.

[captainmel]

It is gorgeous outside today and I am so happy about it.

I'm making myself an s2000 dress for a spring car showoff I'm going to in a few weeks.

I forgot to put my allergy eye drops in this morning and my eyes are on fire!

[partiallysunny]

Chirp Kid has taken an interest in potty training as well! It's very exciting!

[tiramisu]

Apr 7, 2014 11:58:36 GMT -5 gault said:

Apr 7, 2014 10:49:29 GMT -5 tiramisu said:

My weekend was pretty good. I had fun hanging out with friends and with introducing them to M. M and I had a long talk on Saturday night and have agreed to try to start fresh and see how it goes. I will be pleasantly surprised if it works out well, but I'm not holding my breath.

I would love for you to extrapolate on this, but I am nosy. I'm glad the talk went well, though.

Hard for me to figure out exactly how to condense it down. To me, it seems to boil down to a few key things: He over-extends himself and then gets upset about it and didn't communicate that because of the bigger issue, which is all related to his work and the new promotion he got right before we started dating. He went from being the top of his group to feeling like dead weight in a new job. So the re-start is more like setting clear expectations with one another about who we are and what we can handle in our schedules. I also made it a point to let him know he hasn't gotten to know all sides of me and that I want him to make an effort to do so.

Part of the reason I'm waiting it out a little bit is because I do enjoy the time we spend together usually and because I often make rash decisions when I'm PMSing. So the wait will only be a week or two and if there's not significant improvement I'm moving on.

[cuddlyevil]

That sounds like a good plan tiramisu. I hope it works out for you the best way possible.

[tiramisu]

And something fun:
I'm still getting emails of matches from match.com even though I thought I suspended my profile. In one of the emails (the one I opened for some reason) the cute coworker I have a minor crush on was listed as a mutual match. I looked at his profile, then realized he might be able to see that I did that. Oops!

[cuddlyevil]

LOL oops.

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Apr 7, 2014 10:14:40 GMT -5 Muddled said:

doglove, I miss you.

(heart) miss you lady.