I am entertaining my mom for the day. We stopped at Starbucks as soon as she got here. Her order? "Hot coffee with a lot a lot a lot of milk and very little sugar."
Of course the barista then needed to ask seven questions to get an actionable order out of her.
Post by krisandgrace on Jul 11, 2014 12:27:47 GMT -5
I just got back from a gym class I take at lunch, it involves kettle bells so I took my rings off. When I went to put them back on I thought my fingers had swelled so I had to jam them on. I put them on the wrong hand. I have been married for 6 years, how do I not remember what hand my rings go on? It took forever and a lot of soap to get them back off.
Working a music festival. I'm doing ID check. The "date to watch" is July 1993. I was already in college *sob*
But it will be fun! Gaelic Storm and Carbon Leaf, all in the same weekend. Plus a bunch of others.
I am totally jealous! I have CDs (yes I know I'm old) from both of those bands!
We can be old together
FYI - Carbon Leaf is remastering Indian Summer And they put out an awesome all Celtic album last year. If you ever want to talk CL, I'm your woman. I average 6 shows a year.
Post by hopenotlost on Jul 11, 2014 13:05:20 GMT -5
I am about to walk away from playing co-ed softball. I'm tired of it not being fun anymore. I am only playing cuz they needed another girl to play. One of DH's friends was like, "Wow Mr. Hope, do you practice with your wife?" Fuck no we don't practice. We have three kids, one of which is 19 months and we can't just throw a ball back and forth in the yard and hope she stays put. No, she runs off as fast as she can to get into anything she possibly can or towards the damn road. I'm not going to be as good as them. They are 24-26 years old. I'm 33. I haven't played softball for 16 years.
I went to lunch with a co-worker, as I was walking out of the restaurant I hear a little voice in the corner call out my full name. I'm standing there thinking WTF and then turn around to see my parents who stopped to have lunch on the way home from my mom's chemo appt. It was a nice little surprise to see them there.
I'm going to see The Lion King with some family this weekend. So excited since I saw Beauty and the Beast on Broadway waaaaaaay back when and I remember loving it.
We listed our TH for sale yesterday. Keeping my fingers crossed it sell quickly because two mortgages on one income =/= not good
Post by sunnysideup488 on Jul 11, 2014 14:11:52 GMT -5
DH has to work tomorrow, but I am taking the girls to the beach. It's supposed to be brutally hot. A has been walking around with her puddle jumper on because she wants to try it out. She kept asking to use it in the bathtub last night.
rbp we are having corn dogs for dinner too. (A calls them cat tails.)
DD is flying off tomorrow to spend the next week with the ILs. YEEHAW!
If I can hold off on going into labor, the week is going to be a divine combination of sleeping late, eating out, catching up with friends and lots of self-pampering.
I just heard "Let It Go" for the first time (I had heard 5-second sound bites of the chorus, but never the rest). I really do lead a charmed existence.
I envy you. Sometimes I find myself inadvertently humming it to myself when DD is not even around.
Post by WinterWine on Jul 11, 2014 15:09:02 GMT -5
I left work early and am Headed to my hometown to spend the weekend with my Grandma. She requires a lot of care, so I'm staying there so my parents can have a weekend away. I'm excited for them to get some relief and for me to get on some Grandma time. :-)
Tonight we're having BBQ ribs and all the fixings and watching a dvd at home with my mom and sister. Tomorrow it's farmers market in the morning and then prepping the playroom walls for paint. If the patches dry fast I'll start painting tomorrow, but I will be taking a break to watch the World Cup. Sunday it's finishing the painting and hopefully hanging the new art in the playroom, and another break for the World Cup. Plus H will be flying home from Calgary.
I also found out that H will be OOT for work 20 days in August. For the second year in a row he'll miss the girls' first day of school. Bummer.
Post by hopenotlost on Jul 11, 2014 16:33:42 GMT -5
I really want a chocolate shake from BK, but I looked up the nutritional info and the dinky ass small one has 580 calories in it. UGH. I refuse to give in, but I want to so bad. I'm an emotional PMSing whiner right now.
Every time I call Sirius and threaten to fake cancel to get my bill reduced, I silently thank the MM posters in my head for alerting me to this savings. Just did it again and somehow went from 3 months of traffic/radio at $53 to 5 months at $36. Obviously that makes sense.
We do this too! DH and I compete to see who can get them to go the lowest when we call.
Post by crashgizmo on Jul 11, 2014 16:52:45 GMT -5
I just got home early from the office. My zipper broke on my favorite jeans and even though my shirt was long enough to cover it I felt self conscious. I swear, I only go into my office 1x/week and somehow I can't handle wearing real clothes for even a day.
This weekend is pretty chill. DH is working at home today so we'll go to happy hour tonight. Tomorrow we're going to the farmer's market and a seafood boil at one of our favorite local restaurants. Sunday we'll play some tennis in the morning before it gets scorchingly hot.
And, I adore Friday evenings. Almost enough to want to keep working way past FIRE just to experience Friday evening liberation from work awesomeness. Almost.
I wore a maxi skirt to work for the first time today and I'm majorly regretting it because I keep running over it with my chair.
Also it's a million degrees in my cube and I feel like crap. Ugh, I might go home early today.
ETA: On a happier note, I think I'm going to buy a car today! I've finally decided on a Mazda CX-5. I hate the car buying process, but am so excited to have a new car!
Oops, I quoted myself instead of editing. Must be Friday!
That's what I drive. I've gone through periods of love and hate over the past year. Don't worry, most of my hate comes from the fact that I loved my old car and had a hard time adjusting abruptly to a new one. DH has it on his road trip right now and I really, really miss it. It's pretty zippy and fun to drive. Enjoy!
Post by heliocentric on Jul 11, 2014 20:28:42 GMT -5
I forgot how much I enjoy the international breakfast buffets in Hong Kong. My breakfast consisted of shu mai, oatmeal, salad, baked beans, a hard boiled egg, noodles, and a piece of cheese. (Small portions so it's not as much food as it sounds.)
Lazy weekend here. I'm hosting a "leftovers" dinner party tonight. A bunch of extra meatballs that were never served at the luncheon, with some marinara and some of the pasta that I bought way too much of to make pasta salad...
Veggie tray made of the excess veggies bought for the luncheon, and an apple crisp for dessert (the apple crisp bears no connection to the luncheon, it's mostly an excuse to serve ice cream, because it's hot and humid).
The main purpose of the dinner party is to get together for a games night, so the food isn't central to the evening.
Other than that, I'm trying to get some spinning done, and DH has done some laundry. Yep, exciting!
I''m pregnant, we're trying to buy a house, we found a house we both really like in a great area with great schools and a short (enough) commute to NYC for us.
But the house is 86 years old, we had a ton of inspections done and there are some major issues. My dad (who does commercial construction and is a great resource) thinks all of the issues can be fixed, and REA thinks seller will pay for most, if not all, of the major issues, which is good.
But there is water in the basement, and mold damage, despite the house being on a hill, the sellers putting in a French drain 10 years ago and our structural engineer who couldn't figure out where the water is coming from. It was like the floor is weeping, he says. WTF. Now I have to get a mold inspector in there to figure out what's going on and see if it can be fixed. And my dad flat out has told me I can't bring a child into the basement w/o getting the water issue fixed.
I'm so torn and don't know what to do. I don't want to walk away from the house - everything else we've seen has issues one way or another, and nothing interests us. We're not in a rush to close, but I mean, sort of - I want to be settled before I give birth.
And my mother (who lives further south in NJ) is completely pissing me off b/c she wants me to move down the street from her so she can basically raise my child b/c she's semi-retired and bored and is giving me a rash of shit over this house. She's framing it as "I want to help you as much as possible so your life is easy so move close to me and I can do that" but how will it be easy when I'm commuting about 3 hours a day and I never see my kid b/c I can't get home early enough? And this house is 40 minutes from my parents. 40 minutes. Come on.
Sorry, more of a vent than a random. And, to add to it, my inlaws are coming in today so I'm going to have to talk more house with them all damn day long about this shit.
So I've decided to buy myself a $$$ pair of driving loafers tomorrow in an attempt to self soothe. Hope they fit.