I really need to get groceries (running low on coffee. Eek), and I want to start working on my herb garden. We planted our veggie garden yesterday. I absolutely love this time of the year.
Buy I also need to work on my 8 billion loads of laundry. I didn't touch any laundry when h was home because we were so busy. Now I have at least 10 loads to do. Blah.
This kind of makes me want to hyperventilate. I hate laundry so much. lol. Good luck to you.
Oh, I absolutely hate folding laundry. It's probably my most dreaded chore. Lol. And then putting it away? Ugh.
Ugh hopefully they open another lane soon. Everything about extreme couponing is so self absorbed. Clearing the shelves of the good deals so others can't get them so they can rot on your shelves.
I was a little annoyed when my MIL found some kind of really good price on potted ferns at Home Depot so she went around the whole store and bought them all. Really?? You need like 10 ferns? Buy one and be happy.
OK the ferns thing is weird, and being held up in line sucks, but the attitude is kind of weird. If someone can get a lot of something that doesn't expire for a small amount of money, I say more power to them. Plus, I know a lot of couponers donate that kind of stuff to shelters etc. which I think is awesome. I don't have the patience for regular couponing let alone extreme, but I'm not going to judge somebody who is stretching their $$ (except the ones who purposely bully cashiers into using coupons that shouldn't be doubled or are invalid or whatever).
I do agree that donating extra stuff you can get on the cheap is awesome and a great thing to do. I am talking about those that stockpile 100 bottles of BBQ sauce and love looking at their stash. The shelf clearing and needing it ALL is an attitude that I can't relate to. I think the Extreme Couponing show just annoys me.
I still haven't gotten my freaking period. I broke down and tested on Friday in the bathroom of the grocery store (purchased tests, cups, and a 2L of soda... so that maybe it wouldn't be completely obvious that the cups were to pee into in the bathroom for the test. lol). I really thought it was going to be positive, and I wanted a minute to myself to freak the fuck out before I picked DS up from daycare. It was negative, and I thought I might feel a little disappointed. Buuut no. But seriously, where the heck is my period?
I am behind someone at the grocer who is an extreme couponer. There is only one register open. Who needs this much Febreeze? Asshole.
I am so thankful that we live somewhere where no one doubles coupons and there are hardly any distributed in the paper. (Extreme Couponers confirmed that Chicagoland is a difficult territory to coupon in. LOLOLOL.) CVS is the only place I get stuck behind someone making 7 separate transactions.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Apr 27, 2015 9:26:15 GMT -5
Last night on GoT, we learned that Podrick came into Tyrion's service after his first lord was caught stealing a ham. It always comes back to the fucking ham, huh?
Ugh hopefully they open another lane soon. Everything about extreme couponing is so self absorbed. Clearing the shelves of the good deals so others can't get them so they can rot on your shelves.
I was a little annoyed when my MIL found some kind of really good price on potted ferns at Home Depot so she went around the whole store and bought them all. Really?? You need like 10 ferns? Buy one and be happy.
OK the ferns thing is weird, and being held up in line sucks, but the attitude is kind of weird. If someone can get a lot of something that doesn't expire for a small amount of money, I say more power to them. Plus, I know a lot of couponers donate that kind of stuff to shelters etc. which I think is awesome. I don't have the patience for regular couponing let alone extreme, but I'm not going to judge somebody who is stretching their $$ (except the ones who purposely bully cashiers into using coupons that shouldn't be doubled or are invalid or whatever).
There were literally over 100 bottles of spray Febreeze air freshener. He had massive stacks of coupons, you don't get those from just shopping smart and browsing the Sunday paper. It is annoying.
Post by thebreakfastclub on Apr 27, 2015 9:32:24 GMT -5
There appears to be a skinned rabbit in a ziploc bag, in the freezer compartment of one of the fridges near me at work. Didn't expect to see that this morning.
I had a great weekend, and this coming weekend will be great by default since we'll be down the shore (and then the weekend after that, H and I will be down there again, alone, for our anniversary. hallelujah!).
My allergies are flaring like crazy these last couple of weeks. By the end of the day I have so much pressure in my sinuses that I want to make a hole in my face to let some of it out.
Post by litebright on Apr 27, 2015 10:00:02 GMT -5
I am still nursing a terribly sore shoulder. I have no idea what I did to tweak it so badly -- I got up from my last set of push-ups and suddenly could barely move it, but it bothers me that I don't really know exactly what I did to set this off so I can avoid it like hell in the future. It's better than yesterday, though. I wanted to cry pulling on my jeggings yesterday. And I was off my game enough that I accidentally left two packages of pork chops out overnight instead of putting them away with the rest of the groceries. *sigh* That was a nice find this morning.
DH left this morning for a business trip. DD1 only has TWO days of school this week because of testing and a teacher in-service. So I'll have to juggle her with work.
It's kind of shaping up to be a bummer of a week, and it's only Monday.
I've been watching GoT since it started and I even read the first book. And yet, I can't keep anything straight; who is related, who killed who, who is entering into an alliance with who, who lives where, who has what history, Christ, even NAMES. Nothing.
I watch the show like a big, dumb idiot and enjoy it but when I read articles/recaps or thread I feel so stupid.
You know, I feel like I have the "main" characters straight, their houses, what they're doing, etc. Reading the first couple of books definitely helped - I was pretty lost with just the shows.
But then I read a thread here and I'm like, "who?" I can't keep the smaller characters straight at all, apparently. I'm terrible with names so that doesn't help.
My mil is starting to go crazy again. She was doing really, really well at respecting boundaries, but lately she is just getting more and more pushy and weird about stuff. Like, she was over and she was telling me not to let the kids walk on my own area rug with their shoes. She made comments about my laundry soap and how the one she uses is way better. Made comments about how we HAVE to build a round (wtf?) Deck and have round furniture so the kids don't run around and stab their eyeballs out. And just a million other little things. Just back off! My god.
This is kind of a flameful, but I was stupid on Friday.
I was meeting my boss, his wife, and a new-ish coworker and his wife for dinner after work. The new-ish coworker was an intern here for about 6 months, finished school, and then came back a couple of months ago as an associate. I met his wife back while he was an intern at a company bowling party, and then she walked through the office a few times briefly to meet her husband here.
On Friday I walked out of the building headed to the restaurant, and she was headed into the building and said hi to me, but I absolutely did not recognize her. At all. I think I said a little hi and looked confused. Then she walked into the restaurant later and I realized who she was.
I apologized. And felt like an idiot.
But damn it, she looks so normal! She's like any average white girl next door - pretty but not exceptionally so, light brown hair, straight, just past her shoulders, average height, average weight. I'm still not sure I'd recognize her if I saw her on the street.
The doctor that everyone recommended at the ENT didn't have an opening until May 14th. I will cut my head off by then if the ringing in my ears continues for that long. So I am going in next Monday to see a different doctor. I hope this doctor doesn't suck.
Also, I woke up to 2 inches of snow today. Yay spring in the Rockies.
Post by killercupcake on Apr 27, 2015 10:26:10 GMT -5
The pain in my stomach is back and woke me up at like 5 am. I'm tired, but I have to take my car in to get a recall taken care of. I'm planning the best nap when I get home.
I need this pain to stop until September. December would be optimal. Because then I'll have decent health insurance and vacation time.
I am coming down with another cold, will be the 2nd one this month. First was a chest cold, now it appears I'm getting a head cold.
I cleaned all day yesterday. I'm still not done and I didn't even touch the giant piles of clothes that need to be washed or the baskets that need to be put away.
ETA: I'm not laughing at you. Just at the situation. Especially because TIMING OT PICK UP MY KIDS IS A HUGE STRESSOR FOR ME. And now I'm adding like 15 minutes of walking all over god's half acre to my fucking commute, which ITSELF is like 15-20 minutes in a car.
Almost everyday I feel like Ray Liotta from the Goodfellas on the day the helicopters are flying around, you know, minus the coke and whine-y sidepiece.
The new fancy antidepressant my doctor prescribed is $45 per month because it's so new and fancy there are no generics yet. Ugh. But if it lets me have something remotely resembling a sex drive it will be worth it... lack of sex may be killing my marriage right now.
Post by pantsparty on Apr 27, 2015 12:41:55 GMT -5
I'm in an uncommonly good mood for a Monday. It's because Thursday evening we take off for Vegas. We were talking about how insane it's going to be and I was like, "Babe. Every Vegas trip we've been on has been leading up to this. Our livers have been preparing for this. We can do this." LOL.
THEN I work one more week and we go to Hawaii!!!!! OMG.
I'm hoping my period comes soon. I'll probably have it in Vegas (boo) but it should be over for Hawaii. I'd rather not worry about tampons while spending my week in a bikini, one of which is white.
I'm starting to panic a little. Our DCP gave me the list of her vacations for the rest of the year.
HOLY SHIT.
She's off about four weeks - getting close to five weeks - starting next Friday through the beginning of September, several of which are week long trips. I only have 7 PTO days left for the year. H's vacation starts on June 1st, although I'd be uncomfortable with him taking much time off right away since he's only been working at this company since January. Normally we have pretty good backup between my parents and his, but his mom is having spinal fusion surgery on Wednesday, which I know from my mom having the same surgery last year will put her out for at least a month.
A lot of the time off is unpaid for her, but I'm going to be scrambling to find care or have to end up taking a bunch of unpaid time off myself after I exhaust the rest of my PTO. She's pretty much doing us a huge favor by even having K there at all (she technically closed last December, but she kept K and another little girl she's had forever), but since she is technically closed, she can do whatever she wants w/r/t time off.
H passed up a very good job today where he would have made a lot more money, more than I would ever make if I went back to work. We had a conversation about it. He said something to hurt me and I went on my walk and I came to a conclusion, the one above and I know that given my experiences in my life that romantic love is not something I will ever attain. I will never get there. And it's a relief because I can stop trying. I can let it go. PDQ all this.