NOW it's Thursday :)

[HoneySpider]

MrsMB

What's going on today?

I'm doing to do some shopping, I have coupons and gift cards and really need a bathing suit and some clothes so I figure it's a good opportunity to go have some "me" time. I hope I find something. DH is getting an early dismissal from work so he's meeting me for a late lunch. Should be a good day, I am hoping the rain holds out.

[bk1]

i love couponing. I'm pretty sure I have an obsession. Feels so good to get a deal though!


G slept in today and missed seeing DH before he went to work. I'm thinking about going to get coffee and showing up at work so G can see him. Plus, coffee. Win win.

[pooh8402]

Slowly but surely waking up for the day. No coffee maker in the house sucks. But I am dressed, teeth brushed, some makeup on, and glasses on. I've started a load of laundry. I've been up for an hour and a half.

Today's plans:
* mom is coming to help me finish the baby's room
* need to get dog food, and I'll get a tacky 4th of July pedi while I'm out
* also want to go to Old Navy for cheap flip flops
* new cleaning lady is coming today, don't know what time. Trial basis, hope we like this one.

I need to pick up the house some more before the cleaning lady gets here.

[HoneySpider]

After 7+ years of living in Arizona & South Texas and running the AC 3/4 of the year, it blows my mind that here, our electric bills in the summer are half of what they are in the winter. I can't get used to it.

[MrsMB]

HA!!! Yes it IS HoneySpider !! I was so excited about Thursday!!

I'm so glad I'm off tomorrow. I'm going to have the best day ever....I know it! I feel like entertaining my IL's over last weekend made it feel like the week had just dragged on.

I'm attending a Visitation for a long-time friend of the dance studio today. Will be sad....

[tacocat]

I wanted to go to Target this morning, but there is a good chance of rain all day. I don't know that I want to chance it.

We leave for vacation next Saturday, and I so do not have everything I need.

[Blue Moon]

I don't have much planned for today. I need to go back to the grocery store to pick up some things for a cookout at the ILs on Saturday. I should be in the shower now but I just plopped down on my bed and it feels so good.

[travelbug]

I took my hubby to school today since I have my interview in a few hours. After that I have a few errands to run then H and I will play tennis before dinner since it's beautiful outside. (high 60's early 70's) It's wonderful!

We might go over to FIL's today to help him move some stuff from the basement to the main floor. We shall see!

[wanderingenough]

I'm off at 12 for a long weekend! H has to work until 5 today, so I'm gonna run to Michael's and a couple other places this afternoon.

[amaranth]

I woke up with a kinked ankle. I didn't even know that could happen! Ouch! (It's better now).

I think we will go to the zoo today. And grocery shopping. We are missing ingredients to make anything other than PB&J.

[HoneySpider]

Jul 2, 2015 9:07:24 GMT -5 amaranth said:

I woke up with a kinked ankle. I didn't even know that could happen! Ouch! (It's better now).

I think we will go to the zoo today. And grocery shopping. We are missing ingredients to make anything other than PB&J.

Wild anniversary celebration last night huh

[agteach08]

Lunch with a new friend today and then my sister flys in late tonight!!!! I cannot wait to see her :-)

Baby slept in her crib for the first time last night and it was very traumatic for me so I am getting extra morning cuddles and watching Kelly & Michael!!

[amaranth]

Jul 2, 2015 9:12:26 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

Jul 2, 2015 9:07:24 GMT -5 amaranth said:

I woke up with a kinked ankle. I didn't even know that could happen! Ouch! (It's better now).

I think we will go to the zoo today. And grocery shopping. We are missing ingredients to make anything other than PB&J.

Wild anniversary celebration last night huh

Walking around Ikea got out of control. You have no idea

[MrsMB]

Jul 2, 2015 9:26:55 GMT -5 amaranth said:

Jul 2, 2015 9:12:26 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

Wild anniversary celebration last night huh

Walking around Ikea got out of control. You have no idea

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, the old Ikea excuse

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We visited the ILs last night, and today my dog is really tired because she ran around so much in their huge yard. My yard is about 1/5 the size of theirs. Today we're having pizza for dinner. I really need some new house shoes. I wear Old Navy flops all the time, and my ankles are starting to hurt. I want some Birkenstock-style sandals but without their pricetag.

[amaranth]

Jul 2, 2015 10:19:20 GMT -5 @moonbeam said:

We visited the ILs last night, and today my dog is really tired because she ran around so much in their huge yard. My yard is about 1/5 the size of theirs. Today we're having pizza for dinner. I really need some new house shoes. I wear Old Navy flops all the time, and my ankles are starting to hurt. I want some Birkenstock-style sandals but without their pricetag.

Do you like flats? Most of them hurt my ankles, but the dexflex comfort flats from Payless are only $20 and soo comfy! I own 5 pairs. They're cute, too.

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I'm stuck at work until 7pm. I'm over this week! Tonight I plan on putting on the a/c, possibly open a bottle of wine and watch horrible lifetime movies. DH is working so it's just me.

[grover]

Another day another migraine. The vacuum was running for an hour, stopped for ten glorious minutes, and now it's running again.

My university is charging me $120 for a graduation application fee. I find this ridiculous, as then they are also going to charge me a fee for attending the ceremony and a fee to RENT, not purchase, the gown and hood and cap.

@moonbeam I love the flats that amaranth mentioned. My silver sparkle ones just had a patch fall off and the seams in my black ones are popping, but they lasted two full school years with multiple all day wearings each week. They're just as comfy as my sketchers go walks but are less money and look cuter.

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Jul 2, 2015 10:26:03 GMT -5 amaranth said:

Jul 2, 2015 10:19:20 GMT -5 @moonbeam said:

We visited the ILs last night, and today my dog is really tired because she ran around so much in their huge yard. My yard is about 1/5 the size of theirs. Today we're having pizza for dinner. I really need some new house shoes. I wear Old Navy flops all the time, and my ankles are starting to hurt. I want some Birkenstock-style sandals but without their pricetag.

Do you like flats? Most of them hurt my ankles, but the dexflex comfort flats from Payless are only $20 and soo comfy! I own 5 pairs. They're cute, too.

I tried those, but they don't work for me . They are super cute, though. I tried a bunch of different styles and sized up and down and all of them cut into the back of my ankle.  I don't know if it's my feet or the shoe. 

The search continues!

travelbug Good luck on your interview!

grover Charging you a graduation fee is such a rip-off!  They should be paying you for all the hard work you put in.

[ewall]

MrsMB sorry to hear about your friend.

amaranth love my Dex Flex flats!

I'm having a lunch date with my mom at Panera. So excited to hang out with her!

[grover]

And, she's now on the third vacuuming session of the day. It's only noon. What I wouldn't give to be able to sleep in once this summer without being woken up from a vacuum cleaner. Or to wake up naturally without the vacuuming, other cleaning sounds, or an alarm.

[amaranth]

Jul 2, 2015 12:10:57 GMT -5 grover said:

And, she's now on the third vacuuming session of the day. It's only noon. What I wouldn't give to be able to sleep in once this summer without being woken up from a vacuum cleaner. Or to wake up naturally without the vacuuming, other cleaning sounds, or an alarm.

That woman is insane. Find her a cleaning job? She'd love it.

[grover]

Jul 2, 2015 12:30:00 GMT -5 amaranth said:

Jul 2, 2015 12:10:57 GMT -5 grover said:

And, she's now on the third vacuuming session of the day. It's only noon. What I wouldn't give to be able to sleep in once this summer without being woken up from a vacuum cleaner. Or to wake up naturally without the vacuuming, other cleaning sounds, or an alarm.

That woman is insane. Find her a cleaning job? She'd love it.

Worst part is, she has a cleaning person. Comes again next week. But the weeks the person came last month (two weeks in a row) she was still cleaning this much in between.  Though because of this experience, I am now grateful to not have to use her for daycare- the kiddos she watches are in the basement unsupervised while she cleans and FBs all day. And I think the tv down there is on all day long.

[estrellita]

We are going to look at more houses tonight! I know we just started but I hope we find something soon! I'm just sick of renting and can't wait for E to have his own room and be able to decorate any way we want! The huge house we looked at not only needs windows done, but also something with the sewer that's going to be expensive so although all the space would be amazing, it's not going to happen. Too good to be true oh well!

[amaranth]

Jul 2, 2015 13:03:13 GMT -5 grover said:

Jul 2, 2015 12:30:00 GMT -5 amaranth said:

That woman is insane. Find her a cleaning job? She'd love it.

Worst part is, she has a cleaning person. Comes again next week. But the weeks the person came last month (two weeks in a row) she was still cleaning this much in between.  Though because of this experience, I am now grateful to not have to use her for daycare- the kiddos she watches are in the basement unsupervised while she cleans and FBs all day. And I think the tv down there is on all day long.

So glad you could learn that now. But really, how awful. I bet those parents don't want to be paying for that much TV time.

[bk1]

So glad you are almost out of there grover. She is something special.

Good luck estrellita!


I just finished cleaning my bathroom. It's so much better! It has been driving me crazy but I didn't have time to clean it last weekend like I hoped. Does anyone else like cleaning bathrooms? I find them the easiest room to clean and always do them first.

[travelbug]

Oh wow grover she sounds like a piece of work. So glad you are almost gone!

Good luck estrellita, I hope something awesome pops up soon

bk1 I don't mind cleaning the bathroom at all. It's so quick and easy. Then I feel like I accomplished a lot haha!

I am going to have to try on a pair of these Dex Flex Flats you guys are raving about ewall and amaranth! I will definitely be going to the mall next week!

[grover]

bk1 I hate doing the bathrooms. So much so that I don't even want to mention how long the downstairs bathroom at our townhouse went without cleaning. But I also always refused to use that one due to it being extremely dark, small, and the birds in the vent. No thank you. It was slightly better after we updated it, but the birds kept getting into that vent so I still refused to use it.

[ewall]

I wonder if there is some stealth-like damage you could do to the vacuum to render it inoperable grover.

Good luck on the house hunt estrellita!

bk1 I'm the worst at cleaning the bathrooms. We have three. The downstairs guest bath gets the most frequent cleaning because it's on the small side. I never clean the shower stall because it doesn't get used, so much so that the trap dries out and starts to smell. The upstairs guest bath never gets cleaned because no one uses it...like the water evaporates out of the toilet bowl. And the master is such a bitch to clean because it's huge. FWP alert! My bathroom is too big!

[grover]

ewall- I'm pretty sure she'd then send FIL out immediately for a new one, like within ten-twenty minutes of finding it was really inoperable.