Thursday! Randoms, vents, and confessions go here.

[mrs.jacinthe]

I am so tired of my wardrobe.  I don't like wearing skirts to the office at all (because wearing tights means going to the bathroom is a freaking 10 minute experience).  But I have to get my dress pants hemmed before I can wear them.  Short people problems, for real.

R's parent's got me a felted wool bag from Duluth Trading (I'd PIP but it was discontinued) for Christmas and OMG, it is the BEST THING EVER.  I can put all my crap in in plus some and the straps are super wide so they don't hurt my shoulder or hand.  AMAZING.

We have still not celebrated our personal Christmas, so our tree is up - probably until Sunday.  Hopefully we can do Christmas on Saturday so I can get that thing out of my living room.  And apparently replace it with R's bike on the trainer.  He wants to look out the window while he rides.  How decorative.  LOL

[emoflamingo]

It's snowing outside right now and one of the directors legit asked the executive director if we should go home because he should "consider the safety of his employees." I stifled a laugh because the ED, Associate ED and the Business Manager (all in the office together) live way out in the boonies on dirt roads and the director in question lives in a city on a paved, maintained (and sanded) street.

Baby A is getting her first haircut tomorrow. I'll cry.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Jan 21, 2016 10:07:46 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

It's snowing outside right now and one of the directors legit asked the executive director if we should go home because he should "consider the safety of his employees." I stifled a laugh because the ED, Associate ED and the Business Manager (all in the office together) live way out in the boonies on dirt roads and the director in question lives in a city on a paved, maintained (and sanded) street.

Baby A is getting her first haircut tomorrow. I'll cry.

I like this for the laugh/stupid co-irker story.  Not the baby A haircut.  Boo on that.

[munkii]

Yesterday during my evening class, we discussing minority populations in a neighborhood for which we are designing an arts and culture incubator. During the discussion, one of my classmates said, "colored people." I died. I died. <--I'd like to type this a million more times. My face was this   , then it was   ("did you really say that?"), then a combination of    ^o)     :?  . 

This semester is killing me, and it's only the second week. I stayed home from work today after experiencing major anxiety this morning. Now I'm doing nothing because I don't want to face anything. 

[simpsongal]

I'm crazy excited about the SNOW! (1-2 ft coming tomorrow)

[emoflamingo]

Jan 21, 2016 10:12:43 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

Jan 21, 2016 10:07:46 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

It's snowing outside right now and one of the directors legit asked the executive director if we should go home because he should "consider the safety of his employees." I stifled a laugh because the ED, Associate ED and the Business Manager (all in the office together) live way out in the boonies on dirt roads and the director in question lives in a city on a paved, maintained (and sanded) street.

Baby A is getting her first haircut tomorrow. I'll cry.

I like this for the laugh/stupid co-irker story.  Not the baby A haircut.  Boo on that.

RIGHT?! He is one of the ones I would consider uppity because OMG the snow isn't that bad. It'll keep snowing but the city will take care of the roads and he travels on a well maintained highway home.

But the Baby A thing... Man, look at this mop of hair:


(This is just an opportunity for me to AW her because omg she is too much sometimes.)

[springchick32]

Jan 21, 2016 10:23:09 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

I'm crazy excited about the SNOW! (1-2 ft coming tomorrow)

Haha, the mid-atlantic is going to get nailed! We are only supposed to get "4 where I am in CT. H is so upset about not being to use the new slow blower yet. I am secretly happy. We've only had 2-3 coatings of snow so far and it's been nice without it....I'm hoping for an early spring! the only time I want snow is for Christmas...

[bunnymendelbaum]

My little crazy DD2 only weighs 28lbs! (she's 38" tall) She's such a damn cutie. I almost cried during her 3yo wellness visit yesterday. Watching her do the hearing test was so adorable. She's growing up!

I just got her a rug after that other one I wanted went out of stock and hasn't come back in. Her room REALLY needs a rug because her floors are painted wood and just absolute crap. I think I like it better than the original one, even though it doesn't look like great quality. (It's Mohawk) but it was only $185 for 8x10.

[springchick32]

Vent: So we got our sectional and ottoman delivered yesterday and they got us the wrong stinkin ottoman!! It was supposed to be the storage one and we got a plain one...Ugh, so I called the store and they screwed up so they have to re-order a new one (another 8 weeks!! WTH) but we can keep the one we have in the meantime until we do the exchange..so we'll just put a blanket over it to keep it clean because we are going to use it regardless! Man, I hate ordering furniture....

[ssmjlm]

I'm about to pay $5 to ship a yard of fabric off etsy. I cannot find this particular print anywhere else in stock and the yard + shipping is not that bad. I even contacted the seller to see if they would cut me a break, but no dice.

I want to have E's quilt done for her big girl room when we move in, so I need to get the fabric ASAP so my mom can do the quilt.

[mrs.jacinthe]

And another one. I ate breakfast at 5:30 this morning and I am soooo hungry. I am about to gnaw my arm off, for real.

[davescatch]

SNNOOOOOWWW!!! Too much snow is coming and I wish it would go away. Baltimore is going to get hammered. I have a huge fear of something happening to my husband while he is out using the snow blower. Please be careful if you are in the path of this one.

[TBM]

DH just met a former coworker (who had left to work for a competitor),for lunch. He called to tell me that he was thinking about driving to that business to get a feel for whether or not the commute would be something that he wouldn't mind, but somewhere in the conversation he talked himself out of it and was just going to come home. I talked him back into it, because it is the first day since he got laid off last Tuesday that I have had any time to myself and I wanted more time. He doesn't know that is the reason though. ;p

He was home for a couple of weeks at Christmas, but the novelty of him being around 24/7 had worn off by the time he went back to work. And now he's back. lol

After an entire marriage of him either travelling for work or having a long commute, I am really not used to having anyone around so much. This morning I told him that him offering to make breakfast every morning was nice, but it is not necessary and not the way that I am used to eating, so he should feel free to fend for himself and eat whatever he wants when he is hungry, and I promised that I wouldn't be offended.

It would be great if he got a job soon (a real job and not a work from our house job like the consulting job someone is talking to him about), but it would be nice if it took a little while, since he is getting things crossed off the to-do list. I just wish he could do them more independently.

[ssmjlm]

TBM you sound like my mom. My dad was already retired when she did, but suddenly he went back into manager mode with another person in the house. My mom finally had to tell him if he wanted to have a daily staff meeting at breakfast that he needed to go back to work!

[sailorgray]

Jan 21, 2016 13:34:45 GMT -5 davescatch said:

SNNOOOOOWWW!!! Too much snow is coming and I wish it would go away. Baltimore is going to get hammered. I have a huge fear of something happening to my husband while he is out using the snow blower. Please be careful if you are in the path of this one.

You be careful, too, DT!  I'll be 5 days past my due date when the storm hits. Kinda nervous. 

[RamblingRose]

Jan 21, 2016 10:19:50 GMT -5 munkii said:

Yesterday during my evening class, we discussing minority populations in a neighborhood for which we are designing an arts and culture incubator. During the discussion, one of my classmates said, "colored people." I died. I died. <--I'd like to type this a million more times. My face was this   , then it was   ("did you really say that?"), then a combination of        :?  . 

This semester is killing me, and it's only the second week. I stayed home from work today after experiencing major anxiety this morning. Now I'm doing nothing because I don't want to face anything. 

There is someone like this in my Business Management class. I keep wanting to say to her she is perhaps not well-suited for the business world. 

[RamblingRose]

TBM, my mom has been telling my dad for YEARS that she married him for better or worse, but not for lunch. He has been retired for somewhere around 20 years at this point and he makes lunch for himself, and stays out of her hair all day.

[munkii]

Ok, I finally talked myself into doing something; so I went to my second job and completed a site visit. In the last five minutes I've been home, I had a realization that I've signed myself up for a career in visiting creepy places. Why did I do this to myself?! Today's creepy place was an abandoned synagogue. The last creepy place was a former hospital. At least in today's visit, I was with a group and not by myself like I was at the hospital.

[davescatch]

Jan 21, 2016 15:36:08 GMT -5 sailorgray said:

Jan 21, 2016 13:34:45 GMT -5 davescatch said:

SNNOOOOOWWW!!! Too much snow is coming and I wish it would go away. Baltimore is going to get hammered. I have a huge fear of something happening to my husband while he is out using the snow blower. Please be careful if you are in the path of this one.

You be careful, too, DT!  I'll be 5 days past my due date when the storm hits. Kinda nervous. 

OMG I am nervous for you!!!!  I will be praying for you.

[sailorgray]

Jan 21, 2016 17:09:29 GMT -5 davescatch said:

Jan 21, 2016 15:36:08 GMT -5 sailorgray said:

You be careful, too, DT!  I'll be 5 days past my due date when the storm hits. Kinda nervous. 

OMG I am nervous for you!!!!  I will be praying for you.

Thanks