I am really happy that we asked and my inlaws agreed to stay with the girls in October. My MIL is declining; she can no longer control her neck well so holding up her head is not possible. When she walks she has to be looking down and when sitting she can rest her head back. It feels like things are moving quickly or at least now speeding up. this is incredibly tough on H. We are all going out this summer, but i think H will make a solo trip out this spring or so too.
I happy we do not have Girl Scouts today. I am finishing up ordering gifts and then planning the cookies I am baking for a cookie exchange this weekend.
I'm super psyched about a Clothing Drive that I am running of a local charity called Cradles to Crayons. This is the third year in a row that I'm doing a Socks and Underwear Drive, and I've already tripled the amount of donations from years past. Normally I just bug my friends and family for donations, but this year, I made an Amazon Wish List to have donations shipped directly to my house. I made a Facebook Event and sent it to everyone on my friends list, and I also emailed it to everyone I know personally and some of my coworkers. I got such great feedback, that I've decided to now to extend it to my community. I put flyers out in my neighborhood last weekend, and now I'm adding several "drop off" events where people can drop off things in person and be entered in to a raffle to win gift certificates donated by a local businesses and am promoting on Facebook. And now that I've gotten great feedback on that I have decided to add selling tickets for raffle baskets to be given away at the final, and largest drop off event, that is, if any of the local businesses I contacted make donations. I'm super excited about this event, but it's gotten a lot bigger than I had anticipated, which is a good thing. I just hope that people actually show up at the events that I'm hosting. I'll be having two over the next two weeks before I do the final one, and depending on how much turnout I get for those, I might try to add things like Free Hot Chocolate and maybe even a Santa Claus to the final event. Of course, this is also stressing me out, but it's a good stress. I'm so excited to be doing this, but I have a full time job and a family and all of the holiday obligations that go with that, so depending on what kind of response I get, I might have to try to rope one of my local friends in to help me with this.
We saw Metallica this weekend and it was awesome. I have so much to do in the next few weeks I want to stick my head in a hole.
That sounds awesome! I saw them many years ago and it was one of the best shows I have ever been too. I can’t wait to see them again!
Work sucks. On top of switching to a completely unaffordable and crappy insurance plan they have now informed us that they are taking away some days off. This place is just being run into the ground and I am So mad for wasting so many years here. They made so many promises and essentially nothing has been kept. I wish I could rewind time!
We saw Metallica this weekend and it was awesome. I have so much to do in the next few weeks I want to stick my head in a hole.
That sounds awesome! I saw them many years ago and it was one of the best shows I have ever been too. I can’t wait to see them again!
Work sucks. On top of switching to a completely unaffordable and crappy insurance plan they have now informed us that they are taking away some days off. This place is just being run into the ground and I am So mad for wasting so many years here. They made so many promises and essentially nothing has been kept. I wish I could rewind time!
I think I saw them in 94 so it's been a minute. James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet are both GRAY! So funny. The music was really good, and the stage was in the middle of the arena, which was cool. BUT because it was so big and they were trying to play to all different sides it took away from the cohesiveness of the band. That was my only complaint. I feel like if they were going to play to each side they should have moved as a band. Instead they all played in a different spot, save for a few times they got in the middle on Lars' drum area.
Today is the last day of benefits open season, and despite knowing we wanted to look at our dental options, DH and I didn't get to it at any point in the last month. I just waded through all of the plan brochures, provider lists, premium tables, and finally picked one that I think works but I don't even care anymore.
Mondays are nuts when DH is OOT (as he so often is), between work, after school stuff, and then the normal evening routine.
I don't want to adult anymore today. I just want to go to bed.
The party we went to on Saturday was actually really fun. Very casual, no one was weird and they had it catered so the food was good.
My stomach decided to be stupid last night and I went to bed feeling fine and then was up at 12:30am feeling nauseous. I took two Zofran, but still wasn’t able to relax enough to get to sleep for another 4 hours. I came in to work a little late because I was not going to be able to get up at my usual time. It’s so annoying to not have answers and feel like I’m out of options. And the whole next day after one of these episodes I feel weirdly anxious/depressed.
This is our last slow-ish week at work before the next two weeks are insane. I might schedule myself a massage Friday afternoon, lol.
H is going out of town tomorrow to meet with another company in a weird, kind of an interview, kind of not, mostly just having feelers out in case he needs/wants to find something else.
I'm super psyched about a Clothing Drive that I am running of a local charity called Cradles to Crayons. This is the third year in a row that I'm doing a Socks and Underwear Drive, and I've already tripled the amount of donations from years past. Normally I just bug my friends and family for donations, but this year, I made an Amazon Wish List to have donations shipped directly to my house. I made a Facebook Event and sent it to everyone on my friends list, and I also emailed it to everyone I know personally and some of my coworkers. I got such great feedback, that I've decided to now to extend it to my community. I put flyers out in my neighborhood last weekend, and now I'm adding several "drop off" events where people can drop off things in person and be entered in to a raffle to win gift certificates donated by a local businesses and am promoting on Facebook. And now that I've gotten great feedback on that I have decided to add selling tickets for raffle baskets to be given away at the final, and largest drop off event, that is, if any of the local businesses I contacted make donations. I'm super excited about this event, but it's gotten a lot bigger than I had anticipated, which is a good thing. I just hope that people actually show up at the events that I'm hosting. I'll be having two over the next two weeks before I do the final one, and depending on how much turnout I get for those, I might try to add things like Free Hot Chocolate and maybe even a Santa Claus to the final event. Of course, this is also stressing me out, but it's a good stress. I'm so excited to be doing this, but I have a full time job and a family and all of the holiday obligations that go with that, so depending on what kind of response I get, I might have to try to rope one of my local friends in to help me with this.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble, carry on LOL
I am in charge of the clothing closet at my daughter's school and I love this idea. We mostly rely on donations of used clothes, but we buy new socks, underwear, shoelaces, and other odds and ends. I have a small budget, but something like this will make it go further.
I had an intern call out today due to the weather because despite knowing about the storm since last week, she stayed north yesterday instead of coming home. So that will be a discussion tomorrow.
Other than that, I'm WFH, thankfully b/c it's the 6th day school is closed for weather of some sort. They don't even know how they're making up the days off from the imaginary hurricane, let alone this rain closure.
Oh and also, this won’t really mean much to anyone, but we had a goal of 1,000 clients this year and right now we’re scheduled to do 995. We don’t really have room to add more than a couple more and they’d have to be this week anyway AND we will probably have at least one cancel between now and then but still. Getting that close kinda stings, lol.
I've been feeling a little overwhelmed with holiday to-dos. Basically, all gifts for my kids from H and me, my parents, and my uncle, and most of the gifts for my H and my parents get shipped to my house directly for wrapping. I have a long list of embroidering to do for gifts and my etsy shop, and then all the typical events and planning and stuff. With how Christmas falls on the calendar, I know I'll be crunched for time.
Well - I kicked to-do list ASS this weekend! I had gifts about 1/3 wrapped, and went into high-gear on embroidery work. Then I had the light bulb moment to call my BFF and see if her 16 yr old daughter wanted to make some cash wrapping gifts. She did - she came by the house at 1:30 Sunday, picked up 23 gifts, wrapped them all, and delivered them back at 8 pm. Best $40 I've spend in AGES!!
My list is looking so much more manageable now that I can breathe a little easier. Who knows, maybe I'll even get to ENJOY some of the holidays! LOL
I was just curious. Someone keeps recommending I see a naturopathic doctor and get food testing done, and I don't really know if it is reliable or anything.
I saw a naturopathic doctor in the past, and she moved by arm a few times and told me I was sad. Yes, I was depressed but I also ended up needing spinal fusion surgery in the long run. So... I'm skeptical. HA
I was supposed to attend training this afternoon with 1 other person, so we could both learn the same thing. She sent an email that she was sick, 1 minute before training started. So of course I showed up anyway, because I was already on my way. How annoying. If she was going to cancel, she should have done it sooner. I worked from home this morning and could have done so all day if I knew I didn't have this training.
I also realize that my H and I are living lives that should be flip flopped with one another. He does psychological counseling and talks to people all day - that's my dream career that for various reasons I have never pursued. Somehow instead I ended up working at a prestigious research university and I'm learning how to do qualitative social science research - which is basically exactly what he wants to do for a career (though he knows a lot more about the subject than I do). I was like wait - wtf? How did we mess this one up so badly? Lol. Neither of us like what we are doing but would probably love the other person's job (assuming mine actually starts being busier, at least).
Despite getting 15" of snow yesterday, work didn't close - only a delay until 11am. H got up early this morning to shovel out the snow at the end of the driveway after the plows came through over night. I'm in the car to leave, and before I get out of the neighborhood I get a text from work saying our parking lot didn't get cleared, and to stay home. Helpful! I felt bad for H feeling like he had to get us free ASAP instead of taking advantage of the sun and some melting. Some of our employees live 45min out, so I know that the late notice had to have been a bigger pain to them as well.
TR , do you think it's something you are eating? Have you done any testing or anything for food allergies?
I’ve kept a food diary and couldn’t find any common connection. I tested negative for celiac, but haven’t had other testing done that I recall.
I'm an NTC and this is right in our wheel house. We can work in conjunction with your medical provider to recommend additional testing based on the results of the testing that we are able to do. We can't order blood work or anything, but can perform different Functional Testing to determine if you are having issues with a specific food/chemical/vitamin/etc. Of course, that is just one of the many things that we can do. We are Holistic Practitioners and focus on the human body as a sum of its parts instead of just addressing one function or system independently. Here is a link to find a provider in your area if you are interested in learning more. nutritionaltherapy.com/provider-search/
Post by litskispeciality on Dec 10, 2018 13:49:02 GMT -5
There was a death on the job at DH's work yesterday. I feel like a selfish jerk because I'm glad he wasn't working and I'm upset that people keep asking me how he's handling it (even though he didn't know this gentleman directly) but no one cares how I'm feeling. It really shakes me because it brings the danger of his job to front. Whlie now I worry about him working tonight I'm thankful for the break because he's hard to be around not dealing with it.
I can't get out of my own way today. I have so many emails I'm starting from the bottom and finally moving them, but the number is going down as new stuff comes up.
I really like my book club, and I really like the organizer, but I wish she would pick cheaper places to go to discuss the book. I looked up the place we are going on Sunday and it looks like there are no entrees under around $16 and most are $20+. It's a pizza place, so I don't know why it's so expensive? Even the apps and salads are all over $10 each.
We meet from 5-7pm so I think most people will be eating, but I might just get a drink. I feel awkward doing that (I've done that twice already, haha) but I really don't feel like spending $40 on book club. It's fun, but I'm on a relatively tight budget! Our last meeting was at a place that had really good specials so I spent more like $15, including tip, and that was fantastic.
We received our annual xmas card from a firm with whom we're friendly. Every year, it's the same. A bunch of pretty 20 year olds in tight, low-cut tank tops with the firm name stretched across their boobs. I started throwing them away years ago. Aside from the many other issues with it, there's no way I can post that in the lobby with the rest of the holiday business cards.
Post by followyourarrow on Dec 10, 2018 14:51:42 GMT -5
My dad is such a jerk. He hasn't come to family Christmas at my sister's house the last 5 years. We always invite him (he and my mom are still married), but he waits until the last second and decides not to come, usually saying he needs to take care of the cattle, even though lots of family and friends have offered to take care of them.
My sister called him to ask if he was coming. He was non-committal. Then she told him we're doing an air boat swamp tour. Now he's excited and wants to go. He can't go to spend time with his family, but he'll go for a swamp tour??!!! I'm furious and disappointed. I actually hope he doesn't come at this point.
H has a case of Christmas light inadequacy this year, which is funny because our neighborhood is traditionally Jewish, so we're not generally the most decorated street in town. But the houses who have decorated went all out this year for some reason.
We generally just wrap our light pole in white lights/garland and do white C9s along our walkway and landscaping but this year we added those white spiral trees on either side of our door, white snowflake lights hanging from the gables over our door and new red lights for the tree in the front yard. He's still not feeling it and now wants an inflatable.
Personally, I'm a little jealous of the Buon Natale in white lights up the street. If you're going to go, go big, I suppose.
We received our annual xmas card from a firm with whom we're friendly. Every year, it's the same. A bunch of pretty 20 year olds in tight, low-cut tank tops with the firm name stretched across their boobs. I started throwing them away years ago. Aside from the many other issues with it, there's no way I can post that in the lobby with the rest of the holiday business cards.
I'm kind of curious what type of firm this is? I mean it sounds more like happy holidays from Hooters rather than a law office or bank etc. Way to be professional.
We received our annual xmas card from a firm with whom we're friendly. Every year, it's the same. A bunch of pretty 20 year olds in tight, low-cut tank tops with the firm name stretched across their boobs. I started throwing them away years ago. Aside from the many other issues with it, there's no way I can post that in the lobby with the rest of the holiday business cards.
like a law firm? How can anyone think this is the appropriate Christmas Card unless it is from Hooters?
followyourarrow, I would be tempted to get your dad there and then be all, "Oh, we had to cancel the tour. i guess you will just have to hang with us."