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[sandandsea]

Are we still calling it this? Post your ransoms, updates and doesn’t deserve own posts here! I’m starting it early as I have a random.


DS’s teachers this year and last asked us to write 1000 words or less about your child so they can get to know him/her better. I wrote it both years and just finished this year’s letter for 2nd grade. I told dh, “I’m going to type it and save it so I don’t have to write it out again next year”. So, I finish and go to print it out and happen to find last year’s letter saved on my computer. I read it and it’s nearly exactly the same thing. Many parts are verbatim. Once again proving that kids are who they are and are born how they’re born. DS at the beginning of 2nd is pretty much DS at the beginning of 1st, just taller.

Also who writes 1000 words for these things!!?? I’m at 450 and have nothing meaningful or important left to say. No one wants to read 1000 words on 30 special snowflakes.

[sandandsea]

Yeah...Autocorrected to ransoms again and I’m leaving it. Stay gold Ponyboy.

[campermom]

My plastic surgery consults were yesterday. I can’t make a decision. Please head over to ML and tell me what to do.

[covergirl82]

I took on a new responsibility in February (sales commissions), and I am not happy. I talked to my boss yesterday about...I told her it's not what I thought it would be when they gave me the work, and honestly, they could pay someone a lot less to do this work (very administrative - copying information from one source into another, sending out a million emails, making sure leaders are approving the commissions on time, etc.), the work really shouldn't reside in our department (it should be in Finance), and I miss doing more actual compensation analyst work (and doing sales commissions takes up a lot of time because it's so manual and administrative). So we'll see if anything comes of it. I'm hoping something will change, as I have a good relationship with my manager, and I know she wouldn't want me to leave.

[mae0111]

Dh and I have been in an ongoing battle with one of our neighbors. He has taken possession of property that doesn't belong to anyone, and he's attempting to block access to our property from that land. It's not buildable, but he lined up boulders along our fence line and gate, and cleared brush and planted trees and grass. He's trying to claim it as his own because he did a huge, gaudy addition that ate up all of his land on that side of the house. We've approached the town administration at all levels (building inspector, land inspector, all the way up to our sh!tty lame-duck mayor), but no luck.

I just talked to a lawyer and we are preparing for battle, and I just don't have the energy for it. But we have to do it or we will lose access to part of our land.

[dglvrk2]

Aug 15, 2019 0:08:08 GMT -5 sandandsea said:

Yeah...Autocorrected to ransoms again and I’m leaving it. Stay gold Ponyboy.

I love the Outsiders reference!!!!

[dglvrk2]

Haven't been here much lately. Happy to be back! My randoms.....I've been running early in the morning for the past few weeks and loving the calmness and sunrises. I have to go into work a good 30 minutes earlier every day starting Monday.....not sure if pre-work runs will be feasible as it would mean starting by 5:15 at the latest (currently starting at 5:30/5:45). I'll miss these runs.

My mom wants to take me, my dad and my sister (only sibling) to the Czech Republic - where my dad's grandparents came from - for my dad's 75th birthday next year. Initially, she also seemed excited to plan the trip herself, which worried me a bit since she's not the best at these things and has never been to there. She recently charged me with the planning. I've been to the Czech Republic and am really excited to play your guide. Let the planning begin!!

[mellym]

We leave for vacation in two days and I'm actually ahead on the packing front. DD1 already has her backback packed and ready to go too. My parents are coming to our house an hour before we need to leave to help with all the last minute things. I can't wait to check out and relax for a week. Well, as much as you can relax with small children.

I was back into the doctor's office with DD3 and we got an antibiotic after two more weeks of coughing and now spiking a fever. I hope she starts feeling better over the next couple of days. We weren't able to do labs again because she has another fever. On a positive note, the ENT said her adenoids were fine. My nephew had some bloodwork come back with abnormal levels last week. He has a blood disorder but these tests had always been fine. I'm trying not to let my head go negative for either of them.

DD1 got the teacher she wanted and two of her best friends are in her class. She is so happy.

[mellym]

dglvrk2, I prefer to exercise in the mornings as well. Makes me feel better to start the day. I've been starting at 5-5:15 which was okay until this week because now it's still dark outside. I'm not sure where you live if that would be an issue. It's only going to get worse here and I bike so it makes me really nervous on the roads.

[covergirl82]

sandandsea, 1000 words is crazy. We usually get a short questionnaire to share a few things about our kid. Definitely have never had to write an essay, and I don't think I'd be able to write 1000 words either.

[k3am]

dglvrk2, I get up between 4:30-4:45 to workout in the mornings. It's totally doable.

But like mellym mentioned, running in the dark-dark vs. twilight is something to think about. Even with a head lamp and knuckle lights, our sidewalks here are so poorly maintained that I had to give up running in the mornings. It's too easy for me to miss an uneven portion of sidewalk and I've eaten pavement enough that it's not worth it to me. But man, those early runs were a great way to start a day. Alas, it is a life of indoor workouts for me.

[mommyatty]

Random:

I just got an allergy shot and I’m waiting my requisite 20 minutes before I leave. A mom came in with her 2 small kids. Headed to the kids room. Kids were playing normally and watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. She just started singing kids songs REALLY LOUDLY and then keeps shushing her kids for singing at her volume. They were much quieter playing than this nonsense. And ps she can’t sing.

Another random:

I’m leaving from here to see the chiropractor and then heading to the airport. This week I’ll be in Nebraska and Iowa. Next week, Seattle on Monday and Tuesday, home to take kids to school Wednesday for first day of school, then back on a plane for an evening meeting in North Dakota, then home in time for Meet the Teacher. I’m tired already.

[phdmomma]

Dentist appointments all around this week. I have a cavity that needs to get filled where my sealants cracked off. On the bright side, they got me in this afternoon due to a cancellation. DD's teeth are fine. DS has his 6 year molars growing in, and they are missing a bunch of enamel. Which means first we will try sealing them, and then eventually we will need to get him crowns. The dentist said that it could be due to the fact that he was preemie or because he was sick quite a bit as a baby. Those are in the way back, so they aren't such as big deal. But now I'm nervous about the rest of his adult teeth which are growing in. He has the 4 front ones, and they look more or less alright, but still needs the rest. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they have enamel.

It can also be an effect of celiac's disease, which I have and has a genetic component. DD sees the gastro next week, DS is in September. Just unraveling all of this takes time, and so many appointments.

[covergirl82]

I talked with the principal this morning re: DS not having any friends in his class. I framed it as I was curious as to how he ended up in a class with no friends, when we have been led to expect that kids will have at least one friend in their class (and I'm surprised that DS going into 4th grade, that the 3rd grade teachers would not know that DS has had a solid group of friends since 1st grade). I shared with him that DS has had some anxiety (which results in not eating, vomiting, not sleeping enough, etc.) lately before activities where he knows he will have friends there, so I'm worried it will be a rough start to the year and potentially trigger migraines due to stress (and also not eating or sleeping properly due to that stress). I decided to also email the teacher and asked her to give me a call so she can get prepared with strategies to alleviate DS's stress. I'm interested to hear her thoughts when I talk with her.

The beginning of the school year is also my busiest time of the year for work (although, thankfully this is the last year of that due to my organization changing fiscal years next year), so I am now more stressed on top of work stress. (ETA:  I am the default parent when it comes to sick kids, kids needing to be picked up from school due to illness, etc., so it will most likely fall on me to deal with issues, if any come up, at the beginning of the school year.)

[traveltheworld]

I have a lot of randoms!

Random 1: for the first time in over 2 years, I'm bored at work. There are a lot of mundane administrative stuff I could work on, but I don't want to.

Random 2: I love reading parenting books, have read dozens, and even if a book is meh, I skim through it in the hopes of learning 1 useful thing. Well, I just started reading How to Raise Successful People (written by the woman whose 3 daughters became/are CEO of YouTube, 23andMe, and a prof) - and my goodness, I've seldom been that annoyed by a book. I feel like the entire book is just one long bragging / name-dropping session. *insert gigantic eye roll*

Random 3: I'm trying to put together a list of IEP goals for DS for the new school year and it's proving much more difficult than I thought. I asked DH if he'd consider being a SAHD again and home-school, and he just glared at me.

[rere]

So yesterday I made a speech in front of about 100 people including a lot of coworkers and my director, the mayor. Everyone has said it was so great, amazing, etc... So did my direct boss, except she said I need to work on my FACE sitting in a chair in the front of the room. MY FACE. She was thrown off guard that I did not take that well. I said you insulted my FACE, because this is what it looks like.

I am thinking she just can't take all the praise coming my way and thinks she needs to knock me down. I am not changing my face. I can't sit in the front of a room and smile for an hour and a half. People will think I am high.

[supertrooper1]

I moved into my rental house the first week of May. I have been waiting for internet since then. Comcast told me that a line had to be buried first, probably within a month. They finally came and buried the line yesterday, over 3 months since requesting it! Now I have to wait a week for an installer to come. But I think I'm finally going to get internet.

[mae0111]

DDOT: I rode a camel yesterday with DD2. 0/10. Would not recommend.

[erinshelley21]

Still haven't closed on my office building. The realtor keeps saying we will close on the sale of my house before the building. I'd be tickled shitless if we close on both the same day. He should make that happen.
Our first buyers are accepting the house as-is and dont want anything fixed. While the extra money would have been nice from the back up offer, I won't feel as bad for pushing the first buyers out. They had their little girl(2 or 3) with them when they looked and when they came for the inspection and they said this was the first place she ever claimed a room and was chatty in.
DS is still sad about school. Not as bad yesterday, but there were almost tears this morning. I hope next week is better. He asked me if I could come eat lunch with him soon. I'm trying to decide if I think it's too soon or if it would help.

[mae0111]

DDOT Confession: DD1 has been difficult for the past few days. She will do exactly nothing except watch TV, and will scream at the top of her lungs if I ask her to do anything else. Like, take a shower is met with a level 10 meltdown.

Today she had a talent show at camp. It was 2 hours long. I had stuff to do, but I totally could have made an effort to attend.

Confession: I didn’t attend. I didn’t want to. I’m tired of bending myself into a pretzel and getting shit on for it. So... nope. Didn’t go.

[mustardseed2007]

Aug 15, 2019 19:58:05 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

DDOT: I rode a camel yesterday with DD2. 0/10. Would not recommend.

lol thanks for the heads up! 

[mae0111]

Aug 16, 2019 16:57:58 GMT -5 mustardseed2007 said:

Aug 15, 2019 19:58:05 GMT -5 mae0111 said:

DDOT: I rode a camel yesterday with DD2. 0/10. Would not recommend.

lol thanks for the heads up! 

😂

[erinshelley21]

Aug 16, 2019 9:39:52 GMT -5 erinshelley21 said:

Still haven't closed on my office building. The realtor keeps saying we will close on the sale of my house before the building. I'd be tickled shitless if we close on both the same day. He should make that happen.
Our first buyers are accepting the house as-is and dont want anything fixed. While the extra money would have been nice from the back up offer, I won't feel as bad for pushing the first buyers out. They had their little girl(2 or 3) with them when they looked and when they came for the inspection and they said this was the first place she ever claimed a room and was chatty in.
DS is still sad about school. Not as bad yesterday, but there were almost tears this morning. I hope next week is better. He asked me if I could come eat lunch with him soon. I'm trying to decide if I think it's too soon or if it would help.

Update to my update: closing on the building next thursday!!!!