Post by ginandjucie24 on Aug 30, 2019 9:24:27 GMT -5
Think of all you who have to deal mentally, emotionally, and physically For hurricanes. You all are tough.
My random is that I will be trying some braided hairstyles for my dd and I have never braided her hair. It’s always in her face, we call her hair style one eyed Abbie because one eye is always covered by hair. Any tips or hints will be appreciated. I remember my mom braiding (and doing my hair) and it hurt and I would always get hit on the head with the brush because I moved or something. .
We are going to the National Book Festival tomorrow and get to hear Ruth Bader Ginsburg talk. I am very excited.
It was so nice to “sleep in” today, we got up at 7:15 this morning.
Think of all you who have to deal mentally, emotionally, and physically For hurricanes. You all are tough.
My random is that I will be trying some braided hairstyles for my dd and I have never braided her hair. It’s always in her face, we call her hair style one eyed Abbie because one eye is always covered by hair. Any tips or hints will be appreciated. I remember my mom braiding (and doing my hair) and it hurt and I would always get hit on the head with the brush because I moved or something. .
We are going to the National Book Festival tomorrow and get to hear Ruth Bader Ginsburg talk. I am very excited.
It was so nice to “sleep in” today, we got up at 7:15 this morning.
No help on the braiding, but dd1 was known as "Violet" from The Incredibles because her hair always covered her one eye. Drove me insane! She wouldn't let me do anything with it either.
This 100% And how is the cheapest ticket $20? That's crazy. Most I see are like $1-5
Right? Last year I gave $5 for some football ticket with which I obviously never won anything. I bought that one begrudgingly but it was five dollars. Twenty is a lot to me even if I'm in support or neutral about a cause.
Do not give money. Bc they will never stop asking for it. Travel sports is expensive and why we won’t do it. I’ll be damned if I spend more than a couple bucks on someone else’s premium sport.
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham
Today and tomorrow I'm taking DD into Manhattan for mother-daughter fun days. Our last hurrah before school starts next week. DD had such a great summer break. I'm sad to see it end.
I'm off today b/c our county made a deal w/ the state government that if we wanted to go back to school before Labor Day, we had to schedule the Fri before as a day off also. So here were are--no work today!
E "invited" me to check out this trail by our house--it was awesome! Nice to get outside. Then we're going to Lion King (yeah, we're late), and then out to dinner.
I have to decide if I'm going to drive to the beach tonight or tomorrow morning--I'm going to a concert w/ my bestie-since-I-was-13yo tomorrow night. I can get a second night at the hotel no prob, and H doesn't care what day I go (which is nice to have the choice/freedom). I'm leaning towards going tonight.
Post by oregonpachey on Aug 30, 2019 12:25:57 GMT -5
I am fighting off an anxiety attack. I am going to be glued to my computer screen all weekend for a huge work project. I am nervous something is going to go poorly.
This author I like writes under a pseudonym and doesn't post pictures of herself, so I have no idea who she is. But her PO Box is in my town, so I have a feeling she lives here, which is oddly exciting lol. I'm such a dork.
My H and I are going to see my guitar teacher play at a bar tonight.
I'm semi annoyed. My dear friend who knows I'm broke just emailed to ask if I wanted to buy a $20 or $50 raffle ticket to support her fifth grader's travel tackle football team. They live in a land of palatial mansions. There are thousands of causes I'd support before concussions for rich boys but I'll feel like a jerk. I'm letting that one sit on read for a while.
I would ignore or email that you hope they have a great season but you can't purchase a raffle ticket.
Hell no am I going to financially subsidize a freaking travel sport for some upper middle class kids. That is some fucking nonsense.
Post by litskispeciality on Aug 30, 2019 12:53:26 GMT -5
As much as I hate snow I'm so effing glad I don't live where they get crazy hurricanes. It's a big, huge serious thing, but I think the news stations make it worse. This isn't the first time they've run out of gas and water. One of my SIL's sisters bought literal cases of water for the last big hurricane that she never used, where someone else could have bought one or split up the pack. Anyway good luck to all of yoU!
I'm so unmotivated today. We had lunch off campus and vented a bit. It was super good food for someone who's afraid to try Mexican food because it might be spicy.
Finally, still waiting on that job. They told me 10 days last Friday, and with the holiday Monday. I just really need to know if they're going to make an offer and if so can I take the salary as it will effect vacation stuff for this year and next year.DH needs to get a better job but alas everyone else will suffer.
There was a chain of events that lead from me having a kid free weekend to having both kids solo and I'm not thrilled.
SD1 was working at a place with some red flags. She had a really awful 10 hour shift that was a mess and we encouraged her to quit. She is a hard worker, literally everyone is hiring in our town it will be fine. DH was going camping and she and DS were supposed to go with him.
Well SDs mom freaked out, made her apply to a bunch of jobs she doesn't really want. Now SD is staying home to do interviews. DS doesnt want to go if SD isnt going. Ughhhhhhhh. SD2 lives with her and has been "looking for a job"for six months and spent all summer sleeping and doing legit nothing. So I'm not sure why we have to shit ourselves if SD isnt working for a week or so especially when any bills she owes, she pays to us and we encouraged her to quit...literally chill lady. Now I have to spend 2 days dodging nerf bullets and I was going to hang out at my friends BBQ instead.
Your H should stay home too, then. Or just make your DS go with him. None of this should be your issue, especially if you already had other plans.
Post by 1confused1 on Aug 30, 2019 13:51:05 GMT -5
We are going camping this weekend and I am irrationally worried about food. We are close enough to civilization that I could go to the store, but for some reason it's all I can think about.
I have been doing intermittent fasting for a week and it is surprisingly easy. I follow the 16:8 schedule. I am way less hungry, stay full between meals etc. mornings are the toughest and I have to push through my hunger a bit. Otherwise it feels less restrictive than any other “diet” I have tried.
I have many questions! If you'll indulge me?
My man is interested in trying this and it's taking all my willpower not to freak out at him. The concept of fasting as dieting is scary to me, tbh. If I think critically about it, I'm thinking of how *I* would function on a diet like this, and that's not fair to him.
Did you talk to a doctor before you started? What are your eating hours? Are you doing this alone, or with anyone else? Is it hard to watch other people eat in front of you?
I ran a ton of errands today and took the dog to the vet for some tests. She is lucky she is cute because the tests + new medication was over $450!! We have had like $2k in unexpected expenses this summer. Plus both of us have one sick parent— now my FIL is back in the hospital. Summer is supposed to be fun! I’m really beat.
We are heading for the beach in a couple weeks. It should be warm and we found a place that was super cheap that gets good reviews and allows both dogs. I don’t want to jinx it but fingers crossed nothing else happens and we can go and relax.
I have been doing intermittent fasting for a week and it is surprisingly easy. I follow the 16:8 schedule. I am way less hungry, stay full between meals etc. mornings are the toughest and I have to push through my hunger a bit. Otherwise it feels less restrictive than any other “diet” I have tried.
I have many questions! If you'll indulge me?
My man is interested in trying this and it's taking all my willpower not to freak out at him. The concept of fasting as dieting is scary to me, tbh. If I think critically about it, I'm thinking of how *I* would function on a diet like this, and that's not fair to him.
Did you talk to a doctor before you started? What are your eating hours? Are you doing this alone, or with anyone else? Is it hard to watch other people eat in front of you?
I’m not the OP but I do intermittent fasting so I’ll answer. I mentioned it to my dr and he said “sounds good!” Lol. There is no peer reviewed research on it so he said he couldn’t tell me how well it would work but that in his opinion for me there was no harm. I eat between 12-8 pm. I often ate breakfast around 10 so for me it was basically pushing breakfast back 2 hours and cutting down on post dinner snacking. The times I use don’t affect socializing much (the occasional early brunch with friends) and since I have kids I always eat dinner well before 8 pm anyway. Im rarely in the position of watching people eat during my fasting window and I’m not that hungry during it so it’s no big deal. I’m also not crazy strict - we were away the last two weeks on vacation and i didn’t follow it while I was gone etc.
OMG. So H recently found out he has has frozen shoulder and has been to PT twice now. He just texted me that he's going to have to stop going or go less because it's expensive. EXCEPT. He just started having our older dog have HOUSE CALL visits from a vet for accupuncture and cold laser therapy. Which. Whatever, fine, if that's how you want to spend money ok, but I'll be damned if I'm going to listen to him bitch about how much his shoulder hurts when he's prioritizing a 13 year old dog's hips over his shoulder.
We are going camping this weekend and I am irrationally worried about food. We are close enough to civilization that I could go to the store, but for some reason it's all I can think about.
I do this every time we go camping and then I am irritated when we get home and I have to unpack all the food we didn’t eat, lol.
Post by brandy0331 on Aug 30, 2019 15:45:56 GMT -5
DS guilted me into having a sleepover tomorrow night. I love the kid he invited but it will be a bit of work to make sure they don’t burn down my house or something equally catastrophic.
Has anyone else watched Dave Chapelle’s new comedy show on Netflix? Sticks and Stones I think it is called.
Post by Leeham Rimes on Aug 30, 2019 15:51:43 GMT -5
There’s a pool party tomorrow for a friend of X. Stores are a disaster and I completely forgot to get anything while prepping for a hurricane. How bad is it to send him with a $20 in a homemade card? Cuz that’s what I’m doing. Lol. I am not going to anymore stores. Nope. Not. Doing. It.
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham
Same. I’d be strongly suggesting to DH that he stay home.
He can't. He has a side business related to off-roading and he has a trip planned for the fall and he has to go up ahead of time to get familiar with the trails so he doesn't get everyone lost. This is the only weekend he can go.
Sooooo yeah. Not amused with SDs mom right now.
But wasn’t he going to take all the kids anyway? Why can’t he still do that minus the one SD?
There’s a pool party tomorrow for a friend of X. Stores are a disaster and I completely forgot to get anything while prepping for a hurricane. How bad is it to send him with a $20 in a homemade card? Cuz that’s what I’m doing. Lol. I am not going to anymore stores. Nope. Not. Doing. It.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me and I am 100% certain the kid will be thrilled to receive cash.
There’s a pool party tomorrow for a friend of X. Stores are a disaster and I completely forgot to get anything while prepping for a hurricane. How bad is it to send him with a $20 in a homemade card? Cuz that’s what I’m doing. Lol. I am not going to anymore stores. Nope. Not. Doing. It.
I would totally do that and I wouldn’t think twice about it if that was a gift for DS.
There’s a pool party tomorrow for a friend of X. Stores are a disaster and I completely forgot to get anything while prepping for a hurricane. How bad is it to send him with a $20 in a homemade card? Cuz that’s what I’m doing. Lol. I am not going to anymore stores. Nope. Not. Doing. It.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me and I am 100% certain the kid will be thrilled to receive cash.
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham
He can't. He has a side business related to off-roading and he has a trip planned for the fall and he has to go up ahead of time to get familiar with the trails so he doesn't get everyone lost. This is the only weekend he can go.
Sooooo yeah. Not amused with SDs mom right now.
But wasn’t he going to take all the kids anyway? Why can’t he still do that minus the one SD?
Oh he could. It's just that DS is pitching a fit because SD is his hero and now that she isn't going he wants to stay home to be with her and I'm just going to let them be together.
He went with DH alone last time, but SD was at her moms that weekend so he wasnt missing out on time with her. I mean it's not terrible, she seems to genuinely enjoy being around him. She got home from her college visit today and was like "Let's take the racecars to the park and see which one goes down the slides the fastest!" She gets bored and is always suggesting they go outside to do something so it's not the worst thing in the world. I was just planning to drink White Claws by a campfire for like 6 hours with my friend, lie around and read etc so I'm a little bummed out.
But wasn’t he going to take all the kids anyway? Why can’t he still do that minus the one SD?
Oh he could. It's just that DS is pitching a fit because SD is his hero and now that she isn't going he wants to stay home to be with her and I'm just going to let them be together.
He went with DH alone last time, but SD was at her moms that weekend so he wasnt missing out on time with her. I mean it's not terrible, she seems to genuinely enjoy being around him. She got home from her college visit today and was like "Let's take the racecars to the park and see which one goes down the slides the fastest!" She gets bored and is always suggesting they go outside to do something so it's not the worst thing in the world. I was just planning to drink White Claws by a campfire for like 6 hours with my friend, lie around and read etc so I'm a little bummed out.
Well I'd let her handle him for at least a couple of hours while you go do just that.
There’s a pool party tomorrow for a friend of X. Stores are a disaster and I completely forgot to get anything while prepping for a hurricane. How bad is it to send him with a $20 in a homemade card? Cuz that’s what I’m doing. Lol. I am not going to anymore stores. Nope. Not. Doing. It.
We went to a party the day before Harvey. I also gave cash for the same reason.
It sounds like a crazy idea but we figured we were all going to be cooped up for days, might as well let the kids run around for a bit.
There’s a pool party tomorrow for a friend of X. Stores are a disaster and I completely forgot to get anything while prepping for a hurricane. How bad is it to send him with a $20 in a homemade card? Cuz that’s what I’m doing. Lol. I am not going to anymore stores. Nope. Not. Doing. It.
We went to a party the day before Harvey. I also gave cash for the same reason.
It sounds like a crazy idea but we figured we were all going to be cooped up for days, might as well let the kids run around for a bit.
I’m very happy for this party bc we may be cooped up for a verrrrrry long time.
They’ve already canceled school Tuesday and they’ll probably be out the whole week (maybe more) since the hurricane isn’t even slated to hit us until Wednesday and they use school as temporary shelters.
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham
Soooo today both my parents and ours had our flights changed by SW coming back from our cruise. Basically they still scheduled flights using the max 8, despite it being out of service. They moved us to a 9am flight. When I called they said I could move to 7:30pm. Fuck that.
I cancelled with a full refund, booked on AA and ended up going out of a closer airport with better flight times.