Got the call for a snow day today, so my day is starting out marvelously! It's our first one this year and always such a nice surprise. I was already up, makeup on, and eating breakfast, so I was unable to fall back asleep. I'm just taking it nice and easy and leisurely sipping my coffee while redoing all my lesson plans ugh lol.
I had Day 1 of my 2 Day Taste Test for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups last night. We were given 5 samples and 2 of them were straight up terrible, like I couldn't even eat it. That made me sad LOL Then we went out to dinner and H's steak came out with a huge beard hair on it, so needless to say, he didn't eat. THEN I went to open a bag of Chocolate Covered Pretzels that H bought me from Asher's, and they ended up being candy and not pretzels. Last night was a big fat suck.
Today isn't starting off so great either. I overslept and was nearly 20 minutes late for work. I don't have a boss in my building and honestly, I'm always the first one in of all my coworkers anyway, so there wasn't even anyone here to notice, but still. Late is late. It's raining today. Again. I'm starting to forget what the sun looks like.
I have my annual review at 9am so I'm feeling anxious about that. Although I guess in the grand scheme it doesn't matter because I'm starting to look for a new job and a move out of state...
I’m at the airport headed an interview. (Job is at home, but corporate office is out of state.) I’ll probably be nervous later, but for now I’m just kind of going with the flow and wanting to see how this goes. I wish I didn’t feel like I need to move on from my current job.
I'm fighting hard to not be annoyed with DH. He got muscle relaxants for his neck pain at the doctor yesterday, and they're making him basically useless. Which is pretty expected and fine, but he keeps trying to be helpful, which is really just him being in the way, standing there with a blank look on his face. Just lay down and actually get better, man.
I'm so over people right now. I'm in all-day document reviews in conference rooms all week at work, I've had evening meetings just about every night this week, and of course there are people who need stuff in my house. I went on the treadmill last night just to make myself unavailable to everyone while I watched the second To All the Boys movie, and DS still came to bug me about stuff instead of going to DH who was 30 ft away from him.
My parents are taking the kids tomorrow night, and at this point I'm hoping DH just goes to bed early so I can sit in the house alone.
I had Day 1 of my 2 Day Taste Test for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups last night. We were given 5 samples and 2 of them were straight up terrible, like I couldn't even eat it. That made me sad LOL Then we went out to dinner and H's steak came out with a huge beard hair on it, so needless to say, he didn't eat. THEN I went to open a bag of Chocolate Covered Pretzels that H bought me from Asher's, and they ended up being candy and not pretzels. Last night was a big fat suck.
Today isn't starting off so great either. I overslept and was nearly 20 minutes late for work. I don't have a boss in my building and honestly, I'm always the first one in of all my coworkers anyway, so there wasn't even anyone here to notice, but still. Late is late. It's raining today. Again. I'm starting to forget what the sun looks like.
I couldn't even imagine any Reese's Peanut Butter cups that are horrible. I would've been really sad. And if I was PMSing, I might've actually cried. I hope the rest are better!!
I found out yesterday that one of my students was just diagnosed with a deadly genetic disorder. Meaning they may die in the next couple of years. I am devastated. We knew something wasn’t right at the beginning of the year and they have become progressively worse since September. I’ll see the mom this morning. She sent a quick email yesterday she is beside herself and doesn’t know what to do. I could not imagine what they are all going through.
DH and I are going to the FL Keys Saturday morning-Monday night to celebrate his 40th birthday. It will be 7* when we leave Cleveland and 80 in the Keys. I can’t wait. I feel like I should’ve done more for his birthday but an unplanned expensive trip plus gift certificates for a massage and sushi was all I could muster. He couldn’t come up with anything that he wanted, so that’s what he gets. I’m just mentally exhausted from planning and organizing our daily life I didn’t have it in me to plan anything over the top. I did arrange for the resort to decorate the room and have cupcakes waiting.
DH and I are going to the FL Keys Saturday morning-Monday night to celebrate his 40th birthday. It will be 7* when we leave Cleveland and 80 in the Keys. I can’t wait. I feel like I should’ve done more for his birthday but an unplanned expensive trip plus gift certificates for a massage and sushi was all I could muster. He couldn’t come up with anything that he wanted, so that’s what he gets. I’m just mentally exhausted from planning and organizing our daily life I didn’t have it in me to plan anything over the top. I did arrange for the resort to decorate the room and have cupcakes waiting.
This seems like more than enough! What else could he want? Have fun!
Post by lightbulbsun on Feb 13, 2020 9:21:25 GMT -5
I was just on the phone with my bank for 20 minutes figuring out why the checks I ordered are being sent to my previous address (changed almost 2 years ago), with my maiden name (changed 8 years ago). I got it all sorted out and they're sending new checks to my real address and voiding the ones sent to my previous address, but I'm still annoyed. When I reviewed all the info when ordering the checks it was correct, and it was only when I got the shipping confirmation that I saw it was wrong.
DH and I are going to the FL Keys Saturday morning-Monday night to celebrate his 40th birthday. It will be 7* when we leave Cleveland and 80 in the Keys. I can’t wait. I feel like I should’ve done more for his birthday but an unplanned expensive trip plus gift certificates for a massage and sushi was all I could muster. He couldn’t come up with anything that he wanted, so that’s what he gets. I’m just mentally exhausted from planning and organizing our daily life I didn’t have it in me to plan anything over the top. I did arrange for the resort to decorate the room and have cupcakes waiting.
This seems like more than enough! What else could he want? Have fun!
Thanks! I just had good intentions early on to make it super awesome and way over the top, but you’re right, this is enough and I’m overthinking it. 🙂
DH and I are going to the FL Keys Saturday morning-Monday night to celebrate his 40th birthday. It will be 7* when we leave Cleveland and 80 in the Keys. I can’t wait. I feel like I should’ve done more for his birthday but an unplanned expensive trip plus gift certificates for a massage and sushi was all I could muster. He couldn’t come up with anything that he wanted, so that’s what he gets. I’m just mentally exhausted from planning and organizing our daily life I didn’t have it in me to plan anything over the top. I did arrange for the resort to decorate the room and have cupcakes waiting.
This seems like more than enough! What else could he want?
Post by amandakisser on Feb 13, 2020 9:33:03 GMT -5
It's so gross out. I'm working remotely and I have a chill that I just can't shake. Blah.
I JUST remembered that DD1 has no school tomorrow. I'm sure she'll be complaining she's bored by 9 am. I will be working and she'll have to stay home with me - I'm already planning on making her clean her room.
Post by Leeham Rimes on Feb 13, 2020 9:44:27 GMT -5
Wes will be having a meeting with a dean from his school about the kid who punched him. I got more info out of him, apparently he was pretending to write on his friend with an invisible ink pen. The friend asked “did you write on me” Wes said “yes” (even though he actually didn’t. He was “just being silly” and got punched. I wish Wes would learn to stop “being silly” , it gets him in way too much trouble. Though at least he didn’t punch the kid back, so that’s something. Oy.
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
Post by followyourarrow on Feb 13, 2020 9:50:27 GMT -5
They hired a COO who will be over me. She has zero experience. Zero. She's friends with our CTO though, so of course. When we interviewed her, she was rather odd and borderline inappropriate. When we asked her to tell us about herself, she launched into personal things, like born here, raised there, married, kids, divorced, new husband is 23 (she's somewhere over 50 by my guess) (I legit don't case about having a much younger husband, I do care that she shared this in an interview). Then we went around and told her what we do, and she asked us personal questions like married, kids, etc. So I'm back to looking for a new job I think.
tripleshot, I think your getaway birthday weekend is perfect. I did something similar for DH's 50th last year and he still says it's his favorite vacation he's been on (and we take a lot of vacations). Have fun!!
We have a new estimating software program at work (I'm a project manager in construction) and I just cannot wrap my brain around it. I keep trying to practice in it and play around in it and I just end up getting frustrated. Our drop-dead go-live date is 3/2 and I am stressing the fuck out over it.
I had Day 1 of my 2 Day Taste Test for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups last night. We were given 5 samples and 2 of them were straight up terrible, like I couldn't even eat it. That made me sad LOL Then we went out to dinner and H's steak came out with a huge beard hair on it, so needless to say, he didn't eat. THEN I went to open a bag of Chocolate Covered Pretzels that H bought me from Asher's, and they ended up being candy and not pretzels. Last night was a big fat suck.
Today isn't starting off so great either. I overslept and was nearly 20 minutes late for work. I don't have a boss in my building and honestly, I'm always the first one in of all my coworkers anyway, so there wasn't even anyone here to notice, but still. Late is late. It's raining today. Again. I'm starting to forget what the sun looks like.
I couldn't even imagine any Reese's Peanut Butter cups that are horrible. I would've been really sad. And if I was PMSing, I might've actually cried. I hope the rest are better!!
TBF we were tasting reduced sugar ones, and sometimes artificial sweeteners can be nasty. But it was weird the different consistencies of the candy and how they were apparently affected by the lack of sugar.
Post by gibbinator on Feb 13, 2020 10:20:16 GMT -5
My team is looking at potentially losing a major long-term client due to quality issues on a big project. My part of the project is going well and I've been getting good feedback personally so far, but I'm super stressed because the tiniest mistake on my part at this point could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I'm also stuck fixing other people's work who didn't read the client's instructions (!!!) while still rushing to get mine done on time and also perfectly. It suuuucks and is a recipe for disaster honestly.
I’ve been fasting for the last 12 hours in anticipation of labs today. I get to the office and they have no record of my appointment or my orders. So, I’m sitting here, hungry, while Rachael Ray is on in the waiting room. I just ran over here in jeans and a t-shirt, thinking it would be a quick run in and I’d run back home to get dressed for work. I’ve been here waiting 24 min already. Hopefully they give me an update soon.
The kids had another snow day today, the third in a week, and two of those are real head-scratchers. There’s almost no snow on the ground.
I’m having the kids do chores or exercise to earn TV, which is mostly keeping them out of my hair, lol. Later we’ll make cookies for H for Valentines Day.
I wish we had another snow day- we got quite a few inches last night on top of the snow we already had. We went to a performance at the kids school last night then has an impromptu dinner out with our neighbors and their kids last night which was super fun! I love that my kids are now old enough where we can do an adults table and a kids table at restaurants lol
After almost two weeks DH finally passed his kidney stone. Just in time because Fri he was going to have to have a procedure to have it lasered. So glad we don't have to spend that money now and he's not in pain anymore!
They changed the date for my mom coming home until tomorrow. Oy. Fingers crossed this happens. It’s the 4th date we have been given in the last week and it’s really throwing us all off work schedule-wise. Plus their anniversary is this weekend so she really wants to be home for that. I get they are being cautious because she had a cold but come on! Give her some cough medicine and let her go home and have some time there while she’s still herself mentally and before things inevitably get worse.
I opened my front door this morning to find a homemade valentine from I'm guessing a kid on the street and it totally made me cry; it was so sweet and such the words I needed to hear this morning. My next door neighbor had one tucked into her door as did the people across from me so they must have tucked them into several doors on my street. Definitely made my day!!!
Then I got to work and spilled my coffee everywhere before I got to enjoy it....