It’s 10:30 and I just woke up. I’m half impressed, half annoyed that I’ve wasted a good couple of hours of my day. Lol
I need to hit the grocery store and costco this morning and get laundry going. I have to go pick up a bike rack so we can take our bikes with us to the mountains next weekend. Then we’re heading to the pool this afternoon for a few hours.
No plans for tomorrow except the usual meal and lunch prep. We head up to Breck on Saturday morning next week, so I should probably think through logistics there because it’s bound to sneak up on me with how busy my work weeks are.
We are painting our living/dining room and can’t find a color we love. I think we are going to go with the color we hate the least (a cool mint), which is less than satisfying. We are just so sick of the blues we’ve had for years.
Post by icedcoffee on Jul 10, 2021 11:51:36 GMT -5
I tried to be a cool mom last night and let my kids who normally go to bed at 7 get in the pool at 7:15. I pulled my back diving off the diving board because I am too old for this shit. Owe!!
Post by Monica Geller on Jul 10, 2021 12:05:16 GMT -5
It’s been a bit of a day here already! 🤣🤪 DS2 woke up screaming at 6am. Thankfully DH got up with him but ugh what a start to the day.
Then DS1 had soccer. As we are unloading the car in the parking lot, he jumps out of the car onto my flip flop wearing foot in his cleats. HOLT SHIT that hurt. Then we get to the field and it’s a substitute coach. DS is very sensitive to these kinds of changes and starts crying and refusing to join the team. DH worked with him and talked with him for awhile before he finally joined in. Then, they won! So he was ecstatic and so happy he was “brave and tried”! 😜 Holy roller coaster of emotions for a one hour kids soccer game!
I’ve got a lot of laundry and other chores to do today. It’s kinda cool and gloomy here so I might clean out the closet that I keep putting off.
**Mostly Poof** I'm feeling annoyed with my H because he's being irrational about a necessary cost of our home remodel (work that isn't even happening yet).
Post by Patsy Baloney on Jul 10, 2021 12:11:04 GMT -5
I cannot get my butt off the couch today.
My H is shoveling out our daughter’s room today to build her a desk. He’s packed up her Barbies and other dolls, put a bunch of old toys and stuffed animals in the giveaway bin, and pulled out her dress up wardrobe to be repurposed/rehomed into her brother’s room.
She’s 8 and doesn’t play with hardly any toys anymore, but it’s still kind of sad to see it all go. But she’s going to love having a desk. She loves to write books/comic books, so this is really going to zing her.
DD did a very last minute “athlete” photo shoot with a friend of a friend who is just starting their business. 2 hours of gymnast poses and she loved it. She’s been a bit down about gymnastics (she’s a competitive gymnast new to the optionals team at her gym and struggling with some of the changes) and I hope this gives her a little confidence boost!
I’m skipping out on a family graduation party to get some work done on the online class I have due at the end of the month! I’m so so so bad at concentrating and getting things done…
Oh, and I’m on day 7 of a tension headache with nothing giving me any relief. It’s starting to feel like torture.
We are leaving for the Outer Banks tomorrow! So today I am trying to get the house in order to be gone a week and need to spend a couple of hours on something for work that I procrastinated on and really can't wait a week until we get back. I mostly need to pack and get the outdoor plants in shape for leaving them for a week, and bring the pots on our deck down to our backyard so that the cat sitter can water them with the hose instead of having to fill a watering can several times. I am feeling guilty about leaving our cat for a whole week - he hasn't been alone more than few days since before the pandemic, and he's been alone very little at all most days since my H still primarily works from home.
I am strongly considering finally hiring someone to do cleaning at our house. We overpaid our escrow account last year so our payment is going down almost $300 a month for the next 12 months, and with me going back to work in the office full time and my H still being buried in work at home, taking care of the house feels kind of stressful. On the other hand, we're just 2 people and our house isn't that big, so it's not like there is a need to spend many hours cleaning anyway. I can't decide if it feels like a waste to pay to have someone else do it. I imagine we wouldn't want to pay more than bi-weekly and that would mean there would still be touch ups in between.
court26, I think he's just in anticipatory freak out mode because the remodel is going to be such a HUGE undertaking, and then I'm mentioning a cost he hadn't thought about. But in the end I know common sense will prevail, and so we'll have the movers.
I took DS2 to pick up his football helmet and thank God his glasses fit inside the padding. Last year he had to play without glasses and I felt bad for him. We’re having a hitch added to my SUV in a little while and I’m waiting to hear from DH if he’s meeting me there or at home because the place is 45 minutes from our house and it’ll take a few hours to put the hitch on. I’m not sitting there waiting for it! I need to do laundry, I normally have Fridays off but had to work yesterday so my weekend feels much shorter than normal.
I haven’t been this happy and relaxed in almost a year. I haven’t seen the kids this happy in 6 months and DH this relaxed in ages. DH and I are already looking at the school calendar to see when we can come back ❤️
Post by mrsukyankee on Jul 10, 2021 13:40:24 GMT -5
Dog woke me up at 5:30am this morning for no apparent reason other than he wanted a cuddle. Good thing he's cute. I had cricket training from 9:30-11:30 and after walking the dog became the laziest person ever and have been sitting on my tushy since then. I have a cricket match tomorrow, so I'll be running around for a few hours, which will be good. And hopefully, we'll see England win tomorrow evening.
DH is finishing laying leftover hardwood from our endless kitchen flood project in the dining room. I'm really impressed at how well he did! It looks just as good as when we've had it professionally laid, which is only going to backfire on him as I plot other locations we can lay it.
Otherwise we're just being lazy this weekend. It's storming and I'm filming for a major video project next week that will be three 10 hour days at about 60 locations in 12 buildings. It's been an enormous amount of writing and casting and logistics and as much as I look forward to shoot days, I know I'm going to be hating life by Thursday night.
Post by RoxMonster on Jul 10, 2021 14:13:36 GMT -5
I got some new hiking shoes from a local outdoor store. They are Hokas and omg they’re the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn. It’s like walking on clouds!
We then went for a hike and got caught in pouring rain but oh well 🤷🏻♀️
Post by blondemoment123 on Jul 10, 2021 14:13:43 GMT -5
We went to lunch today and as we were leaving we saw a fire truck outside. The firemen came out and let DS have a tour of it. He was was freaking happy!
Now I’m tracking down the fire chiefs info so I can pass my thanks along.
We were up early to run a bunch of errands. I spent waaaayyyyy too much $$$ at HomeSense. I had a mani/pedi, then we went to Lowes and Home Depot to look at backsplash tile. My H is now hanging new light fixtures and I'm working for a few hours since I have a major deadline on Monday; I just want to bang it out and not worry about it all weekend.
We spent today replacing the outer porch ceiling (fake tongue and groove panel) with actual tongue and groove pine boards. We also installed recessed ceiling lights that are solar, took down the porch lights that were on the side walls, and repaired the stucco.
We still have two boards left to cut to length and install, and one more connection to make for the lights, but there was thunder and it started to rain, so we put away the power tools and moved things to safety under the inside porch, which is covered.
It's not raining/thunder/lightning anymore, but now we're too tired to finish it today, and we're currently enjoying gin and tonics while watching a Hallmark Christmas in July movie.
Tomorrow, after we finish the porch, I am going to spend the rest of the day indoors, doing indoor stuff and enjoying the air conditioning. I am so over the heat. I felt really sick/weak a couple of times today...it really is my kryptonite.
Post by starburst604 on Jul 10, 2021 19:41:09 GMT -5
wildrice I’ll echo that a housekeeper is never a waste! It’s the bill I pay most gladly and worth every cent to me. My mental well being thrives on a clean house but I just don’t have the time to do it all myself, and H’s idea of clean isn’t quite the same as mine. It’s worth not having that struggle with him.
Me and DD got mani/pedis today. She talked me into a bright coral that I actually love and it glows in the dark lol! It brought us a lot of enjoyment at bedtime.
I was some kind of saint today. H and I did a painting project and usually we have some short tempers during projects. But Every.Single.Time I was annoyed, I held my tongue. I said, "okay sure!" I said, "good idea." I said "okay, yes, let's do that."
I didn't say, "OMFG I am not a child, you don't need to tell me how to stir paint."
I didn't say "You literally just told me to wipe up drips" when he told me to stop wiping up drips.
And you know what? It was maybe possibly a good strategy.
Post by starburst604 on Jul 10, 2021 19:55:00 GMT -5
ohgillian that’s definitely some sainthood material!! Me and H also cannot do home projects without bickering profusely. In the end we’ll finish and praise each other for our contributions but in the thick of it we are brutal!
A severe thunderstorm rolled through here around 12:30 this morning. Power was out for 2 hours, and thousands of people still are without power tonight. We lost 2 trees and our neighbor’s trampoline ended up on the fence on the other side of our house. I slept maybe 3 hours. It’s been a day! Thankfully I have someone coming tomorrow to give me a quote for removing our trees. DS was very upset when I told him about the trees. He asked if we can keep the stump of one for a “sitting and playing place.” How can I refuse??
court26 yes!! I stayed up until 1:45 am last night and plan to do the same tonight!
I called my dad at 5:30 tonight and asked if he’d watch the boys for a little bit so my H and I could go to dinner. I was happily surprised that he said yes (usually he prefers to have them over when my mom is home too), so we got an unexpected date dinner! We started planning our 15th anniversary trip. We’re going to fly into San Francisco and spend a week driving from there to San Diego and fly home from SD. I’m excited!
Then we got home and my dad had put on Jaws for my boys...ages 6 and 3. Shocking that they are taking forever and a day to fall asleep tonight.
Post by mysteriouswife on Jul 10, 2021 22:45:09 GMT -5
I ordered stitchFix on a whim and loved it! They nailed the sizes perfectly and the pieces were my style I just cannot afford all of the pieces and I don’t need any jewelry. I kept two pieces and set it up for another box in Sep.
H and I forced DD to watch DS for a couple of hours. I needed to get out of the house without a kid. It was perfect
We ended up having a pretty good day. I got all the grocery shopping done, then I grabbed a bike rack for our trip next week. We went to the pool for a couple hours and just as we were leaving a friend asked if we wanted to join them at a local beer and bbq event. That ended up being kind of a bust because there were only two food trucks and one ran out of food quickly, but we went out to eat, which was nice. It was good to spend time with them too.
My bestie texted me while we were at dinner about Virgin River, so now I'm watching the new season and doing laundry.
Hoping to get the rest of what I need to do done in the morning so I can take the boys to the pool for a couple hours tomorrow too.