My BIL grew up in the desert and has always lived in warm climates. This will be his first winter living up north. He made a post on FB asking what people recommend he keep in his car for winter.
I've lived in the north my whole life and some of these responses are cracking me up. The best though is Someone said a blowup air mattress in case you have to sleep in your car. He drives a Hinda civic, where would this air mattress go once inflated?
This reminds me of when I moved from Chicago to very southern Florida in late November and one of the first things I saw on TV was a weather broadcast instructing people how to layer clothing for a cold snap. It was going to be in the 50s. I was very 👀.
(Later when I lived in old school Florida housing without central HVAC I realized how much it really does suck to live through times when your whole house is in the 50s with no ability to get warmer outside of layers/a space heater.)
This is suuuuuper petty olympics. DH's birthday was this week. I often post about his sister who doesn't invite us to stuff. She "forgot" to invite us to her daughter's b-day party later this month, and is now making a huge production of asking if we're going (after she later invited us). She posted a big photo collage on FB wishing DH HBD, and included several photos. Not a single one included myself. I know who cares, but we've taken plenty of photos together at the events she posted. Sorry not sorry we're not going to your party next weekend.
Otherwise thank the lawd it's Friday! I have my flu shot tomorrow (on a Saturday), then debating visiting my dad or having a day home alone. I really want to see my dad, but one day home with a book and tv sounds like a vacation.
I've noticed a trend of people doing this. Posting collages for someone else's birthday and they themselves are in every picture. I know one person who posts some glowing bullshit every year about her brother being her rock and her everything. Every single time it's a gorgeous picture of her and her brother half hidden behind her, or not even looking at the camera. This year his face was blurry!
This is suuuuuper petty olympics. DH's birthday was this week. I often post about his sister who doesn't invite us to stuff. She "forgot" to invite us to her daughter's b-day party later this month, and is now making a huge production of asking if we're going (after she later invited us). She posted a big photo collage on FB wishing DH HBD, and included several photos. Not a single one included myself. I know who cares, but we've taken plenty of photos together at the events she posted. Sorry not sorry we're not going to your party next weekend.
Otherwise thank the lawd it's Friday! I have my flu shot tomorrow (on a Saturday), then debating visiting my dad or having a day home alone. I really want to see my dad, but one day home with a book and tv sounds like a vacation.
I've noticed a trend of people doing this. Posting collages for someone else's birthday and they themselves are in every picture. I know one person who posts some glowing bullshit every year about her brother being her rock and her everything. Every single time it's a gorgeous picture of her and her brother half hidden behind her, or not even looking at the camera. This year his face was blurry!
Ohhhh, this reminds me!! I can out petty the original poster, lol. I have a friend that always posts a Happy Birthday post in this way- collages where I feel like the pics she chooses are very unflattering of me, but super flattering of herself. So, because of that, I since made it that I have to approve timeline picture posts and I don't approve her Happy Birthday posts anymore. lollll
I had to get a crown put on one of my back molars yesterday afternoon (ughhhh), and it is still hurting/very sore as of present. I got one put on like 8 years ago and I don't remember it feeling this bad the next day?!?? This was a little bit different than last time, they used to put a temporary crown and then you had to go back and get your permanent put on. At this dentist office, they were actually able to make the permanent while I waited.
Anyone else care to share their dental procedure experiences??? (good or bad)
My teeth take FOREVER to adjust to crowns. FOR FUCKING EVER. I would say it's normal unless it's --like a month-- and you still can't eat normally on it.
Last Edit: Oct 22, 2021 12:23:12 GMT -5 by Leeham Rimes
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This is suuuuuper petty olympics. DH's birthday was this week. I often post about his sister who doesn't invite us to stuff. She "forgot" to invite us to her daughter's b-day party later this month, and is now making a huge production of asking if we're going (after she later invited us). She posted a big photo collage on FB wishing DH HBD, and included several photos. Not a single one included myself. I know who cares, but we've taken plenty of photos together at the events she posted. Sorry not sorry we're not going to your party next weekend.
My mother does this for my kids' birthdays. Like--lady, you see them so infrequently, Wes has forgotten WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE and you live 45 minutes away. Miss me with your "doting grandma" bullshittery.
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 Leeham Rimes on Oct 22, 2021 12:28:14 GMT -5
My random is that I can't figure out why Frank keeps gaining weight. He's supposed to be about 80 pounds. He's currently 88 pounds and gained 2 just in the last week. We walk between 5-10 miles a day, I MEASURE HIS FOOD and give him enough kibble for a dog that's only 70 pounds, he goes to daycare twice a week. WHAT IN THE HELL.
I swear to god with this dog. I love him, but he's so fucking high maintenance.
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 blondemoment123 on Oct 22, 2021 12:57:15 GMT -5
I snapped at a coworker. This particular coworker has taken advantage of my willingness to help him when he was struggling in a new role. I made the mistake of continuing to help when I had no reason to except to make my job easier.
He tried to talk down and mansplain something to me and enough was enough. In the moment it felt good to put him in his place, but now I’m feeling guilty.
I forgot DH has a CT scan to follow up on kidney cancer today. He's overdue for it and I'm terrified the cancer is back, because that's how things are going for us lately. Please send good thoughts for a good scan.
I was offered tickets to go see Waitress locally. We haven’t done much in groups of strangers, we are vaccinated with boosters and the theater requires masks and vaccination. That seems okay, right? Like I don’t want to go to a movie with whatever random goobers come off the street but this sounds better? I guess if people are flying then a play is NBD?
Is Waitress good? We were just talking about Adrianne Shelly yesterday and how we hadn’t seen the play.
I have been doing far more stuff than you in general, but yes I am comfortable with this. I am actually signed up to be an usher there again and am looking forward to ushering that show! I think it is supposed to be good. The usher training I went to made it sound as safe as it possibly can be. Not no risk, but low. Especially since local COVID numbers aren't too bad anyway.
I was offered tickets to go see Waitress locally. We haven’t done much in groups of strangers, we are vaccinated with boosters and the theater requires masks and vaccination. That seems okay, right? Like I don’t want to go to a movie with whatever random goobers come off the street but this sounds better? I guess if people are flying then a play is NBD?
Is Waitress good? We were just talking about Adrianne Shelly yesterday and how we hadn’t seen the play.
Is it weird to be in a training class for senior leaders and people not know how to put together professional powerpoints? This is the second peer to peer and the powerpoints are terrible. The fonts aren't even consistent.
Is it weird to be in a training class for senior leaders and people not know how to put together professional powerpoints? This is the second peer to peer and the powerpoints are terrible. The fonts aren't even consistent.
This is suuuuuper petty olympics. DH's birthday was this week. I often post about his sister who doesn't invite us to stuff. She "forgot" to invite us to her daughter's b-day party later this month, and is now making a huge production of asking if we're going (after she later invited us). She posted a big photo collage on FB wishing DH HBD, and included several photos. Not a single one included myself. I know who cares, but we've taken plenty of photos together at the events she posted. Sorry not sorry we're not going to your party next weekend.
Otherwise thank the lawd it's Friday! I have my flu shot tomorrow (on a Saturday), then debating visiting my dad or having a day home alone. I really want to see my dad, but one day home with a book and tv sounds like a vacation.
I would so make a passive aggressive comment on that.
I would, too. Something like “Wow, that guy’s handsome! Looks like he’s single, too!”
My random question... do high schoolers know how to type? I have a new high school intern on my team, our jobs are HEAVILY computer-based, and I have noticed his lack of keyboard skills. Will he get better as he goes to college and uses a laptop more often for classes?
For example, he did not know what the Home key was. (Microsoft keyboard shortcuts are important in our work.) We'll definitely help him out since learning is a huge point of doing an internship. I'm more just generally curious if this is more common in this next generation that grew up on phones and tablets (versus physical keyboards) and iOS and Android (versus Windows and MacOS).
I was offered tickets to go see Waitress locally. We haven’t done much in groups of strangers, we are vaccinated with boosters and the theater requires masks and vaccination. That seems okay, right? Like I don’t want to go to a movie with whatever random goobers come off the street but this sounds better? I guess if people are flying then a play is NBD?
Is Waitress good? We were just talking about Adrianne Shelly yesterday and how we hadn’t seen the play.
I have been doing far more stuff than you in general, but yes I am comfortable with this. I am actually signed up to be an usher there again and am looking forward to ushering that show! I think it is supposed to be good. The usher training I went to made it sound as safe as it possibly can be. Not no risk, but low. Especially since local COVID numbers aren't too bad anyway.
Yeah, I’ve been going to outdoor things/friend’s houses and of course stores/businesses but not theaters for hours! It has been a long time since I’ve been in a crowd.
It looks like they aren’t allowing food/drink in the theater now which I prefer anyway! It’s so distracting.
I am in a funk, I'm feeling...something. Maybe left out? I see what seems like practically everyone, getting back to normal, traveling and getting on with their lives, and wonder why I am still so cautious. Then I see all of the 'my kid/family/BFF has covid' posts and feel like maybe it's okay to still be cautious, especially since we know that vaccine efficacy does wane, and we are over 6 months out from having gotten ours.
It seems like so many people here have gotten or are getting their boosters soon. While I am genuinely glad/grateful that the people who qualify for third shots and boosters are able to get them, we missed the cut-off (barely), and don't qualify, so that's adding insult to injury.
My H may need to go to Europe in November for work, and his work asked if I wanted to come. Any other time I would jump at it, but with both of us without boosters, then thinking about our needy old dogs with really bad separation anxiety, and that we haven't seen family yet...thinking about all of that has put me in more of a funk than I was in before.
Poor DH...I just whined about everything to him (at him?), and added in stuff about how we've lived two different lives, with the amount of time he has had to travel for work over the years. I did acknowledge that his life hasn't been all fun and games and has been rather lonely, and that it isn't his fault that he's had to go so many places around the world without me.
Now that I got that all out of my system I feel a little lighter. I think my pity party is over.
Last night I was telling my daughter that I have been letting my gray hair come in, and have been trimming off the dyed hair, so at this point it's probably all my natural color. I had thought that I could get used to it and embrace it, (I actually love gray hair) but I hate it.
Maybe if it was all white or silver I would like it better, but only the very front is super white/silvery. I don't think it even goes back an inch on the sides before it is salt and pepper and dark-ish, and then the back is even darker...like brown/black dark, with very little gray sprinkled about. The top is really light right in the front, but starts getting darker/mixed really fast..kind of like highlights, but not good ones. lol Since it is short and curly, it mostly just looks confused.
When I said that I wasn't sure what to do with my hair, she reminded me that it isn't likely that I am going to wake up tomorrow and magically change my mind about it. That really resonated, and she wasn't wrong...I still hate it today. I feel like I am living in someone else's body (entirely different issue), with someone else's hair. I am very affected by color, whether it is something that I see (surroundings, clothes), or my hair, which I feel/sense more than see most of time, so I guess I just need to figure out what will make me feel like myself. Or maybe I should just buzz it super short and buy myself some time to figure out what to do with it when it grows a bit. That could work. lol
TR , I feel like a did you a disservice by not telling you to buy the sealed Binax rapid kits where you can use a proctor on the computer to take and verify your results. We couldn’t use it on the way to Iceland, but it was fine for returning to the US and super easy.
I need some serious info on this, please!
Their Walgreens website (just one retailer, I know) says they provide no documentation so can't be used for travel.
I got up "early" so I could do my 200th Peloton ride with Bradley, and I finally got a shout-out that is recorded and preserved in class. All my other shout-outs have been pre-class, so I'm feeling dorky and excited that I can redo the class to hear it again if I want. Then I did my long workout today instead of tomorrow like I normally would. I'm kind of beat. And hungry. But I really need a shower first.
I also want to give myself a mani-pedi today. I bought myself some Halo Taco for my birthday, and I want to rock some Cosmic Unicorn Skin.
TR , I feel like a did you a disservice by not telling you to buy the sealed Binax rapid kits where you can use a proctor on the computer to take and verify your results. We couldn’t use it on the way to Iceland, but it was fine for returning to the US and super easy.
I need some serious info on this, please!
Their Walgreens website (just one retailer, I know) says they provide no documentation so can't be used for travel.
You have to download an app. You sign in and a proctor watched you swab and set up the test. Then it has to stay visible on the camera for 15 minutes. After that, they look at the result and have you look at the result. As long as you both agree, they certify the result and the results go to the Navica app, which can then be used for travel. This only worked to return to the states. We could not use it for entry into Iceland. That required an in person rapid (if vaccinated) or PCR (if unvaccinated).
I thought about that, but it would have to be bleached first, and to diy it would be out of my skill set. I wish my daughter lived here... she (with help from her H) bleaches her hair herself and dyes her hair a fun color.
I think to have it done professionally would wind up being expensive to keep up. My hair grows crazy fast.
I have been doing far more stuff than you in general, but yes I am comfortable with this. I am actually signed up to be an usher there again and am looking forward to ushering that show! I think it is supposed to be good. The usher training I went to made it sound as safe as it possibly can be. Not no risk, but low. Especially since local COVID numbers aren't too bad anyway.
Yeah, I’ve been going to outdoor things/friend’s houses and of course stores/businesses but not theaters for hours! It has been a long time since I’ve been in a crowd.
It looks like they aren’t allowing food/drink in the theater now which I prefer anyway! It’s so distracting.
Maybe we will see each other!
I went to a show in DC last week that did have food/drink available, and I think 99% of the people used it as an excuse to take their mask off the whole time, because they have an empty beer in front of them. So this is a good call!
this morning, I was texting with a friend over some leftover drywall he has, and we could use. He said it wouldn’t fit in his car, can I bring my truck. I said sure, even though I hate driving it. Would tonight or Sunday be better. He replied back that he thinks it’ll fit in his car. And then ghosted me. I’m like so, do I need to get in the truck and run over there (5 minutes away), of wait here for you. Or maybe Sunday? Sadly, this is so typical, we will talk about something for hours or days, but not commit to a day/time. So I’m left wondering what the eff is going on. And then one day, he will just show up with it. If I’m lucky, I get a text with a few minutes notice.
My random question... do high schoolers know how to type? I have a new high school intern on my team, our jobs are HEAVILY computer-based, and I have noticed his lack of keyboard skills. Will he get better as he goes to college and uses a laptop more often for classes?
For example, he did not know what the Home key was. (Microsoft keyboard shortcuts are important in our work.) We'll definitely help him out since learning is a huge point of doing an internship. I'm more just generally curious if this is more common in this next generation that grew up on phones and tablets (versus physical keyboards) and iOS and Android (versus Windows and MacOS).
My kids have a typing class in 7th and 8th grade (focuses on learning to type correctly and then also basic computer skills, and computer safety thrown in a bit too), but I have learned that it's possible to pass the class without actually learning to type.