Damp Thursday 1/27

[maudefindlay]

I'm convinced another mom at the bus stop is a genius on these extremely frigid mornings. She saved her high school swimming warm up coat and is wearing it every AM. It is "fur" lined, even the hood, and goes down to her ankles. The cherry on top of course is her high school name emblazoned on the back. Every day I hear the Rocky theme song play in my head when she arrives. Johnny Lawrence approved for sure.

[emilyinchile]

I was so excited because DS woke up still with no fever 24 hours after his last medicine and with a normal diaper, so I thought we were in the clear. An hour later he had a rash on his whole torso and neck, so we're waiting to hear back from the pedi on what to do. Ugh.

[gerberdaisy]

DS woke up screaming at 3:30 that his foot hurt, inconsolable for 10 minutes, then was fine, but couldn't fall back asleep. Then DD came downstairs at 5:30, couldn't sleep from coughing. I'm tired.

[wanderingback]

We booked tickets for next month to go to my partner’s family’s country of origin to settle his mum’s estate and spread her ashes. It’s not going to be a true vacation since they’ll be taking care of all that stuff but it’ll be nice for me to just rest. Not ideal timing with covid but it was the only week that all schedules coordinated for most of the other siblings (they live in another country from us) that could also make it.

I’ll spare the boring details but after I booked my flight (I’m coming back a different day then my partner) since it had free 24 hour cancellation policy I looked at flights again. I found 2 one way flights for $500 cheaper (with business class) than the original round trip I booked! Where we’re going has limited flights and on the way back I no longer have a layover as it’s a direct flight so it’s really a miracle this worked out. Usually after I book flights I tell myself not to look anymore but since this was somewhat last minute (we decided last week we were going) I thought I’d give it 1 more look after I booked and so glad I did.

[icedcoffee]

I have so much to do today but the dog just came and snuggled up with me on the couch with my coffee. Send help! I can’t leave him.

[isabel]

A LOT of whining ahead…

I have been so busy with work and beyond stressed. I can feel the tension in my shoulders. Boss told me to take Friday off, so I blocked it off and booked myself a massage.

This is supposed to be a very fun end of the week and weekend for us. DS1’s 100th day of school is today, so we made a fun shirt and there’s lots of activities. I have book club. Friday is my massage and I was planning on us going to get burgers for dinner. Saturday my best friend is in town, so fun plans with her. And Sunday I have a hike planned with another friend.

DS1 just woke up vomiting. We fucking just got done with Covid quarantines on Monday.

Just… fuck everything. Seriously. I know my complaints are minor in the grand scheme of things, but ahhhhhh! I just want to rage scream.

[wanderingback]

Oh also I took today off work cause yolo!
So hello 4 day weekend.
Since about mid Dec things have been so crazy at work with people out with covid and trying to keep access open for patients. So I said fuck I’m just gonna take a random day off, which I never do, so here we are!

[ProfessorArtNerd]

So this week is the second week of the semester, and the first of in-person classes. This one student has emailed me, no lie, 15 times already. Oh. My. God. My friend, you need to give me more than an hour to respond. Especially when you’re writing in the middle of the night. Or dinner time. Eight if the emails are from before class even started. This is not the way to make a good impression! Damn

[ProfessorArtNerd]

isabel, nooooo! I hope it’s a fluke.

[NewGirlNic]

I was woken up at 2:30am to my neighbors car alarm going off. Which then got me nervous that someone was trying to break into cars (not uncommon) so I got up to double check ours were all locked. The dog was flipping out and barking. Neither H or DS even stirred. I don't understand how people can sleep so deeply. The cat sneezes and it wakes me up. Ugh. I think I finally fell back asleep around 4:30. 

I just made the best avocado toast on sourdough bread. My favorite way to make it lately is with a thin layer of whipped cream cheese, sliced avocado, drizzle of raw honey, red pepper flakes and flaky salt. I wish we had more avocado, because I would have a 3rd or even 4th slice. LOL. 

[lightbulbsun]

H and I are supposed to go to skiing in the Catskills tomorrow. We rented a house for tonight and tomorrow, and were planning to come home Saturday, but now with the snow storm I'm not sure what to do. I also scheduled us massages for Saturday morning before we leave, and I really don't want to cancel. I haven't had a massage in years, and I've really been looking forward to it.

Weather dot com says 60% chance and 1-3 inches accumulation, and accuweather says 96% chance of 3-6 inches. We don't live close enough to the coast to have the worst of the weather, but driving home we'd be driving close to NYC.

[mysteriouswife]

Our neighbors are finally getting their home repaired! I woke up this morning excited for them. The tornado came in Dec. 11. I know they are excited too. We have been hearing construction and tree removal for 1.5 months. I am ready for everyone to be able to safely come home. The more houses repaired the more excited I get.

[bex1973]

isabel, totally justified whining!! You've been through a lot lately - hope it's short lived sickness!

ProfessorArtNerd, the WORST. I call students out on that behavior so it doesn't continue. Can you imagine them doing it to their boss after graduation? I'm doing them a favor actually LOL

[Jalapeñomel]

Jan 27, 2022 9:10:20 GMT -5 lightbulbsun said:

H and I are supposed to go to skiing in the Catskills tomorrow. We rented a house for tonight and tomorrow, and were planning to come home Saturday, but now with the snow storm I'm not sure what to do. I also scheduled us massages for Saturday morning before we leave, and I really don't want to cancel. I haven't had a massage in years, and I've really been looking forward to it.

Weather dot com says 60% chance and 1-3 inches accumulation, and accuweather says 96% chance of 3-6 inches. We don't live close enough to the coast to have the worst of the weather, but driving home we'd be driving close to NYC.

I find that the weather channel is almost always wrong.

[lilypad1126]

IT is doing a big update to everyone's computers on my team. It affects literally every system we use. We are all remote employees so it's a THING. Anyway, there are 3 guys in IT who split up the duties of helping us, meaning it's not the same person in IT helping each person on my team. I was one of the first yesterday, and it's very clear the guy who helped me did not communicate the issues we discovered (and subsequently fixed) to his team, so now the people on my team who are getting updated today are being locked out of some of the systems. This is causing all sorts of confusion and angst. OH! And i found out today IT didn't alert the head of our dept they were starting this, so she's been fielding frantic calls/messages about things that aren't working and had NO IDEA what was going on. So, this is fun.

[calamity]

lightbulbsun, the forecast is not set yet so that makes it really hard to plan. I agree with Jalapeñomel, the weather channel sucks LOL.

I hope it all works out for you

[Bernadine]

I still haven’t heard back on the position I interviewed for two weeks ago. I’m fine if I didn’t get it, I just want to know!

[wildrice]

I'm sorry isabel! I hope that it is a quick thing and nobody else gets it so that you can still do your weekend plans! I know kids randomly vomit sometimes so hopefully it's that?

I have had bad luck lately with burning myself while cooking. I've gotten 2 bacon splatter burns already this month, and last night I burned my wrist because I was reaching into the oven to put cheese on something and touched it to the top of the oven. This was dumb, I should have just pulled it out to do what I needed to instead of reaching in. Last time I burned myself like this I had a mark on my arm for months, so I hope this one heals better.

[ssmjlm]

We have a house that's fairly new down the street from us. It's supposed to be a farm, but I walk by there every day with the dog and I can't figure out what they farm. Anyways, they were adding fencing this week. Then DH said yesterday when I was at work they were adding fencing to what we thought was a lot for sale.

I asked another mom at the bus stop and she said they bought the lot for their kids so they can build houses for them when they're older right next door.

Look, I will 100% support having HELPFUL family local, but not right next door. And what if the kids go away to school and settle somewhere else? Seems like a lot of $$ for a hope.

[Pilsy]

Got my biopsy results back: benign. I just need to go for a follow-up in six months. WOOHOO!!

[Jalapeñomel]

There are people that are sort of across the street who have what we’ve deemed free range chickens. Those chickens come so close to the road, I don’t know how they keep them from crossing and being killed.

So why did the chicken cross the road?

[mysteriouswife]

H said two more houses are getting roofs today! :pulls out noise canceling headphones:

[mysteriouswife]

Jan 27, 2022 10:03:28 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

There are people that are sort of across the street who have what we’ve deemed free range chickens. Those chickens come so close to the road, I don’t know how they keep them from crossing and being killed.

So why did the chicken cross the road?

I just snorted!!! Good work on a properly placed joke

[bex1973]

Jan 27, 2022 10:02:20 GMT -5 Pilsy said:

Got my biopsy results back: benign. I just need to go for a follow-up in six months. WOOHOO!!

Huzzah!!!! I know you're relieved to have your results back! This is great - thanks for updating us!

[followyourarrow]

My interview yesterday was kind of ehh. They wanted to talk a lot about my education, and I'm 20 years out of college. They wanted to know specific classes I took and how many credit hours of things, look, I have no idea, it was a long time ago, but I can tell you about my experience in that area. They also seemed displeased I got a degree in Business Admin vs Finance. My college didn't offer Finance and I didn't know at 18 that I specifically wanted to do finance. Hell, at 18 I thought I wanted to be a lawyer, life takes twists and turns. So, I don't feel very good about the interview, hopefully other jobs I applied to will reach out.

[shamrockshake]

My husband has a job interview tomorrow. He had a conversation with their hiring team, they asked him his salary requirements and he gave them and they reached out a couple days later and set up the interview. That’s good, right? Would they waste time interviewing him if they were going to offer significantly less? The range he gave is much more than he was currently making (small family business) but completely in line with his industry/ experience. I just need him to get a job making a decent salary 😩

[lightbulbsun]

Jan 27, 2022 9:44:19 GMT -5 calamity said:

lightbulbsun , the forecast is not set yet so that makes it really hard to plan. I agree with Jalapeñomel , the weather channel sucks LOL.

I hope it all works out for you

Yea, I stopped listening to the weather channel for a while, but accuweather has been wrong a lot, too. It might not matter because I got a call from the airbnb saying there's a problem with the plumbing and they might have to cancel the reservation.

[stemmie]

Jan 27, 2022 10:03:28 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

There are people that are sort of across the street who have what we’ve deemed free range chickens. Those chickens come so close to the road, I don’t know how they keep them from crossing and being killed.

So why did the chicken cross the road?

Poultry in motion.

<I'll show myself out>

[circa1978]

Yay, Pilsy!

[TR]

HIH has reminded me that I really, really hate when people act like an alternative way of doing something is THE intended way that NO ONE has realized until now, mind blown, etc. It is a huge pet peeve of mine, I don't know why lol

(It was the one about the hole in pot handles being for a spoon)