How is everyone doing today? The heatwave here seems to have broken…for now. There was some police action near my house yesterday and while I was being a nosy neighbor I wound up talking to a local news reporter. I didn’t make the connection that she was Maria Stephanos (for the Boston area folks) until I got home 😂. She didn’t have a microphone or anything and was in “street clothes”.
She was tiny and super nice and her hair color was perfect (it makes sense now-at the time I was just “wow her hair color is fabulous”). She asked me if I was trying to get across the street and I said I was just being a nosy neighbor and she laughed and said “hey we’re all nosy!”.
Post by maudefindlay on Aug 10, 2022 8:10:20 GMT -5
Online shopping for a new bed for DD (age 9). She hates her loft bed. Debating a standard twin bed or a daybed. Her room is small, maybe 11x11, but she really doesn't play on the floor in there. She draws at her desk, reads or plays on electronics on her bed, sits on floor or at desk to do arts and crafts. Her floor playing is mainly in our finished basement where kids have a big open room for playing and they have a walk in toy closet for all their games and toys. I want this to be the last bed we buy for her if possible, so trying to make a good decision given she is going to grow.
How is everyone doing today? The heatwave here seems to have broken…for now. There was some police action near my house yesterday and while I was being a nosy neighbor I wound up talking to a local news reporter. I didn’t make the connection that she was Maria Stephanos (for the Boston area folks) until I got home 😂. She didn’t have a microphone or anything and was in “street clothes”.
She was tiny and super nice and her hair color was perfect (it makes sense now-at the time I was just “wow her hair color is fabulous”). She asked me if I was trying to get across the street and I said I was just being a nosy neighbor and she laughed and said “hey we’re all nosy!”.
She is SO nice! She would visit the school my husband used to teach at to do presentations for the kids, he said she was awesome.
Also we 100% would have done the same thing, or I would have sent my husband out to investigate while I peeked out the window
I got my hair done last night. It needed color so bad. I didn't realize how much the sun lightened it until my color was done, and now it's super dark but I love it - lots of dark brown with a purply undertone. The cut didn't turn out as I would have liked, but it's not my stylist's fault, it's really the fact that my hair is so baby fine and thin that it's hard to expect a lot from it. I've had a long pixie for a while, and for the past year I'm growing it out to an inverted bob. It's such a slllllooooowwwwwww process. It's almost chin-length. 💁♀️
How on earth is it only Wednesday?! I was off on Monday and it still feels like the longest week ever.
FI is leaving for a trip with his friends tomorrow morning and I get two glorious days at home ALONE before I head to the beach for the weekend. Omg, I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself! We both WFH so we are practically never apart. I’m going to miss him, but I am also so excited to be alone!
I am just so tired this week! I took a 2 hour nap last night and slept normally last night, so I don't know why I am still so sleepy today. I am so glad it's my last day in the office this week. And maybe for a while... Apparently COVID rates are high enough that we are going back to strict precautions. Sigh. I am fine with being home obviously but I am so sick of COVID being a thing to plan around.
I can't believe it is mid August. I start teaching a graduate class in 1.5 weeks and my first day of the class I am taking is 3 weeks from today. How? The first 8 weeks of the semester are going to be insane and I'm nervous, especially since I am so tired this week so it sounds overwhelming.
I found out last night that my dad has cancer. I suspected as much based on his symptoms and the fact that there was a mass, but I still cried like a baby and felt like someone had kicked me in the gut when my mom called to tell me. I went down the Mayo Clinic rabbit hole and contacted a dear friend who's a physician and talked me off the ledge. It sounds like this particular kind is easily treatable as long as it hasn't spread, so I just need more details from the pathology report to really calm my nerves.
My parents are so wonderful. They aren't perfect, and we don't agree on everything, but they are really special and too good to me, and I hate to see them worry and suffer at all. Here I am, married with two kids of my own, and I feel like I'm not even ready to be an adult when I think of all my parents have accomplished and been through and done for my sister and me.
I’m going to a funeral today that I feel obligated to attend. It’s 3 hours away. I’m losing a lot of valuable working time I need, but I know this is the right thing to do. I’m not looking forward to any of it.
I am waiting to hear if we're meeting friends for dinner Saturday night. We bailed last weekend as if was too damned hot to be outside but now one of our friends might be flying to ID for a family memorial service. He's a bit older and has lost several relatives in the last two years.
Today I'm working on a sewing project for a friend- we're doing a kind of capsule wardrobe thing for the various incentive trips and social events for her large blended family she has coming up. I'm also consulting on a large cushion for a van a client's son is converting to a camper with his dad. As this is a family project, I suspect she wants to DIY but doesn't have the experience or skills for it. I think maybe she just either wants to provide a set of instructions or maybe just do the "hard parts" as she describes them.
I didn't want to create a whole post for this, so I'm asking here. I got an Oxygen Facial on Saturday and it was awesome. I have pretty decent skin for 47 years old, but it definitely does trend towards dry. She used a lot of Hyaluronic this and that products and suggested that I use it at home too, but, uh, I don't know how. It's a miracle if I was my face before bed and put on moisturizer. I want to get better about this stuff. I do have a Hyaluronic Serum by The Ordinary, but I'm not even sure how to use it. Do I use it daily? In the morning? At night? Before my moisturizer or after? Help me
Post by midwestmama on Aug 10, 2022 9:11:16 GMT -5
I'm in Krakow this week for work. Yesterday I enjoyed a tour of part of the city (old town area) with my team (my team is all based in Krakow, so they were kind enough to set up a tour so I could see historical parts of the city) and then we had a nice dinner together. This evening I'm going to walk back to the old market square (my hotel is maybe 1/2 mile from there) and do some souvenir shopping. It's my first time ever visiting anywhere outside of the US/Canada/Mexico, so it's been amazing to experience one city in Europe.
We got back to Chile yesterday morning, and I'm already over the cold. L this morning kept saying "vamos", and it made me so sad thinking how every morning he'd get so excited to go see his grandparents in the living room, and now he won't see them for a long time 😭 He was an angel on our 14 hour flight back, and last night was pretty decent considering the 5 hour time difference, so I'm very grateful for that. Just missing family and the little routines we created!
It feels very "calm before the storm" right now for me- before DS starts Kindergarten, fall soccer starts for him, school starts for H and me, and so forth. Trying to enjoy it.
This is probably my last quiet day at home in awhile. I'm back to work at my cyber school, but its mostly quiet-ish until teachers start back on the 22nd and then students on the 29th. DS will be home with me for the next week because his in-home daycare provider is on vacation, so I'm hoping to get work done and also take him to do a few fun end-of-summer things before school starts, like the pool, waterpark, etc.
H is a school principal and I can tell he's starting to get stressed again, he's been staying at work longer and is working more at night trying to get things ready for the school year, etc. I like my summer husband so much more lol (I'm mostly j/k but he's a lot more present and available to help so that's nice).
There's just a lot going on and I can feel my anxiety starting back up. Trying to stay calm and present, lol.
Random complaint - Peloton has been down for like 1.5 hours and I always work out sometime between 10-1130. As it creeps closer to 12PM and lunch, if I don't get started soon I'll never want to work out.
Random complaint - Peloton has been down for like 1.5 hours and I always work out sometime between 10-1130. As it creeps closer to 12PM and lunch, if I don't get started soon I'll never want to work out.
Oh man that's frustrating! I had to restart the app this morning around 7am CDT to get my workout to start and I was like, "If this doesn't do it, I'm out". lol I have a limited window in which my routine says "THIS IS WORKOUT TIME" and if it doesn't happen then, it's not happening at all.
It’s my mom’s birthday! My brother and I are taking her out to dinner, and sometime soon I have to pick up a cake, and also some gluten-free treats for the three family members who can’t eat cake.
My brother and his wife are taking all the cousins to a trampoline park this afternoon, so I hope to get everything done over lunch, wrap my presents, and still have a little time to lie in my mom’s hammock this afternoon.
((HUGS)) Pilsy. My dad lived for 19 years after his cancer diagnosis, most of it good years in remission, so this might just be a bump in the road for your dad, too.
I didn't get the job I was interviewing for, they want someone with more specialized experience, which I understand. The extra $10k would have been nice, but the commute would have been awful. I realized yesterday that I've already accumulated a fair amount of vacation time at my current job and I'm going to need to use about 60 hours before the end of the year. So I need to plan a couple of trips.
I didn't want to create a whole post for this, so I'm asking here. I got an Oxygen Facial on Saturday and it was awesome. I have pretty decent skin for 47 years old, but it definitely does trend towards dry. She used a lot of Hyaluronic this and that products and suggested that I use it at home too, but, uh, I don't know how. It's a miracle if I was my face before bed and put on moisturizer. I want to get better about this stuff. I do have a Hyaluronic Serum by The Ordinary, but I'm not even sure how to use it. Do I use it daily? In the morning? At night? Before my moisturizer or after? Help me
Use a few drops before moisturizer. You should be able to use it morning and night, but if you want to ease into usage, put it on at night.
We got the kids' schedules this week, they go back on Monday. DS/10th has his first three classes of the day with the same teacher/in the same classroom- pure luck for him. This teacher is awesome and DS really likes him, so it's a pretty cool way to start his day. Last year, he sort of ping-ponged all over the huge campus due to scheduling, this year- he just makes a nice circle around the courtyard- such a nice schedule.
Unfortunately, DD/7th's is not great. She doesn't have a science teacher. And her ELA teacher is on the tail end of a temp cert- which IME- means that they're having trouble with one or more of the certification tests (which means they could end up leaving midyear- a situation we would love to avoid after she lost FOUR teachers midyear last year). AND of course her electives are screwy- which means I have to deal with the most useless human on the planet. He won't do a thing - probably won't even reply- and I'll have to go over his head, just like every other single year I've had kids at this school. It's clearly by design that he "handles" schedule changes, but COME ON.
Random complaint - Peloton has been down for like 1.5 hours and I always work out sometime between 10-1130. As it creeps closer to 12PM and lunch, if I don't get started soon I'll never want to work out.
Oh man that's frustrating! I had to restart the app this morning around 7am CDT to get my workout to start and I was like, "If this doesn't do it, I'm out". lol I have a limited window in which my routine says "THIS IS WORKOUT TIME" and if it doesn't happen then, it's not happening at all.
I'll suck it up and do it this afternoon if need be, but for some reason I hate working out after lunch. After breakfast is no problem, but once I have two meals in me for the day, I don't want to move anymore. Lol.
Things haven’t fully returned to normal in my community after the big storm last week. My library (and a few other nearby branches) are closed “indefinitely” because air conditioning was damaged. I wish they’d do an update or let us pick up books somewhere else. I have about 20 reserves (mostly research materials for work) in including some out of city ones that have firm due dates.
Obviously I’m glad they aren’t making people work in the heat but the no info is annoying, especially in summer when the place is normally packed. When it’s happened at other branches before they switched operations to a community center or opened for brief times in the morning or evening or were only open on cooler days. Not the biggest problem but sometimes it feels like everything in the city is done in the slowest, most opaque way possible. The library had a massive surplus in the budget, maybe it’s time to invest in the actual libraries?
Pilsy I am so sorry. My dad was dx. with the "bad kind" of prostrate cancer 4 years ago and is doing great. I will keep you all in my prayers.
DD2 is at Girl Scout Camp this week and it's crazy not having her around. Never in a million years did I think she'd be the first to be away multiple nights. In this age of technology it's bananas that I haven't heard her voice or even seen a picture since Sunday. I can send messages to her via an app but she has no way of responding.