Post by maudefindlay on Jan 9, 2023 8:12:10 GMT -5
First day back to school for my 3 and I am dragging. DD had trouble sleeping last night, said she was nervous about going back. She loves school and is our social butterfly, but I think they were off so long it does feel like a big deal to return.
Yesterday DS2 and I went to a Big10 mens basketball game at my alma mater. It was so nice to have some 1:1 time with him. He is such a neat and funny kid.
Going thru cubbies in our mudroom today and I bet donating half the shoes in there as kids have outgrown them.
After two weeks off as a staycation, my brain coul not wrap itself around only two days off and having to get up this morning. But, I’m off Friday, Monday is a holiday, and then I am off for a week for a girls trips. So, it’ll be awhile before I have to work a 5 day week. And, if we are honest, between holidays, and a schedule with every other Friday off, it’s probably been since November with a true 5 day week.
And then, we hit the period from mid-February to May without holidays.
It was a pretty relaxing weekend, kids had stuff but I got to just settle in at home- made chili, baked cookies, cleaned out a couple drawers/cabinets and tidied a bit, read, worked out, and worked on the The Great Wave lego set I bought myself last week.
Now I'm at work, and there's no heat in the building 🥶 At least I've got leftover chili for lunch? I foresee myself heading home a little early today....
I've got the trees (7 ft + 4 ft) cleared of ornaments and the ornaments and lights put away. Between laundry and the trees, I'll be stretching my legs going up and down stairs today. Still have table toppers, but I can live with that for a few days. The cleaner comes tomorrow, so getting the trees done was my priority.
And I'm trying to come up with arguments to convince my division VP not to move me to another department. You can easily justify putting me in either department (my current or the other), but I know she's very committed to moving me. And sadly, "I don't wanna!" isn't really my most effective argument against the move.
Today is my first day at my new job. I don’t have to be there until 10:30 but I was up at 6 showering and getting ready. I drove H and the kid to school and now I’m back home because I don’t need to leave here for another hour (and that’s still going to get me there 45 minutes early but I want to make sure I can park, etc.).
They already told me that today is just to go in, meet my manager and some other team members, film out/verify my I-9 info, try out systems access and then my first full day will be tomorrow.
I hate the busy mornings. No one in my family is a morning person, including me, but it’s basically up to me to get everyone’s butts moving in the morning when I would like to be dragging also.
In order to get my 6 year olds room under control I had to remove everything from it, and then purge and organize as I put things back. But at least now there is room to walk and all her Christmas presents have a place in her room so I have my living room back. All in all I spent over 8 hours cleaning the house/her room yesterday. Nice to have it done but a bummer of a weekend day.
I’m off every other Monday. Today is my day off and I’m meeting one of my favorite co-workers for lunch. I haven’t seen her in person in like a year, I’m excited!
I promised h meatloaf for dinner. I like it, but HATE making it. It’s not even hard, I just hate missing up the ground beef.
Good luck lilafowler ! Today is going to be very hard at work. I’m trying to remain positive, and it is not easy BIL has been visiting with his kids since 12/15. He stayed with us at the beginning and end of his trip, and I need them to leave. DS and nephew bicker constantly, and I need my house back in order. Yesterday BIL went to go clean up at another apartment they stayed at for part of their trip bad asked if nephew could hang with us for a bit. He never checked in, met friends for an early dinner and got home as we were putting DS to bed. He was gone for over 8 hours!
For a variety of reasons, work is going to be slow until about 1:30 PM. That’s fine, I can always find something productive to do. Except, I wish today was a remote day so I could duck into my kitchen and prep dinner.
I never had these fantasies before remote work was a thing.
My boss is not great, that is established. She was supposed to hold a town hall Wednesday.
She asked me if I had a calendar invite and I said no. And she's all surprised. I want to say something snarky like "you have to actually schedule the meeting," but I did not.
And now we have people that will be traveling to the office for a different purpose here when she wants to have her meeting and she's all butthurt and the manager is like "well they're flying in and there wasn't anything scheduled."
I was sick all last week (though I didn't take off work) and finally this weekend I felt like I got my energy back, so it was a fairly productive weekend. I put away all the Christmas stuff, did some decluttering in general, did some planning for our vacation in May, and got my class ready to teach. My H and I also randomly went to Annapolis on Saturday for a very late lunch. It's only 40 minutes from here so it wasn't a huge trip, but we haven't been there since before the pandemic and it feels vacation-y so it was nice to get out of the house and have a little date like that. We used to do a lot more exploring of our general area in the couple of years after we moved here and before COVID ruined everything, but we got out of the habit after staying home for months on end and haven't really picked it up again. I am hoping we can change that in 2023 - it's so fun to get out and do stuff and with so much within a short drive from home, there is absolutely no reason not to.
I made soup last night using hot Italian sausage from Trader Joes and oh boy, it was hot. I put no other spicy seasonings in the soup and we were both blowing our noses constantly because the spices were affecting our sinuses. I have leftovers for lunch today/tomorrow and I'm not sure I'm ready, lol. It's a really good soup but I'll have to avoid the TJs sausage in the future making it.
Our cleaners are coming later and I'm happy about that. Since I spent so much time decluttering and putting stuff away this weekend, the house is very neat but definitely needs a post-holiday decor clean.
It was such a nice weekend! My H and I went to the Philly Zoo Saturday morning. Barely anyone was there and most of the animals were out. We met up with friends for dinner later that night. I went for a long trail walk with a friend yesterday, and it was so nice to be outside!
Work is so, so busy right now. If I could fast forward through the next 2 weeks, that would be great.
Days of radio silence from my parents after emailing them that DH and I are changing our holiday travel plans (we'll visit them at Thanksgiving and stay here for Christmas): 6. I'm curious to see how long the freezeout holds. They're supposed to stay with us overnight on 1/17 as they roadtrip to the Southwest; I wonder if they'll cancel. ETA that I know 6 days is not that long; but when my brother replied-all to my original email and then I replied to that, their absence from the conversation is...noticeable.
Post by karinothing on Jan 9, 2023 10:43:47 GMT -5
I don't really have many places to talk about this so I am just going to keep talking about issues with DS2. We got his cogat scores back (this is a test that test cognitive abilities) and he was in the extremely gifted range and the synopsis that went with the score said he should have superior academic performance. All wonderful and great except he is seriously struggling in reading/writing. For the record my other son has similar scores and is a couple grades ahead in school. SO I really feel like something there is something holding DS2 back. I am also tired of people telling me it will work out and he will catch up. I find people extremely dismissive of this stuff. Its frustrating.
I really hope we get the results of his assessment soon.
Post by MixedBerryJam on Jan 9, 2023 10:59:41 GMT -5
I’d appreciate some suggestions, if anyone is interested. My church group makes meals for a local homeless shelter. They prefer not to have pasta-based meals like Mac and cheese and baked ziti bc literally everyone does some iteration of that and the clients get bored. We don’t serve pork for religious reasons, but beef and chicken are fine. (We generally also have a big salad that is heavy on protein like hard boiled eggs for vegetarians.) What entré would you make for 30?
I’d appreciate some suggestions, if anyone is interested. My church group makes meals for a local homeless shelter. They prefer not to have pasta-based meals like Mac and cheese and baked ziti bc literally everyone does some iteration of that and the clients get bored. We don’t serve pork for religious reasons, but beef and chicken are fine. (We generally also have a big salad that is heavy on protein like hard boiled eggs for vegetarians.) What entré would you make for 30?
Weekend went off the rails plans-wise when I had a hypoglycemia episode Saturday late afternoon. It was pretty bad and I was not feeling great into Sunday midday. I recognize I made some poor food choices on Saturday morning and midday, so I need to be more conscious to not make those food choices all within 4-6 hours again. (My paternal grandpa had diabetes later in life and so did a maternal great aunt.)
I am so tired of no sun. So far, where I live (in MI), we've had 0.1% sunshine in January so far. I bought one of those sun lamps, but I just want to see real sunshine for hours/days for a change. ETA: The sun came out around noon and it's been partly sunny now for a little over an hour. Maybe my complaints were heard! I managed to be outside for a little bit of the time (due to having to take DS to an appointment), and now since I moved by desk by the window, I can look outside and see the sun while I work.