Post by blondemoment123 on Jun 22, 2023 12:53:48 GMT -5
Thanks for the commiseration. This definitely took me by surprise, but I feel awful that I put a damper this "milestone". My bff offered me one of her DD's teeth and told me to tell DS I dug it out of the trash š
I have been working on a project all this week to clean up our accounting books and I feel like I could cry. Basically something was not reconciled for years and we just discovered the mess, while it technically "belongs" to a different team, my team has taken the responsibility to get everything back in line because we oversee everything.
And by "team", I mean me. So I have been reconciling, processing, and untangling a web for 10+ hours a day, every day this week. My eyeballs are about to fall out from staring at my excel workbook.
We are supposed to go on vacation for a week starting on Saturday and I am worried I will be working instead. I do not get paid enough for this shiiiiiittttt!
Post by emilyinchile on Jun 22, 2023 13:10:15 GMT -5
deadwing hummus, veggies and pita is great! You do not need to bake cookies.
jinkies I feel like at this stage you are very entitled to say, obviously not mid-puke but when your H is feeling recovered, that you understand he genuinely feels awful when he's sick, you're not doubting him for a second, but you need another fully functioning adult member of the household, so he needs to go to the doctor and get bloodwork or take some vitamins or proactively do SOMETHING to improve his health so he can do his share. Even if really you are doubting him, and what he actually needs to do is suck it up.
Post by fangoriagurkel on Jun 22, 2023 13:11:46 GMT -5
For a late lunch Iām going to a fancy restaurant near me to order salmon carpaccio and reading a bunch of trashy celebrity magazines in peace. I am way too excited for this!
This weekend Iām attending my cousinās engagement party and while Iām quite excited for her, it opens me up to a slew of questions from (mostly older) relatives if Iām seeing anyone special, anything in the works, etcā¦ Uggghh. Iām not marrying the guy Iām currently dating so instead of a snappy response, Iāve decided to start 3 days of self care starting with lunch today and ending with my weed vape for the event. Because fuck that noise.
Post by fluffycookie on Jun 22, 2023 13:13:21 GMT -5
Why are boys okay being gross. My kid has been on the ice everynight since Sunday and has not washed his under gear pants, shirt, socks at all. I just walked into the room he keeps it and the smell....eeewww. It's all in the washing machine now hoping it dries by the time we leave tonight. The pants weren't too bad, but the socks and shirt were soaking wet. How is that comfortable to put on and then play in.
Why are boys okay being gross. My kid has been on the ice everynight since Sunday and has not washed his under gear pants, shirt, socks at all. I just walked into the room he keeps it and the smell....eeewww. It's all in the washing machine now hoping it dries by the time we leave tonight. The pants weren't too bad, but the socks and shirt were soaking wet. How is that comfortable to put on and then play in.
OMG one time my SILs van stunk like ungodly STUNK and we were trying to figure out what it was and discovered a nasty wet pair of filthy socks my nephew left in there. It was foul!!
A true random, my DH was talking about the Bangles (band) with his younger co-workers and now I want to find a Bangles poster or something with the lead singer. I've tried Amazon and Etsy and I'm not having a lot of luck, or it's a lot of money. Any thoughts where I could get something, even if it's not a poster, or are they just not cool enough for merch anymore?
A true random, my DH was talking about the Bangles (band) with his younger co-workers and now I want to find a Bangles poster or something with the lead singer. I've tried Amazon and Etsy and I'm not having a lot of luck, or it's a lot of money. Any thoughts where I could get something, even if it's not a poster, or are they just not cool enough for merch anymore?
You could go with the $70 cardboard cutout, because why not?
Thank you! This made me lol because my husband's former work husband had a life size cut out of a pop-star that was a long running joke. I can't imagine my husband would complain about a life size Susanna Hoffs cut out. He also felt very old because he had to explain to the youngsters who weren't born in the 80's, or even early 90's about Walk Like an Egyptian, and how the big hair was so hot Whomp whomp.
Post by rootbeerfloat on Jun 22, 2023 14:18:03 GMT -5
jinkies , H has terrible health anxiety. If anyone else gets a cold/headache/nausea, he immediately has the same symptoms, but WORSE. But then he actually got cancer. I can no longer complain because the treatment side effects are terrible, he might actually die, and cancer just sucks. But the years of man colds (in addition to the more recent years of having to carry more of the burden of everyday life) have taken a toll on my capacity for sympathy. I'm sure I sound like an asshole, but I can't really say these things out loud.
If I were a terrible person, I would buy the cutout and place it behind a door, face up under his side of the bed, in the shower, etcā¦ for extra effect!
Boom! Youād be TikTok famous and thus offset the initial cost! š
blondemoment123 I have had soooo many fails when it comes to kid teeth. Lost teeth, swallowed teeth, caught saving a first tooth - that one was especially bad, I told DD I asked the tooth fairy if I could keep it, DD demanded I give it back and she somehow ended up getting paid twice for the same tooth.
On a related note, a few years back my mom showed me all the teeth she saved from me and asked if I wanted them. WTF, mom!
blondemoment123 I have had soooo many fails when it comes to kid teeth. Lost teeth, swallowed teeth, caught saving a first tooth - that one was especially bad, I told DD I asked the tooth fairy if I could keep it, DD demanded I give it back and she somehow ended up getting paid twice for the same tooth.
On a related note, a few years back my mom showed me all the teeth she saved from me and asked if I wanted them. WTF, mom!
There's this little wooden box where you can keep each lost tooth, in their proper placement. It's horrifying!
blondemoment123 I have had soooo many fails when it comes to kid teeth. Lost teeth, swallowed teeth, caught saving a first tooth - that one was especially bad, I told DD I asked the tooth fairy if I could keep it, DD demanded I give it back and she somehow ended up getting paid twice for the same tooth.
On a related note, a few years back my mom showed me all the teeth she saved from me and asked if I wanted them. WTF, mom!
There's this little wooden box where you can keep each lost tooth, in their proper placement. It's horrifying!
I've seen that! She had a little pouch full of them....not sure which one is worse ::shudder::
I'm in the Pittsburgh area for a work thing tomorrow morning that will only last a couple of hours (don't get me started on how stupid it is that I have to come out here, but at least I qualify as being far enough away for a hotel, so I am milking it and getting one even though it was only about a 2.5 hour drive lol). I'm enjoying the quiet of my hotel room right now, and my BFF from high school who lives in the area is picking me up in a few minutes to go get Mexican food with her family. She just had a baby a month ago so I'm excited to meet her. No idea what I'll get into after since we're kind of getting an early dinner, but there is a hot tub at the hotel that I could go hang in, or a chain restaurant/bar in walking distance where I could go enjoy another drink. We'll see!
ETA I normally love exploring or finding a brewery or something, but not really comfortable driving at night in the misty rain in my old age lol, so I'll stick to this area.
We have not had rain in months. It is dry and hot as hell here. My nephew is getting married this weekend - outdoors. Guess what the weather looks like all weekend - thunderstorms with hail and high winds.
I told H that someone at work is BEC with me and he didn't get the reference. (He tells me all the time that I spend too much time/energy on the internet... and to be fair, I do š¤·āāļø)
Anyway, I got to explain the meme to H. He didn't laugh as much as I wanted him to š
Completely unrelated - I am so over working. I have nothing left to give. Someone I work with has taken leave for mental health and will be out for six weeks. I feel awful for them because I know that dark place very well. I am also jealous š¢
Post by starburst604 on Jun 22, 2023 18:29:39 GMT -5
Just here to vent not about weaponized incompetence, but just plain old incompetence. When I left for work today, I asked H to make sure DD had sunblock on before he dropped her off for the afternoon at a friends house, where they would be in the pool all day. I even put the big pump bottle of Supergoop next to his keys.
I went to pick her up after work and noticed that she looked really red, I asked her about sunblock, and she said they forgot. She is so sunburned and I am so pissed. I just donāt get how when your very fair-skinned kid is going to be outside playing in a pool in the sun, you donāt even think about it. Itās something weāve had to be militant about her whole life.
ETA: he just told me that he told her to put it on herself and she didnāt. She canāt cover her whole body the way it needs to be in a friggin swimsuit dude, and sheās 8. Stop the madness.
Planning birthday parties is the worsttt. Iāve cried over my 10 year oldās party so many times this week, and tonight one of the few yeses turned into a no because they decided to go to the beach. š Itās supposed to rain all week and I selfishly hope they have a horrible time. Iām so sad for my kid. And me. I feel like Iāve torpedoed our social life by moving out here. My kid was telling me that everyone at camp was was talking about how great another classmates party was. We couldnāt go because we had no ride there. Kiddo was sad to miss it, and he told me it sounded more fun than his is going to be and we both walked home in tears. š
The newest Maintenance Phase mentioned Bitch Eating Crackers.
Are you lurking Aubrey or Michael??
I explained the meme to several of my teen student aides this year. That was the only way I could explain why they were reacting the way they did to every little thing their (shared--he was horrible) English teacher was doing towards the end of the year. One of them later told me that she explained it to her mom, and her mom was like, "Oh, yes I know that one!" and now I think that mom is on the board. Hi, great library student aide's mom! Your kid is awesome and her English teacher sucked last year, but maybe not for breathing during a quiz.
[mention]starburst604 [/mention] Iād be PISSED. Even one really bad childhood sunburn can greatly increase future risk for skin cancer.
I can tell he feels like shit about it, just now he saw just how stark her burn lines are, but Iām still so pissed. I made it as easy as possible for him to remember. I need to just go to bed before he comes downstairs from putting her to bed so I donāt continue to berate him. He may not even come back down because he could see how furious I was.
Itās not like Iām perfect and have never forgotten something, but sunblock when we are doing something very clearly sun-soaked like the beach or pool, NO. And she was actually feeling bad that she didnāt put it on herself. I quickly corrected her and said no, itās a parentās job to make sure itās applied and she did nothing wrong. Sheās so protective of him for some reason. He hasnāt come downstairs after bedtime so is clearly trying to avoid more of my wrath.
starburst604, YH absolutely deserves your wrath. I'm also side-eyeing the family that hosted your daughter, though. No one looked at your pasty white kid and asked if she needed sunblock? I'm a pasty white adult and people are constantly asking me if I need to borrow their sun screen and it annoys me to no end (I always wear it, but I get pink if I'm even a tiny bit warm).