Monday/Humpday

[186momx]

I worked Monday but today is acting like a Monday.  I don't like having 2 Mondays in a row.

4th was fine.  The city banned all fireworks in city limits this year.  Last year it was just in certain parts of town due to fire hazards.  100% didn't stop people from lighting off fireworks or driving up to Washington and buying the big boys and shooting them off.  I drugged up the dog (knocked her out) and only had about 30 minutes were she broke through the drugged state to freak out and that was during the neighbors grand ending at 11:30pm (sunset was at 9:10 and it wasn't really dark until about 10pm).  

How was everyone's long weekend?  Who is working the rest of the week?

[mommyatty]

I’m not working… much. Just a few emails here and there. The beach has been glorious and I am sleeping so freaking much. I keep accidentally napping. There’s a recliner in the condo living room that everyone is joking sucks the energy out of me. I need to steal this chair and take it home with me.

[sandandsea]

Today is my first day back in the office after working remotely/PTO mix the past two weeks and it feels every bit of a Monday. We flew home last night and I have an ear infection and cough and sore throat. I’ve never gotten swimmers ear before but it seems the likely culprit. I’m ready for a weekend already.

ETA. I did dr on demand and he prescribed antibiotics as it seems to be a middle ear infection and potentially strep based on pictures of my throat and ear canal. We bought an ear camera when ds had infections and tubes and it came in handy as they have to see the ear to diagnose or prescribe anything and I was able to send a picture. It looks angry.

[twinmomma]

I have no idea what day I'm on or where I'm at right now. We have SIL, BIL, two extra kids, and sometimes MIL crashing at our house for some nights and some nights we're all down in the city at MIL's to hang out. It's a revolving door of people and chaos. Our kids have varying custody schedules this week thanks to summer vacations. It's tons of fun and I'm loving having everyone at our new house with all the space and guest areas. But phew. By the time they leave next week we'll need a month to recover!

[rere]

2 days left this week, but I am already needing a day off. The 4th was nice. We did our barbecue fireworks over the weekend, so Dh and I went for a long walk and hit a couple of buckets of balls at the driving range and went to lunch. Dd went to a friend's to swim then got all dolled up to go to the town's big fireworks show.

Dh and I just chilled at home and talked about how we didn't mind our jobs, but minded getting up and actual having to go somewhere.

[polecat8]

I'm glad it is a short week, but there is a lot to do still.
On Monday, we went to a local cave to explore. Then we went out to dinner for DH's birthday.
Tuesday was a low key day. We walked a local trail in the morning. Then DD went to a friend's house for a party and the rest of us hung around the house since the weather was so hot and humid. We watched fireworks from our living room window. I feel a little bad that we didn't do anything for the holiday, but we did a lot in the days leading up to the holiday and everyone was exhausted. Plus we had work and camp the next morning.
So yesterday was the normal camp/work schedule. Today I have to go into the office in the afternoon to meet with my bosses and our C-suite guys to explain our processes for software development and test. There is a dinner with them afterwards but I don't know if I am up for it. These guys really like to eat and talk so I know it will be a late night if I stay. But it is always good to get some facetime with these guys and they do pick some really fancy restaurants...
I'm hoping tomorrow is a light day at work. Then I am getting purple highlights in my hair. I've never done anything like this before but I was inspired by DD who dyed her hair blue two weeks ago.
Saturday is my birthday and we are going to a local space museum (because I am a space nerd) and probably the science museum. We'll go out for dinner but I can't decide where yet.
And then I plan on being a sloth on Sunday.

[librarychica]

I’m so confused as to what day it is. Is it Tuesday? Is it Friday? Is it august?

I’m working every day but Tuesday this week. We didn’t do any big fireworks things, but H and I did have the day off and so we took the girls out to lunch and to the science museum. DD2 is just now old enough to go in their makerspace had a blast with circuits blocks while her sister fiddled with some stop-motion apps.

This week is mostly quiet at work except for several instances of “hey remember when I asked you to research an initiative 3 months ago but never reviewed the results? Now I am also having a quiet week and remember that this is on my to-do list so let’s have a meeting on this today at 3” from various directors. Good thing I keep good notes.

I’m counting down to the weekend.

[supertrooper1]

polecat8, I think you'll love purple highlights, but they take some care to keep them. I'm an every day hair washer, even though my hairdresser said to not wash every day and to wash my hair in cold water. I didn't follow her advice and they lasted quite a while the first time, but not the second time. The second time they turned kind of green. So don't do what I did!

Back to work today and trying to catch up on a ton of outstanding issues. I took yesterday off because we were up late lighting off fireworks on the 4th. We camped at Beau's son's house, so we helped clean up from the party and took our trailer back to Beau's shop where we store it. DS and I ran some errands, tried a new pizza place, and then went to the gym.

The 4th was mostly good. The party was fun, we had great food, fun playing volleyball, and a big water balloon fight. It got awkward when Beau's son's friend backed into Beau's brother's vehicle, putting a good sized dent into it. And I don't think our parents appreciated all the f-bombs dropped by the younger group.

[k3am]

I give DD purple highlights pretty frequently.. they're awesome but fade so fast! Granted we use a semi-permanent dye, but those suckers disappeared after one day in the pool, so we've decided to take a hiatus on the purple for summer and I'll probably give her some fresh highlights in time for school.

[librarychica]

Yeah chlorine takes semi-permanent dye right out. Or even permanent! DD1 inherited my dark hair and was saving to lighten/color her hair with some bright color (teal, red, purple were all thrown around) since her hair is too dark for anything to show otherwise she when I asked a stylist friend she told me to wait until winter since we swim all summer. I was glad for the advice because that stuff is expensive!

[mae0111]

We had a fun weekend and it’s been a weird week. Friday DD2 and I met DH at the new beach house and worked all day - moving furniture, cleaning, etc. Saturday I started cleaning out DD1’s room and eventually had to walk away. It’s… something. Dd2 had friends over and they bounced from place to place - different friends houses, to a fair in our town, back here to swim. Sunday was a quiet day - tried to clean the room again and finally left in tears.

I worked Monday from home for a few hours, then dd2 went to a friends house after her therapy appt. Then they came back here for a sleepover that lasted until mid-afternoon on Tuesday. Then her friend’s family took both kids bowling while DH and I dug into DD1’s room again. We removed 3 bags of ruined clothes for recycling, 4 bags of garbage, 2 bags of paper recycling, and 3 bags of donations. AND ITS NOT DONE.

I worked yesterday and today for a few hours, and Dd2 went with me to my office today where I put her to work. Now she’s swimming with a friend because it’s 95° out here.

Tomorrow I need to pack because we are heading to the beach house for a week or so on Saturday morning. I’m ready for a break - hope the weather is better than they’re predicting!!

[k3am]

In April, we reached out to get DD a referral to a therapist. We did their intake appointment, they said had to have a diagnosis to get a referral, she "scored high for anger" but that anger isn't a diagnosis, it's a manifestation of depression, and that if we wanted a referral for therapy, we had to accept their diagnosis.. so we did that, and her first therapy appointment isn't until mid-August.

At the same time, I reached out to the neurologist, and got a referral for another neuropsych eval to make sure her behavior wasn't related to her brain tumors/surgeries - she had one after her first surgery at age 3, but not after her second. The process moves slow. We finally did the intake for that appointment today, and I was wondering if we should have just cancelled and I'm SO glad that we didn't. The neuropsych can't say for sure until she completes the full testing, but she says based on our discussions and her interaction with DD, she doesn't see any signs of depression, but says that she's suspecting inattentive ADHD, which, when undiagnosed and untreated can lead to the anger outbursts that we've been experiencing. And reading the description... I think it's probable that she fits the definition pretty closely.

Wednesday we go for the full exam, which will involve a 1.5 hour commute each way and 6-7 hours of testing, so hopefully the results are meaningful one way or another.

[mae0111]

k3am, DD1 was also diagnosed with inattentive ADHD, and also has outbursts of anger. Medication and therapy has helped significantly. It's not 100% better, but we are no longer having several hours long meltdown 5-6 days a week. The testing process was a lot, but it was so, so insightful. Good luck!

[k3am]

And we're already rescheduled to next Wednesday.. Oh well. We've waited this long, so a week won't set us back in the grand scheme of things.

[k3am]

I have been asked to help with a SWOT analysis that my boss is putting together. I've seen multiple iterations of it, I've provided feedback each time, and NOT A SINGLE WORD has been incorporated, not even correcting his typos, let alone the blatant misstatements about what our competitors are doing. He sent it again today asking for feedback... I'm fine to just completely ignore this request, right?

If we still lived in our old house, that would be paid off by now, I would have quit several times over already, but most certainly yesterday. And today, I just want to give up.

[waverly]

k3am , I would pick one error in the analysis and send it back so it looks like you did something but it only took you one minute to find the error and type the email.

I get it. I was writing break up texts to my friend in my head yesterday. I won't send anything since it would make everything hella awkward, but I was definitely quitting yesterday but in a slightly different way. What do they call it? Quiet quitting? I tried to reconcile and am not feeling it, but DH still wants to be friends, so I will go through the motions of politeness for him and respond, but I will not reach out. 

[k3am]

waverly, I just resent my entire document that I sent him yesterday and he ignored. I do the same as you, particularly with this forum on other boards. Because most of my opinions are not welcome on the other boards and I'm not prepared to fight.

This is SWOT analysis actually the more mundane issue I have with him that I can get into. I'm going to talk to my credit guy and confirm he agrees with my decision on something and, assuming he does, escalate to our division head. It's his job to reign him in, I don't get paid enough to deal with this.

[waverly]

It got to me that she was a huge jerk. But then she was smug about it. Let's be proud about treating people like crap? No thanks.