Had a rough night. I'm not sure how much sleep I actually got.
I thought the meds were working, but after this weekend, I'm not so sure. I felt like absolute death yesterday between my stomach and realizing that painting a ceiling uses muscles you forget you have.
I thought of you all when my HS boys informed us of their fundraisers for football and band.
DS1 is selling tickets to a breakfast that happens to fall on our anniversary. Half goes to the team and half to the food costs.
DS2 is selling cow patty bingo tickets/squares for the same day! If you don't know what cow party bingo is, you buy squares that they set up on the football practice field and they release 4 cows on it and the first square a cow poops in, wins $100. 🤣
Looks like we are spending our anniversary morning at school events.
ssmjlm, I feel you. I have an apple watch. I can’t decide if the sleep tracking but helps or make it work. Because now, I have confirmation that I was awake for 4 hours last night.
Yesterday afternoon, I sent out a group text to some people asking if anyone wanted to join me for a ghost tour around Halloween, at the old mill where we hang out. I got no response. I think 4 nos would be less distressing. My H and bff are joining me, but I’m trying to make new friends and I guess I crashed and burnt. *sigh*
Post by mrsukyankee on Sept 25, 2023 7:15:50 GMT -5
It's so not fair that my husband's version of Covid, both times, has been a lot less than mine. I'm feeling like utter shite and he's just feeling a bit off. Boo.
rubytue, making new friends as an adult is hard and takes a lot of work/rejection.
mrsukyankee, liked for the friend comment, not that you have annoying Covid. It’s interesting you say that though, in my circle, there has been talk about how all the men are getting it worse than their wives. And that played out with H and me..I feel like his was significantly longer.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Sept 25, 2023 7:26:59 GMT -5
I can't believe how much of my morning news dose this morning has been about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. I guess bc Jason Kelce is a big deal here in Phila and she was born in Berks county, but OMG all weekend?! Who cares? I almos want them to go back to obsessing over the escaped convict. *shakes cane*
I also didn't sleep great last night. I'm so tired of the rain. I like a light rain, but it's been coming down pretty hard for 3 days. Last night a big tree limb came down across the street. I was surprised I was the only person outside with a flashlight confirming the source of the big crash was. Most of all, I'm tired of rain coming in through my bedroom windows. I love the cool air, but for whatever reason rain comes in the most through those windows. They're a crank-open style rather than a slide and I assume that's a factor? Last night I was seriously considering if I could put an awning over them... but window awnings look so stupid.
Post by midwestmama on Sept 25, 2023 7:34:02 GMT -5
cjcouple, thanks for the reminder about school fundraisers! I need to donate to DD's band fundraiser this week.
I feel like I didn't get much done this weekend that I had wanted to. I feel like there is so much still to tackle with organizing and decluttering. I just need to start breaking it down into smaller pieces, I think that will help me feel like there is progress - one drawer, one table, one basket at a time.
DS worked at the youth football games on Saturday. He worked with two other kids who were about his age (14) and they took turns announcing, running the scoreboard, and spotting. DS grumbled about it the night before and on our way there when I had to drop him off, but after he got home, he said he had a good day and got paid $15/hour ($130 total, all going to his savings for a car). There was an incident with a crazy Karen lady who barged into the box and yelled at the boys for not stopping the clock. She accused them of not knowing anything about football (they've all played for years), but clearly she was the one who didn't know that the only time a clock stops in youth football is for a timeout or an injured player on the field. (And the boys were definitely watching the signals from the refs, and they were motioning to keep the clock running.) Now I wish I would have been there when that happened so I could have confronted her adult-to-adult and told her to knock it off. The dad of one of the boys who was working with DS is a field director, so hopefully that dad will follow up with the youth football director from the crazy lady's school district to send a "friendly" reminder to parents to act right at games.
I have to do an at home pee test thing over the next two days where I collect samples at different times of day. Semi bad is that I can’t have any caffeine but ok. The worst is that I’m only allowed to drink 40 oz of water/liquid in a day. WTF?? I normally drink at least 3 times that much, usually a lot more. I’ve filled my 40 0z Stanley and am just sadly taking tiny sips. It’s not even 9 AM. This is going to suck.
Also, sinced we have no boss at work, the whole "Who is mission essential" has been up in the air with the impending shutdown. Honestly, I don't want to be essential. Let me have a few days off to recharge from this shitshow and get some stuff done around my house.
H and I had a talk last night prompted by me being frustrated with how much crap is in our house. I feel like I am constantly cleaning, organizing, and de-cluttering...and he is actively working against me!
For example, we have multiple grocery bags full of papers, mail, bills, etc that he refuses to go through and his solution is to move those bags to the basement.
We didn't resolve anything and both just went to bed annoyed, which I still am this morning.
Post by Wallflower on Sept 25, 2023 8:14:27 GMT -5
Final update on the chicken drama - the fox came around just after my brother and SIL got home and it ... ... ... will not be a problem to anyone anymore.
But then my brother came down with Covid, which means when my mother's toilet had a problem on Saturday, I had to take point. Household repairs are NOT my strong suit. Brother would have just fixed it. I ended up with two extra trips over to Mom's house, a jury-rigged a solution, and the handyman coming on Wednesday.
Oh, and poor Mom and her cognition issues ... when I asked Saturday night if the toilet was working OK (post jury-rigging), she said she didn't think she could use it because I'd left the lid off. Folks, she has ONE bathroom and somehow thought I'd left her with it not working! OMG, I wanted to cry.
Then the power went out for about 3 hours on Sunday.
Post by fangoriagurkel on Sept 25, 2023 8:20:20 GMT -5
Is there a way to search for flight deals by date instead of departure / arrival city? Is this something I can do by airline or do I have to use a 3rd party Expedia or Orbitz type site?
I have a 4 day (Thurs-Sun) period in early Dec and don’t care where I fly to. My airport is the busiest one in the world, so I want to throw everything against the wall and see what sticks, but Delta is making me select by city primarily.
Would calling Delta yield different results than online?
My H is out of town so I let the dog sleep with me last night. At just before midnight she started barking like a nut and then sat at the top of the stairs growling. Of coarse it took me forever to fall back asleep once she came back. I don’t know what it was but it came from outside as it woke me up also but even still I wondered if someone was wondering around outside.
Back to calorie/protein counting and regular exercise starting today. I've just been kind of winging it since the week before vacation last month and have gained back a few pounds. Unfortunately I just don't think that I'm one of those people that can just eat intuitively, at least not yet. I hope to get there someday, but as someone who's been dealing with an ED and weight-gain-and-loss for decades, I just don't know if I'll ever be able to. The thought of counting calories for the next 30+ years is pretty freaking daunting. Honestly, it's probably good that I am starting back in therapy this week, just one more thing to add to my list of issues that need to be discussed.
Add me to the list of people who didn't sleep well last night. I woke up at 1:53 and didn't fall back asleep until 4:30 or so. I'm probably going to take the afternoon off so I can take a nap.
Is there a way to search for flight deals by date instead of departure / arrival city? Is this something I can do by airline or do I have to use a 3rd party Expedia or Orbitz type site?
I have a 4 day (Thurs-Sun) period in early Dec and don’t care where I fly to. My airport is the busiest one in the world, so I want to throw everything against the wall and see what sticks, but Delta is making me select by city primarily.
Would calling Delta yield different results than online?
Google FLights. You can search under Explore and enter your departure city and dates. Flights to everywhere will show up. You can book on Delta once you find your flights on google.
My H is out of town so I let the dog sleep with me last night. At just before midnight she started barking like a nut and then sat at the top of the stairs growling. Of coarse it took me forever to fall back asleep once she came back. I don’t know what it was but it came from outside as it woke me up also but even still I wondered if someone was wondering around outside.
I also let my dog sleep with me when DH is out of town. I would be freaked out too if my dog started barking and growling in the middle of the night too! Another mom I know from school posted something on FB about two guys in a van who appeared to be casing the area, and they only live a mile away from us. So I've been hyper alert since she posted that about watching for unusual vehicles on our street (I live on a cul-de-sac of 8 houses, and know the usual vehicles) and will be meeting DD when she gets off the bus, at least for a while.
C and j have the day off today (H is working…teacher workday, ugh). C is at a mini soccer clinic right now, so I’m sitting in the sun and it’s lovely. After that we’re going to Target, then lunch, then home so he can finish his homework and hopefully play with his friends while it’s nice out.
We had friends over for dinner last night. It was so great to see them! We have a ton in common & they have an autistic DS as well so we love hanging out with them. They understand and empathize. We support each other. And we talk about our common interests. Last night we talked briefly about how we were all raised religious and due to the pandemic & our changing views on life we are no longer religious. It's HUGE to find people like this in our 1-2 churches on every street very religious very conservative city.
meanie, H is just like his mom and loves to have little piles of stuff all over. A few years ago, I told him if something sat on the counter or on the floor for more than 24 hrs, it meant that he didn’t think it was important enough to do something with it so I could throw it away. I can’t stand clutter like that-it feels to chaotic to me and stresses me out. There have been a couple of times where I’ve said, this is going in the trash and he’ll grab it but for the most part he now keeps his clutter in his office or in the garage. I don’t know how you can have bags filled with stuff for periods of time and have it be something you actually need.
We ended up snagging last minute, super cheap tickets to see the NFL game yesterday. It was supposed to rain but as of 11am the radar looked like it wasn't going to, so we bought them then. We were in the 9th row in the end zone, which aren't the best seats since you can only see one end of the field clearly, but it was pretty neat to be so close to the field. When we've gone to NFL games in the past we've always been way up in the 500s, and these tickets ended up being cheaper than what we've paid for those! Best part, it really didn't rain at all, just a little while we were walking into the stadium but then it stopped and didn't start again. It was fun.
However, that threw off my whole day yesterday so today I am stressed. I am behind on grading papers for the class I'm teaching, I have no food prepped, and I'm leaving town tomorrow night and not coming back until Monday so I had hoped to get more things done before I go. I had also planned to make multiple meals that would create leftovers for lunch today/tomorrow and then some meals while I'm gone so my H doesn't just end up eating sandwiches all week (I'm the one who does the cooking). The food stuff will be fine, he can figure out what to eat if I don't get around to it. But the grading is a real stressor. I am really leaning toward NOT teaching this class in the future, it's just a lot of work without a lot of reward. The other class I teach in the spring is much more fun so I'll probably keep that one, but this one is just a lot of papers and stuff that aren't that interesting to read so it takes me forever to grade.
I'm off today. I just made some pumpkin baked oatmeal cups and am watching TV. Going to work out soon, and maybe take a long walk around town. Maybe I'll find something else to organize or deep clean. I also have a book to finish. Tonight we have a Oktoberfest party at our local brewery so that's something fun to look forward to. Then back into the work week tomorrow.
meanie , H is just like his mom and loves to have little piles of stuff all over. A few years ago, I told him if something sat on the counter or on the floor for more than 24 hrs, it meant that he didn’t think it was important enough to do something with it so I could throw it away. I can’t stand clutter like that-it feels to chaotic to me and stresses me out. There have been a couple of times where I’ve said, this is going in the trash and he’ll grab it but for the most part he now keeps his clutter in his office or in the garage. I don’t know how you can have bags filled with stuff for periods of time and have it be something you actually need.
I am well known for throwing things away, yet he still thinks the counter is a great place to put something he wants to keep for WEEKS. There were bags of crap I just threw away in our basement that had stuff dated back to 2013....he would probably have a heart attack if I told him.
I'm breaking out the contractor bags today so he can't see what's being tossed