I just got back from the vet with the dog and I need a drink. He was so anxious the entire time and just panting, howling, whining, drooling. He's normally a little nervous at the vet, but calms down after a few minutes. Not today. The doctor had trouble listening to his heart and lungs because he was "singing" so loudly.
Were they served with caramelized onions and sour cream? Cause if not you did not get the right ones. LOL
No, they were just plain. Nothing with them. They weren't bad at all, just nothing exciting like I expected.
Ok--do not judge all pierogies based on this. Find yourself a Ukrainian church and ask them when the kitchen will be serving pierogies. They will take care of you.
My company is doing appreciation week this week and every day has a puzzle for a chance at a gift card. Today's is creating words on a calculator turned upside down. 1. I'm far too juvenile (always 12) to come up with work appropriate words 2. Do a lot of people (outside of say teachers, accountants and scientists) still have a physical calculator? No judgement if you do, but I'm sure we all switched now that they're on phones and computers and such.
I still have an old graphing calculator and I use it at home when I’m paying bills/budgeting. It’s much better than using my phone or computer calculator.
Also Pilsy, ok I'll admit that I had a hard time getting ride of my TI86 graphic calculator when we cleaned out my dads house. I probably should have tried new batteries. I had a little guilt because my parents spent so.much.money on that thing, and part of me wondered if I could still play Tetris, lol. "Plain old" calculators from say the dollar store are just so *cheap* I'd rather use the computer or my phone.
True random, my 11th grade Alg II teacher (I think they changed the order of courses after I graduated) really pushed buying TI83, but the helpful person at Staples said 86 would last at least through college so we upgraded due to peer pressure. A few of us students drove our teacher crazy because there were enough differences in how you did the equations on the 83 vs. the 86 it took time out of class to get us all on the same page. Thankfully they had a bucket of TI83's for students who didn't buy one (most of the class).
I’m taking today as sick leave because I feel lousy from my Covid vaccine, my period just started, and I’m worn the hell out. I made the mistake of checking work email and have inherited something I know nothing about from a departing colleague that apparently needs a full responsive writeup by early next week. Spectacular.
Post by lilypad1126 on Oct 3, 2023 11:05:58 GMT -5
I am supposed to leave in about an hour to drive to a work event 3 hours away. It's POURING here - we need the rain and all, but I am not looking forward to the first part of my drive being in the rain. Thankfully it should clear up after the first 50ish miles of my drive, but this is now how I wanted to start this trip.
I’m regretting offering to dogsit for my friends. Their house is really nice and she shouldn’t be too much trouble, but I just don’t like being out of my routine and figuring out what to eat at their house for 3 days and taking all my bathroom stuff, etc.
I also need to decide if I’m going straight there after work since I’m in office tomorrow, which makes the most sense efficiency-wise, but would also mean I have to have all of my stuff together to take with me when I leave in the morning and that feels ambitious lol
Post by midwestmama on Oct 3, 2023 11:36:25 GMT -5
I only won $8 in the Powerball, so I did not get to proceed with my early retirement plans. But as a coworker says, you win zero times if you don't play.
Post by fangoriagurkel on Oct 3, 2023 11:41:41 GMT -5
Meeting a friend for lunch and I am way too excited about the Thai place we’re going to! I got my Covid booster yesterday and only felt sleepy, low energy but nothing else so far.
I slept a full 8 hours but might take an afternoon power nap.
I have so much shit I need to be doing right now. Seriously. So naturally, I saw everyone mentioned anthropologie in the (wedding dress thread), I headed over to the site, fell down the rabbit hole and now I want to buy all the things for my house. Yep.
Post by dancingirl21 on Oct 3, 2023 11:59:23 GMT -5
DH and I were in Germany and Austria last week and it was so wonderful. We saw so many cool little German towns, then went to Salzburg, Vienna, and Munich. Just such cool, old architecture and history. I love Europe.
I'm struggling with jet lag. The last 2 nights I have gone to bed around 8:30 because I have been so tired but then am waking up at 4am ready for the day. Hopefully my body adjusts soon.
My to-do list felt overwhelming upon getting home, but I'm slowly chipping away at all the things. It happens to be a big week for my kids at school and with extracurriculars, so I'm trying to prioritize and letting the rest go.
Add me to the old calculator club. I am almost 50 and use my old TI BAII Plus from high school almost daily. It has a special spot in my laptop bag and if it isn't in its spot, I freak out.
We’re building a seawall after damage done to our current retaining wall during hurricanes Ian and Nicole. One full year later and construction has just started. The really loud part where thy drive sheet piling in was supposed to start this week. The tide has been ridiculously high so they haven’t been able to start that part of th work. I’m dreading how loud it’s going to be and we’ve even been told we may feel some vibration. I just want it to start so I can see if it’s going to be possible to work while it goes on.I can go work at my parents house during the day if needed or even go to Atlanta and work from our office there but I just want to make a plan.
I didn't have anything to bring to lunch today, so I ordered Afghan food from my favorite place that used to be across the street from where I lived. My Doordash driver got completely lost and it took like an hour for the food to come after she picked it up, lol. I gave the right address, but the name of the building that apparently came up is the same as a bunch of other buildings in this city (they were big donors to a lot of healthcare related places) so she went to the one on a nearby college campus instead of mine. I could see everything in my app and clearly she was not at the place the app indicated, but IDK what it looked like on her end. Anyway, she was nice and I felt more bad for her than for me - what a waste of time! I gave her an extra dollar tip but I might even add more. I can 100% see myself having a similar problem and aside from the hassle of waiting outside for like 15 minutes, it did save me from having to go somewhere else...
I am basically completely overwhelmed with work/life stuff. I was OOT last week/weekend and now I have a friend coming next weekend (she arrives on the 12th). I love fall but why is it always just insane schedule wise? I can't keep up.
wildrice - Let me get this straight; You tipped her extra for not being able to follow directions in the app? It’s one thing if you entered an incorrect address, but that doesn’t sound like that’s the case.
People at work are irritating the crap out of me today. Thankfully I’m working from home or I might have said things to those people that I would regret.
wildrice - Let me get this straight; You tipped her extra for not being able to follow directions in the app? It’s one thing if you entered an incorrect address, but that doesn’t sound like that’s the case.
Yeah that’s a very positive response to taking an hour to deliver food. I would have been pissed!
wildrice - Let me get this straight; You tipped her extra for not being able to follow directions in the app? It’s one thing if you entered an incorrect address, but that doesn’t sound like that’s the case.
Yeah that’s a very positive response to taking an hour to deliver food. I would have been pissed!
Lol yeah, I'm probably too nice but I felt bad that her hourly rate was so low since she spent so much time on this one delivery. It was her fault but also I don't lose pay if I do something incorrectly at work, so I just felt like it wouldn't kill me to give a little more.
Thankfully I have a flexible lunch hour so I was still able to eat it just fine!
I've never used Door Dash and I don't think I ever will lol.
I don't use it often, but there is really nowhere to walk to here aside from a hospital cafeteria a couple of blocks away, and driving is tricky downtown with parking and using a paid lot without reentry to park at work.
To be fair to Door dash, it usually goes much more smoothly than this! But I have ethical concerns about using it so we typically do sparingly.
I work on scientific journals, but am not a scientist in any way. I understand basic concepts but have never really needed to have an in-depth understanding of what they are actually talking about.
One journal recently asked me to start doing a check of papers to make sure they met all the requirements. I have never felt so dumb in my life. I am basically just checking figures and the figure legends to make sure they have all the information that they are supposed to, and I have no idea what any of these words mean. I'm supposed to check for things like "does the figure show the value of n and describe the statistical test used?" which seems pretty easy except that I do not understand the words well enough to even know if the question is relevant to this particular figure.
Most of the people I work with are not only understanding this stuff, but they are reading it in english with is often a second (or third, fourth) language for them. I have no idea how they do this.
To be fair, the second journal that I work on is much simpler and I do understand that one. This journal relates to molecular biology and it makes my head spin.
Post by snapoutofit on Oct 3, 2023 13:44:55 GMT -5
I started a new job in august. I’m in healthcare and have always worked in busy, outpatient clinics with between 7&15 other staff members. I though I was burned out on direct patient care (I’m in outpatient physical therapy). This new business that I work for, most of the staff are at companies providing therapy for patients at their workplace). I am in one of two stand alone clinics and there is no other staff there. Turns out, I just did t like working with other people anymore lol. I love being the only staff there. Patients are staggered every 30 mins but are there for 60-90 mins depending on treatment so I’m never alone with a patient but also, no other clinical or administrative staff. It’s glorious!
Post by pinkdutchtulips on Oct 3, 2023 13:45:06 GMT -5
I've finally recovered from my weekend - Friday was last minute prep for our local Relay for Life (J wisely moved the event from Marin to the East Bay bc everyone but him is in the East Bay), Saturday was the event, Sunday was the wind down and the chance for us to have some just us time.
The event went well. We sold lanyards and as you walked a lap you could add a bead to your necklace. We sold about 75 of them yay! J is a 7y survivor. It gets me every time why we do this. His mom, dad, stepmom, one of his friends and his son were all there. Miss R was a no show - she didn't want to go bc she thought she'd be bored and none of her friends wanted to join her. It drives me nuts that she doesn't want to participate in these family type events. Instead she blew up my phone asking me to get her uber as I'm selling lanyards, walking, looking at silent auction stuff w/o my phone bc no pockets! ARGGHH Our team raised something like $1500 ! and we donated another couple hundred between silent auction wins (8 total!), a raffle win, and luminarias to remember those who passed away and honor those who are still fighting. We were exhausted by the end of the event.
One of the many reasons I love J is that he is entirely supportive of me. In the lead up to the event, we had to make the lanyards, 200 of them and sort beads (2200 of them!). It felt good that he stepped up to help. I didn't have to ask, he just stepped in and asked me what needed to be done. The day of the event, he brought me my coffee (grande drip in a venti cup, 3 splenda topped off w half and half) bc he knew i would be BUSY! During the event, the organizers approached me about joining the event leadership team for next year's event. He said go for it .. this is your thing.
I pulled a wildrice today in Egypt. Bought two figurines for WAY too much money because I did the exchange calculation wrong. 🤦♀️ thankfully my mistake was <$200, but I’m still mad at myself, even though I loved the wooden elephant I got. 🤣
Yeah that’s a very positive response to taking an hour to deliver food. I would have been pissed!
Lol yeah, I'm probably too nice but I felt bad that her hourly rate was so low since she spent so much time on this one delivery. It was her fault but also I don't lose pay if I do something incorrectly at work, so I just felt like it wouldn't kill me to give a little more.
Thankfully I have a flexible lunch hour so I was still able to eat it just fine!
This is actually a great way to look at this and it's so true!!