Working a half day, then running a few errands. Realized I don't have red velvet cake mix for cookies, only chocolate. I got a look from DH and E when I asked if that was ok, guess not.
Working a full day, but I expect it to be pretty light. I'm going to bake a cheesecake in between tasks. I'm also debating if I want to make dinner rolls from scratch...
I’ve never heard of red velvet cookies. Is that what you’re saying, cookies made out of red velvet cake mix?
I’m at the office. So far it’s a good morning. My mental health has been in the trash can lately but today I feel good. It’s empty at work and I’m listening to Fast Car (OG).
Post by wanderingback on Nov 22, 2023 8:40:39 GMT -5
Our org gave us the day off (already had Thurs and Fri off) so yay for that. My partner usually gets up with our daughter and gets her ready so since we’ll all be home for next 5 days we said we’d switch up hanging out with her each morning(even though I’ll still have to wake up to feed her). This morning is my morning and she usually wakes up between 745-8 and it’s now 8:40 and she’s still sleep She must’ve known I wanted to lounge in bed a bit longer!
Post by donutsmakemegonuts on Nov 22, 2023 8:40:40 GMT -5
It's a skeleton crew here today. By this afternoon I feel like it might be just me left in the office because people who are here now are leaving early. I don't mind really because it should be slow and I can save my time for some other day I will need/want off. We don't have Thanksgiving plans besides dinner for the two of us, so there is no need for prepping dinner or anything. So I will just enjoy the quiet while getting paid I guess. DH has to work 12 hours starting at 7 pm because of the pre Thanksgiving partyers, so I will even have the house to myself later on.
The office is closed today, I need to do some laundry and run some errands. I'm going to run over to the old house to finish vacuuming and make sure it's all empty. I'm making acorn squash soup and pumpkin pie later today. My parents will be here in a bit and if it stops raining we will all go to the tree lighting downtown tonight. I want to put up my Christmas decorations this week, but I should probably finish organizing my living room first.
Half day! I had a meeting scheduled, but do to an IT issue I’m unable to open PDFs, which cripples me for the meeting I had to run. I rescheduled it for Monday. And I had one person email me asking why my inability to open PDFs means we couldn’t do it. Basically, we will all be in a better head space to deal with this on Monday, not when it’s the last thing to do before a long weekend. And also, fuck you… unless you are going to run the meeting, opening up every document for people to review…. Sit down.
I’ve never heard of red velvet cookies. Is that what you’re saying, cookies made out of red velvet cake mix?
I’m at the office. So far it’s a good morning. My mental health has been in the trash can lately but today I feel good. It’s empty at work and I’m listening to Fast Car (OG).
I had very emotionally heavy dreams last night, and I'm struggling to shake them off. Thankful work will be light today so I can try to catch up on some things that have fallen behind without getting agitated by interruptions.
Also, the past few nights in a row I've woken up in a panic because I was dreaming I couldn't breathe. I'm also, like, growling? 😳 My cpap stats don't look unusual and my mask fit is still 100% so I don't know what might be going on. I have never been a mouth breather unless I'm super congested/sick, but maybe I'm starting to sleep with my mouth open.
It's been at least five years since my sleep study... maybe I need another one?
COVID sucks. I’m stuck in the house and have a million projects I could handle but don’t feel well enough for any of them.
On a positive note my boss is the best. I work from home so often there’s this feeling like I should work even though I’m sick. He called me yesterday to stress that I need to take the time I need to rest. I worked a tiny bit yesterday and will also today but feel no pressure to do anything beyond what I feel up to.
Post by followyourarrow on Nov 22, 2023 9:05:39 GMT -5
My sister is being judgy and I'm not here for it today. FI leaves to go offshore tonight and I'm driving him. He'll leave out of one port (Louisiana) and come back into another port (Mississippi). His company expects you to figure out your own transportation. Driving him back and forth seems to make the most sense to me. I also don't want his car in some random lot for 4 -6 weeks. She thinks he should be driving himself or taking Uber. Uber isn't really easy to come by in some of these ports, not to mention that it will be a good $200 if you can find a driver willing to take you 100+ miles.
My mom has been reviewing my outfit of the day and telling me whether she deems them appropriate for my job or not.
I wish our office would close early today. When we were smaller, the CEO used to let everyone leave at 1 or 2 but now that we’ve grown in size, plus have a call center that doesn’t happen anymore.
I have no idea who is coming to my house for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I’m assuming just the original person because everyone else is too much of an ahole to tell me either way because I don’t deserve any respect for not inviting the golden child.
Sorry kaneen , it sucks to be sick, especially on a holiday. I'm glad your boss was proactive about telling you to rest. I struggle with taking the time off when I'm sick too because of the WFH guilt.
I'm working a full day today since I don't get a lot of vacation time and i'm saving it for Xmas. My boss just messaged me and asked if I was working the whole day or not. I was hoping he'd tell me to log off early, but no such luck. My old boss would have. New boss is oblivious to the fact that I don't get as much PTO as he does. <sigh>
DD2 has been working on something for a week. She's had a low, persistent not really a fever elevated temp of 99.5, but otherwise has been fine. I knew something was coming so obviously she woke up today and told me her ear hurts. Of course it fucking does. Every single year, she gets sick during Thanksgiving and Xmas. Of course there are no sick visits available at any of the pedi sites near us today and they are all closed until Sat. <sob> I think we are going to wait and see if it gets worse and then take her to urgent care if we have to, but man she has the worse timing.
I have no idea if it will be slow or not, but I am logging off by noon and ignoring requests after that.
My boss did say to let all of our people log off around 2. I already told my team noon. Sorry, not sorry. Nobody needs to be working the day before thanksgiving.
I really hope everyone chills out because the last couple of days have been kind of stupid considering the holiday week.
I have one meeting this morning so aside from that I plan to bring my laptop up to the kitchen so I can make cheesecake bars, apple cream pie, and a large batch of gin cocktails with blackberry and lavender-lemon simple syrup.
Our campus is closing at 3. I have a handful of students I need to meet with, plus clinic this morning.
Im happy for the chill day, since I have several things to do tonight. DS is going to attempt a new kind of pie - lemon meringue! So, that’s going to be fun!
I'm WFH, but when all of us are here and there's no school, I am reminded why I sometimes prefer the office. At least I'm upstairs and they're downstairs.
I’m off today. Heading to a pedicure shortly. Maybe I’m odd but I don’t overall enjoy pedicures. I find them often uncomfortable especially how I have to sit and contort my legs. I only do them because I can’t maintain my toes myself and don’t want ingrown nails.
Then we have a bunch of yard work we wanted to do but it must have rained overnight and everything is wet. Need to bring in patio furniture, cut down plants, etc. Also have to pick up the pumpkin pie.
Wfh this morning and then taking PTO this afternoon.
The kids and I are going to put up the Christmas tree after lunch. I’ve never done it before Thanksgiving, but I need the emotional warmth of Christmas now more than ever.
I'm working today, but then off until December 4th! We are leaving for vacation first thing tomorrow so I have about a million things to do today. I am going to try to knock some of them out throughout the day, interspersed with work. It's stuff like packing, changing the litter boxes so they are fresh for the cat sitter, running to the post office to drop off a couple of packages, and doing a couple of (brief) assignments for my class that I'm taking. IDK why I always leave stuff to the last minute, but here we are and at least that means it will be a productive day, lol. We leave here around 5am or so tomorrow so whatever doesn't get done by bedtime won't get done.
As of right now the weather for our trip looks pretty good, so I'm excited! It's been showing rain basically every day in Bogota for weeks but suddenly it's clear the whole time we are there, except for 1 afternoon. That will make packing less stressful for sure.
It does not feel like a holiday AT ALL here and I can't believe Christmas is in just over a month.
Post by midwestmama on Nov 22, 2023 9:30:06 GMT -5
I am working today (so is DH), but my last meeting is a 3:00, so I am planning to log off then. I have to do some cleaning and also make yeast rolls for taking to Thanksgiving dinner with my parents tomorrow.
DH's birthday is tomorrow. For his birthday, he wanted to go on an overnight just the two of us, so Friday morning we are leaving to head to a touristy town about 2.5 hours away and will be back on Saturday afternoon. My parents will come down to stay with the kids.
I'm not planning to do a ton of Black Friday shopping, but whatever I do will be online this year.
Post by Patsy Baloney on Nov 22, 2023 9:34:03 GMT -5
My new boss is breaking the rules and letting me wfh today. She was like, “Usually, we wait 3 months before we start a work from home arrangement but…please stay home and have a great day.”
Sounds good! I haven’t wfh since the early days of the covid shutdown and I’m enjoying sitting in my leggings with a movie on in the background. Living the life!! Lol.
I'm working a full day today, but usually my company will let people log off early before holidays. The time varies, but for big ones it's usually noon or 1pm. I took some of my "work from anywhere" time this week so I'm WFH at least.
I need to pack and get ready for the trip to my mom's and also for the dogs to board. I think we're going to go get our Christmas tree this afternoon, too, because once we get back it will a) be hard to find time to go and b) we might miss the good ones!
I'm working today in the office, so is H and kid is at school so I'm jealous of those of you with day off or short day - enjoy it! It's super quiet around here today, students don't have class, tons of folks took vac day so it's really low key. I only have ONE thing that I MUST accomplish today. Come on 5:00!!
My friend from CA is in MI to see her H's family so I'm excited to get to see her this weekend. Kid LOVES her and was pissed that she didn't get to see her last time she was in the area and has already very clearly stated that will not be accepted this weekend haha.
We have very little planned for this weekend and I'm so happy for that. We've already done outside decorations so we'll probably do indoor decorating this weekend so that will be fun. I'm not thrilled where H wants to put the tree but it's also not a huge enough deal that I'll go all in on it. I'll just go with the flow.
Post by prettypitties on Nov 22, 2023 10:01:49 GMT -5
I'm working today (from home, as usual), but I expect my boss will tell me to sign off around noon today. It's SO quiet, I've had one email since 8am.
My birthday is tomorrow, so we celebrated last night with my SO's kids since they'll be at their mom's for Thanksgiving. His son got me a cozy, warm pair of slippers, his daughter got me a cute Brooklyn tote bag with an NYC pin (she goes to school in NYC), and SO got me STEVIE NICKS tickets for her Baltimore show in February. I'm so freaking excited. He's been really cute the past few weeks, all proud of himself that he had already gotten my gift. He was pretty sure he had nailed it, and he did indeed!
My son gets out at 12 today so they told me to work from home. It really is a nice treat, especially since I'm still sick and knocked out by this cough. Thanks to this virus in the last 7 days I have eaten about a 3rd of my usual food calories and had no caffeine or alcohol. So I bet I have gained 3 pounds! The company closes at 3pm (what happened to 1pm the day before a holiday?!?) My normal hours are 8:30 to 4:30 and I'm on until 5 most days so after I get my son I'm mostly just going to watch email and the phone and not feel guilty at all.
I went to the supermarket after drop off. I did that all the time before going back to work and it was great because there were about 5 people in the store. Not today! The parking lot looked like a Saturday afternoon and it was 7:50am.
This morning we get to try take two of getting autistic DS(7.5) his covid vax. He'll be less than thrilled. So help me if they say they don't have a kid vax! It takes H and I at least 30-40 minutes to get him inside the pharmacy. If we have to try a third time I will cry.