What shoes do you wear with jeans, if you don’t want to wear athletic shoes? Eg on the weekends if I meet a friend for coffee, I’ll wear jeans and a sweater. I don’t know what shoes to wear but my summer shoes aren’t cutting it because I can’t wear socks with them.
I was going to say Chelsea boots too. Or I wear clogged type/slip ons.
H has been away for work all week and for some reason when he’s away I’m like a machine. The house is spotless and I’m all caught up on errands. I even made the tikka for tonight’s dinner last night! I’m excited I never marinated this long 🤤
Post by mrsukyankee on Nov 29, 2023 7:33:55 GMT -5
I'm so tired. I woke up in the middle of the night having had a nightmare about a monkey trying to strangle and drown my dog. I have NO idea where that one came from. I do not usually have nightmares nor do I typically remember my dreams, so this struck me. I didn't sleep well from that moment forward (I almost grabbed my dog to snuggle with on the bed but we've been training him to sleep on his own bed).
Big presentation at work today, so of course I slept like crap and had stress/anxiety dreams when I did manage to doze off. I'm confident in my part of the presentation and know my whole team is going to do great. It's just that we've got a lot of vips attending and I have to be on camera.
I wish I'd remembered to take my sleep aids last night 😪
What shoes do you wear with jeans, if you don’t want to wear athletic shoes? Eg on the weekends if I meet a friend for coffee, I’ll wear jeans and a sweater. I don’t know what shoes to wear but my summer shoes aren’t cutting it because I can’t wear socks with them.
I typically wear lace up combat/moto style boots if I'm not wearing sneakers.
Monday night, I couldn’t fall asleep until almost 1am. I was such a mess yesterday. And it was an office day! My coworker was laughing at me because almost everything was “I couldn’t be bothered this morning.” Shoes? Fake uggs (which turned out smart when it started snowing), hair - ponytail. Start time - missed by 30 minutes. I tried to rally for my fencing class, but ended up phoning it in.
Last night, a blissful 8 hours! Woo!! Guess I have no excuse to be unproductive today.
My dog is very good at letting you know when she wants something, not as good at communicating what it is she wants. She just came to inform me she had a very specific demand. She has already done the pee, breakfast, poop thing. After getting my attention, she walked over to the fireplace. She appears to have wanted me to turn on the fireplace and move her bed by it. Because that had made her content.
Post by karinothing on Nov 29, 2023 8:20:56 GMT -5
I am so done with living in my house and desperately want to move but it is not going to happen. I mentally can not handle the thought of a higher mortgage payment and house prices have shot up so much that we likely need to spend over 1 million to get anything bigger than what we have. I know it is such a first world problem, but sometimes it just depresses me. I am so tired of having my office in the living room. I wish the kids had bedrooms big enough to put a dresser and a bed in. I want more than 24 inches of counter space. I feel like these aren't even big asks!
ETA: I think this current bought of house depression comes from visiting relatives in CA and them having a ranch house and it just feeling so much more spacious lol.
I have a mammogram at 10:30 today, so that should be fun. And it's snowing here... the first snowfall, which always makes for people driving like idiots. We're only supposed to get a few inches, but I swear, people forget how to drive when the first flakes stick. I'm definitely treating myself to Starbucks after. I have a Target order to pickup, so I'll grab it there. I wish I could just do drive up, but I have a couple of returns too. I know there is the option to do a return at drive up, but none of my items are ever eligible for drive up return. Or like 1 of 3 things will be. Oh well. I also need to grab cat food and there is 30% off pet food on the app, plus a $2 coupon that is good in store only.
What shoes do you wear with jeans, if you don’t want to wear athletic shoes? Eg on the weekends if I meet a friend for coffee, I’ll wear jeans and a sweater. I don’t know what shoes to wear but my summer shoes aren’t cutting it because I can’t wear socks with them.
Boots, flats (Rothys) or a casual sneaker (like Chucks, Keds etc)
Post by Patsy Baloney on Nov 29, 2023 8:47:04 GMT -5
This week is the first time in years where I haven’t fantasized about getting into a horrible accident or another incapacitating event on the way to work in the morning.
I’m happy my mental health is improving and also that I’m enjoying my new job!
Post by followyourarrow on Nov 29, 2023 8:49:21 GMT -5
I wear Heydudes or cowboy boots. Not helpful I'm sure!
I'm giving up sugar and artificial sweeteners for the next 3 days. I'm cranky in advance. My nurse suggested it, sugar and artificial sweeteners are triggers for RA, and when I had donuts for breakfast yesterday my hand swelled up and the joints hurt.
Like SwimDeep, I have a big presentation today and basically ran through it all night long in my dreams. I'm pretty confident, except I'm demo-ing new software and I have one area I can't show because of a bug and I'm worried about uncovering anything else in the middle of the webinar. Stakes are high and the stress is getting to me.
Oh, and my 91-year-old mother called me at midnight because she'd fallen. Says she's fine and had gotten back in bed, so she wasn't stranded, but she was upset enough to call so she must have been pretty shaken. I've spoken to her this morning and she says she feels OK, and I've updated my brother. But it's just a long-term struggle, trying to allow her to stay in her own home while trying to make sure she's safe. Raising an aging parent isn't for the faint of heart!!
I have been feeling uncomfortably full since Thanksgiving. I've been eating really light-- yesterday I waited till noon and had a yogurt, then just had rice and roasted veggies at dinner-- but still feel gross.
The guys at my H's work all did a juice cleanse last month, and H and I decided that we are going to do it. It's getting delivered tonight and we start tomorrow.
I feel so gross that I'm actually super excited about it. I'm hoping it helps my stomach reset.
I'm giving up sugar and artificial sweeteners for the next 3 days. I'm cranky in advance. My nurse suggested it, sugar and artificial sweeteners are triggers for RA, and when I had donuts for breakfast yesterday my hand swelled up and the joints hurt.
I'm pissy this morning. When taking DS to school I noticed my car making a weird rattle in the dash when I went above like 30 mph, so I guess I need to see what that's about. I need an oil change anyway, so I'll call the place I usually go to and get both things done. I just feel like I can never be happy because something is always breaking in either the house or my old ass car.
I am also semi concerned about the heat in our house. For the past few days, the temperature in the house has consistently been much warmer than I'm setting the thermostat at (like, I have it at 68 and its 74 in the house). We have a gas boiler that was just serviced and everything was fine. IDK if the thermostat is maybe going bad? Or is this just a radiator heat thing? Like, when it kicks on the radiators get super warm and then cool down throughout the day? I do notice that when its super cold out, and it's been pretty cold the past few days, my house gets warmer. I'm not sure what to do here.
Post by nancybotwin on Nov 29, 2023 9:23:49 GMT -5
Add me to the anxiety dreams/slept like crap club. I have a very long day ahead of me, and I won’t get home until 10 tonight. I probably got less than 5 hours sleep because I stayed up late preparing for today, woke up throughout the night after each stress dream, and then couldn’t fall back asleep once 5am hit 😩
I'm giving up sugar and artificial sweeteners for the next 3 days. I'm cranky in advance. My nurse suggested it, sugar and artificial sweeteners are triggers for RA, and when I had donuts for breakfast yesterday my hand swelled up and the joints hurt.
They would have to lock me in a room.
I was just thinking...oh I should do that. Then realized I already had a handful of cereal this morning, then said, well guess I have to start tomorrow.
Either leather booties or the Keds style of Allbirds.
I had a soccer game that started at 10:45 last night. I was not asleep until 1. I hate my life right now. I have a headache and I don’t want to do anything.
ohgillian, mostly Birkenstock clogs, ankle boots, or casual sneakers, like Allbirds or Rothy's lace ups.
My random: I am so tired of being the assumed bearer of the mental load associated with thinking up gifts for everyone on our list. I have to come up with Santa gifts for the family, gifts from H & I to the kids, arranging/acquiring/helping wrap gifts from kid to kid (they are 4 and 8), brainstorm gifts for my dad to our family members, brainstorm gifts for MIL & FIL to give all 4 of us...
I only have to buy and wrap the ones from us and from Santa, but that's the easy part anyway for me. It's the thinking, and the stress when inevitably somebody stumps me, that gets me. And MIL just waltzes into my texts every year, "I need ideas for you and H and DD and DS for Christmas." Well me fucking too! Lol.
Shoes with jeans? I always find this a challenge in the winter. It's so much easier in the summer. In winter, it depends on the jeans more. I have a pair of skinnies I wear with a casual sneaker like Vans or Eccos. I have a pair of rolled boyfriend jeans I wear with a chunkier loafer and no socks if I'm mostly indoors. I have a pair of wide-leg jeans that I wear with a boot because of the length; I'd like them better with my Vionic loafers but it's not meant to be. The petites were too short and looked like clown pants, the short regular is about 1/2" too long.
I called out of work for a second day in a row. I'm on Day 8 of COVID and feel better, but the fatigue is soul-crushing. I took a 2 hour nap yesterday and still slept through the night. Really though, I need the mental health day more than anything. Illness and peak work insanity are hell.
I feel guilty and I shouldn't. I'm education and it's a broken system where employees cannot be out sick without the house of cards collapsing.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Nov 29, 2023 10:00:51 GMT -5
This is why I won't give up my skinny jeans, because I can wear ALL THE BOOTS with them, and I have all the boots. Short, medium, tall, fluffy, fake fur lined, all the colors, etc. So I am never at a loss for what to wear with jeans.
Now, what to wear with my faux-leather black leggings when it's too cold to wear flats, that is another story. Anyone want to help me there? I am planning on wearing those on Friday with a cobalt-blue sweater with sparkly sleeves to a cabaret show downtown, and we're going to have to walk from the T, and it's going to be cold and maybe wet, so I need ankle coverage. Again, I have all the boots, but what to wear with black faux-leather leggings?
And my other random is that I didn't call the plumber yesterday, but they did call me back and are here now, so yay.