Post by followyourarrow on Jan 24, 2024 9:53:16 GMT -5
Mardi (the dog) did so well at her jumpers anonymous class. She's doing better and we're following what they told us.
I had two drs appointments yesterday. I'm getting old and falling apart. My diabetes is significantly worse, so I'm going to try injectable meds again, and a continuous glucose monitor. My liver is also worse, but that may be because of the diabetes being worse. I'm doing my best to eat right and walk, but it's just not enough. It's frustrating.
Navigating my autistic DS' IEP needs at the same school I'm employed at is like walking on a tightrope. I try so hard to keep my employee and parent boundaries in tact after a few missteps on my part at the beginning of the school year I realized how important it is for my DS and for me.
I am in testing mode this week so I have bits of time while waiting for the student I just tested to send my next student to me. I spend that time grading their reading scores. On Monday the resource room teacher came to my table at one of those times to discuss a potential change in my DS' IEP. A quick oh your DS is doing great is this area are fine during these times, but oh let's change his IEP is a bit much. I need to talk big changes over with my H anyway so it's never going to be a easy or quick answer for them.
I need an absorbing book or show. Something to get my mind in a more creative space.
It is also pouring here, again. So happy we put in French drains last year, and I will never truly complain about the rain. I just want to curl up in bed instead of work!
I need an absorbing book or show. Something to get my mind in a more creative space.
It is also pouring here, again. So happy we put in French drains last year, and I will never truly complain about the rain. I just want to curl up in bed instead of work!
I don't think this is quite what you're looking for, but I usually feel inspired/creative after watching home reno or cooking shows.
I'm sitting in the auto shop waiting room while H's car gets an oil change and a tire rotation. I asked the mechanic how long it had been since the last oil change... two years 😬 oops. We've been debating how long it's been and I asked him to check the sticker on the windshield. But apparently he always takes that off, so I have no idea how many miles he put on it since the last change 🥴
I mean. It's just oil, right? How important is that really? And it was just the wrench light that came on not the oil light so no big deal 🙄
And I really can't be too annoyed because now I know my car's last oil change was also two years ago (I did both the same week). But I haven't hit the mileage written on my windshield sticker yet, so still bad but not as bad. And at least I have a general idea of when routine maintenance needs to happen.
To be fair, H and I are both super busy. But at least one of us has to keep track of basic boring shit like this, and I'm a little frustrated that I am always that person. Now excuse me while I set up calendar reminders with a pic of the helpful sticker that he will trash as soon as he gets in the car 😕
Post by lavenderblue on Jan 24, 2024 10:46:32 GMT -5
I'm on day 6982 of stomach issues, at least it feels that way. Luckily I am wfh today so I can sit at my desk in sweats with a heating pan on my stomach and no one can see me. I've been playing it pretty fast and loose with my gluten consumption so I am sure that is part of it, but normally my pain resolves once the gluten more or less clears my system. This is getting old. Or maybe I'm just getting old and my body is having a harder time recovering. Who knows, but I'm over it.
Post by wanderingback on Jan 24, 2024 10:50:15 GMT -5
I’m treating myself to a solo date night on Saturday! I haven’t done that since November, so looking forward to it. I wanted to see the Color Purple, but looks like it stops playing this week. So I’m going to go to see something else, just need to figure out what. I’m going to go to a theater that has a bar and then take myself out to dinner afterwards. So excited!
I’m treating myself to a solo date night on Saturday! I haven’t done that since November, so looking forward to it. I wanted to see the Color Purple, but looks like it stops playing this week. So I’m going to go to see something else, just need to figure out what. I’m going to go to a theater that has a bar and then take myself out to dinner afterwards. So excited!
American Fiction was really good if that’s at your theatre.
Post by mrsukyankee on Jan 24, 2024 10:56:54 GMT -5
I have happily recovered from the gastic/joint thing that was happening from Mon am to this morning. I took sleeping tablets and Advil. And I could finally eat something with substance (one should not live on toast alone). Luckily, it wasn't insanely busy at work (triaging day)so I could take my time and relax between reading forms and calling people.
I found a class scheduled for October at a fiber arts center I’ve been to before that looked interesting. It was $300 and I was debating it then I got an email from a museum we had visited last year and they were offering the exact same class, same instructor in March for $100!
What a price difference! It would be even cheaper if we were members of the museum and apparently there will be coffee and doughnuts. Maybe the museum is subsiding it?
Either location would require a hotel stay but this takes it down to a much more reasonable cost. The instructor actually came and did a presentation at my guild last year so I know she’s good. I have her book.
I’m treating myself to a solo date night on Saturday! I haven’t done that since November, so looking forward to it. I wanted to see the Color Purple, but looks like it stops playing this week. So I’m going to go to see something else, just need to figure out what. I’m going to go to a theater that has a bar and then take myself out to dinner afterwards. So excited!
American Fiction was really good if that’s at your theatre.
I was looking at this, thanks! I have a family member that is an actor and knows all the good shows so was gonna ask him, but glad to have your rec, will prob see this then.
Today is my nephew's 10th birthday! I cannot believe how fast that time has gone by. It doesn't seem like it's been an entire decade since I drove into Chicago to sit at the hospital and wait for him to enter the world - but so much has changed since then I guess. I remember being so unsure how I felt about this big change to family dynamics.
While they have changed a ton since then (including moving much further away from me...) - I am so glad this kid was born! He is just such a sweet, funny, kind, and smart human and I am lucky to be his aunt. I am happy we have been able to be close despite the distance. I wish I could be there to celebrate today!
I signed DS up for sleepaway camp this summer- I think we're all a little nervous about him jumping into a full week when he's really only ever been away from home that long with grandparents, but he's signed up with a friend, and he always seems to want more independence. This should be a good, safe place for him to grow those skills.
It's so weird though, with DD I know we had her at GS sleepaway camp at this age, and I didn't have these "but my baby!" feelings about it.
I'm sitting in the auto shop waiting room while H's car gets an oil change and a tire rotation. I asked the mechanic how long it had been since the last oil change... two years 😬 oops. We've been debating how long it's been and I asked him to check the sticker on the windshield. But apparently he always takes that off, so I have no idea how many miles he put on it since the last change 🥴
I mean. It's just oil, right? How important is that really? And it was just the wrench light that came on not the oil light so no big deal 🙄
And I really can't be too annoyed because now I know my car's last oil change was also two years ago (I did both the same week). But I haven't hit the mileage written on my windshield sticker yet, so still bad but not as bad. And at least I have a general idea of when routine maintenance needs to happen.
To be fair, H and I are both super busy. But at least one of us has to keep track of basic boring shit like this, and I'm a little frustrated that I am always that person. Now excuse me while I set up calendar reminders with a pic of the helpful sticker that he will trash as soon as he gets in the car 😕
Why does your H remove the sticker? I think the recommendation is 6 months or whatever mileage is on the sticker. So if you aren't reaching the mileage, just set reminders to take the cars in every 6 months. My dad had to have his entire engine rebuilt because it seized due to not changing the oil. It was expensive and totally preventable, don't be him!
I’m treating myself to a solo date night on Saturday! I haven’t done that since November, so looking forward to it. I wanted to see the Color Purple, but looks like it stops playing this week. So I’m going to go to see something else, just need to figure out what. I’m going to go to a theater that has a bar and then take myself out to dinner afterwards. So excited!
Depending on what you’re in the mood for, you might consider Anyone But You. It’s fluffy and full of eye candy. The plot is a little thin, but it makes fun of itself, and is based on Much Ado About Nothing. I expected it to be a total cringefest (and was there for that) but I actually liked it much more than I thought I would. A great palate cleanser if you want to forget about the world for 105 minutes (and I did, the night before an out-of-town funeral). I might even see it again.
Post by underwaterrhymes on Jan 24, 2024 11:18:06 GMT -5
I’m so grossed out by people who make food videos and leave their rings on while handling raw meat. TAKE YOUR RINGS OFF, PEOPLE. Salmonella is not your friend!
One of my sisters is doing a deep clean/clear out of her home and she came across a huge set of painted ceramic pieces our mother made depicting the entirety of the 12 days of Christmas. I guess she sent everyone in the family, 18 nephews and nieces included, a couple of pieces of the set.
Mine arrived yesterday and it’s a not-great swan in a truly hideous ballerina. I know she meant this to be nice and sentimental, but I really don’t want random pieces of crap landing in my home. And I think it’s rude to send stuff like this unsolicited.
I didn’t have the greatest relationship with our mom, and the whitewashing/gaslighting about her from my older siblings drives me a little bit nuts. These pieces are going straight to the trash.
Post by RoxMonster on Jan 24, 2024 11:32:09 GMT -5
Still testing negative for Covid but only on day 3 of symptoms so I will probably re-test again tomorrow or Friday as well. My symptoms feel almost exactly like when I had Covid the last time. I had a low-grade fever and chills last night. That is gone now after taking Tylenol. My smell and taste are dulled (totally lost them last time).
H is still healthy so far, fingers crossed. I hate not being able to breathe out my nose and the feeling of head/ears being plugged. We have unlimited sick time at work, so I did take the day off (even though I WFH anyway and had no meetings today because I cleared my calendar for an event I was supposed to attend). I figure it'll be best to totally rest and not feel like I have to be working on stuff or keeping up with Teams/email.
Has anyone ever had one of their child’s friends take something from them while visiting? DS had some friends over a week ago and he’s been turning the house upside down looking for some Pokemon cards (2 rare ones) and yesterday at school, one of the friends just happened to show off his 2 new cards which are the exact ones DS has been looking for. How the heck would you handle a situation like that?
I’m so grossed out by people who make food videos and leave their rings on while handling raw meat. TAKE YOUR RINGS OFF, PEOPLE. Salmonella is not your friend!
One of my (actual, diagnosed and medicated) OCD THINGSSSS is rings. I can’t wear em, they gross me out so much
Has anyone ever had one of their child’s friends take something from them while visiting? DS had some friends over a week ago and he’s been turning the house upside down looking for some Pokemon cards (2 rare ones) and yesterday at school, one of the friends just happened to show off his 2 new cards which are the exact ones DS has been looking for. How the heck would you handle a situation like that?
Oh gosh, this is so hard. If it was something easily replaceable, I would probably just buy new ones for my kids to avoid the conflict/confrontation, and then I'd talk to them about putting 'special' things away when they have friends over until they are older and could navigate this kind of thing on their own.
But you can't just 'buy' new rare pokemon cards (except maybe on ebay, who knows for what inflated rate). I would probably ask my kid if they wanted me to do something about it, and explain that if I did, it might ruin the friendship, and he still might not get the cards back. But if my kid was really upset and did want me to do something, I would probably contact the parent of the kid and say something like 'hey, I'm not sure what happened, but I did want to let you know that after playdate, ds noticed these 2 cards were missing. We looked all over for them and couldn't find them. Then on x day, your kid was showing off these 2 cards at school. Ds is upset thinking that his friend may have taken something of his. I understand that may not be what happened, but I wanted to let you know.'
And then I would leave it at that, unless the parent was a really good friend of mine or something. If the parent talked to their kid and made them give the cards back, great! If not, that's a hard lesson for your ds.
Mardi (the dog) did so well at her jumpers anonymous class. She's doing better and we're following what they told us.
I had two drs appointments yesterday. I'm getting old and falling apart. My diabetes is significantly worse, so I'm going to try injectable meds again, and a continuous glucose monitor. My liver is also worse, but that may be because of the diabetes being worse. I'm doing my best to eat right and walk, but it's just not enough. It's frustrating.
Is this the real name of the doggy class? If so, do you happen to know if it's a chain through a specific company or a just your region thing?
My 3 year old lab is a fabulous dog except for that she still jumps on people when they come to our house because she just gets so excited. We've tried some training stuff ourselves, but it's hard because we don't always having willing participants to come to the door. We had done a puppy class with her, and 2 sessions with a personal dog trainer when she was like 6 months old, but neither addressed this issue, and I don't want to do training with her beyond just getting her to stop jumping! She's almost 80 lbs of pure muscle, so she really knocks into you when she jumps.
I'm sitting in the auto shop waiting room while H's car gets an oil change and a tire rotation. I asked the mechanic how long it had been since the last oil change... two years 😬 oops. We've been debating how long it's been and I asked him to check the sticker on the windshield. But apparently he always takes that off, so I have no idea how many miles he put on it since the last change 🥴
I mean. It's just oil, right? How important is that really? And it was just the wrench light that came on not the oil light so no big deal 🙄
And I really can't be too annoyed because now I know my car's last oil change was also two years ago (I did both the same week). But I haven't hit the mileage written on my windshield sticker yet, so still bad but not as bad. And at least I have a general idea of when routine maintenance needs to happen.
To be fair, H and I are both super busy. But at least one of us has to keep track of basic boring shit like this, and I'm a little frustrated that I am always that person. Now excuse me while I set up calendar reminders with a pic of the helpful sticker that he will trash as soon as he gets in the car 😕
Um, don't forget about oil changes! When I went back to work after maternity leave, in my attempt to manage work, home, 2 kids, dog, etc., car maintenance went on the back burner. We took my car, which hadn't had an oil change in idk how long, cross country for vacation and it...stopped...on a busy road. There ended up being zero! oil in the engine and I needed to replace the entire engine. It was a $$$ lesson to learn and promptly forced us to reorganize various household/chore responsibilities.
Mardi (the dog) did so well at her jumpers anonymous class. She's doing better and we're following what they told us.
I had two drs appointments yesterday. I'm getting old and falling apart. My diabetes is significantly worse, so I'm going to try injectable meds again, and a continuous glucose monitor. My liver is also worse, but that may be because of the diabetes being worse. I'm doing my best to eat right and walk, but it's just not enough. It's frustrating.
Is this the real name of the doggy class? If so, do you happen to know if it's a chain through a specific company or a just your region thing?
My 3 year old lab is a fabulous dog except for that she still jumps on people when they come to our house because she just gets so excited. We've tried some training stuff ourselves, but it's hard because we don't always having willing participants to come to the door. We had done a puppy class with her, and 2 sessions with a personal dog trainer when she was like 6 months old, but neither addressed this issue, and I don't want to do training with her beyond just getting her to stop jumping! She's almost 80 lbs of pure muscle, so she really knocks into you when she jumps.
That really is the name of the class! I just double checked and it's a local trainer that we used. Mardi is 60 lbs of muscle, so I get it! When she jumps on us, or anyone, we're supposed to turn our back to her and totally ignore her, don't reward her with any attention, even negative attention. Saying owe, that hurts, or yelling, is still attention, so that's a win to the dog. Mardi knows place and will go sit on her bed, so we're making her place every time there is someone at the door. I'm also putting a sign on our door that says please have patience with us, the dog is in training. Don't pet until they sit. And I'm putting treats outside the door so they can reward good behavior.