Have we done Monday Randoms yet?

[ondaflipside]

I was going to wear a skirt today since I'm feeling a little cute. But decided to change into a pair of pants when I looked down and spotted a few paint stains all over my legs from this weekend (I took a shower too :-( ). I didn't have time to inspect all parts of my body to see if there's more.

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I'm going to Target on my lunch and I'm trying so hard to avoid buying something online first.

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I went to J.Crew on Saturday. One of the boys who works there was wearing my French hen sweater, and a street vendor had set up a bubble necklace stand outside the store. I thought of MM.

Money-related: we got our December rent bill and it included our rent abatement credit from the storm. We're getting 7 days' worth of rent back, which is significant :drink: :beer: :heart: (*) :Y:

[rubytue]

V reminded me I saw animal sweaters at target. And I took a picture just for MM.

Of course, the app won't let me upload a picture right now.

[ssmjlm]

By the end of today I will have spent about $300 on maternity clothes. But I hope this will make me look less beached whale in the coming months.

My work requires us to use certain companies for products and even though there may only be one company for that product, they still want us to justify going to just one company. Umm because there is only one. It's such a cumbersome way to do things and is double work.

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Really?! I might have to get one today. I'm really digging the animal sweater trend but I haven't found one that I absolutely love yet.

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I keep buying stuff and just yesterday I was all down about needing two years to save up for a big DP on our forever house. I totally make sense, right?

::le sigh::

[rubytue]

There we go. Toggle avatars back on and it works. Guess next time it stops working I'll toggle then back off.

[arch01]

Nov 26, 2012 13:50:19 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

DH and I get each other an ornament every year. I can't find anything good this year, as he's not into any of the typical Hallmark guy ornament things and there's nothing particularly special about this year (didn't have a kid, buy a house, or get married).

we used to do this, but DH killed it last year. he claims we have too many ornaments. thankfully i get to buy for DS now.

i've spent more money on clothes in the past 3 days than i have in months. i have a hard time justifying it though since i'm in a uniform shirt and jeans (new mandate, ugh, thanks to a few women who showed a bit too much) 5 days a week and don't actually get dressed decently most weekends.

[gettingfitt]

Nov 26, 2012 14:03:01 GMT -5 rubytue said:

There we go. Toggle avatars back on and it works. Guess next time it stops working I'll toggle then back off.

I ordered the doggie online on black friday and got 25% off
I can't wait till it comes in & I HATE TARGET'S WESBITE! :@

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The National High School Athletic Association has decided that all scorekeepers must wear a referee shirt for basketball games. Now I have to wear this:


:-( I think $30/night is worth the humiliation and I do love doing the job, but this is horrible.

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Nov 26, 2012 13:56:27 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Nov 26, 2012 13:55:09 GMT -5 v said:

Money-related: we got our December rent bill and it included our rent abatement credit from the storm. We're getting 7 days' worth of rent back, which is significant

Wow, that's awesome!

Now I feel screwed from our week without power in July where my landlord didn't even check on us!

NY landlord tenant laws are quite favorable to tenants -- so no electricity, water, and heat (when it is cold out) combined get you 100% abatement for those days. I think particularly because the landlord sent us a few "We strongly suggest that you find other accommodations and if you stay, it is at your own risk" emails (and also, something like 90% of the people in our building didn't stay). But it wasn't quite 7 days so I thought it was very generous of them to not prorate by the hour which is what I expected. And I figured my math was off somehow so I wasn't expecting the number to be that big.

We have two friends who have the same landlord as us who still can't go back to their apartments (landlord thinks *maybe* this week the building will become inhabitable again), so I'm glad that they'll pretty certainly get a whole month of rent back.

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This is my last week of maternity leave. I've gone through my closet and I don't think I have a single work appropriate outfit. My maternity clothes were all borrowed and have been returned since that friend is pg again. My bottoms are all too tight around the waistline, and tops are either too worn out, too tight, or are synthetic and I'm now too sensitive to wear them.

I basically need a whole new wardrobe and we're totally broke.

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I haven't bought anything yet for either the holidays or myself with the deals and I feel weird about not shopping. I've only bought three cloth diapers for Gizmo (nothing else) since my BFP and have no desire to buy anything else baby related. What's wrong with me? Shopping gene malfunction. I like browsing stuff but I don't want to spend money.

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I am wearing a button-down shirt today. When I got finished teaching, I realized that the button right over my bust was undone.

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Nov 26, 2012 13:50:19 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

DH and I get each other an ornament every year. I can't find anything good this year, as he's not into any of the typical Hallmark guy ornament things and there's nothing particularly special about this year (didn't have a kid, buy a house, or get married).

Something DC-related maybe? H and I were decorating our tree yesterday and realized that we have ornaments from a bunch of places we've traveled as well as my hometown, but none from Atlanta.

[Brie]

I have to take the cat to the vet this afternoon with the baby in tow. Last time this cat was in my car he got so angry he expressed his anal glands all over the backseat. This will not be fun.

[audette]

Nov 26, 2012 13:50:19 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

DH and I get each other an ornament every year. I can't find anything good this year, as he's not into any of the typical Hallmark guy ornament things and there's nothing particularly special about this year (didn't have a kid, buy a house, or get married).

Have you been to thinkgeek? It's worth a try...
www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=ornament&x=0&y=0

[audette]

DH and I have laid hands on every single book in the house over the last week. We've been sorting them into "moving", "storing", and "getting rid of".

DH estimates the "getting rid of pile" is a bit shy of 300lbs.

It's also the smallest of the three piles...

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I am officially the laziest person in the world now that school is out.

I slept from 11pm-9am, laid in bed until 10am, ate oatmeal and watched tv, then I napped from ~11am-2pm. I never do this!

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Nov 26, 2012 15:19:45 GMT -5 tacom said:

I am officially the laziest person in the world now that school is out.

I slept from 11pm-9am, laid in bed until 10am, ate oatmeal and watched tv, then I napped from ~11am-2pm. I never do this!

This sounds glorious. You deserve it!

I will be doing the same thing come December 21.

[flygirl22]

I deep cleaned our bedroom over the weekend and it took me 2 hours. I find that insane. The bedroom is not my responsibility. In fact, is about the only place DH is "responsible" for, he owes me, and he knows it. We also made our annual run to goodwill yesterday, it was nice to clear out the clutter.

I've spent all of December's fun money on Cyber Monday shopping.. whoops.

I'm nervous about all of the money we have been spending recently between christmas presents and random home buys. I might be out of work anywhere from 0-90 days in the next few months but I am just crossing my fingers that everything gets worked out before it comes to that... I will be so sad if it doesn't

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DH & I finalized our shopping list for the kids Christmas. He went further & totaled each kids' amount. It is really truly disgusting the amount of money we'd spend. In theory I want to change but on the other hand i feel like we've set the Santa bar too high. I wish I could go back in time. I know I could talk myself into justifying it but I will not do that--there is no excuse. Ugh.

[cjeanette]

I couldn't find my car keys this morning so H had to bring me to work. I am very worried that I won't be able to find them this evening.

My mom can't locate the copy I gave her when I bought the car in 2005. H insists I didn't gave him the valet copy in 2007. He's a lying liar who lies.

[cjeanette]

Nov 26, 2012 15:41:02 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Nov 26, 2012 15:38:20 GMT -5 cjeanette said:

I couldn't find my car keys this morning so H had to bring me to work. I am very worried that I won't be able to find them this evening.

My mom can't locate the copy I gave her when I bought the car in 2005. H insists I didn't gave him the valet copy in 2007. He's a lying liar who lies.

Dude, I totally lost my keys yesterday. TORE THE HOUSE APART.

Couldn't figure out why DH was being so nice to me about helping me find them.

THEN I REALIZED HE'D USED THEM AFTER ME BECAUSE HE LOST HIS LAST WEEK.

So, I feel your pain.

I pretty convinced this is what happened with mine. I remember H grabbing them on Thanksgiving and that is the last time I saw them.

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I didn't find any animal sweaters at my Target. I was/am irrationally disappointed.

[flatlan]

Nov 26, 2012 15:38:20 GMT -5 cjeanette said:

He's a lying liar who lies.

This literally made me lol!

[Mashara]

Nov 26, 2012 14:27:21 GMT -5 @chronoptomist said:

I basically need a whole new wardrobe and we're totally broke.

I sent you a PM!

[Mashara]

Nov 26, 2012 14:19:07 GMT -5 @ruralrabbit1 said:

I think $30/night is worth the humiliation and I do love doing the job, but this is horrible.

Sorry RR, all I can say is that at least the stripes are vertical!