Last night I found out that friends of mine are expecting a baby and I am SO excited for them. They are older (43 and 41 I think) and just got married and both thought it wouldn't really ever happen for them. I just love their whole family and am really happy for all of them.
Work has been extremely stressful to me lately, so it was nice to have some genuinely good news.
I'm wearing a sweater that's really too big for me. I bought it online and tried to exchange it for a smaller size but they didn't have any. I love it so much that I kept it anyway even though it's obviously too big.
I'm cooking in my new tangine for the first time this weekend and I really hope the food is good. Maybe I should have done a trial run before offering to cook something in it for the Superbowl party we're going to.
There have been regular lay offs at my office since November. After each one they tell the office, "Ok! We're done! Everyone else is ok!" It would be delightful if they just stopped saying that and kept it real.
We are not engaged and quite far from engagement in my opinion.
SO and I work together and they have this obituary posted everywhere so coworkers and managers can go if they want. I have already been haggled 3 times this morning from coworkers and about 5 phone calls.
I am allergic to something and it has made my eyes almost swell shut. I'm wearing my glasses because of this. I hate wearing glasses and the inevitable, well-meaning "what's wrong?" Questions.
I made it through a nearly 10-hour day at work yesterday without taking pain meds. But the pain is really bad again, so I just took a Percocet. I really hope I don't wind up nauseated and lying on the floor in my cubicle like I did Monday. Let's hope that I ate enough today.
I'm processing the first round of program fee deposits for the semester. The one deposit equals my annual salary. Sigh. Never mind how weird it feels when we arrange for the account transfer for half a million dollars a few times a year. It is sometimes so bizarre to manage these (relatively) large sums of money, and not actually see much in your own account, lol.
I will not be buying my friend's house. Logic has prevailed over emotion, as much as I want to help her. It looks like she will have to go the route of foreclosure just to get out. She is also considering bankruptcy since she has a lot of debt as well. As much as I am against both paths, she's in a really tough spot and this would give her a fresh start and she has family willing to cosign on any loans/housing once her credit is shot.
I finally called my GP because of the bleeding. They won't see me. So I now have an appointment with my RE next week. I don't want to go I like living in denial and I hate internal ultra sounds.
I've got a pinched nerve in my neck and it's been awful for the past 4-5 days. I took Tylenol last night and that was a joke. I need more
Get thee to a doctor! I was literally the first patient through the door at an urgent care clinic on Saturday. Percocet and Flexiril are ahhhhhmaaaaaazing.
My random: I feel like I am having a pity party for one lately. I am exhausted by all the crap going on around me and I feel like things are never moving forward.
I've got a pinched nerve in my neck and it's been awful for the past 4-5 days. I took Tylenol last night and that was a joke. I need more
Get thee to a doctor! I was literally the first patient through the door at an urgent care clinic on Saturday. Percocet and Flexiril are ahhhhhmaaaaaazing.
I am tempted to do that. I pretty much can't lift my left arm without shooting pain. Hair care is fun
I've got a pinched nerve in my neck and it's been awful for the past 4-5 days. I took Tylenol last night and that was a joke. I need more
Get thee to a doctor! I was literally the first patient through the door at an urgent care clinic on Saturday. Percocet and Flexiril are ahhhhhmaaaaaazing.
Def get to the doctor. Last year I spent 2 month not able to do my hair at all and practically anything. I had a pretty severe pinched nerve between my c5/c6..Drugs and PT til this day, summertime I was finally able to do my hair myself!!
I want to complain about something so badly, but again I'm cursing myself for picking a unique screen name.
Still? Spill it!
Found out yesterday that we won a summary judgment motion <) It is nice to get all of the nice messages from the clients (we were representing like 6 parties). Apparently I like pats on the back more than I thought I did.
Post by vanillacourage on Jan 30, 2013 10:56:28 GMT -5
AW! Our re-fi is going to save us $125k over the life of the loan, and pay it off four years earlier than before. Now it will be paid off in 10 years, when DS1 is 14 (before, it was going to be paid off right before he went to college, but now we get a little breathing room). <)
Downside - the appraisal came in a little lower than we'd hoped due to only smaller homes in our 'hood being on the market recently, so we have to put down $14k. Boooo (but still totally worth it).
I just plugged 99% of our tax stuff into TT and we are getting close to $8k back between federal and state. Now that we're set up (new house, new baby) and I know our expenses, I need to be better about withholding properly. Maybe this is a flameful?
aspen, I don't think that's flameful if your circumstances have changed. It can be hard to know what your final tax liability is going to be, and if you don't have huge cash reserves, it can make sense to err on the more conservative side. IMO, it would only be flameful if you didn't change anything going forward.
H's grandmother passed yesterday while we were on our way back from visiting her in the hospice. She was very old and seeing her like that was very depressing. I'm worried for DH's mom because her behavior has been pretty odd during this whole ordeal. And because there may or may not (she was a bit of a liar) be a lot of money involved I'm already fielding questions from family members. I guess because I'm a lawyer so I'm expected to know all the laws? Who knows. I sort of want to post questions here but I don't want to seem like a vulture. I'm worried there's going to be drama.
aspen, I don't think that's flameful if your circumstances have changed. It can be hard to know what your final tax liability is going to be, and if you don't have huge cash reserves, it can make sense to err on the more conservative side. IMO, it would only be flameful if you didn't change anything going forward.
Can I just say I love you today more than other days
I had NO idea what our taxes would look like this year. We actually both withheld married with 0 allowances, so I honestly thought we would owe!
I ate king cake this morning, it tasted like an over priced danish with colored frosting. Maybe it wasn't good king cake but I wasn't impressed.
This was my first impression of king cake, too. It's grown on me over the years in S. La., and some are definitely better than others, but I'm just not a big cinnamon fan. I'd prefer regular cake over king cake.
I want to complain about something so badly, but again I'm cursing myself for picking a unique screen name.
Create an AE and post it in a few days, so it doesn't look suspicious
Yeah, but it's pretty specific so if people in the know happen to be lurking they'll know it's me right away.
It's really nothing major, but it's annoying me. I try to avoid drama and ridiculousness, even low-key stuff, because I just don't have the patience, and in this situation I just can't avoid it for a variety of reasons. So I do my best to smile and nod and then I bitch to MH when we're alone.
I'm sorry for your and your SO's loss, gettingfitt.
To try and look on the bright side (although I totally understand that you've been put in a very awkward position by the obit), I guess it's nice that they consider you one of the family?