I stood up to my boss about something yesterday. I wish I had been more direct about it but I think my point was clear and well received. It made me feel a little better.
Andy blew me kisses out the front window as I walked down the street to the train. <3 oh my heart.
I'm feeling very accomplished. I finished quilting three of the baby quilt tops I had sitting around over the weekend and yesterday and got them listed. And a few table runners and toppers and coasters. I really have a sewing problem. Lol.
Today the the kids and I leave for St. Louis after my therapy. But we get to hang out with longtime friends tonight. I'm excited.
Where do you get your fabric? You always seem to have such pretty patterns.
Good luck in St Louis, glad you get to have some fun with friends.
Today is the one year anniversary of the Navy Yard shooting, and I'm having all sorts of feelings. Part of me is glad that it's my telework day so I can watch the ceremony on TV by myself, part of me kind of wishes I was with my coworkers today.
And I'm thinking that what I thought was allergies is actually a cold.
An old friend is in town this week and our group of friends got together for a girls night dinner last night. It was a lot of fun, but ended up being a late night and I'm still getting used to my alarm going off earlier. This was not the morning to realize I left my travel mug at work yesterday. Need coffee!!!
The amount of love, support and kindness on this board lately has been so touching for a place self-named as Not Safe.
I'm prepping for an interview tomorrow for a position that would be a great opportunity. I'm confident my chances are good, but the pre-interview nerves can be rattling at best.
I'm anxious about work today, I need to go see a customer who has terminated their relationship with the other owner who I am close with. I'm afraid that given the ugliness of the breakup of this partnership I'll be considered the enemy for being close with the partner that has left. They represent a nice amount of business that I can't afford to lose. Hopefully I can play Switzerland and not be in the middle of everything.
As I drink my coffee I'm surrounded by cats, including one who insists on sitting on my shoulder. He gets all butthurt if I try to move him, so cat hair in my coffee it is!
we are booking our photographer today. He is my dream photographer and I cannot believe we are getting him. It is our wedding gift from M's parents. <3
I am so disappointed in B. The kids share a bedroom, sometimes they egg each other on at bedtime and take awhile to fall asleep. Last night C was yelling so H went to go check on them...yeah B was telling C to say "you are a stupid liar" and told him if he didn't say it mommy and daddy wouldn't love him anymore. He didn't seem to grasp what she was saying but still...we had a talk with her and she has had some privileges taken away for the week, but damn. Just when I think we are getting somewhere with this kid something happens. And this instance hurts me more than the others because it is just mean. Normally she is really good with C so we were really shocked when H caught her. My hear hurts this morning and I feel like we're messing up somewhere but I don't know where
Post by lightbulbsun on Sept 16, 2014 7:17:04 GMT -5
For my class this semester, we're allowed to work on assignments with partners. HW is due today at noon, and the plan was to work individually over the weekend, everyone sends out what they have on Sunday night, and we talk about it Monday and submit it. I sent mine Monday night, one guy sends it out last night at 9pm. Other guy sends it at 2:40am, but it's very obviously my work that he had altered based on some of the other guy's answers. I'm super annoyed. Plus, he didn't even attempt the one problem that both me and other guy couldn't figure out. Now I'm at work and it's due in 4 hours, and I'm still trying to figure out this problem. Isn't working with partners supposed to make it easier?
Day one of H working at home was a success. I don't think it's going to be as rough as we initially thought, I just have to get the kids out of the house for a few hours everyday, which I would do normally anyway.
Vivi is making eye contact and lifting her head a bit to look at us- it's so sweet! I keep asking H if he's done. I know deep down that two kids is probably as much as we can handle financially, but we're so young to be done! I'm afraid I'll wake up at 35 and be really sad that all my baby years are over already. On the upside, both of our kids will be out of high school when I'm 46.
For my class this semester, we're allowed to work on assignments with partners. HW is due today at noon, and the plan was to work individually over the weekend, everyone sends out what they have on Sunday night, and we talk about it Monday and submit it. I sent mine Monday night, one guy sends it out last night at 9pm. Other guy sends it at 2:40am, but it's very obviously my work that he had altered based on some of the other guy's answers. I'm super annoyed. Plus, he didn't even attempt the one problem that both me and other guy couldn't figure out. Now I'm at work and it's due in 4 hours, and I'm still trying to figure out this problem. Isn't working with partners supposed to make it easier?
I've found that working with partners never, ever makes it easier.
DH is starting to get a cold. I really hope he can kick it/keep it at bay so we can get through this weekend.
Auditors are coming next week, so my boss just forwarded a bunch of documentation that needs to be gathered. Yet my last day is Thurs, so I have zero motivation to pull it together. I'll get it done, but I'm glad I won't be around for the follow-up. They're always wanting us to pull out a ridiculous amount of things.
And then chaos ensued last night and we ended up having our goddaughter's birthday dinner at our house last night...and there goes a bottle of red wine.
Me and DS are home sick today. We were both up all night. I'm so tired, DS is wheezing even with his inhalers. I've got a prenatal app with our family doctor this afternoon, so hopefully he can take a listen to DS. I feel so bad when he has trouble breathing.
My plan today is movie day on the couch with soup and crackers.
Day one of H working at home was a success. I don't think it's going to be as rough as we initially thought, I just have to get the kids out of the house for a few hours everyday, which I would do normally anyway.
Vivi is making eye contact and lifting her head a bit to look at us- it's so sweet! I keep asking H if he's done. I know deep down that two kids is probably as much as we can handle financially, but we're so young to be done! I'm afraid I'll wake up at 35 and be really sad that all my baby years are over already. On the upside, both of our kids will be out of high school when I'm 46.
I know you are deep in baby love right now. Enjoy
We were/are also young to be done. But I can not tell you how good it feels to have some freedom back. I really couldn't believe when Leo was a baby that we would be done but now I can't imagine adding another kid because FREEEDOOOOMMMM.
Well if you call freedom parenting a 6 and 2 year old lol. But we just are able to do so much more adult stuff and it makes me feel so much better about life. And I look at my friends going through the baby thing and it just makes me grateful it isn't me. I did love having babies in the house. I am suprised that I love not having babies in the house even more.
Today is the one year anniversary of the Navy Yard shooting, and I'm having all sorts of feelings. Part of me is glad that it's my telework day so I can watch the ceremony on TV by myself, part of me kind of wishes I was with my coworkers today.
And I'm thinking that what I thought was allergies is actually a cold.
Hope it's not creepy but I thought of you when I listened to the report about it on NPR just now. How has everyone at work been holding up? How have you been doing? I can't believe it's already been a year.
Not creepy at all, thanks!
It's ok at work, we all kind of settled into the temp office space and routine over the winter, but it's getting weird again as we hit the anniversary and plans are being made for the move back in February.
Personally, I'm mostly ok, but every once in a while I'll be walking down a hall and I start to think about why I'm in that hallway, and not in one in 197, or afternoons when I take the shuttle back to the Navy Yard to meet DH and see work being done on the building. I really am looking forward to moving back into our building though, I think it's going to be good for the organization as a whole to be back "home".
SD is getting bullied by kids in her neighborhood. We are contemplating trying to move again when the lease is up so we are more able to help BM on school nights. Selfishly, I'm sick of moving. There aren't very many rentals so we would possibly have to buy and we aren't ready. We won't have much for a downpayment. If we don't/can't buy we might have to live 40 minutes away and that kind of defeats the purpose of moving again anyway. I don't know how to make this work. I'm just tired of moving and I don't know that I want to permanently settle in that town, I'm not sure that's the best thing for DS. I'm so conflicted on all of this.
I just want school to slow down a bit so I can catch up. I also have a student teacher this year and she is so awesome, but I just want to be by myself teaching. She leaves at the the end of September, and then comes back in January for full time teaching. That might be better than her watching me the whole day.