I fed my British coworkers Lucky Charms for the first time today. Actually, they didn't believe me that Lucky Charms was a real thing. I pulled out the box and I was like "bam! Lucky Charms!" They all decided that Lucky Charms tastes like popcorn.
Lol that is hilarious all my memories of Lucky Charms was picking out the marshmallows and giving the dog my cereal bits.
Spidergate- the spider is hiding which is so much worse... I am trying to forget it exists but I may never use a towel again to dry off.
Thursday is my Friday! Whoop whoop.
My parents flew to Pittsburgh to see my sister so my old dog is staying with us and 2 dogs in 750 sq feet = chaos. And they love to bother each other all night.
spa I am shuddering and cringing for you. Time to torch the place!
I have a long day ahead, but after work we are having dinner with my aunt and some cousins at Din Tai Fung. We are also supposed to go to Thursday wine night later tonight. Our friends that host just came back from Germany so I am dying to hear about their trip, hopefully the timing works to make both.
Starting a Whole 30 tomorrow. I need to get my eating in check. I feel under prepared but I will play catch up with grocery shopping and food prep this weekend.
Good morning! Something set off my allergies first thing this morning, hope I can stop constantly blowing my nose soon (I know it's allergies because the roof of my mouth is crazy itchy). H and I are going to a restaurant in Capitol Hill tonight for the last night of restaurant week
No big stuff for me today. I've come to the conclusion that I've been able to feel MiMi kick for about a week and a half now. The first couple times it happened I wasn't sure. But it happened a few more times last night during my massage, that now I'm positive. WOOO Hoooo.
@uwhuskygirl - I love lucky charms!!!! mkate710 - Din Tai Fung sounds delicious. spa - Read your post and I want to pretend I didn't see it. SOOOO GROSS.
Post by kwpnjumper55 on Apr 23, 2015 10:48:26 GMT -5
Ssooooo tired. I mowed our lawn yesterday, took me 3 hours to do 2/3 of it. the grass was 8-10 inches long and I was doing passes in inches as to not clog the darn thing. Way sore today.
My dad got notice for being laid off from his job. His last day is July 2nd. He is so stinking happy because he was planning on retiring in Dec but now he is eligible for unemployment and he also got a 12 week severence package. its REALLY good news for us because now Kieran can go to preschool in the fall and he has offered to drop off and pickup as well as childcare!!!
Post by georgeharrison on Apr 23, 2015 11:12:46 GMT -5
madDawg228, allergies are really bad right now. James and Tman have been sneezing their brains out. A kid at Tman's cub scout meeting the other day was rubbing his eyes so much they were bright red. Sad. And oh crap, I forgot to give Tman an allergy pill this morning.
minion, awesome about the kicks. Hopefully your babe won't do what Tman did and NEVER STOP KICKING. It was awesome, but also started to be very distracting. Haha.
I booked the laser tag place for Tman's birthday party for Saturday, May 30th. The timing is weird, but I hope that won't keep people from coming. It's going to be from 11-1, but they have to be there 20 minute early, so it's going to be 10:40-1. I just couldn't schedule it in the middle of the day and have people's whole Saturday revolve around his party. Hopefully with this timing, folks can still do something in the afternoon/evening if they'd like.
Now, where can I get an ice cream cake that's not all ice cream? I want a cake that has at least one layer of actual cake. Does that exist? And can I get buttercream icing on an ice cream cake? I like REAL cake so much that I know nothing about ice cream cakes, but that's what Tman wants.
@uwhuskygirl, thanks for asking about Sadie Brown Girl. I'm not really sure how she's doing. She seems fine, but her last #2 was around 6pm last night and it was super runny. I would feel better if I could see her go a regular #2...not that I like to watch, but I need to see what's coming out of her butt in order to know if she's feeling better. Anyway, her and Gunner were duking it out like bears this morning so she's not worse, that's for sure. Hopefully there will be no messes when we get home today.
I'm at work today. Tman will hopefully be able to get his homework done fast this afternoon, becuase his cub scout den is going to the local food bank to organize stuff for tomorrow's distribution. It's super important to me that Tman has some experiences of "giving back." So, hopefully we can make that work. He has to type up his final draft of his Elvis biography today, and that could take a while...he's so easily distracted. I love that he chose Elvis. He thought his teacher would object since he goes to a Christian school, but I'm so glad that she didn't.
I got a meeting request yesteday to meet with the VP of HR on Monday. I will hopefully find out more details about becoming an employee at that time. I hope they don't try to do something weird with my pay...there's such a huge range in the Seattle area for my job title. I'd like to get this taken care of ASAP so I can get on the payroll instead of having to go through accounting with my invoices. That has become quite dumb.
Okay, enough from me. Have a great day everyone. Tomorow is Friday.
kwpnjumper55 that is really good news about your dad in a weird twist of fate.
I am sorry you all have to suffer through my updates but obviously H doesn't get it, the butt hole.
My sister insisted my parents and I go with her and her GF to a new Korean restaurant, which the food was good but my dad has crohn's and is very particular about his diet. They only had purple rice and he was sick on the airplane- so I feel badly....god I want some chinese food like whoa.
Post by InBetweenDays on Apr 23, 2015 12:19:29 GMT -5
minion - I think the only thing more oddly amazing than feeling your baby kick is feeling them hiccup. How exciting!
kwpnjumper55 - Glad that is all working out for your dad and for your DS' preschool!
I am SO tired today. I feel like I need to see someone about my sleep issues. I wake up in the middle of the night confused about where I am. Last night I got out of bed and walked to our window, staring out at the neighbors yard for a minute before waking up more and realizing I was in our bedroom and that was just the neighbors yard.
Working from home today. I'd love to squeeze in a nap but not sure it's going to happen. Tonight H and I have a date night! My parents have season tickets to the symphony but are out of town so they gave us the tickets. So we're going to Wild Ginger for dinner and then on to the symphony. Way more fancy than our usual nights out.
I have no appointments on my calendar today so hopefully I'll get a lot of office work done.
Tomorrow I'm working a half day and then H and I are running all around town picking out and finalizing materials and fixtures for our various projects. He's off work today and tomorrow so he can be home to receive estimates and what not. I think all of this stuff will take through the end of July to complete. I want the instant gratification!
So far this is what we're doing. Ripping out old pink/white tile floors and counters in master bath. Replacing with a clean white large tile on floor, counters will be a solid surface that is white with grey veining. This will be the counter for our two sink vanity and our tub decking. The back splash for the vanity and tub will be a marble tile. It's really pretty. We are painting our natural wood cabinets under the vanity and tub a really bold turquoise and then will find a much more neutral/light turquoise tone for the walls throughout. We are getting a new soaking tub and getting rid of the one that has jets which don't work and are gross. We are keeping our shower but replacing the sliding doors with something a little nicer. All hardware will be changed to oiled bronze. Right now it's bronze/gold/plastic. It's awful. So it should feel like a spa bathroom in Hawaii. Haha. That's what I'm hoping for.
Em's bathroom has a laminate floor and counter for her vanity. We are using the same white tile floor for her bath and then we found a great white sparkling quartz remnant for super cheap at our counter place so we are using that for her vanity counter and back splash. We are keeping a really bold shower curtain from Merimekko that I've had forever and love and will play in to those colors with are blue and lime green for walls. I think I'll keep her cabinetry the same natural wood that it is now.
We are also getting new carpeting throughout the whole upstairs. Her big girl room needs to be painted and I need to finish re-finishing her dresser before the carpet goes in. We haven't 'ordered any of the furniture in there but we are getting single of double bunk beds in a white mission style. And we'll order some new textiles that I already picked out from land of nod that are in a peach tone. Her room will be turquoise and peach.
SO! Decisions and to do lists are being made. We refinanced our house and took some money out to do these upgrades, which I think will be great for us since we live there...but also good for the value of the home.
Leaving work a little early to go get some labs done for the doctor. Tonight is Girls Night Out at RoadRunner so I plan on heading there to check some things out. I'll drag J with me and we can go to Reds wine bar for dinner.
Leaving work a little early to go get some labs done for the doctor. Tonight is Girls Night Out at RoadRunner so I plan on heading there to check some things out. I'll drag J with me and we can go to Reds wine bar for dinner.
Too bad this isn't the good kind of labs: the Wrigley/Sadie kind of lab.
Post by sotally tober on Apr 23, 2015 23:46:37 GMT -5
Late checkin for me. I'm down in CA with my family and seriously this is so hard. At my grandmas house my mom just says "just pick what you want" how do you do that? It feels so wrong to go through someone else's stuff.
Also my sister isn't making this trip any fun. My parents found out she's likely addicted to pills (my mom has known and tried to tell my dad - now he sees it). She is so negative....it's very annoying.
Anyway, tomorrow is the service. My slideshow of pictures turned out great, but I decided not to speak. I'm not sure I would be able to get through it. I read my mind and couldn't even get through it...luckily my dad will stand up with her to step in as needed. We've realized through all of this that my grandma had amazing friends. They have called regularly to check in with my mom. One of her friends called and was so upset and said she was going dancing and my grandma was supposed to be there with her and that they went each week together
Sorry this turned into a brain dump...I just never realized this would be so hard.