Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo Did he give a reason mbcdefg?
Our furnace is being replaced today. It is going to be 75 out. We survived the cold snap.
MH said the guy just kind of snorted at him when MH asked WTF happened. The guy is kind of a weirdo so it's not out of character, but MH said that he sounded really serious about offering to take the cat in the first place. Ugh. But she'll be fixed on Monday and then the rescue group I'm talking to says they'll put her on social media and maybe bring her to adoption events as well, so hopefully we'll get a bite.
I think her kitten is sick of her. Every time I open the door to feed them, the kitten tries to rush out. We let the kitten out while we're home so she can explore and play, but she gets put back with Mama at night because otherwise Mama cries from loneliness the whole time. I gave them bits of cold cut of turkey this morning ... Mama rushed through hers, then ran over to the kitten, batted her head with her paw, and then ate the kitten's portion too. The kitten just looked defeated.
Good luck with the furnace! Glad that this is at least happening for you now, rather than later in the year. Ours went out when we got home from our family's house on Christmas Night a couple years ago, and we spent a few days huddled under blankets next to a borrowed space heater before someone could come out and fix it.
I'm spending the day in the state archives researching a historic beer brewery. Super interesting. In the spring of 1865 they were taking a $1/gallon profit!
I also broke out the maternity clothes at 10 weeks pregnant. I have a feeling I'm going to be Very Very Large with this pregnancy.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo Did he give a reason mbcdefg?
Our furnace is being replaced today. It is going to be 75 out. We survived the cold snap.
MH said the guy just kind of snorted at him when MH asked WTF happened. The guy is kind of a weirdo so it's not out of character, but MH said that he sounded really serious about offering to take the cat in the first place. Ugh. But she'll be fixed on Monday and then the rescue group I'm talking to says they'll put her on social media and maybe bring her to adoption events as well, so hopefully we'll get a bite.
I think her kitten is sick of her. Every time I open the door to feed them, the kitten tries to rush out. We let the kitten out while we're home so she can explore and play, but she gets put back with Mama at night because otherwise Mama cries from loneliness the whole time. I gave them bits of cold cut of turkey this morning ... Mama rushed through hers, then ran over to the kitten, batted her head with her paw, and then ate the kitten's portion too. The kitten just looked defeated.
Good luck with the furnace! Glad that this is at least happening for you now, rather than later in the year. Ours went out when we got home from our family's house on Christmas Night a couple years ago, and we spent a few days huddled under blankets next to a borrowed space heater before someone could come out and fix it.
Ah what a jerk! I hope that the rescue group has some luck. She's a pretty cat and deserves a forever home (even if she is a bully).
We're glad the furnace decided to give up the ghost now, too. At least now we won't be side eyeing it wondering when it's going to die. And that sounds like a terrible Christmas present to come home to! Costco has a few space heaters in store now if you wanted to get one just in case. We got a decent one for $35.
H has now priced out the new truck he wants...at $38k MSRP (not sure how much discount we could expect since they're new and apparently flying off the shelf). Our existing 13-YO Tacoma has seen better days but we were hoping to limp it along until next summer/fall. So I went to check KBB for our existing and found we could get around twice what we had expected for it. Insane!
In conclusion, maybe we'll buy a new, more expensive than we've ever bought vehicle soon. Not MM.
H has now priced out the new truck he wants...at $38k MSRP (not sure how much discount we could expect since they're new and apparently flying off the shelf). Our existing 13-YO Tacoma has seen better days but we were hoping to limp it along until next summer/fall. So I went to check KBB for our existing and found we could get around twice what we had expected for it. Insane!
In conclusion, maybe we'll buy a new, more expensive than we've ever bought vehicle soon. Not MM.
Dodge diesel?
Everybody at H's work has been buying these and he wants one too. I think the model he wants is more like 42/43 though.
Post by irene adler on Oct 21, 2015 10:08:12 GMT -5
After CW fussed over a project for 2.5 workdays (and continuing to not make it out of the materials requested--asshole move on CW part), boss got fed up and finished the project overnight (asshole move on boss's (boss' ? not sure on punctuation) part)
Throw in the stress of (and, guessing from the fit CW is throwing, not positive) performance review week, and the environment here is bizarre and silent with bouts of assertion of authority.
Oh, here's another gem ... we have to get everything out of FIL's apartment by the end of the month. I've been helping him on weekends, and MH goes every day after school to fetch another carload. So much crap. Our basement is rapidly filling up. We didn't even sort through half the stuff ... we've just been throwing away any garbage/recycling we find, bagging up clothes for donations, and just throwing stuff in the car that could possibly be worth keeping (a lot of random boxes and bags filled with stuff).
My mom helped him yesterday, too. They were carrying boxes out to the car when FIL's ass of a landlord (who, by the way, drives a pickup truck, which would certainly be handy for moving shit if he had an iota of decency and offered to help) came up MH and said, "So, you're gonna be out by the end of the month, right?" Asshole.
Once this is all over, we need to do a serious purge of our own stuff so that our survivors aren't left with a giant headache. We have a small fireproof box for our important paperwork but I think we need to get a bigger one with dividers or something ... we keep finding important stuff like marriage certificates and old photos tucked between useless bill statements and loser lottery tickets.
H has now priced out the new truck he wants...at $38k MSRP (not sure how much discount we could expect since they're new and apparently flying off the shelf). Our existing 13-YO Tacoma has seen better days but we were hoping to limp it along until next summer/fall. So I went to check KBB for our existing and found we could get around twice what we had expected for it. Insane!
In conclusion, maybe we'll buy a new, more expensive than we've ever bought vehicle soon. Not MM.
Dodge diesel?
Everybody at H's work has been buying these and he wants one too. I think the model he wants is more like 42/43 though.
No, another Tacoma. We want the smallest truck we can get.
Your workplace drama fascinates me irene adler. Thanks for letting us live vicariously through you!
After 4 months of waiting, the landscaper came out to look at how we can redo our yard to be drought tolerant. I now need to pinterest a ton of stuff, because I am not feeling his initial vision.
Post by orangeblossom on Oct 21, 2015 12:01:05 GMT -5
I discovered that my cable provider, spectrum, added a roku channel. I can now watch TV in the other rooms, since we only have one box. We use Sling in the other rooms.
I have to play with it some more, but we may beavldto get sling with this new discovery. DH may lose H2 and I'll ha d to do a separate account for HBOGO instead of adding more it to sling, but any reduction in bills is good with me.
I work for a health care organization. We have our own insurance company (which obviously generally requires us to use our own practitioners). Our premiums for a family are DOUBLE what it is at H's employer. How's that for logic?
I haaaaaaaaaate my company's united way campaign. There is so much freaking pressure to donate. We just got a "last push" email and the way it's worded makes it clear they just care about participation numbers and not anything else :/
Post by jerseyjaybird on Oct 21, 2015 14:30:35 GMT -5
So, for the last three years (our whole relationship), we've done Thanksgiving with DW's family. It's a very loud, chaotic affair, and not in a good/fun way. Her parents, who host, are nervous wrecks, BIL and his wife do not discipline their bratty kids and routinely show up late (we waited for them for THREE AND A HALF HOURS the year before last), and BIL's wife's parents and sister, all of whom are pretty insufferable, also attend. The meal is dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free, sugar-free, and tomato-free. There is almost nothing redeeming about the whole event.
My closest friend also has difficult inlaws. Hers are incredibly demanding and demeaning and no fun at all. Last year, we decided that this Thanksgiving, we'd spent the day together: me, DW, friend, friend's H, and their baby. For a year, we've been talking about our delicious, fun, completely laid-back, stress-free, drama-free Thanksgiving.
Only it turns out that my friend's inlaws FREAKED OUT, and now Friendsgiving is off. Friend is hosting her inlaws and hoping to add some friends to the mix so it's a little more fun. DW and I are pretty certain that we won't attend----if we're going to deal with drama and difficult family, we'll spend the time with DW's family and not be stuck in the middle of someone else's family drama. (Friend's MIL has been really nasty to us in the past.)
Anyway, I'm SO BUMMED about this. We're trying to figure out whether we can/should find a cabin to rent somewhere nearby and get away just the two of us, so we can still have our chill holiday, or suck it up and do the family thing, especially because DW's 92-year-old grandmother will also be there this year. I'm really disappointed.
We do Friendsgiving with two other couples, but we do it a few days after actual Thanksgiving. Is that an option for you? A Tgiving re-do?
Thanks! Sounds like you and I are both looking forward to 2016.
We might be able to schedule a re-do, which would be nice!
(ETA: part of the disappointment is that these friends are REALLY hard to schedule with, because his family [the inlaws] [successfully] demand at least three of their weekends each month. It's insane.)
I had fun people watching. Even the fair food was a bit disappointing.
Bummer that the food was disappointing. That's the best part of the fair, IMO
I KNOW!!! That is the only reason I agreed to go. But it is probably best for me. I'm still not sure if my bridesmaid dress will fit and inhaling two cookie cakes in the past week and a half probably hasn't helped.
We do Friendsgiving with two other couples, but we do it a few days after actual Thanksgiving. Is that an option for you? A Tgiving re-do?
Thanks! Sounds like you and I are both looking forward to 2016.
We might be able to schedule a re-do, which would be nice!
(ETA: part of the disappointment is that these friends are REALLY hard to schedule with, because his family [the inlaws] [successfully] demand at least three of their weekends each month. It's insane.)
I hear ya ... it's hard to schedule anything with these friends of ours due to their kids and huge families and their other commitments.
And, yes, I will definitely not be upset to see the end of 2015! Hope all is well for you.
PDQ. I've been stuck in a meeting for the past 2 days for people in my business function at my company. Last night, I was talking to a guy who comes from a consulting background and has recently been moved to a role that is very high up in operations for the function -- 3rd in command of let's say 500 people. First, he told me that there are far too many people in our department who have been there for 20-30 years and are not that bright (believe me, you don't need to be bright to do a fine job with some of this stuff) and he hopes to be able to fire them all. Um. Then later he was asking me about whether I have kids and when I said no, he asked "Problems in the bedroom or something?"