It hasn't even been cold that long and already my hands are so dry. Like cracked and bleeding dry. Every year I buy a bunch of lotions and it still happens.
My son's school is having its annual talent show/community meal. I'm excited to go. He loves his school so much and had 3 (!) friends over yesterday. If only the academics were there, too...
I'm going to miss H when he leaves tomorrow. He gets back Saturday night, but still.
Then I woke up at 4:30 this morning to sounds that my H determined were coyotes howling. But I swear, you guys, it sounded like crying children.
Animal sounds, man.
Dude, have you ever heard foxes mating calls? It sounds like a woman being murdered or something.
Oh gosh, no. I made my H go into the office and look and see if he could see the animal. He said there was a cat or racoon on the porch. To which I sheepishly replied "Is it dying?" He didn't answer and went to look for a flashlight, so uhh, I think that answers that question.
This morning was the first time I've ever regretted buying a wooded lot.
Oh gosh, no. I made my H go into the office and look and see if he could see the animal. He said there was a cat or racoon on the porch. To which I sheepishly replied "Is it dying?" He didn't answer and went to look for a flashlight, so uhh, I think that answers that question.
This morning was the first time I've ever regretted buying a wooded lot.
I have also heard baby raccoons calling for their mother and THAT was a heartbreaking sound. She was there, she was just taking them up into a tree one by one and the ones that were at the bottom waiting were just WAILING.
-I had crazy weird dreams last night, including one in which I decided that BFF and I should figuratively buy a farm and some goats together. Note this is not a male BFF. lol. In the dream I was in the middle of writing her a letter about how we should run away together when I was like "wait no, I like men. This will never work." Like, I actually wrote those words in the letter. LOL
-Also, I am wearing two things I haven't been able to wear in a long time -- my wedding ring set, and dress pants from my closet. WOO. This is my first time not wearing scrubs to work in literally years. Admittedly, my rings are quite snug, lol, but I'm counting it as a win!
-DS has his Thanksgiving luncheon at daycare today and I'm kinda jazzed for an excuse to see him in the middle of the day. I am, however, concerned about the possibility of a breakdown when DH and I are both like "KBYE" since he's too young for us to really explain anything.
My White Plum leggings arrived yesterday, and OMG they're so soft. I'm wearing the fleece-lined ones today, and I want to live in them foreveeerrrrr.
DS woke up at 4:30 totally soaked from a leaky diaper, so DH and I cleaned him up and snuggled him up in our bed rather than deal with changing sheets in the dark. He was so cuddly (heart)
My aunt got in late last night, so I'm meeting her and my mom for lunch today It will be so nice to spend some time with her without kids running around, the rest of the holiday will be nuts.
DS2 has pneumonia. We're trying to figure out whether or not we'll make a 4 hour drive on Thanksgiving day to keep MIL happy or if we'll just stay home. We caught it early, so it's not as bad as it could be, but it's still pneumonia.
The people who looked at our house are supposedly meeting with a loan officer today to see if they can buy our house (they still need to sell theirs). I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic. We listed with an agent for 7 months and no sale. We've been "For Sale, by Owner" for less than a week & have two serious buyers right now. Any positive thoughts/prayers are appreciated. I'm ready for this nightmare to be over!
I am so ready for it to be Wednesday at 9. Than my weekend will truly begin.
So excited for Thanksgiving. Ready to see family and have some great food that I don't have to cook.
Our receptionist is having surgery this morning for her arm. Possibly plates and pins. She may even be admitted. She really did a number on it. She was having to do all this running around to get a referral just to be able to see the ortho dr. Insurance sucks. Hopefully, she got that all ironed out.
MIL will be staying with us for the weekend. She ended up in the ER yesterday because she was feeling dizzy and she has a UTI. All the other tests came back fine, thank goodness, but we have to keep an eye on her to see if she's still having dizzy spells b/c that could point to a larger issue. She suffered a traumatic brain injury about 12 years ago and has had a couple of strokes within the past year. So H will be picking her up tomorrow and then, I assume driving her back home on Sunday (a 6 hr RT drive).
-Also, I am wearing two things I haven't been able to wear in a long time -- my wedding ring set, and dress pants from my closet. WOO. This is my first time not wearing scrubs to work in literally years. Admittedly, my rings are quite snug, lol, but I'm counting it as a win!
What do you do? One of my life goals (not kidding, my life is this sad) is to have a job where I can wear scrubs to work, but don't have to do any actual medical stuff.
I guess I'm living your dream? lol. I work in basic cancer research, so cells, not patients.
OH I forgot my best random of all! So someone has been using my email address as their own for stuff they don't want to use their real email address for, I guess. Like the pizza place and a bunch of random stuff. It's not an inundation and I just unsubscribe and go on my merry way. Well apparently the joker signed up for a dating site, and I got an email yesterday that "Jo" should go confirm the account. I didn't do anything and figured it would just dry up. But then today I got like 8 emails from nice eastern European women who are looking for a man just like me for long time real good relationship with fun. Hilarious and annoying. Luckily DH is working from home, so I had him request a new password and shut down the account, since I clearly am not logging into Charm Date, A Member Site of the Qpid Network, from work. lol
Conversation with my husband​, a true man of the people, this morning:
Me: I think we should consider a Montessori school for DS. DH: I don't have a PROBLEM with it, I just don't know how I feel about private schools in general. Entirely public school educated me: Who are you kidding? Half your family went to Harvard. You went to Columbia. FFS, you only applied to ivy league colleges. DH: Not true! I considered a public university, too. I thought about going to Berkeley.
Then I woke up at 4:30 this morning to sounds that my H determined were coyotes howling. But I swear, you guys, it sounded like crying children.
Animal sounds, man.
Dude, have you ever heard foxes mating calls? It sounds like a woman being murdered or something.
I once woke up to cops in my backyard at 2am because someone had reported a woman screaming in the woods behind our house. They were very skeptical when I told them a pair of foxes live there & it was the females mating call.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Nov 24, 2015 9:53:35 GMT -5
I really want to cancel class tonight. I lost my voice, and what little sound is coming out hurts like hell. I might send out an email and say, hey, if you want you can come pick up your exam but I can't talk.
I wouldn't even do that but some jerky student called my department head and told her he hadn't gotten any graded work back yet. But it's a ten week class, so we just had the midterm last Tuesday. Wtf? So I want to at Leaat be available for him to come and get it. He's so weird, and he thinks my name is Lori. (It isn't).
I hate the cold. So, so much. I have no H or kids, so I should really try to find a job in a warmer location and move.
I had so much trouble forcing myself to get out of bed this morning. It was warm in my bed and cold in the house.
Maybe this is a confession since it's a little weird, but even once I do get out of bed and take a shower, I grab my makeup box and get back in bed under the covers sitting up, and use a little hand-held mirror to do my makeup.
We are having trouble with SD1. She did something in spring, barely any consequences from either parent and surprise, she did it again this week. Her mom refuses to talk to DH, he's trying to talk to her to come up with a plan and she texts back nasty things and won't speak to him.
They are usually on good terms but when something goes wrong she gets like this. It's annoying and I'm over it. Get over yourself, it's about SD, not you.
Random baby question - how soon after getting bottom teeth did your kid get the top front teeth?
It's going to be all over the place. DS cut one bottom tooth at 10 months, and then two weeks later he simultaneously cut the other bottom front and both top two.
Omg, such a rough night last night. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep, then as soon as I got ilya back to sleep (finally), theo started crying and woke him back up. It was 4 bloody am. I finally got ilya back to sleep at 5, but by then sofia was awake. I threw them a bag of goldfish, turned on paw patrol, and laid down in bed until ilya woke up. I'm a zombie today.
Why do kids hate sleep? Like seriously. I can't survive and be a good mother on a few hours of sleep every night.
I should probably just accept that if, after 9 years together, H and I cannot have a conversation about what family we're seeing on the holidays without it turning into a passive-aggressive frustration session, it's just never going to happen. But it's annoying as fuck for sure.
L fell out of bed at 4:15 this morning. I've been dreading this happening, and usually sleep with my hand on some part of her just in case, but I woke up to a thud and her crying, and I felt terrible. Thankfully she landed on a pillow, but my laptop was on that pillow and she kept saying "Belly, mommy, belly", so I think she got hurt a little bit. She calmed down in less than a minute, but I was so upset, I had a hard time falling back to sleep. There is a radiator with a sharp corner on that side of the bed, so it could have been a lot worse. I keep telling H we either need to get a rail for that side, or he needs to start sleeping in our room again (he has taken to sleeping on the couch because he basically gets pushed out of bed once L comes in, it's all really ridiculous), so maybe something will actually happen now.
I hate the cold. So, so much. I have no H or kids, so I should really try to find a job in a warmer location and move.
I had so much trouble forcing myself to get out of bed this morning. It was warm in my bed and cold in the house. Maybe this is a confession since it's a little weird, but even once I do get out of bed and take a shower, I grab my makeup box and get back in bed under the covers sitting up, and use a little hand-held mirror to do my makeup.
At first I was like "this is genius!" but then I realized if I did that, I'd never get back out of bed.
I have company coming on Thursday and then a week after that is our big Christmas party. My house still needs a really good deep cleaning, laundry needs to be folded, and I need to go food shopping. I am sitting on the couch and haven't even had a shower today. The kids are all playing downstairs so at least they are all happy.