Long weekend highs/lows.

[irene adler]

Best thing about your weekend?

Worst?

Most wtf moment?

[winnied]

Best part: I didn't take a perfectly good, laid back weekend and schedule ALL THE ACTIVITIES and overwhelm myself with attempts at holiday cheer.

Worst: Too lazy to even read my book. Not really a bad thing...just ridiculous of me.

Most wtf moment: My aforementioned laziness. But really, that H has eaten so much the last few days he's made himself sick. He's FINALLY hit the wall and realized he can't eat like a 16 year old anymore.

[irene adler]

High--teaching spin on Tday was so much fun.

Worst--being sick + pms + no sleep = one god awful emotional melt down today. I am thankful no one was around to witness it.

Most wtf moment--ETA--how much I am hardcore man-colding it up today.  

[flygirl22]

Best: Thanksgiving with some new friends in our neighborhood. Being able to walk there and back, and it being completely stress and drama free. It was lovely, and I enjoyed spending time with their 3 to. I miss holidays with kids (none of our own yet)

Worst: DH had to work Friday, and covered for someone on Saturday for the first time in years.

No real wtf moment, I didn't get all the work I needed to get done done, but oh well.

Only 3.5 weeks until xmas break. I can do anything for that long. YES!

[steph96]

Best: Spent Thanksgiving with my family. Saw some family members for the first time in 16 years.

Worst: The ice storm. Our big, beautiful tree is in terrible shape. Our fence is damaged. My exam was cancelled and the only rescheduling option was hundreds of miles away. Tons of people are without power (we have it).

WTF: All of the people that keep parking their cars until trees that are dropping HUGE limbs. My old roommate posted a pic on FB of her dad's truck with a HUGE limb that looked like it was about to fall. Someone was like "hey don't you think you need to move the truck...?" and my old roommate was like "Nah. There's leaves that froze to the roof of the truck so we don't want to disturb anything and risk it falling!" You can clearly see that there's only 3 leaves touching the truck...the limb is about to fall no matter what. Rip the 3 leaves off the truck and move it, dumbass!

[imojoebunny]

Best: spending the long weekend at our cabin and really relaxing. Bonus, I got the whole place super clean after a summer of half assing it. We also got to see a fun parade and go for some good hikes with the kids.

Worst: Dirty dog, who won't listen at the cabin and is used to being on leash at home. I think he wallowed in mud every time he went out. Good thing he is cute.

[crashgizmo]

Best: Thanksgiving day with DH and my brother, and a great trip to the beach yesterday.

Worst: I am coming down with a cold and also have PMS cramps, so I felt off all weekend.

WTF: DH slept from 11pm last night till almost noon today. We didn't have anything to do, but I don't even know how anyone can sleep that long!

[bexporter]

High - Seeing my Grandma, getting new kitchen appliances

Low - I have had a cough for two weeks, and it will not go away!

[cajunmom]

Highlights: Scenery like this...


Lowlights: Having to come home.

No WTF moments. 

[ally]

Best: Having four days off, sleeping in and taking naps. Plus overeating and just lounging around. 

Worst: Getting up early on Saturday for yoga and the instructor never showed up.  Disappointing.

WTF: The yearly fight with my about where I will spend Christmas. I told her I have talked about the only time I am willing to do so this year. That if she brings it up again, I'll be hanging up. It has been years, get over it, or change!

[mbcdefg]

Best: I finished a book, and we spent a lot of time with friends over the weekend. Payday. MH and I discussed a possible weekend trip in December. 

Worst: I really didn't want to get out of bed for work this morning - I'm cold and tired and just want to snuggle under the blankets. Cramps. And parts of the book were depressing. 

WTF: My upper left arm has been hurting all weekend. It started randomly when I was rolling over in the middle of the night. Maybe I slept on it wrong or pinched a nerve or something?

[drloretta]

Nov 29, 2015 20:15:46 GMT -5 irene adler said:

Best thing about your weekend? Going on the train with DD, her first time

Worst? DD ate nothing but a roll for dinner, and it was extremely frustrating

Most wtf moment? Seeing the random bag of crap MIL sent home. It contained DH's late father's report cards from 1st grade through HS, and DH's baby book that only has 2 pages filled out.

[audette]

Hrm...

Best: lots of fun stuff going on, good company, good food, checked out a hockey game at the local arena, etc. Lots of knitting time, too, including the completion of a few projects that I needed done before December.
Worst: DH is _still_ sick with a mancold. I told him he should go to sickcall today, but he is ignoring my suggestion. (he's been sick with this cold for over a week and a half now... it might actually take more than a few OTC cold meds to see him thru the last of it)
WTFs: None. At least none that come to mind.

[explorer2001]

High: Having a great trip to meet Boyfriend's family, getting along well enough with his mom that she told him she could see us hanging out and having girl time together if we lived in the same area (and I completely agree!), getting to see where he grew up, hotel sex, starting to talk about really planning our future together (when to officially move in together, get married, etc.) Yeah OK so I couldn't pick one high.

Low: Rocko was sick after we picked him up from boarding. They said he did great there and most likely its just stress since its the first time we felt him since adopting him.

WTF: nothing major, some random rude fellow travelers but what do you expect.

[raangoli]

High - Successfully hosted Thanksgiving. Bought some things for ourselves and the babe and got some pretty good deals.

Low - Seeing my parents, mostly my dad, aging. I saw them two weeks ago but for some reason it really hit me hard this weekend. I have been crying on and off since Thursday night/Friday. I partially blame hormones.

WTF: I got mad at my Dad for doing something stupid that almost started a fight between us. I shut it down, but it was not good.

[jerseyjaybird]

High: DW and I took the dogs and escaped to a lake house in the Poconos; I cooked a fantastic meal, and we relaxed with the New Yorker and Homeland. No drama. No stress.

Low: We didn't pay great attention to the VRBO listing, and the lake house was not non-smoking. And also kind of far for just two nights.

WTF: We did manage brunch with DW's brother, SIL, and their three kids yesterday morning, before they left town. So many WTF moments. SO MANY.

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High: spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday with my H as we picked at packing up our house. My parents took DD to the lake so that she wasn't under foot for the move and it's been SO NICE to just have time to ourselves, together.

Low: I'm sick. It's just a nasty cough and cold but definitely not an ideal time to be hacking up a lung. I'm currently hiding in our mostly-packed master bedroom in bed, which makes me feel like an entitled asshole. But ugh. So sick.

Wtf moment: H doesn't seem to "get" this whole move thing. As in, dude, get off your butt and pack shit!

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steph96 I'm sorry to hear your exam was cancelled! That must be so frustrating!

[womet]

High: spending the weekend with H in Florida (went to see FIL and his gf for Thanksgiving); I got my L&O OMG bag just in time for the trip

Low: H wasn't feeling great on the day we left and he forgot his wallet in his car. We travel using our work ids, so we didn't realize it until we got there. After that it was NBD. Not really a low, but I have determined that I just can't spend more than 3 days around my FIL's gf. She is a nice person but is a nervous nelly and always trying to be helpful... it just gets old.

WTF moment: I thought I had dropped my iphone at the airport. It came out of the case, and I discovered the case in my back pocket. I looked in my purse and didn't see it. So the parking guy drove us back while I looked for it. Should have played the "find my iphone" sound earlier... phone was in my purse the whole time. Oops.

[explorer2001]

Nov 30, 2015 13:49:17 GMT -5 poundcake said:

Best: My dad's 75th party went really well. His brother came in and stayed til today.

Worst: I had a total breakdown yesterday in front of my kids and felt horrible.

WTF: I got fat shamed on facebook.

[br I was liking your best because I remember the post about invitations issues.

Hugs and sorry about the others.

[MrsE]

Best: pics below
Worst: smog and insane traffic causing travel delays
Most WTF moment: witnessing indecent exposure of a rando man peeing in the street in front of me

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RockNVoll, I bet the live show was awesome! Is it like the TV show where the audience just stands there awkwardly, or is it different? We're not really Clarkson fans, but...we do love that show!

Here's mine:

Best: The four days really felt like time off work, and I was very productive. We had Thanksgiving (of course), visited with my BFF and her husband and kids, deep cleaned the house, decorated for Christmas, watched a lot of TV, and I went running once and went to yoga once. All in all, awesome four days.

Worst: I got an email from the company I do part-time contractual work for, and the items I edit for them dropped $25 from last year (I get paid per item completed). The state sets this rate, so no negotiating. Oh well, the money is still good and it will be nice to get a check from them after Christmas even if it's less than last year!

wtf: DH's grandma insisting on serving canned beans and canned corn at Thanksgiving because "they're just so good." Ummm, ok, pass me more of the sides I cooked please.

[msmerymac]

Low: I was sick on Tuesday/Wednesday/some of Thursday, so we didn't leave until Friday morning.

High: Seeing the niece. And MIL's pumpkin pie.

WTF: My football team blowing a half time lead yesterday, and H's football team losing their first game of the year.

[jerseyjaybird]

Nov 30, 2015 13:19:05 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

Nov 30, 2015 12:48:37 GMT -5 jerseyjaybird said:

High: DW and I took the dogs and escaped to a lake house in the Poconos; I cooked a fantastic meal, and we relaxed with the New Yorker and Homeland. No drama. No stress.

Low: We didn't pay great attention to the VRBO listing, and the lake house was not non-smoking. And also kind of far for just two nights.

WTF: We did manage brunch with DW's brother, SIL, and their three kids yesterday morning, before they left town. So many WTF moments. SO MANY.

You're gonna leave us hanging here?  C'mon, do your part to liven up the board!

I'll do my best. BIL and SIL are generally in BEC territory with me, and I don't know how much will make sense without a ton of background.

BIL and SIL have three kids, who are 12, 10, and 4. The 12-year-old is easily the most obnoxious child I've ever encountered. The first thing she ever said to me (she was 9) is, "Ummmm, J? I just wanted to say that your pants are, like, the right level of fancy, but it would have been nicer if you'd worn a dress." The next year, we gave her this gorgeous, adorable handmade outfit for her American Grrl doll, and her response was, "I only put Rebecca Rubin in outfits that are American Grrl brand." I made DW sit next to her, so I don't have many stories about her from this particular outing. She did make a HUGE deal about how she and her brother shouldn't have kid's cups (lidded) for their water, and then they spilled water everywhere after about 30 minutes, which is their threshold for not acting like toddlers. They got pretty wild after awhile, which I side-eye in a 12-year-old. Lots of whining, too. 

The 10-year-old is the only boy and is generally totally overlooked because his older sister is so overbearing and his younger sister is the baby. He's had serious mental health issues this year, and his parents STILL seem generally oblivious. To wit, he was wearing pants that were about three inches too short and a shirt that he'd been wearing since Tuesday because he only packed one shirt. And of course no one helped him pack or even thought to look at WHAT he packed. When we were saying goodbye, I said, "Where's A?" Parents, looking around casually, "ummmmm . . . . I don't know . . . has anyone seen him? Did he go to the bathroom?" He was wandering around the parking lot!! I'm pretty breezy, but holyshit, guys, this was a busy strip-mall parking lot, Thanksgiving weekend, and he was in his own little world, wandering around. He could have been hit SO EASILY.

The 4-year-old is adorable, but SIL hogged her the whole time, speaking to her only in Hebrew, which only BIL and SIL speak well (they are rabbis). It was just weird. DW asked, "Oh, are you only speaking Hebrew to S now?" SIL said, "No." But then continued to only speak to her in Hebrew. Just, WTF?

I will say that the political conversation was brief and not as bad as it could have been. 

[konapoppy]

High: Not doing any work over the holiday.

Low: Not getting nearly enough done. Between the holidays, my professional exam, and India, I feel like I am spinning in circles.

WTF: I actually can't think of any, which is a good thing!

[sfy]

Best - We had a great vacation with my family and now we're home!
Worst - Spent the entire weekend in planes, airports and having an 18 hour layover in Brisbane (at night). Also, I think I'm getting sick.
WTF - I've eaten 3 KozyShack puddings today because I threw most of the food out before we left and I'm lazy.


jerseyjaybird, my face at the 12 year old and 10 year old...just...WTF!

[Pom]

High---Extremely relaxing weekend. We did get to hang out with friends and their new grand baby on Friday. Their little on is so sweet, never fussed, lots of laughing and cooing. Mr. P looked so happy holding her, although he had NO idea what he was doing.

Low---We heard a former business associate of H's attempted suicide. He was divorcing and had lost his job. Today we found out he passed away. Far too many suicides this year.

[daisyn]

High: just having time off work, I've been working like crazy lately

Low: I can't even talk about it

WTF: trying to park at the mall, omg

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RockNVoll, that is super cool and I will definitely show my DH those pictures! He would absolutely die of happiness if we could go see that!