I got in fairly late last night so I'm dragging today. And my low tire pressure light came on as I was driving home from the airport so I need to go to the tire place after work and get that looked at.
I killed two palmetto bugs (cockroaches) this morning, one of which jumped out of the motherfucking paper towel that was in my motherfucking hand. It had been on its back, not moving, so I thought it was dead. I was wrong.
I've looked at so many houses on-line I'm going cross-eyed.
I'm going to need a good OTC sleep aid to get through the next few weeks with so much happening and so much up in the air. Something that will help me STAY asleep. Falling asleep isn't so bad, but I wake up around 2am - 4am and my brain starts going and I have trouble getting back to sleep. Suggestions?
I always took Benedryl to help me sleep. But the dementia thing came out so I quit cold turkey. But it works well. Now I take Ativan That would also help ease the trauma from the roach issue.
My random is my kids are driving me nuts and doing EXACTLY what I knew they would. We are moving Thursday and MH has been on me to pack All The Things. I was telling him we still have to live here, and since I'm here all day every day with the kids, I would have to hear the bring of the complaining about x,y and z being unavailable. This weekend I did pack All The Things and within the first 15 minutes of being up, both kids were whining and crying about 1. cinnamon 2. sugar 3. honey 4. pancake mix 5. throw pillows 6. blankets. So help me God if anyone asks me what I'm cooking for dinner.
DH is leaving to go back to work today. He'll be gone for 10 days. My kids are leaving for 16 days to travel to Yellowstone with my dad and his new girlfriend. My mom died a year ago, so that alone is making this tough for me. But, I had to give my kids the option, my hard feelings towards my dad can't be theirs. My oldest (16) was very mature and said she doesn't seem to be going anywhere (they have been together since two months after my mom died. Deep down I hate my father but that's a story that would take days to get into. One word sums it up; narcissist.) and he is tired of the awkwardness. So he decided to go to get to know her, and my youngest followed suit. They will have fun and see a lot, so I'm happy for them. I'm not happy for my father. (This is a place I can be honest, right?).
But I don't want everyone to leave me!!!!! What the hell am I going to do for that amount of time with no DH and no kids? I'm sad today.
Post by Monica Geller on Jul 18, 2016 7:45:01 GMT -5
My 17month old is refusing to sit in his high chair for breakfast. So he is running around with a (clean) flyswatter laughing like a madman and I am hand feeding him pancake as he runs by. I feel like I'm feeding a wild animal.
Day one of recuperation today. On tap today is a shower with all of the products that I didn't have with me in hospital. I also need to call employee health.
Lots of rain today, so the weather is encouraging my laziness.
Post by notoriousmeg on Jul 18, 2016 8:03:52 GMT -5
My commute is a disaster due to an accident in the Lincoln tunnel. I am late for work. Happy Monday! DS and I had so much fun on the beach yesterday; I'm counting the minutes until my day off on Friday when we can go back.
My commute is a disaster due to an accident in the Lincoln tunnel. I am late for work. Happy Monday! DS and I had so much fun on the beach yesterday; I'm counting the minutes until my day off on Friday when we can go back.
I'm sitting on a bus waiting to enter the tunnel. If only I had a drink this would be slightly more enjoyable 🍸
I have the whole week off! I have no idea what to do with myself.
My options are: -Clean the bathroom -Grocery Shop -Go to Best Buy (need to do Today) -Hang pictures in living room -Hang pictures in family room -Go through bins of H's crap in his basement -Take Dad's trains to the train store. (closed today) -Work out
First full week back at work after vacation and I am itching to go away already. I hope this week goes by quickly, I thought I would come back to a bunch of stuff that needed to be completed but it looks like things are slowing down for the summer.
Today is also day 1 of back to eating healthy and working out consistently and I am craving my usual chocolate dip donut for breakfast.
I have to take the girls to the dentist this morning. They have LOVED the dentist and it has never been an issue. . . Until today. They apparently hate the dentist and are now scared to go to their appointments. Kids are full of drama.
Summer is half over I feel like I have to get into "back to school" mode soon. I'm happy to get back into a routine, but don't want summer to end.
Our weekend was nice, but L was sooo ornery yesterday. She has a diaper rash right now that I am sure is contributing to her bad mood, but man. She was even cranky at swim lessons, which had not happened even on her worst days. On top of that, H's knee is also acting up again, and I am trying not to be annoyed because I know he's in pain, but he was told he needed to see an orthopedic doctor when this happened last year, and did he go? Of course he didn't. So now it's flaring up, and he took TWO naps yesterday AND kept getting snippy with me, and he's driving me insane. If he would ever take care of himself I might be more sympathetic, but right now I'm running low. Supposedly he's calling the doctor today, so we'll see.
In happier news, I got everything straightened out with the photographer for L's beach session - it was actually just a big misunderstanding that was my fault, incidentally, because I got the dates mixed up. She was super gracious about it, and now I feel bad that I was irritated.
I realized last night while making a salad to go with dinner how much I hate washing lettuce. Why does it get so soggy? Why is it so hard to dry? Is there some super simple trick that I haven't yet learned? I used to have a salad spinner, but so many parts, and so annoying. Is that really my only other option?
Post by AHappierHour on Jul 18, 2016 9:06:26 GMT -5
I was talking with H while he was getting ready for work and he asked me what's my plans for the week. I didn't think I was super this week but after thinking about I'm busy everyday this week. :/
I realized last night while making a salad to go with dinner how much I hate washing lettuce. Why does it get so soggy? Why is it so hard to dry? Is there some super simple trick that I haven't yet learned? I used to have a salad spinner, but so many parts, and so annoying. Is that really my only other option?
I use romaine lettuce so I can do this: cut the ends off, wash and let drain on a clean kitchen towel, spread it out and roll it up in paper towels (or the damp kitchen towel if you don't like pepper towels) and store in big ziplock bags in the crisper. Then I can just take out and chop up what I need. It's always nice and crisp. I use a spinner too sometimes, but really, if I use the method above right when I bring it home from the market I have nice fresh lettuce all week.
I'm taking Friday off to have a girl's day with a friend. Mimosas at the movies to see ghostbusters, lunch, and then a whole pool day with margaritas. Pumped.
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"I was thinking about getting off on demand, but it sounds like I should be glad that I didn't"
I'm gonna whine for a bit. Give me head pats, a swift kick in the ass, or just ignore me as I vent.
I feel like both H's parents and my parents are really doling out the hand outs to our respective siblings lately. My folks paid for my niece to go to summer camp for a week, and now are following that up with a trip for my sister and her family to Mexico this week (this is the second Mexico trip they've given my sister's family in the past 3 years). That just really bugs me. On top of the fact that they paid for 3 years of niece's preschool, dance classes and the like. We've never gotten help with that stuff.
What gives? My sister is greedy, so I'm guessing she directly hits them up for this stuff. I don't go asking them, but if they offer, I wouldn't refuse.
my ILs have been the same way over the years, buying kids clothes, stuff for their houses, helping with unexpected bills with my SILs. Older SIL makes six figures but got new appliances and new furniture for her house from MIL recently. We don't ask, but we've never received anything like that. And god knows we could use it from time to time.
I'm gonna stew a bit more in my first world problems.
Post by RoxMonster on Jul 18, 2016 11:35:14 GMT -5
I couldn't fall asleep until 4 last night. I slept until 10 but am so so groggy. Plus it's raining and gross today, so I probably won't do much.
I have less than a month left of summer and I'm sad about it. I can't bring myself to think about work or start planning anything yet. We leave for vacation on Friday. Once we get back from that, I'll have to buckle down and do some shit.
Post by hisno1girl on Jul 18, 2016 12:31:15 GMT -5
Someone at work is my BEC or perhaps I'm her BEC and she's acting like a straight up snatch.
I mentioned something about laying marriages and I said that my parents have been married for 56 years dvd not once on that time food I ever see them argue. I said I'm sure they had disagreements like a normal couple but that BEC says, "I would hate to live like that. It's so fake to act like you have a perfect marriage."
Um, FUCK YOU.
When we were planning our trip to Cancun she said, "OMG February is THE WORST time to go on vacation."