If Monday were a number, it would be 1. The loneliest one.

[leap]

xctsclrx, my daughter holds it forever. I have to remind her to go in the morning. On average, she probably goes 3 times a day and she has always been like that. Potty training was hard because she goes so infrequently.

[akafred]

Oh I have another of each.

Celebration: I was telling a friend on Saturday night that once in a blue moon I will sleep 11-12 or even 13 hours and I feel like I really needed it to happen again, but I have barely slept past 6 since we moved. Well, on Saturday night I slept from 8:45 (seriously!) to 8:00. And then I napped another half hour on the couch later.

Vent: I still feel like I need to sleep 12-14 hours. And my dark circles are darker than ever.

[librarychica]

Vent: I woke up with a killer headache this morning. None of the usual triggers -- I didn't drink or stay up late and it isn't my period. I was annoyed, H was annoyed that he had to drop DD1 off on my usual day, etc.

Vent 2: I just got a giant list of girl scout trainings. I was told there was one. Le sigh. No wonder y'all have such trouble getting volunteers.

Celebration: my meds worked and DD2 and I had a nice time at the park and now she is napping so I have two hours to catch up on my house work before school lets out.

[2chatter]

I'm super nervous about my trip to San Diego Wednesday because DS just got diagnosed with strep. He had a play date here Friday and that child threw up twice so I knew this was coming....

HUGE celebration though - DD has met her OOP max so I asked at the ped about our family OOP. $800 remaining. DH agreed to get a Baja hearing device!!!!!!!! I KNEW he wasn't just objecting to the aesthetics of it - he was fixated on cost. We just need to find an in network doctor - and because he has total hearing loss in that ear, it's covered. He is still worried about how it will look BUT he is agreeing to proceed. Y'all I seriously think if he can hear more normally some of his depressive symptoms will abate and he will tune back in to our family.

DD had her first game back and was amazing - no goals, but she megged two defenders (like a double meg) and had some crazy good footwork AND she didn't back down. She played like she did over a year ago - I think this time last year (thanks Facebook memories for reminding me she had X-rays but no MRI) she probably had the beginnings of quad tears (she was prime for overuse between Futsal, rec and club, but we were figuring out the best fit). So to see her play fully recovered was amazing.

And another good thing - my mom agreed to hang out here while I run out to DDs volleyball game this evening. I'll leave middle DD here and DS will remain quarantined - I am just really glad I get to go as I will be in Salt Lake next week for work and will miss the next one. Confession - I am wearing the parent spirit shirt.

[HeartofCheese]

xctsclrx, DD was like that, so when she finally decided to start using the potty I didn't even need pull-ups to transition. She's had one accident since then (several months now) and she even gets up in the middle of the night to go pee on the potty. Even if I forget to turn on the bathrm nightlight. It may be a blessing!

[waverly]

2chatter, hearing aids and other devices are supposed to slow down/ prevent dementia and things like that as well. This could be huge for him. Does he have hearing loss in his other ear or just the one?

[2chatter]

waverly - just the one. He knows the exact moment it happened - he said it sounded like someone closed a door. It was a (super rare) reaction to the swine flu vaccine. It has changed his life and personality - it's not as bad as it was initially (he was really hostile) but he still avoids things like HH, going out to eat with other people, sitting near people at sporting events, etc.

[waverly]

2chatter, hearing is different in a one on one quiet setting versus background noise. And different with a device versus not. With no hearing aids, DS could hear OK in the classroom with background noise.

After he got the hearing aids which helped his speech so much, he just failed the background noise test. So now he will trial an FM system for the classroom.
So weird that he could hear OK in background noise one way but not the other.

My co-worker also lost one ear of hearing due to a virus. I am not sure what she had. She does go out to eat though because she is very social.

[traveltheworld]

We had a good weekend. DH left town last night for work, and I decided to pre-make snacks and lunches for the week for the kids; then I felt that the fridge was not organized properly, so I spent 2 hours re-organizing our fridge - ended up finishing at around midnight. I left a voicemail for DH to call me as soon as he landed after he sees the pictures I've sent him via email. The poor guy got all excited, only to discover half a dozen pictures of a newly-organized fridge.

This week will be busy at work as I try to get most things done before my work trip to London next week. I'm excited about London but am a little apprehensive about leaving the kids for a week.

[2chatter]

I am super interested in his pursuit of this - they will trial
some solutions before cranial surgery. It affects him pretty much all the time - like he loses things, so he has a tile. When it beeps he has zero idea where it is. Same for a ringing phone - he can never find it in time unless he knows where he left it. I just can't imagine that even an incremental improvement won't change his life. It's his right ear that hears, I always drive, so we can't talk in the car. There are a million little examples like that...tucking the kids in, their beds all face such that his left ear is to them. He won't do bedtime unless I am not home because he can't hear them. Fingers crossed the new system works for your DS too!

[katrine05]

waverly & 2chatter Hope the systems works for your guys. About 6 years my mom got a virus and really bad vertigo, it caused her to lose hearing in her left ear. She went to every specialist she could, but she's not a candidate for a hearing aid because of the part that's ruptured. It would only amplify the "fusiness" she hears. So she's tried to adapt. We all make sure we have eye contact before we start talking, sit on the correct side of her etc. I have noticed quite a change in her since then though. Memory loss, disorganization etc. And she's only 50. It sucks for everyone.

[2chatter]

katrine05 - it's so hard! My DH is older than your mom, that made me snicker.

[katrine05]

2chatter Haha. She's technically my step mom and only 18 years older than me, but yes... we're young.

[erinshelley21]

I sent DH the numbers and he told me he was still working off of my cut of 3x (drunk, exaggerated sample offer) and not 2x (what we actually got). He failed to redo the math and that is somehow my fault.

Men.

[sudokufan]

mustardseed2007, we've been joking about our "free car", but you know they'd notice at some point and come after us at some point. Probably with a higher payment, or wanting all the back payment What a PITA. H is angling for at least a free oil change.

[supertrooper1]

traveltheworld, that made me LOL that your H was disappointed with the pictures of a fridge. That would be my DH too.

[akafred]

Sept 18, 2017 13:37:05 GMT -5 erinshelley21 said:

I sent DH the numbers and he told me he was still working off of my cut of 3x (drunk, exaggerated sample offer) and not 2x (what we actually got). He failed to redo the math and that is somehow my fault.

Men.

So then he is thrilled right?

[erinshelley21]

Sept 18, 2017 15:05:54 GMT -5 akafred said:

Sept 18, 2017 13:37:05 GMT -5 erinshelley21 said:

I sent DH the numbers and he told me he was still working off of my cut of 3x (drunk, exaggerated sample offer) and not 2x (what we actually got). He failed to redo the math and that is somehow my fault.

Men.

So then he is thrilled right?

Pretty much lol.
Basically all of the conflict between he and I for the last month comes down to him not redoing the numbers in his head because I didn't tell him too even though I did tell him what the actual offer was. 

[mommyatty]

Sept 18, 2017 15:08:15 GMT -5 erinshelley21 said:

Sept 18, 2017 15:05:54 GMT -5 akafred said:

So then he is thrilled right?

Pretty much lol.
Basically all of the conflict between he and I for the last month comes down to him not redoing the numbers in his head because I didn't tell him too even though I did tell him what the actual offer was. 

And expecting an apology in five, four, three... Oh, no? Huh. Okay. Lol.

[waverly]

Sept 18, 2017 15:17:23 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

Sept 18, 2017 15:08:15 GMT -5 erinshelley21 said:

Pretty much lol.
Basically all of the conflict between he and I for the last month comes down to him not redoing the numbers in his head because I didn't tell him too even though I did tell him what the actual offer was. 

And expecting an apology in five, four, three... Oh, no? Huh. Okay. Lol.

Ha ha so much this!  

[erinshelley21]

Sept 18, 2017 15:17:23 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

Sept 18, 2017 15:08:15 GMT -5 erinshelley21 said:

Pretty much lol.
Basically all of the conflict between he and I for the last month comes down to him not redoing the numbers in his head because I didn't tell him too even though I did tell him what the actual offer was. 

And expecting an apology in five, four, three... Oh, no? Huh. Okay. Lol.

I tried to get him to admit this was partially his fault and he refused. He also had the "I'm trying to lie" smirk going on so he basically admitted to being partly to blame.

[2chatter]

More great news - DH has had four phone screens for a new position, it's a very well known large company with lawyers who will fight his noncompete (they have already seen it) and he has a face to face next Friday! Still travel, but a better position and company for him. I am so so so hopeful.

[waverly]

Sept 18, 2017 16:21:29 GMT -5 2chatter said:

More great news - DH has had four phone screens for a new position, it's a very well known large company with lawyers who will fight his noncompete (they have already seen it) and he has a face to face next Friday! Still travel, but a better position and company for him. I am so so so hopeful.

Yay! Fingers crossed.  

[akafred]

Sept 18, 2017 16:21:29 GMT -5 2chatter said:

More great news - DH has had four phone screens for a new position, it's a very well known large company with lawyers who will fight his noncompete (they have already seen it) and he has a face to face next Friday! Still travel, but a better position and company for him. I am so so so hopeful.

Yay! That is wonderful!

Once his noncompete is "broken", is it forever nonbinding?

[erinshelley21]

Sept 18, 2017 16:21:29 GMT -5 2chatter said:

More great news - DH has had four phone screens for a new position, it's a very well known large company with lawyers who will fight his noncompete (they have already seen it) and he has a face to face next Friday! Still travel, but a better position and company for him. I am so so so hopeful.

That's awesome news!

[waverly]

Sept 18, 2017 17:41:23 GMT -5 akafred said:

Sept 18, 2017 16:21:29 GMT -5 2chatter said:

More great news - DH has had four phone screens for a new position, it's a very well known large company with lawyers who will fight his noncompete (they have already seen it) and he has a face to face next Friday! Still travel, but a better position and company for him. I am so so so hopeful.

Yay! That is wonderful!

Once his noncompete is "broken", is it forever nonbinding?

Legally no idea. But I think if they had lost him anyway it would be a lot less reason for them to enforce it. Plus how would they know if he moved jobs a second time? I though there was a time limit, was it 5 years 2chatter? I remember it being something stupid long. Most non competes I had heard of were 1-2 years. And the companies would have them work a different industry or something. H knows not to even sign them anymore. I don't think he ever did or if he did it was one year.

[2chatter]

akafred - it's technically for
life and covers the entire universe but apparently is unenforceable after two years - so sad that they can't enforce whatever insanity they write. So in theory DH would be set. He only signed it because he thought it was unenforceable and it is truly rife with hyperbole - it sounds like something DS would write "in any lifetime" etc....then some local case changed that.

[saraml13]

Sept 18, 2017 16:21:29 GMT -5 2chatter said:

More great news - DH has had four phone screens for a new position, it's a very well known large company with lawyers who will fight his noncompete (they have already seen it) and he has a face to face next Friday! Still travel, but a better position and company for him. I am so so so hopeful.

Congrats! My H had previously been stuck with a non compete when he tried to change jobs. The new company was in a different segment of the industry and the leader in that space and the previous company really was not a competitor. The old company made a big fuss and sent threatening letters. DH was in limbo not starting the new job while the lawyers tried to sort t out. Eventually the new company said fuck 'em and told DH to start work. The old company was just bluffing and didn't attempt to take it to court.

[akafred]

DD

[186momx]

akafred, that is horrible. Isn't this therapy supposed to help not cause more anxiety? Hugs

2chatter, Congrats !!!