Back to work: Tuesday edition

[akafred]

I am 48% fluent in Spanish thanks to the Duolingo app and an insane amount of spare time. Also learning French. I checked my work email for the first time in over 2 weeks last night and there is nothing overly scary. Yay! It is so cold my dog apparently can't pee outside . How about your randoms?

[twinmomma]

I had the last week off, but it was complete mayhem and tons of busy activities, so I feel like I haven't had a day off at all. I'm back in the office today and utterly exhausted. Plans for tonight include snuggling into bed as soon as my kids do, reading the book I got for Christmas, and likely passing out by 9 PM. My body needs some time to reset and catch up.
Also, today my car said it was -5, without the wind chill, when I left for work. The temps will rise tomorrow, and we'll get a blizzard. WTF.

[sweetptater]

I took all of last week off from work and completely shut down, not even checking email. I figured if anyone needed me, they could call me. It was awesome staying home with the kids, but we were constantly on the go. Of course I got WAY less sleep than my body needs, then got up at 4:20 this morning to workout, so I'll be paying for that this week. Also paying for the too many glasses of wine/champagne on NYE.

I'm with twinmomma, I feel like I haven't had a day off yet.

[twinmomma]

Well, awkward. One of my team members was given my pay stub last week and she opened it before realizing the error. I literally make 2.5 times what she makes...

[erinshelley21]

I've never been so happy to be back at work. Not so much the job obviously, but away from my house and children lol. All 4 of us were sick starting Christmas Eve and we're all still coughing and full of snot. DD is mostly snotty from teeth I think, but we've all been sleeping miserably from it. Plus it snowed a ton last Friday, so were stuck in the house Friday, Saturday and most of Sunday. I got zero things on my to-do list done last week or over the weekend.

We are starting Whole30 today. DH guilted me into it since he said he's "never felt better" than when we've done them in the past. I got super pissy about it last night since it was 8:30 when I could finally start prepping our lunches and breakfasts for the week and he sat in the recliner and got the laptop out to just dick around. I dealt with it by asking him to do multiple little things until he finally just stayed in the kitchen. I'm glad he did though because work has been bothering him lately and we had a really good 30 minute conversation about what his next possible steps are depending on how his annual staff meeting goes today. I still did most of the cooking but it was nice not being in the kitchen alone, so I ended up not mad by the time we went to bed.

[mommyatty]

I am making an attempt to network. I emailed my old formal mentor today to ask about going to lunch. It’s been almost an hour and I haven’t heard from her, so now I’m freaking out. Aaaand typing that made me realize how absurd I’m being.

I got to work 45 minutes early so I’m feeling on top of things. Plus I set an hour meeting with my VP to discuss 2018 and ensure our visions are aligned.

On the food front, I’ve already screwed the pooch. I brought a breakfast bar for breakfast and didn’t bring my lunch. I have to get better. I need good food and exercise.

[rere]

Back after almost 2 weeks. It is 1 degrees. All I have pressing is a conference call. I brought hot chocolate and chili for lunch, so just camping in my office today.

Celebrate. The kids were not too bad to get up today. Dh took them to schook since it was so cold, so that helped me get off this morning.

[supertrooper1]

Today is DH's first day back in two weeks and he was grumpy as to be expected. I kept thinking it would be a quiet day at home with DS, but I have to leave when the house cleaner gets here. At least I'll have a clean house that I didn't have to clean.

[2chatter]

I gained ten pounds in December, which is probably due to parties and being super sedentary. It was fabulous. We did very little last week beyond reorganizing the playroom and playing games.

I started work at 6:30, then dropped DS at camp after he got up; met DD there (she had a sleepover). I don’t have a lot to do. I made it through emails but had really cleared things out before break so am being quite lazy now...slowly working through the boring things I need to do.

[186momx]

Today is the first day back to working real hours. No more getting off at 3...I'm already exhausted and nothing has even come in yet. DD didn't want to get up for school and after almost 2 weeks of no frost the car was completely iced over.

Got a lot of cleaning done yesterday and DH did help as long as I kept stopping to give him little jobs (put all writing instruments into this box, sort this tote into like piles, etc.). But I do now have a clean spare room and my bedroom actually looks clean and it hasn't since I can't remember. DD watched way too much TV yesterday but she also did her book report.

Is it bad that I didn't get thank you cards done over the weekend? DD was being a pill about writing and I figured her essay (2-3 sentences) on what she did over winter break and the book report (2-3 sentences) that is due today was more important and worth the fight over a couple thank you cards.

[saraml13]

I worked last Wednesday and Thursday, now am back in the office. I feel a little bad for DH who is home watching the kids since DC is closed. He has the vacation time to use, but it’s too cold and DS1 is still to under the weather to do much.

It really sucked that DH and the boys had the flu for Christmas, but we really dodged a bullet in terms of sick childcare issues. DS1 got sick Christmas Eve and is still not 100%. His fever is long gone, but he’s still complaining of feeling sick and is napping and going to bed MUCH earlier than typical. I’m really glad DC is closed and DH is off so that we don’t have to sweat over whether or not to send him to dc and if he’ll get sent home.

[callmekd]

I had some crazy end of the year deadlines, which I met by Thursday of last week. so I'm riding that out today - I need a lazy day. Babies were sick all weekend, DD1 is bouncing off the walls/ready to go back to school/ it's too cold to go outside. happy Tuesday!