Week of 2/19

[bk1]

Plans? Randoms? Etc

[bk1]

It's been raining off and on so far. I need to get me and the girls around so we can run to the store and pick up a few things. Everyone in the house has been coughing so I want to grab some cough meds. Might pick up coffee while we are out.

[estrellita]

E turns 3 tomorrow

Wedding on Sat. I'm happy it's pretty close because we likely won't stay too late.

It snowed a bunch last night and last I looked it was still snowing. I don't care much because I don't need to go anywhere but I always worry about H and don't like when he gets home later, lol.

[katespade]

H starts his new shift today, and I’m not excited about it. We get three day weekends together, which is awesome, but we work completely opposite hours on our workdays. We’re still trying to figure out how our sleep schedules are going to work, and how we’re going to get anything done together during the week.

I’m off today, and I have a ridiculous amount of work to get done during my work week. As much as I enjoy any excuse to have a paid day off, this is really unfortunate timing for one.

No big plans this week or this weekend. Doing more work on the dining room, figuring out how our new schedule is going to work, trying to get the dogs to stay calm when H isn’t home at bedtime...

Also, I decided to take a break from social media. I deleted my FB, IG, and Twitter apps yesterday, and I have no idea when/if I’ll sign back in to any of them. The negativity far outweighs the positivity that comes from them, and I finally decided that I just don’t need that stress in my life right now. So I’m out. I’ll still be here, though. lol. I don’t consider this social media.

[estrellita]

katespade I was wondering if you counted this into your social media break when you posted about that.. I'm glad you're sticking around here

[bk1]

Feb 19, 2018 11:56:58 GMT -5 estrellita said:

katespade I was wondering if you counted this into your social media break when you posted about that.. I'm glad you're sticking around here

Ditto!

[wineandcheese]

katespade I’m glad your staying with us!

I already called out of work for tomorrow. My h is enjoying my lack of voice lol.

The rest of the week is pretty boring. Friday is my normal errands day then I need to find a dress for Saturday night.

Saturday night is our fire department’s banquet dinner. I’m looking forward to a night out.

[awick14]

bk1- I hope you all avoid the sickness.

estrellita- eek! Happy birthday to him.

katespade- I have blocked so many people in order to stop a lot of the negativity. I’m hoping that that helps if not I will be taking a break from Facebook as well. (I don’t find the negativity on my instagram)

wineandcheese I hope you get your voice back soon.

My holidays end of Wednesday and I’m finally starting to feel better. Hopefully I feel a little better tomorrow.

[Blue Moon]

estrellita, happy birthday to E! Can't believe he is 3!

Yesterday I had an appointment at a portrait studio to recreate a childhood photo of my brother and I for my mother's birthday. I had the 30 year old sailor outfits my brother and I wore so I stuffed my children into them for the recreation. It didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned but it's good enough and I know my mom will love it.

This is a short week for us. We had off yesterday and took the day on Friday as well to attend a belated funeral for H's grandmother. She passed last week. There's a lot of extended family flying in so we'll spend Friday night visiting with them all. Saturday we need to drive up to my parent's for my mom's birthday dinner. We have to spend the night, which I hate, but there's no way around it. We haven't been there since Christmas though so we are way overdue.

[HoneySpider]

Nothing special going on this week. My parents are coming down on Sunday so DH & I will get a little bit of time to ourselves out of the house.

[MrsMB]

Slammed. Came in to check on everyone. Good to "See" yall!

Orientation this week. I'll drive halfway to my hometown to deliver some goods to my SIL for her sister on Sunday. Other than that, we have a typical week.

We finished our home refi last Friday. Cut 6.5 years off our loan and simultaneously got a smaller loan payment. Pretty stoked about it. DH purchased us a new mattress that came in yesterday from Sle.ep Nat.urals. In LOVE with it. It's fabulous.

[katespade]

UGH. There is not enough caffeine in the world for this day. The dogs did not handle the change in routine well at all last night, so they kept me awake until H got home at 2:15am. Then I was up at 6:00am to start my work day. So I'm running on about 3 hours of sleep.

Someone please tell me that they'll get used to it and I'll be able to sleep again someday.

[wineandcheese]

I just realized I haven’t had coffee in 5 days. Stupid flu. I miss coffee!

H apparently doesn’t like the toilet paper I bought so he’s been complaining about it every day. He says “it’s like wiping my butt with a ruffles potato chip.” Dude, it’s toilet paper and it was on sale, deal with it.

[ewall]

Hugs suzv. The whole thing is very upsetting and leaves you feeling so powerless.

Congrats on the refi MrsMB!

katespade sorry I'm sure they will get used to it soon. I hate sleepless nights.

I had to rearrange my schedule last minute so the client that I normally meet in the AM is scheduled for PM today. He texted me this morning asking if I was okay because I wasn't there at normal time, lol. It's nice to know they care

[estrellita]

katespade oh no, I hope they get used to it fast!

[tacocat]

katespade I hope they adjust quickly!

wineandcheese My H likes to take toilet paper with him on trips because he says hotel toilet paper is too rough, lol.

I went to Target and Olive Garden by myself today. It was wonderful!

I have baby shower on Saturday and we're going to H's grandma's on Sunday for her birthday.

[amaranth]

Well the good news: Yesterday H was off so I got a massage and went shopping with my friend. It was warm and we went outside. I felt so refreshed, and I aired out my house for hours with the windows open.

The bad: Our basement flooded from all the rain, and one of the kids had the stomach flu last night which means it's about to hit the rest of us...

[travelbug]

My hubs officially got sworn into the fire department tonight at City Hall!!! Yay!!!! )))

[travelbug]

amaranth I hope no one else gets sick!!

[katespade]

amaranth - Oh no!! FX that the rest of the family somehow avoids the sickness.

[awick14]

MrsMB- defiantly a Win!!

katespade our pup was able to get used to the change in our schedules after a few days so I hope it is the same for you.

wineandcheese- tell him to save his fun money and buy his own toilet paper. 😆

Amaranth- I hope you don’t get sick and I hope your basement isn’t to hard to get back to normal.

[MrsMB]

((amaranth)) so sorry.....prayers the rest of you stay healthy!!! So sorry about the flooding ((

[katespade]

awick14 - That's good to hear! I'm really hoping that's the case for us, too, because I do not do well without sleep. lol.

[bk1]

amaranth I hope everyone else can stay healthy!

Yesterday morning we woke up to ice outside so we stayed home. I think today is the same. So glad it will be warming up next week.

[amaranth]

The basement sump pump pipe cracked and started spurting way more water back into the basement increasing the flooding from about 3/4 of the basement to all of it. While I was trying to fix the pipe it became completely unattached from the wall FML. So that meant I had to turn the sump pump off and now we're up to like 3" of water and it's still rising. My H is coming home from work to help, but he is so furious I don't want to see him (not at me, at the unfortunate situation and the amount of work now required). Such a miserable situation.

[katespade]

amaranth - Oh no!!! I have a difficult time being around H when he's upset, too. Not because he's upset at me or he'll take it out on me, but because it makes me feel really anxious to see him that upset and not be able to do anything to help him. I've had to remove myself from the situation a few times during our kitchen remodel, so he could have space to be frustrated without me absorbing his emotions and making it worse.

[MrsMB]

Ugh....so sorry you're having to deal with this amaranth!!!

[amaranth]

Feb 21, 2018 12:00:03 GMT -5 katespade said:

amaranth - Oh no!!! I have a difficult time being around H when he's upset, too. Not because he's upset at me or he'll take it out on me, but because it makes me feel really anxious to see him that upset and not be able to do anything to help him. I've had to remove myself from the situation a few times during our kitchen remodel, so he could have space to be frustrated without me absorbing his emotions and making it worse.

You explain it much better than me. Ditto. The tension when one of us is mad is just so high, it's like my nerves are constantly on high strung and my stomach feels sick. He'd never yell at me or anything, but I still feel as if he did simply by channeling his own anger as my own. Ugh... 

[krystee]

Ugh, sorry about your basement amaranth! Ours did that a year ago because our sump pump totally failed. My H does not handle home emergencies well and called an emergency plumber to get rid of the water and get us a new sump pump. $$$$$

I am currently getting numb for a root canal and this is so not how I want to be spending my morning!

We also are selling our former home/current rental and it is so stressful. It's worth less than we owe, so we have to bring tons of money to the table plus cover the mortgage until it sells plus pay for utilities, painters, carpet cleaners and a house cleaner. All of this means taking out a loan. I really really need H to get one of the two jobs he's interviewing for this week!!

[ewall]

Ughhhh amaranth. That sucks. Nothing gets DH and me pissy at each other quite like home repair issues.

DH has a man cold. He had me pick up DS from daycare because he was afraid of getting germs near the kids. Never mind that I can barely get through a sentence without coughing. Then he came home and made a beeline for the thermometer. "It's 99.6!" Dude, no. Not a fever. Suck it up.