Fri-YAY!

[covergirl82]

It felt like a long week even though it was a short one, so let's get this started!

[rere]

It has been a very long week.

Today started off with picture day for DD, she looked great, but it throws my morning off when I have to get involved with doing something special with here hair.

I have a suicide prevention training this afternoon, but will get out at 3:00. After running both kids to volleyball, basketball, class meetings, etc. all week, all I want to do tonight is go home, and clean up my house for a bit. Then I just want to make homemade pizza and watch some trashy TV that I have taped.

DH is working, but the kids and I have a wedding tomorrow night. We also need to swing by a benefit beforehand for a family member of a friend.

Sunday is supposed to be rainy and much cooler, which suits my mood perfectly. I would like to not leave my house. I have everything ready for a big pot of bean and ham soup and maybe I'll get to read my book I picked up from the library last week. Plus, DD has the big idea about making a cell model that involves lots of play dough and toothpicks, so she wants a day at home. DS wants to go hunting, but I'm pretty sure he will be rained out.

[covergirl82]

Plus, I wanted to AW my good news from work...my manager told me this morning she and our director are giving me a market adjustment of almost 10%! It should come out to almost $200 more net pay per paycheck. I'm happy because I feel like my new pay really is more in line with my market value. And now we can use that extra money to pay my car off even faster so we can then move on to tackling DH's student loans.

Weekend plans - Tomorrow morning DS has his first tackle football game. Afterwards we'll go eat lunch to use up some gift cards and then take the kids to Dave & Buster's to play some games. Sunday is church, then the kids might have some friends over to play, and then we have our small group in the evening. I have to fit some cleaning in somewhere too.

[erinshelley21]

Today will be my first normal work day all week due to the water leak at my old building and childcare conflicts. I feel so behind. My brother and I are going to lunch today. We try to go on the day our dad died and also on his birthday. We missed the anniversary of his passing since my brothers baby was born the same week.

DH works today but will he off until next Wednesday! I'm trying to decide if I want to go get a spray tan before I go pick the kids up. I have a wedding tomorrow and my arms and legs look like they belong to 2 different people. Plus running has left me looking like I'm wearing a tank top.

Tomorrow DS has soccer pictures and his first game but not sure if the rain will cancel that. Then DH and I have the wedding mentioned above. I'll see my bff from college and I cant wait! Its been 10 months since I saw her for a 45 minute lunch.

Sunday we will have cake for SIL's birthday and thats about it aside from normal Sunday stuff!

Update on water leak/ceiling: restoration company got the water out fairly quickly so I'm guessing it didn't sit for too long. It should only take 1-2 sheets of drywall to patch it. The prospective buyer is still interested and then I got a call last night from a friend who has a friend that might be only slightly interested. I'm hoping the additional interest will spur #1 to want to make a move pretty quick!

[callmekd]

congrats covergirl82!

[callmekd]

I'm WFH. waiting for the pest control company to arrive. yuck.

got DD1 to her 2nd day of K without too much insanity. it only took me 15 minutes to do 2 drop-offs and get back home.

my agency is looking at options for full time WFH which would be awesome. or even 50% WFH would be great.

[akafred]

I am being driven absolutely insane by a mistake I made yesterday. Don’t take this the wrong way. I make plenty of mistakes. Everyone does. I’m not implying that I can’t make mistakes. It’s the logistics of this particular mistake that is driving me apeshit. I don’t see how it is possible. Not do I believe in the least that there was some kind of tampering. I just don’t see how I did it.

PowerPoint A contains two slides, one for each division. The slide has a chart for the division and then a table of data related to that division, with products specific to that division. I copy and paste in the chart and then fill out the data for each.

PowerPoint B contains one slide with IMAGES of the chart+table combo. Once I copy/paste and fill out PowerPoint A, I take a screen grab using Snipping Tool and then paste the screen grab into PowerPoint B. So PowerPoint B should obviously look identical to PowerPoint A because it’s like a photograph of PPA. It’s an image. One single flat image.

The problem is PPB had Division 1 with Division 1’s data table, and Division 2 with Division 1’s data table also. HOW? PPA has the correct data table. Also, i never ever copy the table itself; I copy the chart. So I can’t really see a scenario where I would have gotten Division 1’s table on top of Division 2’s chart anyway. Maybe I could paste the wrong chart in under the table, but then the title would be mismatched and that didn’t happen either.

Seriously. I can’t stand this. I need to understand because I don’t want to repeat the mistake but also because it is driving me nuts!!!

[akafred]

P.S. I lost sleep last night.

[traveltheworld]

We have DS's hockey tryouts tomorrow and I'm really hoping I know how to put all his gear on. I've watched a few youtube videos and DS should be able to tell me. And DD has her first official ballet class tomorrow and I'm excited. She looks so cute in her ballet outfit and she's been asking to go all summer, so this will be good.

And DH comes back tomorrow night. Yippee! There's nothing quite like spending almost a month away to prove one's worth to the family. He is a calming influence on everyone and I'm really looking forward to having two adults in the house again.

[k3am]

We have nothing planned this weekend. With football season in full effect, Sundays will morph into home days and my kids will hate it.

[2chatter]

Tonight is a CF because 1) it’s supposed to rain and DD’s coach still wants to meet - on metal picnic tables - if it storms. No thanks, lightning doesn’t play. 2) it’s supposed to rain and oldest DD wants to go to the football game but picking her up for weather would be a nightmare 3) no one at work can fix what’s broken on my project that launches MONDAY and I can’t focus because I am mad at the continued ineptitude. Like, I’m freaked out and distracted and ugh. And I have things to do this evening so I cannot stay here all day hoping they get me things to test.

Tomorrow is a sh@t show. DD’s soccer moved up and to 40 minutes away. Oldest still has to coach volleyball. We have to get badges tonight. IDK WTF to do, except hope soccer is rained out.

DH is going to “take care of the grocery shopping”. Let me break that down: $100 at fancy butcher. $100 on paper products and cleaning supplies we already have, and nothing we are out of. $200 on food. No meals, lots of things DD can’t have. I made him a list and he said “I know what we need”. Empirically denied. I predict FIL’s birthday dinner is chaos here due to these food issues.

Church Sunday and FIL’s dinner out (DD has youth and won’t be there and DH will pout. DH chose a restaurant that can prepare nothing except fresh avocados and tomatoes for DD because all meat is prepackaged and contains starch. So I am not making her go.)

[186momx]

DH is doing an overnight hiking/backpack thing this weekend so is leaving at 9 tomorrow and will be home sometime Sunday. He wants me to help him pack and I'm not doing it.

Tonight I'm taking DD to open gym to see if she can figure out how to do a cartwheel again along with a few other skills that she just couldn't get Wednesday. The week has been really hard on her so I'm planning on a low key weekend. Binge watching Great British Baking show on netflix DD isn't a fan of the new host or judge so not as interested but I don't want to watch the same 10 movies she loves again. Will probably also make tomato juice on Sunday. I want to borrow my parents juicer and my dad told me to buy one at Bi-mart but I really don't want to have to store another kitchen item that only gets used once or twice a year.

[librarychica]

I started my day off at the Walgreens health clinic, 3yo in tow, because the migraine that wouldn’t leave for two days got much worse at 1AM. Thankfully they fixed me up to functioning. I had promised her that we would do the science museum on my day off so I took her, stuck it out for a couple of hours and then brought her home and stuck her in front of the TV so I could nap before getting the big one. Then swim, bbq and Home. H is currently assembling our new dining chairs and the kids are building with the packaging. I’m daydreaming about an early bed for me.

Girls are going to my parents tomorrow afternoon for a sleepover — hooray! — I am loving having a retired dad. It’s awesome. He would take them every other weekend if I let him. We are doing some chores and having a small cocktail party/board game evening. Sunday is picking them up, probably lunch with my parents and then the usual errands.

[sandandsea]

We have soccer tomorrow morning then church and Sunday we have cub scouts all day. I think dh is going to race this weekend since he missed his last weekend To go help his brother. We will see. I hope he stays home but I’m not holding my breath and it needs to be his choice.

[mommyatty]

Since I had the flu all week and didn’t go to work until Friday, the weekend feels weird.

Last night we had movie night. We watched Duck Duck Goose on Netflix. It was cute but a little intense with a bizarre possessed cat as the villain. That cat kind of freaked me out. The kids weren’t too worried about it though, so maybe I’m just weird.

Today I might take the kids to open gym at their school. The whole weekend is supposed to be rainy and nasty, so I need a way for them to run off some energy. Plus since I still sound like a tuberculosis patient with the hacking up a lung, I don’t want to go anywhere crowded. Open gym should meet both goals.

Sunday is open. I have no idea where it’ll go, which is kind of fun.

[mae0111]

What a long week. My kids started at their new school, so getting used to the commute 2 towns away.

My parents moved out of their house if 48 years the Wed before Labor Day. They were supposed to clos on that house and their new house the Fri before Labor Day. They finally closed 2 days ago, almost a week late. They have been staying with us since they moved their furniture out. I’ve spent the last couple of days dropping the kids off, rushing to their house to clean, unpack, make a list of stuff to fix, etc. I’m tired.

So this morning will be spent at 2 different soccer fields. DD2 is playing town soccer for our town and the town where her new school is located. It seemed like a good idea at the time?? 830 game in other town, 1145 here. Then DH and DD are heading to my parents’ new house to do yard work and DD2 and I will shop and try to put our house back together. Sunday will probably be spent at my parents as well. But maybe not. My sister and her 4 able-bodied teenaged kids have yet to make it to their house. They live 5 mins away. We live 35 mins away. Maybe they can schlep some boxes at some point. But probably not.

[sdlaura]

My Friday wasn’t exactly a fri-yay. I was at a conference in DC and was supposed to fly back to San Diego last night at 7:50 pm, landing at 10:10 pm. Then the DC airports were completely shut down for thunderstorms. My flight kept getting pushed back and I sat at the airport and agonized for a couple hours over whether to just go sleep at my sister’s house (30 min from the airport) and get on the flight this morning. Utimately I did that which turned out to be the right call, since the flight ended up turning into an overnight flight (finally left at 12:30 am and landed at 3 am PT/6 am ET). Now I’m headed back to the airport to try this 6-hour flight thing again

DH and DD are dong their YMCA Dad/daughter camping this weekend - thank goodness my parents flew to San Diego Thursday and are with my other two kids, rather than a babysitter.

[waverly]

Yesterday we flew out to SIL’s wedding. An entire day of traveling from 9-6 and it’s only Midwest to Pittsburg but then we had to drive 2 hours. The place is pretty but all it does is rain so we are stuck in tiny cabins. Pray that it doesn’t rain for the ceremony. The rest is under tents.

[mae0111]

Had DD2's soccer games. I took her to the early game by myself. After playing and running without issue, she suddenly stopped and refused to play anymore. Finally got her back onto the field, did great, tripped and fell... tears and refusal to play. Got her back in, finished a shift... cried because she lost her ball. Tough game.

Then we all went to the second game. DH and I are helping to coach brought, so we DD1 with us. She's going to be 9 in a few weeks. Soccer is at a big open field - 5 kindergarten-sized fields, 3 in-between, 2 regulation fields, all open, all visible from any point. Snack bar in the middle. We've been going to these fields for 4 years. DD1 asked to go to the snack bar alone. At almost 9, and since it was a straight shot to the snack bar and back, I said OK. She got lost. Someone we knew found her and brought her back. Scary... but also frustrating because she's been there no fewer than 30 times, and I made her repeat which field we were on and asked several times if she could remember where we were. She's dying for more responsibility. I guess this was not a good one to try.

[186momx]

DD isn't feeling good. So our laid back mellow weekend is even quieter and I'm going stir crazy. She is very constipated to the point she can hardly eat without feeling like she needs to throw up. Been giving her pear juice, and she only ate a pear, peach, rice, and 4 nuggets today. I hope she can flush out her system tomorrow so we can do something other than watch TV.

[sandandsea]

Well dh ended up going to his race. But he did make it to ds’s soccer game this morning first. So that was nice. . Especially considering I had to help coach the first half and be the time keeper and tracker of playing time since our coach no showed the first half.

[sandandsea]

Oh and there was a snake in my garage today. Probably 14 inches and skinny but totally alive and IN my attached garage. Total phobia of mine and dh was gone so I had to deal with it. I almost died of panic. Omg. So I got a shovel and a bucket and killed it plopped the bucket on top and told dh he has to deal with it when he gets home. I’m pretty sure it was a baby gopher snake and not a baby rattlesnake but it scared the crap out of me. I hate snakes. I still shake thinking about it. And I’m sorry if this offends anyone as I feel kinda bad killing it but snakes are not allowed IN my garage. We may have to move.

[sdlaura]

Omg sandandsea! I may never go in my garage again.