Everyone was UP AND AT ‘EM this morning due to the time change. So they will be puddles later, but great morning with very little rushing!
I have a job interview in about an hour. I had a phone screen Friday afternoon with the owner of a CPA firm in my town. Part time, running marketing. He asked me to do a critique of their website, but it’s bedn down since yesterday, so I couldn’t complete it. I hope he doesn’t hold it against me, because this could really be a perfect set up if it works out. Wish me luck ladies!!
Celebrations: DH and I divided and conquered the chores around the house. Saturday night DD and I had a pizza and movie night at home while DH went to his bowling league and DS went to a last-minute birthday party.
Vent: The radio in my car is broken. It is the "information center," so now I don't even have a clock in my car. I am waiting to hear back from the dealership if it's covered under the manufacturer's warranty or the extended warranty (I got an extended warranty specifically in case any electronic stuff broke).
We had a nice but busy weekend. DD did well at her cheerleading competition. I was proud because she was in a high school gym with a few hundred people watching and she wasn’t nervous at all. She got a nice-sized trophy, so she’s happy.
This week just feels like it’s going to suck. I have so much to do at work and no time to do it. Plus, it’s Diwali and we were invited to a big celebration. I have nothing to wear. (It’s the festival of light over darkness so the LBD is a no go!) I don’t know what gift to bring. And then DS has his fall show the next morning.
Celebrate. The kids and I had a nice home day yesterday. DH worked. Ds spend the day in the basement with his new game he bought with his report card money. DD has already started her Hallmark movie marathon. I found a great book on Amazon prime. I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast and bean soup in the crockpot all day plus cornbread.
However, I can see now how I gain weight in the winter. This is the first year I have consistently wore a fitness tracker. After a 3 mile run yesterday, I still had to jump on the treadmill last night for 20 minutes to hit my goal steps. Guess that is what happens on lazy fall days. In in the spring and summer, I hit my steps easy by being outside most of the time.
Tomorrow, we get 4 hours off to vote, so I am taping a segment for local tv and heading back to the house after I vote.
Vent: I moved my class today to Friday so that I could hit a board meeting that I have been waiting to be scheduled for a while. They cancelled last minute, so I moved it for nothing. The head of the board is trying to juggle this, because she gets paid for it, but now has another job, so basically she is doing nothing but I am assuming collecting the money. We haven't met in months. Plus now I am stuck in the office all day.
Went to a really nice event yesterday that was paid for by my work. Luncheon, silent auction, champagne, on a beautiful fall day. It was an event I'd normally try to get out of, but I'm glad I went. Even got a little Christmas shopping done with silent auction items!
I think tonight I'm going to go try a Zumba class at my gym. I've done Zumba before and loved it. I'm currently paying for a gym membership that I haven't used in months. And I don't have the kids on Monday nights, so it could work out perfectly. I'm stating this here so that I hold myself more accountable. Someone ask me tomorrow if I actually went...
Family movie night was nice. Then we both decided we wanted new chairs for the sunroom. We have been getting away from Ikea stuff, but the space is small so we need small chairs, so we ended up getting them from there.
Then I wanted to put the old chairs in the basement, so that meant washing the carpets (dumb cat pees) and then kind of washing the chairs and sticking them down there. We still need to donate the train table etc., but it does look nice. Still working on the cat issues.
This weekend was busy but fun. I’ve survived 3 days on my own and have 4..5 to go. My kids don’t get daylight savings. They were up at 5 and didn’t go to bed until their normal times. . I feel pretty on top of it though as I have their clothes laid out for the week and the house is clean so our new cleaners can start this week.
I bought our “Santa” gift for the boys last night so it should come soon. They’re getting a Nintendo switch and will be so excited.
We had a pretty great weekend. Friday we did some last minute family pictures and DS acted like a fool. We've used the same photographer for the last 6 picture sessions, so he's super comfortable with her. Usually she can still get good ones of him while he's talking and moving nonstop, but I'm worried that she didn't this time. Saturday we went to the gym as a family. It took an hour and a half for DH and I to take turns getting 25 minute workouts in. Then we had a birthday party, went to dinner with my mom (which was way freaking expensive and we need to quit doing that), and took some stuff back for DH. Yesterday was church, the giant toy purge, and a pizza dinner date with our BFFs. The wife/mom has been dealing with some depression/anxiety, so I felt bad for not making chatting with her over the last 2 months more of a priority like I used too. After they left, I drank 2 glasses of wine and crashed.
Vent: DH was a rude ass this morning, but he has apologized. He realized at 5:45 that he hasn't done his bloodwork for his annual dr appt tomorrow and said he wasn't sure what to do. So I start rattling off suggestions of how to get the orders again and he snaps back "that's what I'm doing!" I told him he basically asked for help so I gave it to him and that if he doesn't actually need help don't say thing that imply that he needs help.
Celebration: We get to go on a lunch date during his work day. I'm meeting with his coworker around lunch time so we get to go to lunch after. We only get to go on lunch dates when he's home so it will be nice doing it on his work schedule.
Post by librarychica on Nov 5, 2018 10:15:27 GMT -5
Celebration: I got up at 5, packed lunches, drank coffee, went to a barre class and was at work by 7:30. I’ve been super productive since then.
We had a pretty great weekend too. I’m super proud of my almost-4yo who handled a kids rope course intended for 5 and up. (That would have been useful info for the birthday invite).
Vent: my family is stressing me out. Plus the holidays approach. Enough said.
we got a lot done at home this weekend. yard work, halloween decorations put away, laundry, meal prep. it was great. but I ate too much halloween candy and now I feel like crap. Happy Monday.
A little old lady crashed into my parked car this weekend. No one got hurt. She didn’t do a ton of damage - just enough to make life annoying. She refused to give us her license or insurance info and wanted to pay for repairs in cash.
Unfortunately, driving the car in it’s current state is technically illegal (no drivers side mirror) and because it’s a huge honking SUV, I’m not comfortable driving it. So I’m in Uber getting a rental and we’re going through my insurance.
I feel like a jerk. She stopped when she could have driven off. She was making food pantry deliveries. According to the folks whose house we were at, they’re pretty sure she totaled a car last month - my guess is she probably shouldn’t be driving and that’s one of her factors in not wanting to go through official channels.
New post - I did Uber pool to save money. The other person in the pool??? Getting a high school drop off. A mile away. How does he have so much money to waste? Get a bike, buddy!
We had a double date for Peruvian and it was amazing. Find a good local Peruvian and go there. For real.
DD had Homecoming, which meant hair/makeup/nails and pics. I’ll delete but this is one of my favorite editorial style - we also have a ton of goofy ones from downtown photo shoot with her BFF.
Middle DD had a period emergency in the middle of pics and we just got back from the ped - bladder infection.
DH left for work in Chicago but punished the kids by taking their iPads. He can’t remember where they are. I spent hours looking and have a puking 11 year old who could use hers. Plus, their school apps for homework are on their iPads. This week is going to suck with the start we have gotten.
Post by justcheckingin73 on Nov 5, 2018 11:32:43 GMT -5
I feel so accomplished after this weekend. Since DH had to leave on Sunday for a conference, I got my long run in on Saturday after dropping DD off at school to watch the state XC meet. Then I went grocery shopping, continued to reorganize the house, went to church and then had movie night with The Meg. DH hadn’t seen it yet so we sat down to watch. Even DD stayed downstairs to watch after she got home from the meet so it was a really nice family night.
Sunday, DH left early so it was just the kids and I. I finally got my office put back together and DS asked me to help declutter his room (I’ve been wanting to do it for MONTHS!) so I was very excited about that. He got rid of so much stuff and has a ton of room in his closet now. I also made some soup for the week, DD made banana bread and I got about a 1/2 hour to relax before bed 🤷♀️.
Btw - why do I get so much more done when DH isn’t here??
I woke up at 1 am with a horrible puking migraine. My migraines are thankfully not usually to that level, but this was so bad if I didn’t fall asleep I was going to make DH take me to the ER for a shot (since I couldn’t keep meds down). Thankfully I fell asleep so we didn’t have to wake DD and all that would go with it. But it is still messing with me bad today.
Saturday was crazy. Belt test, gymnastics, soccer game, birthday party, taking DS to the comic book store to spend his toothfairy money (he's now lost both his front teeth and is SO CUTE).
So Sunday we just chilled and it was awesome. I decorated pumpkins with the kids, they painted pictures, and we watched movies and then DS did his homework while DD traced letters in a work book. It was so cute!
Monday is mondaying over here. I have had worse though. Weekend was great on Saturday and so so on Sunday. DH was out of town. DS and DD were exceptionally needy.
We had a busy weekend. I did some early Christmas shopping Saturday morning all alone! Sunday the weather turned nice so we did leaves, pulled the garden, cleaned off the patio, laundry, winterized the patio/sprinklers. I made goulash for the week, roasted a pumpkin for pumpkin puree, had roasted chicken, and made stuff peppers for the freezer. It was a good weekend.
DH is working OOT this week. He hardly ever works OOT for multiple days that require staying over. DH, his boss, and coworker are all going on this job. Dh has no idea if he is leaving Tuesday after work or Wednesday early morning, where they are staying, if company is paying for meals, etc. I was pretty annoyed as I needed to grocery shop but ended up not because I have no idea if DH needs meal stuff all week. They are going to a little logging town so not much you can just run off and grab super fast and DH already barely has time to eat on his normal days. So I may be making a rushed grocery run tonight.
We had a good weekend. On Saturday, our last soccer game of the season was cancelled because the fields were flooded. So we met up with my parents to find Christmas outfits for the kids. DD ended up with a green velvet dress and the boys have matching outfits with green velvet vests, white dress shirt, and black pants. We got them all for $65 at Macy's. Then we went to my parents' place and had dinner. I helped my mom decipher some of my dad's medical records. He has been trying to get full disability from the VA for the past 5 years. They have been playing this game of asking for more information. So my mom is trying to be proactive and put together all of the info for their lawyer. My dad has really bad arthritic ankles from an accident in the navy and has had 3 tumors in his neck/brain, which may be related to his service. He already collects SS disability, so I don't understand why the VA says he is not 100% disabled. He hasn't been able to work in 6+ years. On Sunday, DD and DS1 played outside almost all day in the beautiful sunshine. I took DS2 to the grocery store with me. Then we just relaxed at home all day. I watched cheesy 80s movies (like Adventures in Babysitting) while DH played on his computer. DS2 even took a 2 hour nap! Then we had pancakes for dinner and watched 'the funny show' (aka America's Funniest Home Videos). It was such a relaxing day!
The thing that cracks me up is DD was transformed - she doesn’t look like this on the daily. She’s in athleisure or golf skirts and caps and that’s it. It’s like she’s a different person for formals.
2chatter, my sister was like that and still is. When she puts the time and energy into herself she is drop dead gorgeous but her everyday looks is very plain Jane and during high school it was sweats and sweatshirt as it was easy to throw on after swim practice in the morning when she only had 15 minutes to shower and get to school.
polecat8- the VA isn’t looking at all disability. They are looking at only the portion of disability that is related to service. So they may say yes to the ankle but no to the tumors without more proof.
Update: My interview went very well! He liked the fact that I have an LLC, and wants me to put together a proposal for a project, rather than hire me as an employee. If it goes well, we will talk about a monthly retainer.
Best possible outcome - I will work remote on my own schedule to meet the deadlines I set. Yay!!
I sent ds1s bday party invites late last night and already have 11 yes rsvps. I’m so happy he has friends. . DH and I are wallflowers so I like that he’s “a fun kid” per his teachers. And I like that he still wants to invite girls. He had 40 kids on the list and we had to whittle it down to 25. He had a hard time but was okay with it in the end.