Last Monday of the decade!

[callmekd]

Hope it’s a good week!

[mae0111]

My week is starting off quietly. DH and the kids are stuck at his mom’s due to an ice storm. So I will continue my cleaning/purging projects around the house and start prepping for NY Eve with friends. It’s been a nice break having the house to myself, but I miss everyone.

[covergirl82]

I'm in the office today and then off T - Th and then WFH on Friday. Should be a quiet week, so hopefully I can catch up on a couple things on the days I'm working.

My aunt who has cancer met with hospice yesterday. I don't have any other details yet, but my dad's family is getting together for our usual NYE family gathering, so I'll know more tomorrow. My dad said on Christmas when we were together that she wasn't doing well, but I wasn't expecting to hear 3 days later that she was going to start hospice care. So I'm sad about that. She is only 71 and has two daughters who are about my age. She has one grandson who is 13. She did outlive her original prognosis of 6 months by around 1.5 years (so 2 years total since diagnosis).

Tomorrow morning and Thursday I'm going to try and tackle some decluttering projects around the house.

[twinmomma]

I'm dealing with the ice storm too mae0111, plus the added layer of snow we're getting hit with. It's gross. Made it into the office today but the 20-30 minute drive took me an hour and the storm had barely started. The drive home will be a nightmare, but I don't have to pick up the kids so I can just take my time and it'll take whatever it takes. Tomorrow is looking just as bad, so I'll probably end up using some more vacation time or WFH hours to avoid the drive. Not ideal after being off all last week, but it is what it is.

I'm looking forward to New Year's Eve with beau. We're supposed to be spending the night down in the city doing something. Haven't decided exactly what yet. So far our options include watching the fireworks on the river, going out to a bar/restaurant with friends, or playing board games with his sister. So we're all over the place and have no real plan. I'm just hoping the snow lets up enough for us to drive down there easily.

[186momx]

It should be a busy week for me as normally end of month/beginning of the month is busy plus it is year end. But saying that I'm sitting with nothing pressing to be done. I have a feeling I will be spending my day waiting for payrolls to come in, ugh.

My dad and business partner is finally supposed to be getting his roof done. It was originally scheduled early October but has been delayed due to bad weather. The roofers called and said they were starting today so I'm waiting to see if dad shows up because they cancel or if I get to spend the week working alone. Nice part is that DD is with papa since he is just chilling at home instead of with me at work.

I was a super lazy sloth all weekend and it felt really nice and I could have easily continued being said sloth. DH wasn't happy and kept trying to get DD and I to get dressed to go hiking or shopping or just to go out and wander and we both were like nope we are comfy in our new comfy blanket sweaters.

[supertrooper1]

Beau and I had a blast at the dive bar concert we went to on Saturday. We had a good laugh watching his security camera footage of us coming back to his place after too.

I work all week except for New Year's Day. No big NYE plans here. I might not even be able to stay up until midnight.

[mae0111]

DD1 just texted to say that they are on their way home. So DH has decided to brave the ice storm and drive what is normally 5+ hours home.

If only there was some way he could have known that the storm was coming, other than the 10,000 weather reports and 7,639 texts from me telling him that THERE WAS AN ICE STORM COMING which is taking the path of his route home.

🙄🙄

So he will be super annoyed that his 5+ hour ride home took 8+ hours. Again... if only there was some way he could have prepared...

[mae0111]

twinmomma - good luck today! I’m south and close to the coast, so we weren’t really supposed to get any ice, but it’s been sleeting all morning and everything is covered in ice. DH’s route home basically follows the path of the storm, so that should be a great ride home for him.

[k3am]

We got back into town last night. We did not make it to the store, and are missing key things like jelly and milk. The world is ending for my children. They have to do hot lunch at school, and neither one of them eat anything they serve for hot lunch. Suck it up, jerkheads.

I took Thursday and Friday off. Stuff was NOT supposed to happen on Thursday or Friday, but unfortunately, clients emailed, and my coworkers tried to help out. I have one coworker who could have jumped in and handled it seamlessly.. but she was in the hospital and still isn't doing well. So now I'm trying to pick up the pieces, figure out what they did/didn't do, and try to process a client acquisition, two new client boardings, and close out as much as I can by year end. It's not going well.

[waverly]

Yup Mondayist of Mondays here. Co-worker called me to complain about something my boss wanted. I emailed the person in charge of the project to get clarification, and no response from coworker from my follow up (of course).

Other co-worker and people complaining about another co-worker. She is one of those people where no one can figure out what she did all day as in doing unnecessary things, very slow pace for absolutely no reason. She works 30 hours, and it is probably a job that takes 15 hours a week and she is behind. People are doing her work while she is on leave, and are more on top of it fitting in an hour or 2 here or there than she is doing it 30 hours, and she has anger management issues. I'm actually not sure how she got hired, and boss is looking at her like she is awesome and lets do more training. I don't think that will actually work out. I need to hire a super star rather than train her up is my guess (I have someone retiring) because we can't process items with her super slow pace. I enjoy some of the cataloging but not the management of people in taking on this new department.

[rere]

I got both my trees down and am taking a break. The kids are basically immobile. They are going to have a hard time when school starts.

I am highly annoyed with Dh. The plan was for NYE for us to go to a party. DS is going to an 18th bday next door. I was going to take advantage of him being there and have some drinks. Well now his party is a sleepover and he cant be out without parents after 12. So now I will drive or stay home NBD. Well Dh is being an ass. He somehow thinks it is DSs obligation to drive his drinking ass around. No. You are 48. He is 16. You had your time. We are not making a 16 year old miss out to drive his drunken dad around. It's not appropriate. Grow up Dh. He was off for 2 week and thinks everything is a celebration. I'm glad he is working. I dont know why he pitched a 2 year old fit anyway. I am the one driving. I'd rather start my NY feeling great anyway.

[186momx]

Good for you rere,! My in-laws did this to DH from the time he got his permit till way after we were married. Truthfully DH hadn't even had alcohol before he meet me. I asked about his 21st b-day and he was like I had to be DD for my parents. DH also finds this to be perfectly normal life when in reality it isn't.

[shakinros]

We put our 20yo cat to sleep today. It was the right choice but still so sad. He was very sweet. I’m glad we all have two more days off to recover before school/work starts again.

[traveltheworld]

I'm off all week. We are heading back to our home city tomorrow, then it's off to our annual ski trip. It's only 3 days, but I look forward to it so much. Our friends from our home city and friends from our current city will be joining us, so we'll have 3 families and 5 kids skiing - should be a blast!

[sdlaura]

shakinros I’m sorry for your loss! Our dog is 14 and I’m sad that this was very likely his last Christmas.

My kids are still off for another week so I’m still at my parents’ on the east coast with them. They’re having a blast with their cousins but it’s now been a week+ of no routine and different time zone. I fly back with them tomorrow and then we’ll pay our babysitter to watch them Thurs/Fri/Mon so we can both work. DH went back Sunday so we wouldn’t both miss as much work.

[covergirl82]

shakinros, I'm sorry for your loss! That is a hard decision to make. Our German Shepherd is 13.5 and like sdlaura's dog, I think has seen her last Christmas. DH and I struggle with deciding when is the right time. I would prefer if she would just not wake up one morning so that we don't have to make that decision.

[xctsclrx]

Back at work after 10 days off. I was smart this time and allocated an hour a day to shift through email and didn't come back to a huge pile of work!!! Helps it was a dead week.

[sdlaura]

covergirl82 I just read an article about pets and end of life. I wish that would be how our dog goes too, but I guess it’s super rare.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/well/family/pet-dog-cat-death-euthanasia.amp.html

[shakinros]

Thanks sdlaura and covergirl82.

TW: more discussion of pet death.

We actually had a cat die in her sleep once, 10yrs ago or so. I didn’t read the article linked but gotta say: for us, it was horrible. We woke up not expecting it, the cat had passed overnight, while laying on the couch. Bodily fluids everywhere (since the muscles relax and let go). Do not recommend. Scheduled euthanasia was hard but I much prefer to not have the shock of the other way.

So sorry to both of you that the time is coming nearer. I hope your dogs have many fun times before then!