We watched the original Jaws with El last night. She was like 20% interested (and only at the shark/bloody parts) and kept leaving the room. At one point (and this was like the last half hour where the movie is all shark action) she was talking so much and being distracting we both told her to either be quiet or go take her shower. I don’t know what her deal was-we told her if she didn’t want to watch she could go do something else.
Post by notoriousmeg on Jul 9, 2021 6:42:31 GMT -5
It certainly has been a long short week. I have some difficult client conversations to get through this morning, but I hope the afternoon will be quiet. Elsa is dumping rain on us now. We got a text from our city this morning to avoid walking through flooded intersections due to raw sewage 🤢 I am very much so looking forward to my hair appointment tonight. My hair is crazy long and gray. Happy Friday!
Post by Captain Catnip on Jul 9, 2021 7:20:42 GMT -5
I didn't get paid today. No one at work did. This is the 4th time, AT LEAST, that this has happened. The owner handles it and forgets or screws it up. I'm so livid.
My H got an email with our cable bill today. First time cable has been in his name in probably a decade. Anyway, he's SCANDALIZED that it's almost $200/month.
Dude. I've been telling you this FOR YEARS. And it's actually a little cheaper at our new place than it was at our old place. But now I'm mad at myself that I didn't do this years ago, b/c today he told me "when our 1 year contract is up, cancel it. We ARE NOT paying that after this year." Well, ok then.
Post by lightbulbsun on Jul 9, 2021 7:30:43 GMT -5
H and I are both working in the office today, and poor Kiwi has to stay home alone. I really hope she's ok without our other dog. I'll go home at lunch to check on her.
This has been one of the most roller coaster weeks of my life. We found a house we love a few weeks ago (not even on the market yet) but had to wait until the seller got the "ok" from her attorney to sell (divorce issues). Got the ok 2 weeks ago. No contract, waiting, finally get it yesterday am. The day after I broke my phone, trying to fix it. Since it's a Pixel, apparnetly they're super sensitive and most repair shops won't touch them. It would be $215 to fix it, but I still have a 20 month lease on it, so I may as well just buy it out for $400 and get a cheaper one.
Being w/o MY phone trying to field all the loan people I've been shopping around with has been a nightmare. I can at least check my voicemails (I've confiscated my daughter's phone), but who knows what texts I'm missing. DS had a baseball game Wednesday, tryouts last night, and his birthday party is tonight. Tomorrow we have to go to a NOON surprise bday party for DH's boss (6 people in the whole company, so a must). Our house is NO WHERE near ready to list, so I'm having a panic attack about that. We're not contingent but still, who wants two payments for long?
Not to mention I had 2 job interviews last week, and another one just scheduled for Monday. I'm taking off every Monday and Friday for the next month to work on all of this. Especially since I came in to 2021 with 28 days vacation and don't want to lose them if I leave for a different company! Plus, other than Hawaii in October, I really don't have a need to take them otherwise.
I thought June was hectic with some things, but man alive, this is shaping up to be quite the July frenzy!
My kid came into my room, stuck his face in my face, and said “I’m sad I didn’t get to read The Gruffalo last night.” Wtf, kid. Not a good reason to wake me up. Especially before my 6:30 alarm!
I’ve had the boys in daily swim lessons for the last couple weeks. Today we’re going earlier than normal because there’s a swim meet at the neighborhood pool. I think I’m going to not take DS2 because it’s right around the time he naps at school. I’m considering taking them to another pool in the evening and having dinner there so DS2 gets to swim today too. Might be a fun way to switch it up from our usual lunchtime swimming on the weekends.
I got the steroid shots in my wrist yesterday, and I have so much relief. No excruciating pain MOTN. Even if it’s temporary, I will take it ten times over.
I realized that with everyone home all the time I rarely get any one on one time with either kid, so trying to be more intentional about that. I'm taking this afternoon off to do something fun with DD, and next week I should get back from a work trip early enough on Friday to pick DS up from his art camp and do something with him.
We've also got a fun weekend planned with hiking, the pool, going out on my parents' boat, etc. and it's making today feel loooong. I've got ONE thing I need to finish in the next 2.5 hours, a short meeting, and then I'm free. Am I finishing that one task right now? No, of course not.
[mention]jalapenomel [/mention] only liking for the wrist relief, not subway flooding. I had minor carpal tunnel when I was pregnant so I can only imagine how much pain you’ve been in. I used to wake up with tingling numb hands a few times a night.
Also I keep quoting Quinn to Ellie just to annoy her “Black eyes…Like a dolls eyes….“ 😂😂😂
Oh jeez-now I know where she gets her annoying gene from. 🤨
Randomly and whenever my son wants to do something I'm already doing (ie WORK THE REMOTE) I say, "Hooper drives the boat Chief". We all love the movie though. LOL
isabel I know this isn't the point of your post but I love The Gruffalo! Pretty sure I enjoy it far more than my kid.
Speaking of my kid, she turns 3 in less than three weeks but she keeps randomly requesting to be stuffed into her 18 month sized narwhal Halloween costume. This is the kind of weird I can get behind.
This week has felt borh very long and very short. I am looking forward to being able to sleep in on Sunday which means I'll probably wake up at 530. I am both sad and happy that my kids will be at their dad's. Nor looking forward to having ro work this afternoon when it will be very hot. My ac is on it's last legs and my home office is hot!
I'm meeting my parents and my aunt and uncle tomorrow at the casino. We'll gamble a little, have lunch, hang out. It should be fun. And it's just the right amount of time to spend with everyone before we all go our separate ways. My level of excitement for tomorrow is making finishing work today difficult.
[mention]jalapenomel [/mention] only liking for the wrist relief, not subway flooding. I had minor carpal tunnel when I was pregnant so I can only imagine how much pain you’ve been in. I used to wake up with tingling numb hands a few times a night.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Jul 9, 2021 9:25:23 GMT -5
lilafowler- Last year, my kids like REALLY watched Jaws with me for the first time. It's hands-down my favorite movie ever. So imagine my delight when Hooper goes scuba diving, finds the shark tooth, and they are intently leaning forward. BAM! Ben Gardner's head comes down and they SHRIEKED. It was all I hoped it'd be.
We like to yell "Quit playin' with yourself, Hooper!" when my two human anchors are jack-assing around.
I had blood drawn on Tuesday and have a bruise that is 2.5" in diameter. I actually measured it because it is that big! At least it is on the inside of my upper arm so it isn't super noticeable, but still, I'm sure it will take several weeks to go away.
My dog has now had 3 doses of pain meds and anti inflammatories and actually gave a little wag with her tail earlier.
We have a surprise 50th tomorrow for H's coworker to attend and am now scrambling trying to figure out a gift. I'm thinking I can't go wrong with alcohol
I just found out that I didn't get the job I interviewed for last week, which in retrospect is probably a good thing. I'm really not ready to leave the classroom behind permanently, and it turns out that the school I interviewed with is undergoing a leadership change right now and I suspect I'd be walking into a hot mess there.
Post by georgeharrison on Jul 9, 2021 9:56:58 GMT -5
Captain Catnip, how do you "forget" to pay people? This is the weirdest thing. How are you supposed to, you know, live (pay bills, eat, etc.) if you don't know for sure that you are going to get a paycheck?
I'm in Texas. My son's girlfriend lives here, so I brought him down for the weekend (about a 4 hour drive). I'm working from the AirBnB. I just got back from a trip five days ago, so I'm very tired. I'm thankful that a lot of people at work are on vacation, so it hasn't been very busy.
Next week, my son is going to this Engineering "camp" thing at the local university. He will stay on campus the whole week. It is going to be weird having the house to myself during the day. He has been home for so long! He's going to be a junior this year and he's freaking out a little bit because he has no idea what he wants to do as a career. I think it's really lame that there is so much pressure on high school kids to know exactly what they want to do for the rest of their lives. I am trying to make sure he has exposure to a lot of different things, but also letting him know that it's okay to not know what his career path is...at FIFTEEN, for crying out loud!
Today's my anniversary- 15 years! we went out for a nice lunch yesterday and will go out for dinner with our daughter tonight. I want to watch our wedding video, too. I can't believe it's been 15 years. It hasn't always been an easy ride, but I'm grateful for my husband and our marriage.
I have been working out and eating better for 20 weeks now. I do feel better but I don’t seem to lose weight very easily. It’s very hard to stay motivated since I need to lose 50 lbs. But this morning I sent a text to a friend to wish her happy birthday and she replied, thanks, it’s going to be a good year-I’m down 36 lbs. I said Great! Tell me how so I can do it! She’s been walking a mile a day and cut beer consumption in 1/2. Sigh. I wanted to cry.
lilafowler- Last year, my kids like REALLY watched Jaws with me for the first time. It's hands-down my favorite movie ever. So imagine my delight when Hooper goes scuba diving, finds the shark tooth, and they are intently leaning forward. BAM! Ben Gardner's head comes down and they SHRIEKED. It was all I hoped it'd be.
We saw the movie at the theater when it first came out (of course we did...there was no other way to see a movie in the olden days-lol), and at that part everyone in the theater jumped back and screamed, and then we all laughed at ourselves.
When I jumped back I hit the inside of my wrist on the armrest, and hit a nerve. I had issues with it for years...we called it my shark related injury.
I’m excited to actually have plans this weekend lol. Sunday we are taking a duck boat tour with my cousins and aunts and mom. It should be fun.
On another note, my STBX responded to the divorce summons. I had put October of last year as the date of the marriage breakdown. That’s when he told me he didn’t love me anymore. He denied that date and put his own. He chose the date our daughter was born. I just can’t deal with him. And my heart is absolutely broken that I picked such a lousy father for my sweet little girl