This surgery center where my mom is getting her knee surgery is smaller than I was expecting. There’s just one small lobby for everyone waiting. I can see another room that was emptier through some doors and I asked if I could go in there and was told no. Whoever Mom talked to told her there was a cafeteria, but neglected to tell her it’s off limits to patients and visitors bc of COVID. There’s a TV playing game shows and no one has heard of putting their phone on silent. So many ring tones. And there is nowhere else in this town to go lol it’s so tiny. I was able to push the one meeting I need to facilitate today back to 3pm so I’m hopeful I’ll be able to be in her room by then.
Also, I slept like crap in the hotel room with her snoring last night and tonight I’m staying in her hospital room. Because the hotel we stayed at is an hour away bc again…tiny town. Lol. Lord get me through to tomorrow evening.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Jul 23, 2021 9:36:46 GMT -5
I really need a break from my kids. They're bored of me, too, but simultaneously up my butt. I haven't been alone in my house in a year and a half! I feel both restless and exhausted.
We head home today from our trip. I’m glad we still have the weekend. I’m hoping to get laundry and grocery stuff knocked out today so we can just relax this weekend. I’m traveling for work Monday and Tuesday, so really launching back in after a week off.
I hope her surgery goes well and she gets out of there quickly!
The adds on this page are showing the NKOTB and Salt n Pepa concert that is coming to my town next weekend. I am probably the only girl born in the early 80s that could not care less about NKOTB, but I love Salt n Pepa and I wish they were touring on their own because my H and I would 100% go. I don't want to pay the price of a ticket to see Salt n Pepa for only 30 minutes though.
Post by maudefindlay on Jul 23, 2021 9:43:47 GMT -5
DH and I went on a date last night to a place we have never been near our family vacation home. It is in a residential area just a few blocks from the city's downtown. We actually entered from the back gate and it was like walking into some random person's backyard, except they were very cool random people who had a live band. As we walked thru the yard up to the house a worker opened a back window and yelled to a waiter their table's order was up. The food was excellent, so delicious and the drinks were strong.
I mustered up the courage to sign up for Cerebral yesterday. My anxiety and depression have been off the charts. I was able to talk to a NP and got prescribed Zoloft. I’ve been trying to get in person help for years. It’s amazing how much quicker this process is already. I feel a huge sense of relief already just having someone listen to me.
Post by followyourarrow on Jul 23, 2021 10:10:44 GMT -5
Last night was date night. We went to a little concert venue out in the country. It was outside and there were less than 15 people there, just a guy and his guitar. It was a nice, chill evening.
Work and then heading to the beach. Weather should be beautiful, so let's just hope the ocean is ok for swimming. This time last year there was sea lice and no thank you.
Post by sproctopus on Jul 23, 2021 10:53:20 GMT -5
It's been a lot easier to get a good donut in the Midwest than getting a good Americano. Every time I ask for a very light splash of cream, they hand me a milk with ice. 🙃
Yesterday morning my terrified of dogs DS(5) met a chill 9lb therapy dog who was leashed & attached to his owner the whole time. The dog stayed a good 20+ ft away the whole time and DS took some brave steps toward him AND allowed the dog to take some steps towards him. It went ok! I did have to talk him out of the car for a good 10 minutes but he got out and faced his fear! (We planned this meeting with a dog trainer and her dog.)
We’re camping- we usually go with my sister, who has a daughter around dd’s age, but this time it’s just the four of us. I only lasted about an hour at the pool playing mermaids with dd. Ugh. Now we’re going to the playground. At least I can bring a beer!
Today I got an email from a place where I'd interviewed for a job saying they hope to decide by the end of this month. I hadn't heard from them for awhile after my on site so I'd written it off as an option. Plus I always presume I'm under qualified and that people don't like me.
So, guess I AM still in the running? For some reason this makes me nervous. Maybe it's the uncertainty. Lol.
I really need a break from my kids. They're bored of me, too, but simultaneously up my butt. I haven't been alone in my house in a year and a half! I feel both restless and exhausted.
I need to go grocery shopping, but I'm feeling lazy at the moment and I'm still lounging in bed. I at least have all my meals planned out and the list done, I just need to get dressed and go.
Then I'm going to come home, ride, and do my 200th yoga class with Peloton. I got pre-class shout outs from Aditi and Denis for 100 and 150, so I'm hoping to be 3 for 3 with Kirra. LOL. I'm a huge nerd.
I got fast tracked into the gastro after calling this morning to say I’m having a lot of pain after my scope. I wish I had taken half a Xanax. My blood pressure was 157/87 when it’s usually 118/70 or thereabouts. I feel like they wouldn’t have squeezed me in so fast if there weren’t bad news. It’s not totally irrational because they found 2 giant polyps and other smaller ones, but I’ve always gotten results on the phone and I’ve never had pain after my 2 previous ones where they also found plenty of polyps.
Today is my kids’ last day at camp and I’m sad for them that it’s over. July flew by! They had such a great time - my son with ASD did everything from laser tag to giant trampolines and ate the food they provided with 0 complaints. I’m so happy my DD also liked it. I definitely gave a generous tip.
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham
I think our area is gentrifying. When we moved in 16 years ago there was a club at the corner that had so many issues there would be a mobile police station in front of it on Friday and Saturday nights.
Then a local coffee maker opened a shop (their roastery had already been in the area). Then a book store moved in and a gift shop. There is a yoga studio half a block away. Now a record store and recording studio has moved in. Sunday they are having some open air market with 25 vendors and a kids zone.
The snowball stand/greenhouse on the other end of my street that’s been there since the 1920s now sells houseplants and gifts (and snowballs).
The people actually living here doesn’t seem to have changed (there is a new small apartment block that doesn’t seem fully rented out) but the stores sure have.
I’m not sad to have the police go but it is a change! I don’t see how some of these businesses are sustainable TBH, we don’t get a ton of foot traffic. There are another two “Main Street” areas on the same street but they are both a little too far to walk to—over a mile in both directions. The coffee shop is hopping but people are always just getting coffee and leaving. I don’t really want empty places there either!
I really need a break from my kids. They're bored of me, too, but simultaneously up my butt. I haven't been alone in my house in a year and a half! I feel both restless and exhausted.
I know exactly how you feel!!! I have no energy for more “outings” but if we stay home all day they make me crazy with the neediness.
Today at one point DS2 was screaming because I took away the tampons he got into. As he’s screaming, DS1 starts making noises. Then he tells me he’s practicing communicating with the birds so he can make an army. 😳🤔
Post by sofamonkey on Jul 23, 2021 13:29:04 GMT -5
We were supposed to go camping with our besties. Yeah Instead, my H is over an hour away while his dad is in the hospital with both heart and renal failure. He’s just going to stay up there, and we will FaceTime later. The hospital only allows 1 visitor every 24 hours, so that seems better all around.
It’s super sucky. Today, H is going to the memory care place to set up the end of life plans for him, because we won’t do any further treatment, and it’s a weeks to months thing.
The extra shitty part is I forgot to take my calendar reminders off, so it’s pinging me for tasks I was supposed to do for our trip. Not helpful, self!! Ugh and fuck this shit. ❤️🩹
Post by starburst604 on Jul 23, 2021 13:42:28 GMT -5
sofamonkey so sorry to hear that about your FIL and missing your trip.
I went to a Red Sox/Yankees game last night with friends (first one in 2 years!) and while I didn't stay for the whole game since I had a decent drive home, I'm just exhausted. Had to teach a virtual boot camp at 6:30am so I was up at 5:30am. It was a struggle but I felt better after working out, now I'm just tired and blah. End of work day can't arrive fast enough!
Whatever happened to the sock? Why are so many pairs all polyester? Or mostly synthetic materials?
Where's the cotton? (Said like, "Where's the beef?")
PDQ.
I went to the nurse practitioner and she recommended the same diagnostics that a specialist had and I went ahead and booked, but the booking isn't until the end of November!! because that was the soonest available, so I am going to try and get lesser testing in the meantime and made a call and am waiting to hear back.
Having my kids in camp this week has been awesome!!! I have been doing some landscaping maintenance--we don't have lawn/property maintenance. I put in orders for t-shirts, flip flops, beach towels, beach chairs. Did cleaning I wouldn't usually, plus normal cleaning. And I have just felt more peaceful. I didn't get to exercise or reading, which is disappointing, but I can try for better next week.
Our painter is not feeling well today, so it has just been a quiet day today, which was extra nice since I woke up with a headache. Not a bad headache at all, but just enough that I am aware of it. DH is going to call it a day after the meeting he's in is over, so that'll be nice, too...an early start to a weekend where we only have one relatively small fix on the to do list.
Even the dogs are enjoying the quiet day...I haven't seen Anja relax enough to just sleep all day in a long time. I have the windows covered, and it really has a calming effect on her.
Our daughter called last night to AW her 15 yr old, so I am going to AW him here. He took the Human Geography AP test, and his teacher called yesterday to tell her that he scored a 5 on it! The teacher was as excited about it as everyone else...he's only ever had one other student get a 5 on it.
I'm trying to do a cheap guest room makeover but can't pick a paint color. Or, the color I want probably won't really "fit" in our home.
My OB ruled out a fibroid and said that my weird periods lately are just age-related hormone changes. Which, okay, is better than a fibroid I guess. I've had crazy huge clots so I guess that's just how it is now.
Post by Leeham Rimes on Jul 23, 2021 16:31:30 GMT -5
I cannot win today. I just can’t. I ordered the wrong size soccer jerseys for Xavier, not realizing he has exploded in height and weight in the past month, so that’s $200 down the drain. Then I picked up dinner and it was awful, as all take out has been recently, so that’s $40 wasted. And I took x to the urgent care bc h was being all “he needs X-rays” and I’m all “no, it’s fine he just needs to rest”. So 2.5 hours later we got an official diagnosis of “we were lazy asses for a year and now his body is super confused playing so much soccer.”
I need ham like water Like breath, like rain I need ham like mercy From Heaven's gate Sometimes ham salad or casserole or ham that’s free range, all natural I need ham
Last night at 11:45pm so asshole set off 4-5 fireworks in the dirt/weed lots behind my house (I live in an incomplete new construction neighborhood). H went out to see if the assholes started a fire as we're in wildfire country and a single spark could've lit my entire neighborhood on fire. Thankfully no fire this time. I'm shaking with rage just thinking about it.
I spent 3 hours at the nail salon. They are thorough but dang that’s a long time. Now I’m enjoying the peace as my SIL picked up the kids while I was out.
I love the Olympics. My H recently dropped live tv and went to streaming. I can already tell watching Olympics through apps is not going to work well. We don't get all the channels, and those we do I have to go in and out of different apps instead of just switching channels between a couple different events.
My only consolation is that we are going on vacation next week. I hope they have cable.
I’m at the beach. Well, technically I’m on the boardwalk now. I brought my daughter, step daughter, and two of their friends, and I am 100% the 5th wheel LOL They still want me around though because I have the $$$
I’m planning on joining the gym tomorrow even though all of the new workout clothes I bought came in and are too big. I guess I’ve lost a bit more weight than I realized.
I love the Olympics. My H recently dropped live tv and went to streaming. I can already tell watching Olympics through apps is not going to work well. We don't get all the channels, and those we do I have to go in and out of different apps instead of just switching channels between a couple different events.
My only consolation is that we are going on vacation next week. I hope they have cable.
Could you get Sling for the month? I’m debating this as well. I want to be able to just turn on the channel and mindlessly watch whatever event is happening. Streaming is really annoying with stuff like this. I never mindlessly watch tv anymore, which is good, but it doesn’t work well with stuff like this.
DS1 felt nauseous on the way home. We figured he was just car sick, as that happens sometimes. He threw up a little bit when we got home, but then perked up and seemed fine. At dinner, he didn’t eat and went to lay down. I went to check on him when we were done and he’s running a fever and feeling nauseous again. DH just went to get a test kit, but we’ll do a PCR as well this weekend. I feel so bad for him and really hope it’s just exhaustion from our trip.