I'm bracing myself for an insane week. School starts Wednesday and we have so many things to cram in on top of that. Meet the teacher events, haircuts, swim team practice, 504 meeting, dentist appointment... It's going to be pure chaos around here. On top of it all, beau's son is ramping up bad behavior, attitude, and lots of tears over every little thing. I'm sure it's because of the anxiety of going back to school after being remote for so long, so I'm trying to cut him some slack. But it's exhausting on top of everything else. I also found out his teacher is going to be going out on maternity leave pretty shortly after the school year starts. So total inconsistency with a long term sub for his first year back in person. Fingers crossed it goes well. I also think exh's fiance may have been admitted or something again. But of course, he would never tell me the details. The girls mentioned that some man came and got her to go to a therapy place. Ugh.
We are quickly losing control of the dad situation. At this point he is just straight up being a jerk to me and my sister. He has "gaps" but thinks he is fine and wants to be in control of his life. He wants to go back to his friends in Columbia. Thing is, he only has 2 friends and both want him in the US because they can't take care of him and the medical system is better here. His other "friends" are 20 year old women that date him for his money and then break up with him, and none of them were around during his medical crisis because of course not. My sister is about ready to tell him to F off and she won't help him anymore. Since I talked to him also, and he was being very difficult, I can see her point of view and I can definitely see it happening because he has a very abrasive jerk personality. He was nicer when he was confused, and now that he is mostly better (not totally) he is back to being his jerky self. So that's super fun.
My parents are very healthy physically and in their early-mid 70's. Dementia runs on my dad's side. Both are very intelligent, but right-winged nuts. Their conspiracy theories are ramping up in a big way. I don't know if I should start to be worried about them, or if they're just watching too much crazy news. I don't care that they spout that nonsense off to me, but they're now bringing their grandkids into it. It's my sister's kids right now, and 3 out of 4 are able to kind of roll their eyes and walk away. But the 4th is in 8th grade - old enough to get what they're saying, but not old enough to brush it off. It's becoming problematic, to the point that I don't want my kids spending time with them if they start in with this nonsense.
School starts this week. Club soccer practice has ramped up, but no game schedule is available yet. No rec soccer schedule. No rec field hockey schedule. I'm trying to get DD1's tutor lined up but since I don't have practice schedules for rec sports, and I don't have game schedules for anything, it's really hard to nail down the tutor times.
I'm getting excited for my new job. I have so many ideas. I'm just really excited to use my brain on the regular.
Weekend was okay. My anxiety level is much better now that we made the decision on school for DD. We did a bunch of little yard projects. I made pizza sauce for the first time yesterday from tomatoes in my garden. I already canned a bunch of whole tomatoes and found a whole box of tomato juice from last year but I picked a lug of tomatoes from my 6 plants on Saturday. My mom makes homemade pizza all the time so I'm going to have her be my test subject.
This week is going to be busy. I should be getting emails from DD's teacher and school about zoom meet the teacher, schedules, and a few other odds and ends that they didn't go over in the 5 page document they sent on Friday.
My mom has a caregiver starting today!!! It's only for 4 hours a day, but it's better than nothing. And since the first 90 days are entirely out of pocket, it's easier to swallow 4 hours @ $32/hour than 8+. I just hope it works out. My mom was pissed about the idea, but I mentioned to her that the doctor said she needs a full-time caregiver and that we were "cheating the system" to get the doctor off her back. She seemed okay with that. She really does need a full-time caregiver, but we STILL haven't been refunded our deposit on the assisted living community, oldest sister is UGH, and insurance says 4 hours. I'm hopeful that once the full neurology workup comes back that they'll adjust it to more and/or we can all (sisters, I'm assuming mom won't) agree to assisted living/memory care.
We had a date night Friday that was really nice. Went to our favorite Italian place, and then to the movies. I usually limit myself to one cocktail, but I had two. AND we split a glass of moscato with dessert. It felt weird having no responsibility. Also we had the babysitter make two loaves of PBJ sandwiches after the kids went to bed, so I'm calling it a success.
The smoke here has been hit or miss. Friday was really bad. Saturday, soccer was cancelled due to air quality, and DS was super allergy boy... chalked it up to smoke an didn't think twice about it. By Sunday... he had a cough to go along with the itchy eyes and runny nose. It seems like Kaiser is no longer testing for covid on the weekends, so we got him a test with the county since I know school won't let him in without one.. it's negative, thankfully, but he'll be home with us today and potentially more of the week as well.
Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 30, 2021 11:30:45 GMT -5
My weekend was good. Saturday, Beau went riding so DS and I went to our local farmers market and grocery shopping. I ran into my high school band teacher who recently retired after 40 years of teaching. Beau picked up his grandson on the way home and we played with the kids Saturday night and Sunday morning before taking them clothes shopping. We dropped off his grandson and came home to relax for the rest of the evening.
Post by traveltheworld on Aug 30, 2021 12:11:19 GMT -5
We took a weekend trip with our bubble families and it was really nice. We hired our old nanny and her friend to watch the kids Saturday nigbt so that all of the adults can go out for a nice dinner, and it was so good to just sit, chat, drink wine and enjoy good food without having to worry about the kids.
I'm taking today and tomorrow off from work to just catch up and get the house / our lives ready for the school year.
Weekend was good. We didn’t do anything and that was nice. I managed to throw out my back on Saturday and it hurts like hell. I am supposed to start work tomorrow and the idea that I am going to sit in the meetinghouse on 100 year old pews for 4 hours in meetings is laughable right now. I should probably let my boss know…
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
My dad just told me my mom is sick. Coughing, headache, runny nose and two of the neighbors she sees on a daily basis have COVID. She is refusing to get tested at this point. I just told him she won't see DD until she gets a negative test and has no symptoms.
She is supposed to supervise online school the 9th when I have jury duty and the 16-18 while I'm at convention. I'm now freaking out. DD could stay home but she hasn't stayed home more than a few hours and I feel weird leaving her alone the 2nd day of school.
Besides going to the beach Saturday, which was really fun, we mostly hung out at home. Of course, I hit a new daily move goal on my Apple watch after just "hanging at home" yesterday, given the ages of the kids DD's first required covid test came back negative, so she's in school today, but I get to take 1.5 hours out of my afternoon today to go get her the second PCR test required.
Our town just announced that they have to delay the high school start by at least a week due to damage to the electrical system. The school was built in 1970 and none of the equipment was ever replaced. It was repaired in 2009 and replacement was recommended then. Now they have no choice, there’s a shortage of everything, but they’re saying a 1 week delay.
No way they open next week.
I sent the article to DH and reminded him that this is why we are paying tuition. He’s the one that wants to live in this town, and the public schools are literally crumbling. Years of neglect. Leaky roofs (2roofs blew off in storms a few years back), mold, literal rats in the cafeterias. Kids in school with no heat in winter in New England because the boiler broke. And then COVID.
Post by librarychica on Aug 30, 2021 17:14:28 GMT -5
We had a nice weekend. Pretty quiet Saturday, dropped off a birthday gift and had a short visit with my goddaughter, did a lot around the house. Sunday afternoon we had another family over for lunch and H and one half of the couple grilled kabobs so all I had to do was watch the kids swim. Then we played board games by the pool while the kids alternated between swimming and running around crazy. It was a really nice afternoon.
Apparently snuggling with the sick kid all day yesterday has resulted in a sick mom.. and because covid and WFH, I can't really justify taking an actual sick day and snuggling up and binge watching bad TV.
Post by sandandsea on Aug 30, 2021 18:05:06 GMT -5
Apparently my teenaged nephew has Covid. And my brother and his wife are Covid deniers that drive me crazy. I pray they all come out of this okay but want to smack my brother for being dumb. Which is par for the course. Ugh.
ETA. And my brother just got tested because of my nephews positive and he “had allergies and felt bad last week” and is also confirmed positive. He swears he’s feeling better now because heaven forbid Covid actually make someone sick. And they had prayed about the vaccine and just didn’t feel it was the right thing to do. Can everyone on earth now feel my eyes rolling or just me?
Post by librarychica on Aug 30, 2021 18:41:51 GMT -5
I am so mad! So mad! Like 6:50 my email revealed to me serious work suckage and this is why I should not work late JFC! My husband is watching me warily “do you want to be held for a bit?” “No! I want to stomp around angrily. I am LIVID.”
Petty vent: we put down a deposit (half the stay) for our neighborhood. winter break vacation a week ago on a great house that backs up to a nature preserve in the mountains… in South Lake Tahoe. Assuming they magically survive the fires, I’m still not sure it will be a destination we’ll want to travel to this year with the amount of destruction the area is facing. Either way.. fingers crossed that they get this thing under control.
I feel bad about complaining about it. Because we actually know two families that LIVE in SLT and could potentially lose their homes at worst (they’re already evacuated, so lives are safe, it’s “just” “things” to worry about), but will have a long recovery for the whole area at best.
But seriously.. one half of the county is on fire and the other is flooding.
I’m in PD at school. This hour is a visual history of 325 years of my school. It was interesting for a second. It’s gotten old. And we’re only in 1884 😳
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”