sofamonkey is your house in a location you want to be in? If so I say grab the sledgehammer!
Not only is it where we want to be, but we’re only looking at places super close to here. Hahaha! I think we’ll end up demo’ing and redoing the entire upstairs.
sofamonkey, I’m sure it will be sucky to live through, but it definitely sounds like remodeling is the right call.
I took a nap. No idea how long I slept. I’m still kind of sleepy and also a little bored. Reading isn’t holding my interest. I kind of want to go do something, but I’m not sure what.
Post by maudefindlay on Jul 2, 2022 20:07:40 GMT -5
The concert was so fun last night. Only a partial negative that BNL played too many new songs. Toad and Gin Blossoms gave us what we came for. The new BNL songs were good, but wish they'd done 3 instead of 5 or 6.
Don't drink and watch Stranger Things. DD loves this show and has watched the previous seasons multiple times, please don't mention Bob, she has many thoughts. Anyhow her bday is always over fall break and I may have booked an overnight stay at a hotel with a Stranger Things suite. She is going to love it. One room is the Byers' living room with Christmas lights etc and the other room is Mike's basement. The boys love the show too, so will be a fun night in October.
Post by HRH Queen Dick I on Jul 2, 2022 20:12:06 GMT -5
I spoke to the Internet and it said that you could get the last of your lotion from the bottom of the stupid fucking big bottle by heating water in the microwave and placing the bottle in the water to soften the lotion. IT WORKS.
All of our flights were entirely uneventful! The airport was crowded, but we got there 2 hrs early and had 30 minutes to grab something to eat before boarding.
I need to get up and get dressed for family photos soon. It kind of looks like it’s going to rain and if they try to reschedule for super early tomorrow morning (the only other possible time everyone is here) I am going to be so pissed.
I asked DS1 if he wanted to go for a hike with me and he (surprisingly) enthusiastically agreed. So we went and did a two mile hike together! The weather was nice. Enough cloud cover that it wasn't super hot. It felt good to get out and do something and he really seemed to enjoy himself.
I need to get him in bed and then I plan to read and try to go to bed early.
Were up visiting my parents and extended family at a lake house. It’s great to see everyone, but the cooking has been very unorganized leading to dinner being SUPER late (like 8:30-9, when I’m used to eating at like 7) and aside from being really hard on my kid, it’s been messing with all of our sleep quality. Vacations are supposed to mean more sleep, not less!!! Maybe I’ll get a nap in the hammock today if it’s not too hot.
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
I don’t know about “adamantly opposed” but definitely weary. I’d have to know and trust the other parents really well. And also, then I feel like we’d have to reciprocate, and I hate the idea of having someone else’s child in my house overnight.
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
I am generally not in favor but my kids love them so we do them occasionally.
Well, it wasn't as crazy as I feared it might be, but the grocery store fucked up what they charged me. For some very stupid reason, this manager decided to have the guy checking me out go on break right as he was done ringing up my order, but before I paid. I hadn't put in my loyalty card yet, so the total was all the standard prices. She basically voided the order, then opened a new ticket with just the total. Since there was nothing left to scan, when I did put in my loyalty card, it didn't apply to anything the guy had rung up.
I went to customer service and the guy was like "short of ringing everything back up, there's nothing I can do. What do you think you would have saved?" How the fuck am I supposed to know? He tried to offer me $20, ended up giving me $40. I just plugged everything I think I bought in online and they definitely owe me another $20. I am so irritated.
Something similar happened to me before (although it was that the system went down before I could pay. They saved the total so I could have checked out with the total, but without applying my Target circle benefits (I grocery shop at Target and had a lot of stuff that had circle offers) and they were like the only way to get the circle offers to apply is to re-ring everything, so I actually made them do that. I was glad I did because I did save about $50 from it.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Jul 3, 2022 7:31:27 GMT -5
My plan for today is to take the dogs on a hike on a trail to a creek where dogs are allowed off-leash. We used to take my older dog there all the time and it was literally her favorite thing in the world to romp in the creek (and my kids are pretty happy to skip rocks and look for minnows and crayfish), but we've only taken my other dog, who is a lab, once when she was a little puppy because the logistics of walking both dogs on the trail is harder than I imagined (I actually keep them on leash until we get to the creek, I know there are differing opinions about off-leash dogs, but at least this is a well-known off-leash dog trail where you know you are likely to be approached by a gross soaking wet dog if you are walking on it!). ANYWAY, my lab loves water, so we decided to make it work to take them both today and I'm super excited to see how much she loves playing in the creek. I'm sure I won't be excited to come home and bathe them after, but hopefully it'll be worth it!
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
If I know the family well, then we are fine with it. K has had sleepovers with his best friend, a little girl whose mom is also my best friend, on numerous occasions. He’s also slept over at another bestie’s house, a little boy whose mom I know well. We always have the gun discussion ahead of time, too. Both of these families we knew very well before the pandemic.
N hasn’t had any sleepovers because I haven’t had a chance to get to know the families of the kids he’s close with. He’s always invited with the little girl friend K has and K and the girl and her older brother are awesome about including N. N isn’t really interested in sleepovers yet, because he still feels like he needs to have access to us at night.
We are with friends this weekend. The place we are renting is apparently the owner's primary residence, and my H and I are sleeping in the primary bedroom. Omg, I love the bed! Usually I sleep poorly when I travel but I seriously am going to message the host and find out what kind of mattress it is. It doesn't shake at all when we move around and it's a good balance of firm and squishy. They also have blackout curtains so it's 9am and I only just woke up a little while ago.
We have a couple of sightseeing things to do today and a birthday dinner scheduled. I have no idea what we are going to do tomorrow other than dinner, though. The house we are renting has a rooftop deck with views of the city skyline, so it's entirely possible we will mostly just hang out here.
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
I feel like we’d have to reciprocate, and I hate the idea of having someone else’s child in my house overnight.
Post by blondemoment123 on Jul 3, 2022 9:46:59 GMT -5
Omg guys. DS and I were at the store yesterday and he says "Mommy! That lady has big boobies!"
I about died right there. I know she heard but thankfully kept walking. In the middle of the snack aisle wasn't where I planned to have a conversation about not commenting on people's bodies. Omg.
Omg guys. DS and I were at the store yesterday and he says "Mommy! That lady has big boobies!"
I about died right there. I know she heard but thankfully kept walking. In the middle of the snack aisle wasn't where I planned to have a conversation about not commenting on people's bodies. Omg.
Kids will always comment on people’s bodies, it’s all about how you respond to it. So a simple, “All bodies are different, son, isn’t that cool?” And then move on.
Omg guys. DS and I were at the store yesterday and he says "Mommy! That lady has big boobies!"
I about died right there. I know she heard but thankfully kept walking. In the middle of the snack aisle wasn't where I planned to have a conversation about not commenting on people's bodies. Omg.
My son asked a very non-pregnant woman who was working the drive-thru at McDonald's if she had a baby in her belly on Thursday. Liked, yelled it through the window at her. I told him that bodies come in all kinds of different shapes and different parts and that's super cool that there are so many ways to be beautiful but only after I absolutely died from embarrassment and promised myself that I'd make an appointment to get the switch fixed on his voicebox.
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
I’m surprised by the answers here. I mean, I guess I get it if you don’t know the parents of your kid’s friends, but I can’t think of anyone my kid would want to sleepover with that I don’t trust. I’m excited for him to do sleepovers. I loved that as a kid. And I don’t mind reciprocating. I’ll just throw them in the basement with a movie and snacks.
Well, it wasn't as crazy as I feared it might be, but the grocery store fucked up what they charged me. For some very stupid reason, this manager decided to have the guy checking me out go on break right as he was done ringing up my order, but before I paid. I hadn't put in my loyalty card yet, so the total was all the standard prices. She basically voided the order, then opened a new ticket with just the total. Since there was nothing left to scan, when I did put in my loyalty card, it didn't apply to anything the guy had rung up.
I went to customer service and the guy was like "short of ringing everything back up, there's nothing I can do. What do you think you would have saved?" How the fuck am I supposed to know? He tried to offer me $20, ended up giving me $40. I just plugged everything I think I bought in online and they definitely owe me another $20. I am so irritated.
Something similar happened to me before (although it was that the system went down before I could pay. They saved the total so I could have checked out with the total, but without applying my Target circle benefits (I grocery shop at Target and had a lot of stuff that had circle offers) and they were like the only way to get the circle offers to apply is to re-ring everything, so I actually made them do that. I was glad I did because I did save about $50 from it.
I forgot to get pickles for DS1, so I’m going to go back over there today and make them give me the rest of it. I’m still annoyed the way it happened. The onus shouldn’t be on me to make it right.
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
We don’t do sleepovers and it always surprises people.
Are most parents opposed to sleepovers? I stumbled across a FB group for my county, and the amount of people who are adamantly opposed to sleepovers surprised me.
We don’t do sleepovers and it always surprises people.