I’m one week in to my No Dairy Experiment. The redness on my face has improved dramatically. Of course I’m happy that something is finally helping, but why does it have to be dairy? Ugh. RIP my cheese habit.
On a different note, I have a job interview this morning, so if anyone want to send me good vibes that it goes well and I get hired, please feel free
Post by georgeharrison on Mar 6, 2023 9:08:55 GMT -5
@sameoldstory, best of luck in your interview. It's nice that it's in the morning.
I have my annual wellness exam in an hour and a half and I am dreading it. I need a pelvic exam this year and I'd just rather not.
The IRS "where's my refund" says that our return is taking longer than usual to process. Anyone else getting this? Our taxes were pretty straight forward this year. The only weird thing is that I started working for a company in NYC and had to pay state tax in both NY and AR. I don't know why that would impact my federal. We already got the NY refund.
It was a really fun weekend- very cool field trip w/ DD's GS troop on Saturday, I won the people's choice award at the church chili cook off (lol), we got to see one of DS's paintings in our local art league's winter student show, and did ice cream and our local indie bookstore. I managed about an hour reading on the porch after everything on Sunday, but otherwise there was zero downtime. Very glad to be WFH today.
After the field trip, I think I'm ready to be a troop leader again. I took a break over the three years DD was a Cadette since that troop already had a solid leadership team, and before that I did her Daisy/Brownie troops and two more years as a Brownie leader for a troop I didn't have a kid in. I'm actually looking forward to being a co-leader for her Senior/Ambassador troop at this point. There are also rumors I'm going to be asked to be a service unit manager; that one I'm not as sure I'm ready to say yes to....
Post by maudefindlay on Mar 6, 2023 9:24:55 GMT -5
Dd made it on the podium for our divisional championships in swimming. So fun to see her medal after all her hard work. Love the kids in her club, they are so supportive of each other and genuinely get excited when teammates place even if they didn't. It's a real team mentality.
Those following the private school trying to get started in my city, here's an update. I saw my first bumper sticker for them today, Patriot mascot and all. They plan to open in August and have been looking for a building for over a year. Our city just denied their request for a building citing it is in an industrial area and would impact traffic flow and it is in a flood plain. The head of this school argued there are other local schools in flood plains, but the board pointed out that no structures nor drives/traffic ways are in flood plains, whereas for this proposed site both are in flood plains. The building is situated between warehouses and has sat empty and unused for years. It's over 50 years old and was mainly a gas company. All that to say it needs a lot of work and the site is only 1.4 acres, no room for a playground. With 5 months minimal chance they can get materials to make a facility ADA compliant. No way they can get playground structures, not sure if they plan to have a cafeteria, but yeesh. They have 21 kids enrolled and hope for 80 by start of the year. Hillsdale College is paying the head of the schools salary and they will teach Hillsdale's hateful curriculum. Teachers will "maybe" be licensed, likely 50% will be and that will be for elementary. They say it is more important the person instructing love the subject and the students. It will be teacher centered, not student and no group projects. Good grief. Also when asked about ESL students and those needing special education they stated "We're not set up for that, bit there are other options for those folks locally". Eta Also, multiple sex offenders in very close proximity to that proposed site.
We had a busy and fun weekend - yesterday I got over 20,000 steps 😳 and now my body hurts. Tonight/tomorrow are Purim and will be crazy busy and exhausting as well, and I’m only mostly ready for the holiday. I’m debating canceling my work day and working from home and finishing my holiday prep. Yesterday I baked 5 dozen triple chocolate hamantashen - I’m excited to package them and give them out!!
Morning. I am full of anxiety today because DS and I have dentist appointments at 1:30. First, I have anxiety about DS behaving at the appointment (he's usually fine but we had one rough appointment when he was younger that has scarred me for life apparently). I also have anxiety about everything being okay for me. I've only ever had 1 cavity but I've had a lot of other odd issues. I dealt with gum recession on a tooth 10 years ago and had to get a graft, and I know that I now have another tooth where recession is increasing. I don't think it's at graft level yet though. I see a periodontist yearly so it's all monitored but I'm afraid that I will go to the dentist today and he'll tell me its awful and I need to get in there ASAP or something. This also just feels very unfair because I take meticulous care of my teeth- brushing, flossing, waterpiking, and I even go 3 times a year for cleanings instead of 2. What did I do to deserve shitty gums?!
Anyway, I'll def be taking a 1/2 xanax before the appointment lol. And I promised DS frozen yogurt after if he's good, which will be a reward for me as well lol. At least we're getting this out of the way early in the week.
We spent yesterday cleaning out the shed for the electrician to run everything today for the pool. So much crap in there, despite us cleaning it out somewhat regularly. Have a bunch of stuff for buy nothing that I'm slowly putting up.
Today they are doing the pool electrical and I have an Industry Day thing for work I have to listen in on.
candreco I’m an SU manager for 3 combined service areas.
Just say no, lol.
It goes beyond volunteering. I have people mistaking me for an employee. I’m looking forward to the end of my term.
Ugh, I absolutely know better. My mom was a SUM when I was growing up, I've been at enough SU meetings and know the current SUMs well enough to get the full picture of the battiness of Council, and yet. I'm really 50/50 on whether I say yes at this point.
So it snowed last night. Only an inch or so, however school is delayed 2 hours. The district stretches into a more rural area that definitely got more than an inch so thankfully they error on the side of caution.
nancybotwin my neighbor texted me earlier that she's going to drop some homemade hamentaschen later. Is there a greeting for Purim (ie: the equivalent of Merry Christmas) that I should say to her when I see her?
I made progress on my decluttering projects. I made a good dent in my & DH's closet on Saturday. I still have some work to do there, but I feel like I'm over halfway done now with that space. DH, who does not like clutter, is happy that I'm making progress. I'm hoping to be at least 90% done with the various spaces I need to go through by mid-April.
DH bought DS (13.5 years old) an electric razor and helped him shave yesterday for the first time. I wish time would slow down!
@sameoldstory, good luck!!
maudefindlay, I liked your post for your DD's swimming accomplishment.
I'm supposed to be hosting an UNO tournament this morning, but DS 2 just popped a positive Covid test so now I'm staying home with him. My aide is awesome and will do a great job of running things in my absence, but in addition to worrying about my kid I'm really bummed to be missing the first day of an event I've been planning for two months now.
Thankfully DS is only mildly sick. I think the biggest challenge will be keeping him from getting horribly bored while he's out of school.
We also got 6" of snow overnight and none of the districts even called a late start. Nothing says "record-breaking snow year" more than starting school on time after an unexpected overnight storm.
Post by gretchenindisguise on Mar 6, 2023 10:01:18 GMT -5
Sending you good thoughts @sameoldstory!
Our school is having a live auction and one of the items is for 1 hour of college prep consultation. I bid on it and it made me want to cry. L starts high school next year, and I figure while it's early, I haven't even begun to wrap my brain around college these days and having some knowledge early will be good. but my baby!
Post by gretchenindisguise on Mar 6, 2023 10:03:08 GMT -5
Also - we have friends from out of town coming to visit on Friday so we finally fixed the toilet in the kid's bathroom. It's been broken for months and months. It took us about 30 minutes. Why do we do this to ourselves?
And finally - I'm staunchly avoiding Last of Us spoilers and resisting the urge to go into the thread below. I'm hoping I can convince H to watch it tonight.
I am 4 days post first chemo treatment for breast cancer. I had it in my head that I was going to breeze right through this. I’ve always been strong and healthy, rarely ever had so much as a cold. Not the case. This is hard. Bone pain is no joke. I still can’t believe this is happening.
This weekend just flew by. I'm not ready for Monday yet! Our cleaners are coming in an hour or so and I need to figure out if I'm ordering groceries or going out and getting them myself after work today. I should have figured this out yesterday but got lazy.
Our neighbors are still being loud AF with their hosting events and using microphones. I am 99% sure they are running a church out of their home. The HOA sent a message to them but if they are ignoring it there may be a limit to what else they can do. I'm hoping it's against the city rules to do this and they can be asked to move it elsewhere. We actually live in a really great community with both community centers you can rent AND interfaith centers (not sure how those work) so I'm not sure why they can't hold the stuff there - I am guessing it's money but the rental at the community center isn't very costly (like $25 an hour, I looked). I also need to go over there and talk to them, but they speak very little English and I speak very little Spanish so that's going to be a struggle. If they are holding religious events I 100% love that for them, but I do not love it for happening in a townhouse with neighbors on both sides.
All of a sudden (like, I floss nightly and from one day to the next) I can't floss between two of my molars. Like, the floss just won't go in and breaks when I try to force it. Very weird.
Also - we have friends from out of town coming to visit on Friday so we finally fixed the toilet in the kid's bathroom. It's been broken for months and months. It took us about 30 minutes. Why do we do this to ourselves?
This always kills me too. I put things off for so long and then feel so foolish when they end up being easy!
@sameoldstory, good luck today!
4speedy, I am so sorry you are dealing with breast cancer. Be kind to yourself for being sicker than you expected - it's tough on even the toughest people. I hope you feel better and figure out how to manage the side effects so you aren't too miserable throughout treatment.
candreco I’m an SU manager for 3 combined service areas.
Just say no, lol.
It goes beyond volunteering. I have people mistaking me for an employee. I’m looking forward to the end of my term.
Ugh, I absolutely know better. My mom was a SUM when I was growing up, I've been at enough SU meetings and know the current SUMs well enough to get the full picture of the battiness of Council, and yet. I'm really 50/50 on whether I say yes at this point.
I would probably either do one or the other. If I wasn’t a troop leader, I’d have more time for the SU. If I wasn’t the SU manager, I’d have more time for my troop. It’s a lot to do both at the same time. My co is our SU treasurer, and she is also driving herself crazy doing too much, lol.
I wish our council would approach more people who aren’t already in a troop leader position to take over the SU.
DD spent the weekend sick to her stomach. DH was in town for all of 16 hours (back to back work trips that overlap weekends, that part is unusual for him). DD is home today from school because her last incident was yesterday morning and she's yet to eat a real meal, though seems to be feeling fine. Now my stomach is feeling tetchy and I can't tell if I'm picking up whatever she had or if it's just anxiety about a meeting I don't want to deal with tomorrow.
My mind is in overdrive, I must do EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE! Then, nothing gets done. I either am paralyzed at where to start or start stuff and then move on before it is done. I have tried my typical methods of getting through this (Walk and shower to refocus, making a list) and it isn't working.
Oh and another random, I never thought I would be a makeup vanity person. Mainly because we had a small house. Since we have moved and we have the space, I think I want a small make up vanity with a lighted mirror. Any suggestions?