This has been a shit week. My fav work friend announced he’s leaving. And I can’t blame him. Our jobs are not defined and all of us in this position are so incredibly frustrated. Another good work friend’s last day is today. DS had to go to the ER for a migraine. And he has been so freaking happy since then, which is awesome but seriously makes me feel terrible about not realizing how badly he must have been hurting.
So next week has to be better, right!?!
This weekend, DS has ninja class. I need to get DD signed up for theater. That’s all we have going on.
I've got a meeting about 45 minutes away and since it is Friday, I'm treating myself to bougie coffee.
Not too much this weekend. I've got some things to catch up on since the next 3 weekends are packed. We have a benefit for St. Jude tomorrow night with an auction and live music which should be fun with a lot of people.
Dd will be going to here first home football game. It's a large state university, so it's a thing. I can't wait to hear about it and see pictures.
Post by librarychica on Sept 8, 2023 8:50:24 GMT -5
TGIF!
mommyatty, I’m sure next week has to be better. That’s a rough week!
I’m wiped. It’s been a long short week. I really, really have to get some things done today. I am this close to setting my messaging client to DND.
It’s just the girls and I tonight and we have big plans to watch the Muppets Haunted Mansion. Tomorrow DD2 has ukulele lessons (has she even practiced this week? Idk) and a friend coming over. I said I’d help them make cake pops. Sunday is open. I want to spend some time with DD1 or all as a family. I feel like I have whiplash from her tween-ness. It’s a wild swing between clinging and independence. One day she wants to lay on H and I for an hour before falling asleep likes she’s 2 again, the next she doesn’t even want near her while she messes with a homework assignment — “moooom, I can do it myself!”
It was a long short week! Kids started school Wednesday. They've been coming home happy but exhausted, which comes out as frustration/rage with DD2 and tears with DD1. They are both on field trips today, so I'm hoping it's a smoother evening.
We are heading to the beach house this weekend since summer finally decided to show up on Wednesday. DH already left with the dog, and I will head down after I pick up the kids from school. Hopefully traffic won't be too bad. We are missing DD2's first rec soccer game. She doesn't even care, which is nice. I thought it would be a much bigger fight.
I got a raise yesterday! I asked for what was essentially a 25% raise. My boss agreed, but is breaking it into 2 chunks - half now and half as of Jan 1. I think that's fair. I'm still definitely underpaid, but I wouldn't trade the flexibility for getting myself in line. It was really nice to be able to take off whenever over the summer.
Finally, I'm heading to urgent care shortly. The dog and I were playing frisbee last week and we kind of collided awkwardly, and I've had a lot of pain in my right hand ever since. I thought it was just a bad bruise, but it's getting worse - really painful to touch, hard to move without discomfort. I'm concerned I may have broken my knuckle. That will be terribly inconvenient. So I'm hoping that I'm just being dramatic and it's a bad bruise...
DS2 also has a trip for Cross Country to practice in a fun location along the water/ocean that's shaded! They also getting them subs for the drive him.
Good way to wrap up a weird week. the schools implemented half days due to extreme heat that's hit.
Kind of unnecessary if you ask me but not my choice and I'm glad they don't need to make up school days or anything.
I’m going to reach out to friends we have been trying to plan a dinner with. I really need to find some happy somewhere because honestly I’m sitting on a work call fighting back tears because I’m just.. done. I can’t do it right now.
What a week! Next week is looking almost as crazy. Yesterday I flew to the Bay Area, had two meetings, flew back, squeezed in 30 minutes of cardio, picked up at preschool, dropped off at flag football, then had my book club. Now after school drop offs I’m on my way to LA for a new business pitch. I hope to get home before traffic is totally ridiculous.
Tonight DD has a flag football game. Tomorrow all 3 older kids have their first soccer games. Then I organized a retirement party for DS2 and DS3’s daycare provider. We have five families she provided daycare for and 3 of her daughters’ families coming. Luckily another family offered to host at their backyard pool, which was awesome.
Sunday DD has 3 softball games/a mini tournament her coach organized, and DS1 has his first fall ball baseball game. And I have a work conference starting with a networking thing Sunday evening. So I’ll ask someone else to bring her DD home from her last game and have a babysitter coming 4-7 for the little boys while DH takes DS1 to baseball.
Last weekend we had almost zero plans. Our schedule is so lumpy.
DD and 3 of her friends organized a school-wide bake sale that they held yesterday after school and raised $742 for the Maui Strong fund. That’s pretty cool!
We don't have much planned this weekend. Tomorrow is Beau's grandson's 5th birthday party during the day. The local Greek festival is also this weekend and I want to get my yearly fix of Kourabiedes cookies. We'll probably end up at the gym. The weekends are my downfall when it comes to weight loss, so I need to figure out how to keep myself busy that doesn't revolve around going out to eat (after I talk about Greek cookies lol).
We made it through! DD came down with a cold last week, DS picked it up this week. DH and I have so far avoided it. I felt a little sneezy / a little sniffly a couple times and doubled up on my immune booster and overall am hopeful that this bug has skipped me.
We let DS skip soccer on Tuesday because he - very pathetically and very reasonably told us that he didn't think it was a good idea with a cough and asthma - and then proceeded to spend an hour outside playing two square with the neighbor. He doesn't even HAVE asthma, he potentially has reactive airway disease, but it's a hard concept for a 7 year old apparently. He has practice tonight, so we'll just be sending him with his inhaler and hoping for the best. Tomorrow will be his first time playing goalie, so he needs all the practice he can get.
We'll be spending tonight and tomorrow dividing and conquering at the rink and the soccer field. We have a baby shower with dogs on Sunday - 16 people and 8 dogs at Lazy Dog to celebrate our favorite dog walker having her first child. I'm terrified, but hopefully the dogs will all be on good behavior. And the first 49er game of the season, so we're anticipating a busy busy weekend.
Oh and in other news, we paid our deposit with the interior designer for our kitchen & family room renovation and I'm feeling a lot like Jessie Spano right now. (I'm so excited.. I'm so, so scared!) They come out to take measurements Thursday.
Post by sandandsea on Sept 8, 2023 13:40:29 GMT -5
Work is crazy now as I had worked over 50 hours this week before logging on today. Something that took 8 hours in the old software is halfway done at 25 hours so far this month. I’m hoping the second half is faster than the first.
Both boys have soccer games tomorrow and ds1 is going with a soccer friend to a bday party right after his game. Then Dh is taking them to the track to practice Sunday while I work.
Fil is in the hospital now with pneumonia so we’re praying he recovers quickly. Dh has flown down 2 of the past 3 weekends (Fil has leukemia and hasn’t been doing great) and isn’t planning to go this weekend or next weekend due to other commitments. He feels so guilty about not going there all the time and has been super grumpy/upset/angry about everything (work, kids, hobbies, parents, me, being miserable, etc) that it’s starting to frustrate me. I keep reminding myself it’s just him (not) dealing with his grief and not to take it personally but it’s not fun to deal with all the time. Lots of big deep breaths and knowing it won’t be this way forever.
mae0111, Congrats on the raise! So happy you were able to advocate for yourself and get more of what you deserve!
Today was rough. I had to do an at home sleep study last night and slept like crap because of all the wires. Woke up this morning with a slight headache that quickly escalated to a massive migraine, complete with nausea and vomiting. I took a pill and logged off for the day, slept a couple hours and I'm feeling somewhat better. I think it's a combo of the bad sleep and the awful storm that is blowing through right now. Stormy weather always makes my migraines flair up.
Then I had to do school pick up for DS today because DH is at a work event. It took 2 hours! A gigantic thunderstorm blew through just as the pick up time was starting. The lightening was super intense and the rain was blowing sideways. Usually the kids exit through the playground out the back of the school where there's 2 full lanes just for pick up/drop off and it moves pretty quickly. But that obviously wasn't a safe idea given the weather. So the entire car line got rerouted to the main entrance of the school, single file, through the entire parking lot so that the kids could come out one by one under cover and with a much shorter walk. It was brutal. So many kids were crying as they got picked up because they were scared of the storm, including DS. He's such a nervous kid in general, and the change in routine probably made it seem that much scarier, plus the thunder was shaking the building it was so loud at some points. I held his hand the whole way home and we had a big snuggle when we got in the house and he seems to have fully recovered. And of course, the girls had to let themselves into the house alone and sit while the lights flickered and the internet went out because it took us so long to get back. They handled it really well though! I was impressed. They called and gave me updates a few times while they waited for us.
I'm planning to let the kids have as much screen time as they want with video games and movies while I relax and nurse this migraine hangover. DH will be home around 10 so I'm solo with all three of them.
Tomorrow is TBD. I have a bunch of homework to do and DH might have to work, he's not sure of staffing yet. One kitchen guy quit and the other's wife had a baby yesterday so they're kind of scrambling for staff to cover.
On Sunday my group of college friends are all coming over though! We haven't seen each other in like six months, at least. They'll come hang at our new house and catch up.
mae0111 Congratulations! twinmomma I hope you are feeling better today. It's been a few years since I've had a migraine (knock on wood!), but I'm out of commission when I get them.
Yesterday was a fire-drill of a day at work. I took on a big data organization and presentation project a few weeks ago. I thought I clearly understood all directions, requests etc. After devoting most of my work days to said project for the last two weeks, I found out yesterday that I did not do what was expected for a big portion of the data organization. I was really frustrated with myself because I was certain I knew what was expected. I don't know how I missed this component. I got all of the work corrected/redone, but I was in a funk all day. I felt like such an idiot. I ruminate excessively, which doesn't help things. I'm spending time this weekend preparing for the presentation portion since I didn't get to do this yesterday as initially planned.
DD1 came down with a cold yesterday. She's miserable, but won't follow my suggestions like sleeping, liquids and day-quill. Sick middle schoolers are worse than sick husbands...
DD2 had soccer this morning. Her team is a great group of girls and they won a tough game! Now we're home....she's really not great with entertaining herself lately. I spend all morning carting her to/from soccer and she's now begging me for friends to come over. I've texted a few neighborhood families, but no responses yet, which leads to wanting me to text again. (No, DD2. That's rude.) She doesn't get other people have things going on too.
H and I are doing some fall cleaning today. It feels good to regroup! I suggested DD2 help us, but she's not game.
H keeps asking what I want for my birthday, which isn't until November. At this point, I just want the kids to say "yes" to my face when they come to me with problems and I offer solutions. They don't have to follow through with my suggestions, just not to argue with me when I give them!! (but that's WAY too much to ask)
We had a crazy storm last night that knocked out our power from 11:30 to about 6:30 this morning. DH spent almost 6 hours cleaning up today. DS had a little bit of a rough ninja class today, but he still enjoyed it. Now we are going out to dinner.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Sept 10, 2023 12:21:19 GMT -5
DS had an audition yesterday. He was prepped for it but we spent the morning going over stuff for it and it went well he says. No casting is happening until after a 2nd wave of auditions for late adds in October which is really annoying, but I'm glad that's behind us.
We have a playdate going on right now and I'm procrastinating tidying up and other chores