Post by maudefindlay on Oct 20, 2023 7:23:49 GMT -5
Taking DD to her school's fall festival this afternoon and then hurrying to pick up DS1 from CC so DH and I can go to our alma mater tonight. It's homecoming weekend and we have tickets for Jerry Seinfeld who is performing at the school's main auditorium.
Post by snapoutofit on Oct 20, 2023 7:30:26 GMT -5
H went to see Dave Chapelle last night and our friend who lives in ME slept over. I accidentally locked them out of the house when I went to bed. The spare key isn’t in is usual spot because DS had to use it because of course he doesn’t know where his key is and he had a 1/2 day Wednesday. Oops. DS and I both sleep like the absolute dead so did not hear them climbing through a random unlocked window. But also, bring a house key! I hate sleeping with the door unlocked! He’s been out of town for several days so I just locked everything up on autopilot…except for the one window lol.
Post by fangoriagurkel on Oct 20, 2023 7:34:35 GMT -5
A toothache kept me up all night but luckily my dentist can see in me in a couple hours. It started bothering me after dinner and went from zero to one hundred within a matter of hours.
And I unexpectedly started my cycle this morning, so that will drastically change my weekend plans. I’m officially calling this Fall Apart Friday! 🦁
Update: Two very stubborn extractions later that hurt like a son of a bitch later, but the dentist assured me I should be on the mend soon. Leaving with an Rx for 800mg ibuprofen and one week on amoxicillin. The hygienist told me the same thing as when I got a crown on Monday, “Once the numbing agents wear off, you’re going to feel like you took a punch from Tyson”.
She was right on Monday and I have a feeling she’ll be right about today. 😔
H is getting ready to leave for our cottage to close it up for the winter. He'll be gone till Sunday afternoon and I'm so looking forward to sleeping alone the next 2 nights. I say that every time he's out of town, but in reality I never sleep that great when he's gone.
Tonight I'm going to see the Eras movie with some friends. I had a cute outfit planned, but it's cool and supposed to rain all day so I'm pivoting to my Evermore era and going with a flannel and boots.
Tomorrow I want to clean up the bedrooms. They've been neglected. The spare room/H's office has become a dumping ground for everything. And I have a pile of random shit overflowing a large basket in the corner of my room. I also got a new duvet cover and throw pillows so I want to clean everything before putting it all out. DS and I will either go out for dinner or order takeout. Another thing I'm looking forward to is not cooking this weekend.
Sunday I am going to cook. I'm determined to get back on track with meal planning and prepping for the week. I swear I go to the grocery store every few days and spend a minimum of $75 each trip. It's ridiculous.
I'm working the last book fair shift and helping with pack up this afternoon, then we're taking my parents out for hibachi for my mom's birthday tonight. Tomorrow we've got most of the day to get the usual weekend stuff done while the kids have activities, then we're heading to SIL's for the night before we all go to a rodeo? at a winery near them with DH's parents on Sunday. I'm basking in my quiet WFH morning while I can!
Finally got a hotel reservation for DD's and my NYC trip! One of the few upsides to DH's constant work travel is the hotel points- we were able to do two nights right near Times Square/Broadway for free.
Tonight is the big HS football game and both DDs are going. I’d like to go but it’s supposed to be rainy and cool and I really don’t want to sit in that.
Tomorrow is HOCO and DD2 wants something for under her dress that is more than underwear. I told her to wear her Nike pros from cheer, but they are black and will probably show through. So, I told her I’d go up to JCPenney’s today to see if I can find anything.
Post by followyourarrow on Oct 20, 2023 8:01:22 GMT -5
FI's daughter came in last night and will stay with us until Sunday afternoon. Thankfully she's a huge help with the dogs and anything else we ask. I kinda forgot we have to feed her though, so I'm making a last minute menu and grocery order. There's a big festival in our town this weekend and I think we're going to go tonight and tomorrow night to the concerts.
Why are people in Facebook groups so unhinged? I belong to several that have been really helpful professionally in the past, but the number of bonkers comments recently has gotten so bad I'm considering leaving. Just be normal and helpful to others in our line of work, Facebook randos!
(and yes I realize that expecting people to be less weird on Facebook is probably asking too much)
I got us tickets to see Killers of the Flower Moon tonight for a 7:30 showing without realizing it's 3.5 hours. So. I'm thinking maybe we need to switch to the 5pm or to a matinee tomorrow or Sunday lol
Post by midwestmama on Oct 20, 2023 8:24:51 GMT -5
My dad (age 76) called me yesterday afternoon to let me know that Wednesday night he fell while trying to unload his lawn tractor out of the back of his truck. (My parents were at my house earlier that day and DH tried to convince my dad to take our trailer, which would have been much easier for my dad to back his lawn tractor off of, but my dad said he was fine with unloading it from his truck.) It was late when my parents got home (almost 10 pm, they had gone to DS's last football game and didn't get on the road home until almost 9 pm) and dark when he was trying to unload his lawn tractor, and he said he thinks his foot got caught somehow, then he went to step, and then next thing he knew he was laying on the ramp from the bed of his pickup to the ground. He hit his head and was bleeding, and he also hit his hip, so my mom took him to ER. Five hours later they got home and luckily my dad just needed staples to close the cut on his head (and the CT scan was clear) and an Xray showed no fractures in his hip. I'm sure my mom was so mad because she told him to wait to unload until the morning. I'm going to call them later today to make sure he's still doing ok.
DH got invited to a weekly Thursday night gathering of HS football dads. DS is still in middle school, but one of DS's coaches from this year invited him to join, so DH felt like he needed to go due to small town sports politics so DS doesn't get a "strike" for DH not going. DH said it was fun in the end, and a few of DS's coaches from the season that just ended were there had some really good things to say about DS as a player.
We're going to start doing Fall yard clean up this weekend, it always makes me sad because it's a sign that cold and snow is coming which I don't love. I get especially sad to cut back the rose bushes because my roses remind me of my Grandma because she always had a huge rose garden when she was alive. But we try to get as much done now because once the leaves start falling it's a never ending attack to keep those under control.
H & I really need to get back on menu planning because this week was such a hodge podge of eating random foods but I guess the upside is we got rid of a lot of 1/2 & 1/4 empty packages in the freezer. We've been trying to do that to get ready for our beef & pork delivery next month. I just hate menu planning so much. We keep kicking around the idea of doing a meal delivery like hello fresh but the cost makes me decide against it every time.
Got my covid & flu shot yesterday so my arm still hurts and I have a low key headache but I'm at work in the office
In today's episode of things I am unnecessarily anxious about: I drop DS off at childcare this morning (it's a day off school but he can still go to his before/after care facility). I see one of those school vans parked in the lot; this van picks up a younger child who leaves to go to some kind of preschool and therapies. I am wondering if the childcare owner knows that the van is waiting outside. But when I go inside she is bustling around getting the kids breakfast and seems really busy and I didn't even make eye contact with her when I dropped DS off. So when I get back to the parking lot I think that I should just shoot her a quick text letting her know that van is there in case she didn't know. So I did. I figured the van driver had her contact info or something too if the child wasn't coming out. Anyway, the kid missed the van, and I'm feeling like if I had just interrupted her and told her in person instead of texting that he would have made it. Ultimately it's her responsibility and not mine though, but I feel bad.
I'm off today and going to lunch with my aunt who "wants to talk to me about something" - my mom told me that its something about her trust, so I feel a little more at ease now that I semi know what it's about.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Oct 20, 2023 8:33:56 GMT -5
I'm in the ER with my dad. He was hallucinating and slurring his words. He's been acting weird for a while now, and I'm terrified. He's also covered in bruises. I have no idea what's going on with him, he doesn't take care of himself, and I'd appreciate any good thoughts and prayers and whatever else there is
1. A new guy was hired at my H's work. It's kind of a weird situation but H has been completely consumed by it ever since he heard the guy was interviewing. To be clear, absolutely nothing about this has affected H personally at all. But he is catastrophizing and just obsessing over imaginary ways that this could be bad for him in the future. He has been hard to live with for over a month. I finally had to tell him last night that I couldn't entertain the topic anymore. He has been impossible to engage in a conversation about anything else for weeks. It's exhausting.
2. I have also lost patience for parents who get out of the car at morning drop off. You slow down, push your kid out the car, and keep it moving.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Oct 20, 2023 8:42:45 GMT -5
My dad is extremely claustrophobic. Not sure why, but he always has been. I hear over the intercom "Lifting help in CT!" and I knew it was him. He's high as a kite now, he'll probably sleep it off soon.
Post by donutsmakemegonuts on Oct 20, 2023 8:43:29 GMT -5
I was given the role of heading up a team that does presentations for the community at work. The original leader of this team got a new job in August and nominated me to run it after she left. While flattered that everyone thinks I can do this, it is stressing me out because it requires a lot of prep work in addition to my regular job. We have a presentation coming up on Monday that was put in motion before the original leader left and I am trying to prep for it today the best I can, but I am freaking out. I am having a meeting with the rest of the team at 10 and I will be delegating some of the tasks to them because I can't do everything. Plus, I feel like a total idiot because I don't know how to do stuff like print labels (I figured it out) and make sure I know how to work the projector we'll be using for the presentation. I liked it better when I was just there to present, not do all the behind the scenes stuff. Ugh.
She had a couple of mechanical falls in the spring. I got her PCP to prescribe PT for this, but it took 4 weeks for an opening with the balance specialist PTs. She had a fall the night before her PT eval and had a chipped wrist bone which meant waiting 2 weeks for clearance from ortho. She did and eval and 2 weeks of PT, then had to take off another 2 weeks after skin cancer removal. The day off the excision, they found another cancer that wasn't there the month before. She got 2 weeks of PT in between getting cleared and getting a UTI which made her crazy so they required a note from the PCP which paused her for another 10 days. She got another week in before the second excision and another 2 weeks off. Today she's back at it. Monday she starts eye injections for AMD. An hour away. One eye at a time. I feel like raising a kid is easier than raising a parent.
Pizza for dinner tonight. I have the dough started. The lid for my back-up bowl to the Cuisinart broke. It was really old; when we cleaned out my aunt's house I took it as it's nice to have a back-up machine when prepping certain foods.
I thought summer already did its last gasp of warm temps, but no. Yesterday and today are 75. Tomorrow 71. No more! Stop messing with my fall weather!
It's a color run at work today. It's the first time (to my knowledge) there has been one. I may or may not come home covered in color depending on what job I'm given. So we'll see. Most kids are so excited. My autistic DS(7) is dreading it. He hates the jog-a-thon the school does in the spring as well.
((( ProfessorArtNerd,))) It’s so hard seeing your parents like that.
My overly invested traveling friend sage is coming to an end. They have successfully boarded the plane to the US and should land around noon. They should naturalize in a couple months. I am trying to find a place that will print a us passport application on wrapping paper 😂 Also doing some soul searching as to how I got myself so wrapped up in someone else’s life. I think is the aspect of its nice to feel needed and helpful, and also the excitement of drama.
The specific dog I was interested in adopting is probably going to go to someone else who applied first. What are the chances, they have like 75 dogs at the shelter right now! I'm guessing someone else wants it for the same reasons I do, though. This one does sound really like an easy dog and seems to get along with cats, whereas most of them are unknowns with cats. I talked to another person about another dog yesterday and it sounds way too young and rambunctious for our house. So I'm not sure what is next. My H finally agreed to get a dog - we've been talking about this for like 3 years but I think it's been more in passing than a serious conversation because I was never 100% ready either, but now that he knows I'm serious he is willing to go along with it. He did say he'd rather wait a few years until our cat is older so we don't have a lot of overlap between the two of them - but our cat is 5 so IDK if that makes any difference at all. He could live another 15 years! I said I'd consider it. So I think I'm kind of at a point where I will be keeping an eye out for the perfect dog, but not necessarily scouring all of the rescue sites to get one RIGHT NOW. I also could maybe get on a wait list at a specific rescue, I guess. My H is concerned about the hair from having 2 pets, so maybe something that doesn't shed?
Speaking of my H, I met him 10 years ago today! We went out on a coffee date since we met online. I am using a mug from that coffee shop today in honor of the date I can't believe it's been an entire decade - that time flew. Also, I still like him! Lol. I had no idea going into that date what a life changing day it would end up being. I feel so lucky that we found each other.
1. A new guy was hired at my H's work. It's kind of a weird situation but H has been completely consumed by it ever since he heard the guy was interviewing. To be clear, absolutely nothing about this has affected H personally at all. But he is catastrophizing and just obsessing over imaginary ways that this could be bad for him in the future. He has been hard to live with for over a month. I finally had to tell him last night that I couldn't entertain the topic anymore. He has been impossible to engage in a conversation about anything else for weeks. It's exhausting.
2. I have also lost patience for parents who get out of the car at morning drop off. You slow down, push your kid out the car, and keep it moving.
What about blowing kisses....literally standing there blowing kisses? They were first car in the line, last for kids to get out and all the rest of us are just sitting there waiting to leave as our kids are inside the school by then.
Post by litskispeciality on Oct 20, 2023 9:01:13 GMT -5
((( ProfessorArtNerd ,))) ((( stemmie ,))) I hope both of your parents are ok! Big hugs to both of you. Also thank you stemmie for your comment. I was just thinking how hard it is to take care of my dad, but "it's not as hard as raising kids". I feel heard. Our society sucks for aging people. No playbook, no medical care available forever, and no PTO for the adult kids to do it all and take care of themselves.
Does anyone know if a 65+ y.o. has to renew medicare every year, or does it roll over? I still don't have POA for my dad and he always ends up with insurance issues. He said he'll look in to renewing, but we can't trust his memory if he did.
Post by litskispeciality on Oct 20, 2023 9:06:24 GMT -5
On a positive note, DH and I went to a mind reader event at the library last night. The person was entertaining, although they didn't make a lot of connections. I was happy to see a pretty decent crowd too. If people don't go to events, they won't host new events.
So happy it's Friday. Getting my COVID booster after work and I'm somewhat ok with it being on Friday night (don't have enough PTO to justify a sick day if I have a reaction) so I have an excuse to stay home tomorrow and relax. We have a bunch of invitations next weekend for things that are an hour+ away each way, so one day of rest will be a nice break before that.
I am moving a bunch of crap today. Of course it's raining when it wasn't supposed to.
I have entirety too much stuff, I should have rented a dumpster and just tossed a bunch. When I was married we tried for years for a second and had unexplained secondary IF, getting rid of the baby and toddler stuff made me too emotional. I'm finally at peace with not having more kids, but didn't have time to go through all the boxes before moving. I am heavily regretting my lack of planning, especially because I need to keep the basement clear until the asbestos guys come on the 3rd. I have no idea where everything is going.