It’s Monday

[mommyatty]

How are things?

[twinmomma]

We got over 18 inches of snow between Saturday night and all day yesterday, so we are just digging out now. It's really insane! We haven't had snow like this in a couple winters, so I think we were all kind of unprepared to get hit so hard, so fast. Poor DH is out trying to clean up right now with a shovel. We have someone plow the driveway itself, but we definitely need to invest in a snow blower with this new house. The walkways, near the garage doors, and edges are just massive compared to the old house. It's not sustainable to deal with it with a little snow shovel. It does look really beautiful out though!

I'm heading to my PCP this morning to talk about new anxiety med options. My Prozac is messing up my sleep way too much. I stopped taking it for a while to see if it was the meds or just general bad sleep, then started back up again. It's definitely the meds. I am wired and wide awake all night, even if I take the medicine when I wake up at 7 AM. I need something to help take the edge off my anxiety, but I can't function on no sleep, so I'm hoping she has an alternative I can try.

[rere]

Pretty dreary low key weekend. I did come in first in volleyball, which resulted in a t-shirt. I cooked a big pot of meatballs and sauce and arroz con pollo for this week.

I have several meetings each day this week, which is good and bad. I'll be busy, but it will keep me out of the office since it is STILL a disaster.

[mommyatty]

I’m starting the week tired. But at least I’m at home instead of traveling all week like I almost had to be. Thursday I have jury duty, which I had forgotten about.

Our weekend was busy. Our power went out for about half an hour on Saturday. So DD decided she would come with us when DS had ninja class. He was so excited his sister finally came to see him. While we were there, MIL and DD were talking about going to see a movie “on Saturday.” It was in the context of me reminding DD she has a birthday party next Saturday, so I was like “Do you mean TODAY?” Yes. Apparently the one evening I was out of town last week, they decided to see the Wonka movie. So a few hours after ninja, DD took off to see a movie with her grandma.

Then Sunday, we went out to breakfast. After, I took the kids for haircuts. DS has hair that grows incredibly fast, and we cut it shorter than normal this time. It looks really cute! After that, DD had field hockey, then I made dinner and the day was over. I had to send DH to the grocery store while DD and I were at field hockey because I didn’t have time to do it Sunday. I was too busy running kids all over the place.

[mae0111]

We had the same storm as twinmomma , but it was kind of a bust here. We only got maybe 3 inches? But the kids and the dog still had fun. It will all be gone by Wednesday when the temp hits the mid 50's and we get a rainstorm.

Weekend was OK. DD1 played basketball on Friday - did well, but they lost. It was a much better game than the last one. Her team is just poorly conditioned because they haven't had enough practices. They'll progress for sure!

Saturday morning DD2 was in a mood and spent the first hour of the day arguing about everything. Finally got her out the door to basketball, and she had the best game of the season! She's been very timid and not wanting to get in the mix a lot, but she was rebounding and actually shooting! I was happy to see her engaged. DD1 wouldn't play, and that was fine.

Sunday was the storm and DH and I had a meeting with the neighbors at our beach house. The dirt roads are private and in need to repair, and there's no formal association, so someone has taken the lead to try to get folks to contribute to the work. I jumped off early to prep for a very stressful camp signup, where slots filled up in minutes... and I got DD2 in! Then the day went downhill ending in DD1 crying for much of the last couple of hours of the evening over not liking dinner/not wanting to go to bed/not wanting anyone else to go to bed/why she should be able to wake up DD2 and hang out with her. It's always tough to end a night like that, and I rarely sleep after.

I was just told, on a staff meeting with my main client, that my function is shifting to a different manager. All fine, makes sense, but what a weird delivery - you don't have a conversation with me first?

ETA: Re my manager change, I should have specified that I am the ONLY person in my function.  So it's not like it was communicated to a higher-up that didn't tell me... There are 12 people at my company, I reported jointly to the president and the CEO (2 different people), then kind of just to the president, now to someone else completely.

[supertrooper1]

The weekend was pretty good. Saturday we did a late Christmas dinner at my parents' house with my niece and nephew. I finally met my brother's GF of about 6 months. She seems nice. My brother is just...odd. They were outside washing his work truck when we got there. 30 minutes later, dinner was ready and they were told 3 times to come in and eat. My brother finally shows up 10 minutes after we decided to dish up, but no GF. He starts dishing up and then decides to go outside to find his GF. He never came back in for dinner and left his half dished up plate. He comes back into the house after dinner and made up some excuse that his GF had to run to her grandma's house a few minutes away. He did watch his kids open gifts and they were both there for dessert. But he was constantly going outside to talk on the phone.

Sunday we didn't leave the house. Beau watched his disappointing Seahawks barely win but still didn't make the playoffs. We did rearrange the guest room/office/gaming room which I'm extremely happy about. We added a bed for his grandson a few months ago, but didn't arrange it so everything would fit. I didn't care where everything else was, as long as my desk stayed in the same spot. Beau has a big recliner he uses for gaming, so we figured out a solution where everything would fit and I could still have room to move with my office chair, which had previously been crammed in the corner.

[librarychica]

We had a nice weekend but we ended up doing a bunch of fun things (ice skating, kayaking, visiting friends) instead of our usual weekend chores so this morning my house is filthy and we have no groceries.

My new insurance has one of those virtual therapy practices. I signed up this morning. I’ve never been to therapy but there’s a lot of family drama going on and I am struggling with sorting my feelings from everyone else’s feelings, etc, so I’m going to give it a try.

[waverly]

I think I posted on Saturday that we did a major clean up and had 2 couches delivered on Friday. We were home with nothing to do except chores, no sports games so I encouraged the kids to be social.

DD had neighborhood friends to play outside with on Sat and Sun. She also had a playdate on Sun. DS invited his friends over to watch a football game. I complained about his friends response on Married Life. Turns out I was complaining too soon. Everyone ended up coming over and then they asked to sleep over, so I had 4 boys in my basement. Then I went to work this morning, so DH handled whatever happened this morning. Whatever....at least I wasn't there. I was leaning towards saying no, but DH was like that's fine, and I said fine because I was going to work.

Today is a Monday at work that is for sure! I can't remember my passwords and don't know the date. Coming back from vacation is fun.

[186momx]

This week is a whole lot less stressful than last week. Weekend was full between tax school all day Saturday and DD competing on Sunday. I have another tax update class Tuesday night which is only 2 hours instead of 6. I feel like the week is going to fly by.

[sdlaura]

Our friends from Boulder visited and mostly did their own thing besides our dinner/babysitter night Saturday night. They came over a little before that and the kids went in our hot tub. We had a lot of fun at dinner. It was honestly fine that they didn't ask us to hang out otherwise because our weekend was more relaxing weekend that way, and I would have had to renew our passes to the zoo or legoland if we met them there.

Yesterday DD had two softball games and a basketball game. She jammed her thumb pretty bad during the basketball game. Her team played the team of the crazy semi-famous bully I have posted about before and it was a really physical game because unsurprisingly the crazy lady has the kids on her team be super aggressive. Our coach's daughter also injured her wrist when an opposing player knocked her down and then landed on her. Hopefully everyone heals quickly.

I've had this lingering cough for weeks now and I was thinking it was finally better - but now I feel sicker today and I'm almost losing my voice. I may finally go to the doctor and see if this is more of an infection than a cold, especially since I have to fly for work Wednesday/Thursday. We'll see if I have time later this afternoon to go to our quick clinic, or maybe tomorrow. It has been chillier and windier here than normal, so sitting outside for the two softball games yesterday didn't help my health.

Saturday is puppy day! I'm trying to get DH to take the lead on the puppy stuff because my mental load is pretty maxed out. He still wants me to do anything that involves human interaction So I set up our first vet appt. I sent all the info the breeder gave us on food, vitamins, puppy shampoo etc to him, and also asked him to research pet insurance (k3am the vet recommended trupanion as well, and also embrace). I can't wait for a tiny snuggly puppy, even though I'm also dreading the extra work!

[mae0111]

sdlaura , I forgot to mention that we also have trupanion, and we've definitely used it. They've been really easy to deal with.

[dglvrk2]

My weekend was pretty mellow. H had to ski patrol both days, so the usual solo parenting for me. He's gone this week for a conference. As usual, I had to arrange for a few carpools and adjust my work schedule with him being gone. One of DD2's carpools for today fell through last night. I was scrambling to get someone to help me out while he was lounging on the couch... He finally acknowledged that I do a ton of heavy lifting to make sure everybody gets where they need to be on time when he's gone. The affirmation felt good.

We also had a storm on Saturday. The girls wanted to stay home. I overbought stocking stuffers in December. I decided to keep a few out of their stockings for a"rainy day." Since it was a snow day, I brought them out, which was a very welcome surprise. The girls died their hair and DD2 did a couple other fun projects.

Yesterday was cold but a great ski day and I got out to ski with some friends for the afternoon.

[sdlaura]

Things went downhill for me yesterday and I finally went to the doctor…and the provider was a bit horrified I had waited so long to go in. Luckily my chest xray didn’t show pneumonia, but I now have a cocktail of meds for various other infections. I cancelled my work trip tomorrow and Thursday…only the second time I’ve ever done that for illness in my 15 years at my job. This winter has been a doozy for illness for us!

[dglvrk2]

sdlaura, I'm so sorry. Good for you for going to the doctor. I'll push H to go and take the D's to the doctor at the drop of a hat, but usually hold off myself until I can't even drive myself there.
Sending you good vibes and hopes for a quick recovery.

[186momx]

sdlaura, oh my. My DH finally went in over the weekend. He doesn't have pneumonia yet but he has a something else and is on antibiotics with strict orders to come back in after the 10 day course if he isn't 100% better.

[mae0111]

sdlaura, I hope you're feeling better! My dad was really sick over Christmas. He went to urgent care and they quickly sent him on his way, saying it was just a cold. After 2 weeks of no improvement My mom called his dr several times and they wouldn't see him... finally my mom called the practice manager and started screaming that they're refusing to schedule a 76 year old man with a history of lung issues (several bouts of pneumonia as an adult, frequent bronchitis, asthma). He went in 30 mins later and was immediately given a z-pak. He was feeling better in 24 hours, and now my mom is looking for a new dr office.

DD1 is home sick - day 2 of vague symptoms - achy, bad headache, throat feels "like someone is pushing on it", but not really sore. No fever. Not really stuffed up. No real cough. No strep and no COVID.

There's a lot of weird stuff going around...

[sdlaura]

I’m feeling a lot better today, luckily. Once I hit 24 hours on meds last night, things improved. I still have a lot of junk in my head and lungs, so I’m glad I cancelled the work trip.

And yes agreed, I will take my kids to the doctor or convince DH to go before I go for myself. I just hate wasting time and tell myself ‘they’re just going to tell me it’s a cold and to wait it out.’ But once I stated to feel achy and feverish I knew it had been too long. It was like my body said ‘that’s it, we’re going to shut everything down until you do something about this’