Post by emilyinchile on Jul 2, 2024 9:10:08 GMT -5
Gotcha jamaicam, in that case I will hope for as little damage as possible and a functioning airport on Friday! And I'm so glad to hear the news about your son.
Re: 24 news channels, long ago when I had my studio apt in the big city I couldn't afford the expanded cable package, so I didn't have CNN. I LOVE CNN, so much so that when now H and I got together (22 years ago, OMG), hanging out at his place, whether he was there or not, watching CNN was everything.
I go through cycles now, where at some points I have it on often, and other times when I can't tolerate any of the things they are talking/reporting about. Right now is one of those "can't stand it" cycles. I just want Trump and his election subversion and the J6 insurrection and his hush money to porn stars case and his lies and the Supreme Court bullshit and Biden's debate fail and all of it to just stooooooooooooooooop.
cjcouple that is super creepy. I would talk with the police to see if they are doing training with drones or if it is something else.
eddy I can't with non-stop news or weather. Every bad weather event that is predicted, I watch about 30 minutes of The Weather Channel before I have to stop because of what it does to my state of mind. I have the same thing with the news over the past few years. I really got into it deep from 2016 - 2021 (I wonder why) and now I really need to be careful about how much I news I consume. I really struggled with my mental health and now that I'm on anti-anxiety medication, I feel like it's easier to choose NOT to get swept up in all of the news and feel it so deeply.
I did something to my neck while sleeping and it is so sore and stiff This happens to me every few months. It seems extra painful this time and I have very limited range of motion. I am going to do some Peloton neck mobility videos and put heat on it, but I know nothing is really going to help.
I got a lot done yesterday when I sent DS to childcare. I cleaned out our beer fridge, went through my closet and donated clothes, took a walk and worked out, and did some other household stuff. Last night I did a bunch of yard cleanup while DS was playing with neighbors. I am not sure what all I want to accomplish today.
I'll probably take DS to the pool after I pick him up this afternoon since H has class tonight.
Post by sometimesrunner on Jul 2, 2024 9:46:47 GMT -5
jamaicam, congrats to your son on getting into his top choice! How exciting! Fingers crossed you're able to get to your dad ASAP.
Last night as I got into bed, my phone started BLARING a tornado warning notice. We grabbed the kids and went to the basement. We're getting a new couch today, so we had moved our old sectional to the basement to make space for the new one, so we all actually had a place to lie down for the 30 minutes we needed to be downstairs. Things never work out that well for me!
I have a used sewing machine I have never touched. My plans for this week include turning some tank tops I never wear into crop tops. I figure if it goes poorly, I can just toss the shirts since they are not being worn any way.
Why are kids camps so expensive with such shitty hours? DD is 12, so doesn't technically need camp, but kind of needs it for the structure. She really wants to do a camp that is put on by our high school sports coaches that is 9 am - 12 pm and cost $250. I can't understand how they charge so much! Meanwhile the city runs similar camps that are 9 am - 4 pm and cost $200 run by the city coaches.
I brought back two fabric prints from Japan that I want to get framed. Whoo boy did I forget how much custom framing costs. The pieces are both 14 x 35. I was at Michael's this weekend and got an estimate (using guesses for measurements and I was on the small side!) and it will be at least $150 each to frame.
I want to put one of the framed pieces in our guest room, but where I want to put it will require getting new bedside tables. Which, I'm totally fine with - I've had the pieces in there now for 12+ years and I'd love a change. But I can't seem to find any that I like. Doesn't help that I don't really know what I want either.
I brought back two fabric prints from Japan that I want to get framed. Whoo boy did I forget how much custom framing costs. The pieces are both 14 x 35. I was at Michael's this weekend and got an estimate (using guesses for measurements and I was on the small side!) and it will be at least $150 each to frame.
I want to put one of the framed pieces in our guest room, but where I want to put it will require getting new bedside tables. Which, I'm totally fine with - I've had the pieces in there now for 12+ years and I'd love a change. But I can't seem to find any that I like. Doesn't help that I don't really know what I want either.
Michaels regularly does significant sales/coupons on framing.
I brought back two fabric prints from Japan that I want to get framed. Whoo boy did I forget how much custom framing costs. The pieces are both 14 x 35. I was at Michael's this weekend and got an estimate (using guesses for measurements and I was on the small side!) and it will be at least $150 each to frame.
I want to put one of the framed pieces in our guest room, but where I want to put it will require getting new bedside tables. Which, I'm totally fine with - I've had the pieces in there now for 12+ years and I'd love a change. But I can't seem to find any that I like. Doesn't help that I don't really know what I want either.
Michaels regularly does significant sales/coupons on framing.
Oh yeah - that quoted price was AFTER the "70% off" they're currently offering.
I brought back two fabric prints from Japan that I want to get framed. Whoo boy did I forget how much custom framing costs. The pieces are both 14 x 35. I was at Michael's this weekend and got an estimate (using guesses for measurements and I was on the small side!) and it will be at least $150 each to frame.
I want to put one of the framed pieces in our guest room, but where I want to put it will require getting new bedside tables. Which, I'm totally fine with - I've had the pieces in there now for 12+ years and I'd love a change. But I can't seem to find any that I like. Doesn't help that I don't really know what I want either.
I had some stuff framed last summer at a local framing shop and had major sticker shock. I had two items that had framed with glass and then a painting that I had the canvas restretched and what I thought was a pretty basic, albeit custom, frame. For those 3 items I spent just under $1K.
I brought back two fabric prints from Japan that I want to get framed. Whoo boy did I forget how much custom framing costs. The pieces are both 14 x 35. I was at Michael's this weekend and got an estimate (using guesses for measurements and I was on the small side!) and it will be at least $150 each to frame.
I want to put one of the framed pieces in our guest room, but where I want to put it will require getting new bedside tables. Which, I'm totally fine with - I've had the pieces in there now for 12+ years and I'd love a change. But I can't seem to find any that I like. Doesn't help that I don't really know what I want either.
I had some stuff framed last summer at a local framing shop and had major sticker shock. I had two items that had framed with glass and then a painting that I had the canvas restretched and what I thought was a pretty basic, albeit custom, frame. For those 3 items I spent just under $1K.
Liking for sharing, but also maybe just threw up in my mouth a little bit at the cost.
Framing is often more expensive than the art, which is ridiculous. The last piece I framed I spent $175 for a limited edition print (including shipping from Australia) and I think the frame was $225? I like to put an accent mat on statement art pieces, which drives the price up a little bit, but not that much. It's a big piece (A2), but still.
I had some stuff framed last summer at a local framing shop and had major sticker shock. I had two items that had framed with glass and then a painting that I had the canvas restretched and what I thought was a pretty basic, albeit custom, frame. For those 3 items I spent just under $1K.
Liking for sharing, but also maybe just threw up in my mouth a little bit at the cost.
I know, right? They were all very sentimental pieces though, and I was worried about entrusting them to someplace like Michael's, so I paid the price and cried in my pillow later LOL
I woke up at 4am with the worst headache I have ever had in my entire life. Temple to temple. It was so painful, I considered going to the hospital. I managed to fall back asleep and my kid woke up and said she had terrible sinus pressure. We suffer from the same allergies so I am assuming that was the cause of my headache...right?
We got home yesterday from a 2 week trip and man it was nice to sleep in my bed! We all slept so well. We went to Maine and Lake Placid and it was a really lovely, relaxing trip.
H has the rest of the week off still, we have a plan to go through the kids tv room and the basement and purge and organize.
I just made a massive grocery list and will go do that this afternoon.
My Dad knows better than to engage me on anything political, but he asked my H (who is in the military) if the Army being “woke” now is really causing a problem with discipline. Turn off the Fox News Dad! For the love.
Liking for sharing, but also maybe just threw up in my mouth a little bit at the cost.
I know, right? They were all very sentimental pieces though, and I was worried about entrusting them to someplace like Michael's, so I paid the price and cried in my pillow later LOL
You won't regret it, Michael's never does as good of a job and the materials are better at a independent shop. Source: my parents owned a custom frame shop for many years.
For some reason H scheduled DS2's orthodontist appointment for 7:15 this morning. That time makes a lot of sense during the school year because everyone has someplace else to be after 8:30, but it's July. I'm home now full time, we literally have nothing else better to do on a Tuesday, and we always expected I'd be driving again by now.
Anyway, all of which is to say that I now have to spend the day with a cranky 13 year old who had to get up early and do stuff.
My 15 year old DS had an appointment at 9 and I was kicking myself for making it that early. 7:15 in the summer, I might have rescheduled, LOL. DS was a bear to get out of bed this morning. I made his next appointment in a few weeks for 11.
This is a dumb thing to whine about with weather and politics posing actual risks to people's lives, but I am so damn tired today. DH and I went to a baseball game last night since our (his) favorite team was in town, and OF COURSE they managed to let go of the lead late in the game so it was tied and went to extra innings. It was only one extra inning, but a combined TEN runs were scored so it took forever and we didn't get home until 11. My sad six hours of sleep before getting up for work this morning was not enough.
Luckily today is my birthday so I got my gigantic coffee for free at Starbucks, but now that's worn off and I just want to nap.
This is a dumb thing to whine about with weather and politics posing actual risks to people's lives, but I am so damn tired today. DH and I went to a baseball game last night since our (his) favorite team was in town, and OF COURSE they managed to let go of the lead late in the game so it was tied and went to extra innings. It was only one extra inning, but a combined TEN runs were scored so it took forever and we didn't get home until 11. My sad six hours of sleep before getting up for work this morning was not enough.
Luckily today is my birthday so I got my gigantic coffee for free at Starbucks, but now that's worn off and I just want to nap.
This is why IMO baseball is the absolute worst. 1. Why do you need 7 innings? 3 is plenty. 2. Just let it end in a tie, we've already been tortured 7 times.
what would someone do with a day off and child care available the same day? This is a unicorn day for me. I'm Tring to decide what to do with myself.
I take a random day off work once in a while to get a unicorn day and they are the best! Things I've done: massage, lunch with a friend, shopping day at the outlet mall (alone, which is heaven!), sometimes I plan a bunch of productive things to do at home like decluttering that are hard to do with the kids around. Sometimes I just veg, go for a walk, do some yoga and hang out at home (alone!) if that's what I need to recharge.
The only caution is that I never get as much done as I think I will and the day goes by faster than I expect. So I've learned to lower my expectations, particularly when I'm trying to tackle my to-do list so that I don't feel crappy about not getting it all done.
This is a dumb thing to whine about with weather and politics posing actual risks to people's lives, but I am so damn tired today. DH and I went to a baseball game last night since our (his) favorite team was in town, and OF COURSE they managed to let go of the lead late in the game so it was tied and went to extra innings. It was only one extra inning, but a combined TEN runs were scored so it took forever and we didn't get home until 11. My sad six hours of sleep before getting up for work this morning was not enough.
Luckily today is my birthday so I got my gigantic coffee for free at Starbucks, but now that's worn off and I just want to nap.
This is why IMO baseball is the absolute worst. 1. Why do you need 7 innings? 3 is plenty. 2. Just let it end in a tie, we've already been tortured 7 times.
This is a dumb thing to whine about with weather and politics posing actual risks to people's lives, but I am so damn tired today. DH and I went to a baseball game last night since our (his) favorite team was in town, and OF COURSE they managed to let go of the lead late in the game so it was tied and went to extra innings. It was only one extra inning, but a combined TEN runs were scored so it took forever and we didn't get home until 11. My sad six hours of sleep before getting up for work this morning was not enough.
Luckily today is my birthday so I got my gigantic coffee for free at Starbucks, but now that's worn off and I just want to nap.
This is why IMO baseball is the absolute worst. 1. Why do you need 7 innings? 3 is plenty. 2. Just let it end in a tie, we've already been tortured 7 times.
It's 9, lol! DD was babysitting DS so I was updating her on when I thought we'd be home, and she asked me how much time was left. No, my sweet summer child, it just takes as long as it takes.
I do actually like going to baseball games, but this is why I prefer to not go on weeknights.
I keep seeing this drone fly over my condo and I have no idea who it belongs to but they clearly can see me. It's very high end and the user seems to have impeccable control. It probably goes quite far from the remote user because my condo is pretty isolated and mostly older people up here (only 28 lived in units - 16 on my side and 12 on other side). It often comes flying over the trees from the woods behind my condo. The houses that way are not close. One evening I was sitting on my deck and just enjoying the night. I had music on low and was just in my own thoughts and looking at the woods when it came over top of the trees but it stopped immediately over me - probably 75 feet up so not far at all and just hovered. It was creepy.
Another night it was hovering near a tree out front when I took my dog out. It had green lights and suddenly the lights shut off when I spotted it and was staring. Part of me wonders if its the police doing drone training - they are about 1/4 mile away and I know they have one but who knows.
While I don't doubt the annoyance, I wanted to add that my bff's dh's actual job right now is programming and testing drones. He works in research and development in the computer science dept. of a very prestigious university, and his whole team has spent entire days flying and testing drones lately, and they are submitting a paper on their findings this week. I have no idea where they are 'sanctioned' to fly the drones, but the university is in a city so I'm guessing they aren't out in the middle of nowhere doing it. I guarantee they aren't spying on any people they happen to see while they are flying them.
I know the chance of the drone you are seeing being flown by a professional doing research like that is slim, but wouldn't that be better than some rando. at least?