Post by mrsukyankee on Jul 25, 2024 7:23:47 GMT -5
Had a good session with a challenging client and then my next client didn't show up (she apologised via email 25 minutes into the session). My afternoon is free as we're having someone coming to check out our heating system, but it seems to have reset itself after I turned off the boiler and turned it back on, so maybe we don't need them. (we'll need a new boiler and possibly need to replace our Honeywell system in a few years but would love for both systems to hold off for a while).
I had a fox with a bad case of mange come through my yard this morning and take a long drink from my birdbath, then rub up against my tree (thirst and itching being some of the symptoms of mange, along with the loss of fur). It's so sad because it's obviously suffering. I've emailed our dept. of wildlife to see what can be done but from what I've read, there just isn't much. The treatment has to be delivered several times a week over several weeks and rehabbers aren't authorized to treat adult foxes, just kits. And if nothing is done, it'll likely die over the winter.
Some work frustrations - I document and train on software products. We have one that isn't officially for sale but we have a beta client. They're clamoring for documentation - no one told them that they're beta so they're understandably surprised that there isn't anything. I get pulled in about 4 weeks ago and handed 2 Word documents that are old and out of date. Additionally, they gave me access to a sandbox site but didn't mention that the site had been *heavily* customized for this one client, so this week we realized that my documentation isn't anything that can be used by anyone but this customer. I've done what I can just looking at the screens, I'm just getting help to dig deeper, get context, and fill in holes, but after a lot of pressure we let the beta customers see the work in progress. So of course, yesterday the project manager asked, "when is it going to be done?" I going to hit someone soon. All this for a product WE'RE NOT SURE WE'RE SELLING LONG-TERM!!! I've got real work on real products to do!
Post by lavenderblue on Jul 25, 2024 7:51:07 GMT -5
In less than 12 hours I'll be boarding a plane to New Orleans. Apparently the humidity there is 87%. Eighty-seven. Isn't that just basically living under water? Goodness. Anyway. We have some fun stuff booked like a Walking Ghost Tour and the WWII Museum. Last minute I thought it would be cool to do a Swamp Tour, so I guess I'll be spending my last day working looking in to that.
Post by midwestmama on Jul 25, 2024 7:51:37 GMT -5
DS felt that he had a good tryout last night for next year's travel baseball season. A few of his friends/current teammates also tried out for the same team, so hopefully they all make it. A few other friends/teammates tried out for a different team, and one of the dads texted DH to say that he thought the group of boys from our current team were some of the better players (and I guess around 100 kids showed up for tryouts for four 15u teams). (DS chose not to go to that tryout because he was worried he wouldn't make one of the top two teams as catcher.) I will be sad to not have the same group of parents next year for travel baseball, since we have become friends over the years, but travel season in high school is shorter than travel season pre-high school.
DD is headed to a friend's cottage this afternoon and will stay overnight and then go to an amusement park tomorrow. Two brave dads agreed to take 6 girls to the amusement park for the day. Tonight I'm going to go out for dinner with a couple of the moms, so I'm looking forward to a mini-GNO.
In less than 12 hours I'll be boarding a plane to New Orleans. Apparently the humidity there is 87%. Eighty-seven. Isn't that just basically living under water? Goodness. Anyway. We have some fun stuff booked like a Walking Ghost Tour and the WWII Museum. Last minute I thought it would be cool to do a Swamp Tour, so I guess I'll be spending my last day working looking in to that.
Yes, someone once described it as living in broth 🤣🤣.
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
Post by karinothing on Jul 25, 2024 7:54:47 GMT -5
I am so tired. We saw Back to the Future the musical last night at the Kennedy Center. It was so much fun. Highly recommend. I mean the songs were only okay but it was a visual spectacle that had even adults smiling like kids. Great fun.
BUT because Netanyahu is here it took us over an hour to get there (normally 10 mins away) and about 40 minutes to get home. So we all went to bed after midnight and I am pretty tired.
I am having such a hard time getting to the gym during the summer. We are all home and it seems like every morning I am ready to go and the kids want something, I need to make them breakfast, H announces HE has somewhere to be...on and on. I was in the car this morning (running late already) and the gas light was on and I gave up. I am going to try and leave later today in between calls but I am so grumpy about it. H seems to have all the freedom in the world with his schedule because I am the default person for everything.
Also my parents come tomorrow and I have been trying to get the house ready but it is an uphill battle with everyone home. I think I have finally reached the point where I am looking forward to the school year starting up again 😂
I have the Olympics on in the background as I work and am currently watching team USA rugby…. It is something! I have never seen rugby before. This is intense!! I would not survive 5 seconds of this game.
Post by lilypad1126 on Jul 25, 2024 8:10:50 GMT -5
I am so tired today. I forgot to my pills with dinner last night, so I took them at 10:30 when I remembered. I take them at dinner time bc they have the bonus effect of making me sleepy. So I was up too late, then woke up at 4am with a raging migraine. Took meds for that and finally feel back asleep about 45 min before my alarm went off. I’m DRAGGING now, and I have to work IN PERSON today. There is not enough coffee to get me through. 😴 😩
In less than 12 hours I'll be boarding a plane to New Orleans. Apparently the humidity there is 87%. Eighty-seven. Isn't that just basically living under water? Goodness. Anyway. We have some fun stuff booked like a Walking Ghost Tour and the WWII Museum. Last minute I thought it would be cool to do a Swamp Tour, so I guess I'll be spending my last day working looking in to that.
Yes, someone once described it as living in broth 🤣🤣.
Bahaha! I had a FB memory from earlier this week. I was in Kansas City a few years back, and it said “98% humidity? Just go ahead and rain already!” 😂😂😂
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Jul 25, 2024 8:17:35 GMT -5
I’m on my third coffee this morning - knocked the first one over, so I cleaned that up. The I poured another into the same cup, but surprise! It had a big crack in it, so that all ran out. But I got a new cup and this third one? Might be some of my best work. I’ll count that as a win!
I’m so excited about my schedule this coming fall semester- I’m teaching the intro to art history classes, back to back, in the right chronological order. Ive had them before where in my first class, I’m talking about the protorenaissance, then second back to prehistory. This way is much more logical!
In less than 12 hours I'll be boarding a plane to New Orleans. Apparently the humidity there is 87%. Eighty-seven. Isn't that just basically living under water? Goodness. Anyway. We have some fun stuff booked like a Walking Ghost Tour and the WWII Museum. Last minute I thought it would be cool to do a Swamp Tour, so I guess I'll be spending my last day working looking in to that.
Yes, someone once described it as living in broth 🤣🤣.
"This is like being inside of a mouth." Me, arriving at MSY.
We have a concert tonight at the zoo! I’m so excited! DH and the kids are picking me up from work, and since I’m 15 mins from the venue and 25 mins from DH job site tomorrow, I’m leaving my car at work & DH will just drive me to work tomorrow morning.
I just need to get through today. 20 student conferences. I had 4 yesterday, and one was a little tough. She took it well, and has some good tools for improving. I’m working really hard on not coming off like as an asshole all the time, so I made sure to tell her that her mistakes were totally normal, and definitely recoverable. Reassured her I wasn’t mad, but it was something that needed to be resolved, and then made sure to let her know some good things I am also seeing. So, hopefully it went ok.
Later she was still happy and confiding in me about some things, so I think I’m striking a good balance.
In less than 12 hours I'll be boarding a plane to New Orleans. Apparently the humidity there is 87%. Eighty-seven. Isn't that just basically living under water? Goodness. Anyway. We have some fun stuff booked like a Walking Ghost Tour and the WWII Museum. Last minute I thought it would be cool to do a Swamp Tour, so I guess I'll be spending my last day working looking in to that.
LOL. That's just normal humidity in London. We're currently at 85%.
Post by followyourarrow on Jul 25, 2024 8:24:02 GMT -5
The first time I visited Louisiana I remember exclaiming that my eyelids were sweating and I didn't know eyelids could sweat! Now I live 2 1/2 hours from New Orleans and it's 93% humidity this morning. It's gross, but also just normal now.
I have therapy tonight and I really need this appointment, it's been rough. I also broke down and met with my primary doc yesterday to get on meds. I'm trying Wellbutrin to start and I'm anxious to see how it will work but I NEEDED to do something. Pharmacy couldn't fill it before they closed last night so I hope they can do it today. I'm just emotionally and physically exhausted at this point.
We took kid and her friend to an amusement/water park on Tuesday and it was fun but I feel like I'm still tired from it. But they had a blast so it's worth being tired.
Post by Patsy Baloney on Jul 25, 2024 8:39:57 GMT -5
It’s Deadpool day!
This week is dragging. I am so tired lately and I’m not sure if it’s just the constant burning of the sun that’s getting me or if Covid still has my ass. I’ve been clocking about 10 hours every night and it’s not enough!
My allergies are horrific right now. My sinuses feel like they are going to explode, my eyes are itchy and puffy. Because of other medications I take, I can only take one specific allergy med. It helps some, but it absolutely knocks me out. I was asleep last night at 7:30 because of it. I'm dragging today at work as well, because the effects linger.
The first time I visited Louisiana I remember exclaiming that my eyelids were sweating and I didn't know eyelids could sweat! Now I live 2 1/2 hours from New Orleans and it's 93% humidity this morning. It's gross, but also just normal now.
I refuse to be outside between May and October. The first time anyone sees me emerging from my cave to spend time outside, I'm wearing a Halloween costume lol.
Our internet has been having issues all week. I guess I need to call Verizon again and get them out here to replace our equipment, but I was dealing with this for 3 hours on Tuesday so I am dreading another call. Not to mention I have 4 hours of meetings today so I really don't have time. I rarely get cranky or angry about things, but this sort of thing puts me in a very bad mood and I get snappy really easily. I have about a billion things I need to do for work this week and between traveling on Monday and internet issues the rest of the week, it's not been easy to get things done. At least yesterday was semi productive.
I went to a book club at our new local bookstore last night. It was ok. As usual with that kind of thing, there were a couple of people who dominated the conversation and it was annoying. I will never understand people who think that in a group of 15+ people, everyone is just here to listen to them answer all the questions or talk on and on. I struggle in that kind of situation, too, because I have a hard time interrupting so I end up saying very little. I am signed up for the book club next month, too, so I guess we'll see how I feel about that one and if I want to continue attending. It's such a cute shop and I would love to know some more people in my community, but I'm not going to get to know them very well if I don't actually get to converse with them lol.
I'm just trying to enjoy my last few days off before I go back to work August 1. Today I'm going to lunch and to do some shopping with a friend today in a college town about 40 min from us. Our husbands are going to meet us after work with the kids to go to a wingfest. We like to go to this once a year, there's a bunch of different vendors with various wing flavors, plus drinks and live music. Today is probably not a day that fits with my nutrition goals, especially after just coming back from vacation where we ate out all week, but oh well, YOLO.
I'm just really have a lot of negative emotions about my old job and I really hope I don't have to go back. The latest is that someone allowed another group to use all of our conference rooms, but didn't block them. The person also hasn't been showing up to the office to let them into the rooms.
So today I just went down to get water (that's where the bottle fillers are) and got swarmed with questions and complaints.
NOPE NOPE NOPE, I directly them right to the person they can complain to and it's not me.
Yes, someone once described it as living in broth 🤣🤣.
Bahaha! I had a FB memory from earlier this week. I was in Kansas City a few years back, and it said “98% humidity? Just go ahead and rain already!” 😂😂😂
Right? And the rain does help with temps but then you have to doggie paddle while walking! 😅
Ok douche, go ahead and call it mud. My husband DID have halitosis. We addressed it after I talked to you girls on here and guess what? Years later, no problem. Mofongo, you're a cunt. Eat shit. ~anonnamus
I noticed an almost immediate improvement on wellburtin. I was honestly shocked. It isn't supper dramatic for me, but it is noticeable day to day and very noticeable when we have several days of bad weather and my mood doesn't tank like it used to.