Mondayest Monday of all

[campermom]

Back to work. I’m on a walk.

Only one kid, who has been getting out of visits. The other two are returning mid day bc their dad is getting them passports for a Disney cruise in June.

Still no child support though! 25 days late.

[twinmomma]

School starts on Wednesday, so it's last minute get everything ready time around here. They all seem really ready to be back and hanging with their friends though, so it shouldn't be too rough.

Today is a super Monday vibe for me. I have to go get a mammogram and an ultrasound today to try and figure out the crazy pain I've been having. I literally hurt like when I was nursing and would get super full. I don't know what the deal is, but it's not comfy. Hopefully they can figure out something that's causing it, even though the pain has died down a bit from last week.

I'll also have my weekly check in with my boss, which I'm sure will be all about the scathing email I sent off on Friday about the crazy disrespectful fellow manager that I'm sick of dealing with. I'm really curious to see what he says.

And completely unrelated - I've become a full Sarah J. Mass fan. I loved the Throne of Glass series and have now gotten totally sucked in to the ACOTAR series. Smutty fantasy novels are my jam and it's so fun to read something for pure entertainment!

[mae0111]

twinmomma, good luck today - I hope you get some answers.

We had a really nice weekend. DH and DD1 went to the beach house on Wednesday evening, and DD2 and I arrived Thursday aftenoon. Yard work, beach, nice family dinner at our favorite restaurant. My parents came down to visit for the day on Saturday. I rarely see them without my sisters (especially since my sister and her 2 kids have been staying with them since May off and on), so it was really nice to see them relaxed and having fun. I even went boogie boarding with DD2 yesterday, and I'm not even in traction or anything today!!!

I'm packing up today to head back from our beach house in between working. DH and DD1 left at like 6am this morning. I swear, the two of them are missing the gene that encourages them to be quiet... so I was also up before 6 today. We will head home at some point today, working around a 1pm meeting and a 610 therapy call.

It's the kids' last week off from school - they go back Wednesday after Labor Day. I am still buying books, haven't gone to get other school supplies. The school book website is at least twice as much as other site, but some books are only available on the school site... so I'm just sporadically ordering... which makes me feel very disorganized.

We have a lot going on this week, and we're not even back to school until after Labor Day. Lots of soccer, orientations for DD1, appointments, etc. I was hoping for more of a laid-back end to summer, but it is what it is - oh well!

[librarychica]

I woke up in a terrible mood this morning and was not nice to my family. Now I feel really guilty about it.

It’s hot and humid and gross out. I don’t want to do my job. Whine whine etc.

Also my car battery died so I can’t run the errands I planned to do over lunch until after H gets home.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be over here, in a mood.

[mommyatty]

twinmomma- uh, you’re not pregnant, are you? That’s the only sign I had of pregnancy for the first month or so. I know you’re young so just putting it out there!

DS was under the weather all weekend, as was I. Not really sick, just low grade fever, sore throat, and tired. So he skipped his activities and just laid low. I still did all my normal crap like grocery shopping and a trip to Costco.

[waverly]

Really fun weekend, carnival and P!nk concert. I was pretty tired afterwards and wasn't very functional yesterday. I don't feel like working today.

[twinmomma]

mommyatty, hard no on the pregnancy! I have an IUD, so it would be a big deal if something slipped by. And I did actually take a home test when all this pain started just to stop my own paranoia. Definitely negative.

According to the doctor today, I just have young, dense breasts that are riddled with benign cysts, so that can just flare up and cause discomfort and there's nothing to really do about it but treat the pain when it happens. Relieved it's nothing serious, annoyed that there's nothing to do besides just deal with it. Gotta love that American healthcare for women...

[mae0111]

twinmomma, if you're super uncomfortable, the can aspirate the cysts. I had a questionable mammogram and ultrasound a couple of years ago, so I had to go in for a biopsy. When I was all prepped for the procedure, a different dr came in and was like, "I have no idea why you're here right now, that really looks like a cyst to me. Do you still want the biopsy?" I said yes, because I didn't want an "I'm pretty sure it's fine" diagnosis when I could get a "it's totally fine don't worry" diagnosis...

When she stuck the needle in to cyst to get a cell sample it popped immediately and never came back.

The procedure is NOT comfortable, and you'd need ice packs in your bra for a few days, but it might be better than what you're dealing with???

[rere]

Wonderful weekend. Ds stayed until the very last minute Sunday. It was so mice to have him some extra days. He had so much fun and some much needed downtime at home. He got his truck back together and running. You would have thought him,dh and his best friend won the superbowl or something when that thing started. It's super loud, I'm sure our neighbors are thrilled.

Dd starts school today officially in the nursing program today.

A lower key week for me. Dh and I are meeting a couple of times this week after work to pick out cabinets and counter tops for our new kitchen.

[186momx]

twinmomma, my GYN suggested I try evening primrose oil pills to help with my breast pain/tenderness. I also got the you have large dense breasts and should just deal with it crap. I will say the evening primrose oil pills do seem to help and when I forget them I notice more pain.

Thursday was flat tire, popping dog in the car stress. Friday was alignment issues at the dealership (got an alignment on Tuesday after getting new tires Friday and felt it being worse than when I brought it in so took it back). It does have issues the tech agreed so they will be redoing the entire alignment on Thursday.

DD and I had girls' weekend as DH was off paintballing. We had a very low-key weekend where we did a huge cleanup of the spare room where everything seems to get dumped. I have a full trunk to drop off at St Vincent after work today.

sdlaura how are you feeling? My brother got shingles in his 20s and was miserable for a month and it was on his torso during summer.

[waverly]

DH hasn't been making sense lately. Friday we got in a stupid argument that was resolved fairly quickly but it was dumb.

Yesterday, DD says she wants to join cross country. I asked her 2-3 weeks ago and she said no. I asked again the beginning of last week, and she said no. So now, I try to register her online- it goes through, but I am still thinking it is too late. I call the front office, they think registration has closed. The coach never responds to my email. DD has no phone. DH argues with me that she needs to figure it out, and refuses to do any of the work of contacting the school or DD. So I tell her teacher to just send her home on the bus even though DH disagrees and thinks she should show up to practice. If registration is closed and she has no phone then just showing up isn't going to do anything, plus it is a heat wave and feel like 100 degrees out. What a day to start a new sport. So anyway, IMO a valuable lesson on signing up for things the 3 times that your mom asks you about it. Instead, she gave me attitude about it.  And now DH is giving me attitude. Stop telling me what to do and then saying you aren't going to do anything.  If you want it to be a certain way then you (DH) needs to do the work.  Plus originally he told me to call the school office, and now that I called the school office he just didn't like what they said?  

I think his weirdness the last 2 weeks have been about his work, but I am ready for regular DH to come back.  And for his job to stop being so nitpicky.  DH (and the team that he manages) is literally the only people doing anything, and everyone else sits around and criticizes.   It sounds like everyone is just in meetings all day so the actual work work is being done by his team which are programming.  

[sdlaura]

I’m trying to take it easy this week because shingles….but of course that’s easier said than done. DH handled the kids all day yesterday while I was in bed but didn’t make lunches, put away laundry, get the house ready for the cleaner to come….luckily I woke up feeling a little better this morning. I only had one big in person meeting this week and had a couple coworkers going with me, so they’ll handle it while I just listen in over zoom. My face is a mess so I don’t plan to be in person or on camera for anything this week. Hopefully I’m good to go to New York next week for one night for work.

Soccer starts for both little boys this week, and we have middle school back to school night, but otherwise it’s nice to be getting into a groove with it being the third week of school for the kids.

[erbear]

UUUUGGGHHHH. We started back at school today (just meetings; kids don't come until next week) but it is awful. I need more summer. I am not ready.

[macmars45]

Today was the first contracted day of the school year. Tomorrow is the first day! I'm so excited to see the students and get back into routine! Only bummer is I got switched from bus duty to crosswalk duty. I am not a fan of hoping the parents aren't distracted and won't run me over. Parents please please pay attention so I can keep kids and myself safe!

[mommyatty]

We increased DS’s ADHD medication over the weekend. This is the first time DS has told us he thought he needed an increase because he could “feel the medicine evaporating after Specials class” (specials is PE or music, depending on the day). Today he came home and said today was “one of his best days ever actually.” So fingers crossed we have the right dose!

[supertrooper1]

I saw a black bear cub in the wild over the weekend! It's the first time I've seen a bear up close in the wild other than the black dot out in a field at Yellowstone years ago. Beau and I were less than 5 minutes into our first trail on our bikes near a campground and it ran in front of Beau and up a tree. We were worried that momma bear was close by so I didn't take the time to get my phone out to take a picture. Plus we didn't want to scare it any more than it already was. I think Beau got it on his GoPro.

We had a good weekend. We rode over 100 miles which is a lot of me. It even rained our first day and we were still able to get a 30 mile ride in. We found a great view point 5700 feet up a mountain on a trail we had been avoiding because we knew had too much cliffy exposure, but the first part to the view point was easy. We were able to make my mom happy with this trip too by picking up peaches and pears for her to can.

I'm back to work today and Beau is supposed to be off. But his crew is cleaning out the shop bay that they're giving up the lease on and he's pissed because of another decision by his office manager. He's been upset about how she's been handling the shop bay the whole time, but today just set him off.

[sdlaura]

I just got confirmation that the big prospective client I pitched to two weeks ago wants to hire us. On Thursday I got a call that the other client I pitched to that week wants to hire us. I’m pretty sure that crazy week of work travel while school was starting is what caused the extreme stress that led to me getting shingles. But I’ve now more than replaced the lost revenue from the big client that didn’t renew our contract a month ago.

Since I’m an investment person and not a sales person, winning new clients means a truckload of more work. But for now I’ll just focus on how my CEO just called to congratulate me. And I can take credit for some of the sourcing on both of these, which should equal some bonuses, and that will help with our travel over the holidays. So I’ll focus on the good side of this for now

[campermom]

Moving back to a different preferred school last year gave me such relief, but I am finding that each year I am losing steam. Granted I’m still doing a good job, but I don’t have the passion I used to. I have really been starting to think about what retirement might look like.

[twinmomma]

186momx I'll have to look into that as an option. mae0111, since there are so many, I don't think they would do that. It's not like one big cyst that's bothering me, apparently there's like a half dozen hanging out in there. I guess the pain can come and go based on my cycle, except that with an IUD I don't have any clue about my cycle timing since I haven't had a period in 12 years.

[supertrooper1]

My dad ended up in the hospital last night. My mom called at 10pm saying that she thought he was having a heart attack and was leaving by ambulance. Beau and I ended up beating the ambulance to the hospital. Ended up not being a heart attack but enough fluid in his lungs to cause heart failure and was unable to breath. He was stable and telling stories at 2am when we left and he was waiting to be transferred to a room. We don't know if he'll come home today, but I don't see him staying more than another night if he doesn't. He was trying to talk the nurse into letting him leave at 1am so he could go home and mow his hay field to hay this weekend. Even at 81 he never stops thinking about farming.