Wednesday Randoms

[mrsukyankee]

Aug 28, 2024 13:54:38 GMT -5 cville said:

You ever crack open a lacroix or diet coke in the office and think to yourself "I wonder if anyone would notice if this was a beer?"


Just me?

I have a bottle of mouthwash that I use in my office, swirl and then go to the bathroom (next door) to spit out. I always wonder if someone sees me in my window doing this and thinks I'm doing a shot of alcohol or something.

[sadlebred]

Aug 28, 2024 11:27:13 GMT -5 glitzy07 said:

Aug 28, 2024 11:24:55 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

My wrist is itchy beyond itchy, and I can't figure out what is causing it....something from Monday's surgery. It's red and inflamed.

Did you have any tape in the area where it's itchy? I found out from my c-sections that I'm apparently allergic to the type of tape that was used to hold my bandages on and I get SUPER itchy from it.

Not when I woke up. They are aware of my allergy. My hand and wrist were wrapped with thick gauze and an ace bandage.

[sadlebred]

Aug 28, 2024 11:50:38 GMT -5 stemmie said:

sadlebred ,

The antiseptic skin cleanser used before surgery makes me itch like a SOB for days.

I wonder if that is it...

[holly116]

DD has been accepted into a special performance dance ensemble this week and they have lost their minds. They just emailed out, the Wednesday afternoon before a holiday weekend, that the first rehearsals are this Friday and Saturday.

I am so irrationally annoyed by this, I sent an immediate email stating that DD will not be there due to a family trip out of town that has been planned for months.

DH was against DD adding this, she has normal classes 3 nights a week plus Saturday mornings, but I advocated for her. She's willing to use her babysitting money to pay half the cost and wants to do it so much. This adds Saturday afternoons, plus apparently, some Fridays leading up to performances and she won't be making those because she has band and dance team at the home football games. There aren't enough hours in the day and I hate that she's reached a level where it's nearly all-consuming. She's only 14.

We haven't paid a thing yet, I think we're going to have to have some hard choices discussions with her this weekend.

[wanderingback]

Aug 28, 2024 11:49:17 GMT -5 stemmie said:

livinitup, Sounds like a science nerd teacher sharing enthusiasm and that's great. If it were me, I would say something along the lines of being able to separate the contributions of an individual while recognizing the sketchy parts.

wanderingback, I'm glad things turned out OK for you. DH had a colleague from work who flew to Nice for a meeting two days after returning from Tokyo, so his sleep was all jacked up. He was normally a very fastidious man. He took a sleeping pill intending to reset his clock and sleep. When the alarm went off he slept through it. They called from downstairs and he slept through that. The fire men knocking on his door woke him and he opened the door in boxers. They threw a sheet over him and physicals carried him kicking and screaming into the street where he tried to fashion himself something akin to a toga from what his team said. I don't think he ever recovered.

My small hall bath refresh is suffering from project creep. I went over to take care of mom's cat while she's out of town. I think she'd, um, thinking outside the box, as it were. Surely a 13 year old cat would pee at least once in 24 hours. She hides on me, so assesses her health is tricky. She came out for DH; he said she seemed OK.

Lol omg that is a wild story, especially in front of coworkers!

[wanderingback]

Aug 28, 2024 9:15:06 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Aug 28, 2024 7:43:16 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Also, most people were dressed in regular clothes so I guess a lot of people sleep naked?! I was one of only maybe 4 people in our huge hotel I saw that were in actual pajamas and my partner said that’s cause "adults don’t wear pajamas" lol. Even the other baby we saw wasn’t even in cute little baby pajamas, they were just in a onesie!

Well, I generally sleep naked or in leggings and a tshirt. But either way, I would want to put on a bra, especially if I was walking down 16 flights is stairs (for my own comfort). At that point, I’d probably thrown a dress or sweatshirt over my tshirt and bra.  I have walked my dog in my robe, but I think I would feel like I need to put clothes on to be seen in public, even at a 2am fire alarm lol

I did actually put on a comfy bra cause yeah these recently just finished breastfeeding boobs did not need to be swinging down 16 flights of stairs without some support!

[Nonny]

I generally sleep in joggers and a t-shirt or tank top, and maybe a sweatshirt if it's winter. I've also been known to throw on shoes and go to the store, library, or even a very casual restaurant that way. (Not the same ones I've actively been sleeping in, but basically the same lounging outfit.)

And I would definitely put on shoes before evacuating. My number one pet peeve in horror and/or disaster movies is people running around without shoes. A broken toe, a nail through the foot, any kind of foot damage = eaten by zombies / captured by aliens / death by tetanus in the apocalypse.

[pixy0stix]

Good news! Apparently I just had to worry about the background check and it would magically appear. I'm all good to go now!

[rubytue]

Aug 28, 2024 13:54:38 GMT -5 cville said:

You ever crack open a lacroix or diet coke in the office and think to yourself "I wonder if anyone would notice if this was a beer?"


Just me?

My H one unloaded coors light right next to the Diet Coke into the fridge. In the morning, I loaded up my lunchbox with Diet Coke, and one coors light. And then, I was heading to a meeting and dropped a fresh can into my koozie and headed to the meeting. Halfway down the hall, I glanced at the can and noticed the tab top looked... weird. A few seconds of processing and I realized what was going on. But the silver bullet looks very much like a Diet Coke when in a koozie. 

And that dears is the story of the time I almost drank a beer in a government meeting 🤣

[ssmjlm]

My car issues continue. I do not want a new car. We have DH’s truck payment for at least another 18m.

Since April my car has had:
-New bumper thanks to someone rolling into me
-new air conditioning
-new brakes
-2 new tires to match the two I got a couple years ago

So today I get in the car, start it up, all is well. Halfway through backing out, speakers gone. No sound through any means or the phone.

DH thinks it’s a fuse. Which great, but if the fuse keeps going out, I can’t keep replacing constantly.

This is on top of a new air conditioning unit for our upstairs AND exterior paint that turned into rotten wood replacement.

I could REALLY use a break.

That promotion would have been nice for some extra money.

[marie]

I had my first at age 24, which is definitely on the younger side. She is now entering 10th and I see so many high school Facebook friends posting pictures of their kids going into Kindergarten… it is making me feel old even though we are the same age!

[sent]

Broken air conditioner + jet lag = terrible quality sleep. Ugh. It’s so gross in my house. Saturday can’t get here fast enough to get the ac fixed!