Thursday randoms

[blondemoment123]

This is the longest week. I'm saying screw it and leaving a few minutes early today to get Starbucks before DS's soccer game.

I had an amazing conference with DS's teacher! I'm just blown away and so proud of how far he's come 🥹

[gretchenindisguise]

lol. I had just posted too - jinx!

I'm worried about 9yos vision. He has something called retinal pigment epithelium atrophy that has been stable for 2 years (unknown origin). The regular eye doctor on Tuesday is worried that it has gotten worse because she isn't able to correct his vision to 20/20 with glasses. He also needs bifocals - for reading and for distance. But we ended up getting 2 sets of glasses instead because we were worried the bifocals would be too hard for him. We have his follow up with his retinal specialist at the end of October, so I'll be stressing until then.

[ssmjlm]

So we went to 2 classes for meet the teacher last night, math and english. I couldn't make the first two with work, and then her science long term sub said she wasn't going to be there anyway.

When we went up to the math teacher, she said, that when something came up about her 2yo, my child goes "that's why I'm an only child, because my parents didn't want to deal with another kid." OMG KID! Really!?!

She knows we only wanted 1 kid before we even got pregnant, but I guess it's more fun the way she sees it.

[lavenderblue]

I am so scatterbrained this week. I'm trying to get better about putting stuff on my Google calendar, but I still forget half of the time and end up over or double booking myself. This is causing me extra stress that I don't need.

For example, DD has to do 10 hrs of volunteer work as part of her Senior Project. She asked me to do it with her. No problem. Booked this Friday and another Friday in 2 weeks. Except I also booked myself for a doctors appointment on Friday which is like 30+ minutes away an hour before our volunteer slot. She wanted me to reschedule our volunteer hours but I made a big stink about sticking with things, and now I might need to cancel anyway. Ugh.

[gummybear]

Yesterday I got the grand idea I was going to make my own fall garland for the front door. I decided to collect pine cones on my walk with the dog bc there’s a line of huge pine trees on the pathway at the park across from my neighborhood that are currently dropping their cones. So the my big brick house dog and I are rummaging in the trees with my huge bag and when we emerged from the cluster onto the path, we walked directly in front of this elderly woman and her equally ancient toy poodle. We def gave her a little jump and she def thought I was crazy mumbling about looking for pubes cones.

OF COURSE minutes later I get a text from my friend asking why I was trying to scare her kindly 91-year-old neighbor and her dog 🤣 She was driving by the exact moment we busted through the trees right in front of the poor woman 🤣

[ssmjlm]

Sept 19, 2024 9:33:22 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Yesterday I got the grand idea I was going to make my own fall garland for the front door. I decided to collect pine cones on my walk with the dog bc there’s a line of huge pine trees on the pathway at the park across from my neighborhood that are currently dropping their cones. So the my big brick house dog and I are rummaging in the trees with my huge bag and when we emerged from the cluster onto the path, we walked directly in front of this elderly woman and her equally ancient toy poodle. We def gave her a little jump and she def thought I was crazy mumbling about looking for pubes cones.

OF COURSE minutes later I get a text from my friend asking why I was trying to scare her kindly 91-year-old neighbor and her dog 🤣 She was driving by the exact moment we busted through the trees right in front of the poor woman 🤣

DEAD.

[expectantsteelerfan]

Sept 19, 2024 9:33:22 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Yesterday I got the grand idea I was going to make my own fall garland for the front door. I decided to collect pine cones on my walk with the dog bc there’s a line of huge pine trees on the pathway at the park across from my neighborhood that are currently dropping their cones. So the my big brick house dog and I are rummaging in the trees with my huge bag and when we emerged from the cluster onto the path, we walked directly in front of this elderly woman and her equally ancient toy poodle. We def gave her a little jump and she def thought I was crazy mumbling about looking for pubes cones.

Pube cones, hahaha.  I'm 12.  

[expectantsteelerfan]

I posted that DD got a concussion last Friday. Her head is still hurting, so she's been taking Tylenol/Advil most days. But DD has anxiety, and she's not great with taking medication. She hates the tastes of chewables/liquids, but though she can swallow pills, if they are bigger than Zyrtec she struggles and it becomes a whole thing. I bought a couple different variety of pills to try, but she's been doing ok with the Advil, but sticking to chewables for tylenol, but overall she's only taking them when her head hurts REALLY bad because she hates it.
And then last night she did the chewable tylenol, and she drank a carbonated drink after it, and she said she was 'choking' on the drink. Like, she couldn't swallow it. And then she had an anxiety spiral about why she has such a hard time swallowing thing and if she might have an enlarged thyroid (thyroid issues run in her family so we talk about that at every Dr. appt.), so that was fun. And now I'm trying to decide if I should just keep repeating that the carbonation made it hard to swallow for some reason (she seemed to accept that after a while), or if I need to talk to her Dr. about the fact that she does seem to have issues swallowing/food gets stuck more than the average person, or if it's just a symptom of her anxiety about it causing it to be more of an issue.

[circa1978]

I'm probably lucky this is the first time this is an issue but I have an employee who just...gets on my nerves. She is a perfectly nice person, but she's scattered and really struggles with technology, and I think she has maybe been more of a personality hire for most of her career, so she constantly wants to have small talk vs project focus. She's an older gen X and makes a reference almost daily to being old and...that's not a great look. GenX basically invented the technology we are using - like, stop it.

[gummybear]

Omg why would it auto correct to that? I’ve never typed pubes on my phone! 🤣

[wildrice]

Sept 19, 2024 9:43:32 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Omg why would it auto correct to that? I’ve never typed pubes on my phone! 🤣

Sure, I believe you.... 

[candreco]

We leave in a week for SIL's wedding handfasting ceremony, and I am all over again at a loss on what to wear for most of the weekend. Casual Friday evening dinner in a park, noon handfasting/nature walk/bbq (dress code comfortable forest casual, but also beige/off-white and dresses/skirts encouraged for women, hunter green and brown for men), and dinner & drinks at an unspecified restaurant that evening. They specifically did not request RSVPs for anything other than the Saturday afternoon stuff.

They want a simple, casual weekend, but do not seem to have done any of the planning/prep that's needed to actually make it that. Like, how on earth are they handling food for Friday or Saturday evening if they don't want RSVPs for those? I am trying not to judge, as everyone is of course entitled to whatever kind of wedding they want, but I feel like they're setting themselves up for stress and disappointment. It's going to be interesting...

[TR]

Also watch out for bugs in the pine cones, gummybear. I feel like I remember someone here doing a craft with pine cones and a spider crawled out of one onto her dining room table. Ick.

[meanie]

Pubes cones legit made me laugh out loud

I forgot how ancient schools are and had to run outside to get cell service a bunch of times while DD was at her volleyball game last night. I was trying to work and use my phone as a hotspot, luckily we didn't have any fires to put out but I was so stressed out. I get to do it again 2 more times before H comes back from his work trip, yippee.

[lust2hart]

candreco, I think I'd do a tan linen - either jumpsuit, or pants/skirt with a light colored top. Linen seems "comfortable forest casual" to me.

[maudefindlay]

blondemoment123 even if your DS is out there at practice dancing or rolling around I still think he is getting some benefit from going to practices and games. I'd just laugh when DS2 used to play pretend out on the field. To him he was having fun.

[dcn]

I caught whatever my kids had and finally after 10 days I’m not coughing and feel almost better. Whatever that virus was it was not fun. Both kids missed 4 days of school bc of it and so much coughing. Someone has been sick in our house since before Labor Day. Fingers crossed we have a healthy streak!

[bears]

Sept 19, 2024 9:52:34 GMT -5 TR said:

Also watch out for bugs in the pine cones, gummybear. I feel like I remember someone here doing a craft with pine cones and a spider crawled out of one onto her dining room table. Ick.

I did an acorn craft once and even baked the acorns to kill bugs... Still, larvae emerged a few months later!

[candreco]

Sept 19, 2024 9:57:56 GMT -5 lust2hart said:

candreco, I think I'd do a tan linen - either jumpsuit, or pants/skirt with a light colored top. Linen seems "comfortable forest casual" to me.

Honestly that part is the least of my worries, it's at least got guidelines and I have a few options (though shoes are going to be a challenge with the nature walk in there). It's the suspicion that they're going to be roping family into food prep/serving during the BBQ (I guess I could pack an apron 😂), and clothes for the rest of the weekend.

[lavenderblue]

Sept 19, 2024 9:52:34 GMT -5 TR said:

Also watch out for bugs in the pine cones, gummybear . I feel like I remember someone here doing a craft with pine cones and a spider crawled out of one onto her dining room table. Ick.

Yes! You want to bake them before you do any crafts to make sure that any critters are killed off.

[Leeham Rimes]

I. Hate. Kids. Sports. It’s been so bastardized into “the only thing that matters is sports” and there’s no real casual option once kids are in their teens. The boys are on a team (different age groups and they don’t schedule games so that you can easily get to both without having both parents available), I suppose it’s “travel” but the past few years all games have been within an hour drive, which is fine and 4 tournaments a year. Also fine. This year, they changed it and it’s a lot more intense than in years past. If I had known this I’d never have signed up bc I don’t have the time or travel funds for what they’re expecting.
We’ve had a lot of health problems in the past few months, hospitalizations, surgeries, more surgeries likely up ahead so life has been very hard. We’re struggling in every which way.

Then I just got this text on the group chat from the coach to the team/parents and I’m just—“ick”.

“OK guys I really need you to start making an effort to prioritize Soccer number one. Things come up here and there and we all understand that but when we’re short numbers, the other guys have to work twice as hard and pick up the slack. thanks for understanding and look forward to meeting you all this weekend. We have a short meeting after the Sunday game so that we can get to know each other and you guys can ask any questions of me that you have.”

So, I understand that not having enough players on a team is bad but prioritizing soccer number one? Listen buddy, soccer isn’t even on the top 10 right now. You get what you get.

I’m ready to take both kids out and just lose the many thousands of dollars that will cost me bc CHILDRENS soccer THAT I PAY DEARLY FOR will never in my life be number one. Not ever ever ever.

I hate kids sports.

[mrsukyankee]

Sept 19, 2024 9:42:36 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

I'm probably lucky this is the first time this is an issue but I have an employee who just...gets on my nerves. She is a perfectly nice person, but she's scattered and really struggles with technology, and I think she has maybe been more of a personality hire for most of her career, so she constantly wants to have small talk vs project focus. She's an older gen X and makes a reference almost daily to being old and...that's not a great look. GenX basically invented the technology we are using - like, stop it.

I'm the older Gen-Xer who teaches all the other technophobes on my team how to do things.

[lust2hart]

Leeham Rimes, wow, that guy has some nerve. I fully support you texting back exactly that - "I gotta be honest, Steve, my kid's soccer team will never be my #1 priority. My kid will be there when we can make it."

[followyourarrow]

I got through my mid-term last night. I think I only have 3 more exams for my MBA, assuming the capstone doesn't have tests and it is papers and projects.

There's more drama with future SIL and she asked us to do something that involved illegal money. NOPE NOPE NOPE. We're setting hard boundaries with her. We'd cut her out completely if it weren't for her kids, and unfortunately, we may still have to.

[Susie]

I have location sharing enabled on my iPhone so H can see where I am.  I consider it a safety feature for when I am out on long runs, plus he uses it to meet me mid-run on the weekend to bring me extra water/nutrition.  My runs are now long enough (this weekend is 18 miles) that it's hard to predict exactly when I'll be at a certain point, so it's helpful.

Lately it is not updating.  Today it still tells him my location is at an airport that I last traveled through two days ago.  Sharing settings on my phone are still to share my location with him.  What do we need to adjust?

[shauni27]

Leeham Rimes, remind me how old the kiddos are?

[Leeham Rimes]

Sept 19, 2024 10:59:59 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Leeham Rimes, remind me how old the kiddos are?

12 and 14

[Leeham Rimes]

Sept 19, 2024 10:54:53 GMT -5 Susie said:

I have location sharing enabled on my iPhone so H can see where I am.  I consider it a safety feature for when I am out on long runs, plus he uses it to meet me mid-run on the weekend to bring me extra water/nutrition.  My runs are now long enough (this weekend is 18 miles) that it's hard to predict exactly when I'll be at a certain point, so it's helpful.

Lately it is not updating.  Today it still tells him my location is at an airport that I last traveled through two days ago.  Sharing settings on my phone are still to share my location with him.  What do we need to adjust?

Mine will freeze sometimes so I have to turn my phone off and on.

[1confused1]

Sept 19, 2024 10:13:57 GMT -5 Leeham Rimes said:

I. Hate. Kids. Sports. It’s been so bastardized into “the only thing that matters is sports” and there’s no real casual option once kids are in their teens. The boys are on a team (different age groups and they don’t schedule games so that you can easily get to both without having both parents available), I suppose it’s “travel” but the past few years all games have been within an hour drive, which is fine and 4 tournaments a year. Also fine. This year, they changed it and it’s a lot more intense than in years past. If I had known this I’d never have signed up bc I don’t have the time or travel funds for what they’re expecting.
We’ve had a lot of health problems in the past few months, hospitalizations, surgeries, more surgeries likely up ahead so life has been very hard. We’re struggling in every which way.

Then I just got this text on the group chat from the coach to the team/parents and I’m just—“ick”.

“OK guys I really need you to start making an effort to prioritize Soccer number one. Things come up here and there and we all understand that but when we’re short numbers, the other guys have to work twice as hard and pick up the slack. thanks for understanding and look forward to meeting you all this weekend. We have a short meeting after the Sunday game so that we can get to know each other and you guys can ask any questions of me that you have.”

So, I understand that not having enough players on a team is bad but prioritizing soccer number one? Listen buddy, soccer isn’t even on the top 10 right now. You get what you get.

I’m ready to take both kids out and just lose the many thousands of dollars that will cost me bc CHILDRENS soccer THAT I PAY DEARLY FOR will never in my life be number one. Not ever ever ever.

I hate kids sports.

How old are these kids?! That’s ridiculous!

[1confused1]

Sept 19, 2024 11:01:25 GMT -5 Leeham Rimes said:

Sept 19, 2024 10:59:59 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Leeham Rimes, remind me how old the kiddos are?

12 and 14

Yea, no. At 12 and 14 it should be fun so they don’t burn out. Coach Steve needs to be told it’s not that serious.