Tuesday randoms

[gretchenindisguise]

sonrisa - we will collectively ride at dawn for your DC. What the actual fuck.

[shauni27]

Oct 15, 2024 11:58:51 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

A counselor on a school weeklong overnight trip (not a teacher - someone from the hosting organization) bullied my kid, calling them diseased and saying they shouldn’t be allowed to sleep in the cabins with other children.

I am INFURIATED. 

We need to know how you responded and how your kiddo is doing. We are going to need to know that this was resolved/handled appropriately and if not, we will be riding at dawn.

[cricketwife]

Oct 15, 2024 10:06:48 GMT -5 emilyinchile said:

How is it only Tuesday when this week has already been 57 days long?

In related news, my boss is absolutely impossible lately. Every day I think about my salary to avoid quitting in a fit of rage. Hope your days are less angry!

Ugh. I'm sorry.  I relate because I'm totally miserable at work too. I have a completely incompetent colleague that I've dealt with the for last two years. She's totally coniving. Now we have new boss and he, let's jusy say, seems to like polar opposite of me on every topic/issue/problem.  ARGH. My salary isn't even that great, but it's better than not gettinga paycheck. 


ETA: Clearly I didn't read all the replies before posting.  sonrisa!! I'm enraged on your behalf!!!

[pixy0stix]

Oct 15, 2024 11:58:51 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

A counselor on a school weeklong overnight trip (not a teacher - someone from the hosting organization) bullied my kid, calling them diseased and saying they shouldn’t be allowed to sleep in the cabins with other children.

Fuck them, fuck their family, fuck the organization, fuck everything they touch. May their nose rot off with syphilis. 

[pixy0stix]

I had a tooth extracted on Friday. Zero stars. Do not recommend.

[blondemoment123]

sonrisa Omg! How is your LO? No child ever deserves to be spoken to like that. I'm so sorry!

[1confused1]

sonrisa total reading fail, I thought the counselor called you to tell you a kid was bullying your kid.

I’m so sorry!!!

[circa1978]

sonrisa We are collectively ready to cut someone for you and DC. I am profoundly angry on your behalf and so sorry for them.

[rubytue]

sonrisa, I’m in the mob screaming burn it down.

We got back last night from 5 days in Iceland. It was a bit of a trial trip for me, as to if it’s worth a short trip to Europe. Also, my first ever guided bus tour. Overnight flights suck, especially arriving at 5am, coffee shops don’t open until 7:30, and despite promising earlier, room not ready until 3pm. Plus, we apparently arrived just in time for the first snow of the year. So we were wandering Reykjavik on no sleep, in cold rain. The bus tour was good. H was happy to get to look at scenery rather than drive, but being on someone else’s schedule left no downtime and few food options. I think we’d rather look for one of those where they plan out where you stop, but you get a rental car. Anyone have a recommendation for this kind of trip in France? I’ve mostly seen them for Ireland.

And then, as I’m doing laundry this morning, I get a call then a text from my ‘nephew’: “please come. My eye is bleeding.” He is 10 minutes. On my way over, I’m debating between he just blew a blood vessel in his eye and is freaking out and which ER should I take him to. Turned out to be in between. He was doing something and a part flew back and hit him in the face. Cut on the eyelid (blood) , black eye, and maybe a corneal abrasion. But overall ok and just needed some hand holding, and a lecture that if the sand feeling is not getting better in 24 hours, then he is going to have to pay to copay and see someone. It’s been awhile since I was so broke that I’d rather suffer in pain than pay a copay. But… I’m like 95% confident it’ll be ok.

[waverly]

rubytue , I have Iceland on my list. How did you enjoy the rest of the trip? Overnight, we typically arrove at 7 or 8 am with things open, so that is different presumably because it is a shorter flight but leaves the US around the same time frame as other overnight Europe flights. The first day is the worst because I can't sleep on planes.

Did you feel it was worth a short trip to Europe? My husband tried to convince me to go to London for the weekend, but we had no childcare and I said no that 3 days wasn't worth it.

[rubytue]

Oct 15, 2024 14:51:53 GMT -5 waverly said:

rubytue , I have Iceland on my list. How did you enjoy the rest of the trip? Overnight, we typically arrove at 7 or 8 am with things open, so that is different presumably because it is a shorter flight but leaves the US around the same time frame as other overnight Europe flights. The first day is the worst because I can't sleep on planes.

Did you feel it was worth a short trip to Europe? My husband tried to convince me to go to London for the weekend, but we had no childcare and I said no that 3 days wasn't worth it.

Yeah. It was only a 6 hour flight. Left at 7pm. And we got in 45 minutes early. And then transfer from the airport. I wonder if 8am would be better? Less of a complete mind fuck than 4 or 5am. Ireland was like 7am and messed us up, but I don’t really recall the same level of crankiness from H. Perhaps that’s an objects in the rear view mirror thing, because it was 10 years ago lol

Im honestly not sure how I feel about a trip shorter than a week. The last day is a full travel day. H says no. He regrets we didn’t add a few days on. I have a friend who does long weekends in Paris, so I wanted to try. It definitely did not help that our arrival hotel room was… small. Like we could barely both stand up in it. No place for suitcases. 

anyway, we did this tour www.gjtravel.is/tour/land-of-northern-lights/ with the add on glacier hike. I feel we got enough of an intro, experienced some of the culture. And we saw northern lights on 3 of 4 nights. Annoyingly, the first night was the night they were visible as far south as VA. We went out briefly, but cold, snow, 30 hours awake, and not knowing what to look for… we didn’t see anything. 

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[mrsukyankee]

sofamonkey, jinkies, hope you both are able to start HRT. It's been a godsend for me.

[MixedBerryJam]

Does anyone have a Bissell SpinWave Pet Robot, 2-in-1 Wet Mop and Dry Vac? Do you like it? OR do you have a different wet/dry robot floor cleaner you’d recommend?

I know my kids are adults now because my son wants a robot vac for his birthday and I’m kind of chuckling to myself about it. Welcome to the club, dude.

[sproctopus]

Oct 15, 2024 11:09:10 GMT -5 TR said:

Oct 15, 2024 10:35:47 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

I got DD tickets for her 8th bday to see Wicked in NYC - so I have 2+ weeks to explain the plot. I really hope she loves it and gets it. She's been so skeptical to hear the different take on the Wizard of Oz story and has asked if it's going to be mostly singing. I think she's up for it and will love it, but there's a piece of me scared it's going to be a swing and a miss. I love Broadway and really want this to be something we do together every year.

lol yes, girl, it is. I hope she loves it! I don't understand people who don't love musicals.

Hate is not a strong enough word to describe how I feel about musicals 😬

[lilypad1126]

I am home after an exhausting weekend with my family. My sister moved near my parents (from across the country) and it’s a lot. In part bc she’s still not working after her head injury last year, and in part bc every single thing my mom does my sister takes as an offense. My mom asks if she wants to come to dinner? My sister replies “I can afford my own dinner, I don’t need charity.” My mom asks how her day is going, my sister responds “why would you think it wasn’t going well?” It has always been like this, and I’m at the point that I just stay out of their relationship. Which they both hate, lol, bc they want me on their “side”. Sigh.

Anyway, my sister and I went to see Pink last night and had a blast. She hasn’t stopped talking about how much fun she had. My mom was supposed to go with me but given her recent health issues she wasn’t up for. So, even tho my sister drives me nuts 90% of the time, she can be fun to do things with.

[glw]

Oct 15, 2024 19:09:47 GMT -5 sproctopus said:

Oct 15, 2024 11:09:10 GMT -5 TR said:

lol yes, girl, it is. I hope she loves it! I don't understand people who don't love musicals.

Hate is not a strong enough word to describe how I feel about musicals 😬

I hate them, too. This is something I just recently realized, because I had never really been "allowed" to dislike them and just kind of assumed that I enjoyed them because all my friends/family love them. I acted in 4 of them! I worked at a performing arts center as a tech for 4 years. Plus my mom was a musical director for 21 years and I helped out with those to some extent. 
But actually I would rather watch anything else.