Weekend randoms

[gummybear]

Today is Read To a Therapy Dog at the library so there’s going to be LOTS of dogs at work and I’m SO EXCITED!!

I’ve been working a lot and on my day off tomorrow I have to take DD2 to a XC meet 2+ hours away. Not looking forward to the early wake up but at least DST gives us an extra hour. Plus it’s good to be busy bc I’m driving myself mad with anxiety about the election. Related, I’ve actually felt way more optimistic about it bc this whole tantrum about Bucks County “voter suppression” is so laughably, undeniably, ridiculously MUD that I know they must be desperate. The PA interbals must be baaaad. Cheers!

[hermione]

My husband has pneumonia which is a bummer. The kid is spending the night at my brother and SIL’s while I go see Steve Martin and Martin Short with friends. Hopefully basking in the silence of an empty house will help my husband feel better.

[Jalapeñomel]

We were supposed to go to the dentist, but N is coughing too much. It’s also cold, after80 degree temps for 2 days, so I’m not sure if I can stomach the playground!

[bears]

A raccoon ate the face off of DD's jack-o'-lantern. His toothpick teeth are scattered all over the porch.

I am bummed because my favorite contestant was knocked off GBBO this week AND my favorite character in a book series was killed off. Such silly things to be sad about!

[SusanBAnthony]

I have a work trip next week so I am going to vote today. It's open 9-3. I am going to get there at about 8:45-9.

How many hours will I have to wait?

[notsopicky]

Nov 2, 2024 7:13:57 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Today is Read To a Therapy Dog at the library so there’s going to be LOTS of dogs at work and I’m SO EXCITED!!

We had this program at the school I left in the spring, and I'm trying to get it going in my current school library. It is AWESOME. ALL THE DOGS! 💕💕

[notsopicky]

Nov 2, 2024 8:15:32 GMT -5 SusanBAnthony said:

I have a work trip next week so I am going to vote today. It's open 9-3. I am going to get there at about 8:45-9.

How many hours will I have to wait?

Bring on the poll! I say 2 hours. 

[mysteriouswife]

I am working on my final paper/project ever for my BA. Monday is my last official day of class. I’m hoping to have this submitted tomorrow. I want to go to a nice dinner and celebrate. H is down to his final weekend too. I’m not sure what he has left. He is continuing to get a masters in the fall of 25. We are going to bask in relaxation and excitement until then.

We both walk in May for graduation. (No winter commencement) the week after is DD graduation from HS takes place.

I’m stupidly excited

[notsopicky]

Nov 2, 2024 8:11:49 GMT -5 bears said:

A raccoon ate the face off of DD's jack-o'-lantern. His toothpick teeth are scattered all over the porch.

We watched a squirrel go to TOWN on a pumpkin up the street this week (I was waiting for my kid's bus). He was precariously perched on the edge of the lid cut munching away. We watched this guy eat and eat and eat; I told H that he was going to be siiiick when he was done. 

[mysteriouswife]

Nov 2, 2024 8:31:48 GMT -5 notsopicky said:

Nov 2, 2024 7:13:57 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Today is Read To a Therapy Dog at the library so there’s going to be LOTS of dogs at work and I’m SO EXCITED!!

We had this program at the school I left in the spring, and I'm trying to get it going in my current school library. It is AWESOME. ALL THE DOGS! 💕💕

DD was able to do this as a kid and loved it. DS likes reading to kittens better. Our local shelter host read to kittens when they are overrun with litters of kittens. The kittens are rolling around and crawling all over the readers. It is so fun

[litebright]

This weekend is both a relief and feeling a bit scattered. I literally did not know what was happening until yesterday, and considering that my kids are in the midst of six straight days off, that was frustrating.

DD1 is at her last day of work for the season, DH is getting ready for a quick road trip with DD2. DD2's XC coach has been spectacularly uncommunicative about the post-season practice schedule (when it would be REALLY great to be able to plan more than 24 hours ahead, thanks!), but she got a pass for today and so she and DH are doing a last-minute hiking trip to southern VA. Meanwhile I had to cancel two semi-local college tours for DD1 because the tech schedule for the fall play was just communicated to her earlier this week and it meant she has had to be at school every one of their days off this week. SIGH. Good thing we hadn't planned to actually, y'know, fly anywhere.

I'm planning to go to the gym, we have workers here for our reno project so I want to at least be here intermittently today, and I have a to-do list that I want to work through. I'm going to a neighborhood costume party tonight, it is monster-themed and DH and I were going to be the mahna-mahna monsters. But now it's just me, lol, so I'm debating whether to do it anyway because it'll be a lot less recognizable/fun as just ONE of the trio instead of two.

[beerlover]

Slow morning over here. I slept til 9 and having coffee/breakfast on the couch while DS watches junk on YouTube. I really need to delete it again. We don't have it as a general rule, but H and I have re-downloaded it a few times to watch different clips of Harris rallies and then we forget to delete it after, lol.

H is at the PSU/Ohio St. game. I have no clue what I want to do today besides work out. Maybe I will deep clean a few things if I have the motivation.

Two planes just flew over his tailgate at the game. I will post a picture but you'll probably need to zoom in. The one says "women; don't let the government control your playing field" and the other one says "vote reproductive freedom: vote Harris."

[rubytue]

I slept on the couch last night (H sleeps yhe the guest room for snoring reasons). At 1:30 am I rolled over and kicked my knee out and noticed a really cold spot by my foot. Oh, not cold, wet. That’s odd. My ducking dog pissed the bed. Don’t know when. We went out right before bed. And a second time when she got me up. I actually think it was when I didn’t get up fast enough. I spent about 10 minutes dithering over changed the sheets now, sleeping elsewhere, or just avoiding the spot, but it was in the center of the bed.

The rest of the night and this morning she seems normal. No UTI signs. Also, we’ve had her five years and she has never peed inside before. WTF dog.

[candreco]

Nov 2, 2024 8:11:49 GMT -5 bears said:

I am bummed because my favorite contestant was knocked off GBBO this week AND my favorite character in a book series was killed off. Such silly things to be sad about!

I am SO mad about GBBO! I don't even know who to cheer for now.

At DS's last soccer game of the season, then a couple of errands before I maybe finish painting my office. DD is at a 10 hour tech rehearsal day so I might see if there's anything DS wants to do though since it's just us this afternoon.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

My nephew (19) invited me to a Flyers game this afternoon. I’ve never been to an NHL game! I’m going to pick him up and go through my dad’s shirts bc he was a huge fan. I’ve been missing him a lot as we come up in the first anniversary of his death.

[deadwing]

I'm also disappointed with this week's GBBO elimination. I feel like the final 3 is extremely obvious this year. I like it better when it's a tighter race.

I drove by my local early voting location before they opened this morning and the parking lot was packed.

[SusanBAnthony]

Nov 2, 2024 8:32:26 GMT -5 notsopicky said:

Nov 2, 2024 8:15:32 GMT -5 SusanBAnthony said:

I have a work trip next week so I am going to vote today. It's open 9-3. I am going to get there at about 8:45-9.

How many hours will I have to wait?

Bring on the poll! I say 2 hours. 

Exciting update: 50 minutes total.

I arrive at 8:40 and the line was halfway around the building (100+ people?).

They let us in at 8:55.

I waited in the line inside until 9:20 and voted and was out at 9:30.

When I left there were at least twice as many people in line, so showing up at the beginning was definitely the way to go. It was all very well organized. They said in the last presidential election they had 15k early voters in the county, and as of today they are at 30k and still growing.

[macmars45]

H and I are heading to the Seattle area this afternoon for friendsgiving with our friends. It'll be a quick trip; over and back in roughly 24 hours. I'm looking forward to seeing my friends. DS(8) is staying home with my parents overnight and my twin sister tomorrow morning so it's kid free relaxation time.

PDQ

H and I are really worried about one couple. The H lost his job 10.5 months ago and hasn't found another. It's weighing heavily on the whole family including the wife & two kids. The whole industry he was employed in is struggling so job hunting is dismal. It's a hard situation. Thankfully they seem to be doing okay financially (so far) between unemployment and savings.

PDQ

[Roc A Bee]

I’m in Vegas. I’m going to need a vacation from my vacation.

[blondemoment123]

I took my car to the dealer to diagnose the mystery squeaking sound and luckily that was an easy fix.

Now I'm tacking the closet and will meet DS and STBXH later at the park. We still need a few odds and ends for his birthday party next week so we'll pick those up and order the cake.

[7costanza]

I’m getting a pedicure with my mom, sister and niece later for my birthday. I’m a little annoyed because I asked my mom to include my boys if my niece is going to be invited to something and she didn’t do that, and has rarely done it. She wants everything to be a “girls day”, probably because her H sucks and she wants an excuse to not include him. But at least my DS1 would enjoy getting a pedi!

H and I are having a date night later, our first in over 6 months. Looking forward to a kid free night!

[isabel]

So far this morning I have helped DS2 with a crystal growing science kit and scrolled the internets while drinking coffee.

I have a very unlike me desire to go shopping so I think I’m going to head to the outlets 20 minutes south of me and see what I can find. I want some new fall/winter clothes. I haven’t shopped beyond a needed piece or two here and there in years.

Also finally replacing some of my plants that didn’t make it when I killed a bunch of them, so I’m going to go to the good garden store on my way back.

Our weekend overall should be pretty low key. DS2 has a birthday party tomorrow that I roped DH into taking him to and then his last soccer game of the season. Those are our only obligations. Looking forward to relaxing.

[beerlover]

I'm feeling a little bothered by something that's stupid. DS has a neighbor friend who is in his class at school also. This boy was knocking on the door of my house about every day this summer looking for DS to play, and they played together a lot and seem to get along well. He went to DS's birthday party in August.

This boy lives with his mom (who lives by us) and goes to his dad's house every other weekend. DS informed me this weekend that neighbor friend was having a sleepover for his birthday at the dad's house. For more relevant info, the dad lives with his g/f who also has another 8 year old boy in their class, so he's kind of a stepbrother of sorts to neighbor friend, and the kids who were invited that I'm aware of, they all play flag football together (and dad is a coach). So yea, I understand how this probably came about and I'm just a little sad (and I realize it's irrational) for DS that I thought this boy was a close friend and he wasn't invited. But, the rational part of me also knows that maybe this kid didn't have a lot of control over who was invited, and I also don't know the dad at all.

DS didn't seem bothered by any of this, for what its worth. But, I think I'm just starting to realize that DS isn't one of the sporty kids (which is obviously fine, but lots of friendships are based off this), so I'm going to have to put more effort into helping him build relationships, or encourage him to invite other kids over that he likes, or something. Also, H and I are a bit older (and not from this town) compared to most of the parents of his classmates who also all went to high school together, so of course they're getting their kids together when they're already friends.

Feel free to tell me this is all stupid, but maybe be gentle lol.

[waverly]

beerlover, parent kid clique dynamics get complicated.

DS is part of a friend group with neighbor boy. We are friends with the parents. DD is not in the friend group for their age and got dropped from birthday parties and Halloween. She has a great friend group; it’s just not the same. This other clique is secrative and have had many get togethers while leaving us out. Meanwhile, I’m carpooling her daughter way more than she ever thought about doing carpool. 🙄

As my kids are older I’m in the process of taking back “my friends” or “adult friends” and leaving behind those that were tied to my kids or family friends. It’s a tough road to navigate but I’m seeing some rewards after years of catering to my child’s social needs and hosting the entire neighborhood. The kids need to arrange all their own plans and I’m done social engineering. I’m also done with the cliques. I’m still friends with some of the moms but only the ones that have separated the kids group from our friendship. Social engineering works until about age 10/ 5th grade and then I think it takes major effort to keep those big groups together. Only the moms obsessed with control and popularity are still manipulating things now (age 13/14). I feel a bit sorry for them honestly.

All this to say I’m sorry and hang in there. Keep doing your thing and keep making friends that are not as cliquey.

[styme46]

The procedure I had to blast my kidney stone into tiny pieces only caused it to break in half so I have to go get an x-ray in a couple hours so we can figure out the next step. Thankfully the stupid thing hasn't caused me any pain or anything (we found it on accident when I had an x-ray done for my si joints) so waiting a bit longer isn't a huge deal...just very inconvenient since I have to go so far just for a 2-minute x-ray.

I just meal planned for the entire month since I'll be going to town later so I can shop while there. And in doing so, I realized the next two weeks are jam packed for us between basketball, 4H, and coaching for H.

Ds had a basketball game yesterday and, on the way home we stopped at my bff's ranch to pick up a puppy my il's are getting from them. Ds decided to stay the night there, but I probably won't be able to get over there to get him today because my x-ray is an hour and half to the east of us and the ranch is an hour to the west of us. He'll end up staying there until we meet up for our 4H meeting on Sunday. 

[beerlover]

waverly, I do have plenty of my own friends that are separate from all this, thankfully. It's mostly I get bummed that these moms who went to HS together and already have been friends for a long time, are of course going to do things and invite their kids all together, and then those kids become good friends and mine doesn't get that opportunity. If that makes any sense.

[mrsukyankee]

The weather today was finally not rain. It seems like it's been raining regularly on the weekends. I was able to pull up my peppers, cut up the peppers that were still on the plants & freeze them, plant garlic and clear out a few things. Tomorrow, if it's not raining again, I'll trim all the trees in the front of the house (olive trees - I hate them as they are blocking out the little light we get through our North facing windows, but they are staying until we redo the entire front drive). Tonight, I'm making a stew and just relaxing. So happy about this!

[noodleoo]

Nov 2, 2024 11:48:52 GMT -5 beerlover said:

waverly, I do have plenty of my own friends that are separate from all this, thankfully. It's mostly I get bummed that these moms who went to HS together and already have been friends for a long time, are of course going to do things and invite their kids all together, and then those kids become good friends and mine doesn't get that opportunity. If that makes any sense.

If it doesn’t bother your son, I’d try really hard to let this go. It will only serve to cause you pain/anxiety.

I agree with PP, my older DD is 9 and I’m stepping back from the moms who are her friends parents except for the 1 who has become a good friend of mine outside of our kids. I can see the drama starting and isn’t fair to DD for me to be entangled it in. Besides, I realized I don’t really have a lot in common with the other moms anyway, we only socialized because of the kids.

[mommyatty]

I have one kid with a sinus infection, the other with walking pneumonia, and I don’t feel great. And we have a Diwali party tomorrow that’s late. We go every year, and I’d really like to, but ugh. I am not sure we are going to make it.

[1confused1]

Started my day being woken up by a work phone call. Granted, it was 9:30 but Saturdays are my day to sleep!

I have to pick up golf tournament donations today. I can not wait for 2pm on Monday when this tournament is over!

Early baseball tomorrow but I may get to see one of my friends I haven’t seen in years.