Wednesday Whatevers.

MarisaKathleen

Anyone have anything exciting today?

Cheenomae

I'm sitting here at work on pins and needles waiting for the hospital to call and pre-register me for tomorrow!!! Eek!

Pokedot

Nothing too exciting here. I work a half day tomorrow then get 3 free hours to do what I want before my hair appt. I'm looking forward to that.

My niece is in town who I haven't seen in over 2 years. Long story. I'm excited to see her and have her meet B. Her mom is an asshat and my BIL isn't much better. Gosh I wish she could just live with us.

I think we finally decided on a game plan for our shed. Who knew it was such work. Now if only I could get my dad to help. He's the expert on all things. What can I bribe him with? Haha

 

MarisaKathleen

The 12 year old girls that stabbed their friend here in my city were in court this morning and one was declared incompetent to stand trial.

My boss doesn't think that HR is going to approve a modified work schedule for me, which I expected, but still bums me out.  I can't understand why we don't want to try and make this a place that people want to work.  Our turnover rate is 12% right now, which in higher ed is huge.  The average is just under 3%.  It sucks.

MarisaKathleen

Cheenomae said:

I'm sitting here at work on pins and needles waiting for the hospital to call and pre-register me for tomorrow!!! Eek!

I'm so excited for your new boobs!!!  Hopefully everything will be totally perfect & your recovery will be a breeze!

melody921

DH and I are starting to look at hardwood flooring options, and I'm already overwhelmed with types, colors, etc. But the carpet must go.

Cheenomae

MarisaKathleen said:

The 12 year old girls that stabbed their friend here in my city were in court this morning and one was declared incompetent to stand trial.

My boss doesn't think that HR is going to approve a modified work schedule for me, which I expected, but still bums me out.  I can't understand why we don't want to try and make this a place that people want to work.  Our turnover rate is 12% right now, which in higher ed is huge.  The average is just under 3%.  It sucks.

That sucks about your work schedule. It's so hard going back full time after the second, but for me it's still worth it to stay working, mentally!

Cheenomae

MarisaKathleen said:

Cheenomae said:

I'm sitting here at work on pins and needles waiting for the hospital to call and pre-register me for tomorrow!!! Eek!

I'm so excited for your new boobs!!!  Hopefully everything will be totally perfect & your recovery will be a breeze!

Thanks, my dear! Fingers crossed.

Cheenomae

melody921 said:

DH and I are starting to look at hardwood flooring options, and I'm already overwhelmed with types, colors, etc. But the carpet must go.

I remember this feeling clear as day. It took us forever to decide on something. In the process, the place we wanted to go through ended up having a huge sale and we had to make a decision sooner rather than later and I'm glad we were forced into it because I don't know that I would have ever been able to pick something.

melody921

MarisaKathleen said:

The 12 year old girls that stabbed their friend here in my city were in court this morning and one was declared incompetent to stand trial.

My boss doesn't think that HR is going to approve a modified work schedule for me, which I expected, but still bums me out.  I can't understand why we don't want to try and make this a place that people want to work.  Our turnover rate is 12% right now, which in higher ed is huge.  The average is just under 3%.  It sucks.

Boo, I wish more places offered flex time or work from home options. 

thebanich

My dog has worms. I'm so grossed out I don't want to go home.


BURN IT TO THE GROUND.

thebanich

^  The house, not the dog.

thebanich

Vet says they are tapeworms from ingesting fleas (eggs?)  I guess she is on the wrong kind of flea/tick medicine.  ITS SO GROSS.

Holly_1007

Colby thinks hot dogs are called "hot diggity dogs" he also thinks the spicy sausage that is in the fridge is hot dogs. Lunch this week has been a battle.

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miss50

@Holly_1007‌ hot dogs may be a staple around the house since I open the fridge and she yells HOTDOG. It's not a food group kid.

Honestly though, we don't eat them that much and she only watches Mickey Mouse on Sundays.

miss50

My kid goes back and forth on potty signals. I was going to try this weekend but I'm afraid I'll waste all weekend inside and it's going to be flipping beautiful.

melody921

shiggybop said:

I'm having a baby today!!! Epidurals are amaze balls.

GL @shiggybop! Can't wait to see baby pics!

melody921

I am on a Webinar with SO much tech talk. Blech.

BPer

shiggybop said:

I'm having a baby today!!! Epidurals are amaze balls.

Woo! Good luck!

jenndub

DH leaves for Texas today and his sister is watching Sawyer while I'm at work. She is irresponsible and I'm very uncomfortable with her watching my kid. DH has guilted me into allowing this because he thinks I'm being too hard on her. Just found out that she's borrowing my car and taking her to the zoo for the day. Last week she backed into my BIL's car because she apparently doesn't look behind her when she backs up. Feeling really good about today.

MarisaKathleen

My sitter has to go pick up her kids tomorrow (her parents have had them up north for 3 weeks) around 3 hours away from us.  I thought we were closed, nope, we have a 1/2 day.  I'm honestly contemplating bringing Nancy to work with me so I don't have to use a 1/2 day of vacation.  I have no appointments, there's only 4 people working in my whole department across 3 campuses and I'll probably just be browsing FB or TB anyway.  

Decisions, Decisions...

melody921

MarisaKathleen said:

My sitter has to go pick up her kids tomorrow (her parents have had them up north for 3 weeks) around 3 hours away from us.  I thought we were closed, nope, we have a 1/2 day.  I'm honestly contemplating bringing Nancy to work with me so I don't have to use a 1/2 day of vacation.  I have no appointments, there's only 4 people working in my whole department across 3 campuses and I'll probably just be browsing FB or TB anyway.  

Decisions, Decisions...

Just ask yourself, "What would shitty cookies do?" Bring her.

Pokedot

Just found out my employer is going to pay for me to get an iPhone. 21st century technology here I come! I'm SO excited!

MarisaKathleen

melody921 said:

MarisaKathleen said:

My sitter has to go pick up her kids tomorrow (her parents have had them up north for 3 weeks) around 3 hours away from us.  I thought we were closed, nope, we have a 1/2 day.  I'm honestly contemplating bringing Nancy to work with me so I don't have to use a 1/2 day of vacation.  I have no appointments, there's only 4 people working in my whole department across 3 campuses and I'll probably just be browsing FB or TB anyway.  

Decisions, Decisions...

Just ask yourself, "What would shitty cookies do?" Bring her.

That's my only hesitation.  His boss finally told him to quit bringing his kid to work every week so now we've been shitty cookies jr. free for 3 whole weeks.

@.

I'm sure it sucks having a hard ass for a boss, but it also sucks having someone so laid back they don't actually care what you do.

Holly_1007

jenndub said:

DH leaves for Texas today and his sister is watching Sawyer while I'm at work. She is irresponsible and I'm very uncomfortable with her watching my kid. DH has guilted me into allowing this because he thinks I'm being too hard on her. Just found out that she's borrowing my car and taking her to the zoo for the day. Last week she backed into my BIL's car because she apparently doesn't look behind her when she backs up. Feeling really good about today.

that is the worst. DH (Stbx? Too soon?) used to guilt me into letting MIL watch the boys. It was always in my home on my terms and I still wasn't completely comfortable. I probably would have said no to the zoo TBH

Holly_1007

MarisaKathleen said:

melody921 said:

MarisaKathleen said:

My sitter has to go pick up her kids tomorrow (her parents have had them up north for 3 weeks) around 3 hours away from us.  I thought we were closed, nope, we have a 1/2 day.  I'm honestly contemplating bringing Nancy to work with me so I don't have to use a 1/2 day of vacation.  I have no appointments, there's only 4 people working in my whole department across 3 campuses and I'll probably just be browsing FB or TB anyway.  

Decisions, Decisions...

Just ask yourself, "What would shitty cookies do?" Bring her.

That's my only hesitation.  His boss finally told him to quit bringing his kid to work every week so now we've been shitty cookies jr. free for 3 whole weeks.

@.

I'm sure it sucks having a hard ass for a boss, but it also sucks having someone so laid back they don't actually care what you do.

do you have your own office? How do you think she will behave? If you bring a movie will she sit for an hour or two?

thebanich

jenndub said:

DH leaves for Texas today and his sister is watching Sawyer while I'm at work. She is irresponsible and I'm very uncomfortable with her watching my kid. DH has guilted me into allowing this because he thinks I'm being too hard on her. Just found out that she's borrowing my car and taking her to the zoo for the day. Last week she backed into my BIL's car because she apparently doesn't look behind her when she backs up. Feeling really good about today.

Ugh. I'm sorry. I really hate that feeling. I don't trust my MIL very much because she just gives the kids whatever they want to eat, put Lilly in a high back booster with a seat belt (without asking if it was ok), and she is just really nervous all the time. I'm afraid something is going to happen and she will flip out and not know what to do.  The biggest issue for me is the food. Lilly has a corn, dairy and soy allergy. As we all know, there is corn in EVERYTHING so we have to be really careful with what she eats. MIL still continues to give her everything that has HFCS in it with no regard to the consequences.


/endblogpostrant.

Having people take care of your kids that you don't really trust....sucks.

Holly_1007

miss50 said:

@Holly_1007‌ hot dogs may be a staple around the house since I open the fridge and she yells HOTDOG. It's not a food group kid. Honestly though, we don't eat them that much and she only watches Mickey Mouse on Sundays.

I buy the all beef natural casing ones, they are in the rotation for lunch once every couple of weeks, but the kid eats 3 at a time. He LOVES them. It's crazy!he still doesn't really watch tv, but when DH changes his diaper (rarely) he plays the hot dog song youtube video to keep the kid still.

MarisaKathleen

@holly_1007, I do have my own office and I'm sure she'd be fine, I just know that I'll be screwing around with her and not actually working.  Chances are I'll just stay home so we can sleep in. :-)

Holly_1007

Pity party post: my mom and sister keep bugging me asking me what I want for my birthday, what kind of cake I want etc. whatever happened to just picking out a gift for someone? Truthfully I don't need any physical items. I need money, and emotional support, help with the boys. Not the materialistic crap. I just want to skip my birthday this year.

MarisaKathleen

I'd like to throttle anyone who calls me and says "Hey, I'm transferring to Joe's Crab Shack School of Nursing and wasn't sure if these 9 classes were going to transfer there."

Do I work at Joe's Crab Shack School of Nursing?  No.  I don't.  Therefore I have NO IDEA what will transfer there.  If it's a state school, yea, your stuff will transfer.  Everything else, like these for-profits out there--Kaplan, Bryant & Stratton, etc?  I have no idea.  When I worked at a for-profit, we took all kinds of stuff.

Wouldn't you call the new school and ask them what they'd take?  It just seems so weird to me.  Then they get mad at me when I explain that I really can't answer that and they should really contact their new school.  I'm not blowing you off, I just have no idea because I don't work there!

Flamingemu

melody921 said:

DH and I are starting to look at hardwood flooring options, and I'm already overwhelmed with types, colors, etc. But the carpet must go.

 

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We need to do that too! I think I may push to have it done by the end of the month with DH.

MarisaKathleen

Holly_1007 said:

Pity party post: my mom and sister keep bugging me asking me what I want for my birthday, what kind of cake I want etc. whatever happened to just picking out a gift for someone? Truthfully I don't need any physical items. I need money, and emotional support, help with the boys. Not the materialistic crap. I just want to skip my birthday this year.

Do they know what you're going through?  Would it be hard for you to have a conversation with them explaining that you'd really like their support in the upcoming months while you make this transition and would rather not do some big thing for your birthday this year?

Holly_1007

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MarisaKathleen said:

Holly_1007 said:

Pity party post: my mom and sister keep bugging me asking me what I want for my birthday, what kind of cake I want etc. whatever happened to just picking out a gift for someone? Truthfully I don't need any physical items. I need money, and emotional support, help with the boys. Not the materialistic crap. I just want to skip my birthday this year.

Do they know what you're going through?  Would it be hard for you to have a conversation with them explaining that you'd really like their support in the upcoming months while you make this transition and would rather not do some big thing for your birthday this year?

they know. I've asked for help before and I'm always met with excuses. I've stopped asking. They aren't really doing anything big, just family, and they probably think it will cheer me up. They prefer not doing gift cards because they think it's impersonal. Ughhh

MrsKipper

Good luck @shiggybop‌!! Praying for a smooth delivery!

MrsKipper

It finally happened. At 5am this morning. Camden peed in the bed while I was changing his diaper.

FFWC: I threw a blanket over it and went back to sleep. Ain't nobody got time to change the sheets at 5am!

Pokedot

MrsKipper said:

It finally happened. At 5am this morning. Camden peed in the bed while I was changing his diaper. FFWC: I threw a blanket over it and went back to sleep. Ain't nobody got time to change the sheets at 5am!

It's amazing how far baby boy pee can go too. DS hit the wall on the opposite side of the room! I wouldn't of changed the sheets either. 5am is way too early!

Holly_1007

I brought the dogs on a walk this morning and actually picked up after them! They are still paving our road so I had to park on the road behind our house. It's 90ish degrees and I just remember I left the Baggie in the car. Lovely.

Holly_1007

In an attempt to distract myself from my life, I've spent the past few evenings trying to plan Colby's big boy room. The one that he hopefully won't need for another year. I found some bedding that I like. I'm not in love with it, but it will work really well with the color scheme I have in mind, and I won't need to repaint his room. It's on sale and I think they are getting ready to discontinue it. Nice job holly, fall in love with bedding a year before you need it when you have absolutely no money to buy it.

melody921

Holly_1007 said:

In an attempt to distract myself from my life, I've spent the past few evenings trying to plan Colby's big boy room. The one that he hopefully won't need for another year. I found some bedding that I like. I'm not in love with it, but it will work really well with the color scheme I have in mind, and I won't need to repaint his room. It's on sale and I think they are getting ready to discontinue it. Nice job holly, fall in love with bedding a year before you need it when you have absolutely no money to buy it.

There will always be another bedding option. For now, I'd save the money for more immediate needs.