Weekly Randoms 5/27-6/2

nolemama24

Hi! Loving the weekly randoms! *waves white flag* jet lag kicking our butts here at home. SO happy to be home. Crappy weather, though. So much misty rain. My poor H is working overtime because the other guy he works with got in a pretty serious motorcycle accident. Dozen of broken bones or so, and he's going to be out for 3 months at least. H's company is sending in some backup to help my H but not until next week. *TW living child mentioned*

My toddler is taking the time change the worst. We were in Florida for almost 6 weeks so I feel like we both had the chance to really adapt to the time change over there. The red eye flight was pretty bad. DD slept most of the time and did well, but it was a packed flight on a super old plane and my middle seat had this uncomfortable bar (or something?) in the seat that just exasperated my usual airplane tailbone pain even more. And it was so hot on the plane. Luckily there was no line at immigration and we were reunited with my H pretty quickly. Looking forward to catching up. 

inthewoods23

I would love to revisit the GTKY thread I made for weird things seen on the side of the road/median.

There's some kind of big, plush leather chair in the road in the shoulder after the lane that breaks off to the on ramp of the freeway. It showed up sometime last week and it is still there as of right now.

shamrocandroll

@mercury94 Ugh, that is such a backhanded comment, even without the IF aspect.  Like, way to take something you should feel good about and put a negative spin on it.  Why do people seem to love to do that?  Sorry, friend.  Huge congrats on the weight loss!  It's no easy feat!  

shamrocandroll

Holy crap you guys... I look like such a chatterbox today! 

inthewoods23

@shamrocandroll sometimes that's me and I wonder if you all think I have nothing better to do during my day since I respond to ALL THE THREADS sometimes 😆

shamrocandroll

@inthewoods23 This probably doesn't help your case any, either

inthewoods23

@shamrocandroll EXACTLY 😅😅😅😅  This is what happens when I participate on multiple boards!

At least I have my bud @b_1029 close behind me 😁

b_1029

@inthewoods23 I'm amazed I'm even remotely close to you, usually you have like 100 more points than anyone else  love it!

inthewoods23

@b_1029 I feel hardcore called out about my points haha must be my competitive nature 🤣

celticknotfire

@mercury94 some people really need to think before they speak!

@b_1029 way to represent!

b_1029

@inthewoods23 no no, I'm always impressed! You crush everyone! haha

brookert615

You know... just being sad I'm not a part of the elite "This Week's Leaders".

shamrocandroll

@inthewoods23 Haha, I hope I don't seem like I was calling you out or making fun of you.  It was just especially funny because I saw your comment, and then saw the leaderboard and was like "Seems legit..."    

inthewoods23

@b_1029 thanks for the compliment 🙂 but I definitely owe it to you all for your major support when I first started seeing the RE last year! It has been so good for me to have someone to chat with every single day about this! Saves both mine and DH's sanity (he hated talking about our fertility problems!)

@brookert615 girl you need to up your commenting game for more points! 😆

inthewoods23

@shamrocandroll don't worry! I know it's all in good fun! 😎

If we were doing something similar to those "most likely to..." high school surveys, I'd win "most likely to be at the top of the weekly points leaderboard" hands down 🤣 and I'd be proud of it!

brookert615

@inthewoods23 On it! LOL. Might go into 1st tri and post random emojis 

shamrocandroll

@inthewoods23 That sounds like it would be a fun extracurricular activity!  Most likely to be banned, most likely to GIF, most likely to respond to a peggy, etc. 

brookert615

@inthewoods23 & @shamrocandroll I smell a GTKY thread! 

inthewoods23

@shamrocandroll & @brookert615 yesssss!!

inthewoods23

@shamrocandroll most likely to respond to a Peggy with snark, most likely to be polite to a Peggy, etc lol.

shamrocandroll

Also, this just in 

brookert615

@shamrocandroll Wooo! Atta girl! 

inthewoods23

@shamrocandroll #risingstar #creepingupbehindyou #shesafterme #dethronetheleader 🤣🤣🤣

b_1029

@brookert615 you gotta stop taking trips and prioritize the important things- aka keeping TTGP’s domination of the leaderboard! Don’t let any randos slip in! 

@shamrocandroll OOOO girl, look at you!!

brookert615

@b_1029 Hahah right? I messed up! At least we are now at a point where it's all ladies from TTGP! 

shamrocandroll

The huge project I'm on at work is just such a giant sh*tshow that I'm self-preserving by just hanging out on TB and trying not to think about how big of a disaster this thing is.  So at least I'm wining at *something* I guess? 

NYTino24

Anyone affected by the thunderstorms / tornadoes yesterday?! We were luckily spared and just got a lot of rain, wind, and lightning, but lots of people in the county were without power and a HS in the county next to us suffered damage. Getting up and out of the house wasn’t fun today due to the late bedtime. 

brookert615

@NYTino24 We had a tornado watch last night and the storms were pretty nasty. My BIL's car has all kinds of dents from the hail and our friends place was completely flooded at the bottom of their driveway. A system just came through and I was so sure that the power was going to go out at work! 

@shamrocandroll Oh no! Sorry!

NYTino24

Also random, I just ate a 2.83 oz bag of M&Ms on my way home. It was bigger than fun size, but not full size... so I played that game of needing more to feel satisfied and then feeling like I should just finish them. Ugh, AF better not be on her way... I did feel slightly satisfied that I got to watch some dummy with their convertible top down get wet. There was plenty of room and time to pull over to do it. The clouds were very obviously about to open in a downpour!

shamrocandroll

@brookert615 It's okay.  It's so far out of my control at this point that I'm just trying to take it in stride.  My new mantra is if I can't control it, I try not to panic about it.  

brookert615

@shamrocandroll Yes! Love it! 

I'm in management and I was gone two business days and I wasn't even at my desk yet and some girl was like "I got to warn you..." and I stopped her and was like "if it's bad news I don't want to hear it for at least another hour". STARTING THE DAY WITH POSITIVISM, LADY!

bows22

Our elevator is out at work and I just stood in front of it for I don’t even know how long reading what I missed on this thread today....got to the end and realized that it is never coming 😂 I hope no one saw me!

brookert615

@bows22 Hahaha! That’s too funny! 😂

celticknotfire

@NYTino24 we had some bad thunderstorms last night and a lot of rain both last night and today.

I also had the joy of just going into my basement to find water trickling in on three sides.  We have had the problem before so it's nothing new but it's still sucks.  So the dehumidifier is on and we mopped up what we could.

brookert615

@celticknotfire Aw no! I’m so sorry about the water in your basement!!!

mrsvp614

So, some of you may remember, a few weeks ago my boss lost his shit and flipped out on me, and it ended with me and another coworker in tears and in HR. Well, he told me yesterday that he's leaving! I'm happy for the most part, but also nervous about who we'll end up with and what it means for me, since I'm hoping to change shifts ASAP.

Also, since I work night/mornings I always have to play catch up on this board the following morning, so I feel weird going back to topics pages ago. Ha! Just want to explain why I don't jump in as much as I'd like.

brookert615

@MrsVP614 Great news! Hope it’s a easy transition with him leaving / you being able to switch shifts! 

NYTino24

@celticknotfire I hope it dried up fast! We get water in our basement sometimes and it usually takes 16 towels to mop up at its worst. I don’t even want to go down there now...

bobbyflies2020

@MrsVP614 Woohoo! Crossing F+T his replacement is better.

mrsvp614

@celticknotfire I hope the basement situation is an easy fix. We just dealt with a pipe burst earlier this year and it was a disaster!