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• 6fsn member

  

  January 2019

  Oh and my vegan brownies turned out pretty darn good. 

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• kvruns member

  

  January 2019

  Back to the real world today. It has been strange because I was home Wednesday with a sick kid, back to work Thurs but had to leave early bc of said sick kid, home with him on Friday and then weekend now sleet/snow + me catching his stomach bug, then off yesterday for MLK day so it's been basically a week since I've had a normal workday. Fingers crossed no more sickness. 
  
  Walmart has a bunch of toys hitting 75% off clearance so if you're in the market for birthday parties it is worth a look. Saw some good deals yesterday but didn't buy anything

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• ShesSoCold mod

  

  January 2019

  WTF, MIL!! Ugh I would be pissed!! 
  
  So, my dad is supposed to come over tonight to scope out the house and help H get a list going of what we need. My dad is also retired from the local airport, but he is still on call to plow when it snows. We're supposed to get snow and ice and rain and all kinds of shit today. H's best friend called him last night to invite us to the Hawks game tonight. H declined because my dad is coming over. It's gunna suck when Dad doesn't come because he's plowing and we didn't go to the Hawks game (for free, in a box, with a local sports news guy).

  
  

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• kvruns member

  

  January 2019

  SSC any chance you can reschedule with your dad? 

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• short+sassy member

  

  January 2019

  @6fsn, good luck with your frazzled day!

  My day has not started out well either, starting from last night.  The duplexes I was interested in all went under contract before my agent could get the PA out.  I knew it was a long shot, but I was still really disappointed.  Oh well.  I'll assume it's for the best.

  One of my neighbors was pounding on their back door at 1AM last night, for what felt like 15 minutes.  I was able to fall right back asleep when they were done.  But I don't do well having my sleep interrupted and now I am beyond exhausted.

  I'm trying to shake off the humbugs with lots of coffee and turn it into a happy, productive day.
  

  

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• mrsconn23 member

  

  January 2019

  Your IL's are a certain kind of special, 6.  
  
  I'd reschedule with dad, SSC. 
  
  My mom has her first post-surgery scan today.  The results are read next week.  Our little break from it all is over.  I really did a good job of putting it out of my mind between Thanksgiving and New Year's, but it's been back on my mind for the last couple weeks.  Thankfully, my next counseling session is 2 days after the results are read.   She feels good and they had a good ski trip over the weekend.  So holding on to all that. 
  
  Everyone is back to work and school today.  The last dregs of this cold continues to hold on.  Blerg.  
  
  

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• charlotte989875 member

  

  January 2019

  That’s a bummer @ShesSoCold if he skips the game and your Dad doesn’t come. 
  
  I’m with you @kvruns it feels like I haven’t been in the office in ages. 
  
  Weekend was good; stopped and saw my sister & family Friday night. We had a dance party and ate tons of pizza. Saturday was a long run, some cleaning, & H went out/ I vegged out and watched TV. Sunday was more cleaning/organizing and the terrible football games. 
  
  Yesterday I stopped over at my friends house; she stays home with her 8mo old twins and with the cold she was a little stir crazy. Just a nice catch up and hanging with the babies. And some Daniel Tiger. 
  
  Not much happening this week. Work, house projects, more work. Pretty boring these days. 
  
  

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• CharmedPam member

  

  January 2019

  Oh man, SSC - missing out on the game!! Hope your dad does come by so it wasnt a missed opportunity! 
  Sucks a about the delay 6.  Was it a good weekend though?
  
  I had Monday off and it was glorious.  Did some shopping for spring/summer clothes.  May have bought a pair of workout capris that I have no business wearing but they felt like butter and I said “eh, i’ll fit them eventually”.  Wasn’t going to pass up on butter pants. (champion at Target btw - 30% off).  On Saturday I went to get my window chip repaired and they couldn’t fix it so it cracked more.  Today, it spread and half the damn windshield is cracked.  This is the replacement I got from the summer so it’s cracked 2 times in what...Six months?  So sick of my cx3!  My friend loves her cx9 so I’m betting they make the cx5 and cx9 better but could care less about the 3’s!  Ugh!

  
  

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• charlotte989875 member

  

  January 2019

  CharmedPam said:

  Oh man, SSC - missing out on the game!! Hope your dad does come by so it wasnt a missed opportunity! 
  Sucks a about the delay 6.  Was it a good weekend though?
  
  I had Monday off and it was glorious.  Did some shopping for spring/summer clothes.  May have bought a pair of workout capris that I have no business wearing but they felt like butter and I said “eh, i’ll fit them eventually”.  Wasn’t going to pass up on butter pants. (champion at Target btw - 30% off).  On Saturday I went to get my window chip repaired and they couldn’t fix it so it cracked more.  Today, it spread and half the damn windshield is cracked.  This is the replacement I got from the summer so it’s cracked 2 times in what...Six months?  So sick of my cx3!  My friend loves her cx9 so I’m betting they make the cx5 and cx9 better but could care less about the 3’s!  Ugh!

  That sucks Pam; can you take the car back to where it was replaced last time? That seems odd to have to replace it that frequently 

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• CharmedPam member

  

  January 2019

  charlotte989875 said:

  That sucks Pam; can you take the car back to where it was replaced last time? That seems odd to have to replace it that frequently 

  Yeah I’m putting a call in now.  The shied is under warranty but I think I still have to pay for labor. 

  
  

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• climbingsingle member

  

  January 2019

  I had the worst migraine last night. My mom had told me she put ice on her neck last time she had a bad one. It worked, but not long after I removed the ice, the migraine came back. 
  
  We're going skiing in two weeks, and I cannot wait! I need a break. 

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• short+sassy member

  

  January 2019

  I just found out the Book of Mormon is playing at a local theatre (Saenger) in Feb.  I've had so many people recommend it.  My H and I have been wanting to go but, every time we've had the opportunity, the tickets were over $250/each.

  This time around, they're only $50-$75/each for a weekday night.  Now we're talking!  But first, I'm going to hit up our client today to see if they have any free tickets left for any of the shows.  They're big sponsors for all the performance venues in town.

  It's pretty sweet when they are able to hook me up.  Because, not only are the tickets free for club seating, but the valet parking is also.  Plus admittance into a special VIP area with free snacks.  The company's name is even on little plaques on the arm rests of their seats, lol.  Like the old Amex tagline, "Membership has its privileges".
  

  

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• ShesSoCold mod

  

  January 2019

  H declined the Hawks tickets before he even told me about it. I would totally have bailed on my dad. It would have been handy too because my sister is going to the game with work, so we could have driven her home, rather than have her take the train alone and walk to our house. 
  
  Stupid H being "responsible". 
  
  Pam, I have 4 pairs of nearly identical workout pants because they felt so nice. I totally get it. 

  
  

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• ei34 member

  

  January 2019

  Hoping your mom gets a good read @mrsconn23 and sorry about missing the box seats @ShesSoCold
  
  I’m glad to be back at work/have the kids back at school after the long weekend.  I actually just received an email from the director of a counseling program at a school I wanted to work at- I’d applied and went through FOUR rounds of interviews only to not get the position. This was all late Aug/early Sept.  But she wants me to come in to discuss an opening. I said I’d be there.  So fingers crossed.

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• short+sassy member

  

  January 2019

  eileenrob said:

  Hoping your mom gets a good read @mrsconn23 and sorry about missing the box seats @ShesSoCold
  
  I’m glad to be back at work/have the kids back at school after the long weekend.  I actually just received an email from the director of a counseling program at a school I wanted to work at- I’d applied and went through FOUR rounds of interviews only to not get the position. This was all late Aug/early Sept.  But she wants me to come in to discuss an opening. I said I’d be there.  So fingers crossed.

  
  I think I remember that.  Good luck!  Obviously you were a strong contender last time to have had so many interview rounds.  Hopefully now the time is right.

  

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• ei34 member

  

  January 2019

  short+sassy said:

  eileenrob said:

  Hoping your mom gets a good read @mrsconn23 and sorry about missing the box seats @ShesSoCold
  
  I’m glad to be back at work/have the kids back at school after the long weekend.  I actually just received an email from the director of a counseling program at a school I wanted to work at- I’d applied and went through FOUR rounds of interviews only to not get the position. This was all late Aug/early Sept.  But she wants me to come in to discuss an opening. I said I’d be there.  So fingers crossed.

  
  I think I remember that.  Good luck!  Obviously you were a strong contender last time to have had so many interview rounds.  Hopefully now the time is right.

  Thank you! I’m interested to hear more about the position that’s being offered- I still check the organization’s site from time to time, nothing is posted. So we’ll see.

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• kvruns member

  

  January 2019

  eileenrob said:

  Hoping your mom gets a good read @mrsconn23 and sorry about missing the box seats @ShesSoCold
  
  I’m glad to be back at work/have the kids back at school after the long weekend.  I actually just received an email from the director of a counseling program at a school I wanted to work at- I’d applied and went through FOUR rounds of interviews only to not get the position. This was all late Aug/early Sept.  But she wants me to come in to discuss an opening. I said I’d be there.  So fingers crossed.

  Fingers crossed!!
  
  S+S it is a good show so definitely get those tix even if you can't get them for free

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• mrsmitten member

  

  January 2019

  Damn H @ShesSoCold!
  
  I hope you feel better @climbingwife.  The only thing that ever works for me is Excedrin, a black silent room and sleep.
  
  Fingers crossed for you and your mom @mrsconn23.
  
  I'm off-ish today.  Weekdays off are tough because there's still emails to send etc.  Brides move quick.  My plan for today is to tackle the bedroom - it's laundry hell in there and it's bad.  I make a teenage boys room look good right now.  MIL is recovering from a knee replacement surgery so I'm going to visit her this afternoon, then off to the gym for real (we skipped yesterday).
  
  I'm having buyers remorse with my glasses.  I wanted a funky pair, and due to the deals, went with a blue and red pair with transition lenses.  But now I'm wishing I went with the Kate Spade blue pair instead because the shape of the two I picked are similair.  Argh.
  
  Savings tip for eyeglass shoppers:  I hate transition lenses, but they're offering a deal right now so if you hate them, you can swap the lens at no cost and that ended up being cheaper for me than buying a regular pair and a pair of sunglasses.  My plan is if I still hate them to  keep one pair as sunglasses and the other for regs use.

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• CharmedPam member

  

  January 2019

  Sounds promsing Elieenrob.  FX it’s what you want!
  book of mormom:  was OK.  I overpaid for my tickets too and I was a bit salty about it.  Had it been around the $100 mark that would have changed things for me.  O that note:  i had no problems paying $500 for Hamilton! 

  
  

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• short+sassy member

  

  January 2019

  CharmedPam said:

  Sounds promsing Elieenrob.  FX it’s what you want!
  book of mormom:  was OK.  I overpaid for my tickets too and I was a bit salty about it.  Had it been around the $100 mark that would have changed things for me.  O that note:  i had no problems paying $500 for Hamilton! 

  
  Hamilton is playing at the same theatre next month.  But the "cheap" seats are $280-$500/each.  I'm not even going to bother asking the client about those.  They definitely do a "ticket hierarchy" for their freebies.  Company big-wigs first.  Then their own employees.  Then the measly contractor employees, which is the category I'm in, lol.  I'm not complaining, though.  It makes sense their own employees get first dibs.  It's nice they even offer us the leftovers.

  And Oh!  There was a big kerfluffle last week in my area and a lot of PO'ed people.  The first day of tickets for Hamilton AND tickets for the Jazz Fest Stones concert happened on the same day at the same (or similar) time.  Ticketmaster crashed and people who were waiting in the online queue's were dropped.  Some people could get into the site.  Some couldn't.  Lots of frustrations.

  

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• CharmedPam member

  

  January 2019

  short+sassy said:

  CharmedPam said:

  Sounds promsing Elieenrob.  FX it’s what you want!
  book of mormom:  was OK.  I overpaid for my tickets too and I was a bit salty about it.  Had it been around the $100 mark that would have changed things for me.  O that note:  i had no problems paying $500 for Hamilton! 

  
  Hamilton is playing at the same theatre next month.  But the "cheap" seats are $280-$500/each.  I'm not even going to bother asking the client about those.  They definitely do a "ticket hierarchy" for their freebies.  Company big-wigs first.  Then their own employees.  Then the measly contractor employees, which is the category I'm in, lol.  I'm not complaining, though.  It makes sense their own employees get first dibs.  It's nice they even offer us the leftovers.

  And Oh!  There was a big kerfluffle last week in my area and a lot of PO'ed people.  The first day of tickets for Hamilton AND tickets for the Jazz Fest Stones concert happened on the same day at the same (or similar) time.  Ticketmaster crashed and people who were waiting in the online queue's were dropped.  Some people could get into the site.  Some couldn't.  Lots of frustrations.

  I thought they organized that so two big events didn’t go on sale at 10:00 on Friday at the same time!

  
  

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• ILoveBeachMusic member

  

  January 2019

  Wow, anytime Hamilton tickets go on sale Ticketmaster has problems. I remember the first time I bought tickets in Chicago it was terrible! I ended up just calling the office and got through faster that way than on the internet.
  
  Well I've been organizing up a storm after watching Marie Kondo! I can't believe how nice all the drawers and shelves in my bedroom look!! I still have to tackle my purses but clothing looks pretty good. Next will be the kitchen. I'll need to get H on board to hit the books and stuff in the basement. He has started working on his part of the closet. We even bought storage boxed to put on the shelves in the closet. I hope we can keep the momentum going!

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• short+sassy member

  

  January 2019

  CharmedPam said:

  short+sassy said:

  CharmedPam said:

  Sounds promsing Elieenrob.  FX it’s what you want!
  book of mormom:  was OK.  I overpaid for my tickets too and I was a bit salty about it.  Had it been around the $100 mark that would have changed things for me.  O that note:  i had no problems paying $500 for Hamilton! 

  
  Hamilton is playing at the same theatre next month.  But the "cheap" seats are $280-$500/each.  I'm not even going to bother asking the client about those.  They definitely do a "ticket hierarchy" for their freebies.  Company big-wigs first.  Then their own employees.  Then the measly contractor employees, which is the category I'm in, lol.  I'm not complaining, though.  It makes sense their own employees get first dibs.  It's nice they even offer us the leftovers.

  And Oh!  There was a big kerfluffle last week in my area and a lot of PO'ed people.  The first day of tickets for Hamilton AND tickets for the Jazz Fest Stones concert happened on the same day at the same (or similar) time.  Ticketmaster crashed and people who were waiting in the online queue's were dropped.  Some people could get into the site.  Some couldn't.  Lots of frustrations.

  I thought they organized that so two big events didn’t go on sale at 10:00 on Friday at the same time!

  I know for sure it was the same day, but it may not have been exactly the same time.  People made it sound that way on NextDoor and local forum posts.  But I suspected it was probably the same timeframe, ie the morning.
  

  

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• banana468 member

  

  January 2019

  My guess is that it's an issue with a server that simply can't handle an influx of major traffic that goes at the same time.   J.Crew's server couldn't handle their black Friday traffic either and with Hamilton or any major show you have all the people jumping at the same time for the best available seats for a finite span vs. their show on Broadway that's not going anywhere. 
  
  But it's still piss poor management.   
  
  It happened at a local level with the theater in Hartford which did not sell through Ticketmaster but it took me nearly an hour to buy tickets when Hamilton was sold.   I went into a waiting room!  It was SUCH a pain but ultimately DH and I scored two tickets for the 27th of December and they were about $200 ea.  

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• OurWildKingdom member

  

  January 2019

  Fingers crossed for you, @eileenrob, and sending healing vibes for your mom and you, @mrsconn23!
  
  Hope you get some relief soon, @climbingwife! 
  
  Back at work today. Typical stuff went down over the weekend, nothing too surprising. We are shorthanded, though, so I ended up staying two hours late. I need the comp time because MIL has a doctor’s appointment early in March and I can’t use FMLA to take her. (Spouses, children, and parents only, as far as I know.) Plus it’s nice getting work done without being interrupted.
  
  I did some writing last night. Tinkered with an old poem and wrote a couple new ones. I’m going to bring them to the next meeting of my writers’ group and get some feedback. 
  
  Our new-ish housemate (she moved in in November) told us tonight she is definitely moving in with her girlfriend in Columbus sooner rather than later. I’m not entirely surprised because her job was only going to run until June or July. We’re happy for her and wish her the best. We’re going to revisit the whole roommate idea after MIL gets settled. The money is nice but not absolutely necessary. I kind of want to turn the upstairs space into a study/craft room and get a decent bed for the spare bedroom since all we have in there is a futon.
  
  DW is watching the Australian Open, and I should be looking for news for my peace group’s FB page (I just got made an editor) and preparing for my feminist book discussion on Saturday.
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• kvruns member

  

  January 2019

  I have the same ticket problem every year for our local Symphony Christmas program. The site always crashes and then goes super slow the day tickets are released for regular purchase. We have certain seats I always try to get so I try to do it right away and it is always a mess. 

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• short+sassy member

  

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  OurWildKingdom said:

  Fingers crossed for you, @eileenrob, and sending healing vibes for your mom and you, @mrsconn23!
  
  Hope you get some relief soon, @climbingwife! 
  
  Back at work today. Typical stuff went down over the weekend, nothing too surprising. We are shorthanded, though, so I ended up staying two hours late. I need the comp time because MIL has a doctor’s appointment early in March and I can’t use FMLA to take her. (Spouses, children, and parents only, as far as I know.) Plus it’s nice getting work done without being interrupted.
  
  I did some writing last night. Tinkered with an old poem and wrote a couple new ones. I’m going to bring them to the next meeting of my writers’ group and get some feedback. 
  
  Our new-ish housemate (she moved in in November) told us tonight she is definitely moving in with her girlfriend in Columbus sooner rather than later. I’m not entirely surprised because her job was only going to run until June or July. We’re happy for her and wish her the best. We’re going to revisit the whole roommate idea after MIL gets settled. The money is nice but not absolutely necessary. I kind of want to turn the upstairs space into a study/craft room and get a decent bed for the spare bedroom since all we have in there is a futon.
  
  DW is watching the Australian Open, and I should be looking for news for my peace group’s FB page (I just got made an editor) and preparing for my feminist book discussion on Saturday.
  

  I don't know if you're in an area with good tourism/conventions/events or temp workers, but AirBnB'ing your extra room would be something to look into.  You might make more money that way and its much more flexible than a roommate.  For example, if you don't want guests for the whole month of Dec., just block those dates out.  You can also activate/deactivate the listing with a few clicks.

  If you go to Airbnb, you can do a search for your neighborhood.  Look for listings that are a room instead of a whole house.  That will give you an idea of the popularity and pricing you could expect. 

  One of the women on a finance board I frequent, rents out their spare room on Airbnb.  They've been doing it for years.  They enjoy it and make about an extra $700/mo., sometimes more.

  Edited to add:

  There are also organizations that place international students (college) into people's homes.  One of the other members of that board has done it a few times.  She said it was a wonderful experience.  It pays super well, but it's also more involved.  For example, the rent has to include all utilities.  Even all meals usually need to be provided by the host family.  I've seen ads for host families where I live (MCOL area).  They advertise $1,000-$1200/mo. to rent a room in someone's home.  Which is more than double the going rate and more than even what most 1-bedroom rentals would be.

  

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• CharmedPam member

  

  January 2019

  That’s a great idea, S+S!

  
  

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