Oh boy. Friday night.

JCbride2015

Fi and I are having at-home date night.  I made brownies this afternoon, he brought beer and wine home from work, and we are cooking together.  A sample of the conversation that is happening in our house right now:

Me: "Time to cook."

Fi: "Can I have a brownie before dinner?  I want a brownie.  But I should wait.  But I want a brownie.  But I should really wait.  Can I have a brownie?"

Fi: "Should I cut the taters long ways or short ways?  Should we make all the taters or just some of the taters?"

Me: "Are you just looking for a reason to say the word taters?"

Fi: "Yes."

Fi: "So the tater is this big.  [holds up potato]  How many times should I cut it?"

Me: "Just cut it into hunks."

Fi: "Well, I mean, if you want a hunk... [gestures to self]"

Me: "... that potato is clearly inadequate."

"Honey, you are welcome to go down on me after dinner, but I have to cook now.  But I repeat, you're free to do whatever you want to my penis AFTER we eat."

Commence hysterical laughter.

We are only one beer in, each.  This is going to be a long night.

Anybody else up to some Friday shenanigans?

WinstonsGirl

Dh is at work late, so I've got a pizza and bevvie and 2 unwatched episodes of Dance Moms.  I am in Heaven!!

I think you should have brownies too for dinner.  

jdluvr06

We watching repeats on TV and eating Chinese takeout. I'm thinking I might have some bourbon later.

hikebikebemerry

FI is working, per usual on Friday evenings.  I did a swap with a coworker, and because I worked a long day today- I get tomorrow off.  Getting tomorrow off means- 3 day weekend!

In a few minutes I'm going to put on Netflix and open the champagne to motivate me to work on my invites.  (Which are going out soon!)

buttercup1958

I'm just jamming to pandora and relaxing. V is working on our lab so he won't be home for a little while. But when he gets home, we are going to set up my new laptop. Yay!

lurkergirl

I was trying to convince him to have wine with me.  He wants coffee

At least he'll stay up with me?

LDay2014

@JCBride2015 that sounds like a very familiar conversation....sounds like a friday night here.

I made bacon and chedder broccoli soup, and cheese dreams (cheddar cheese and bacon on toast).

FI is currently teasing the giant dog who is growling in delight - rotties growl when they're happy.

Kids are upstairs playing ukelele and playing, and I'm half assedly watching the duggars waiting for 4 weddings to start.

I'm thinking soon I will down some neocitran and some benadryl and pass out.  I hate being sick

Sugargirl1019

DH is working tonight, so no plans for me. Tomorrow, we are going to a new hair salon for him. Yes, that's right, DH has agreed to try another hair cutter since his old one is my mortal enemy. Remember she didn't come to the wedding even though DH saw her the morning of for his hair? We'll he made an appt with her for tomorrow, and I freaked shit. She is a 40 minute drive from our house. I begged him to not use our only day off together driving forever away to see a woman I refuse to see, for her own safety. He came up with all these excuses why he needed to go to her for his hair, like how he is super picky about his hair and how his mom is meeting him there to drop off his prescriptions. Cue me flipping shit about his mother doing my job, like I should be picking up and paying for my husbands medications if he is too busy at work. We discussed, and I showed him a great salon seconds away from our new house, and he agreed to try this salon and cancel his other appt. yay for compromising with me I'm glad he listened to my feelings. ETa: iPads really don't have paragraphs!

ohannabelle

Finally got some serious cleaning/putting away done. My goal today was to go nowhere at all. I finally succeeded. 

Baked cookies. I saw the prettiest autumn leaf cookies online and have to attempt them. Even if I fail, I have cookies. 

Lovely, breezy, pretty evening. Tranquil. Autumn is on her way.

JCbride2015

Look guys-- I actually was productive today! Put away all my great-aunt's china that had taken over our dining room. And we lit our first fire of the fall season.

hikebikebemerry

Waaah!! I'm so jealous of your fireplace!!!

JCbride2015

hikebikebemerry said:

Waaah!! I'm so jealous of your fireplace!!!

The fireplace is the biggest perk of this apartment.  It's gas so it doesn't throw off noticeable heat (although the cats like sleeping in front of it).

Is it cheating to have the fireplace and the AC going at the same time? :-P

chibiyui

I'm working on wine and binge watching Kill La Kill

It's fucking ridic. 

Jells2dot0

I had a really bad day yesterday health-wise. So, I am just keeping things low key tonight in front of the TV. I'll go to bed early and hope to get some good sleep.

Boring, right?

JCbride2015

Jells2dot0 said:

I had a really bad day yesterday health-wise. So, I am just keeping things low key tonight in front of the TV. I'll go to bed early and hope to get some good sleep. Boring, right?

@Jells2dot0 Maybe boring-- but you do what you need to do to take care of yourself!  Hope you start having better days soon.

levioosa

JCbride2015 said:

Look guys-- I actually was productive today! Put away all my great-aunt's china that had taken over our dining room. And we lit our first fire of the fall season.

Omg, I'm so jealous of your fire/fireplace. It was 103 here today. No fall fires for me. =( I'm spending the night with Michael Scott of Dunder Mifflin. I hate to say it, but that's going to be way better than the bachelorette party I'm missing out on right now.

JCbride2015

chibiyui said:

I'm working on wine and binge watching Kill La Kill

It's fucking ridic. 

@chibiyui I only just realized what was happening in your first gif and I am LMAO.

lurkergirl

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

chibiyui

JCbride2015 said:

chibiyui said:

I'm working on wine and binge watching Kill La Kill

It's fucking ridic. 

@chibiyui I only just realized what was happening in your first gif and I am LMAO.

Pretty much every 5 minutes of this anime is LMAO. The guy in that gif has a habit of losing articles of clothing, in cheescakey ways. Apparently it makes sense later in the series.

Anyway. One time I look over at H and he no longer has a shirt on. I lose it. 

Then I was washing dishes. H comes up to throw something away and he's naked.

I'm done for the night. Good thing I wasn't planning on being productive.

JCbride2015

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

lurkergirl

JCbride2015 said:

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

Funny story I left that job and got a teaching degree............

levioosa

lurkergirl said:

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

Funny story I left that job and got a teaching degree............

SITB:

I used to have a job like that too.  I always drove to work hoping it had burned down to the ground sometime during the night.  

JCbride2015

lurkergirl said:

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

Funny story I left that job and got a teaching degree............

Really?  Are you a teacher now?

And I should be clear, I cried inconsolably when I left my teaching job.  Um, in my supervisor's office no less.  I'm only 85% sure I made the right decision switching to law instead (oh whoops, I guess I'm in the honest-drunk phase of the night).  I loved more days than I hated.  But man, the bad days were really bad.

chibiyui

Time2strtliving said:

lurkergirl said:

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

Funny story I left that job and got a teaching degree............

SITB:

I used to have a job like that too.  I always drove to work hoping it had burned down to the ground sometime during the night.  

I had a job where I hoped to hit a deer or run into a ditch to avoid going in. Yay for not being there anymore.

JCbride2015

chibiyui said:

Time2strtliving said:

lurkergirl said:

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

Funny story I left that job and got a teaching degree............

SITB:

I used to have a job like that too.  I always drove to work hoping it had burned down to the ground sometime during the night.  

I had a job where I hoped to hit a deer or run into a ditch to avoid going in. Yay for not being there anymore.

You have a naked man in your house!  Go away! :-P

levioosa

JCbride2015 said:

lurkergirl said:

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

Funny story I left that job and got a teaching degree............

Really?  Are you a teacher now?

And I should be clear, I cried inconsolably when I left my teaching job.  Um, in my supervisor's office no less.  I'm only 85% sure I made the right decision switching to law instead (oh whoops, I guess I'm in the honest-drunk phase of the night).  I loved more days than I hated.  But man, the bad days were really bad.

Ugh, TK...Stuck in the stupid box:

The great thing is though you still can go back to it, and with your law degree you have even more options available to you now.  

chibiyui

JCbride2015 said:

chibiyui said:

Time2strtliving said:

lurkergirl said:

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

Funny story I left that job and got a teaching degree............

SITB:

I used to have a job like that too.  I always drove to work hoping it had burned down to the ground sometime during the night.  

I had a job where I hoped to hit a deer or run into a ditch to avoid going in. Yay for not being there anymore.

You have a naked man in your house!  Go away! :-P

He's doing laundry. I laughed too long.

JCbride2015

Time2strtliving said:

JCbride2015 said:

lurkergirl said:

lurkergirl said:

@time2strtliving you know it's bad when being sick is preferable to the alternative! I used to have an awful job where I seriously wouldn't have minded a minor fender bender if it meant I didn't have to go or could be late. The flu, the dentist, the funeral of a distant old aunt...All things I would have rather been doing!

There were certain days when I was teaching where I'd be driving down the highway towards work and literally think, "If I just got rear-ended right now in traffic, and broke like one bone, I'd be out of school for at least a week.  And my car insurance would cover it."

Not a good sign.

Funny story I left that job and got a teaching degree............

Really?  Are you a teacher now?

And I should be clear, I cried inconsolably when I left my teaching job.  Um, in my supervisor's office no less.  I'm only 85% sure I made the right decision switching to law instead (oh whoops, I guess I'm in the honest-drunk phase of the night).  I loved more days than I hated.  But man, the bad days were really bad.

Ugh, TK...Stuck in the stupid box:

The great thing is though you still can go back to it, and with your law degree you have even more options available to you now.  

I've thought about this.  I could go into educational lobbying, or be in-house counsel for a charter school, or go straight back to teaching.  My state certification lasts forever.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I hope I fucking love being a lawyer because I have six figures of student loans to show for this law degree.  But I could see there being a point in my life when I'd like to be back in the classroom.

Cookie Pusher

DH and I both worked (separately) tonight. He is currently snoring loudly on the couch, so no shenanigans of any kind tonight.

Sugargirl1019

Y'all. There are 5 high school girls CACKLING in the room next door. Like, the sound decibel never lowers. They are always cackling about something and it's beyond me how something is funny for 3 hours straight! I'm being driven crazy!

And I'm getting a tic.

Oh my god.

theartistformerlyknownas

Oh ya know, same ol thing. Rehearsal dinner. :-D FFIL makes the BEST ribs!