Happy Monday?

kat1114

H and I got back from our 2 week honeymoon. Friday night. Today is my first day back at work in 3 weeks, and I'm dreading it. I was getting really used to this not working thing.

How's everyone else's Monday staring off?

maeday2

That's the worst. Work sucks even more after a nice long vacation. 

My dog is a diva and wouldn't get his paws wet to go pee so he will probably hike a leg on a chair. I fell in the wet driveway. My smoothie isn't thawed out enough. I had to get gas on the way to work. I was late. It's raining. I'm tired. 

I'm whiny. Happy Monday! 

flutteringinfl

Hopefully you have some awesome pictures to look at to help get you through your day!

My day's okay so far. I had a dream that FSIL, who's 9 months pregnant, had her baby and it could instantly talk (though just random words), and no one was impressed but me. So now I'm waiting for her to get online so I can tell her about it. Other than that, just the usual work stuff.

cupcait927

After three weeks I wouldn't want to go back to work either! Hopefully you had an awesome honeymoon!

 

My Monday is okay. My perpetually lazy coworker called in sick again (after calling in a bunch in December and have four days off for Christmas AND New Years) so I get to be her back up. Luckily it was a balmy 32° here this morning so I didn't freeze my ass off on the way to work. It's nice when 32° feels warm after single digits and negative windchills for over a week. I need to get my butt back to eating healthy and avoiding all the wine - I feel like such a glutton after everything I ate and drank this weekend. ugh.

climbingsingle

Ugh, the first day back after my HM was the worst! 

My Monday sucks. It's freezing raining right now, my drivers are still not out on the road. Sadly I see another 10 hour day for myself. 

dolewhipper

It's incredibly boring at work, so I'm doing my escort cards. I give 0 fucks about doing wedding related stuff at work. No one is here who wants to go to the parks.

emmaaa

I know how you feel. Last Monday was my first day back in 20 days and it felt like torture. Good luck on being productive!

It is yucky and rainy here today which made it really hard to get out of bed. Our yard now looks like a pond because we have drainage issues with the yard...

wandajune6

I can imagine it must be rough going back. We didn't have a honeymoon but going back after a vacation always stinks.

It's cold here but the snow was cleared so the commute isn't so bad. I did a ton of work this weekend so I actually feel like this week might be manageable.

Oh, and I have an awesome lunch: soup, an apple, and a cupcake. I made this last night (http://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/7283-wild-rice-and-mushroom-soup) and could live off of it.

Jells2dot0

All I have to say is FUCK MENOPAUSE. I'm a freaking wreck over here.  I'm incapable of getting a good night's sleep and sex hurts. I hope the doctor is right and it will reverse itself.

ashley8918

Meh. I am not feeling super great about today. On top of all my other bullshit, I took a sleeping pill too late last night and now I am groggy as fuck. UGH.

maeday2

This is perfect for today. 

theartistformerlyknownas

Some  motherfucker threw away my 3/4 full organic half and half from the office fridge over the weekend. Listen assholes, I get that people abuse the work fridge, and leave Thai leftovers in there stinking up the place until a HazMat team is required to clean it out. But the fridge is NOT full, you didn't need to clear the space, it didn't expire for like 2 weeks, was almost full, and had my motherfucking name written on it FOUR goddamn times. 

jenna8984

@jells2dot0 I'm sorry hope it gets better soon!

beethery

HELLO I AM AWAKE WELCOME TO CAFFEINE LAND COURTESY OF EXCEDRINE, I'M THE MAYOR idonotwanttobehererightnow

amelisha

I'm determined that this will actually be a happy Monday. I've been super bummed out for a few weeks thanks to a total lack of daylight (thanks, windowless office/winter solstice, I really enjoy walking to and from work in the dark every day), but I bought some vitamin D drops and I'm now dosing myself with that, B complex, and a multi, so I'm hoping that'll help fix the lack of sun a little.

kat1114

beethery said:

HELLO I AM AWAKE WELCOME TO CAFFEINE LAND COURTESY OF EXCEDRINE, I'M THE MAYOR idonotwanttobehererightnow

Thanks to jetlag, I haven't been able to make it through the last 2 day without a nap, and I've slept 9 hours each night. I think I may be joining you in caffeine land today. I want one of these:

NowIamMrsKlein

8 months today until wedding! That's about the only good thing about today.

I have a doctors appt this morning to refill a prescription. There is currently a major doctor shortage in town where if you don't have a family doctor your only way to see a doctor is go to this Unattached Patient Clinic. That is staffed by 1 doctor and 1 nurse. There's 20,000 people in the area without a family doctor...... I booked this appointment 3 months ago. Just to refill my freaking thyroid medication. 

Also I have gawdawful cramps of doom and I am grumpy. Stupid Monday.

pinkcow13

I want to hear about this honeymoon!

Eh, it's Monday. I'm just trying to get by in one piece.

esstee33

I wondered where you'd gone off to, @kat1114! I need to hear all about this honeymoon, pleeeeease. 

Today is for painting more things. It's been freezing rain here all night but FI said the roads were fine this morning, so I'm going to head out to Lowe's shortly. I'm really hoping for some cool mistints in the color families we need -- I love mistints. We *almost* got the perfect color for our bedroom for $9, but it turned out to be some weird kind of plaster, not actual paint, soooo not really what we needed. The color was perfect though! 

beethery

Swear to god, FI came downstairs this morning at 3am while I was loading the woodstove to me like:

I just want t go home and play video games and not be anybody uuuuuggghhhhh

I gotta gather all my dress shit so it's ready to show to dressmakers fuckfuckfuck

lovemesomemonster

Hope everyone's Monday gets better! Coming back from a fabulous vacation is the worst!!! Trying to get through today, head out for a work trip tomorrow at a terrible hour in the morning.. and I have a list of 3 things I'm supposed to do at lunch today.. problem is I forgot what the third thing is... OOPS!

ShesSoCold

This morning when I left the house, my neighborhood smelled like burning. I went back inside and went all over the house and nothing was wrong and the smell was only outside. As I was leaving the neighborhood, I couldn't see where the smell was coming from. 

I'm sitting at work terrified that my house is on fire with my piggy wiggly inside. 

chibiyui

Well, I hopped on the elliptical for the first time in, months.So, there's that at least. 

I had the day off already, H is working from home due to ice. Resisting the urge to drink the day away. I have PLENTY of things that need  should to be accomplished today.

Or I could look at gifs all day.....

flyingfoxes

It's Monday.  At least it's a short-ish week, since we close at 3 Friday because of next Monday being a holiday. 

 

I went off of birth control about 2 months ago - my aesthetician told me that my skin would probably go nuts, which it really hasn't...except for in my ears.  I keep getting pimples ON MY EARS. They hurt like mothers, too.    At least they're not giant ones on the end of my nose though, so there's that. 

hellosweetie1015

You guys. I hate Mondays. I hate hate hate Mondays. Plus Bossman is working double on the weekends now because Mrs. Bossman is out of town with their daughter, who just had a baby. 

Good news is that I won't be in the office Monday (because holiday) or Tuesday (because doctor) of next week. Happy happy joy joy!

Oh and I forgot my jacket and it's cold inside today. How I forgot my jacket? Because Monday.

dcbride86

I'm sick blahh.  and it's raining.  and I'm at work.  Considering taking some sick leave and leaving early but I don't know if it's worth it

theartistformerlyknownas

mobride2015 said:

It's Monday.  At least it's a short-ish week, since we close at 3 Friday because of next Monday being a holiday. 

 

I went off of birth control about 2 months ago - my aesthetician told me that my skin would probably go nuts, which it really hasn't...except for in my ears.  I keep getting pimples ON MY EARS. They hurt like mothers, too.    At least they're not giant ones on the end of my nose though, so there's that. 

OMG those are the worst! You can't even really get in there to squeeze them out either... sorry, I'm disgusting. 

I've had this half-dollar sized breakout on my cheek since I went off the pill. It's super annoying.

kat1114

esstee33 and @pinkcowWe went to South Africa, and it was absolutely amazing! We spent the first 6 nights in Cape Town. It was such a beautiful city! The exchange rate is also really great right now for the USD, We spent about $15-20 on lunches and dinner, even when we had drinks. The day we went wine tasting, we bought 9 bottles of amazing wine for about $100.

Then we headed off to safari for 2 nights. 2 nights was not enough! It was so incredible. The lodge, the staff, the game drives, the food- everything was perfect!. I loved seeing all of the animals up close in their natural habitat. I would definitely go back again and stay longer.

The only negative was the traveling. On the way there it was 2 flights for a total of 21 hours, plus a 4 hour layover. On the way back, it was 2 flights for 23 hours, plus a 7 hour layover. Although, they second layover was long enough that we got to go explore London for a few hours. Next time we fly long-haul, we might have to save up to fly at least a step above coach. Flying economy on British Air was horrible.

We are definitely going back though! I can't recommend South Africa enough!

And some AW pictures because words won't do it justice:

Coming down the cable car on Table Mountain:

We went cycling. H told me it would be easy. It was hard as fuck, but the views made up for it:

Wine tasting! Their wine country was absolutely beautiful!

I could do a million pictures from safari, but here are a few of my faves:

And super cheesy tourist picture during our London layover

theartistformerlyknownas

AH! Please tell me they let you run up and smooch that baby elephant even though I know they didn't and you probably would have died. Just tell me that you did and that he hugged you with his little baby trunk.

kat1114

lolo883 said:

AH! Please tell me they let you run up and smooch that baby elephant even though I know they didn't and you probably would have died. Just tell me that you did and that he hugged you with his little baby trunk.

I wish I could have! We made so many videos of him. He was so adorable! He kept trying to be tough and knock down little trees. 

Sadly, we had to eventually back away because the baby kept getting too close, which will lead to mom eventually charging.

hellosweetie1015

...and now I have travel jealousy. Because rhinoceroses. And baby elephants. 

That looks like it was a blast! All except the biking bit. You can keep that. My fat butt would die. 

And the flights. I just did half of that. No more for a while.