It's not Friday....

Swazzle

... which is what I thought since last night. I seriously said to H when we got into bed: I can sleep in a little bit tomorrow because it's Friday and I'm just going to throw on jeans and a sweatshirt with booties. And he was like:



SIGH. What the hell is up with this long ass week though!?

Last night, I went food shopping then went home and made a western omelette casserole and threw chicken into the crockpot with salsa verde so that I'd have breakfast and lunch for the rest of the week. I ate a quick dinner and then H got home and it was after 9 so we just went to bed. EXCITING! 

Tonight H and I are finally decorating our tree! We just haven't gotten around to it since Saturday when we got it. Other than that, not a whole lot going on here! 

Talk to me about your Thursday. 

jenjen047

I wish it was Friday. Last night I got home and went to the gym, then ate leftover tacos. As I was finishing dinner FI called and said the trains weren't running because of an earlier accident, so I had to drive about 15 minutes to pick him up. By the time we got home it was 9:30 and I was exhausted so I just went to bed.

Tonight we are making our first BA meal. Either roasted chicken with potato latkes or lamb and beef burgers with carrot fries.

Tomorrow I'm only working until 2, which will be nice. I'm debating if I want to work at home or come in to the office. At work I have a 2nd monitor, which is really useful. But at home I can wear PJs and work in bed, so I'm all



I need to get my booty in gear. I've been maintaining my weight since the end of October, which is good, but I really want to lose a couple pounds before the wedding but I also love food. Problems.

Peaseblossom55

I'm so ready for this week to be over.  I had rehearsal last night, got home around 10:40, showered had a quick snack and went to bed.   I have rehearsal again tonight as well, but it shouldn't be as late. 

Even this weekend will be tiring, I have 4 shows this weekend.  At least I am working from home today and I don't have to rush home, make dinner and then head back out the door. Life is so exciting.  I am struggling with what to get my mom for Christmas, no clue and she is of no help to me either.

jenna8984

@jenjen047 Same here, tomorrow I have a doctor apt at 1 so I'm like well I should proooobably just work from home and save the drive.

It will be my first pre-natal appointment and I'm really hoping to hear a heartbeat

I signed up for the activities committee at work and I'm so regretting it. Getting bombarded with group emails about the Christmas party next week and if we should do an ugly sweater thing, and if we should do a toys for tots drive, and if we should do this and that. Last week when I was gone I got about 15 emails talking about changing the chicken parm to roast chicken. OMFG people I don't care, these things don't need meetings, just someone pick something and go with it.

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I went through most of the afternoon yesterday convinced it was Thursday.  It was not.  UGH!!!!!!  What is going on with this week?

I am very glad that today is Thursday.  I only have 2 meetings (so far) on my calendar today.  

I'm going to try to come up with a grocery list today.  Ha.

I think I only have 3 lessons to teach tonight, so my big plans are:  get off work, eat something, teach, shower, bed.  

lavenderfields13

Nothing exciting going on today. Seriously, this is the longest week ever. My SF box should be arriving today so I'll probably post that later. 
I think all the pregnancies on here have got it stuck on my mind. Last night I had another dream I was pregnant!

beachyone15

Please don't hate me but today is my Friday! We are having a pizza party for our work study who is graduating and then tonight I have a gift exchange at my favorite Mexican food place. Then tomorrow is my shopping day! My plan is to get everything left on my list so I can start wrapping early.

@swazzle - You will have to AW your tree when it's done!
@jenjen047 - If I could work from home I'm pretty sure I'd never wear pants.
@Peaseblossom55 - I have the same problem with my mom! She's all, "there's nothing I want, I have everything I want already!" Thanks mom, super helpful. She has a James Avery charm bracelet though, so I'm thinking of getting her a charm. They have some really cute Christmas ones out now.
@jenna8984 - OMG, I hope you get to hear baby's heartbeat! How exciting!

ETF: posted too early

jenjen047

@jenna8984 - YAY! Can't wait to hear about your appointment!

@peaseblossom55 - I always struggle with what to get my mom too. And she will give ideas but they are the most impossible things. One year she asked for a maroon purse. Like if there's a particular purse you want, great. But everyone's styles and tastes are so different I feel like it's a shot in the dark.

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@jenna8984 you already have your first appt???  Wow!  Mine made me wait until I was 9 weeks.  I go in on Monday.

MissKittyDanger

@jenjen047  @jenna8984  you ladies should just stay home if you're only working part day. Save the hassle of leaving the house.

Not much last night. Was able to get rid of a bag of bags {gift bags} because they weren't good enough to be reused in one way or another.

Tonight I have an appointment at the bank to increase my TFSA, and we're getting the Christmas tote from the locker.

Otherwise really nothing tonight.
Tomorrow I've got running around to do after work, and last night I happened to mention that I was really wanting egg salad so my Granny said she'd make some and call me Friday. Yayy!! Matt hates eggs and I haven't learned how to make eggs salad properly {really the egg boiling part I have an issue with ...}
Matt's also going to Magic Draft with a buddy of his on Friday, so I get to shovel ALL THE EGG SALAD IN MY FACE on Friday night lmao!

jenna8984

@cocobellaf Yea they didn't even ask! I just said I wanted to make the first appt and they said ok here's a date. 6.5 weeks so it might be borderline to hearing a heartbeat but we'll see! Good luck with yours Monday!

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@jenna8984 don't expect to hear the heartbeat.  You should be able to SEE the heartbeat at your 6.5w appointment, but you won't be able to hear it on a Doppler until closer to 10w.  

beanbot2002

@jenna8984 not to be a dream crusher, but the likely hood of you hearing the heartbeat is slim to none this early on. You usually don't hear it till closer to 10-12 weeks. BUT if they do an early ultrasound, you might see the flickering, and that can be so exciting! I remember seeing Bean on my first US 14 years ago and thinking "How can this be??" This tiny little nugget just swimming around.

My Thursday started off AMAZING. I walked out to leave, only to find a lovely package on my porch from my SS from a FB group. I teared up and then showed off my goodies to all of my coworkers who 'Ooooh'd and Ahhhh'd' at them.
It went a little downhill after that, and I'm feeling extra extra snarky towards my boss and a coworker. I'm at a point where I just don't have any more fucks to give here, and I'm just telling everyone like it is. *sigh* Work would be a thousand times easier to deal with, if I had a puppy.  

Peaseblossom55

@beachyone15 @jenjen047 It's kind of frustrating figuring it out and if I asks she wants complicated things.  

Yum I'm drinking warm apple cider it's so good and I'm watching Maury while I work. I wish I could work from home every day.

jenna8984

@beanbot2002 @cocobellaf aaah gotcha, I thought I read something about the heartbeat at 6 weeks, it must have been sight not sound, good to know!

@peaseblossom55 hahah Maury- you are NOT the father!

MissKittyDanger

@beachyone15  envious of your today-is-your-Friday!

I think tomorrow I'm going to watch a Christmas movie ...

jenjen047

I have to give a big shoutout to @cu97tiger for giving me the idea of writing the number of guests on the RSVP cards so there is no confusion about how many guests from each family are invited. I addressed every STD and invite to Mr and Mrs XYZ instead of The XYZ Family but when my cousin got her invite last week she was surprised that it said "__ of 2 guests" on the RSVP card. If it hadn't I'm sure we would have gotten a RSVP for them and their 3 kids. So THANK YOU!!!

Sidenote: I had also spoken to her in August about us choosing not to invite kids to the wedding so I don't know why she was so surprised. She must have completely forgot that conversation.

labro

@Swazzle You had better AW your super fluffy tree when it's all decked out!

@jenna8984 Good luck at your appointment! I hope your little nugget is looking good and you're able to see the heartbeat! @CocoBellaF I hope your appointment on Monday also goes well!

@beanbot2002 Your SS gift was definitely one of my favorites so far! Especially the fuzzy part!

@jenjen047 I have a hard time with my mom some years. Usually I just take her shopping and make her pick something out....which ruins the surprise but at least then I know she won't return it.

Last night was so great! My steak and gnocchi dinner turned out super delicious AND I received my SS gift!! I'm in two SS groups this year and I got both of them at the same time! It was awesome and I LOVE everything sooooooooooooo much!

Tonight is our bookclub book exchange. I'm WFH this afternoon so I can go pick up wine for our get-together and buy the ingredients for my Pimento Cheese Gougeres. I had to take poor Cinders to the vet this morning. She has another ear infection (this time in both ears) so the vet gave me some drops and some advice on changing up her dose for her allergies (she gets half a Claritin right now but he said we can give her a whole based on the number of milligrams the pill is).

GoldenPenguin

I just want to let everyone know that I have the BEST Santa that there ever was to Secret. I CANNOT WAIT to AW the gifts that showed up on my doorstep last night!!

I've been MIA all week, because work has been a beast - I swear, I just can't get anything right. I'm now in charge of my client's social media - my supervisor is transitioning ALL of the management over to me for 2016. Since I started in June, I've been creating all the content, but she's been managing/scheduling posts. This is my first month doing ALL of it, and I've fucked something up every single day, and I seriously don't even know how. It's so frustrating. Hopefully the rest of the month goes smoothly. 

At lunch, I'm running over to see my friend and FINALLY getting my SS gifts for the other group I'm exchanging with - I have had literally zero idea what to get for her, so I've just been putting it off, but I NEED to get it in the mail this afternoon. God, I'm the worst.

Last night, H & I went to the mall and did almost ALL our Christmas shopping! We're going to see his family to celebrate this weekend, so we had to get done prior to the week of Christmas (which is when we usually do our shopping - we're both serious procrastinators.) I have to pick up something else for my parents when we're in Mystic this weekend - when they were down for the wedding, they found a little shop in the Olde Mystick Village that sells these gorgeous wind chimes, and in separate conversations, my dad told me to get one for my mom, and my mom told me to get one for my dad. So I figured I'd just get them a big one for both of them! I also got them a new backgammon set (the one they have & use practically every night is at least 30 years old, and is held together by duct tape), and got my dad wool socks & my mom new gloves from LL Bean. I had already picked them up a couple souvenirs when we were in the Dominican - they're making out like bandits this year (and they TOTALLY deserve it!)

@swazzle - I demand pics of your tree when it's done!

@jenna8984 - good luck with your appointment!! I hope you can at least see something from that little alien in your tum!

@peaseblossom55 - I feel the same way about H. He is TERRIBLE at giving ideas. He always says "I don't need anything." I don't CARE what you "need," WHAT DO YOU WANT!? 

This. Every Christmas/birthday/gift giving holiday. 

jenjen047

@goldenpenguin - That was me a few months back at work. Constantly making mistakes and not even sure why. It's the most frustrating feeling. Stick with it, I'm sure you're doing the best you can and it'll get better with time. Is your client a fun client at least? Or are you scheduling posts for something like adult diapers?

@labro - My mom is a princess and would never let me do that. She wants to be surprised. I swear sometimes she is a 5 year old.

MissKittyDanger

@GoldenPenguin  little alien in your tum LMAO :')

@labro poor Cinders! Hope the infection goes away quick! 

jenna8984

@labro aw hope cinders infection goes away soon

@goldenpenguin It was like that with me last year, they transitioned over a huge commission processing job to me and for months I just kept fucking it up. I felt so confident and then a rep would call and be like NOPE. It was frustrating, you'll get better!!

labro

@GoldenPenguin All those gifts sound so awesome!! Can I please just claim you as my SS next year so you can buy me all the things?

I'm sorry work is so crazy. On one hand, at least you aren't bored, and hopefully you're learning so when you go through all this again you'll have it down pat! I love and hate my job when it's challenging...but when you're through it all it ends up being worthwhile. Let's have a wine skype date soon and you can vent!

beachyone15

@GoldenPenguin - My H is the same way. If it were up to him, we wouldn't get gifts at all. His list this year -
-Grill gauge (to see how full the gas tank on the grill is)
-Weed eater
-A GB packers flag
-Popcorn
Literally everything else I got him was from my own imagination. Hopefully he likes it all. He really only ever wants things that are completely functional and not fun at all. Ugh.

cu97tiger

IT'S MY FRIDAY! WOOT!!

Last night our Home Chef meals didn't show up, so I grabbed dinner on my way home and then spent the night reading stacks of information about IVF. Holy head spinning, batman.

I had my second visit with the psychiatrist's office to diagnose my AD(H)D this morning. Both doctor's were in agreement, so tomorrow I'll get a prescription. It's funny how much stuff I've been doing to keep anxiety in check that I hadn't even noticed. I'm excited to try some medicine and see how it works for me!

Tonight DH and I are going to go to happy hour. I need to do some laundry and grocery shopping, too, but I have all day tomorrow to get stuff done. Tomorrow I'm going to go to Crossfit, a final doctor's appointment, take our dogs to the canal for a good long walk, get a massage, and then relax with DH. It sounds exhausting when I write it all out!

@peaseblossom55 - Warm apple cider sounds delicious right now!

@jenjen047 - Yay! Anything that cuts down on wedding stress is a good thing  

@goldenpenguin - The only thing you can do is move forward and not make the same mistake twice! You'll get a handle on it.

GoldenPenguin

@jenjen047 - I don't want to put out there exactly who my client is, but they are VERY well known, and it's a really fun account. And it's not adult diapers lol. 

@jenna8984 - I hate it!! Plus every time I get another email/phone call from my supervisor, I feel like I'm getting scolded. And then my brain turns into "Yup, you're getting fired" mode. Which makes it even worse. UGH.

@labro - I'd LOVE to be your SS!! And YES PLEASE to the wine & Skype date!! Next week??

Peaseblossom55

@jenna8984 It's my guilty work from home pleasure and The Price is Right

@goldenpenguin H is the same way, he just buys what he wants.  I have him as my Secret Santa for the family exchange and I wanted to buy him a new video game for him Xbox one and he keeps buying the ones I was going to get.  I finally got him a game I think he will enjoy that he hasn't bought himself yet.

Peaseblossom55

@labro I hope Cinders feels better.

Peaseblossom55

@cu97tiger It was good and it isn't even cold out either.

jenjen047

WR question: we are planning to order thank you cards with a picture of us from the wedding on them, like this:

However, we are already getting gifts from people who can't attend. I am thinking we should we just use generic thank you cards in the meantime rather than waiting until January. Thoughts?

ETA: picture

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@beachyone15 he asked for popcorn??