More sleep Monday

Swazzle

I could use another 3+ hours of sleep, please! 

I had such an amazing weekend!

On Friday, I left work early, got home, and then @beanbot2002 @buddysmom80 @csousa1 and @Hummingbird125 arrived! I made crockpot mac and cheese and pulled pork and everything was so yummy!


Then we played Loaded Questions and LRC (I finally won!). We went to bed so late because we are wild party animals. 

On Saturday, I made a cinnamon bun french toast bake and bacon for breakfast and we mostly just lounged around all day with bloody marys and lots of laughs and we FTed with @audrewuh for a little bit too. We went to an early dinner at my favorite Mexican restaurant and then out for drinks at my local bar. We played trivia and kicked so much ass! 

We are mature women: 

Then we went back to my house and FTed with @labro and @southernpeach89 which was so fun as always. 

Yesterday @Hummingbird125 took over in the kitchen because I was a little hungover and the pancake bites came out SO good! Highly recommend. Everyone left me to go home by noon which was so sad  I finished cleaning the house and watched the rest of season 2 of Downton Abbey. 

Last night, H and I went to see Bruce! It was incredible and they performed for over 3 hours without any breaks because they're amazing. Bruce is so hot. 







We got home really late and didn't go to sleep until around 12:30 (and my alarm goes off at 5:15) so I am EXHAUSTED today! I'll definitely be getting to bed early tonight so I can try to catch up on some sleep. 

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Well, I think you had the best weekend ever @Swazzle.  Can't top all that!!

My weekend wasn't as exciting, but there was chocolate involved.

Friday I left work at 11:30, ate, and then took a nap until 1:00.  We got ready and went to the funeral at 2.  It was the longest funeral ever (over at 3:15 or a little after) but it was very nice.  H and my mom and I went to eat dinner.  I ate a little bit, and then we went back to the house where I fell asleep from 6:00-10:30.  Woke up, threw up for an hour or so, and then went back to bed.

Saturday I woke up at around 6:00 or 6:30 to get sick, and then went back to bed.  Eventually I got up and ate something and sat on the couch with H to watch soccer.  It was a big game (Barcelona vs. Madrid Atletico).  Then we went to the chocolate festival!!!

It was really yummy.  I ended up with 11 samples, but had to throw 2 away because they were dripping in alcohol.  I ended up with: a miniature brownie sundae, a chocolate mouse (like an undercooked brownie covered in chocolate the shape of a mouse), a mini cupcake, red velvet froyo, chocolate custard with chocolate shavings, a small piece of chocolate cake with amaretto filling, some truffles, some raspberry chocolates and a raspberry chocolate bar, and another little piece of cake.  We ate all the cold stuff there and we're still eating off the rest of our stash.

My mom made us some dinner Saturday night, so we went over and ate.  It was a really nice day so I sat outside on the back porch throwing the ball for the dogs while she cooked.

Saturday evening was kind of a bust because I used my phenergan so I just laid on the couch and we watched a bunch of random stuff.  I think maybe the new James Bond movie.

ETA:  Wearing a new dress today and I feel so FANCY.

LizzyTish88

Sounds like a great weekend @swazzle! Look at all those beautiful woman in that picture! Glad you had fun.

My weekend wasn't was I was hoping for but it was okay. Friday on the way home BF stopped at CVS and I made him go to the Minute Clinic. They said he has a virus and gave him some super concentrated cough medicine. So Friday night we stayed in and got take-out. 

Saturday we lounged longer than we should have, then headed out to run errands. We were supposed to get paint, however we got samples and then headed back home. We got Tessie a new harness so we took her for a walk, then went out to dinner with my cousin and her kids.

Yesterday BF woke up and for some reason switched gears from paint to window treatments. We went to JCPenney and got some valances, shades, and curtain rods. Well the shades don't fit, so we need to return them and get new ones. It took so long and I was getting so aggravated. I felt as if he was waiting for me to transform into Martha Stewart mixed with Mary Poppins, and just snap my fingers and have the windows done.

I told him we should focus on the paint, as it's more important than the fucking windows, and he finally saw the light. So we put the samples on the wall and picked one. We then took everything off the walls and filled/spackled the whole room. So sometime this week one of us had to go to Home Depot and pick up the paint so we can get that going. We are going away this coming weekend and the couch can come as early as the weekend we get back to we have to get moving on it!!

I'm ready for Friday and my weekend away!!

Swazzle

@CocoBellaF - Your weekend sounds so nice aside from the puking! Jealous of the chocolate festival!

@caseface5 - What color did you decide on?

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Oooh, I forgot I had a picture of my box of samples!  You can't see them all, but here is an idea!



And this is what the chocolate mouse looks like... it was my favorite!!

LizzyTish88

@Swazzle We went with THIS color. It looks darker in our room, and honestly the darker tan that I picked out, looked like poop on the wall. I do like how this one came out. I took a before picture, just waiting for us to have an after!

Swazzle

@caseface5 - Love it! It looks really similar to the color I painted my living room (you can see in the background of the first pic in my OP). Yours might be a smidge darker but they're really similar!

untouchablets

@swazzle your weekend sounds so fun! Congrats on winning LRC!

@Cocobellaf GIVE ME ALL THE CHOCOLATE! Those mice are so cute!

I had a good weekend! I taught two adult dog classes on Saturday and they went really well. The lady with the pitty came and it was a really productive session! She had no idea how dogs communicate and learn and by the end of the session he was responding to her and she was SO proud of him. Things are gonna go really great with her. Also, between Saturday and yesterday I more than tripled my class load. I started with three last week and now I have ten every week, so I'm going to be VERY busy. Aside from all the work stuff I just hung out with BF and worked on homework. Yesterday I caught the end of Grease Live and was pretty impressed

Today I'm mostly off from work, but I have a class at noon so I'm going in for two hours. After that Coraline and I are going to her breeder's house for a play date with parents and sister and to meet some new puppies that were born recently!

beanbot2002

I'm barely functioning. @csousa1 fed me shots on Saturday night and my body still hurts. I kidnapped @swazzle's shower loofah, but to be fair - I left her mine as a consolation prize. I'll come back later when my brain doesn't want to dumb so hard.

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@Swazzle - That sounds like an awesome weekend!  I'm glad you had so much fun!

@CocoBellaF - OMG.  I am literally drooling over your chocolate samples  Also your new dress is super fantastic.  I love the colors.

I had an okay weekend.  I wrote in my journal last night that I have a love/hate relationship with my weekends right now.  I like the fact that I don't feel like I have to do any work (unlike in grad school when I was working pretty much nonstop), but I find them incredibly isolating because, well...there are so many fun things in Savannah to do, but I literally only have one friend here so far, and it can be hard to do them alone.

Saturday I went to yoga in the morning and then ran errands and lazed around the house for the rest of the day.  Saturday I also blew the diet train big time...I got Chipotle for lunch and pizza and a cupcake for dinner, and I drank a whole bottle of wine.  Sunday morning I went to Mass and then my one Savannah friend came over for lunch.  I made pork chops and whole-grain penne in the crockpot with a Middle Eastern spice marinade that I made up...they turned out so well.  Laundry and more yoga and a run filled out my day.

Something really scary happened to my family this weekend.  There was a manhunt for an armed suspect in my hometown, and my sister-in-law was literally right in the middle of it.  The guy drove his truck into the back yard of the house where she was babysitting.  Luckily he ran into the woods next to the house as opposed to running straight into it.  She's fine, but pretty shaken.  My alma mater was on lockdown for about 8 hours.

This week is going to be full, because I'm taking next weekend away like @caseface5.  I'm going to go up to North Carolina and stay with my nephew while my sister and her husband go on a little baby moon before the new baby comes next month.  I'm so excited!  We're going to go to his favorite restaurant and get "beef burgers" and to the museum where they have a train we can ride! I can't wait to snuggle that kid so hard.

cu97tiger

Morning ladies.
@cocobellaf - That chocolate looks amazing!

I'm working from home today while our car gets looked at. DH thinks something is going on with the power steering, so it might be pricey

Our housecleaner comes at 12:30, so I'll take F+F on a nice long walk and walk off whatever ridiculousness I've eaten this morning. I'm the worst when I'm WFH.

All the Christmas decorations are finally put away. I just need to put away the fake tree and it's DONE! It really wasn't that bad, I don't know why I was dreading it so much!

We have decided to change fertility clinics. So today I'm researching new ones and trying to figure out logistics if we need to go somewhere that is 6 hours away. Even with the added complexity, and the extended timeline (we'll have to push back a couple months), I'm still so much less stressed and more excited than I was with our old clinic. I am so happy to never step foot in there again.

speakeasy14

I need entertainment! Everyone is out skiing/boarding and it was $135 for me to get a lesson so I decided to just hang out in the lodge.  I'm the only person in here, and they plan on staying here until the mountain closes.... so 6 more hours to go....

@swazzle your weekend sounds amazing.  We ended up leaving really late on Saturday and I was so close to just crashing at your house haha oh and I love that you added @GoldenPenguin to the group shot.

@cocobellaf omg all that chocolate!!! I want it all.


So yeah, vacation so far.  We left probably around 5:30 on Saturday because my bf was guaranteed two deals at work so he didn't want to give them away (he sells timeshares on the weekends and the two sales were referrals from one of his really good customers).  We got to our resort around 10:30-11.  I was exhausted and the biggest grouch ever.  I think everyone was afraid of me.

Yesterday we slept in till 8:30 and it was glorious.  Then we into town to go tasting at a distillery, winery, and Harpoon brewery.  The winery had amazing wine, and cheese.  I bought a bourbon maple syrup from them and we got a bottle of blueberry wine.  It tasted like a subtle dry red with a blueberry aftertaste, but it was made solely from blueberries.  The tour at Harpoon Brewery was awesome, and the most detailed tour I've ever gone on.  We got to taste the beer twice through the process then could sample as many beers we wanted.

After we were done drinking and eating, we went back to our resort.  Continued to drink and played Kings and Battle of the sexes.  And now boredom.

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@Swazzle I loved getting to FT with you and all the girls this weekend!!! It looked like y'all were having so much fun. I was hungover the next day too lol....drinking that much wine and then having a 6:00a.m. wake up call is not good lol.

Our weekend was good and bad. Friday night DH worked so I went to bbq with my mom, @labro and her H. It was noms as usual and Callie was being super cute as usual lol. I deep cleaned our bathroom so I smelled like chemicals the rest of the day ughhh I hate that.

Saturday DH and I submitted our title and we should be getting a settlement check hopefully this week or next. We are getting a decent amount back which will be enough to buy a fairly nice used car. Then.....I poked a hole through my ceiling. Yep. There was a leak and I stuck my hand up there to see if it was wet and it went straight through...UGH!!!!!!!! Month from hell. Plumber is coming tomorrow to fix it. Then we FT'd with the some lovely women of NEY!! I drank way too much wine. Oh well.

Sunday was I hungover lol so Callie and I chilled all day. Poor thing was constipated and pooped out a legit turd. I felt so bad for her so I gave her some water and it flushed everything out thankfully. All you pregnant ladies, be prepared to be constantly examining your child's poop and then telling everyone about it lol.

Today DH is working so after I go get Callie I plan to go get groceries and make sloppy joes and watch the Bachelor. I need to sweep our kitchen too because the dog hair is starting to collect.

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@CocoBellaF OMG Chocolate festival sounds amazing!!! I need to go to one of those like yesterday.

@caseface5 Ugh sounds like there is a lot going on with the house! I hope things start to get knocked out this week! I love the color you chose. We painted our old apartment that color with an accent wall. I thought it looked great.

@untouchablets I watched Grease Live too....did you see the technical malfunction they had?!? Someone probably got fired today.

@futuremrshistorian OMG how scary! I'm glad your sister is ok but omg I would be terrified!!

@TwoDimes That's awesome you got a brand new water heater!!! Those are expensive!! Yay for home warranty!

@cu97tiger YAY for getting all your Christmas decor down!!! I start judging when decorations are still up in February! You made the cut!

@speakeasy14 That wine and beer tasting sounds awesome! I've been wanting to go to a Georgia winery for a while now...I've visited most but there is still one that I haven't visited.

speakeasy14

@caseface5 love the color you chose!

@futuremrshistorian ugh that is scary, but glad she's ok.  

@twodimes woohoo for luck!! 

@southernpeach89 I think you should go

helloliv

@swazzle - Your weekend sounds amazing! Love that picture of all you pretty ladies.
@cocobellaf - Those chocolate mice are adorable and I would like to eat approximately 25 of them right now, please.
@caseface5 - Pretty color!
@untouchablets - Pictures of the puppy play date or it didn't happen!
@futuremrshistorian - How scary! I'm glad your SIL is OK. Your weekend away sounds lovely!
@twodimes - I watched Grease Live, too, and I surprisingly loved it! I haven't really liked most of the live remakes of things, but I really enjoyed the cast and it was a fun thing to watch. 
@cu97tiger - What was bad about your old fertility clinic? I'm so glad you're switching if they made you that unhappy!
@speakeasy14 - Oh my god, alone time in a lodge sounds blissful to me! Do you have a book to read? 
@southernpeach89 - I'm sorry for all the expenses lately! Adulting is hard.

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I had a good weekend! Friday night D and I went for drinks with my coworkers, then decided on the way home to stop by our local and get dessert. We then proceeded to drink a bottle of wine with that, and come home and open MORE wine. OOPS. This was a theme for the weekend. 

Saturday we both had appointments with the bank -- he wanted to switch his bank to BOA, so needed a new checking/savings and I opened up a higher-interest savings account (right now I only have checking accounts) because I actually have a substantial tax refund coming and can finally earn a bit of interest. Then we did a bunch of errands and crossed a ton more things off our respective to-do lists. We lounged on the couch after and watched movies and talked about life (and drank more wine) and it was lovely.

Woke up super early Sunday morning to go to "brunch" at 8:30 with friends (WHO GOES THAT EARLY ON A FREAKING SUNDAY?!?). I was cranky when I got up because I was exhausted, but I got over it and we had a nice time. Then we went to Verizon and I got a new phone because my contract was up with AT&T and I was due for an upgrade, and my phone has given me nothing but huge problems lately (not charging at all, turning off randomly, etc.) and the AT&T network sucks at my house. So I upgraded to an iPhone 6s Plus, and I totally love it. D has a 6 Plus and I actually really like the size, even though it's huge. This phone was a nice upgrade and I spent nothing up front for it which was also great. Came home, started researching new cars, and watched Grease Live (and drinking more wine!) before hitting the hay. 

I really wish today wasn't Monday! I'm wiped.

minskat30

@swazzle - I'm not even going to try to top your weekend...it looked like the BEST ever.  

@beanbot2002 - I'm glad you guys had a great time!

@CocoBellaF - I'm sorry your weekend was filled with getting sick.    Your new dress looks nice though...adorable bump!  Also, that chocolate!  Yummmm.

@untouchablets - I'm glad the classes are going well.

@caseface5 - Honestly, home decorating is HARD.  Paint, window treatments, etc. I don't enjoy the process anymore.  It is very time consuming and overwhelming.  The color you picked is very nice though. 

@twodimes - I'm so glad you were still under warrenty with the water heater!

@cu97tiger - I'm glad you found a new clinic you like, even if it does push your timeline back.  Honestly, the last thing you need is stress when trying to get KU.  Its stressful as fuck already.

@futuremrshistorian - How scary!  I'm glad she is alright.  Also, diet fails happen, it is what you do in the weeks that follow that matter. Hugs.

@speakeasy14 - Mmmmm, blueberry wine.  Are you back from vacation today?

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This weekend was ok, I'm exhausted from lack of sleep.  Raj kept waking me up this weekend.  Friday night/Saturday morning it was sirens from albulences he was howling at so I cut him a break.  Saturday night/Sunday morning it was just random barking so I'm a little irritated.  It is hard to get to sleep lately and I'm uncomfortable and I have to get up to pee at least once in the night now so getting up in the middle of the night to deal with barking does not make for a pleasent experience...he's lucky he's cute.

Saturday we got the tub deck built and today the plumber is coming to start the plumbing for the main bathroom.  That was productive.  Then I went to the baby shower I mentioned on here...this is her 4th kid but her last one was like 8 years ago.  That said, I was side-eyeing it a little.  It seems like she hosted it herself, which is a rather big no-no etiquette wise.  In addition though I felt bad for her because her family was being a bunch of prats...it seemed like several of them were drunk and no one was really helping.  In the end I had a good time and it was good to see her.  I was sad that I couldn't really eat anything there and everything looked good (she ordered pizza and had cupcakes).  So, yeah, I went home and make myself gluten-free cupcakes to make up for it.  

Sunday H and I completely did a round-about on our bathroom tile.  The tile we were going to do for the floor we decided to return...it looks ok but a little dingy in the powder room bathroom so we didn't want it in the main bathroom.  Instead, we will use the tile we were going to do for the shower (a grey) on the floor.  We found a tile 70% off, it was WAY out of our price range without the sale, to do our shower tile in (looks like carrara marble almost) so we bought pretty much the last of that up and are waiting for it to come in now.  We are really excited about it.  

speakeasy14

@helloliv I do have a book and my kindle.  No matter what time you got up, brunch is always fun! 

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@minskat30 - I've managed to pick myself back up and get back on the diet train, luckily.  Plus, I ordered myself a fabulous new yoga outfit that I'm not going to let myself wear until I'm halfway to my goal...it was pricey, so that's definitely good motivation!

speakeasy14

@minsktat30 nope, we head back tomorrow night.  I'm just lonely right now.  That sucks that there really wasn't anything you could eat at the shower, but rewarding yourself with gluten-free cupcakes sounds like a genius idea. Yay for getting a good deal on tile!! 

minskat30

@southernpeach89 - Ugh, I'm sorry about the hole in the wall.    It is February now at least so hopefully this month is better for you guys. 

@helloliv - That is wayyy to early for brunch.  I'm jealous of your wine filled weekend.  

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@helloliv - 8:30 AM is definitely breakfast, NOT brunch!  

untouchablets

@twodimes Vanessa hudhens was AMAZING as Rizzo! Grease is one of my top five favorite movies so I had some doubts but it totally delivered!
@southernpeach89 I probably turned it in after that happened because I didn't know anything went wrong!
@helloliv I'll definitely take pics and share, even if its just puppy blurs!

cu97tiger

@helloliv - To try to keep it brief: I never completely felt like the people there looked into our history very much. It was just 'first step, IUI, next step IVF.' We had trouble getting prompt replies from our nurse, and felt like they weren't noting important things in our charts (like when we told them we were taking a year-long break, or what month we wanted to start IVF). The last straw was when they screwed up our insurance verification, telling us that we had $400,000 in coverage, when we only have $4,000. That was the last straw. Did you enjoy Grease Live? I did. It wasn't perfect, but so much better than some of the other Live shows have been.

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@untouchablets Yea apparently when it happened, everyone thought their tv's were malfunctioning but it was the actual set that had something happen. My FB was going nuts over it lol.

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@minskat30 February better be the best freaking month of our lives.

Swazzle

@speakeasy14 - YOU SHOULD HAVE. 

@helloliv - That is such an unacceptable time for brunch! I'm glad you had fun though.

MissKittyDanger

@CocoBellaF  yum chocolate festival!

@untouchablets  I watched too! I liked Julianne Hough as Sandy but that guy who played Danny I wasn't vastly impressed. Give me young John Travolta any day!


Friday was lame. Got home so late, I think I'm going to take a different route home. Basically when I got home, Matt was heading out and didn't get home until late.

Saturday we had an appointment with a realtor to meet-and-greet. She was really nice and she's already sent us some ideas. Then we picked up our travel documents! 19 days until DR! Matt got some shorts that were on pretty good sale {30% off so he paid $20 after taxes!}

Headed home, and since I've been fighting the tail end of a sinus cold we basically relaxed. I had a bath and we just ordered food.

Sunday my dad would have been 56yrs old, so I spent the day with my mum.
Went to ikea and Matt got a side table, I had cheesecake {soooo good!} then headed to Winners {Home Goods/TJ Maxx for you Americans} I got 3 tops, a candle and plastic bag holder. We were originally using an ikea bag and had so many bags lmao

This week is pretty low key. I started new meds today I think I should hold off on coffee because I think it made my stomach turn at least until they're 

minskat30

@cu97tiger - Holy crap!  That is a big fuck up on their part.  If they are screwing that up, I can only imagine what else they might be screwing up.  I'm glad you switched.  Hugs.

helloliv

@cu97tiger - oh man, that really sounds awful. I'm so glad you're going to go to a new clinic! That's just a lot of missteps for something so important. Everything crossed you find a place you love. And yes, I really enjoyed it! I haven't ever enjoyed a live version, but Grease is one of my all-time favorite movies so I really wanted to check it out. I'm so glad I did! I missed the beginning so I'm hoping I can find it online or something. 

@everyone - yeah, 8:30 is not brunch time! And because it was so early, no one else was even drinking so I didn't get the Bloody Mary I wanted. THAT is a tragedy!

labro

@Swazzle You had the best weekend ever! I'm glad I got be there in spirit sort of.

@beanbot2002 DED over the loofah story!! I'm glad we got to "see" each other again!! I've missed you!

@southernpeach89 Well today is February 1....I hope this is actually officially the end of the worst month ever.

@CocoBellaF I would like approximately 30 of those chocolate mice please!!! The samples look SO GOOD!!

@speakeasy14 This weekend sounds like fun (especially Harpoon Brewery!!) but I am sad you are all by yourself today. At least it means you have plenty of time for chatting with us!

@helloliv Brunch at 8:30 is obviously a crime against humanity. I LOVE brunch....but I am not coherent that early....

@TwoDimes Soooo are you totally pumped to caucus today??? I'm so glad we actually officially into primaries now and stuff will start happening other than ridiculous polls.

I just realized I completely spaced on watching Downton Abbey last night!!!!! I guess I'll catch up tomorrow when I WFH.

This weekend was fun and productive. We spent Saturday doing some winter lawn clean up in the front and it looks so much better now! I did some minor pruning on our crepe myrtles, and H and I picked up a ton of leaves, and cut back some ornamental grass that had started to grow and then died because of our completely off-season weather in December. Then I got to hang out with @southernpeach89 and Callie and drink wine and FT with @Swazzle, @csousa1 , @hummingbird125, @buddysmom80 , and @beanbot2002 !!! I hope I get to make an IRL visit to see them all soon.

Sunday was budget day. H and I finally sat down and came up with a zero dollar budget...meaning every single take home dollar we get is somehow accounted for, whether for spending, saving for future projects, paying off debt, investing etc. Hopefully this will help resolve some of the issues we've been having with me sticking to our old budget, and H is stressing over money because our old budget was done on the fly. Then we finally went to go see Star Wars. I'm not a crazy Star Wars fan but the movie was fun and I liked the female lead. It seemed like a rehash of a lot of old Star Wars stories but I still had a good time.

H's annual review is today! We got a hint that he was going to get top grades so I'm really really hoping that's true!! I hope his boss gives him some direction today too...like if he wants him to be promoted into some sort of leadership position or something.