Wednesday

6fsn

2-flipping -hour delay. I HATE delays. It makes a cluster of rearranging drop offs and pickups. 

Nothing much else.  Church drama and school drama and I really want to say eff it all and go to the beach. 

kvruns

We got about 3" of snow overnight. I'm working from home because it is just easier. I think the roads weren't too bad but i'm sure it would still take longer to get in. I have a meeting at 2pm and I'm hoping they will add in a conference call line so I don't have to go in. Really I just don't want to wear real clothes today. 

GBCK

I woke up Monday feeling like shit, and I still do.  Damn colds.
I'm going back to bed, since it's my day off.

Speaking of days off, I'm struggling at work.  Fully acknowledged by me and my bosses--I do some of my job AWESOME, but some of it badly.  It's not imposter syndrome, it's...round peg, square hole.  At the same time, they all think the things I"m great at I'm actually great at.  So we're talking re-arranging my role--taking away some of the parts I'm fucking up and giving me new parts.  It'll be a gradual move but, I think it's for the best and I"m glad they're working with me.
Also, I apparently accidentally talked a 10 year old into stickign his head into a vat of bubble solution this weekend (discssion on how anything wet doesn't break surface tension--see, I can poke thisbubble with my nose if it's wet...then I wandered off, and he followed through on where ths was going)--I found out about it when he ran p to me, dripping shouting "I LOVE THIS PLACE".  His parents were amused, at least)

Only 18 more days at work until they take down the train whistle and bell that I want to kill with fire.  KILL WITH FIRE.  Flamethrower.  Torch.  Pile of Sodium.  SOmething.

And I'm going back to bed for an hour or 2 to sleep off my cold meds, then grocery shopping, then spending the rest of the day building styrafoam sculptures and counting things into ziplocs and double checking my spreadsheets for scoring-- Science Olympiad competition I volunteered to spend my day on this weekend becuse I"m a sucker.

mrsconn23

I'm glad they want to work with you, @gbck. That sounds like an excellent solution.  I hope it works out. 

Boo to this extended winter crap.  I'm dying to take the tarps off our patio set and just be outside.  Poor DefConn is bored AF with me working and there's only so much TV he can watch and so many hours he can play with trucks.  

I started the Wild, Wild Country series on Netflix last night.   Looks like it's going to be quite fascinating.  And it's by the Duplass Brothers, whom I love (RIP, Togetherness...gone too soon).  

MissKittyDanger

Didn't go axe throwing last night. Few reasons. But M knows how much I wanted to do it, so he said we can look at it around my bday - my mum has already offered to babysit since we have a wedding to go to a week after my actual bday. I'm doing to makeup, so I'd like to be there if there's touch ups to be done but we've received the STD {September wedding fyi} already.

Didn't end up doing much of anything. I'm trying to make a grocery list that is more BBQ stuff since M mentioned he wants to start doing that more now that it's nicer out.


Tonight I'm gonna prob throw laundry in. This weekend looks really nice, so I may start some spring cleaning kinda stuff. That front hall at the very least needs to be cleaned up - swept, mop, organized, etc - so we'll see how much gets done.

ShesSoCold

That sounds great, GBCK, that they're willing to do that! And even more so that you're willing to admit and accept your faults, that's SO RARE in my work experience.

I wish my town would get rid of the train horns. We have the automatic ones that are on the crossings and the consistency of them keeps me up at night.

Still. no. baby. I'm crazy anxious, I can't imagine how they must feel!

But we got a text not to long ago that she'd "be pushing within the hour" so I'm at work, cranking out whatever I have to do and then I'll run over.

Dumb coincidence though that the week this baby arrives is like, the one week I've been busy at work since January. I've still got a lot left over that I didn't get to yesterday because I was working on a big presentation. Any other day, I would have gone to the hospital first and then come here after lunch, but I had too much shit to get done this morning.

short+sassy

@GBCK, Sounds like you work at a great place!  I'm glad they're working with you.  What is the story behind a train whistle and bell being at your work site?  Hope you feel better soon!

I haven't been going to bed early enough and the cumulative lack of sleep is taking its toll.  I told my H this morning to force me to go to bed early tonight, lol.  I was on track for an early bedtime yesterday.  But I've been binge watching that old tv show "ER".  In the episode right before I was "going to" go to bed, a crazy patient stabbed two of the regular characters at the end of it!!!  Goddamnit, lol.  So, of course, I needed to watch the next episode to see what happened to them.

I was, admittedly, a total flake at work yesterday.  So I need to double time it and get my act together today.

MissKittyDanger

@6fsn I vote fuck all of it and go to the beach.

@kvruns fuck real clothes.

@GBCK That's rough, but that's great they're working with you so you can excel
LOLOLOLOL that kid :') 

@mrsconn23 Poor kid damn weather

@ShesSoCold Poor lady, that's long hopefully everything goes smoothly!

ILoveBeachMusic

Had to take girl puppy to the vet this morning. She has pulled a muscle or something. So now she is on some muscle relaxants and other joint meds. She a breed that has back issues so we try and stay on top of any symptoms that appear.

We have the snow too - yuck. Totally over winter. Just glad I drove home from Chicago yesterday morning and not today! I was helping DD unpack and set up stuff. I cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms - she just can't do that right now all at once. We had our system though. She unwrapped stuff and told me where to put things and put stuff away. SIL was at work. I'm really glad I went because I think she would have overdone stuff otherwise.

Today I need to start getting stuff together for Easter weekend. DD,SIL,DS2, GF and some cousins are going to be here. I love having a house full of people.

levioosa

I hope the pup feels better, @ILoveBeachMusic!

SSDD for me. It’s all overcast today and making me feel lazy. Last night SO’s sister and I did a lot of planning for events. Our weekends are going to be pretty full through April with wine tasting and other family events. 

OliveOilsMom

GBCK - Glad they are working with you.  Sounds like they value you as an employee and want to keep you!

S+S - Those two episodes are my favorite ones ever of ER!  I don't know what that says about me!  Pop TV started showing ER when I was on maternity leave and I was just dying about when those episodes would pop up!  They aired a week before I went back to work! Phew!

Its snowing and I'm at work.  All schools have off and lots of other businesses have closed.  But I'm here, working.  I am hoping we are told to leave soon.  I may just leave around 1 PM anyway.

H & DD are home today.  So I just want to be there to cuddle up with them!

charlotte989875

SSDD here. H interviewed for an internal position change and he didn’t get it, so he’s bummed. He’s bored and frustrated at work, but he’s worried leaving for anything else right now would just be a lateral move or basically starting over. So he’s in a pretty bad mood. I’m trying to be supportive but he doesn’t really want my help or input so I’m just trying to wait it out. 

ShesSoCold

I was just made aware of a HUGE typo mistake I made yesterday. And it's too late - the group already has distributed the paperwork with the huge fucking mistake on it.

UGH I know everyone makes mistakes but FFS do I have to make the big stupid ones?

charlotte989875

ShesSoCold said:

I was just made aware of a HUGE typo mistake I made yesterday. And it's too late - the group already has distributed the paperwork with the huge fucking mistake on it.

UGH I know everyone makes mistakes but FFS do I have to make the big stupid ones?

This is always me. I'm a terrible proofreader, and even though I know that about myself I still have big stupid mistakes and feel bad about it. 

short+sassy

OliveOilsMom said:

GBCK - Glad they are working with you.  Sounds like they value you as an employee and want to keep you!

S+S - Those two episodes are my favorite ones ever of ER!  I don't know what that says about me!  Pop TV started showing ER when I was on maternity leave and I was just dying about when those episodes would pop up!  They aired a week before I went back to work! Phew!

Its snowing and I'm at work.  All schools have off and lots of other businesses have closed.  But I'm here, working.  I am hoping we are told to leave soon.  I may just leave around 1 PM anyway.

H & DD are home today.  So I just want to be there to cuddle up with them!

I watched most of the ER episodes back when it originally aired.  I've been surprised that all the episodes I've watched have felt "new" to me.  I remember most of the characters and their personalities.  I remember story lines about the characters.  But, other than maybe a scene here or there, I haven't remembered any of the episodes.

I recently happened to read a "behind the scenes" story about one of ER's most famous episodes, that happened in the first season.  I didn't remember that one either, lol, but it was still an interesting article.  And then I saw the episode a couple weeks ago.  It was the one where Dr. Greene misdiagnoses a pregnant woman and sends her on her way.  Only to have her return a few hours later in a tricky labor because she has (I think) eclampsia.  She ends up dying on the operating table, but the baby survives.  The article interviewed one of the show's producers and the show's consultant (a doctor with substantial experience in ER medicine).

The producer said that the Dr. Greene character was becoming too "perfect" and needed flaws.  So they decided to do an episode where he made a medical mistake.  He said they actually filmed this episode with three endings.  1) mom dies, baby lives 2) both mom and baby die 3) baby dies, mom lives.  They ultimately decided that they "couldn't kill a baby" and went with choice 1.  The writer said the producer then quickly added, "I mean, we killed babies!  But not in the FIRST season."  Maybe I'm a twisted person, but the way he kept using the "kill a baby" phrase was just cracking me up.

The consultant said, the day after that episode aired, he had all his OB/GYN buddies calling him with half-joking complaints of (paraphrasing) "YOU SUCK!!  Do you know what you did to me?  I've been busy fielding calls ALL day from my pregnant patients worried about eclampsia and asking questions about it."

charlotte989875

Wait @short+sassy and @OliveOilsMom is ER on Netflix or Prime??

GBCK

S&S, we have a trains exhibit for small children...so they're operable by small children who sit there and pull the chord for entire days.
It's awesome for them, and I wish lightning would strike things.  

THey DID replace the clapper in the bell with a rubber mallet so it would be much much quieter and not cause ear damage.  
But imagine putting a pull cord on a medium size bell and a small train whistle with bellows you can see so 5 year olds can reach it and what they do for the next 3 hours

short+sassy

ShesSoCold said:

I was just made aware of a HUGE typo mistake I made yesterday. And it's too late - the group already has distributed the paperwork with the huge fucking mistake on it.

UGH I know everyone makes mistakes but FFS do I have to make the big stupid ones?

I seem to usually have jobs with various reports e-mailed to the masses.  My biggest fear on that is sending an e-mail and forgetting the attachment, lol.

I know we've all done it.  But there's nothing quite like sending the "I'm a dumbass" e-mail to 100+ people with, "Sorry!  Attachment included."  It's rarely a mistake I make, but it's just cringe-worthy (to me) when I do, lol.

short+sassy

GBCK said:

S&S, we have a trains exhibit for small children...so they're operable by small children who sit there and pull the chord for entire days.
It's awesome for them, and I wish lightning would strike things.  

THey DID replace the clapper in the bell with a rubber mallet so it would be much much quieter and not cause ear damage.  
But imagine putting a pull cord on a medium size bell and a small train whistle with bellows you can see so 5 year olds can reach it and what they do for the next 3 hours

OMG.  No!  Small children with access to loud, annoying sounds has to be one of Dante's Circles of Hell.  I'm glad the end of it is finally near for you.  And also sad for you that the end of it is not today, lol.

@charlotte989875, I heard that ER was recently added to Hulu or Netflix, but I'm not sure which.  I don't have either or Prime.  One of my tv channels has the ER re-runs multiple times a week and I DVR them all.  It's not perfect, but has largely been playing the shows in order.

VarunaTT

2 things that have been stuck in my "to-do" lists are finally moving.  A little, weensy, tiny, bit.  But moving.  *sigh* I just can't people anymore for Pride this year.  Peopling skills are out.  I need to be with people I can communicate directly with, without consideration of ego for awhile.  

SSDD at work.  Trying to get some things moving, but peopling is not going well.

short+sassy

I need to rant for a sec because I need to get it off my chest.  This has been an exceedingly stressful week for me, as I ranted about yesterday.

Today started a little better, but then my nerves got frazzled when I got 2 important phone calls and a third stupid one almost all at the same time over a less than 30 minute period.  One of them was even a good call that alleviated one of my worries, but I'm emotionally fragile right now and the hectic-ness of the dualing phone calls sent me back over the edge.

In one of the calls, I found out I needed to send a copy of the 5-Day Pay or Quit notice to HANO (local agency for Sec. 8).  My H had prepared it on Saturday (our template is on his computer) and we delivered it together.  Let me back up for a sec.  I was having lunch at 12:30 and told him I wanted to leave and take care of this and our other errands when I was done eating.  He proceeds to shoot the s**t with a friend of his that came over during that time.  I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for him to come back in the house.  He FINALLY comes back in at 3:30.  Oh, and then he needs to prepare the document.  So now we are stuck driving in a major rain storm and barely made it to one of our stops that closed at 5:00.

I normally would have double checked the notice...because he has effed up the dates on this SIMPLE form twice in the past...except it was such a time crunch because of HIM!!!

So, anyway.  He e-mails me the pic taken of it posted to the door and the raw file, so that I can pass it along to HANO.  He effed up the dates.  AGAIN.  This is now the THIRD time in our landlording career.  I've raked him over the coals about this in the past, because the dates on the notice are literally one of the most important pieces about it.  Yet, he still effs it up. 

There are three dates on the notice.  One of them was correct.  Two of them were wrong, but he realized one of them was wrong right before he posted it.  He lined that one out, corrected it, and initialed.  But the third date remained incorrect and was posted that way. 

I sent him an e-mail back and left a voice mail for him.  I was trying to not sound furious, but JFC I cannot deal with one more thing today.

I told him he needs to call the eviction office at City Hall and find out if the one date being off will invalidate the notice or not.  It was the date in the heading that was messed up, but the date for when the notice was posted was correct (that was the exed out one, with the handwritten correction and initial).  That's seems like it would be the most important one, so I hope we are still "good" on that.

I told him, if not, he needs to take the bus to go post another one (after I've reviewed it).  Sorrynotsorry you've perpetually flaked about getting your LA driver's license, so we don't have a car for you.  Sorrynotsorry that bus ride will be an unnecessary 1 hour 15 minutes out of your day.

short+sassy

UPDATE:  I'm feeling better now.  My H checked with City Hall and they said what we posted was fine.  Phew! 

I'm sorry I'm so long-winded with you all sometimes!  It's a tendency I have, umm, all the time, lol.  But is especially bad when I'm upset and working things out in my mind.  

6fsn

I LOVED ER and have been watching it too. My brother started his ER residency right around the time it started to air. Same brother was the medical consultant on a short lived medical show on cmt. 

ShesSoCold

short+sassy said:

UPDATE:  I'm feeling better now.  My H checked with City Hall and they said what we posted was fine.  Phew! 

I'm sorry I'm so long-winded with you all sometimes!  It's a tendency I have, umm, all the time, lol.  But is especially bad when I'm upset and working things out in my mind.  

Glad it worked out!

I'm having similar spousal frustrations.

The plate on his truck expired at the end of Feb. After a car is 4 years old, some counties in IL make you get an emissions test. Truck is 4 this year and we thought our county was one that didn't, but we got a notice that we can't renew our plate without the emissions test.

After approximately 1,000 reminders over the course of 3 months, H is just now looking into it. And by looking into it, I mean googling one thing, calling me, listening to 1/3 of what I say, doing something else, calling me again, etc.

I'm so frustrated. Why does a simple fucking plate renewal need to take 3 fucking months and 1,000 phone calls to your secretary spouse?

TrixieJess

6fsn said:

I LOVED ER and have been watching it too. My brother started his ER residency right around the time it started to air. Same brother was the medical consultant on a short lived medical show on cmt. 

I used to watch ER with my mother who was an emerg nurse and she would nitpick through the show. Although, she begrudgingly did say it was fairly accurate for a dramatized show. 

short+sassy

6fsn said:

I LOVED ER and have been watching it too. My brother started his ER residency right around the time it started to air. Same brother was the medical consultant on a short lived medical show on cmt. 

Back when the show first aired, I was in college and working p/t at a bank.  One of my coworkers also worked in the ER for our local hospital.  I think she was a phlebotomist.  I asked her how "true" it was to the real thing.  She said, surprisingly, that they are accurate and the show did a good job of using correct terminology and procedures.  She added that the only big difference was the demographics of the patients.  That a real ER has WAY more elderly people (mostly elderly people) for patients, lol.  But then, I could also see that being area specific.  I suspect my little hometown had a higher than average 65+ population.

ShesSoCold said:

Glad it worked out!

I'm having similar spousal frustrations.

The plate on his truck expired at the end of Feb. After a car is 4 years old, some counties in IL make you get an emissions test. Truck is 4 this year and we thought our county was one that didn't, but we got a notice that we can't renew our plate without the emissions test.

After approximately 1,000 reminders over the course of 3 months, H is just now looking into it. And by looking into it, I mean googling one thing, calling me, listening to 1/3 of what I say, doing something else, calling me again, etc.

I'm so frustrated. Why does a simple fucking plate renewal need to take 3 fucking months and 1,000 phone calls to your secretary spouse?

They don't have emissions tests where I live.  That would be a little silly with oil refineries everywhere, smh.  But we do have to get an annual "brake" check.  It's basically just verifying that the lights on the car work, ie brake lights and blinkers (as if anyone uses those here, lol).

Personally, I think "annual" is excessive for this and just another parish (county) money grab.  More proof, although not my parish, most of the other parishes have gone to a 2-year check.  Except, even though the brakes are now being only checked every two years, a DOUBLE fee needs to be paid to cover both years.  Oh, but it's all for public safety.  Mmmm-hmmm, right.

TrixieJess

short+sassy said:

6fsn said:

I LOVED ER and have been watching it too. My brother started his ER residency right around the time it started to air. Same brother was the medical consultant on a short lived medical show on cmt. 

Back when the show first aired, I was in college and working p/t at a bank.  One of my coworkers also worked in the ER for our local hospital.  I think she was a phlebotomist.  I asked her how "true" it was to the real thing.  She said, surprisingly, that they are accurate and the show did a good job of using correct terminology and procedures.  She added that the only big difference was the demographics of the patients.  That a real ER has WAY more elderly people (mostly elderly people) for patients, lol.  But then, I could also see that being area specific.  I suspect my little hometown had a higher than average 65+ population.

ShesSoCold said:

Glad it worked out!

I'm having similar spousal frustrations.

The plate on his truck expired at the end of Feb. After a car is 4 years old, some counties in IL make you get an emissions test. Truck is 4 this year and we thought our county was one that didn't, but we got a notice that we can't renew our plate without the emissions test.

After approximately 1,000 reminders over the course of 3 months, H is just now looking into it. And by looking into it, I mean googling one thing, calling me, listening to 1/3 of what I say, doing something else, calling me again, etc.

I'm so frustrated. Why does a simple fucking plate renewal need to take 3 fucking months and 1,000 phone calls to your secretary spouse?

They don't have emissions tests where I live.  That would be a little silly with oil refineries everywhere, smh.  But we do have to get an annual "brake" check.  It's basically just verifying that the lights on the car work, ie brake lights and blinkers (as if anyone uses those here, lol).

Personally, I think "annual" is excessive for this and just another parish (county) money grab.  More proof, although not my parish, most of the other parishes have gone to a 2-year check.  Except, even though the brakes are now being only checked every two years, a DOUBLE fee needs to be paid to cover both years.  Oh, but it's all for public safety.  Mmmm-hmmm, right.

It may also depend on the speciality of the emerg. Where my mother worked, it was also the emergency psych ward so they got a lot of problem cases and ODs. There's also an Children's emerg and one for more elderly and terminal patients. We also have several urgent care centres spread in our city to handle emerg overflow. 

6fsn

@trixieJess and @short+sassy- My brother said it was pretty accurate, but at a much faster pace. 

kimmiinthemitten

I started reading this, went to reply, said to myself, Wednesday was yesterday, I'll wait for the Thursday post.  Only to later realize, it's Wednesday.  What a week!

Yesterday at the Capitol was fun.  H met a ton of good contacts and I even met a couple who have worked for or with the former State Rep whose campaign I worked on 16 years ago.  God I'm old.

Tonight is an industry event at a casino; it's all about wedding trends.  I'll keep you posted if I learn anything cool:).

Bittersweet news - my BIL's father passed away unexpectedly.  No real details, but BIL is not taking it well.  None of them are really; it's already what I imagine to be unbearable to go through, and you marry that with a family dynamic that thrives on drama and has zero coping skills and it's a hot mess.  The up side is my sister and nugget fly in tomorrow and will be staying with us.  We probably won't go to the march anymore this weekend, but that's okay.  Although I was really looking forward to going to a protest and bought a "Nevertheless She Persisted," and a "Resist" shirt for the occasion.

levioosa

I'm sorry for your loss @kimmiinthemitten. 

short+sassy

@kimmiinthemitten, an event about weddings and at a casino!  I wish I lived closer to Detroit, lol.  Sorry to hear about your BIL's father.  A death in the family is always hard, but I think it's even worse when it comes out of the blue.