Monday again

ei34

Hello my fellow python institute trainees! How was the weekend?  My sister's wedding was lovely- she was stunning, I have a wonderful new BIL, the rain held off enough for some photos on the water, food was delish, the kids behaved

climbingsingle

That's great!!! Congrats! 

We had another wedding too, up in Newport RI. Was great, but I'm exhausted. Thankfully we have nothing planned for the next 2 months, and I'm ready to do some relaxing. 

Casadena

Glad the wedding was great!

We went to SIL/BIL house for dinner on Friday - it was fun to catch up with them, we don't spend a lot of time with H's siblings on our own (usually a big family get together). Saturday my grad school friends came to our house, we hopped around to a few breweries and grilled in the evening.  Just spent the whole day catching up - it was fun!

I'm only working 2 days this week, and it already feels so long, lol. 

But I'm finally off of workout restrictions so i'm super excited to get back to the gym today!

charlotte989875

So glad you all had a great time @ei34!!

Weekend was great! Saturday I went with niece and the family to their town’s carnival/festival and niece got to climb through fire trucks, dump trucks, and other construction trucks. She loved it! Then we swam and had snacks. Such a great day!



Yesterday we had brunch with the family, I did a run in the park then H and I had ice cream for dinner. It was amazing.  

CharmedPam

So glad the wedding was lovely!  And, Ah yes Monday again.  I’m still wondering if I can wfh on Friday since nothing will be going on. 🤔 

weekend was great.  Saturday I did a paranormal investigation with my new meet up.  The annoying lady who won’t stop talking showed up - but I deliberately put her in the other group.  I mean I paid 3x more than anyone else (didn’t make the minimum) so I deserved a stress free investigation.

Sunday, H and I did nothing.  I threw a potato and sausage in the oven for dinner (was eyeing grub hub but to cheap to pay for delivery!) Tonight I head to Costco after work.  

cupcait927

The weekend was nice. Friday night was a baseball game with my coworkers. The weather was perfect and the game was good. 

Saturday was cleaning around the house and playing with the dogs. It was nice to have a chill day after the last few weekends of vacation and plans. 

Yesterday we went to Ithaca and did some trail walking at a park. Luckily the weather was much cooler than it has been and it wasn't too busy. On the way back we stopped at an ice cream shop in town and I had the best homemade strawberry shortcake that I've ever had. 

This week should be fun as well - no work on the 4th and we're going to the at-home reception for my college roommate (we went to her wedding in LA a few weeks ago). Friday night H and I are going to see Third Eye Blind & Jimmy Eat World so I'm super pumped about that - FIL got us free tickets and the seats are actually pretty decent.

VarunaTT

My weekend was awesome.  The show Friday night was sooooo good.  I've never been to a show where there wasn't a stage, so the performers basically came into the circle we made around them to perform.  It made a great connection between the audience and the performer.  K kept doing nervous dolphin laughs and I had to remind them to breathe.  But they finally saw their hero perform and met them.  He was super sweet.

Saturday we mosied home and watched a few movies.  Sunday we went to a friend's house for grilling and swimming.  K didn't work so we had the whole weekend together and it was just so nice and needed.

short+sassy

@ei34, yay! I'm glad your sister's wedding was awesome!

On Fri., I went and picked up my H at our new duplexes.  He'd been meeting with roof and HVAC people for quotes and getting started on the rehab.  But it was the first time I'd seen that unit empty and with no one living there.  It'd had tenants when I did my inspections, but they had moved out before I closed.

Some bad news.  We didn't catch it at the various times we were at the properties and putting together our rehab numbers, but all the windows for one of the duplexes need to be replaced.  We thought we would just have to replace some glass here and there.  But the frames are old and in bad condition also.  Funny enough, the windows in the other duplex are mostly fine.  So that's going to be about $3K we were not expecting .

In addition, ALL the flooring (except the bathrooms) needs to be replaced in that particular unit.  In most of the other units, the bedroom flooring is still fine and functional.  Very plain and boring tile, lol.  But still in decent condition.  As an aside, that's an "other landlord's" pet peeve of mine.  You can spend just the tiniest bit more money and have really beautiful flooring.  It shows better, which in turn can justify being on the higher end of the market rent range.  It's more durable, which is less money on maintenance down the road.  Or, in this case, I would have offered more money on the homes if they'd had attractive flooring and none of it needed to be replaced.  But no.  Some people are penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Some good news.  We thought we needed to replace the entire HVAC units, plus the ductwork, for all the units.  But, actually, two of the outside condensers are much newer than the rest of the equipment and don't need to be replaced.  Hopefully that will be enough savings off our own rehab estimate for this to cover our window oversight expense, lmao.  But the verdict is still out, we're still waiting on the quotes for everything to come on.  I'm actually kinda side-eying our inspector that he didn't catch the two newer condensers.  At least the mistake is in our favor, but still.

But mainly today, I am super excited for the short week!  I need it SO much, lol.

Happy Independence Day to the Canadian Knotties!

mrsconn23

Yay weddings.    

Last week was a great week, but crazy as all get out.  Our party was a massive success.  We had plenty of food and an overabundance of drinks.  We still have a fully stocked beverage fridge.  Drinks on me, kids.   

We had a wonderful time with all the in laws staying at my house, even though my baby nephew was up in the middle of the night...a lot.  He's 1, but teething and a screamer.  I asked DH when the ol' snip-snip was happening.    

FIL's settling into his new house.   SIL and I went over there Thursday and did some massive organizing/moving boxes around and unpacking some stuff for him.  He was so appreciative.  

I'm still in the office.  It's going.  Apparently some shit went down last week, but I'm not going to stress about it until I have to.  Just keeping my head down and working my butt off.  At least I only have to be here for three days this week.  We'll see what next week brings.  Thanking all the gods for earbuds and downloaded podcasts.  I'm peopled out. 

levioosa

Weekend was good. Friday FI and I had a date night. Saturday I did stuff around the house and then yesterday we went to dinner for FFIL’s birthday. Afterwards FSIL and her FI came over for drinks and a movie. Overall it was a good weekend. Now I just have to prepare for the Fourth and at some point stop by work for a coworker’s sprinkle and to drop off paperwork. 

CharmedPam

mrsconn23 said:

Yay weddings.    

Last week was a great week, but crazy as all get out.  Our party was a massive success.  We had plenty of food and an overabundance of drinks.  We still have a fully stocked beverage fridge.  Drinks on me, kids.   

We had a wonderful time with all the in laws staying at my house, even though my baby nephew was up in the middle of the night...a lot.  He's 1, but teething and a screamer.  I asked DH when the ol' snip-snip was happening.    

FIL's settling into his new house.   SIL and I went over there Thursday and did some massive organizing/moving boxes around and unpacking some stuff for him.  He was so appreciative.  

I'm still in the office.  It's going.  Apparently some shit went down last week, but I'm not going to stress about it until I have to.  Just keeping my head down and working my butt off.  At least I only have to be here for three days this week.  We'll see what next week brings.  Thanking all the gods for earbuds and downloaded podcasts.  I'm peopled out. 

It’s 5 o’clock somewhere

MobKaz

CharmedPam said:

So glad the wedding was lovely!  And, Ah yes Monday again.  I’m still wondering if I can wfh on Friday since nothing will be going on. 🤔 

weekend was great.  Saturday I did a paranormal investigation with my new meet up.  The annoying lady who won’t stop talking showed up - but I deliberately put her in the other group.  I mean I paid 3x more than anyone else (didn’t make the minimum) so I deserved a stress free investigation.

Sunday, H and I did nothing.  I threw a potato and sausage in the oven for dinner (was eyeing grub hub but to cheap to pay for delivery!) Tonight I head to Costco after work.  

Did you somehow miss that unexpected "something" that turned into a mini Armageddon?  Holy Man!  I'm casually moseying the Jewel (side bar.....yes, I say, THE Jewel even though I do not say, The Target, or The Mariano's, or add it to any other store), start to load groceries into my car, and notice all kinds of frightening as F black and low clouds to my north.  I rush home with the winds chasing me down, get all my freezer stuff in and WHAM....power OUT.

Thankfully, ours returned quickly and we only lost cable and internet until just an hour ago.   DD and family joined us for several hours as theirs went out, but were lucky with resumption prior to preparing an impromptu sleep over at Grammy's.  Many today are still without power.....and it's a heat index of 100 :-(

I'm having the 4th and realizing there is only a small chance we will have an opportunity to be outside.....which means a whole lot of rearranging for 30ish folks.  Plan B.....ordering chicken rather than try to grill or use the oven.

cupcait927

@charlotte989875 Your niece is absolutely adorable!

CharmedPam

@monkatz, I think we did!  We got dark skies, lots of wind and rain pelted on us for like 15 minutes but then all was normal after that!

charlotte989875

cupcait927 said:

@charlotte989875 Your niece is absolutely adorable!

Thank you! I think so too!

Her new thing is when you ask her how many people are here (or how many trucks) she’ll count “1,2, so many people!”  So cute. 

OurWildKingdom

Hi everyone!

It was a gorgeous weekend here (with the exception of some really short random thunderstorms), so I went to the lake both Saturday and yesterday and sat out in the sun reading.

My vegan program was . . . Interesting. The talk was very informative and the food was awesome, but only one person from my group showed up. The rest was members of the Cleveland Vegan Society, and they basically took over. There was one horrible woman who went off on a tangent about a number of things and made some nasty racist remarks about her neighbors. I called her out on it, but she persisted. Everyone else just let her rant.

 I officially stepped down as organizer of my feminist Meetup. If someone else wants to take it over, they’re welcome to. I also stepped down as secretary of the LGBTQIA+ sober conference committee, but I am going to stay on the committee. 

DW ordered Aldi Instacart and did pretty well with the list. There were a couple things she forgot and a couple things I forgot to tell her about, so we’re going to pick those up after the meeting. Then I have to throw in some laundry and we’re doing a deep cleaning of the bathroom. 

Edited to add: I’m hoping to have a three-day week too. I requested Friday off and neither of the guys I work closely with has it off, but my boss is sometimes slow at responding to time off requests.

short+sassy

I saw a fun article on my local paper's website.  Apparently, the New Orleans airport (MSY) has free, in-house therapy dogs to help people relieve their stress about flying and make it a more enjoyable experience.

People can either visit the center inside the airport for some pets and loves.  And the handlers will also walk the dogs throughout the airport.  The puppers wear vests that advertise them as MSY K-9 Krewe with the words "Pet Me".

Over the weekend was the one-year anniversary of the program and there were all these adorable pics of dogs in birthday party hats, eating doggie-approved cupcakes.  If you need a dose of cuteness in your day, here's a link:

https://www.nola.com/multimedia/photos/collection_13965413-6cab-5397-bcbc-adb71330cb27.html

ILoveBeachMusic

@MobKaz, I heard about the bad weather. DD and her family were here for the weekend but arrived back in Chicagoland shortly before the storm! This has been one weird spring/summer weather pattern. Good luck with your Plan B for the fourth.

MobKaz

@OurWildKingdom, DD and her husband shop at Aldi and LOVE it!  I have tried twice to shop at the one in my town.  The store is super illogical; there will be cookies next to mayonnaise and across will be beans next to fruit snacks.  It is WAY to random for a shopper like me.  I make my list based on the order of the aisles and the products in each aisle!  I also get crazy distracted by the non-grocery, no rhyme or reason department store offerings.  I went in today to look for some gluten free things for DD, and walked out with a foldable picnic table LOL. 

@ILoveBeachMusic, I am glad your daughter got home safely.  The storm, though thankfully short lived, left some insane damage.  One nearby town supposedly got 4 inches of rain in a very short time.  My town is being “investigated” to see if we actually had a “gustnado”, which can toss winds of up to 90 MPH!  

Greetings from India!

short+sassy

@MobKaz and @OurWildKingdom, I have heard so much about Aldi's on this board and other ones, lol.  Usually really positive feedback.  But I've never seen one and they don't exist anywhere I've lived.  Supposedly, they're opening one in a suburb town called Slidell.  They bought a defunct Toys R Us there in April 2019.  It will be the first Aldi's in Louisiana.  Too far for me to do regular grocery shopping there.  But I definitely want to check it out the next time I'm in that area, after it's opened.