TGIF

short+sassy

What's going on with everyone?

I'm having a pretty good day, all things considered.  Work flow is going smoothly and I should be "off the clock" on-time or close to it, which is rare on my half-day Fridays, lol.  I do have to go to the bank, but at least it is drive-thru.  Other than that, I don't have any other errands to run and so it should be an especially low-key weekend.

Edited to add:  And Happy (early) Mother's Day to the Knotties that are moms and soon-to-be moms!  Though it is another casualty of the pandemic.  I know there are a lot of moms, grandmas, kids, and grandkids who will not be able to celebrate in person on Sun. 

kvruns

Rainy, gross day here. I'm used to going for a walk in the morning and afternoon but the morning one won't be happening. I have a call at 10 where I have to somehow describe changes to COBRA rules that I barely understand myself. I love calls like that!

Should be able to get out for a walk after that at least. Fingers crossed!

Anyone place a Walmart grocery pickup order the past day or two? Their app is super messed up. Last night my order wasn't ready and all the spots were full bc of delays. Then I had another order for today at a different store and it flat out cancelled. 

MyNameIsNot

I'm glad it's Friday. It's been an anxious and busy week. I'm really looking forward to sleeping in and having some unstructured time tomorrow. It's supposed to rain today and be cool all weekend, so we're going to paint my wine cellar tonight and do some projects around the house over the weekend. I'll probably make banana bread tomorrow, since I don't know how to buy produce for 2 week spans and my bananas are dying. 

I'll probably set up another group chat for my mom's family on Mother's Day. I kind of love that I've now become the family techie. Two of my uncles on that side are literally developers, but somehow I'm magical. 

ei34

Enjoy the low-key weekend and I hope that you get your half-day @short+sassy , I know you don't always. 
Semi-busy day at work today...tonight is figuring out the helium tank to get the house and front yard decorated with balloons for DD's car parade party tomorrow (of course there's a chance of snow in the forecast ).  And planning some drive-by visits for Mother's Day on Sunday.  ETA extra hugs to you this Sunday @mrsconn23

VarunaTT

This work week has felt like it was 9,873 days long.  I'm still having problems focusing on much beyond my daily "to-do" list, but some of that is my period too.  IDK what circle of hell evolution was on when it decided this whole fertility thing, but it's bullshit and I'm tired of it.  

We don't have many plans this weekend.  I'm still taking it easy, so it might just be video gaming, reading, and movie watching.  @kvruns I did a pickup on Wednesday and didn't have any issues.  I was so happy: my meal plan drops early Wednesday morning and my habit it to get up, pick my meals, and do my grocery shopping to pick up after work on Wednesday.  I hadn't been able to do that for a month or so.  I finally was able to do that this week and I was so happy.  It felt so normal and was good for my mental health.  Now to get back to cooking.  Baby steps.

charlotte989875

I took the day off today and it was absolutely the right decision! I couldn’t sleep in but I’m planning a nap shortly. H and I got up and had coffee outside, it’s cold but the sun was out for a bit! I went for a long walk and now I’m trying to warm up snuggling with the dog! 

I’m fighting the feeling I need to check my email because realistically no one needs me today, but damn it’s so ingrained. I’m going to distract myself with a snack! 

banana468

TGIF! 

I'm optimistic that if I talk to one of our sales managers today that he doesn't kill the messenger.   We're open and super busy and that is increasing lead times.   It's annoying to the customers who are impacted and seeing that their standard times are now nearly double but come on man.   We work for the same company, I TOLD YOU what the lead times are and you're fully aware that we have accounts that need to be serviced because their products are related to servicing the immediate needs of COVID. I realize that means that our accounts get the short end of the stick but they'd be getting the short end of the stick EVERYWHERE.   Be patient and bring up your frustrations with someone who has the power to change them. 

I'm wishing that this weekend's weather wasn't going to be so cold I'm ready to bust out turtlenecks instead of my new off the shoulder jumpsuit but oh well.   If it's gross then I'll clean inside and won't get all "cabin fever" feeling to want to be outside in the mix with the people. 

I still feel edgy to talk to FIL.   I don't want to put DH in a bad spot but I've said that frankly, I'm not interested in engaging with him if he plans to bait me with his incendiary topics so I'm just not engaging on any topics.   But tomorrow FIL wants to do a Zoom w/ us and BIL/SIL where we show them that we named the boat after our niece.   I hope it's received as a nice gesture.  

I'm looking forward to my Mother's Day dinner that's my late Omaha Steaks easter meal: boneless leg of lamb, mashed potatoes, and creamed corn....and carrot cake!   I think we'll need to eat like it's 1970 and have dinner at 3 so I can roll to the couch for later. 

We're halfway through the last season of Ozark and I'm LOVING it.  

kerbohl

This weekend I'm hashing out issues with hubby and a friend of his that he's been fighting with.  Should be interesting.  The friend runs a LARP business that hubby and I participate in.  We don't want to quit, but it's getting to a ridiculous point in which we can't really continue as things are, so we are going to try to see if we can fix it.  So if we resolve this, my weekend will be great.  If we don't, hubby is going to be really down and I'll be spending the weekend trying to cheer him up.  

That, and Mother's Day and MIL's birthday are this weekend, and we are trying to figure out how to celebrate while social distancing.  My thought was to order a meal from a favourite restaurant for pick-up and drop it off at her place.  Or we could get gift certificates and go out with her when things are open.  I don't know.

charlotte989875

kerbohl said:

This weekend I'm hashing out issues with hubby and a friend of his that he's been fighting with.  Should be interesting.  The friend runs a LARP business that hubby and I participate in.  We don't want to quit, but it's getting to a ridiculous point in which we can't really continue as things are, so we are going to try to see if we can fix it.  So if we resolve this, my weekend will be great.  If we don't, hubby is going to be really down and I'll be spending the weekend trying to cheer him up.  

That, and Mother's Day and MIL's birthday are this weekend, and we are trying to figure out how to celebrate while social distancing.  My thought was to order a meal from a favourite restaurant for pick-up and drop it off at her place.  Or we could get gift certificates and go out with her when things are open.  I don't know.

We’re in the same boat; MIL’s birthday is tonight and Mother’s Day is Sunday. FIL wants us to come over for cake and ice cream; but we declined and said we’d drive by and say hello from the truck so long as they wore masks and kept their distance.  We’ll see. I’m not even comfortable with that. 

Casadena

I have a bunch of work calls this morning again, and i'm skipping the ones this afternoon bc H has a a big client meeting he has to be on. It's sunny and chilly so hoping to bundle up and take a walk before having some beers later

Lots of little projects around the house we're trying to knock out this weekend whenever we have time.  Sunday i'll facetime mom and gma with the babe.  I usually cook them dinner or take them out for dinner/brunch but this year decided to send them Portillos beef and sausage sandwich kit and one of their AWESOME chocolate cakes.  We always eat there when they visit

We started sleeping training the babe this week.  It will be nice to feel like we have evenings again!

Jen4948

I've had a busy week and will have a busy weekend with Zoom meetings and Mother's Day. My parents' apartment building is now accepting visitors (wearing masks) so I may visit them (it'll be the first time in a couple of months outside of Zoom).

levioosa

Happy (early) Mother’s Day!

And to mrsconn, if you’re here, I know Sunday will be really hard. I’m so sorry. *hugs*

Well, I made it to Friday. What a week. I’m ready for margaritas or wine, or some sort of adult beverage. It’s not new at this point, but I’m surprised every week at how badly I need the weekend for just sheer mental health recovery. I’ve been able to squeeze out a few really good/hard workouts this week so I’m hoping I keep it going. I also did my nails last night with my new gel kit and the second time around they look soooo much better. Almost salon quality. It makes me feel a lot better. I think I might return the lamp I have and get a stronger one though. This one took almost three hours for everything to set. That’s way too long. At least they look nice. But I didn’t even get to my toes. 

We had an employee quit yesterday. It’s a big loss for us. She was really knowledgeable and a really hard worker. But she saw the writing on the wall and went out and somehow found another job that even pays more and who was hiring. 

Sending everyone good vibes for the weekend. Each week is feeling like it’s five years long. 

CharmedPam

I just got a work email from one of my annoying customers who keeps asking the same questions over and over again.  They’re our best customer so I just have to redo this research and respond but I literally picked up my phone and said “later”. I missed Prudie yesterday from being so busy. 

Anyone in the tax field?  I got my taxes done yesterday and was surprised that I can’t take mortgage deductions on my forms, because I file ‘married but separate’. But we owned two houses (one in my name, one in his) shouldn't my ex be able to deduct his and me my own?  I get if we were married filing separate and living together.. i realized I didn't tell my tax guy that we lived separately and just took his explanation at face value before really thinking it over since I know we aren’t like most cases. So maybe that changes things? 

I zoomed all night after work!  Zoomed and facetimed.  I was exhausted.  Then woke up and walked for 1 hr and 43 minutes. Because that’s how long Gilmore Girls In the life of “fall” was and I was determined to watch it all.  

Happy Mother’s Day to all! @charlotte989875, the drive by should be ok, hopefully its not going too too far out of your way for essentially a drive?

MissKittyDanger

Sorry I haven't really been on.
I've busy but not wanting to do anything.

I've had a dull headache since Friday, which I chalked up to eye strain from doing a lot of tedious stuff on Thursday. Finally went away last night when M put voltaren on my kneck/shoulders.
My back hurts a.f but at least rest is controlled.

BabyKitten is getting her bottom 2yr old molars, so she's had a hard time. Last night she had a shitty sleep, so idk what happened with that.

Cute photo of BabyKitten today. She was being cute despite being a little shit last night lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7WQU_l5g1/

Who said she could be this cute? Also how t.f is she gonna be 2 at the end of the month? {20 days!}


We were suppose to have someone come pick up appliances but apparently it's one dude and cuz he won't come in he couldn't. He gave us some options and we're gonna try and figure it out.

CharmedPam

levioosa said:

Happy (early) Mother’s Day!

And to mrsconn, if you’re here, I know Sunday will be really hard. I’m so sorry. *hugs*

Well, I made it to Friday. What a week. I’m ready for margaritas or wine, or some sort of adult beverage. It’s not new at this point, but I’m surprised every week at how badly I need the weekend for just sheer mental health recovery. I’ve been able to squeeze out a few really good/hard workouts this week so I’m hoping I keep it going. I also did my nails last night with my new gel kit and the second time around they look soooo much better. Almost salon quality. It makes me feel a lot better. I think I might return the lamp I have and get a stronger one though. This one took almost three hours for everything to set. That’s way too long. At least they look nice. But I didn’t even get to my toes. 

We had an employee quit yesterday. It’s a big loss for us. She was really knowledgeable and a really hard worker. But she saw the writing on the wall and went out and somehow found another job that even pays more and who was hiring. 

Sending everyone good vibes for the weekend. Each week is feeling like it’s five years long. 

Gelmoments, @levioosa! Gelmoments. Lamp is $25 (for a 2 finger) but it sets in 60 seconds and I can attest for that. 

And yes to these MF long weeks!
people are hiring.  One of my friends is going through an interview process now and another was contacted by another company and she’s seriously thinking about it.

yes @mrsconn23, great big hugs to you this weekend

CharmedPam

MissKittyDanger said:

Cute photo of BabyKitten today. She was being cute despite being a little shit last night lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7WQU_l5g1/

Who said she could be this cute? Also how t.f is she gonna be 2 at the end of the month? {20 days!}

Seriously. She needs a license to be this cute!

Casadena

charlotte989875 said:

kerbohl said:

This weekend I'm hashing out issues with hubby and a friend of his that he's been fighting with.  Should be interesting.  The friend runs a LARP business that hubby and I participate in.  We don't want to quit, but it's getting to a ridiculous point in which we can't really continue as things are, so we are going to try to see if we can fix it.  So if we resolve this, my weekend will be great.  If we don't, hubby is going to be really down and I'll be spending the weekend trying to cheer him up.  

That, and Mother's Day and MIL's birthday are this weekend, and we are trying to figure out how to celebrate while social distancing.  My thought was to order a meal from a favourite restaurant for pick-up and drop it off at her place.  Or we could get gift certificates and go out with her when things are open.  I don't know.

We’re in the same boat; MIL’s birthday is tonight and Mother’s Day is Sunday. FIL wants us to come over for cake and ice cream; but we declined and said we’d drive by and say hello from the truck so long as they wore masks and kept their distance.  We’ll see. I’m not even comfortable with that. 

my IL's are pushing for the "come over and chat in the driveway" thing too.  I'm not comfortable with it either.  Maybe H can go without you?  Especially pregnant I think you get to put your foot down about this stuff.  Good luck!

VarunaTT

CharmedPam said:

Anyone in the tax field?  I got my taxes done yesterday and was surprised that I can’t take mortgage deductions on my forms, because I file ‘married but separate’. But we owned two houses (one in my name, one in his) shouldn't my ex be able to deduct his and me my own?  I get if we were married filing separate and living together.. i realized I didn't tell my tax guy that we lived separately and just took his explanation at face value before really thinking it over since I know we aren’t like most cases. So maybe that changes things? 

It sucks, but it's true.  As my accountant put it, "Yeah the government thinks you need one more good slap going through this."  The only deduction I could take was the mortgage when I filed mine, "married but separate" b/c we were separated at the end of the year and I filed in January for divorce.  I took the MBS so I could afford my student loan payment, so it was still in my best interest, but sucked anyway.  ExH took the opportunity to lambast me on social media, b/c it really sucked for him.  Sorry, too bad, I paid the damn mortgage while you went to school and were a student worker, so I get the mortgage deduction.

cupcait927

Casadena said:

charlotte989875 said:

kerbohl said:

This weekend I'm hashing out issues with hubby and a friend of his that he's been fighting with.  Should be interesting.  The friend runs a LARP business that hubby and I participate in.  We don't want to quit, but it's getting to a ridiculous point in which we can't really continue as things are, so we are going to try to see if we can fix it.  So if we resolve this, my weekend will be great.  If we don't, hubby is going to be really down and I'll be spending the weekend trying to cheer him up.  

That, and Mother's Day and MIL's birthday are this weekend, and we are trying to figure out how to celebrate while social distancing.  My thought was to order a meal from a favourite restaurant for pick-up and drop it off at her place.  Or we could get gift certificates and go out with her when things are open.  I don't know.

We’re in the same boat; MIL’s birthday is tonight and Mother’s Day is Sunday. FIL wants us to come over for cake and ice cream; but we declined and said we’d drive by and say hello from the truck so long as they wore masks and kept their distance.  We’ll see. I’m not even comfortable with that. 

my IL's are pushing for the "come over and chat in the driveway" thing too.  I'm not comfortable with it either.  Maybe H can go without you?  Especially pregnant I think you get to put your foot down about this stuff.  Good luck!

My MIL wants us to come over and hang out on the deck with the baby and just make sure we stay 6 feet apart, which I'm not comfortable with. Thankfully I can tell her it's going to be too cold here to sit outside with the baby. H is on my side too - we rarely go anywhere unless necessary because we don't want to bring anything home to the baby.

Casadena

cupcait927 said:

Casadena said:

charlotte989875 said:

kerbohl said:

This weekend I'm hashing out issues with hubby and a friend of his that he's been fighting with.  Should be interesting.  The friend runs a LARP business that hubby and I participate in.  We don't want to quit, but it's getting to a ridiculous point in which we can't really continue as things are, so we are going to try to see if we can fix it.  So if we resolve this, my weekend will be great.  If we don't, hubby is going to be really down and I'll be spending the weekend trying to cheer him up.  

That, and Mother's Day and MIL's birthday are this weekend, and we are trying to figure out how to celebrate while social distancing.  My thought was to order a meal from a favourite restaurant for pick-up and drop it off at her place.  Or we could get gift certificates and go out with her when things are open.  I don't know.

We’re in the same boat; MIL’s birthday is tonight and Mother’s Day is Sunday. FIL wants us to come over for cake and ice cream; but we declined and said we’d drive by and say hello from the truck so long as they wore masks and kept their distance.  We’ll see. I’m not even comfortable with that. 

my IL's are pushing for the "come over and chat in the driveway" thing too.  I'm not comfortable with it either.  Maybe H can go without you?  Especially pregnant I think you get to put your foot down about this stuff.  Good luck!

My MIL wants us to come over and hang out on the deck with the baby and just make sure we stay 6 feet apart, which I'm not comfortable with. Thankfully I can tell her it's going to be too cold here to sit outside with the baby. H is on my side too - we rarely go anywhere unless necessary because we don't want to bring anything home to the baby.

I have a VERY hard time believing these new Grandmas will stay far enough away.  I get that it sucks to not see the babies, but they really should stop pushing.  It's not essential and poses a lot of exposure risk.  God I hope i'm never this ridiculous with my own potential SIL or DIL.

cupcait927

Casadena said:

cupcait927 said:

Casadena said:

charlotte989875 said:

kerbohl said:

This weekend I'm hashing out issues with hubby and a friend of his that he's been fighting with.  Should be interesting.  The friend runs a LARP business that hubby and I participate in.  We don't want to quit, but it's getting to a ridiculous point in which we can't really continue as things are, so we are going to try to see if we can fix it.  So if we resolve this, my weekend will be great.  If we don't, hubby is going to be really down and I'll be spending the weekend trying to cheer him up.  

That, and Mother's Day and MIL's birthday are this weekend, and we are trying to figure out how to celebrate while social distancing.  My thought was to order a meal from a favourite restaurant for pick-up and drop it off at her place.  Or we could get gift certificates and go out with her when things are open.  I don't know.

We’re in the same boat; MIL’s birthday is tonight and Mother’s Day is Sunday. FIL wants us to come over for cake and ice cream; but we declined and said we’d drive by and say hello from the truck so long as they wore masks and kept their distance.  We’ll see. I’m not even comfortable with that. 

my IL's are pushing for the "come over and chat in the driveway" thing too.  I'm not comfortable with it either.  Maybe H can go without you?  Especially pregnant I think you get to put your foot down about this stuff.  Good luck!

My MIL wants us to come over and hang out on the deck with the baby and just make sure we stay 6 feet apart, which I'm not comfortable with. Thankfully I can tell her it's going to be too cold here to sit outside with the baby. H is on my side too - we rarely go anywhere unless necessary because we don't want to bring anything home to the baby.

I have a VERY hard time believing these new Grandmas will stay far enough away.  I get that it sucks to not see the babies, but they really should stop pushing.  It's not essential and poses a lot of exposure risk.  God I hope i'm never this ridiculous with my own potential SIL or DIL.

And that's exactly why I don't want to go over there. My mom has been great, but she also has a different perspective. She has Parkinson's (early stages) and my grandmother (her mom) is in a nursing home and was just diagnosed with Covid-19 on Monday. So my mom has stayed away except for one visit where she stayed on the other side of the glass door. This is the first grandchild for my inlaws, so I understand that this is heartbreaking for them (and my parents), but I can't risk any of us getting sick, particularly the baby.

banana468

Our kids are not babies and we're still holding off.   We granted the ILs one socially distant visit but I'm not in a rush to do it again anytime soon.   They clearly think that the risk is smaller than it is and I think I don't want the virus in my house. 

MissKittyDanger

CharmedPam said:

MissKittyDanger said:

Cute photo of BabyKitten today. She was being cute despite being a little shit last night lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7WQU_l5g1/

Who said she could be this cute? Also how t.f is she gonna be 2 at the end of the month? {20 days!}

Seriously. She needs a license to be this cute!

Right? I asked her "who said you could be this cute!?" and I never get an answer, just giggles

MissKittyDanger

So here we're allowed to be in groups of 5 but until they clear it's okay to see family without risk of social distancing, we're not taking the chance. We all want to give hugs, and trying to tell a toddler they can't hug their grandparent is not easy

levioosa

I’m sorry to hear about your grandma @cupcait927. Good vibes for her. 

MissKittyDanger

@cupcait927 missed your post. Sorry to hear
None of this is easy on anyone