Eclipse Monday

ei34

Safety first, wear your glasses! 

How was everyone’s weekend?

charlotte989875

Weekend was pretty good! Successfully took both kids to my parents on Saturday. The weather finally turned yesterday in Buffalo and it’s warm and not snowing! 

We’re in the path of totality today and Hs cousin brought her kids up from PA, so we’re all doing an eclipse party today. We had dinner together last night and we’re heading up for the day. His cousin (her kids are 8 and 10) made party kits for all the kids! 

ei34

My parents were going to go up to the NH house, where they’re 98% in the path of totality. But here it’s 91%, so not worth it. I’ll be home from work but my kids will be on the bus at 3:26(ET), I sent them in with the glasses and told them to wear them.  Hope they do!

Weekend was nice, really busy but all good things. 

CharmedPam

Happy eclipse Monday.  No one was more devoted than me and got a phases of the moon tattoo, did they? I’ll show it off when it’s healed because the stencil is still under it and now the wrap makes it look bad. 

Weekend was good! Friday was dinner and a last minute $10 comedy show. Saturday was pedicure, hair extension appt and said tattoo. And Sunday I started a series “mind hunters” recommended by my fave true crime podcasters.
I did end up buying glasses for work and I’m glad I did because I don’t think anyone brought any in! I also brought in cupcakes.  I didn’t spend too too much on them (decorations were more) because we’re not a “sweets” office, and it would have been a waste. 

MNNEBride

Looks like it'll be cloudy in our neck of the woods.  DH & I will likely still go out with our glasses to see what we can see.  I'm teaching online this afternoon and eclipse peak aligns with our break so fingers crossed it works out.  

New kitty is testing limits.  She's discovered the spider plant on a stand by the window.  Last night she was batting at the leaves while looking over at me to see if I'd say anything.  Then she was on a dining room chair with her paw on the table.  I put her down - I'm no fun at all! We've had her 5 weeks and she's settling in.  She has now gotten comfortable with DH and discovered it's pretty cozy sleeping next to his legs for at least part of the night.  She's wormed her way into our cold, childless hearts LOL

ILoveBeachMusic

Good weekend. DS2 was here for a bit. We started watching Shogun - highly recommend.

I'm going to an Eclipse party in just a few minutes. A friend from bookclub is hosting. Nothing else planned until Wednesday when a cousin who is a children's book author/illustrator will be here. He is visiting some local schools to talk books with the kids. He is self published. Hope he has a successful few days here.

MNNEBride

Well, too cloudy to see anything at our house.  It did get a little dark (like it was going to rain) but other than that, nothing to see here.  Looking forward to seeing pics from other places that had clear skies.

CharmedPam

We actually had clear skies! Our sky did NOT get this dark.  This is a picture through the lens & special glasses.
I’m waiting to hear back from my family who is in the path of totality. Apparently it does feel like night time.

short+sassy

Not much of an Eclipse Monday for me (womp, womp).  At the "height" for our area we'd be at 81%.  But it's been too cloudy all day to see the sun at all.  It got slightly darker for a good while, but no more so than it does for storms.  Much ado about nothing, at least for me.  But hopefully it is very cool viewing for other WW folks.

I haven't been feeling well today.  Extremely tired, even though I got a good night's sleep and just feeling off.  For bonus points, I was having IT problems this morning and it took about 45 minutes on the phone with IT to get them resolved.  But at least everything is working fine now.

But I did at least have a good weekend.  My doctor's appointment went fairly well.  I'm happy he gave me the okay to eat fewer calories than I have been.  I'd already been doing that 1-2 days/week anyway because it was only thing that was working anymore to lose weight.  It's a relief to know I can do that more regularly without it being detrimental to my health.

After my appointment, my H and I got a lot of errands done.  Felt productive!  He really loved these meat pies I'd gotten at Aldi's the week before.  So I swung him by there since we were in the suburbs and introduced him to this chain,  

charlotte989875

Okay totality was pretty cool! It was cloudy so we don’t have good pictures of the actual eclipse but here’s the yard (and an eclipse ready baby). 

CharmedPam

@charlotte989875 that’s the cutest thing I’ve seen all day!

ILoveBeachMusic

We had great weather and total darkness. It was much cooler than I thought it would be. Viewing party was lots of fun. H took this picture.

short+sassy

@ILoveBeachMusic, thanks for the pic.  That's amazing!  I'm living vicariously through you, lol.