Tuesday

ei34

How's everyone?  We are having some real spring weather today, and it's so exciting.  Hope everyone has a smooth day!

ei34

I have DS's annual CSE meeting later today but otherwise pretty ssdd.  Music lessons after school and the DD's have a softball game this evening, so busy, but all nice things.

Casadena

Busy day today! Supposed to be warmer and i can tell bc my allergies are going INSANE. Having lunch with my favorite work friend today and looking forward to trading work stories (gossip...we'll gossip about everyone). 

Easter was nice - we went to IL's and the kids had a blast with their cousins and H's grandma was able to join. We don't get to see her often and i think she had fun watching the kiddos run around. WFH yesterday so i could go to a dermatology appt about lunch - my rosacea is flaring like crazy so she recommended some new topical stuff that i'm going to start tonight. Hopefully that works bc i really don't want to add more oral meds/supplements.  

hope everyone has a nice week!

knottie0c305190487423f2

well, I found out my first "love" from when I was a teen and his rude fiancé are getting married exactly one week apart from My Fiancé and I this coming August... Idk how I feel about that lol... atleast ours is first I guess

banana468

Spring baseball should be called late winter baseball.  Chiquito's first game was last night and I arrived wearing my puffy vest, winter coat over it and had an outdoor blanket wrapped around me....and I left cold.  It's all good and I still had more layers on than the boy but those warmer nights can get here when they're ready.  Is that now?  How about now?  I don't mind.

Chiquita's Confirmation is next weekend and true to form, MIL isn't taking over but she's....trying to be the person in charge of things and it's annoying me.  It doesn't help that she annoys me in general so my MIL fuse is somewhere between short and I want to light things on fire.  And since the event that BIL and SIL will be in town for is for OUR daughter and not MIL's daughter I started to draft an email to at least attempt to coordinate some of this.  

I will continue to practice deep breathing exercises. 

CharmedPam

knottie0c305190487423f2 said:

well, I found out my first "love" from when I was a teen and his rude fiancé are getting married exactly one week apart from My Fiancé and I this coming August... Idk how I feel about that lol... atleast ours is first I guess

Hopefully you can be happy for your ex? Sounds like you both found what you’re looking for in someone else. 

SSDD here. I have a meeting at noon, and then heading out to mow my lawn. Ugh! It’s that time again. I was spoiled last year and had a service but it went up $8 or $10 I think and this is something I have to do myself, there’s no cicada excuse this year. 

banana468

knottie0c305190487423f2 said:

well, I found out my first "love" from when I was a teen and his rude fiancé are getting married exactly one week apart from My Fiancé and I this coming August... Idk how I feel about that lol... atleast ours is first I guess

If you are looking at this as a contest I hope you've done some soul searching.

charlotte989875

Weekend was good! We went to see dinosaurs (large, animatronic ones) on Saturday. Then Easter Sunday. The boys LOVED hunting for eggs- M is at the perfect age and I loved every minute of it. 

Work is fine. One of my teams is acting out and it’s frustrating. I’ll deal with it just.. ugh wishing people would just act right. 

MyNameIsNot

It's been good but busy here. The weekend was gorgeous and filled with outdoor stuff, so I'm sunburnt already. It's supposed to storm today and tomorrow, but I'm probably going to have to turn the AC on this weekend. It was 75 degrees in our bedroom when we went to bed last night. I don't like super cold AC, but anything over about 72 is a challenge with peri sneaking up on me. 

Nothing much else going on. Work is insanely busy, but it's good. I just am starting to feel like it's 100 mph all day and I'm losing track of time. The biggest thing I'm working on ends May 9 though, so there's a light at the end of the tunnel. 

ILoveBeachMusic

I had my annual exam this morning. All good. I had to go to a new doctor last year because mine had left the practice. I wasn't very impressed with her so was planning to transfer everything to my PCP. She was much better today. Very personable and asking questions about me and my family. I have been with this practice for almost 39 years (was pregnant with DD) so I have a lot of history there. I'll stay with her for now. We are trying to get me off HRT which she recommends when you are in your 60s. 

I'm just about done packing for Austin. It is a lot different than packing for Chicago lol! Shorts and sleeveless tops with a few dressier outfits thrown in. We are going kayaking so I have sports shorts and a swim suit - we are going somewhere where there are swimming pools. I'm not the planner for this trip (thank goodness, I hate planning) so I just follow directions.

@banana468 I feel you with the cold games! DD played high school tennis which starts in late March. I remember having feet so cold I couldn't feel them. They practiced/played with the snow on the ground but the courts cleared. Seriously, I do miss watching her tennis matches even 20 years later.

banana468

@ILoveBeachMusic it's absolutely love/hate.  It's so cold but they get so excited and it feels like such a short season.  But the temps over the weekend spoiled me and eeking to upper 30s was harsh!

MNNEBride

I leave for NO in the morning.  Mostly packed and have a bunch of home things to do before I leave.  We have a big staff meeting at 4 PM and then I'm headed to get my nails done.  I have to get up about 4 AM tomorrow so it'll be a short night.  I feel good with our presentation and hope we have a good crowd.  

@short+sassy gave me some tips and tricks so will try some of those - thanks!

short+sassy

I have been so out of it last week and (so far) this week.  My sleep has been really out of whack.  I think it's time I finally get some prescription sleeping pills.

I took a sick day last week Thursday.  But because I wasn't in the office, I TOTALLY forgot the next day was Good Friday, which is a holiday at my work.  I woke myself up at o'dark thirty. Got dressed and drove ALL the way over here.  Super confused why my parking lot was closed and nobody was parked on the street.  Went all the way up to my cube and nobody was on my floor.  Checked my e-mails to see if there was some calamity at the building.  I was about to go to the main floor in search of life, when it FINALLY occurred to me, "Is it Good Friday, today?"  Google told me it was.  Argh!

On Sunday, my friend invited me over for an Easter cocktail.  It was really cute!  She cut the ears off a hollow chocolate bunny.  Then filled it with a mixture of vodka, Bailey's, and milk.  

My endocrinologist told me I have low creatine levels from also losing muscle with my weight loss.  He told me to start weight training.  I know...I know.  I've been wanting to anyway because I can fill out some of my excess skin if I have muscle under it.  The top of my arms (bicep) are so scrawny and look too thin.  But then the back of my arms are giant bat wings where all the excess skin and tissue went. Meh.

Some good news on that.  I was lamenting there are no affordable gyms near me.  But then I remembered there's a city community center with a fitness center.  Near me and FREE!  Yyyeessss!  Now I just need to find the motivation to go.  Always the biggest problem, lol.  I also already have a set of dumbbells and resistance bands at home, plus a mini stair stepper machine that also has a resistance band.

Good news at work!  The loud slurping, ice chewing trainee whose cube is across from mine will be GONE come Monday!  A new project is starting that will have the kind of work he usually does, so he's going back to the other building.