Prudie Day

ei34

Wishing everyone an enjoyable weekend and holiday with loved ones and good food (even its for America’s birthday and I think the deserved gift would be liberty and justice for all regardless of skin color or where you’re born or who you love or anything else that T***p is destroying). 

ei34

No students today, just got in from the dentist (just a routine cleaning) and Aldi run. 

Lots of prep cooking to do for our bbq tomorrow and the kids have swim team at the pool later today. 

MNNEBride

Happy holiday eve! I will probably chill tomorrow. Saturday is supposed to be cooler and less humid. I'm hoping it's tolerable in our garage because I need to start sorting through all the things we brought back from storage. It'll be like opening a time capsule, as most of those things were packed up in 2006 and haven't been opened since.

Friends are coming over on Sunday. If the weather cooperates, we'll grill, play some games and visit.  

I took the car in for an oil change this morning, and it's going to need some major work in the next year. We're already talking about different vehicles, so this is not a surprise, but it does move up the timeline.   The mechanic has a great deal on a used vehicle we are considering.    We may do better buying new. I'll see. He has been vocal about wanting to buy new, but the price is so high—— ugh.

levioosa

I hope everyone has a great weekend! I am feeling decidedly unfestive but did wear a red blazer with a blue top because when else am I gonna match my outfit like this. As far as actually celebrating America though? Tomorrow is just a day off for me. I have felt increasingly bitter ever since the Orange Officer won the first time. I do need to figure out what we’re eating tomorrow and buy stuff before our store closes early. 

Otherwise we’re not really going anywhere. SIL A and her H are going to come over tomorrow to hang out. SIL A and I are trying to go to the mall on Sunday. And then it will be back to the grind. 

banana468

I'm so pissed at our government right now but I'll take the day off.  It feels less celebratory for a few reasons but family together time will be nice.

I had a vent session with my mom over text about the recent bill passage and she added that my dad voted for Trump this time.  I told her that I was really disappointed in him and the choices he made that treat his grandchild as a trade off and her response was that he may not understand so I snapped - then don't take him to vote.   It made me have a lot of inner conflicts and feelings about our rights while also wanting to not lose respect for my dad and his limited cognition.

MyNameIsNot

I'm ready for the day off too. We're not doing a lot, but taking advantage of having a long weekend. Tomorrow we're running the Peachtree, so we have to be up and moving by 5. Then after the race we're heading to my parents' neighborhood pool. We'll probably just grill out tomorrow night. Saturday a friend invited us out to their lake house. That should be fun, but it's a 2 hour drive so will be a long day. Sunday probably chores and sleep. 

VarunaTT

I have five glorious days off starting tomorrow.  I'm am burning out at work with this sh!tshow of a new program.  Hell, it's having issues today and we're all kicked out of it.  Nation wide company just down b/c of computer issues.  All of my bosses are experiencing the same issues too, so everyone has been fairly understanding.  I'm just not good at "failing to meet my own standards" and it's stressing me TF out.  I'm going to try really hard to rest my brain as much as possible.

BFF hopefully can come in this weekend.  He was going to, but has to do a funeral on Sunday now.  We've debated on timing, but it all comes down to how he feels and I fully support that.  The new internet comes in on Tuesday and please, all the "smooth sailing" vibes you can spare.  The fence is finally finished (almost, they have to do a new latch b/c mom complained) and I hope to never have another thing like that to go through with her again.

Otherwise, just vibing until 3:30, which is when I'm off.  Half the office is out, so I've been able to catch up on tasks, but my inbox is a disaster scene and I'm refusing to look at it.  Hopefully I can see the F1 movie this weekend too.

charlotte989875

I’m off tomorrow and we’re heading to camp. It’ll be fine but J is waking up a lot and early so he and I will come back home which just makes for a long day. I feel like I should be more up beat but this is not a relaxing day for me. 

Also- my very own Ask Prudie question:

H lied to me about something. It was stupid, not at all a thing that needed to be lied about and he did. I asked him directly about it and he lied. Last night after I asked him again because it came up about something else and he admitted he lied. I feel really frustrated and conflicted- like it’s a dumb thing to lie about and yet he did. Is he lying about serious things? What else is he telling me that, if I didn’t find out, I’d never know were lies. So, I’m tired and frustrated too. 

ei34

Im sorry he did that @charlotte989875. Lying stinks and you deserve better. Whatever you’re feeling about it is completely justified