Hump Day

ei34

This is the longest week!  Wishing everyone well.

ei34

Totally trudging through.  Taking my small victories which today include the kids all having after school clubs until 4 and taking the late bus home, so I'll have a nice pocket of quiet time for an hour when I get home.  I should probably take inventory of the kids' gifts. 

Casadena

Yay for quiet time @ei34. 

I also need to take stock of gifts. This year i've kind of purchased small things throughout the year and put them away, but also just bought a few more things and need to make sure i'm balanced between kiddos. 

G wants to do a small bday get together with some buddies and shockingly all of them are available at the date and time we were wanted- i was a hoping to avoid a big "party" but honestly it's cheaper to just get the package than to pay for 5 friends and a couple little brothers separately. So we're doing the trampoline park or an indoor playplace/climbing thing. I'm leaning toward trampoline. Need to book tonight!

H had a little outburst this morning and i'm so irritated. He's been super annoyed that the boys have been in slow motion the last few days (obviously, it's the time of year and coming off a week break). It's annoying but it happens. At one point, G asked "daddy, please stop yelling at us". On our way out I asked if we could  move the snowblower in the garage over a bit bc I couldn't get by with backpacks/workbags/winter gear and he lost it and started ranting about how no one helps him, we need a better morning routine, no one ever listens to him, and then slammed the door and threw something in the garage. This shit is exhausting and he's acting worse than the children. Somehow his reaction will be my fault. Sorry for the rant, i'm seeing my therapist today too and will chat about things there. 

ei34

Ugghh I'm sorry @Casadena.  Rant away, that's why we're here.  Completely immature, unfair and inappropriate on H's part.  I'm glad you'll have therapy later and yay for the party coming together for G.

levioosa

*Hugs* @Casadena. 

Unfortunately I think I'm coming down with something. I'm so tired and I have a sore throat. Of course it's on the week I'm working a full extra day so I can't even look forward to Saturday so I can sleep and spud. I wanted to go to the gym tonight but I think I'll have to go home, do a small walk and then go to bed early instead. Otherwise SSDD. 

ILoveBeachMusic

@Casadena, DD had the twins' birthday party at a trampoline/sports park and said it was wonderful. We didn't go because we had a conflict because she ended up having to change the date of the party.

I have a stay home day so hopefully will get some stuff done. I too need to inventory gifts to make sure things are fairly even - I'm big on that. It doesn't have to be exactly the same money amount but not horribly far off.

CharmedPam

OR - @ei34, watch some bad TV. I’m a bad influence. Don’t listen to me.

I only have my nephews and bro/gf to buy for. And then use amazon ca for my sister:kids. The perks of a small family. 
Ugh @Casadena, you did nothing wrong by asking him that. I hope therapy helps you get it off your shoulders too.

i’m having major computer problems. I can’t get logged in. And our top notch IT department was like “sorry, don’t know what to do. Wait till it fixes itself”
are you serious?
So I’m woking on my laptop at home, offline, as a temporary solution but I don’t have all my programs and files like I do on my desktop.

psa; alleyoop (makeup brand) came out with a tubing mascara with a lengthening serum in it, and I switched from thrive to it. 2 weeks ago I got a sty on my lid that thankfully went away but on Monday my entire lid was swelling up. Same one and oddly only one. The only thing I can think of is the use of this new mascara so I tossed it, hoping that’s just it. I took some antihistamine this morning and it’s gone down and less painful at least. 

charlotte989875

Hi All- I’ve been MIA  bit; long days of onsites at the office this week and I’m just spent by the end of those. Things have been good here; boys are excited about Christmas, M is learning how to add and spell and keeps telling us how words are spelled- it’s the most adorable.

I’ve done very little shopping or planning so I need to get on it! 

VarunaTT

Hello!  I don't know what I've been doing this week, but it's not like there's a lot to report on.  Work is going smoothly for once, so that's nice.  Tomorrow I have tickets for the Kill Bill: Whole Bloody Affair.  I'm hoping I don't fall asleep during it.  I haven't seen the movies in forever, so it'll be fun to see it on the big screen and all together.

Otherwise, SSDD.  All of my major projects are finished and I'm settled in for the winter in the new place.