Early GM?

cheeseandrice

Anyone else awake yet? I went to bed a little early last night and actually got a full night of sleep. woohoo!

We've got 'the' ultrasound today, so H and I both took the whole day off of work. I think the plan is to go to the dr appt then stop at a credit union and switch over from stupid Wells Fargo (finally!), then off to register! 

I hope it gets a little nicer out, though. It's 27* right now. I want my 70s back, please, Mother Nature.

[Deleted User]

What time is your appointment? I expect an immediate update.

I'm here, been at work since about 5:30. I have to go to the dentist at 4, which I'm not looking forward to. I already know I need a few teeth worked on.

I emailed my latest book to myself so I can edit it at work. I need to get through 200 more pages by Friday.

cheeseandrice

haha. U/S is at 8am! but I have two other appts right after, so we'll probably be there until at least 10am.  I've yet to get in and out of the clinic in under 2 hours.  

And 5:30 is way too early to start work. Are you the only person there that early?? Or do other people work crazy hours too?

I have a dentist appt next month, and I'm not looking forward to it. I'm pretty sure I have at least one new cavity. blech.

[Deleted User]

One guy gets in at like 4am because of his wife's work schedule and their baby (she leaves as soon as he gets home). Another lady in a different department has a schedule like midnight to 8am - that is insane. I don't even know how it's allowed, but whatever.

Usually the only people here besides the rare earlybirds are the janitors. A lady was vacuuming my area when I came in this morning.

Also, it's gonna be a girl. Yiou should name her Arianna.

mehgank

Morning ladies! I went to bed early so I could come in at 5am today to get a workout in. I had a feeling we'd be short-staffed today, and I was right. I'm literally the ONLY person in the office right now and we opened a half hour ago.

Have fun at your appts today, Steph!! I'm excited for you.

Sesh, good luck with editing. That sounds rough, but I know you can do it.

SarahPLiz

Mornin'! I m up, currently taking a walk. Its nice and cool and just me and the deer. Good news is that posting on TK is much improved with this new mobile site. Steph, I think it's a boy. I'm so excited for you. I remember how it felt that day. Amazing! Seahawks, I think I'd get more done if I got to work before anyone could bother me. That actually sounds like heaven

SarahPLiz

And your new autocorrect name is Seahawks, Sesh.

mehgank

haha Sarah, I love it! Seahawks are my favorite team.

[Deleted User]

Haha, Seahawks. I'll take it.

And yes, I do get more done. It's peaceful and no one bothers me or talks or blares music.

LetsHikeToday

Steph- I can't wait! :-) I have a doctors appointment too. Just a regular ultra sound since my last doctor was terrible. This doctor will tell us if all is looking okay. I'm pretty sure H will be deployed when we find out if it'll be a boy or girl. I hope everyone has a great day. Yesterday, I ran for the first time since getting a positive test so I look forward to it again today. I pretty much slow jog and only do two minutes run, 2 minutes walk but it felt so so much better than just walking. Who would have thought that I'd ever miss running?

cheeseandrice

I only work a half hour off schedule (7:30-4 instead of 8-4:30), and I cherish that first 30 minutes. I swear I get more done in the first half hour than the rest of the day, sometimes. 

Thanks everyone i'm nervous now, but I'm trying to make myself eat something and drink some juice so the bean isn't a lazy butt again. (Last u/s he/she refused to move at all. ha)

september's bride

YAY! Ultrasound day! I'm excited for you, Steph, especially since you want to know who's in there. Fingers, toes, legs and eyes crossed that all goes exactly to plan and LO is happy and healthy in there.

I was hunting for a dress yesterday for a wedding I'm going to in a couple of weeks, and failed miserably. There are no nice dressy dresses iin maternity styles. At least not in my area...ugh. BUT! I did see an emo kid in super skinny jeans trying to ride his bike in the extreme winds. I admit to laughing hard, and laughing loudly at that one.

cheeseandrice

ha sept. I'm trying to find a cute dress for a wedding next month. I want it to be one that I can wear at least a few times, though, so I don't want it to be too dressy. I found one at Old Navy that I love, but every time I put it in my online bag and wait a day for a coupon code, it goes out of stock. I'm just going to buy it next time (I mean, seriously, it's $25 at regular price.)

It's this one:

Sarah, is there another new mobile site? I hated the last one, so I just use the regular site on my phone, which seems to work ok most of the time.

september's bride

FFS. My Old Navy doesn't have that dress! That's cute...I could dress it up or down really easily. Way to go, Canadian Old Navy.

cheeseandrice

Heynow, DJ. We did our taxes... last week. ha 

Why is today tax day? I know the 15th was a Sunday, but why not make them due yesterday then??

And we're registering at Babies R Us and Target. Nothing exciting, but those are the most accessible stores. We just got one of those Buy Buy Baby stores in the Twin Cities, so I want to check it out. It's part of the Bed Bath and Beyond chain, so you can use those sweet 20% coupons there!

cheeseandrice

Really? Do people still not know how to use computers? EVERYTHING we needed for taxes was online. All student loan interest statements, all our mortgage crap, even our county property taxes!

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Oh, Steph, you'd be amazed at how many people can't use computers. Even in my job, which is dependant on them. One guy I work with copies URLs from our forms, pastes them into Word, then makes them a hyperlink, then opens them from the document. Why?
"Because putting the URL into the IE URL field is too confusing."

Nebb

I woke up in a bad mood. Fat brenda (thats not really her name) who is transfering tasks over to me is not impressed with the speed of which i am doing so, she wants me to take everything now and I have to omuch on my plate to do so and she complained about me on Friday to the controller (who I think brushed it off and talked to me and explained as such), and then when she informed me yesterday that I was taking it all over at 1pm (didnt ask, informed) and I asked if we could push it back because of how busy I was, she went and complained about me to the owner and his wife and they sent out an email about it. I get the distinct impression she thinks im being difficult, that im not busy at all, and is painting me in a bad light because she isnt getting her way. I made sure to nip that in the bud and talked to the controller again about it and turns out he stepped in after fat brenda had left to explain my side so thaty they are aware just how busy I am. Im most likely going to have to stay late the rest of this week to catch up. Its really depressing the hell outta me.

miomarch

Good Morning!  Yay for ultrasounds!!!  I remember those days lol.  I get up 5am every morning with FI and send him off to work.  Then I sign in here and party like a rock star until I have to get ready for work.  I go to work and that's always fun right up until I time in....lol no really I love my job, just hate the politics. Good to hear tax day makes someone happy, everyone around here is grumbling lol

[Deleted User]

Oh, man, Someone brought in like 30 donuts for us to enjoy. DONUTS, AATB!

I'm in heaven.

LetsHikeToday

Steph- we had teachers quit because the grade book system was going online. Yup. Teachers.

cheeseandrice

oy. I mean, I'm really not surprised. My old job was managing an online off-campus listing service. Where landlords would update their property listings, etc.  I don't know how many times I heard "so your email address is www.abc.edu?" uh, no.

shaydenise

Good morning. Yay for THE appointment, Steph!

Good luck at your appointment too, Hike!

We did our taxes last week, too. Typically we do them as earlier as possible but since we owed a shiitton this year we figured why bother doing it early? But we do them ourselves so at least we aren't inconveniencing anyone but ourselves.

I'm irritated with my family.  They plan things (like my grandmother's birthday event this weekend) only days in advanced, notify people just before said event, and just expect everyone to be available.  H and I have plans and I don't really appreciate being made to feel bad about it because of their lack of planning skills.  Ugh this happens all the time.  And this weekend the place they want to go is over an hour away and they only serves deep fried food, which I don't eat.   Maybe I'm a selfish jerk, but I'm just so tired of every single family event coming together last minute.  Gah, okay there's my early morning vent.

Have a great day, ladies!

[Deleted User]

We did our taxes in January. It was a mad rush to ge them done before H left for his grandpa's funeral in February, because we needed the return money to fix his truck. His taxes are so crazy that he has to do them each month to avoid a gigantic mess.

Shay, don't feel bad. You already have oplans and that's that.

Also, we have writers here who don't know how to C&P using just the keyboard. COME ON PEOPLE.

shaydenise

I just can't comprehend not knowing basic computer skills (copy and pasting??).  I guess that's part of growing up in a technology generation but still.  We have faculty members that are teaching online courses that do nothing for the course because they don't know how and they don't want to know how.  We upload everything and design their course sites for them and they assign a TA to do everything that has to do with the web. Some of them never even log into the course all semester.  It's ridiculous.

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[QUOTE]I just can't comprehend not knowing basic computer skills (copy and pasting??).  I guess that's part of growing up in a technology generation but still.  We have faculty members that are teaching online courses that do nothing for the course because they don't know how and they don't want to know how.  We upload everything and design their course sites for them and they assign a TA to do everything that has to do with the web. Some of them never even log into the course all semester.  It's ridiculous.
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How is that even allowed? I log on to my class at least once a day. I can't imagine never looking at it and just letting someone else take over. Granted, my course is very simple, but still.

shaydenise

Sesh, I have no idea.  The university tried to make a "required" training course for e-learning but "required" turned into optional pretty quick.

lbarr088

Woo Steph!  It will be an exciting day

Morning all,

I'm tired because I slept like crap last night.  It was around 90 here yesterday and the apartment was pretty toasty.  It cooled off a lot last night so we slept with a fan on and the windows open... problem was it was also windy so every time the blinds started flapping in the wind I would wake up all startled thinking someone was breaking in.  Once it got cold enough I just ended up closing the windows at around 3 in the morning.  Then FI took all of the blankets and I just sat there all grumpy and wide awake.  

jennamarie10

Good luck Steph! I think it's a boy, but everybody I know lately is having boys.

Morning, everyone else! Hike, I'm not even KU and I can't get myself to go running.Even though in theory, I'd like to run even 15 minutes a day. Bah.

Full day of work, then my first haircut/color in 16 weeks tonight-I.CAN"T.WAIT. Plus a spray tan to prep for Vegas. Woop!

Have a good day ladies!

jennamarie10

Oh, and happy tax day, DJ! You deserve to take tomorrow off.

[Deleted User]

Haha, you guys. It's like the blind leading the blind over here. Why do new people ask each other for help? Why not go to one of your supervisors or designated helpers? All I hear right now is people telling each other the wrong thing, or people who have been here a total of 2 days saying "Oh no, we can't do that. Put it on hold, definitely."

No wonder quality sucks.