Mornin!

Stackeye210

Good Morning Everyone.  I hope everyone has a great Thursday!  I just got to work and someone broke into our building last night and stole a laptop.  They broke the window of the office they stole from and never left that office so it never set off any motion alarms.  It is freezing in here today and they won't cover the hole until the police get here.  I guess it's a little excitement to get my through my morning. 

crfische

Mornin' Stacks!

I'm still sitting on the couch putting off getting ready for work. It's my mom's birthday today and I'm hoping I can beat the crappy weather and get home to surprise her today and stay for the weekend.

Which means no work tomorrow, and I'm pumped about that, let me tell ya.

lyndausvi

Morning...

That sucks about the break in.  How odd it was just a laptop? 

I'm good.  Just had breakfast, watching the news, going to work in a few hours.  Nothing real exciting.

crfische

Hmmm...good point on just taking the laptop. That's weird.

Stackeye210

Fish - Happy Birthday to momma fish.  What kind of crappy weather is it?  Snow?  We get rain today, cold rain SUCKS!!!!! 

Lynda - I think they knew they could only pick one office without setting off alarms so they picked the one with the laptop rather then the other ones with computers.  Luckily they didn't take any patient information or anything like that. 

Stackeye210

And - it was a relatively brand new laptop that was bought to replace a laptop that was stolen during our last break in.  Our office backs up to a ravine so there is a blind side of 3 offices with floor to ceiling windows.  It's virtually impossible to be caught because there's no sort of traffic anywhere around it. 

crfische

Well, it looks like a little bit of snow, only 5 inches, but some crazy ice and wind.

Thing is, I'm pretty sure I can make it HOME, it'd be making it back to Fargo that would be difficult....

lyndausvi

It still seems like an inside job.  Who would know that those window do not have alarms?  If anything the windows that are in the blindside should have the alarms

Even my home in the states had detectors all the windows, upstairs and down.  We could turn them of if we wanted, but they were still there.

danieliza1127

Good morning all!  I'm sleepy this morning but other than that, same old same old.

That's crazy about the break-in but nothing like a little excitement to wake you up in the morning!

Fische - safe travels and have fun!

crfische

Whoa, really? That's intense.

We never even locked our doors when I was kid. When I moved to Fargo I was all like..uhh...people lock their doors? It was a totally foreign concept to me.

Now, we lock the doors all the time, but having a security system in the house seems overboard. Well...maybe if we had worth STEALING, I'd think differently.

lyndausvi

Well I should explain, the house was my parents.  They were living overseas at the time and I lived in their home  (paying rent to them).   It would be considered a 'wealthy' neighborhood to some people, so alarms were expected.

In St John I didn't even have a key to my apartment.  The side door was even wide open so the dog could go in and out.  I lock my doors in St Thomas.

lyndausvi

I'm laughing so hard right now.  DH bought me So you think you are smarter than a 5th grader game for my DS.

He apparently is not smarter than a 5th grader. He just cried because he missed a first grader question.  (which btw I question some of the questions they claim first graders know)

Stackeye210

We never locked our doors growing up, but I do now.  We also have an alarm system.  We live in an ok neighborhood, but some surrounding areas are pretty sketchy.  We got the alarm after our next door neighbor got broken into.  I think hers was somebody that knows her though because it was done in the middle of the day, within a 2 hour time frame of when she isn't home.  Mr Stack is the type that he wants the alarm on whenever I'm home by myself.......I set it off all the time when I check the mail and throw some trash out.   

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Good morning all! That's crazy about the break in and I agree that something seems off that they only stole the laptop. It's such a creepy feeling after a break in. Yuck.

Happy Birthday Mrs. Fish Sr!

I'm here at work. I just wish it was Friday. My dad finally told my mom about his GF and all hell has officially broken loose. It's like they are getting divorced all over again. The first one was messy enough. I hate that we have to deal with this again. My mom keeps saying that my dad is dead to her and that she'll never speak to him again. And she's been crying for 2 days. I feel so bad for her. 

 Gross. I hate drama.

SarahPLiz

cew, that's nuts. They are already divorced, right?

stack- We have offices like that and we put blinds in, that are closed at night. It cuts down on the opportunistic crimes because they can't see in. Of course, if it was an inside job, then the blinds don't do much good. We also have a "hide your laptop" policy that might be something to think about.

I am also on the couch putting off going to work. Skipped bootcamp this morning because 3 days in a row was enough. I'll go back tomorrow. I finally got the call about my uncle passing away last night, so this weekend's plan are out the door (fun after christmas white elephant regifting party and dress shopping) so we can go to Houston and mourn. I'm gonna miss him.

aMrsin09

Good Morning.

H is home sick today and is completely throwing my game off.  Nothing is getting done, and now he wants me to run to the bakery to get him "something sweet".

Cew, how long have your parents been divorced?

SarahPLiz

Oh, and I didn't find out about my uncle through FB, as I was expecting to. however, I did end up telling another cousin over FB. I felt really bad because he had no idea he was even sick. His mom was the first sibling to pass away and he's not that close to everyone else, but I didn't want him to not know at all...

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Sarah - yes, they are already divorced, but had become best friends. We would take family vacations together and do holidays together. Mom would even babysit for my dad's son and have them over several times a week.
 
I think what bothers her the most is that she feels like he cheated on her all over again because he kept this woman a secret for 6 months. Mom also kept telling us that she didn't have romantic feelings for my dad anymore, but just admitted that she did.

Stackeye210

Sarah - I'm so sorry about your uncle.   

Cew - It's so much harder to stay out of the parental drama when you're an adult.  I feel badly for your mom, sounds like she never lost feelings for him. 

SarahPLiz

Wow, that is a crazy situation. I mean, you can't deny someone having a valid feeling, but its just nuts.
My boss and her ex are friends, but I don't think either one is dating anyone. They go to dinner once a week and take road trips together together to see their kids. Its weird, but whatever works for them, you know?

FI's parents have been divorced for a while but just moved back in together for economic reasons. His dad is not shy about having girlfriends, but his mom never leaves the house, so I doubt she is seeing anyone. this will be an interesting period in their lives.

I feel bad for your mom. I know that logically speaking she should just suck it up, but it has to really hurt to go through those feelings of betrayal all over again.

[Deleted User]

Yeah. They've been divorced for about 11 years now and it was a very long road to get them to where they could even be in the same room together. When they first started hanging out again, I didn't feel right about it because I knew my dad would eventually get a GF and it would crush her. I talked to her about it several times and each time, she assured me that she didn't want to be with him anymore and was just fine being friends. I really do feel bad for her, but part of me feels like she should have seen this coming and prepared herself.

It's not really fair for either of them to have this weirdo relationship where they hang out all the time, but are not "together" and then expect each other not to see other people. It just doesn't seem healthy at all.

laurenclaire1386

Good morning! The sun is back out today and it's like 70 degrees outside. It's beautiful.

Happy birthday mama Fish! And Cew that sucks the big one about your parents. Hopefully they can get it all worked out.

Brie2010

Morning.  I'm in Alabama.  They're predicting more torrential downpour all day and I have to drive 2.5 hours and fly out today.  FML.

AmoroAgain

Hello afternoon! I had a productive day despite feeling like total ass.  Bought cold medicine, and some new boots for only 25 euros!! Woot!

georgia_bride09

Mornin'. I am here, but wish I'd called in today. The weather is crappy, I have this weird rash on my hands that I think I got from pruning my bushes Monday, and I have nothing to do all day.

Fische, you'll have to tell Momma Fische that a bunch of Internet strangers wish her a happy 29th birthday!

Cew, that sucks. It would be so weird to have to deal with that, yet be so helpless.

salt78

Good morning. I'm bored as schit and have nothing to do today.

sarah0725

Morning all! Just had the changing of the guard: FI comes home from work, I wake up, I get up, he goes to sleep. Now I'm going to try to finish this grant application today. How do you write an itinerary and a budget when you know you need to crisscross the eastern United States for your project but you're not sure where you need to go yet?

Cew, I'm sorry to hear you're stuck in the middle with your parents. One of the perils of being a grown kid, I guess - my mom is always telling me about problems she's having with my dad because she's starting to think of me more as a friend than as a daughter.

crfische

I will tell her!! But I'm SO SAD I'll have to do it by phone. The weather is just supposed to get too bad, and I don't want to drive on an ice rink. SAD.

mandapanda78

Sarah I'm sorry about your uncle. I hope being with your family is of some comfort now.

My grandmother passed last week, and while I didn't quite find out through Facebook, it was pretty close. She was an old lady and she was at the happiest I've ever seen her in the last few years, so I'm not in mourning really. But I will say that the situation threw a different light onto a few family members and I'm feeling very introspective about what "family" really means these days.

georgia_bride09

Fishy, you should send her an edible arrangement. Just random enough to put a smile on her face.

georgia_bride09

Manda, I'm sorry about your grandma. A death in the family, especially of a matriarch or patriarch, definitely brings out the worst in some people, which is just shiity.