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Th-th-Thursday!

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::just keep swimming, just keep swimming:: <<--- I think some of us need that this week/month/year. ;)

DH picked DefConn up at daycare yesterday and apparently two kids in his class had chucked.  So...I'm totally on edge.  He seemed fine last night and this morning.  He does have a bit of a cold with a dry cough/congestion, but I gave him some ibuprofen and kids mucinex and sent him to school.  No fever and he was acting normal. But still, I'm braced for a call.  Ugh. 

Two more supervisors start at DH's warehouse in the next week.  Things have eased off this week for him and he's been home at a decent time every night this week.  So the light at the end of the suck-ass hours tunnel is there. 

I have found the perfect protein/breakfast shake formula...vanilla protein, almond butter (1 tbsp), 5 frozen strawberries, a banana, and almond milk.  It's so good and gets me to have something in the morning besides just coffee.  I'm not a breakfast person at all. 
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  • HeffalumpHeffalump member
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    Ugh, I hate that "waiting for the other shoe to drop" feeling with potentially sick kids.  Even if it doesn't, you spend all that time on edge, in case it does.  Crossing crossables for a healthy kid.

    Good news re: mr. conn.  Related:  I know this is a little crappy, but if DH has to work late, I'd rather he get home after the kids are in bed than right when I'm putting them to bed.  When he gets home at bedtime, they both get so wound up that it takes for-freaking-ever to settle them down enough to sleep.  Also, I am a little bit jealous, because then he's the rockstar, and I'm just some old broad who made them brush their teeth.

    Also, is it weird that I'm way more into Valentine's Day now than when I was dating and doing the whole flowers/fancy dinner/weekend away thing?  Sometimes I think that I just like having something to celebrate in the middle of February's cold and gray.

    Related:  DD's former crush will not be attending her V-day party, because they are moving to Portugal next week.  I'm wondering if we should try the pen pal thing, though I imagine at their age, they'd lose interest pretty fast.  Out of sight, out of mind, and all that.
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  • tawillerstawillers member
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    Yay, Thursday!

    I've got a plan for the day and am motivated to get stuff done.

    My skin/complexion is a mess right now.  I've never had sensitive skin but it seems like it's irritated by any little thing lately.  I need to figure something out.
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    Normally we get to drop off line in plenty of time to undo the carseat and M2 to put her coat on. Traffic was a mess and we pulled in late and didn't have time.  This conversation happened.

    Preschool: Where's you're coat?!?!?!
    Me: It's right here
    Preschool: Well isn't she going to put it on?!?!?!
    Me: It's not safe to wear a coat in a carseat
    Preschool: But everyone does!

    The woman is a bitch and I'm glad she's not in a classroom.  I have some articles to find now.

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  • mrsconn23mrsconn23 member
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    OMG, you'd think she'd know, 6.  


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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    ugh.
    (Although I swear, Buffy is the ONLY kid @ drop off not wearing hers.  She has a car blanket she uses.)
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    (also, the Mr. and I both love it when he's in charge of bedtime and I arrive just in time for a kiss.  It works better wo 2 of us)
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    edited February 2015

    Now I can't find the stupid article.

    And we go from the warm house to the warm van in the garage to drop off line.  She puts her coat on there.  This is the first time we've been late to where we didn't have time to put it on and not hold up the line.

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  • auntflo2point0auntflo2point0 member
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    You're overreacting, 6.  She's a bitch, you know you're right - there's no need to find an article and no need to defend yourself.  You're doing a great job.


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  • tawillerstawillers member
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    6fsn said:

    Normally we get to drop off line in plenty of time to undo the carseat and M2 to put her coat on. Traffic was a mess and we pulled in late and didn't have time.  This conversation happened.

    Preschool: Where's you're coat?!?!?!
    Me: It's right here
    Preschool: Well isn't she going to put it on?!?!?!
    Me: It's not safe to wear a coat in a carseat
    Preschool: But everyone does!

    The woman is a bitch and I'm glad she's not in a classroom.  I have some articles to find now.

    I can't believe you didn't take the opportunity to break out the old "If everybody jumped off a bridge" line.
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  • 0Face0Face member
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    I'm at work, no motivation---project looming and I need to get it done, and yet here I sit...nothing done.

    I also have more people in my workspace (I know I shared that yesterday) and it's weird.  And girl downstairs is annoying, the cadence in her voice is grating, and she'll take something that can be said in 5 words and stretch it to 10 sentences.  I'm exaggerating a TINY bit, but not much.
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    I generally just try to avoid this woman.  She really is bitchy to many people for many reasons and I know she's driven off more than one family. Maybe it's an overreaction, but I did send an article.
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    No good deed goes unpunished, so I'm drowning in paperwork today.

    You know that I plan 'big hands on science event thingy' at work, right?  I've lost most of my help for lots of complicated reasons.  It's former boss (as a volunteer) and allme, all the time.

    So.  To arrange just over 50 events for just under 500 kids (and their few hundred parents and teachers) as a part of 10ish middle school teams and 15 high school teams to work in one building for a 7 hour slot of time is work.  I promised people I'd have the schedule (tentative, since changes have to happen last min. sometimes) on Friday.
    I had it all done.  I, literally, have more than 40 drafts saved [because sometimes you have to backtrack]

    UNTIL...(dun dun dunnnNNNNNNnn)
    We got a plea.  Apparently, a teacher retied and didn't pass on information, so there's a school who didn't register on the deadline (which would have been Dec 31.  So we're way past this).  We did the age-old debate:

     'rules are rules'-why should they be able to compete against teams who followed the rules when they're in violation of them?  Is that an unfair advantage?
    VS
    "kids are kids".  We can probably make this work.  Do we really want to be pedantic about the rules and not allow a whole slew of students to play, in order to make a point?  especially knowing it may make this school loose momentum and bow out of this event for several years?

    Eventually, we decided to let them in.
    Now, guess what I get to do?
    Do the ENTIRE DAMN SCHEDULE over again.  Because suddenly we go from 30 kids per room to 32.  We don't have enough chairs in some rooms and we ABSOLUTELY can't put taht many kids in a lab setting safely.

    So I've been moving post it's around on an excel sheet, trying to fix it.  For like 12 hours so far.
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  • PMeg819PMeg819 member
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    Morning!

    I am pumped about today. Got in a good workout (and I'm pretty happy this week overall with everything I have done),  have a session with my therapist, and I've been really productive at work lately.

    I for sure have to go out of town in two weeks and I feel like this is going to be a logistical nightmare. DH is leaving the same day I am, and I know if I leave him to pack for DS it will be a mess. So I've got to pack myself, the kids, and probably DH. Add on that I'm going for a huge meeting (lots of senior management and then me) and I'm already stressing about what to wear, etc.

    DS has taken to saying every morning that this is the "best day ever" so I'm trying to adopt that attitude. Today is going to be the best day ever, or something.
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