Eew...Monday

kimmiinthemitten · August 2016

Since I wasn't on all day Friday I figured I could start today's chat.

Weekend was good, super productive! We ordered the invitations and card pockets and asked our readers.

I also worked a retirement party for a doctor who lived in the most beautiful, lake side house and now I'm jealous that I'll never make enough money to wake up and hop in a kayak from my bedroom patio. Talk about first world problems.

charlotte989875 · August 2016

Feeling overwhelmed for a Monday. I have decided to leave my career field by the end of the year, and I have no idea how to do it. I've been thinking about it for a while now and our trip to Pittsburgh a few weeks ago solidified the decisions. But now I have to figure out what I do want to be doing and how to translate the skills I've learned in a PhD program and academia to the private sector. I have no idea where to start. I don't even know what jobs are out there or what I want to be doing.

I really want to go hide in my bed.

ShesSoCold · August 2016

My coworker left an open bowl of broccoli in the fridge all weekend.

I am so sick of being this bitch's mother.

kimmiinthemitten · August 2016

charlotte989875 said:

Feeling overwhelmed for a Monday. I have decided to leave my career field by the end of the year, and I have no idea how to do it. I've been thinking about it for a while now and our trip to Pittsburgh a few weeks ago solidified the decisions. But now I have to figure out what I do want to be doing and how to translate the skills I've learned in a PhD program and academia to the private sector. I have no idea where to start. I don't even know what jobs are out there or what I want to be doing.

I really want to go hide in my bed.

You're a political scientist, right? You could do campaign work, consulting, journalism, I feel like there would be quite a few places to go since politics in America is never ending.

Congrats! While I'm sure it's scary, it's also a bold and exciting move too!

charlotte989875 · August 2016

kimmiinthemitten said:

charlotte989875 said:

Feeling overwhelmed for a Monday. I have decided to leave my career field by the end of the year, and I have no idea how to do it. I've been thinking about it for a while now and our trip to Pittsburgh a few weeks ago solidified the decisions. But now I have to figure out what I do want to be doing and how to translate the skills I've learned in a PhD program and academia to the private sector. I have no idea where to start. I don't even know what jobs are out there or what I want to be doing.

I really want to go hide in my bed.

You're a political scientist, right? You could do campaign work, consulting, journalism, I feel like there would be quite a few places to go since politics in America is never ending.

Congrats! While I'm sure it's scary, it's also a bold and exciting move too!

Thanks! Yes my PhD is in political science and I have advanced statistics and modeling training I think the biggest problem is I don't actually know what I want to do, I just know I don't want to be a professor any longer. Everyone I talk to has been all "oh you have tons of marketable skills and there's a lot you can do" which leaves me feeling great, but that I have no idea how to do it.

Im just glad I finally made the decision to leave. And even if it takes a while to figure out exactly how to do that it feels better than still wondering if I should.

missJeanLouise · August 2016

Monday is a day that is happening.

Didn't get as much accomplished as I could have this weekend but I did as much as I wanted to. I cleaned the upstairs and said fuck it to the first floor.

I think I am going to visit FMIL and FSIL this weekend. I could use some girl time and knowing I won't be home will force me to finish the first floor instead of pushing it off till the weekend.

mrsconn23 · August 2016

ShesSoCold said:

My coworker left an open bowl of broccoli in the fridge all weekend.
I am so sick of being this bitch's mother.

Is their desk close to yours? If not, I'd put it on their desk. That's disgusting.

mrsconn23 · August 2016

Weekend was all right.

Friday, I went shopping and handled some returns. I got home and took the kiddo to pick up his friend from our old neighborhood. That was a three hour ordeal because traffic was such bullshit.

Saturday, I went to get my hair deep conditioned and my eyebrows waxed. I have a new stylist since my last one moved away. I think she's best I've had at this salon so far. The rest of the day, I hung out and took a nap. DH did a landscaping project.

DH took the kids to Colts Camp (which DefConn hysterically thought they were going to be camping with Colts players and wanted to know if we were bringing Papaw's camper). I went to see Bad Moms yesterday (loved it) with a friend. Afterward, I went to the store and then cooked dinner and made breakfast for the week (I make an egg casserole thing with sausage/cheese/peppers/onions and bake them in a muffin tin. They take 40 secs to heat up and it's a perfect portion size). After dinner, it took me 30 min to figure out why the hell I could not get the kiddo's school paper to print. Then it was all the Sunday night school-day prep shit that I have totally gotten out of practice on doing.

ShesSoCold · August 2016

LOL Mrs.Conn about camp! If I got to camp with Bears (Kyle Long - so dreamy), that might be the only way I would actually camp.

Her desk is close to mine and it smells so bad most of the office stanks when you even open the fridge door. And of course, everyone is telling me about it. Because I am the go-to for all the miscellaneous office horse shit.

Heffalump · August 2016

charlotte989875 said:
Thanks! Yes my PhD is in political science and I have advanced statistics and modeling training I think the biggest problem is I don't actually know what I want to do, I just know I don't want to be a professor any longer. Everyone I talk to has been all "oh you have tons of marketable skills and there's a lot you can do" which leaves me feeling great, but that I have no idea how to do it.

Im just glad I finally made the decision to leave. And even if it takes a while to figure out exactly how to do that it feels better than still wondering if I should.

How do you feel about banking? DH is in risk management for a large multinational bank, and his team does tons of modeling with a heavy dose of stats. Nothing to do with poli sci at all, but it's an option for those specific skills, anyway. PhDs tend to do very well for themselves there.

ShesSoCold said:

My coworker left an open bowl of broccoli in the fridge all weekend.
I am so sick of being this bitch's mother.

GROSS.

kimmiinthemitten said:

I also worked a retirement party for a doctor who lived in the most beautiful, lake side house and now I'm jealous that I'll never make enough money to wake up and hop in a kayak from my bedroom patio. Talk about first world problems.

We were checking out new lesson barns for DD (more on that below), and DH fell in love with a house on the way. I told him it was probably $1M+, but when I checked Zillow it was "only" $825k. (Asking price--I'm sure that can be negotiated.) So then he was in a mini-funk that we don't live in a 7000 sq ft house on 2 acres with an infinity pool out back. FWP.

It was a good weekend here. DS passed his swim eval, somehow, so he's moving to the next level. I have no idea how, because when his instructor asked him point-blank if he was going to put his face in the water, DS said "Nope!" (He gets it from me--even as an adult, I hate having my entire face submerged. It's why I can't scuba dive, and can barely snorkle.) So I was surprised when they passed him, but whatev.

DD got to canter, and was thrilled. However, we had been feeling like we'd been dicked around there lately: lessons moving all over the place (9:30, no 11:00, no 10:00), cutting them short, etc. So we were bracing to have the changing-barns talk with Wooz (who is generally change-averse) when they posted on FB that as of the end of October, they're shutting down, the owner is moving to a smaller barn and focusing on shows, and they're no longer doing lessons. Which explains some of what's been going on, but also gave us a super convenient excuse when we told Wooz that she wouldn't be riding there much longer. On the plus side, I think we found a really good place for her. If I can endure DH making gooey eyes at his dream house every week.

Other than that, Wooz spent the weekend not cleaning her room--I took away every single privilege so that she is now grounded, no iPad, no Netflix, etc. Basically eat, sleep, go to camp. And she still hasn't effing cleaned it! She gets started, but then finds three old My Little Ponies under her nightstand that she hasn't played with in a year, and suddenly she's dragging out all of her old Pony stuff and can't figure out why it's taking so long to clean her room.

My mom starts Chemo Round 2 Thursday, and meanwhile plans are moving ahead for my Grandma's 100th. She is looking forward to it, and her nurse said that it's good for her to have something to look forward to, so for now the party is on.

6fsn · August 2016

Saturday I took M2 to a bday party then FIL and sMIL came to take them for the night. DH and I did dinner and a movie- I want to see Bad Moms, but not with him so we saw Ghostbusters. Sunday was a neighbor kid bday party.

6let has soccer camp from 5:30-8:30 every night this week. The camp is 30 mins away and he's supposed to be there 15 mins early. Looks like we'll be eating at 4:30 this week. Also, his reflux is flaring. That means he coughs every 10 secs. MIL thinks he's annoying. Grrrrr.

This week my mom is helping me FINALLY make window treatments for the kitchen (2 years later).

NOLABridesmaid · August 2016

I just got back from Punta Cana yesterday. I had a great time.

missJeanLouise · August 2016

I just tried to help a co-worker by doing something for him. I broke it and now I am embarrassed.

DrillSergeantCat · August 2016

We left our baby with grandma for the first time ever. FH was so nervous to leave him. He kept trying to give his mom instructions. Finally, I said, "Babe, she's done this before. Let's go." LO did great. I was slightly worried because he goes back and forth with liking grandma.

We went to FH's house to get some of his old stuff to give to my niece who just moved out and there's still so much we need to move out by February. I don't think he realizes that we have to move it. On niece's way to my house she had a blowout on the highway and didn't have a spare so now I need to figure out how to get all this stuff to her.

The baby has one tooth poking through and another about to. He also rolls over at will from back to front and is working on front to back. I'm a bit sad that I'll never get to see his toothless, gummy grin again.

eta- i finally got my invitation creator to get back with me because the link for my invites stopped working and I need to print more. That makes me feel so much better.

SaintPaulGal · August 2016

All our friends are moving away and it makes me sad. I think it's hitting my fi even harder than it's hitting me, which is sort of surprising because I've always considered myself to be the more social one and now he wants to have people over every night and basically everyone we know is out of town either temporarily or for good. So we are both feeling a bit sorry for ourselves over that.

But on the bright side, plans are falling into place for my first real trip with my partner in over 4 years together. I booked our flights to Bogotá on Friday and then spent much of the weekend researching the destination like crazy. He travels domestically for work a fair amount, and honestly he is kind of a diva about airline status and nice hotels. I am the complete polar opposite of that; give me a cheap-ass flight on whatever carrier is offering it followed by a $15 hostel bed and I am happy--considerably happier, in fact, than I would be in some sterile Hilton identical to the one in my hometown. Well, I think I have figured out a good balance. The tentative plan is to spend a few days exploring the city and staying at a cheap local hotel, then head out to a rural village somewhere if possible, and come back to the city and check into a fancy-pants international hotel for his actual birthday. It's fun planning this all in secret and torturing him a little about it--I'm pretty sure I legitimately have him convinced that we are staying somewhere without running water. Yeah, I'm evil.

Now it's Monday and I have to mainline coffee and deal with Accounting about my client who got erroneously charged to their personal card instead of the company card for the second time in two weeks. I made a huge stink the first time but apparently that did absolutely jack shit about fixing the problem moving forward.

bleve0821 · August 2016

Hello from Miami! I found out Saturday evening that I was flying out first thing for emergency staff support and other shit at the field office here, so my morning was a cluster. It's exhausting just remembering it. Needless to say, I am still not a fan of American Airlines. It's not ALL their fault, but that's beside the point.

Got a lovely string of pearls as a very early birthday gift from my folks, so I am now officially a pearl clutcher. Bought DH a Yeti 65 for Christmas. He just got a massive bonus, so he better not decide that's what he wants to blow it on. I'm nudging him towards a surround sound system, so fingers crossed. Other than that, the weekend was pretty quiet. It was great seeing my parents, even if DH was the most asocial I've ever seen him, which irritated me more than a little.

lyndausvi · August 2016

Yesterday was my birthday. I'm still recovering.

AuntFlo · August 2016

@6fsn - i want to punch your MIL for you. DD does the constant throat clearing and little coughs when her allergies are bad -- and it totally drives me crazy -- but if anyone else complained about it being annoying I'd stab them.

kimmiinthemitten · August 2016

Happy birthday @lyndausvi!

lyndausvi · August 2016

kimmiinthemitten said:

Happy birthday @lyndausvi!

thanks.

We did the Aspen 500. We hit up 6 restaurants. Meet random bartenders who worked in the islands. One person was part of an opening team at the resort I worked at. Another guy not only went to HS with a cousin, but also worked at bar we know is the islands.

sparklepants41 · August 2016

Happy Birthday, @lyndausvi!

Saturday H & I did some yardwork, I made homemade organic frozen treats for the dog, and I jumped on the spin bike as it was far too hot to work out outside.

Sunday I took a pregnancy test and got a negative. So all those weird things I have been feeling lately are still a mystery. My Aunt Flo is supposed to arrive at the end of this week, so I will retest in a week or so if she's a no-show. Oh well.

H took me to see Finding Dory on Sunday as well and that was really cute. But I'm such a hormonal wreck lately that I cried during most of the previews, the animated short, and several times throughout the movie.

Today I kicked off a bunch of new deadlines, which are all due next week when I'm in Philly for work. And I'm trying to convince myself to hop on the spin bike again tonight, but we have no food in the house and I'm not sure what to have for dinner, so my workout time is going to be cut short by after-work food shopping.

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