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Wednesday/FWP
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Happy Hump Day, y'all.
I'm crabby today. Whenever people come to visit, we always host them. Cheerfully. Now we're headed to my grandma's party next week, and neither my dad nor my brother have invited us to stay. And they've made plans with us. And I even told them I was in the process of making arrangements, and they were both basically like "Let us know where you're staying!" Grrrrrrr.
I know I shouldn't be entitled, but it stings a little. Maybe they don't feel that they have room. My dad and his wife live in a 3BR ranch, and her 30-something son lives with them. My brother is just him in a 3BR townhouse, but I don't know if his ex got the furniture or whatever when they split. But still, I would even be okay with "I wish you could stay here, except I'm sleeping on a mattress on the floor" or whatever.
Anyway, I have a booking request in to Airbnb, and we're moving on. And then I got to work and half the parking lot was blocked off. Turns out they're repaving it, and our plant manager sent an email at 6:20 last night. So parking this morning was chaos.
Here's hoping things pick up from here. Got my first RSVP for DS's birthday party, so that's something.
I'm crabby today. Whenever people come to visit, we always host them. Cheerfully. Now we're headed to my grandma's party next week, and neither my dad nor my brother have invited us to stay. And they've made plans with us. And I even told them I was in the process of making arrangements, and they were both basically like "Let us know where you're staying!" Grrrrrrr.
I know I shouldn't be entitled, but it stings a little. Maybe they don't feel that they have room. My dad and his wife live in a 3BR ranch, and her 30-something son lives with them. My brother is just him in a 3BR townhouse, but I don't know if his ex got the furniture or whatever when they split. But still, I would even be okay with "I wish you could stay here, except I'm sleeping on a mattress on the floor" or whatever.
Anyway, I have a booking request in to Airbnb, and we're moving on. And then I got to work and half the parking lot was blocked off. Turns out they're repaving it, and our plant manager sent an email at 6:20 last night. So parking this morning was chaos.
Here's hoping things pick up from here. Got my first RSVP for DS's birthday party, so that's something.
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Re: Wednesday/FWP
my FWP: construction woes/lack of communication from the contractors/PM. They demoed half of the kitchen and the master bath more than a week ago, and the only progress is some minor piping and a new electrical line for the tub. a new tub hasn't been delivered, yet . (after the plumbers broke the first one). DK stayed home yesterday and nobody showed up. I'm home today and will be pissed if it was for naught.
That would chap my ass too, Heffa.
Barbie, that sounds terrible - I hope progress is made quickly!
My FWP - I want the table I ordered. NOW. The couch arrives Saturday, and Direct TV is coming then to add a box in the basement. I'm all antsy in my pantsy to get everything done and have my house look good. Then we can focus on the not fun crap like a new sliding glass door and water heater.
Today my goal is to get my resume and cover letter to an employment agency since I'm really lazy and half-assing this job thing. I'm scheduled to be off on Tuesday so that would be perfect for me to go in and interview with them.
Edited because I'm a dumbass.
It's the third week of second grade. I told DH afterward that if I couldn't handle that, then I would have to do some serious soul searching about how I reached this point in my life.
Also, Wooz's class still doesn't have a room mom, and god help me, I'm considering it. Our neighbor is also the PTA president and mentioned that they could use my help with grant writing. Also considering that. I think the body snatchers got me.
My H and I leave for Boston one week from today! Excited! We'll be out there for almost a week. Neither one of us have been. We haven't been on vacation in over a year. Very overdue!
Oh, and I'm happy that we have a good relationship with MIL & stepFIL now, I really am.
But now she's calling me. All the effing time. Twice yesterday. I don't even talk to H that much. Simmer down, MIL.
And yes, I don't actually have to be at work at a certain time. My schedule is flexible and I can come and go as I please, but it's still annoying. And yes, I understand it needs to be done and will be so much better (which is what H keeps telling me when I complain about it), but I'm still annoyed and him telling me to get over it doesn't help.
We get home and there's a letter from the bank. Cool. This is what we need to bring to lawyers next week, so I'm glad it's early.
Says on there we're paying property taxes through the bank. Uhm, no. We told them at least twice that we were going to do it through the city.
H calls and explains. Now he's waiting on a call from bank manager so we can get it fixed. *sigh* This bank is driving me nuts.
Other FWP - I feel like sometimes I put more effort into the relationship, and it's just stupid little things.
His bday in July, I got him a card, took him to the "Star Trek Experience"{as his gift} and then dinner.
My bday? I got a card.
Anniversary - I remembered a card, he claimed broke. I said he could have gotten a damn card before hand instead of last minute.
I just got really irritated last night and he's pissed I'm bringing it up now {anniversary was beginning of August} and I told him that I didn't think it bothered me as much as it seems to. Idk. Just .... urg.
More frustrating than anything tbh .... /vent
MIL is being a pill too.
her: We want to get him this thing.
me: He already has a quite a few of those things maybe that or the other thing or this thing would be good instead
her: but I want to get him this thing
Why'd you ask then?
The place I'm staying at for my temp housing next month (!!!!!!!) has a Sleep Number bed, so I'm pretty excited to test it out and see if that's something we can find room in our budget for. I find mattress shopping to be awkward and uncomfortable.
also, i'm a single person sales team at my tiny start up, but just got word that i'll be getting to hire 2-3 new people under me in the new year, so that is really exciting and a little nerve wracking.
I have an OB appt at 10 which means I'll sit waiting for an hour before I see her. Oh well, I'm charging the iPad so I can do homework.
We ended up going with a BeautyRest Black Hybrid mattress (top half memory foam and bottom half coils). It has "cooling technology". We love it more and more every night we sleep on it! Back pain is gone, my DH's shoulder pain is gone (he had surgery on both shoulders years ago and they still hurt fairly often), and I don't wake up boiling to death anymore.
I bought FH's friend an airline ticket to our wedding yesterday. It was about 100$ more than I wanted it to be but I have been watching prices and it didn't seem like it would be coming down. I wouldn't have done it but friend's sister (who is my best female friend and our officiant) had already mentioned to him that we (she chipped in too) were thinking of buying it for him and he was the first person to return his rsvp, which melted my heart a little. I know it will make FH so happy to see all of his friends again.
A year ago, I was asked to perform an audit on one of our office programs/procedures. I spent weeks reviewing this massive program, and since I was new, understanding the what and how and why and soliciting feedback from individuals who'd been with the department for a while. All in, it was around a 20 page report full of recommendations--what's good, bad, unnecessary, etc., with suggestions for how to handle each aspect.
So I was allllllll excited when I saw on the meeting agenda they were incorporating some of my more inventive changes! YAY!!! It was a pat on the back moment for me.
...right up until they gave credit to someone else.
I'm furious.
3:30am is for partying/going to bed, NOT for waking up @NOLABridesmaid. You're doing it backwards.
So while I'm grateful he got the guy to back off, it pisses me right off that it takes another man to get a man to stop harassing a woman. In the past I've had two (!!) incidents where a guy was jerking off and keeping pace with me, one that turned into a bit of road rage when I was younger and flipped the driver off and one where they followed me into the parking lot of the store I was driving to. I hate that shit, and it legitimately makes me scared for my safety.
And now I'm in the office with a ton of shit to do, no motivation, and a bunch of slow ass colleagues that I'm waiting on to finish out quotes before I leave for two weeks. I want to email them all with this:
I'm full on man hater today apparently!
We used said GC to buy an over-the-range hood/microwave. Ordered it at the end of August, it was supposed to arrive (site-to-store) yesterday.
I called to see if it was there...nope, now it'll be in at the end of September.
Fuck that. I am not waiting another few weeks at this point for another piece.
So, we went through all sorts to cancel the purchase w/ Lowe's so I'm annoyed that I now have to buy more shit from them w/ this giftcard. Because they made this process absurdly hard. Also, can't cancle an order online.
Home Depot will only sell it to me if I pay for shipping and have it deleivered to my house--which, why would I do that, it's a microwave, I can fit it in my hatchback.
Apparently the one I know I want isn't available in stock in most stores locally.
So we've ordered it to Best Buy, I may cutabitch if it's not there on Saturday.
@kimmiinthemitten there's a hashtag on twitter you might enjoy. #yesallwomen
@AtomicBlonde that really sucks. I'm sorry.
My company is the middle man between insurance agents and carriers. Therefore, when the carrier messes up, the agents get mad at us. When the agents mess up, the carriers get mad at us. It's just the nature of the business - everything is our fault.
This girl in our office received bad info, passed it on and now we look like the ass. We're not the ass, but we're the middle man so deal with it.
She's spend the last hour (literally) going from person to person looking for advice on how to word her email apologizing to the agent and being all "I hate confrontation...".
Just fucking send the fucking email.
They did order in for lunch and it's the best fried chicken I've ever had.