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Wedding Woes
kvruns
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Wet WEDNESDAY
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Hope everyone in the path of the storm is staying safe! Some drizzle and cold weather here, just kind of a blah day
Re: Wet WEDNESDAY
I didn't sleep well last night. H and I got into an argument about stupid stuff and I couldn't get to sleep. Then the thunder started around 5 and woke me up. Blah.
Otherwise, SSDD. I'm really feeling this new position. I've had to put someone on a performance improvement plan and the person is really responding. It's nice to feel like I've helped someone do their job better and feel better at work.
desire to work. Let me be lazy today. I had to do my annual review yesterday too. Thankfully i’m the only one in my department (last year we had 3) and outrank everyone this year. LOL. Don’t worry, one was promoted and one left.
Today was pretty uneventful. My trainer pushed us hard at the gym, we're having leftovers for dinner so I made hummus and banana bread.
Tomorrow is a holiday here so DH has the day off work. He wants to get up early and go the the beach. Sounds good to me.
The place I ride at is hosting a Fun Day horse show so I think I ride in that instead of doing my regular lesson in the morning. I normally have no interest is competing but I can handle a fun day, lol.
Friday, I am going to brunch with my girlfriends. If any of you ever come to this part of the world, you have to do brunch. Like fuck the Burj Khalifa, do brunch. I say that as a non foodie, it is an experience. They can be pricey though so we don't go often, and us ladies never get to go Out without kids so it is kind of a big deal.
Saturday, DH has some stuff in his office he wants to get done so I will be rehabbing with DS. If I am not too hungover, I will take him to the mall to find a bike helmet and for me to go to the optometrist.
I'm going to the office briefly this afternoon to pick up some stuff and attend an event. I'm kind of excited just to shake things up.
I talked to one of my BFF's for over an hour last night.
I thought today was Thursday for a moment when I woke up, womp, womp. This year is never-ending.
I'm moving to 30 minutes on the bike and while I LOATHE getting out of the saddle I did it two times today. I also don't hate it - and that makes me feel good!
Chiquito has his tutor today and DH needs to take the kids shopping for Halloween costumes...because we are ON IT.
Updates from New Orleans. It's been drizzly, but no real rain yet. The torrential rain/thunderstorms got pushed out to 11AM today, instead of also happening overnight. So that is a huge blessing.
No change at work. It's still a "normal" work day (eyeroll). I came in for the morning, since it hadn't started raining yet. But I'm leaving at noon. And pretty much all of my coworkers are also. Some of them even sooner than that. Some of them didn't even come in today at all. But, yeah, everything's fine, no need for a WFH day even though there is a Cat. 2 hurricane barreling almost straight at us/s. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to WFH, unless I get special permission and it would need to be something urgent. I don't have anything urgent, so I'm not even asking.
Overall, though, I'm not worried. At least not for myself or my properties. I think there will definitely be some street flooding, but not until after I get home and not high enough to get into any of my houses. I'm the most worried about losing power for a long time. But at least the temperatures are nice.
In a tropical storm 8 years ago, we lost power at my house for 5 days! Except that was in the middle of the summer and temps were in the high 90s, yikes.
So he stayed home with Chiquita and I headed into the office pretty vocal that we were due to have a massive storm while also saying, "I'm here because you told me to come in and you are open."
Luckily they did close around noon that day and I headed home to have no power at my house or the company for the next 4.5 days.
BK woke up diaperless. No clue when she removed it but luckily she didn't pee the bed. She may have been lying on it and just undone, I'm not sure. I just saw her butt in the monitor lol
My coworker got engaged over the weekend! Her and her fiance went to a cabin by a lake. We were all hoping for it but none of us said anything lol
I'm so excited for her
@MyNameIsNot I hope tonight goes better
@CharmedPam love the nails!
@missJeanLouise yay for the kid-free time!
Safe vibes! @short+sassy
There are more fires here. It’s so sad. I feel like there won’t be any pristine wilderness left in California soon. If the air quality isn’t too poor FSIL and I are planning on doing a hike tonight. We’ll have to see which way the wind is shifting. It’s been so windy here the past few days. We’ve had winds at 30 mph with gusts up to almost 100. Our backyard was destroyed and FI is pretty sad about some of his plants that didn’t make it. At least our big tree is okay. There were a lot of downed power lines and trees in our area so overall we were lucky.
The tropical storm I mentioned where the power was out at my house for 5 days, it didn't go out at all at my work place at the time. I was GLAD to be going to work and luxuriating in a/c for 8+ hours, lol.
I'm glad you're company at least let you leave early back then. But it is crazy they even had you all go in at all. My company budgets for potentially one week/year that all employees will be paid for being off work, due to weather. But I've worked here for 8 years and they've never implemented it for even one day. I think their "bar" for it is either the city has a mandatory evacuation or the workplace is down, ie no electricity.
They did something like this a few years ago, too. That I'm still salty over (no pun intended). Our temps stayed below freezing for three days straight. Which is super unusual here and our systems/streets are not meant for that. Bridges were closed and there are two major ones that many of my coworkers live on the other side of. The freeway was closed between New Orleans and our closest suburb, though one could take side streets. Buses stopped running at 2PM. Roads were iced over. And no salt was put down because we don't have the trucks for that.
The city repeatedly cautioned everyone to stay home unless they absolutely had to go somewhere. Most places, including schools and government offices, were closed. But not my work! Nope! Per them, it was okay if you didn't feel safe enough to come to work. But you needed to use vacation or AWOP time.
Though the rudest part of that I aim at Mother Nature, lol. Didn't snow at all. Just ice everywhere. Damn it! If our temperature is going to drop into the teens for days at a time, at least give us snow to play with!
Every morning I was like a 5-year-old with my H, "Have you looked at the weather? Is it going to snow today? Do you think it will snow today? Why isn't it snowing?!?! It's cold enough. Where's the snow?!?"
I'm with you on the weather. It's been a little cooler here, but not by much. Ironically, it's as if this hurricane is finally bringing in the Fall weather. We've been in the 80s, occasionally high 70s. But today? We started in the low 80s with a low of 57 tonight. About a 25-degree difference! The 10-day weather forecast after today, highs are in the low 60s-mid 70s.
And we didn't know at they were sending us home. We just continued throughout the day really salty that they were open while the auto calls that the town was sending about the streets that were in emergency evacuation zones needed to GTFO of their homes. BECAUSE WE WERE ABOUT A MILE FROM THE COAST. It still pisses me off that was the thought process involved but there was no WFH option and I had that boss for less than 6 mo at the time and he was showing up as a "I lived in Florida and we had hurricanes there too," and his nonchalance about the entire situation was mind boggling.
He also demoted me prior to that time to hourly from salary so you can bet that when I was called but home I documented my time to ensure "this is the quantity of hours I put in while you talked to me from my house." I sure as shit wasn't going to do it for free.
We were fine. A tree across the street fell taking the power lines with it and blocked the road for about 2 or 3 days. We didn't lose trees and ran a generator to keep the fridge going as needed and so we could shower. We have well water so no electricity = no water.
Funny story: it was during that time we were on generator power that we realized the prior homeowners had wired the electrical heat in the basement into the same circuit as the well pump. During one of the times that something tripped DH went downstairs, saw things were fuzzy and then grabbed a fire extinguisher. The house didn't catch on fire but he was SUPER pissed at the shoddy job that they did and months later our dads came over to rewire that basement heat to a different circuit so we could feel safe about the house not burning to the ground.
The town did OK for the most part although there were some infrastructure issues at our local boardwalk. I think being on LI sound helps a lot as a big buffer against a lot plus we do not have waterfront property.
S+S - Stay safe!
Levioosa - if baking all the batter in the same cake pan and then cutting the layers yourself, the cook time should be similar to what your recipe says. If you put the batter into separate layer pans, then start checking them around 20 minutes. As for buttercream, it is really easy! Let your mixer whip the butter for at least 5 mins, then add in your powdered sugar until it tastes good. I don't measure, but you will probably use about 2-3 cups for 2 sticks of butter. Then add some vanilla extract for a little flavor.
Last night I decorated a squash for Halloween. This might be all I do for decor. We aren't giving out candy this year, so I didn't want to put up decorations outside to confuse people.
Blah day here in Houston too.