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Monday after Christmas

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Not working but bored af.

Christmas turned out to be a shitshow. My brother called the day of, with sniffles and said he and his eldest had a sore throat/runny nose so I opted not to see that family (my SIL had the “start of it coming on”). That wasn’t the shitshow part of it, he understood my not wanting to be around them (they not vaxxed) and agreed. I heard nothing but complaints about my brother from my parents and when I called my bro to cancel, I heard nothing but complaints about my parents and how awful they are as parents/grandparents. They’re not. My bro has a skewed vision of his childhood.  I ended up crying, because I seriously was caught in the middle of it all - telling them that all three needed therapy.  Apparently they had a talk after I was gone (because they told my brother I got emotional over it) and things are better.

It was 2 days watching game shows and lifetime with my family.  Only saving grace was that with just three of us, my mom wasn’t going to put on a big dinner so we did apps/snacks and tbh, I’ll take that over any big to-do…. I came home yesterday and took today to run my errands and get things done.  

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    I’m working today. Kind of. I’ve open my laptop which feels like a victory. Christmas was nice, all my work paid off, my nephew was a treat, and I think my dad finally relaxed a bit. I’m exhausted and glad to have a week when all my clients are closed to work peacefully and hopefully not too much. 

    Trying to come up with a solid New Year’s resolution. Some years I go for it some not. Idk what speaks to me this year but I want to find something. 
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  • short+sassyshort+sassy member
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    @CharmedPam, yeesh!  I'm sorry Christmas started out so negative, but sounds like it got better after your brother and your all's parents aired out some of their differences.

    My H and I pulled the trigger on buying ourselves a big Christmas gift.  One of those Oculus VR headsets.  We haven't tried it enough to see if we really like it.  I'm not even much of a video game person at all, but I am a bit fascinated with the idea of VR.

    My rent relief payment hit my account on Christmas Eve.  Such a relief.  Merry Christmas to me!

    I cleaned up all the clutter off my coffee table, plus went through a lot of papers/bills to organize or discard them.  Though that was about the only productive thing I did with my long weekend, lol.

    My H and I had a low key Christmas like we usually do.  It was just us during the day and then we went over to our neighbor's house, to hang out with her.  She has a similar situation to us.  She's not that close to her family and they live in other states.

    This will be another short, 3-day work week for me!  Plus apparently schools are out and lots of people are on vacation.  Traffic was a breeze this morning.

    This was funny!  I sent out a mass work e-mail and, of course, got lots of "out of the office" auto-responses.  But an auto-response from K said she will be on vacation until Jan. 3rd and to contact N for any XYZ matters.  Except N is also on vacation until Jan. 3rd.  Apparently some wires got crossed there, lol.
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  • MNNEBrideMNNEBride member
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    I'm working today but most of my team is off.

    Christmas as OK.  We hosted my family Christmas eve.  My nephew was snippy and hurt my feelings.  Otherwise things went well.  We went to my aunt & uncle's on Christmas day.  Everyone has been vaccinated or had Covid.  I was asked to bring 2 pies.  I made them Friday morning.  When I put them out on Christmas Day, another aunt asked where I had gotten them!  I told her I made them and she looked shocked and said - "Oh great".  She has never had a filter and I was waiting for her to say something.  Family dynamics are always fun at the holidays.

    Yesterday was recuperating.  I ran a final load in the dishwasher and did laundry.  We watched the Vikings lose - no surprise there.  

    We got about an inch of snow overnight and then freezing drizzle.  It's pretty slippery and DH wasn't looking forward to driving today.  More snow expected tomorrow.  Fortunately, we were out of the big band that dropped up to a foot north of here.
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  • banana468banana468 member
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    Christmas went well! 

    I have a cough but NO fever and think that's likely whatever Chiquito had. It's annoying but we were in the house all week except for mass on Christmas Eve and yesterday which should not be any incubation period for Covid. 

    My dad is looking....old.  He's just aged fast and my mom is frustrating with how she's treating him.   She wants him safe but her answer is to nearly cage him and it's going to contribute to mental decline. 
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    banana468 said:
    Christmas went well! 

    I have a cough but NO fever and think that's likely whatever Chiquito had. It's annoying but we were in the house all week except for mass on Christmas Eve and yesterday which should not be any incubation period for Covid. 

    My dad is looking....old.  He's just aged fast and my mom is frustrating with how she's treating him.   She wants him safe but her answer is to nearly cage him and it's going to contribute to mental decline. 
    Not to be alarmist, but we never had fevers (us or the baby) and from what our doctors said the incubation period for omicron could be as little as 3 days. Just a heads up and hope it’s just a regular cough. 
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    charlotte989875 said:
    banana468 said:
    Christmas went well! 

    I have a cough but NO fever and think that's likely whatever Chiquito had. It's annoying but we were in the house all week except for mass on Christmas Eve and yesterday which should not be any incubation period for Covid. 

    My dad is looking....old.  He's just aged fast and my mom is frustrating with how she's treating him.   She wants him safe but her answer is to nearly cage him and it's going to contribute to mental decline. 
    Not to be alarmist, but we never had fevers (us or the baby) and from what our doctors said the incubation period for omicron could be as little as 3 days. Just a heads up and hope it’s just a regular cough. 
    If I didn't have a kid cough on me after being covid neg I'd be more alarmed.  If this was even a week later I'd be in the drive through this afternoon.  Chiquito did have a bit of a cough so I'm inclined to think he's shared his love with me in the house as his primary caretaker since I WFH while DH was at work. 

    I did get two boxes of rapid tests and will likely use it before heading out to see the ILs when they return.  Next week when the kids are back at work I'm going to be back in the fear zone.  In the last week we've had 3 families we know who had kids test pos. 

     
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    banana468 said:

    If I didn't have a kid cough on me after being covid neg I'd be more alarmed.  If this was even a week later I'd be in the drive through this afternoon.  Chiquito did have a bit of a cough so I'm inclined to think he's shared his love with me in the house as his primary caretaker since I WFH while DH was at work. 

    I did get two boxes of rapid tests and will likely use it before heading out to see the ILs when they return.  Next week when the kids are back at work I'm going to be back in the fear zone.  In the last week we've had 3 families we know who had kids test pos.  
    Between all the spiking going on, the holidays, and the vaccines not being as effective against Omicron variant...I decided I'm going to wear masks again when I'm out in public (including at work) for the next two weeks.

    I hadn't been, because I didn't feel it was necessary since both my H and are fully vaxxed and we aren't around young children.  But I have changed my mind for the time being.
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    short+sassy said:
    banana468 said:

    If I didn't have a kid cough on me after being covid neg I'd be more alarmed.  If this was even a week later I'd be in the drive through this afternoon.  Chiquito did have a bit of a cough so I'm inclined to think he's shared his love with me in the house as his primary caretaker since I WFH while DH was at work. 

    I did get two boxes of rapid tests and will likely use it before heading out to see the ILs when they return.  Next week when the kids are back at work I'm going to be back in the fear zone.  In the last week we've had 3 families we know who had kids test pos.  
    Between all the spiking going on, the holidays, and the vaccines not being as effective against Omicron variant...I decided I'm going to wear masks again when I'm out in public (including at work) for the next two weeks.

    I hadn't been, because I didn't feel it was necessary since both my H and are fully vaxxed and we aren't around young children.  But I have changed my mind for the time being.
    Oh, I don't go anywhere in public without a mask and haven't.  The only times I didn't wear a mask were the wine trip I took in October (with vaccinated ladies), the post-vow renewal luncheon for my ILs and when we go to my IL's.  MIL isn't boosted but is vaxxed.  FIL is boosted.  

    Church, grocery, pick up Chiquita from an inside space - my KN-95 is on.  I have no intentions of removing it until the positivity rate is much much lower. 
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    Also, @short+sassy one thing that DH and I have discussed and it's why I'm glad you're masking: SO many people that can get Omicron are those in high demand positions.  Our parish priest asked parishioners to wear masks (DH and I never stopped) and my thought is that he's the ONLY pastor of our church.  If he goes down with Covid it isn't just "oh this is a mild case" it's that he's sick, the Bishop needs to find someone else to say mass and it affects the movements of the parish.  Considering we believe our savior suffered and died on a cross for us I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who don't want to wear a mask for an hour. 
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  • ILoveBeachMusicILoveBeachMusic member
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    Christmas was good. The boys are at such a good age. Christmas Eve we didn't go to service but streamed it live. One of the twins declared he didn't like this movie - it was too long LOL (he's 3 1/2). They did enjoy all the music and the battery operated candles I had for us to use. They are leaving tomorrow. DS2 will still be here through the weekend because he is in a wedding on NYE. 
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    ILoveBeachMusic said:
    Christmas was good. The boys are at such a good age. Christmas Eve we didn't go to service but streamed it live. One of the twins declared he didn't like this movie - it was too long LOL (he's 3 1/2). They did enjoy all the music and the battery operated candles I had for us to use. They are leaving tomorrow. DS2 will still be here through the weekend because he is in a wedding on NYE. 
    Chiquito ranted yesterday about having to go to church AGAIN and how it's just a lot of standing up and sitting down.
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  • kerbohlkerbohl member
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    Good Christmas here.  It went too fast!  It was nice to have so much time off work.  We did stream the service on Christmas Eve, Christmas, and boxing day.  I don't know when we'll go back to church in person.  We went to MIL's three days in a row.  She made way too much food .... I think she wanted to show off to SIL's new boyfriend.  We're going to be eating leftovers until New Years!  I don't think we will be making our Bag End gingerbread this year as planned.
    Did lots of really long walks with the pooch with my time off.  I wanted to tire her out because I knew she would be on her own for the first time in ages - I'm usually home with her, or if I'm not Hubby is.  She got to the point where I was going to take her for another walk and she faked sleep so she didn't have to go.  Mission accomplished.

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  • missJeanLouisemissJeanLouise member
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    Our Christmas was nice and chill. We had dinner at our friends on X-mas Eve. I gladly took home a delicious Spanish omelette she made and served that instead of making a quiche the next morning. It went perfect with our french toast casserole and fruit and cheese.

    Christmas day was actually really nice (besides DH being in a grumpy mood but the kind you can tease him about.) I was feeling some sort of way about the amount and type of presents DS was getting. He doesn't need anything so he didn't get much but it was fine. He had a great day, played with everything, was so happy. 

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  • CharmedPamCharmedPam member
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    Sounds like you guys had a great christmas….It really would have been different if I had seen my nephews.  Christmas isn’t the same w/out little kids around for me :(

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