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Wedding Woes
CharmedPam
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I had a nail appt yesterday at 5:45. I was 3 minutes late… and in true fashion of this tech, she was still working on someone else anyway. At 6:40, as I’m sitting by the window, sun beating down on me, tired AF, hungry AF, she’s still not done with this customer. I tell the owner I have to come back tomorrow now and already made a 5:00 appt for it (online). He’s like “oh…. Oh…. I don’t know what’s taking so long”
Thursday!
in Wedding Woes
What’s shaking on this unseasonably hot Thursday?
I do. She squeezed a walk in before me, thinking she could get it done but almost 1 hour later she hasn’t. I said she couldn’t be done in time now even if she got me in right away (which she couldn’t) and that I had to be somewhere. I didn’t. I could have stayed since I have no life, but was to irritated at that point. She’s the only tech in the salon to do acrylics too. But now I DO have somewhere to be at 6:30 tonight (hosting trivia) so she better be able to take me at 5 today. My natural nails feel weird w/out that protective layer. I asked an organizer of a meetup group to post a trivia night, and I’d host it. 8 people signed up. I reserved a table for 8. Well one dropped out last night and 3 more backed out this morning. So now I gotta call and make my table of 8 into 4. It kinda makes me not want to host these things. This is why most organizers do penalties for no shows and want 24 hr drop notice.
Re: Thursday!
Tonight, I'm going to the NKOTB Mix Tape tour. They were in Cincy 2 nights ago and a friend of mine went. It looked like a ton of fun, so I'm excited.
The kiddo and GF came over for dinner last night. It was a lot of fun to hang out with them.
SSDD otherwise. Prudie coming up.
ETA: A black hole being found in the middle of the Milky Way that's 4 million times the size of the sun is so very 2022.
eta: the NKOTB concert would be fun!
Also, I think I'm going to get my nails done this weekend. I haven't had a pedicure in what feels like forever!
We're taking the kids out to dinner tonight. And I'm working from home tomorrow since I have a DMV appointment in the morning. Not looking forward to that, but will be happy once everything is changed back over to NY..haha.
I'm not sure you all remember, but when my divorce was finalized last year, my ex was given 12 months to remove me from the mortgage. He has two weeks left. I haven't heard a peep about anything, so I'm assuming nothing has been done (and I have a feeling that's why he was drunk calling and threatening me a few weeks ago). If I'm not removed from the mortgage by the 25th, according to the decree, he has to sell. So I'm drafting an email to his lawyer today reminding him that we're coming up on this deadline. (I'm not involving my lawyer. I emailed her two weeks ago and she never even replied).
So yeah. That's my Thursday..lol.
He's the fucking worst.
For the 90DF peeps out there, I don't know if you all remember the first season with Jovi and Yara. But in one of the episodes, Yara is trying to bond with one of Jovi's female friends and they go get their nails done. They went to THAT salon! I was eating my heart out when I watched the episode, lol. To think a 90DF crew was only a block away around Nov. 2019 and I had no idea! Because you know I would have been peacing out at work to "just so happen to be needing to get my nails", so I could eavesdrop, lol.
Trivia night sounds so fun! But I wouldn't want to host something for exactly the same reason. It's an extracurricular activity, so people often find other things they want or need to do, at the last minute.
Speaking of flakes, the woman who was supposed to bring us the holding deposit was a no call, no show again. Seriously?!?! LMAO. I was joking to my H last night, "Is someone punking us?" Because she is a S8 tenant and had a good previous landlord reference, I'd still rent to her for one of the units that isn't ready yet. And I might even reach out to her again when we are about one week away from completion for the next one. Because it takes at least a week before the first inspection happens anyway. But she can no longer have the unit that is ready. Time is money and I need someone who is ready now, to move forward.
Last night I was invited to a paid, in-person forum to talk about generators. I LOVE those, because they are fun and pay really well. I only wish they were more plentiful, lol. That one paid $75 and was only one hour. Funny enough, I heard about it on my local sub-Reddit. But now I am in that company's database, so hopefully they will call me for other things, in the future.
Saw Steele Magnolias at the theater last night and it was very good. Some of the accents were a bit off but the woman who played Shelby was really good as was the mother. It was fun to be out again.
@mrsconn23 is it weird for Kiddo to come over with a gf? Do you and gf get along?
@climbingsingle booo no equity
@short+sassy generators?
Ugghhhh I hate FF @climbingsingle that's beyond frustrating @CharmedPam Yay for softball my favorite sport @charlotte989875
Today is my Friday. I took tomorrow off because Saturday is my oldest's First Communion (and also her 8th birthday!) and I'm having about 30 people, so I just needed a day to cook and declutter and find a dress bc I don't love the one I have.
It'll be the first party I've thrown with my family and my STBX-ILs at once so that's new. My ILs are fine for the most part, the two families get along...STBXH hates them and blames them along with everyone else for the divorce lol. He's claiming he's not coming to the church or to the party but I just can't. That's his choice if he skips. DD and her sibs are over him and he doesn't really come to church with us anyway so I don't think she expects him to be there and I don't think she'll mind. I'm hoping it's a happy day for her, I think it will be.
Unfortunately if I eat too much of the dip, I feel nauseated. Whoops!
It's been so hot that BK has been wearing shorts and skorts - she's loving the skorts because she can twirl lol
Despite her allergy, my mum was able to safely take BK to McD's yesterday. Something she only does if she knows who's working because they know her allergy and my mum can order fries and a smoothie for her - plus she will extra wipe the table.
My mum, BK and her friend R from school plus his mum went.
R isn't big on fruit but since BK had a smoothie, he wanted one. Just reference, R has a crush on BK - unknown if it's mutual crush but she does like him as a friend.
Today SFIL picks up BK and I think the plan is the play in the water table. It's hot a.f so it'll be nice and cool.
@climbingsingle, I’d be so nervous about the deadline. One of my friends gave up her share of the house in the divorce too and said she didn’t care. All she wanted was out. Peace of mind was worth more than money at that time. I get you.
@short+sassy…. Did you say a seminar on generators was fun? Just double checking… lol
@ILoveBeachMusic I get confused with Steele Magnolias and Sweet Magnolias (netflix show) but honestly they’re almost the same…but I doubt they’d have a play already for Sweet Magnolias as it’s only season 2 for them lol
ETA: GF is nice. I have my mom worries about her/them/etc., but she's always been kind and respectful to us.
My dog was throwing up blood on Tuesday, so we were going to take her to the vet, and then all of the sudden she is better. We think she had an allergic reaction to her food, but it is food she has been eating for years. Very confusing.
On top of everything, I realized I've been so fucking moody and depressed b/c it's the year anniversary of the most terrible event of my life. My brain, of course, is like, never think about this, but apparently your body just won't let shit go.
Otherwise, SSDD.
@levioosa, I'm so glad you've got some good news headed your way. I'll keep all crossables crossed and purple vibes all around!!
My one co-worker keeps CCing my boss on everything regarding these projects when she e-mails me. IDK if she's trying to prove to my boss that she's doing it or something else. My boss trusts me and probably just deletes without looking. But I'm finding it exceedingly annoying.
@kerbohl ish? Since we aren't far from Kingston, we get similar weather but they're near water so it tends to be worse. They get warmer air
For colder climates, it's super important to make sure it's drained of at least the oil. I just looked it up and oil freezes at -4F. I'm not sure if they have any water. It can drop below freezing in NOLA. But it never drops into the negative. I just looked that up also out of curiosity. The coldest recorded temperature in NOLA was 6F in 1899.
My impression of the whole/partial generators is they don't need maintenance at all. They automatically turn themselves on about once a week and run for about 15 minutes, then turn themselves back off again. One of the other women in the forum has one and she described that also.
The info we were given said they should be checked out by a licensed person annually. But the woman who has one said they've never done that. They bought theirs in 2007 and it still works perfectly.
A little of her story. Their house had 12.5' feet of water from Hurricane Katrina (2005)! I mean, I even lived here at the time and it's still incredible to hear stories of whole houses under water and flooding on the second floors.
When they rebuilt their home, they did it with a whole house generator in mind and had a gas line included for it. Though they bought it a little while after the home was completed.
I HATE the winter ones because then you flip a coin about how hot to get the house during the day so the pipes don't freeze but I do not want that running with the garage open while we sleep.
And ditto for during the summer because a generator running in the summer during the night is a prime item to be taken away by a thief.
But having one has allowed me to have a hot shower, flush a toilet and not lose my fridges full of stuff.