Friday the 13th

ei34 · September 2024

Phew, finally made it. Wishing everyone a quick/not crazy work day and an enjoyable weekend!

ei34 · September 2024

Hoping for an uneventful work day. This evening we have a welcome back event at the kids' school. The kids can't wait and some of my favorite mom friends will be there- we're mostly teachers and it's always an adjustment going from seeing each other almost daily at the pool all summer, to rarely. Tomorrow is a group birthday party for my extended family, celebrating milestones. (We're a big family so there's a milestone party almost every year.) I'm one of the honorees, and one of two 40-yr-olds. I was going to snark on it, but mass + a meal at a nice Italian restaurant and catching up with random aunts, uncles and cousins I don't see as often as I once did honestly sounds nice. And hoping for Sunday to be quiet and low-key, I will most likely decorate for fall and definitely bake something fun in addition to prep cooking (and the house needs a good scrub).

levioosa · September 2024

Glad to hear you're safe! @short+sassy

Happy birthday!!! @ ei34

I am tired today. One of our cats was "low" on food and kept trying to wake us up for food. He weighs almost 20 lbs (he's a really big cat) and when he walks over you at night it hurts. My baby girl was under the covers with me sleeping (all 6 lbs of her) and he jumped on her hard at one point and I felt so bad. That would like getting body slammed from a football player. I know he didn't see her but I was so annoyed with him at that point. Bro, you are not starving to death, I promise.

Otherwise SSDD. I'm feeling exceptionally unmotivated today. Unfortunately I have to be up super early for an appointment tomorrow and I'm annoyed about that. It should have happened earlier this week. I think we'll try to go to visit my Grandparents on Sunday. Grandpa has surgery on Tuesday and he is 90, so I try to visit before surgeries just in case.

I hope everyone has a good weekend!

MyNameIsNot · September 2024

I'm exhausted and ready for the weekend, but I somehow overcommitted and don't think it's going to be very restful. Hopefully it will be fun at least. Baseball game, soccer game, 5k, work, hike and dinner with family. Plus also, my mom and sister are still having issues, so dinner with them will be fraught.

I might need to call in sick Monday.

VarunaTT · September 2024

I slept nine and a half hours last night and feel so much more refreshed. I think I need a few more nights of that under my belt, so I'm going to try and take it easy this weekend.

I don't have any big plans. Need to get back on my schedule that being sick for a week threw off. I really want to see Will and Harper but I already have tickets for a movie Monday and Tuesday night and I'm still trying to take it easy, so I think that will have to wait until later in the week. I'll see Mom on Sunday too.

I've subscribed to a crotchet box. I've been doing the Woobles that you see advertised all the time. The tutorials are mostly good, but the small size of the animals and the little accessory parts are really hard. I'm trying a box that seems to be more like hats and scarfs to see if that's a bit easier.

I had an interesting interaction with work. I have a co-worker who I'm pretty sure likes to "delegate" her work to other people. She tried to do this to me yesterday. I kept side stepping the issue and trying to make it clear that I knew what she was doing and I wasn't going to do her work. Then, I ended up having to call my supervisor over something unrelated. The fact that **I** was doing this work came up. Supervisor said, No, that's NOT your work, co-worker does this a lot, do not do it. She also told me not to be afraid to tell her things like this, it wasn't tattling. So, that made me feel somewhat better. There's a vacancy in the federal court here for a paralegal and I almost applied. But it's not WFH, and honestly I think WFH is SUCH a better set up for me for awhile that I decided against it. It was a bit more money and those sweet federal benefits, but I'd be giving up a big thing in my mind, so I decided against it.

Have a good weekend everyone!

short+sassy · September 2024

@ei34, Happy birthday!

@levioosa, thanks! In the winter, my dog will sometimes sleep under the covers. It's hilarious when our cat will walk on top of her. My H and I wonder if Maple doesn't realize she's there. Or knows full well she is and tromps around on her anyway, lmao. Really though, I'm pretty sure Maple doesn't know she's there.

Maple is on the littler side and only 8-9 lbs. With the comforter between them, Izzy may not even realize she is being walked on, lol.

banana468 · September 2024

@VarunaTT I've found that Woobles and the like are asking new crocheters to learn not straight stitches but blankets and scarves are FAR more simple and easier to self teach. I haven't made a wooble but have helped others with them but made a few blankets, scarvese and hats. And my favorites are anything where I don't need to count but can see that I'm coming up on the end of a row and need to follow the chaining instructions.

We decided that we're going to try medication for Chiquita likely with an extended release stimulant. DH and I are both very apprehensive to add to what' already in her system but also know that the current approach isn't working and this may be the best option for now. I can already see that she's struggling in one subject and we have to be back on track. It breaks my heart to think I'm making the wrong choice.

VarunaTT · September 2024

@banana468 That's really good to know, thank you. I've had fun with them, but sometimes they're so frustrating that I have to set it aside. Plus, my hands aren't used to the positions yet, so I don't have a lot of stamina, which increases the frustration. But I did enjoy it, so wanted to keep working at it. I basically want something that I can use to keep my hands busy and my brain just a bit more focused, so I can watch a TV show without picking up my phone to start mindlessly scrolling.

banana468 · September 2024

@VarunaTT I definitely liked blanket patterns that required either thicker yarn, multiple strands or double crochet stitches so I could see my progress and "feel" like it was making more headway if it was an adult blanket.

short+sassy · September 2024

People have really been pissing me off the last three days, when that is the last thing I need this week with my emotions fraught from the storm.

It's been this surreal experience where multiple times, for completely different issues, I've been dragged into "stuff I don't do" by people I don't know or rarely interact with.

The one this morning was resolved quickly and the person realized they'd reached out to the wrong person. Phew! Cool. That's how it should be.

But the other two issues started with the person under the very mistaken impression that I would know ALL about what they were asking and have the info they wanted.

I explain more about what I do and suggest who they should talk to, if I know. But alas for both issues, what I do is related to a small piece of the info they want. They bombard me with questions. Most of them are so OFF from anything I do, I don't even have a clue who to direct them to. Some questions I can find the answer to with the info I have. But since no one ever asks me to present data this way, it's not something readily available and I've suddenly had to do hours of unexpected work.

Then they keep asking me to clarify how I got my data. For some of it, I've had to repeat myself multiple times in a slightly different way.

I'm exhausted! I'm also annoyed because I had a couple more relatively urgent things I wanted to get out today, but now I don't have time. It's my half-day and I've already put in hours of OT spoon-feeding people, replying back to their endless questions, and answering their multiple calls.

All right. Rant over! I'm an hour late submitting my timesheet and then I'm finally going to get TF outta here!

Friday the 13th

Re: Friday the 13th

Choose Another Board

Search Boards