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Wedding Woes
ei34
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Monday
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How was everyone's weekend? Hopefully some quiet moments for all!
Re: Monday
Weekend was nice, got a lot done around the house and also had some fun moments. The lighthouse trip was especially nice, the kids didn’t want to leave the beach and I couldn’t blame them, it’s nice this time of year before it’s hot and we’re swimming and super sandy.
Chicagoland and some dust storm on Friday night. Thankfully we missed it because we were at the musical, but when we got out all the cars had a thin layer of dirt on them. Carwashes were hour long waits both Saturday and Sunday.
Sunday tea was great. I ended up just bringing store bought treats because she made all the sandwiches and was short on desserts..
Then I went to a friend's and we watched Evita because he had never seen it. Now, I haven't been intimate for awhile and I'll admit I'm probably touch starved. I also have no interest in dating. All of that to say: young Antonio Banderas as Che was DOING something to me. 🤣🤣 watched a few episodes of The Pitt. I also had a moment about the grey in Noah Wylie's beard. Seems like an interesting show so far.
Weekend here was really good. We went up to Ohio for my niece's graduation. It's been a while since we'd been there; I forgot how flat it is! We got back late yesterday, so working and trying to get my shit together for what is shaping up to be another dumpster fire week.
Friday I was walking into the house and misstepped on our garage into the house step. I fell and am still feeling sore. I hit the right side of my body so I have a bruised shoulder, a sore hand (where I tried to catch myself) and my hip/back hurts more than usual. It is getting better but very slowly. We went to DS2's on Friday and got stuck in a traffic accident area. We were 15 minutes from his house bur didn't move for 3 hours. There was no way out! We finally got there about 8:30. We spent all day Saturday hanging pictures, helping him set up things and doing yard work. I think all the boxes and stuff had just overwhelmed him. He was very grateful that we came over to help. It is a nice first house and a good size for him. We came home Saturday night because I had a baby shower to go to Sunday morning. It was a lot of fun and for the daughter of our next door neighbor in our old (26 years ago) neighborhood. It was great catching up with people I hadn't seen in a while.
happy for your DS. I remember buying my house 10 years ago actually. It was my beginner house too. 10 years later…. Lol
I hate to say it, but I'm paralyzed with fear at the moment to find another job because I think my current one would still be solid, even in a major recession with high unemployment. I'm waiting to see how tariffs play out with our biggest trading partners after this "freeze" is over.
I think/hope he's done this freeze because he finally realizes what a giant blunder it is but certainly can't admit that. So he'll come out of the freeze with "look at the biggie, better tariff deals I got us!", even if it not true. But that's how he'll save face.
Or maybe it's been a ploy all along to manipulate the stock markets and he's never had any intention of sending the US on a bullet train to financial ruin.
But he's also an unpredictable lunatic who believes his own obvious lies, so maybe he does think we can magically become a self-sufficient country who doesn't need the rest of the world to be our suppliers and customers, smh.
I feel like I sound PARANOID with "what ifs" and being way too cautious. Especially since there is definitely a higher cost to live here for most of our bills, as compared to Cincy. That's the biggest reason we decided to move there to begin with.
But then there are SO many massive changes being made quickly on government agencies/policies that I never would have expected to be touched by any administration.
I've even been tempted by and given some thought to getting a job teaching English in Vietnam or South Korea for a few years. They both have a demand. Just sell it all and bail.