Prudie Day

ei34 · June 12

How's everyone? Hoping it's a calm day for all of us!

ei34 · June 12

Is today national you're-not-allowed-to-WFH day? Traffic getting to work was so heavy, I have no idea where all of the extra cars came from lol. I arrived on time, but phew.

Should be a pretty normal work day. I have to renew my library card bc tickets to local/local-ish places are on sale and I don't want to get closed out of the aquarium tickets. (There's a year-round free pass program to places like museums, gardens, children's museum, hall of science etc, but each summer the library also offers discounted tickets to big-deal experiences like the aquarium, the amusement park, the water park...places that usually charge $50-75pp but the library ticket costs like $25pp. Not free but a good savings.) Another relatively quiet day after work which is awesome.

VarunaTT · June 12

I didn't get the memo if so, @ei34.

Going to the doctor with mom today. I've been living here 2 weeks and listening to her cough and wheeze. I insisted she call the doctor, she protested b/c "I have an appointment", yes in September!, "I have to be here for the fence!", that's in July, you can call or I will. I don't think she's advocating for herself properly b/c she's persnickety and doesn't want to do what the doctors tell her. Anyway, we're going. I suspect that she's going to need steroids on top of an inhaler, but we'll see. the wheeze is bad.

Otherwise, SSDD. I signed in this morning and saw 21 emails and almost just passed out. It's never ending right now!

Casadena · June 12

My traffic was awful this morning too! And schools are out! I don't understand where it was coming from. And @VarunaTT i've been at my new job for almost 9 months now and I am still not used to the sheer amount of emails coming in daily. Nor have i figured out the best system for managing yet.

I'll post prudie a bit later after a few meetings!

MyNameIsNot · June 12

The emails kill me. Especially the reply all where yes, it needs to be a reply all, but the conversation goes on all afternoon. I think we went too far on "this meeting could have been an email" and now have a lot of "this email should have been a meeting" situations. There's no winning.

Should be a fairly chill day here. My whole department will be in office next week (which is pretty cool since we're all over the world), and we're working on getting ready for some of that. That stuff is a lot more fun than day to day work, so it's nice.

Nothing much else going on. I still have bonus dog and she's still very much a morning dog. I'm looking forward to sleeping past 6 this weekend when she goes home.

banana468 · June 12

Ooof that's hard @VarunaTT. Sounds like she's been good at putting things off and denying she needs to attend to these issues all for one reason or another.

Chiquita is done w/ school for the summer. She has some work to do for one of her classes that she starts in the fall but this is it! Finals are over!

Chiquito has one more day and does NOT want to go. Sorrynotsorry kiddo - you're going.

charlotte989875 · June 12

Some work nonsense yesterday and today- trying not to let it get to me, which is absolutely easier to do since I am WFH and can get a baby snuggle (and good snacks) when I need to.

M got his big boy bed delivered yesterday and we’re making the room move this weekend!

MNNEBride · June 12

It wasn't a good night at our house last night, and it's continued into today. A couple of days ago, I texted DH a home listing for a house I thought was near his sister. It was a historical home on a beautiful lot and I thought it looked familiar. He responded that it was the one I remembered and that he'd always wanted to see the interior. Then he texted that we should sell our current home and buy that one. I responded with a

. Last night he tells me he's been thinking of that house and we should go look at it and put in an offer. We can sell our house, make a profit to use toward the historical one. I told him it didn't look to be handicap accessible and I didn't realize we were looking to buy another house. That set him off. After I made dinner, he said he wasn't hungry and didn't want any. He was pissy all night. Man, intellectually I know he has dementia and his brain doesn't always function properly. Especially his executive functioning. But when these things happen it takes me by surprise. Now I'm feeling guilty because I could have handled things better by asking questions rather than shutting down the discussion. UGH

short+sassy · June 12

I've been in IT hell today. It was not unexpected, but much worse than I was expecting. I've been putting it off and feeling a little guilty I wasn't more proactive at least a week ago.

Each IT person has tried to help me, but then they get to a point where they think it's a different IT department I need to speak to. I am now on Department #4 and waiting for their response.

To be fair, it's for a totally new system. And apparently, I'm having an unusual problem.

But on to better and brighter news. Leaving for my 10-day trip this Sat. Yay! I don't want to jinx myself, but it should be SO much fun!

CharmedPam · June 12

@VarunaTT, she wanted to wait till September? Glad you’re going today.
@MNNEBride, that’s tough. You can probably still ask him questions but then explain why you’re not entertaining that nonetheless
@short+sassy, 10 days is a long time! Enjoy!

SSDD here. I had game night with meetup last night, and even though I was SO tired during it, yawned all night and couldn’t wait to go home, I still went home and couldn’t sleep until 11:30. It was a lot of fun and I found a strategy game my nephews would like.

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