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Friday Randoms?
My coworker now farts EVERY time she laughs. And she laughs all.the.time. Thank god there is no odor or I'd be outta here.
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Oh SBP I am so sorry about little pts. My heart breaks for her too--and certainly I can understand your job frustration. That's not selfish. It's human.
(jcpenney furniture is decent. certainly a good value).
Is she at least embarrassed about it?
Awww man SBP. (((HUGS for PTS)))
Nae story anyone?
Nae seems to be only interested in certain food when I am eating it. Last night, I warmed up my casserole and she walked right over to my plate and started grabbing for my food. I told her No because it was hot and then began to blow on my food to cool it off. She then decides to blow on my plate, but she was doing it all wrong. Instead, she was blowing raspberries over my food. It was hilarious. FB friends, sorry I don't have video of this hilarity.
Mine does too. We switched to bar soap and it seems to have helped his overuse problem.
SBP - really sorry about the little one.
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My parents are going to a taping of Celebrity Jeopardy today, and I'm pretty jealous.
My son loves playing "Just Dance Kids" on the wii. The other day he was melting down because he wanted to do the "Brownie Song." My husband and I had no idea what he was talking about. After flipping through every song, we realized he wanted "Jungle Boogie."
His current favorite Bible stories are "Jacob and See-Saw/Easel/Weasel" and "Naked Jesus on the cross."
This sucks. I'm so sorry.
And sorry to hear about your previous post. (((((hugs)))))
My contribution to randomness is:
-F&J are getting a speech eval next month and I'm really excited/nervous to start therapy. I thought I was going to have to wait til 2 years, but I don't.
-I had a nearly 2-yr battle with the hospital I gave birth at over a $300 bill they refused to bill correctly to my insurance. Last month I found out my insurance paid it. And today I found out the hospital finally realized my insurance paid it and I officially have a zero liability. I am now shredding a mountain of paperwork and collections notices from this battle. if I could, I would light it all on fire and smoke it. I'm ridiculously happy about winning. And yes, this was about winning.
NO! Apparently not, anyway. Her hearing is also going so who knows if she even notices...
I'm stuck in tiny town Michigan for a week working the worst shift of 4p-4a. Seriously nothing but Walmart open when I get off work to get food. I've been living off what I can scrounge up there that will fit in my tiny hotel room mini-fridge and microwaveable without a plate (because I was too cheap to buy one). I miss my baby, I miss my husband and I miss real food. I finally found a sit down restaurant for "breakfast" today and got a salad. Ah...green.
And my coworkers here suck. The only competent one is also a visitor from another plant by me. The extra $$ is nice, but I might smack someone before I leave here.
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SBP - I'm sorry to hear sad PTS news. I'm glad she's excited about the idea of moving if that's going to work out for you.
And I'm flying out of Chicago on Monday. I'll wave at you from the plane.
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Aww, poor PTS and her mama.
My randomness:
-It's really nice out today. All I can think about is how nice it would be to get a cup of coffee and sit in the park and knit. Alas, I have two hours of meetings this afternoon making this impossible. Sad.
-My boss wants me to do something his way. Which is fine. But instead of just saying how he wanted me to do it, he asked what I thought and I gave an answer different from what he wanted, so he then proceeded to spend 20min trying to convince me his way was better. I don't think it is and thus cannot be convinced. I wish he would just say "do xyz" instead of trying to make this appear to be a democratic process. Bosses are allowed to be bossy. It's right there in the title.
-H is going to Philly for four days next week leaving me all alone with a 20 month old who has flipped her lid every morning this week when we're getting ready to go. I'm going to miss my tag team partner. He, however, will come back refreshed from all the extra sleep. And will probably have a pic of himself doing Rocky at the top of the steps. He's been yelling "Adriaaaan!" all week.
-It looks more and more like I'm going to Arlington for training this year. I'm not excited. Why don't I ever get Vegas?
SBP, I'm so sorry about PTS. That is just shiitty news all the way around. Internet hugs.
My randoms:
*After traveling for a solid week, all I want to do is eat fruits and vegetables. So far today I've eaten a banana, strawberries, grapes, pineapple, canteloupe, and I had two giant salads from the buffet at lunch. It's only 2pm.
*The cable in my office doesn't work anymore, and it's not only pissing me off, it's about to me over for a research project I need to start doing.
*I can't stop yawning. I just sat through a 6 hour advisory meeting trying every creative way I could think of to stifle the yawns. I'm sure I looked lovely.
SBP, that really sucks, I'm sorry. I hope at least you get an awesome new place.
My random:
My SIL is involved in her first serious relationship, and it has brought out the flaming whackadoo side of my MIL/FIL. Given the crapola DH and I went through with them, I started to feel bad for her. Then I remembered that she totally downplayed the crazysh!t we had to deal with and chastised us for upsetting her poor folks when they were just was going through an emotional time and meant the best and blahblahblah. It's "different" this time (presumably because they are talking smack about someone she cares about).
Now when DH gets off the phone listening to her b!tch about everything poor her is putting up with, the first thing he does is crack open a couple of beers and share the stories so we can have a good laugh over them. If she ever bothers to get over poor-me-ism to ask us for advice, we can give her some awesome tricks that work for us, but for now it's fabulous entertainment.
My randoms: Pregnancy is officially starting to kick my a$$. I'm starting to bloat/swell, and I get so tired being on my feet. I'm just grateful I'm not pregnant in the summer cause I'm roasting as it is.
SBP I am so sorry :-(. Poor little PTS.
I like JCP furniture, for the price. My parents have a sectional from there in their lake house and it has held up well.
My random is @related. Apparently I am 75% effaced, I told my mom this today and she was all ZOMG THIS IS IT! YOU ARE IN LABOR!!! My mom had 4 kids, she worked L&D for years. She should know this is not it. But now she has me convinced that every twinge is a contraction and that I'm going to have the baby any minute now. So I'm mildly freaking out. I'm 99.9999% sure though that this isnt it and he is going to hang tight for another week or two. She is also convinced that my SIL is severely depressed (she has lost a TON of weight and she has only been this skinny when she had PPD after her second daughter), that her (my mom's) pinkeye is a sign of her impending death, and she thinks my father already has his next wife picked out and I can't like her.
So Friday moral: don't talk to Becky's mom.
Prayers to pts!
I want a day of no kid, no dh and just my iPad. I think this makes me terrible.
Um, no it doesn't. At least once a month I go to dinner alone, at a restaurant with my book to eat something like sushi that no one else in my household will enjoy. I love it. Also for Mother's Day I do what I want, and it doesn't involve a husband, kid or extended family. Best.gift.ever.lol!
TTT bailed on a gtg due to labor, you can't follow in her footsteps! : )
Sorry about your sad news
I've looked at a sofa before (online, not in store), but never bought it. I do get curtains from them, and I got a really cute dress there 2 weeks ago.