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Thursday Randoms
Re: Thursday Randoms
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Wes: 10/8/2012
I don't have my phone or laptop during the day right now and I feel so behind on everything. Social media, talking to people, and work too.
my read shelf:
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
I'm annoyed that mobile facebook doesn't stick to my privacy settings. I have a couple people blocked from seeing status updates but when I post from the app on my phone it changes it back to friends only.
Also, I'm currently eating handy snacks-pretzel and cheese and they decided to name the product Mr. Salty. So wrong...
My Badges:
I hate how the first tissue out of a new box either:
a) gets shredded when you pull it out
or
b) pulls out 5 other tissues along with it
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Wes: 10/8/2012
The school director went and bought DD a pair of Lands End snow boots at a consignment store, but 1) I don't dig consignment shoes (clothes are fine and shoes from friends are fine, but stranger shoes gross me out), and 2) they're 2 sizes too big. She must have looked at another kid's shoes for the size. Useless. I do appreciate that she's trying though, I really do. We borrowed a pair from a friend and they're fine, but I was hesitant to let DD wear them to school, lest the place lose these too.
It's absurd how angry I am about this. It's like I just can not let it go.
Sugar & Spice
I've realized that I'm in denial about DH's impending deployment. I know it's coming quickly but I can't bring myself to feel all the feels I need to. I'm numb, and I can't seem to fully let go. It's going to be ugly once I hit that point. I also feel completely unprepared. I thought we had it together but all the little things we haven't done yet are starting to race through my mind and I'm getting anxious.
2014: 4/40
[2010: 63] [2011: 35] [2012: 23] [2013: 27]
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I'm sorry about the deployment. I can't imagine how hard separation is.
My Badges:
I'm sorry about the deployment. I can't imagine how hard separation is.
Thank you
It's a series of 9 country concerts being held over the summer that are sold as one big ticket. I'm ridiculously excited about it.
2014: 4/40
[2010: 63] [2011: 35] [2012: 23] [2013: 27]
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I had a full on panic attack this morning because of something related to our neighbors. I'm still really jittery and it's going to take all day to really come down from it.
I'm also a nervous mess because my doctor said we are free to try to get pregnant again. Terrified.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Sunday DH & I were on our way home from VT and I had mentioned stopping for lunch at a sports bar we like for some wings. We're in the car & lunch time rolls around, we're about an hour from home and I ask how far away we are from lunch. He tells me he decided not to stop and go straight home instead because we still had 20 mins or so before we got to the restaurant and by the time we ate & left he'd be late to going to a friend's house to watch the game. I sat silently for awhile, trying to keep it together which lasted all of about 15-20 mins because tears started slowly rolling down my face but he couldn't see that. He had asked if I wanted Subway first (no) and then asked if I just wanted to stop and do take out (which I also said no to because I was now getting more upset) and he could tell something was bothering me. That's when the water works start and I am now uncontrollably sobbing. Definitely freaked DH out a bit with that one & it's never happened to me before either so I was upset that I was crying which didn't help things either. We did end up stopping for lunch where we had discussed, after passing the place and having to turn around on the highway and he told me next time to just tell him if I am that disappointed. Oh, and we made it home in time for him to drop me at the house, with our bags before he ran out the door to his friend's house (granted he sped the whole way home).
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
My Badges:
I hate getting out of the shower on cold days. It's so nice and warm in the shower and air outside just isn't.
This past week has been the perfect storm of suck in my life.
My mom and sister came to visit over the weekend and needed to be entertained. My mom frustrates me to no end because she is constantly trying to help but makes about ten times more work for me instead. She's also very upset that I don't feel comfortable leaving the girls with her alone, but then has no problem walking away in a crowded mall with a 5-year old trailing behind. My mom is deaf and if anything happened she'd still be walking away, completely oblivious. I always keep the girls in my line of sight, if not holding on to them, and have more situational awareness than she does. I love to see them but my goodness, sometimes it's fantastic to see them leave. I suck as a daughter.
Husband's grandmother was in the hospital all last week, so he (understandably) was MIA during the entire trip. She's 96 and just everything is going downhill very fast. They are moving her today from the hospital to a rehab/nursing home facility where she can have care 24/7. Husband toured several facilities yesterday and said he chose the 'least bad one.' It just sucks.
The girls and I are not allowed to visit because (1) she has a hospital bacteria infection and we can't be exposed to it, and (2) we are all nursing colds / little kids are germ factories and she can't be exposed to us. And that also sucks.
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012