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Friday Confessions/AW/Rants
i have a few today because i woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
AW: i made amazing cookies last night. just chocolate chip and walnut but it's the first time i've made cookies in the new stove an they turned out PERFECT! firm bottom and soft in the middle.
Confession: i've had 2 of those cookies already this morning. oops. good thing they are really small.
Rant: why oh why can't my husband put ALL the dishes away when he empties the dishwasher or puts the hand wash dishes away? he leaves all the ramekins, small servingware and tupperware out on the counter. he claims he doesn't know where it goes but yet when he helps with dinner, he has no problem pulling it OUT of the cupboards. it makes me inSANE. and yes, we've talked about it. he just keeps leaving it out. it makes me want to hit things.
Re: Friday Confessions/AW/Rants
AW: Mexico tomorrow. Sun, sand, and a nice pina colada needed.
Confession: Nothing to confess
Rant: DH is being a douche. He has been crabby all week and I called him out on it to see what was wrong and he stormed off and went to bed without saying good night. Now I'm crabby.
Nicole and Sam 10/3/09
AW: We closed on our house last week and we are officially Minnesotans again! I also had a job interview yesterday.
Confession: I don't really want to work. Ugh! I'm secretly hoping it take me a while to find a job, even though I know it's probably best I find one right away.
Rant: ADT is here right now installing our alarm system and I realize what a rip off they are. In order to get out of our contract in FL, we either have to give them our first born, or have them install a new system in our new house.....which also costs an arm and a leg.
AW: I get to see my DH tonight!! He has been hauling beets for 3 weeks now and I got to see him one other time for a couple hours when I rode with in the truck! (then I got roped into driving a couple hours so another kid could hit his college class and they wouldn't be down a driver)
Confession: I am seriously stressed out with MYSELF for agreeing to watch DD's BF this weekend. I have WAYYYYYY to much to do!!
Rant: my son's GF is driving me CRAZY about this damn crib set!! She is tooooo damn picky! I found someone who would make the crib set she wants that would have cost over $450 and this lady will make it all for $100 and I buy the supplies. But if she puts any more demands on the stuff, I'm gonna SNAP on her! If you want it that way...special order it through that website and YOUUUUU pay for it!!!
AW: I am so proud of my husband, his business just keeps expanding!
Confession: I really want junk food today and think I might just allow myself to have some!
Rant: It has been 158 days since we put our offer down, about 140 since we got the approval and we still haven't closed. I am sick of closing dates being pushed back for one reason or another. I just want to move into my house! I am so glad we were able to rent our condo but living out of our suitcase at SIL's isn't fun!
Awww: DH got offered an "in town" job at his current place so his job search is now officially OFF and he can stay put knowing he won't be travelling 40 weeks a year!!!
Confession: I have very little intention of doing much work before I leave here at 12:30 today.
Vent: I am working with one buyer right now, who can't afford much (nothing wrong with knowing what you can and can't afford) but they keep picking houses that are way out of their price range, and way out of a price range I could even negotiate in this market. I hate having to say "I don't think they'll come down $30,000, and can you really meet them in the middle if they came down half".
AW: I got nothing.
Confession: I slacked off on eating right/working out since August and it's no conincidence that I stopped weighing myself then too.
I signed up for a trainer at the gym again starting 11/1 and decided to weigh myself this morning. I've only gained 1.5 pounds. I was happy until I thought how much more I could have lost had a kept up my program.
Rant: Dh had what the dr referred to as a 'fatty growth' removed from his upper bicept yesterday. He got home and the compression bandage kept slipping off the area because he was raising his arm too much. Then as I was talking to my mom (a nurse) about what else we can do...I hear him scooping ice cream into a bowl and stirring that up into soupy texture to eat it. What part of "Don't use your f-ing arm." did he miss?
So today he has to go back to the doctor office to check the dressing because it's been bleeding all night. Grrrr
Confession - I filed a tax extension on April 15th and waited until 2 days ago to even look at my taxes. Our tax guy is working on them now (I hope).
Rant - I completely dislike my daughter's school. Like raving, crazy mom, mad about it. I wrote ranty email to the superintendent after the 1st week of school. Unfortunately, DH doesn't agree with pulling her out of this school and I don't know if I'm ready to commit to driving her to a new school for the rest of her school career.
AW - I'm feeling pretty fancy to have been featured on the local knot for the last month.
AW: ummmm . . . I've got nuthin'.
Rant: My car is making all sorts of funny noises. I know some of it is the heat-sheilds (a known/common issue with Subarus), but there are other new noises and other stuff (handling a bit off) that is really making me fear that it is on its last leg. Crap. I had really hoped it would make it through the winter and give me a few more months. It has over 115k miles so this wouldn't be a shocker, but I've been saying for ages that DH gets a new car before me . . . and now I'm not so sure!
Confession: I'm questioning a lot of things lately - like "Do I want children?" A few months ago I would have said yes immediately but for some reason lately, I'm not sure. DH is pretty firmly in the "no" camp (or "not for at least 5 years") so I wonder if that is clouding things for me. Everything for us feels so up in the air and seems as if we want different things. Our relationship is great - but sometimes we don't see our long-term goals/plans in the same way and I'm one of those people who will always sacrifice what I want to make other's happy. I don't want to do that for everything and then find myself 20 years down the road with lots of regrets and resentment.
Blargh! I am going to drown my sorrows in some wine tonight and sleep in tomorrow in the hopes that a lot of this stress is the result of exhaustion and having non-stop family obligations for the past month.
AW: I had lowlights put in my hair last night and I really like how it turned out. I usually just have highlights so I wasn't sure what to expect but the stylist did a great job
Rant: This week I noticed that someone backed into my car and broke my tail light and also scratched the bumper. I have no idea when this happened and no one left a note. I'm really annoyed that I have to go buy a new tail light cover now.
Confession: I leave on Sunday for a 2 week work trip and I'm dreading being away from home. I'll get to go to a new place and meet new people, but I hate not being in my own bed and away from H that long
At least we'll get to skype a few times while I'm gone.
AW: My mom and my bff are coming to visit (different days) in a couple weeks and I am SO excited.
Confession: I am fostering 2 kittens right now and it is a lot of work when you factor in that I work full time and have 3 other pets to take care of and give attention and I'm wondering if I should have offered. They both have diarrhea so I have to give them medicine and they HATE me for it and it makes me feel SO bad.
I feel like I don't spend enough time with them because they have to be separated from my other pets so they have to spend most of the time in our basement bathroom (which is really big, but still) and there are only so many hours in the day to get everything done. I just try to remind myself that I am helping them get to their forever home and with any luck it will only be a few weeks to a month before that happens because they are so stinkin' adorable.
Rant: I wish DH would help out with the pets more. Granted he works long hours and he does stuff if I ask him to, but we have one sick cat and 2 sick foster kittens - and a dog who needs to be walked. I am only one woman!
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Vent: We are doing a kitchen remodel for a couple who decided to go and join DirectBuy. DB doesn't do custom cabinets and this is quickly becoming a pain-in-the-butt to get everything done just the way we carefully designed it. The consensus at our office is DB = bad.
AW: Not much. :-/
Confession: I want to be my own boss. I'm not cut out to work at a desk 40 hours a week.
Random: I feel terrible that I got so frustrated with the dogs last night after reading a few posts on the Pets board lately about people losing their pets. I shouldn't take my boys for granted and should cherish every second with them because our time together will never be long enough. :-(
AW: I get new wall ovens delivered today! Yay! I'm so happy to get rid of the crappy Whirlpool ones.
Confession: I had thoroughly convinced myself that I didn't want kids. But now I'm rethinking. And starting to panic that I need to make a final kids/no kids decision soon because I'm about to turn 34. I don't want to be one of those moms who is so old she gets mistaken for a grandma :-)
Rant: I can not stand my new co-worker. He's so annoying. And his work space is right outside my office so I can't escape his annoyingness.Mr. Sammy Dog
I leave for vacation tomorrow and I can't wait!
That's about it. My only vent is that I feel like I'm spending a fortune on pre-vacation grooming and random beachy stuff.
AW: We finally closed on our investment property, it's been cleaned, painted, and recarpeted, and the renters are moving in today.
AW2: We reviewed our Groupon session with Noah Wolf earlier this week and I'm SO happy with the results. I can't wait to get the files!
Confession: I ate a piece of chocolate cake and a chocolate rice krispie bar today, both before noon, because I'm stressed. I'm a horrible stress eater. My poor pup is at the hospital getting tests run because she's sick and we don't know what's wrong
She threw up and pooped in the house today (neither of which she's ever done) and has been really shaky. We won't have any answers until they get the lymph node tests back in a couple days.
margaritas in mexico
AW: We're celebrating our first wedding anniversary on Sunday! I can't BELIEVE it's been a year already....We're headed to Manny's for dinner and I think I might be more excited about that!
Vent: I don't really have much this week....but Strength, I totally get you on the cupboard dishes thing. It's SO frustrating. OPEN the D*MN cupboard, like I do, and find it's matching partner! Grr.
Confession: I went to the doctor this week as we've, unsuccessfully, been trying to get pregnant for a year. It was SO relieving to say the words "We're trying and it's not working" and not have someone tell me to "just relax and it will happen!" I even "outted" myself to my mom on the phone this week and I learned things about my family history that I don't think I would have heard had I not told her.
Baby Boy born 5.3.15
AW: Our 3 year anniversary was this past Wednesday, and DH got me an 1 1/2 hour massage because he knows how stressed I have been with this job. We couldn't go celebrate on Wednesday (again because of work), so we are going to Fogo de Chao tomorrow for dinner and I can't wait!
Vent: DH has been laid off for almost a year now, and my job will be over in 2 weeks. I am scared sh!tless. I am so freaking frustrated that nothing is seeming to go our way, and I seriously wonder if things will ever change. It is super hard to stay positive when we keep taking hit after hit.
Confession: We really should not be going to Fogo for our anniversary tomorrow, because we need to start watching our finances a lot closer, but at the same time, we realize that this might be our "last hoorah" for awhile, so we are springing for it. I feel really irresponsible on one hand, but on the other hand, I feel like we need to "treat ourselves" since it is something we almost never do.
2.3.11: Started TTC
2.8.12:Initial b/w - Normal
3.7.12:HSG - Normal
3.8.12:S/A - Normal
Cycle #12/Month #15 - 50mg.Clomid CD5-CD9 - BFN
4.24.12: RE appointment - DX Unexplained IF
7.12 - 9.12: TTA
10.12 - 1.13: TTC Naturally
February 2013 - IUI #1 w/100 mg Clomid - 5 mil.post-wash: BFFN
March 2013 - IUI #2 w/100 mg Clomid & Trigger - ?? MY BLOG
My DH does the same thing!!! Yep, knows where to get the stuff when he needs it, but can't figure out where it goes to put it away!
AW: I had 2 classes end this week and I got an A in both of them
Confession: I have written and erased a few things...couldn't decide on anything I wanted to share to the world just yet
Rant: We were going to go to Chicago next weekend since I don't have school and we haven't been anywhere in a long time. Then our furnace broke and we're using the Chicago fund cash towards our furnace instead. We're going to have a stay-cation instead and turn our phones off and pretend like we're away.
AW: My DH and I used to go out to eat all the time but then when he was laid off we quit that cold turkey, he has been employed at his current job a year and a half but we have kept our frugal lifestyle, but tonight he is taking me out to dinner. I am so excited!
Confession: It is my day off and I have been indulgent all day, watching hallmark channel, hgtv and bravo and I ate a whole frozen pizza. At least I got outside for a walk with the dog.
Rant: I am really not looking forward to the next couple weeks at work, no time off at all.
AW: Um. Hmm. Well....not much. I'm glad to have a little time off from students this next week, but I also have p/t conferences, so that pretty much negates the benefit, right? I know I'm also going to sit on my as$ and not do jack $hit tonight. I think I'm going to order in.
Confession: I suspected a kid faked a parent signature on a grade sheet, so I lied and told him I couldn't find it, and could I call his mom to confirm? Didn't get me anywhere. I still think he forged it, but there's no way of knowing.
Rant: Nothing big....I just wish the city would come through and vacuum our leaves soon. We have 3 days to go, but the leaves have been off the trees for a while now. Plus, most of the leaves in our yard were not even from our trees! grrrrr....