November 2010 Weddings
ScarlettDahlia
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TGIF!
What a long, crazy week! I'm so glad that it's finally Friday!
Rants/raves/weekend plans?
Bonus question: what is your favorite movie to watch when you need a good cry? a good laugh?
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Re: TGIF!
Rant: H's birthday party is tomorrow, and I'm concerned about it. Nearly everyone invited is fighting or doesn't like each other. I planned the party, but he came up with the guest list. I just want everything to go off well.
Rave: My H turns 26 tomorrow! Also, he got his grades for his EMT class, along with the minimum score he needs to pass the class. He needs a 31 (out of 100). That's how well he's done. I am so, SO proud of him.
When I need to cry, I watch Season 4 of SATC (the one where a character's mother dies). I cry like a baby during that.
Books read in 2012: 21/50
Congrats to your H for passing his class! That's awesome!
Rant: We're having a cook-out on Sunday. I love when we have cook-outs and have our families over. But this time, DH had to go and invite one of his co-workers whom I really don't get along with. I've tried to get along with him, but our personalities just clash so much. He's a know it all and some of the things he says just do not make sense. For example, he really dislikes the owner of this local gun shop, so in order to stick it to him, he will only buy things from the store if the owner isn't there. Sorry, but I'm sure the owner could care less if you're buying from his store if he isn't there. He's still making money off your sale. Every time we hang out with him, I want to bash my head into the wall because it has to be less painful than listening to him spout nonsense.
Rave: 3 day weekend! I'm looking forward to getting my crafting projects done this weekend. I'm making a surprise album for MIL. I'm also making a reversible purse for myself (I found some awesome fabric yesterday, so I had to make something with it). I'm also going to try make some of that skittles sangria that angie posted about the other night (I've been looking online and I think I found a recipe that will work).
Rant: I am working most of the weekend. My life is just work all the time now. Oh well. This too shall pass.
Rave: My BIL is visiting this weekend, and we'll do some kind of cook out and maybe a canoe trip. Unfortunately, my sister and the kids can't come (basically, BIL is doing military training nearby. But my sister has to stay on base several states away because she is due any day with their third, and the military won't pay for a birth off-base or at a base in our state. You've got that right, the military separated my BIL by several states when my sister was due to give birth. Nice. I guess that should go under rants).
Rant: I have been completely overwhelmed, anxious, nervous, and agitated this week. DH is always in the mood at night and I am pregnant and I'd like to be left alone... even when I tell him I got sick and threw up dinner, he still tries to insist on having intimate time. My crib that I ordered had broken parts and the company is no longer in business so I am required to leave the crib on my porch until the other company comes to pick it up... how convenient that they don't give me a date or time frame.. jerks. I now have to get a new crib, I'll be needing to start my leave a lot earlier than expected... my body can't physically handle it anymore, I'm stressed about finances, feel guilty for not keeping the house cleaned, etc... It's meltdown week for me...
Oh and my whole face is having an allergic reaction and I have bumps all over that itch more than poison ivy.
Rave: My birthday is in 24 days. I'm blessed to have a healthy baby inside of me.
Usually I have a lot more to rave about, but it's just a really bad week for me
Bonus question: what is your favorite movie to watch when you need a good cry? a good laugh? A good cry: A Walk to Remember.... A Good Laugh: I Love You Man
Hang in there Faith. You are bound to have weeks like that - it's very stressful. It will all work out ok.
Rant: A girl I don't much care for who is a wife of one of my DH friends is insisting on spending some time with her for her 40th. I don't give a poop about this woman. I think she is needy, a borderline alcoholic, vindictive and so drama filled it makes me want to vomit. I actually had a anxiety attack when she tried switching having a birthday brunch to an all afternoon hang out at a festival. Puke. The only reason she even wants to hang out with me is so that she can hold it over another wife's head that she is on and off best friends/enemies with. I hate both of their drama and have refused to partake in anything with either of them until this weekend. I could not figure out how to wiggle out of it and it was making DH uncomfortable that I keep avoiding it. ANYWAY, I'm getting it over with and going to make the best of the remainder of the weekend.
Rave: 2 big clients called the president of the company to compliment me. It was a little embarrassing but it was really very nice of them. He then passed it on to all the other VIPs in the office so it has been a never ending pat on the back session for me. Hopefully it moves me into a position that they could entertain the idea of me as a director of project manager sooner rather than later.
I'm late to the post, but I'll play anyway
Bay, how did the party go?
Scarlett, how did the sangria turn out? Share that recipe if it was good!
Faith, hang in there - I'm sorry you're having a freakout moment, and I hope it's passed by now!
Bella, that's awesome!
Rant: Tonight, I told DH that I had a dream that he just informed me that he was going on another out of town job. IRL, right before he left this time we talked, and I thought he pretty much agreed that this was the last one. Well, apparently, he doesn't remember the conversation that way... In response to my dream, he said he has an offer to go on another job - in ALASKA - and he doesn't *think* he's going to go. I'm pretty upset over this, because we've had the I-don't-want-you-to-work-out-of-town-anymore chat before, and apparently I'm pretty awesome at misunderstanding his "I don't want to have this talk right now so I'm not going to participate" for "I agree with you."
Rave: I took out my frustration on the dining room wall - I'm painting it teal, to match the fabric I AW'd recently! It's just the portion below the chair rail, and I'm loving it so far. I took a picture on my phone but it's crap, and looked black. So, when I make a little more progress I'll share
Weekend plans: I spent the weekend in my hometown with my parents, siblings & their spouses, and nieces. It was fantastic, but reallllly made me miss DH - he was "missing" the whole time, if that makes sense. I'm not very good at doing this long distance thing anymore, and it makes me really admire people whose spouses are in the military and deployed for long periods of time. My time away from DH is piddly compared to theirs, and I'm miserable!!
Aww, angie, that sucks! I hope you guys can come to an agreement on his working out of town soon!
The sangria was pretty fabulous. I didn't measure anything, so I can't give an exact recipe. But I ended up going through 3 pitchers of it. It got a lot of compliments and I will definitely be making it again.
I used riesling, an entire bottle. Poured in about 1/2 cup of triple sec (could have been more like 2/3 cup), same amount of ginger ale, about 1/2 cup of sugar. To save time (since I didn't make it to the store until about an hour before people started to show up), I just bought frozen mixed fruit (pineapples, berries, peaches) and threw that in. I put about 6 Skittles in the bottom of each glass and poured the sangria over it.