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SA Wednesday
Re: SA Wednesday
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It's supposed to be 71 degrees today. How crazy is that? We even have a slightly increased risk on the Weather Channel Tor:Con thing for tornadoes. In December?
I am rounding the final corner on my paper. 1 3/4 pages of comments worked through. This thing has been a semesters worth of hard work but I will be quite proud of it when it is all said in done.
I have a final from 8:30-10:45p tonight. I am going to be dead and I really need to do well. Seems like Starbucks might be in my post-dinner future.
Leslie- Yay for being almost done with your paper!
I am excited that tomorrow is our four year dating anniversary :-) Time has gone by pretty fast! And Christmas will be two years since he proposed. We have to go to a Christmas party for his work tomorrow, so hopefully it will be fun!
Today is going to be no fun because one of the girls is out sick and the other has to leave early for school. It will be fine if nobody calls after 2! But I doubt that will happen :-p
I got to see two of my friends last night who were BMs in my wedding and I had so much fun with them! I haven't seen them in a while and we were long overdue!
~TTC Buddies with akcrrr and amandaf6383~
Natural Cycle (8/7/13)- BFP! Beta #1 (9/10/13): 509 Progesterone: 18.64 Beta #2 (9/12/13): 1118
I know! Crazy Texas.
I don't know if I slept poorly or what, but I am wiped out this morning and crabby.
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Two things:
I think it's crazy now how every time someone complains about their job now they have to add "but I'm so glad I have a job." I know with unemployment so high all of us are blessed to have a job if we have one. It's just interesting to see people add that on so they don't get flamed for complaining.
My little sister thought it would be funny to write. "We are having our first Niece!!! Now the question is which sister is pregnant???" and tagged my older sister and me. Well apparently everyone thought it was me and DH's cousins texted him saying congrats! It was kind of funny to explain it to him. Luckily he has a great sense of humor and laughed at it. We were thinking though: 1. you are a blood relative and we will not tell you on facebook we are pregnant! 2. Do I really look 5 months pregnant???
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I HATE that....and I hate when people say "at least you have one". I'm sorry, but that is garbage. Everywhere I go I see help wanted signs. Literally EVERYWHERE. People can get jobs...maybe not the jobs that they want, but jobs nonetheless.
I agree with all of this, even when Matt was unemployed I would admit it wasnt because there were no jobs it was because there were no jobs he wanted.
Yesterday I got to deliver some super exciting happy news to a few of my TMs and today I have a couple of tough convos to have. I guess its all about balance, but sometimes I would like just one week of all fabulous news.
I just want to go back under the covers and come out another day. I am no Positive Patty today but I'm trying not to be too negative.
I'm sick and tired of student's being PO'd at me when I have nothing to do with anything and I've tried to keep my cool but I fear my button's will be pushed before the end of the week.
Monday I got an invite for a potluck event for Thursday. Then yesterday someone suggested doing a white elephant gift and everyone agreed and this morning someone else suggested a $12 limit. I'm done shopping people...NO MORE! We have a date night tonight and will be getting home really late so I don't even know if I'm going to the pot luck anymore. Too much to do!
I finished Room yesterday but it was through an audio book. I'll probably reread the last bit because I got a little lost and had a hard time catching up.
I don't have a problem with people complaining about their jobs. Not at all. We all do it.
I'm in with the bad/no sleep group and count me in on the non Positive Patty group too. I will also add in "unmotivated".
Thanks to the Spirit fare sale we are considering NYC for a few days at Spring Break. RT non-stop airfare for two: $400. Pretty darn good!
Bio Good Times
That's awesome! One girl I met said she rather here "welcome home" than " Thank you" because she's was so happy to just be home.
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We say both
Bio Good Times
That's so awesome! I've been in Terminal D twice when troops have arrived home and an airport official always comes through just before to let everyone know. We've given them standing ovations each time. Such a heartwarming experience.
I'm guilty of the first one because I would get comments like the one Tiffany posted when I would say something about my job. However my job issues have been here long before the economy so I'm not getting taken advantage of because of it and I do know some are and I don't think that's right.
When I was at a baby shower a couple of weeks ago, I was telling someone that everyone is drinking the water again (we had a baby boom at the end of 2009/beginning of 2010 and same thing for 2011/2012) and she asked me if I was drinking the water. I don't know if she was wondering if we were starting to TTC or if I was already pregnant, lol.
Lauren - so cool!
We're thinking of going to Fort Lauderdale in like 3 weeks - I have to check with my boss today, but I think we're going to do it. I just hope that the fares are as cheap as I think they are.
Julie & Angie - Yay! Glad you guys are taking advantage of the deals.
Sadly, we are not...but we are going to Cancun again in March with our company because DH is awesome.
Since we are going to Europe in the Fall, I decided it was best to save the vacation time to make sure that trip can be as long as possible.
Haven't hammered it all out yet...I am currently immersed in Rick Steve's books and travel forums. Originally we were planning to spend 2 weeks in southern Italy. That's definitely still on the table...but now I have been tempted by visiting other places for at least a couple of days. We will start booking in early spring though, so I need to decide! (DH has left all of this up to me, yikes)
I think it's really cool that you do this every year and that your mom's company takes part. I've always wanted to do this but I would be a blubbering mess. Military stuff, especially at the holidays, just get to me.
So, unrelated to what's currently going on:
I have just encountered the most flagrant case of plagiarism I've ever seen. Ever. The kids had a project where they had to create a magazine based on a book we assigned, and this kid's articles are all just excerpts from the chapters he chose.
Like, occasionally he'd change a word (very obvious thesaurus abuse, there), but I've been able to write the exact page number and paragraph he copied on every article. I wound up not even bothering to finish reading it.
I'm just blown away.
Related:
Lauren, I love that you're doing that. It seems like such a wonderful thing to do. Hopefully I'll get a chance to go out during the break.
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My grandma has always wanted to go to NYC and I thought it would be really cool but impossible to send her for her 70th next year and the $9 tickets made it seem more reasonable but with the cost of the room for a week, it just wasn't going to work out financially.
Yay for trips, that's so exciting! Tiffany, I am jealous. Sort of. We thought we would take Mel to Europe for graduation but I don't know...for some reason I can't get excited about it. I think because the planning seems so overwhelming. And now that Mel wants to go to Comic Con which is her dad's gift, it kind of seems like overkill. Plus she's working now and everything. I guess we need to think about it pretty soon.
Lauren, I have always wanted to do that. Very cool.
I hate this warm muggy weather. It doesn't feel like the holidays when it's 71 outside.
With All the Trimmings
Just do it!
Lauren, how cool! I've wanted to do that, but I know that I, like Jaymi, would be a mess. When I was waiting for my cousins in Terminal D before the wedding, just watching the video of troops coming home was making me tear up.
Tiffany, I also have to thank you for the heads up about the deal! I really wanted New York, but they were all gone by the time I got a chance to look. Between my schedule and the limited dates, the best options were Chicago for five days in January (too cold), Orlando for ten days in April (too expensive), or Boston for a week at the end of March (just right!). I never book anything that spontaneously, but the timing will be good and the price (also $80 for two round trip tickets) was too good to pass up!
Ours is tentative. If we go, it'll be at the very beginning which means that we won't be able to go to too many shows since Sunday evenings are dark as are Monday on Broadway. However, I'm sure we can find something.
And, yes, you want as much time as possible for Europe. It always seems like I never have enough time.
Shortgirl,
Have you thought of trying Priceline for hotels? You can narrow it down to a certain neighborhood and dictate your own price--Bill has only been turned down twice for being too cheap.
Confession - I ordered almost $100 worth of Scentsy because I don't want the Holiday scents to pass me by.
But I'm also giving them as Christmas gifts so I think it's okay.
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Lauren, that is so awesome you are doing that.
Traveling ladies, I am so jealous! We started planning a trip for our anniversary, but I realized that the majority of my sadness/bah humbugness is because we are not in a house (silly I know). Until we have a house I would feel reckless spending money on a vacation.
That's not silly! It's good to recognize your priorities and have goals.