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Friday randoms!
TGIF! Any vents, confessions, AW's, pet peeves, anything you want to share??? Let's try and not be so boring today! 
Re: Friday randoms!
Vents: I hate when employees call me with random questions that are totally not HR related, and when I tell them I don't know the answer but try to point them in the right direction, they act all cranky that I will not solve their problems for them. I'm sorry, I have no clue why your voicemail isn't working and I have even less a clue as to how to fix it! I also have zero idea as to how to get corporate sponsorship of your intramural softball team or where you can get shipping boxes.
Confessions: I am planning to call RHS in the next few weeks about baby #3, but I am still in a state of not being able to make a decision!
Pet Peeves: Co-workers who take the last of the coffee and don't make a new pot!
AW's: I can't think of any...
AW- EJ is a smart cookie. She likes doing math and is eager to learn to read. Since she doesn't nap at school her teacher got her a workbook to do while the other kids sleep. She loves it. It makes me proud.
vents- EJ can be a huge brat anymore. All the language is bossy and she is always scheming to get something. If she starts one more sentence with "I will do that on one condition..." I will asplode.
confession- I don't know if I want a second baby. But I feel like I need to make that choice soon. I wish there was just some way to avoid the decision making process and have it just happen on way or the other and live with the results. But going off BC just seems more like a choice to try for a second rather than just letting nature take its course.
and a random- I got those curtains the other day in the mail, I think they will work in the room. I will share pictures once I get them hung. I made a curtain rod out of galvanized pipe fittings and electric conduit cause I needed it to be 15 feet across. I am excited to see them hung (but I have to iron them... blah)
Sorry, but that cracked me up! I can also relate...I totally regret trying the whole "give your child choices" thing. Now any time I ask Mason to do something he says "What are my choices?" or he will tell me "Mom, you have two choices. You can either give me a cookie or you can give me a popsicle."
And I can relate on the baby thing too. Going to RHS is making it seem like it's such a big decision, it would be much easier if I could be like, oh, oops, I'm pregnant!
Whine: I'm very lucky that I work for a company that allows us to take a half day every other Friday in the summer. This is not my half day Friday. I so wish it was. I want to go swimming and have fun with G and Casey. I know it's a really nice perk and I have no right to be as annoyed that today isn't "my" day, but, wahhhhh! Fridays are at least dead around here so I should be able to get a ton of work done and hopefully make the day go quickly.
AW: Our 9th anniversary was on Wednesday. We're actually going on a date tomorrow night. I think we're going to try Rumfish Grille in Bridgeville (I wish the patio was complete!) then go to a movie. We haven't done anything, just the two of us, in a very long time.
Meghan, good luck!
AW-We are closing on the new house on Monday. I didn't think it was going to happen but we got the deed issue corrected and we close on Monday at 10!
Confession-We still have A LOT to do at the current house to get it on the market. The bathroom is done and the kitchen starts today. The kitchen should go much smoother since the bath was prolonged by some horrible electrical issues that popped up. Anyone want to come help me build 20 Ikea cabinets?
Vent-I was suppose to have all of next week off but my co-worker tells me that he is taking offf Tuesday because it is his anniversary and he has to take his kid to court. Not that it is a huge deal since we aren't moving yet but still.
Meghan-Love those questions, people ask me stupid sh!t all the time like I am some Magic Eight Ball with all the answers.
For example, yesterday my boss' wife's mouse and a saleman's mouse were controlling eachother computers. I googled it, told her to reset it. She didn't want to because she had her mouse longer. And she thought there should be another solution. Wouldn't even try.
Sounds like Mason and EJ have a lot in common! She is always throwing things I say back at me in her own way but in the same tone I use. It is funny, and yet totally frustrating!
Happy Anniversary Ryan! I remember your wedding day, because we lived really close to the church you were married at the time. I think I joked I would drive by and honk.
Kris, congrats on closing! hope everything goes smoothly!! (though I am not willing to assemble 20 kitchen cabinets. Unless you bring them here and we can do it from the pool or something. I am very skilled with an allan wrench.)
Meghan, you will appreciate this. I dreamed last night that Adam Levine was bringing his fiancee to my BFF's house to introduce all of us. (apparently we were friends...Ashton Kutcher was also there). So they get there and she brings a weird baby doll for my BFF's daughter and one for me. Like she had to butter me up. They were also "that couple" and just spent the evening being all "you're shmoopie, no you're shmoopie!" in the corner. Super weird. I told him I liked her. I lied. HA! (Also, it's 2 weeks from this coming Tuesday to the concert! SQUEE!)
I still have so much crap to put away from vacation. We got home on Sunday, so I didn't have a day to do that before going back to work. I feel like my whole weekend will be spent cleaning up from our week away.
Thanks, Amanda! I can't believe it's been 9 years already, and 17 years together total, yikes, I'm not old enough for that!
Congrats, Kris!
Welcome home, Amber! I hope you get your stuff back in order more quickly than you think!
Random--I am ridiculously excited about having nothing to do this weekend.
We've had something to do/travelled/had guests the past three weekends, and are either entertaining people from out of town or travelling each of the next four weekends, and I'm exhausted.
Vacation last week was wonderful, but I'm still worn out from all the walking and sightseeing we did in 90 degree heat.
If I have my way and it stays this hot, we'll lay on the couch and watch family movies all weekend.
AW - For years now, it has seemed like our house has been in the worst shape when the first heat wave of summer hit. So not only would I be annoyed that I was hot, but extra annoyed because I needed to do chores in the heat. My AW is that this year the house was actually sort of decent when our first 90 degree day hit and so there weren?t a lot of chores I had to do in the muggy awfulness that was this past week. Add in the fact that I was solo parenting from Sunday to Wednesday night, and it could have been really bad. (I?m also very thankful that they heat wave is almost passed because I have to do about 4 loads of laundry on Sunday.)
AW ? Heather just finished reading her first chapter book all by herself! She has been reading during rest time at summer camp since she never naps.
Vents ? My kids have also been trying the ?I will do that on one condition?? technique. So annoying. Also, we took the kids to Toys?R?Us the last time that we were at MIL?s because we had a couple of gift cards from Christmas that we had never used. For the past two weeks, Heather has been pestering me about something else that she saw there that she wants. The nagging is VERY annoying and I?m pretty close to saying ?NO! You can NEVER have it because I keep telling you to STOP ASKING FOR IT!?
Random ? We still don?t have a plan for our 10th anniversary in September. At this point I think it will be a staycation at a local hotel with a pool. DH and I had some very nice couple time last weekend and priority number one is to make sure we get some more for our anniversary.
Confession ? I would rather be working on one of my knit/crochet designs right now than working at work. I have more ideas than I have time to execute and it is driving me a little bonkers that my design process is so slow. On the other hand, I have a ton to do at work and should really be working overtime as much as I can manage?which is making the initial problem worse. Definite first world problem.
My kids are driving me CRAZY today. They have been fighting since the minute they got out of bed. It's days like this that make me wish I was still working. I never thought I would miss my old office that smelled of old cat pee lol. It's also days like this that make me think I am totally insane for entertaining the idea of a 3rd child.
Vent: my kid is doing similar to the "on one condition". I usually say things like, if you don't brush your teeth right now we can't read a story tonight. And she keeps turning it around on me. She will say well if you don't read me a story I won't brush my teeth. Ugh!!
another vent: despite the hot weather and being told that we have to conserve energy at work, they've kept the AC freezing all week. I had a sweater on. And to no surprise, the AC broke yesterday and it was so hot! I wore just a thin sundress and brought in a fan today but they have it back up and seem to want to freeze us out. How about keep it a decent temp and stop overloading it!
AW: I ran before work again today. It wasn't super hot but do humid I kind of wanted to just give up but didn't.
leads into my confession: my first 5k is this weekend. It's supposed to be cooler so I hope I do ok! But this morning when I was running I was thinking to myself... Why am I paying to run this weekend!?
i felt exactly the same way. Right when we got to the time frame where we really needed to make a decision I had some health issues come up. Things are better now but we worry about how things might get worse if I were to be pg but we could now if we wanted. But now the age gap is way more than I would want. So I feel like the decision was made for me. And I was sad about it. Ha! Grass is always greener!!
Aw-Dh and I are getting a date night tomorrow and I can't wait!!!!
Random -also on the weird requests at work front, I had a parent ask me if I could 'step out and see if there was anyone in a particular building as she'd been calling and getting no reply'. Um, no. Hell, no.
Confession -we too are seriously considering being one and done. Though I'm sure that wont curb the 'omg, when are you having another?!' we seem to get asked all the time:-/
No it won't curb it. I still get asked and dd is 5. I still get asked by people who know I was having health issues.
Some people are just rude. I think you could have 4 kids and some people would still ask when you are having another one.
Sadly, the status of your uterus will always be anything other than your own personal business!
LOL, no I'm at my desk looking gross! It helps that my office is -375 degrees, so I've at least stopped sweating like a hog.
My three sons!
My three sons!