It's another Monday...

[PirateCat]

[PepperPottsJ]

Edit cause I has the dumb today

[PirateCat]

[PirateCat]

PepperPottsJ, your image shows up broken for me and I'm feeling anxious about what I'm missing out on.

[PepperPottsJ]

PirateCat, the gif is even more fitting now

[ohinvrtedworld]

Blegh Monday. My birthday was this weekend so I had so much fun and I'm sad it's over. H threw me a surprise Jurassic Park birthday party because it's my favorite movie and now we have a 5 foot dinosaur balloon standing up in the dining room 😂

[PirateCat]

Sept 12, 2016 9:09:39 GMT -5 PepperPottsJ said:

PirateCat , the gif is even more fitting now

I don't know how this is relevant but there you have it. 

[PirateCat]

ohinvrtedworld, that sounds awesome! Happy belated birthday!

[badwolf]

I've got a pretty full week ahead of me and I'm exhausted from this weekend's training course. But almost everything went well this weekend and I have a great group of Scouters I get to mentor so I'm excited about that. Sadly one of our training course staff members got a phone call yesterday morning that his son had been one of the many victims of a shooting and had been shot in the back. The suspects were caught but no details about a reason for the shooting have been released yet. The son has moved from critical to stable condition and we're praying he ends up being just fine.

[wannabmama]

I'm so sorry badwolf for your friends son that's so scary!

I'm in training all week. Ugh. I like the subject matter but 40 hours of classes and a commute daily = yikes.

[TheEleventhHour]

Wow badwolf, so scary! Hope that he is okay.

[TheEleventhHour]

Morning ladies!

[ohinvrtedworld]

badwolf, omg I can't imagine how terrifying it must be for that guy to get such news about his own son. Also praying for a full recovery and some justice.

[PirateCat]

badwolf, that is crazy and scary. I hope he recovers fully soon.

[TheEleventhHour]

I need to vacuum at some point today otherwise I plan on being completely lazy.

I have a job interview tomorrow! I am freaking out a little. I think I have a good shot though ... I had a phone interview with the nurse manager last week and then she invited me to come in to sit down with some of the nurses and have a tour. I also know two people that work down there already (cancer center in my hospital) and they reached out to me to tell me they put in a good word for me

[PirateCat]

TheEleventhHour, good luck with the interview tomorrow! Is your patio done? When is the hot tub coming??

[TheEleventhHour]

Sept 12, 2016 9:53:36 GMT -5 PirateCat said:

TheEleventhHour , good luck with the interview tomorrow! Is your patio done? When is the hot tub coming??

Thanks lady! Yes it is done. FINALLY. We have a few things to do - planting, furniture, and finishing the fire pit but we are going to wait until spring since snow is right around the corner. And the hot tub comes Wednesday!

[PepperPottsJ]

badwolf, keeping him in my prayers!

[butlerfan]

badwolf love tit is for support not that I actually like what happened. T&P.

[PirateCat]

TheEleventhHour, so exciting! H has been wanting a hot tub for years but we'll have to move first.

[butlerfan]

I scored a free car seat and 2 booster seats for $5 a piece to turn into Toy's R Us to get 25% off a new car seat and/or booster seats so that will help bring down those costs a lot! And MIL is offering to buy the infant car seat at least.

And depending on placements we may need a second infant car seat but at least this will get us started (especially if we need to have some in both vehicles in case of emergencies of who can pick them up)

In other news I now need to call daycares in the area because I thought they could go to H's work but based on they are 3 star rated (or working on getting rated at the new locations) they don't qualify for county help and I need to find a 4-5 star one. There are 3-4 in the area that are somewhat convenient and 3-4 more that are really far mileage and time wise out of our way. 2 in the area I know personally so I would go to those first if possible (and they are most convenient ones as well for us!). So know I'm freaking out a little bit since I thought I had this taken care of and I don't.

And we found out we do have to have our furnace inspected as well....so have to get that scheduled and paid for.

[Deleted]

Ugh this weekend should have never ended. I'm dragging today. I have a dentist appointment after work but I don't mind cause I like the dentist. Can't wait till the 23rd cause I'm taking a mini vacation for our anniversary.

[daisy818]

Man, wish I would have remembered to take Midol before being in court for an hour.

[diamondsndaisies]

badwolf, That is so scary! I hope he recovers quickly!
butlerfan, I could never have imagined how much work goes in to being a foster parent. I hope you find another daycare quickly.
TheEleventhHour, good luck with the interview! FX you get offered the job.
PirateCat, I need more cat gifs in my life.

[PirateCat]

I'm sorry, daisy818 .

ETA: Cat hug. 

[PirateCat]

diamondsndaisies, don't we all?

[butlerfan]

diamondsndaisies neither did I! But now that we have been having the meetings with our licensing worker I/we feel like we are moving forward even with the additional inspections that we weren't sure we would need to have. The daycare is another hiccup but I do feel like overall it has been moving forward at a good pace. It is scary to think that in about a month we could have 1-2 little ones in the house. It is very scary, exciting, nerve-racking, etc to think about.

And some of the things to become foster parents may or may not apply to everyone (like we have well water so we need a water test where if you have city water you probably don't need this). So each case is unique which makes it hard to know what we all need to do.

[daisy818]

butlerfan, hope you can work out the daycare quickly! That's so exciting that you could have little ones next month!

[daisy818]

Is it bad that I'm a little disappointed that the lady asking for tips on TTC while "breastfeefing" just disappeared? That thread seemed like a prime candidate for a nice GBCTCF meltdown, and I could have used the entertainment this week.

[TheEleventhHour]

Sept 12, 2016 11:50:23 GMT -5 daisy818 said:

Is it bad that I'm a little disappointed that the lady asking for tips on TTC while "breastfeefing" just disappeared? That thread seemed like a prime candidate for a nice GBCTCF meltdown, and I could have used the entertainment this week.

That was such a weird drive by ... and it always annoys me to no end when people come, ask for advice, people write out helpful responses, and then they don't even come back.