Post by crimsonandclover on Oct 17, 2016 9:38:41 GMT -5
I'm excited for some fall weather. Even though I'm currently looking at the window at pouring, cold rain, and I sincerely hope that it stops by the time I have to leave the house tomorrow, it's time. We had hardly any rain in September. In fact, we got back from the US about Aug 22 to a jungle in the backyard and mowed it. We haven't mowed since. It has been almost 2 months. The only part of the yard that could use a little mowing is the spot around where the wading pool was.
This week I was excited to get my materials for my continuing ed course today. I'm such a geek and am really looking forward to starting it as soon as the university gets my wire transfer and enrolls me.
DD1's early intervention therapy class starts on Thursday, and I'm looking forward to it in the sense that I'm hoping this helps her with the areas where she's a bit behind.
Oh, and I'm really looking forward to the nanny being back. I hope she's healthy again. I should text her and make sure she's coming tomorrow before I look forward to it too much
S has school this afternoon, I have to go back to the medi centre because the doctor was to to talk about my throat culture from the other night, H is going to get a tire checked out and to help my dad move a washer and dryer.
I'm so sore. Painting ceilings is a bitch. And I get to do it again tomorrow. Wheee. At some point I really need to clean my own house. It looks like a bomb went off.
At some point I really need to clean my own house. It looks like a bomb went off.
Linguistic / cultural tangent that might be interesting to a few of you (I find it fascinating )...
I was once in a German class where we were talking about a certain tense, and to practice we were using hypotheticals including the sentence prompt "It's so messy in here it looks like..."
I completed the sentence without really thinking about it, and in the really international class I happened to have a girl from Chicago as a partner (I'm also from the Midwest). We both said: "It looks like a tornado came through." and moved on.
When we revealed the answers, we discovered it showed so much about a culture and shared historical experiences of devastation. What regularly devastates the Midwest? Tornadoes.
The Brits, Danes, and Italians finished the sentence with: "It looks like a bomb went off."
The Japanese student said: "It looks like a typhoon blew through."
The Turkish student said: "It looks like there was an earthquake."
A student from Subsaharan Africa said: "It looks like an elephant ran through."
And my personal favorite, a girl from the Ukraine said (and mind you this was in 2003): "It looks like there was a revolution."
However, Lollipop, I can't for the life of me think of why a Canadian would say it looks like a bomb went off! I would have thought it might be a grizzly bear or a blizzard.
Post by scorpioscuba on Oct 17, 2016 13:20:29 GMT -5
I have been doing laundry since we got home last night. I'm WFH today and packing for DD and I to leave again early tomorrow morning for my conference in Seattle. My mom is coming with to watch DD while I'm in session. It will be cold and rainy (go figure!) and I'm struggling with making sure I have enough things to keep DD warm. I also realized last night I need a weather shield for the stroller and of course none of the stores here had any in stock. Amazon 1 day shipping to the rescue! It just arrived and I'm feeling much better about that!
Post by dizzycooks on Oct 17, 2016 13:28:26 GMT -5
I am more than a little jealous of our many jet setting mamas on this board! Safe travels scorpioscuba! They are paving our road today (finally!) so once I leave I can't drive back into my driveway for 24 hrs. I guess I'll be parked out on the main road and walk again. Good times. It's suppose to be raining tomorrow when we head to prek. Dd3 is consistently standing up in her crib and pulling up on her toys. I am NOT ready for a walking baby. Chasing three littles sounds so overwhelming and she is so little! She also cut her top two teeth overnight and she's crabby! And she's croupy. She sounds awful and I feel terrible that I have to work this afternoon. Hopefully Dh gets them earlier than later. Anyway, happy Monday, I'm already feeling pretty glum about it, but I probably need to make the best of it.
Post by crimsonandclover on Oct 17, 2016 14:14:00 GMT -5
So... It's 9pm here. It's not unusual for DH to work this late, and Mondays a lot of the firefighters also meet up at the station for casual drinks and chat. He sometimes goes to that. Today at lunch we didn't talk about when he would be home. When I tried to call him at about 8:30, his work line was busy, which is very unusual at that time of night. I tried to call his cell, but it went straight to voicemail. I tried to send a WhatsApp message, but it's showing as not yet received, so I assume his battery is dead. At what point would you start to worry? I'm not even sure what I could do. I mean, I suppose I could get a neighbor to come hang out at our house in case one of the DDs wakes up while I go and see if he's at the office or the fire station and make sure everything's ok, but that seems a little drastic...
I guess I don't want to just go to bed as usual and then wake up in the middle of the night to DD3 crying and realize he's still not home because what would I do then? I couldn't wake up a neighbor and couldn't go out in the MOTN and leave the kids alone at home... :/ I think for now I'll just stay up and wait.
ETA: Nevermind, it occurred to me that the fire station has a non-emergency line, so I googled the number and he's there.
 At some point I really need to clean my own house. It looks like a bomb went off.
Linguistic / cultural tangent that might be interesting to a few of you (I find it fascinating )...
I was once in a German class where we were talking about a certain tense, and to practice we were using hypotheticals including the sentence prompt "It's so messy in here it looks like..."
I completed the sentence without really thinking about it, and in the really international class I happened to have a girl from Chicago as a partner (I'm also from the Midwest). We both said:Â "It looks like a tornado came through." and moved on.
When we revealed the answers, we discovered it showed so much about a culture and shared historical experiences of devastation. What regularly devastates the Midwest? Tornadoes.
The Brits, Danes, and Italians finished the sentence with: "It looks like a bomb went off."
The Japanese student said: "It looks like a typhoon blew through."
The Turkish student said: "It looks like there was an earthquake."
A student from Subsaharan Africa said: "It looks like an elephant ran through."
And my personal favorite, a girl from the Ukraine said (and mind you this was in 2003): "It looks like there was a revolution."
However, Lollipop, I can't for the life of me think of why a Canadian would say it looks like a bomb went off! I would have thought it might be a grizzly bear or a blizzard.
That's really interesting. I've heard it said in Canada, a bomb or a tornado. I'm not sure why, other than that we've been heavily influenced by the US and Britain.
Post by silverspoon on Oct 17, 2016 19:27:00 GMT -5
Little dude started crawling on Sunday and he must have spent the day at daycare perfecting it. His number 1 goal? Lucy's toys. She has a large collection of big heavy Nylabones and Kongs and he wants to chew on them too. I just know he's going to get one at some point.
So my stupid trip to the medi centre was the most ridiculous thing ever. I went in Wednesday last week, got a prescription, and I'm fine now. So they made me go in for the doctor to tell me that the culture they took was positive for strep and to take the antibiotics. It was 30 seconds. I don't understand why they couldn't tell me that over the phone. My family doctor does.
Post by dizzycooks on Oct 17, 2016 22:04:15 GMT -5
As much as I'm not loving working one night a week, Dh commented tonight that his favorite night is Monday's bc he gets to spend it alone with the girls. He rarely gets that chance. It makes me want to shut up abt not loving my pt job.
As much as I'm not loving working one night a week, Dh commented tonight that his favorite night is Monday's bc he gets to spend it alone with the girls. He rarely gets that chance. It makes me want to shut up abt not loving my pt job.
My H is getting a healthy dose of my day-to-day life right now. Yesterday and tomorrow I promised to help my mom. So he's being home alone with the kids by himself. The one difference is that he can still drive S to school, whereas I have to walk. This is the first time he's spent a whole day alone with them, since before M was born, IIRC.
crimsonandclover - I'm so glad that you were able to locate your DH - that must have been nerve-wracking! Lollipop - I hope that YH has an enlightening time with your LOs! kelltothekell - I would think that Boss' Day is correct. That's how I would spell it.
I have NO motivation to do anything ... :/ I don't think there's enough coffee in the world ...
In other news, however, I realized through Facebook that lucanjo14 and I live eerily close to each other - as in, the same county in Maryland ... lucanjo14 - don't worry but I might be right outside of your window right now ... ;P
E is about 50/50 for whether she'll wave bye to me when I leave. She's such a busy thing, lots of standing unassisted, no actual steps yet (except creeping along the furniture). I had some good friends in town this weekend, we took the babies to the pumpkin patch Sunday and then MH stayed home with E last night and we met for dinner/drinks. So much fun to catch up and four of us have had babies in the last year. I leave Friday for a long weekend in Napa, without E 😥😳. I know it will be fun but I'm already missing my baby.
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