Mother F^cking Monday

[wannabmama]

I'm up! I had to go to monitoring appt this am at 7:30....45 min from my house...and it's snowing.

That's one way to start the week!

I was also supposed to go to the city with a girlfriend for a little "Christmas date" with my bff and to check out the new Eat.aly that opened here and it's randomly closed today....boooo! So we are just going to lunch and to do some shopping this afternoon instead. At least that means I don't have to work in the office all day!

[badwolf]

I'm up. I'm supposed to be working right now but I can't get the VPN to work and the network person hasn't responded to the message I sent him asking for help getting connected so I'm watching the news and checking out the boards. Happy Monday

[wannabmama]

Dec 5, 2016 9:49:30 GMT -5 badwolf said:

I'm up. I'm supposed to be working right now but I can't get the VPN to work and the network person hasn't responded to the message I sent him asking for help getting connected so I'm watching the news and checking out the boards. Happy Monday

Ugh, my VPN has been having tons of problems, too, all last week and I haven't had to log in yet, today, but I really hope it's working.  It's SO frustrating!

[doodler]

I'm here. My BFF had her hcg blood test today to see if her FET(#4) worked. This is their last embryo and they just found out her husband has a balanced translocation so if this one doesn't work they have to do a fresh cycle with PGS. I'll just be over here biting my nails and praying all day.

[butlerfan]

Dec 5, 2016 10:10:01 GMT -5 doodler said:

I'm here. My BFF had her hcg blood test today to see if her FET(#4) worked. This is their last embryo and they just found out her husband has a balanced translocation so if this one doesn't work they have to do a fresh cycle with PGS. I'll just be over here biting my nails and praying all day.

FX that this works.

[butlerfan]

It's Monday-we are having biometric testing done at work tomorrow so that should be interesting. I will have to help make sure everyone took their survey's, give them the paperwork and get them in for testing. So most of tomorrow is going to be shot of doing actual work.

On a plus side we had our insurance meeting last week and our insurance premiums are staying the same as this year! Yeah for that!

[doodler]

We got our Christmas tree up this weekend and DH did the lights outside yesterday. I LOVE Christmas decorations!

[doodler]

butlerfan that's good news about your insurance. My parents just took a huge hit on theirs. My Mom can go on Medicare soon so that will help them. I'm 2.5 yrs away from free healthcare for my entire family through my job. Let's see if I can stay there that long!

[butlerfan]

Signed agreement is going in today's mail. H laughed at me because he didn't want to read it and I said it wasn't that bad to read and we knew most of it-just spelled out for us). He said of course you don't think it was that bad-you are an accountant. You read lawyer type stuff and understand it easily.

So while we could have gotten a call before we got the agreement this just makes it official and they have all of our information then to process it.

[butlerfan]

Dec 5, 2016 10:25:47 GMT -5 doodler said:

butlerfan that's good news about your insurance. My parents just took a huge hit on theirs. My Mom can go on Medicare soon so that will help them. I'm 2.5 yrs away from free healthcare for my entire family through my job. Let's see if I can stay there that long!

Yes please!

[doodler]

Dec 5, 2016 10:19:35 GMT -5 butlerfan said:

Dec 5, 2016 10:10:01 GMT -5 doodler said:

I'm here. My BFF had her hcg blood test today to see if her FET(#4) worked. This is their last embryo and they just found out her husband has a balanced translocation so if this one doesn't work they have to do a fresh cycle with PGS. I'll just be over here biting my nails and praying all day.

FX that this works.

It worked!!!!  OMG!  I just started sobbing at work because she wasn't expecting to hear from the RE until this afternoon so it caught me totally off guard.  

[butlerfan]

We still have to decorate for Christmas-we were lazy this weekend due to H being sick and so then I didn't have motivation to do it myself.

But it is only December 5th.

[ohinvrtedworld]

doodler omg!!! Congrats to your friend!

[bex15]

doodler, that's such great news, I'm so happy or your friend!!

[bex15]

My morning has started out with several angry emails both from clients over ridiculous shit as well as our GM who is on a major rant. Mondays are the worst.

[butlerfan]

bex15 they are the worst. It always seems it all needs to be done yesterday on Monday's.....

[ceejay]

Last night I put flannel sheets on my bed. Sooooo warm and cozy. It was so difficult to make myself get out of bed this morning...

[butlerfan]

Dec 5, 2016 11:29:31 GMT -5 ceejay said:

Last night I put flannel sheets on my bed. Sooooo warm and cozy. It was so difficult to make myself get out of bed this morning...

Now that it got cold and we got snow I want to put on our fleece sheets for the same reason. But I know I won't want to get up in the morning either.

[ohinvrtedworld]

Dec 5, 2016 11:29:31 GMT -5 ceejay said:

Last night I put flannel sheets on my bed. Sooooo warm and cozy. It was so difficult to make myself get out of bed this morning...

H did that last week and it is soooooo cozy.

[teraiin]

My dogs are driving me nuts today.

[butlerfan]

We are starting to look for a dog(s). Looking for a shih Tzu mix (preferred) for the hypo allergenic aspect of it (H's allergies and possible kids allergies). He can have dogs but the dust mites from them can trigger his allergies so if we are to own a dog it would be better to have a more hypoallergenic dog for him. Also shih Tzu's usually are very easy going dogs and good with kids.

I grew up with cocker spaniels and H grew up with shih Tzu's, poodles, bishen frise's breeds/mixes.

How crazy are we?

[teraiin]

Dec 5, 2016 13:12:06 GMT -5 butlerfan said:

We are starting to look for a dog(s). Looking for a shih Tzu mix (preferred) for the hypo allergenic aspect of it (H's allergies and possible kids allergies). He can have dogs but the dust mites from them can trigger his allergies so if we are to own a dog it would be better to have a more hypoallergenic dog for him. Also shih Tzu's usually are very easy going dogs and good with kids.

I grew up with cocker spaniels and H grew up with shih Tzu's, poodles, bishen frise's breeds/mixes.

How crazy are we?

You're taking to someone who got a 6 week lab puppy followed by an 8 week cocker spaniel puppy two weeks apart during January in one of the snowiest areas in New York haha so you don't seem all that crazy to me.

They are going to be four years old this year!

[ohinvrtedworld]

butlerfan I grew up with a shih-tzu and then fostered our friends' shih-tzu poodle mix, they are my FAVORITE breed of dog. Every one I've met is so mellow and sweet. We always kept their coats fairly short so it's not hard to maintain. I love that they don't usually need tons of exercise so they can play, but won't tear things up horribly in your absence to burn off energy

Jealous of you if you do get a dog!! I have the worst puppy fever 😭

[butlerfan]

We are looking at Petfinder and shelter's in the area. Anyone else have any recommendations?

[cjchio]

Dec 5, 2016 13:45:56 GMT -5 butlerfan said:

We are looking at Petfinder and shelter's in the area. Anyone else have any recommendations?

Look around social media and the Internet for small local rescues.Sometimes the rescues have a specific breed that they look to for rescue.

[ohinvrtedworld]

Dec 5, 2016 13:45:56 GMT -5 butlerfan said:

We are looking at Petfinder and shelter's in the area. Anyone else have any recommendations?

There are some breed-specific rescues in our state, you could look for one in yours? But many of those use Petfinder so that might be just as good!

[doodler]

Dec 5, 2016 13:45:56 GMT -5 butlerfan said:

We are looking at Petfinder and shelter's in the area. Anyone else have any recommendations?

If you are patient, you are bound to find what you want on pet finder.  It took us awhile to find our doodle, but we wanted to make sure he was the right match.  They pull from so many different sources.

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I'm hungry but don't feel like making lunch. Maybe I'll have a hot pocket. Ew. Probably not. Maybe I have some dumplings hiding in a dark corner in my freezer.

[butlerfan]

Dec 5, 2016 14:35:39 GMT -5 doodler said:

Dec 5, 2016 13:45:56 GMT -5 butlerfan said:

We are looking at Petfinder and shelter's in the area. Anyone else have any recommendations?

If you are patient, you are bound to find what you want on pet finder.  It took us awhile to find our doodle, but we wanted to make sure he was the right match.  They pull from so many different sources.

Oh I know but it's hard. But it will happen in time. We have started looking but not seriously until a few weeks ago.   

[Rama]

Congrats to your friend, Doodles!

I'm so bored, Mondays blow.