Tuesday talks

[trtlcrzy]

What's up?

[trtlcrzy]

Good morning! H is at preschool, S and I will be going to barre in a little bit. It's supposed to be cooler here today so I don't know if we will play outside much. It seems very dreary out.

[chocolate]

Morning! I'm at work. It's hanging out at 29 degrees here. So windy. I'm tired of these temps. Not to mention the few inches of snow on the ground again. It's supposed to get back up to 50 this weekend so it'll melt sometime later this week. 😤

I'm currently looking into training to become a certified therapist for a specific autism intervention model. We keep seeing more and more of it and I currently have 3 kids on my caseload (not diagnosed yet- but I get to venture that conversation with the mom tomorrow and that's never fun).

Still plugging away on bathroom planning. Got the quote for our vanity/counter top and H is grumbling at the price of course. I'm hoping he'll get over it and give me the go ahead to put the order in so I don't have to put the effort into finding something else.

[piperhalliwell]

Work, work, work, and more work. I file an email away and two more appear.

[trtlcrzy]

I got called out of class for the first time for a diaper change. Then, after I got back with her, they told me they can change diapers as long as I give permission. Have at it. It was almost at the end of class and she was not pleased that I left her again. She's crabby because of her teeth too, to add to things. I think on Thursday I'm going to try to get my shit together to make it to the 8:45 class.

[rivers and roads]

piperhalliwell, 25 for 10 classes is amazing! I used to pay $12 a class and my discount was a 5 for $50 punch card. I love Zumba.
(This is from an old thread but I'm mobile and lazy)

chocolate, don't you have the power of Mexico? If he complains about price just ask him about the bathrooms on his tropical fishing trip :-p

It's raining again here. Today is the first day that I don't look like a total allergy monster, so we get to leave the house! Horray! Poor cat is locked away in the basement for the rest of the week (it's finished, at least). It's my dad's birthday so I guess we will see him today. Fake Step Mommy isn't up here this week I wanted to meet her to see how crazy she is!

[chocolate]

Apr 25, 2017 12:30:57 GMT -5 rivers and roads said:

piperhalliwell, 25 for 10 classes is amazing! I used to pay $12 a class and my discount was a 5 for $50 punch card. I love Zumba.
(This is from an old thread but I'm mobile and lazy)

chocolate, don't you have the power of Mexico? If he complains about price just ask him about the bathrooms on his tropical fishing trip :-p

It's raining again here. Today is the first day that I don't look like a total allergy monster, so we get to leave the house! Horray! Poor cat is locked away in the basement for the rest of the week (it's finished, at least). It's my dad's birthday so I guess we will see him today. Fake Step Mommy isn't up here this week I wanted to meet her to see how crazy she is!

Yeah I tried that today and it didn't go well. I got a nasty comment about how he works his ass off for his money and don't tell him how to spend it. My H is difficult, he very much supports us but also gets a snotty attitude about it being "his" money. It pisses me off quite often. He's totally ok with me not working full time and the fact that he pays for a lot, but also throws it in my face a lot.

[trtlcrzy]

tkford216 how is your first week of work going?

[trtlcrzy]

chocolate TP to your DH. Does he have a better idea of how to make it cheaper?

[morwen]

Im also super busy at work, this will probably continue for another month then hopefully ease off.

Ds has been dragging the broom around for like 20 minutes.

[chocolate]

Apr 25, 2017 17:27:34 GMT -5 trtlcrzy said:

chocolate TP to your DH. Does he have a better idea of how to make it cheaper?

No, he's the one who lines up the work with the contractors, plumbers, electrician, etc because he knows them all. Otherwise he pretty much leaves the choice making and whatnot to me. So he's not been looking for other sources for anything.

I'm annoyed because this is what we enlisted the designer to do and I haven't heard from her for almost a full month now. I'm done. So for lack of knowledge of where to go, and knowing the project is nearing time to start putting finishings in, I went back to our previous cabinet company. The quote is a lot. In part H's fault because he chose high end wood in the first place, and I want to keep it consistent throughout the house because that was our pet peeve before. Every floor, wood, trim, etc. was different all over and it drove us nuts. When we did our last project it was big and we refinanced, so I don't think we paid as much attention to how much each tiny thing was. A lot was rolled into that cabinet bill. Now that we are paying out of pocket and it's down to 1 small vanity, the price seems crazy. So I understand why he is grumbling about it, considering he just got the bill from the contractors, plumbers, etc as well.

But in my mind, I feel like he needs to suck it up. We can't expect to put custom high end cabinets all over the house but then go to menards and get a $200 vanity because we're tired of sinking money in. We just need to finish it and do it right. He said to go ahead with it for the basement bathroom and with the quartz counter like we have. I had them quote our main floor half bath vanity too since it's the only thing left to change out in that bathroom but H told me no, not right now. It adds a lot to the price but it would be so much easier to have them do it the same time as the basement. So whatever, I'll pout about that for a bit and move on.

[trtlcrzy]

That's annoying chocolate. At least you get the basement done at this point. Maybe you can convince him to do the main bath next year.

[chocolate]

Apr 25, 2017 22:15:07 GMT -5 trtlcrzy said:

That's annoying chocolate. At least you get the basement done at this point. Maybe you can convince him to do the main bath next year.

Yeah, it'll get done at some point. It's just so ugly. The vanity is crap and the sink is blue. It's right where people enter our house so everyone sees it and it's the only bathroom anybody at our house uses, since it's the only one on the main floor. The sink looks dirty all the time since you can see any little soap or water speck on the blue sink. First world problems. Every time we remodel something I keep trying to roll it right in with everything else and H keeps pushing it off.