10 Things Tuesday!

[jenn]

My thoughts for today:


1. Today is my brother's birthday

2. I am SO close to my next goal weight.

3. Even though it's only 21° outside, it's like 89° in this office today. Not good.
4. Sushi. Sushi. Sushi.
5. I'm having a good hair day today.
6. These earrings again don't match.  I have to pick out my jewelry the night before, I think.... haha.
7. I'm turning 30 this June and I'm really hoping to be a mom before then.
8. Sushi! Sushi! Sushi!
9. I can't wait to go to the zoo- especially with a LO.  I love the zoo. 
10. I can't believe it's March already.  Wasn't it just Christmas?? 

[browneyes8]

1. all 3 of us have colds
2. I am so done with winter and more snow is forecasted for the week
3. only 4 days until FL though :-)!
4. Had a fun weekend attending bridal shower while DH & DS went to Crayola Experience (LOVED!)
5. Looking forward to my mani/pedi AND
6. haircut this week
7. just submitted an article for review for a journal
8. I am working on starting my own business
9. DS is wanting me to do my hair like Belle lately and it's so cute
10. March is my least favorite month of the year

[jenn]

browneyes8 - what kind of business are you going to start?! I think that is incredibly amazing. Good luck with your venture!

[pinkie]

browneyes8 how old is your LO? We have been wanting to do the Crayola place but our son just turned 2 and I'm not sure if he's too young.

[perumom]

1) I'm over winter and officially hate snow.
2) Had a haircut today and boy did I need it!
3) I'm regretting not teaching this semester already
4) I'm looking forward to HS girlfriend visiting from FL this Thursday.
5) I'm already tired of waiting and wondering if Peru found something wrong with our dossier
6) I am both nervous and excited over my 20s High School reunion in Jersey this Saturday
7) I have no idea what to make for dinner tonight
8) I am sitting near the window and I can already see flurries, gag!
9) I need to clean my house but instead I am surfing the net for DIY projects on pinterest
10) My dog needs a bath and yet here I am still on the computer :-(

[jenn]

browneyes8, pinkie - I googled the Crayola Experience and now I kinda wanna go! haha.

[browneyes8]

Mar 3, 2015 11:25:48 GMT -5 pinkie said:

browneyes8 how old is your LO? We have been wanting to do the Crayola place but our son just turned 2 and I'm not sure if he's too young.

He's 3 1/2.  I wasn't there personally but from what I heard I think 2 or 2 1/2 would be fine.  Here's the review I wrote for another board I am active on....
We drove up to Easton on Friday night  and stayed at the Lafayette Inn (http://www.lafayetteinn.com) for 2 nights. Lovely B&B, 1 mile from Crayola, center of town. It could maybe use a few updates but overall we had a great experience there and they were quite accommodating/welcoming to children. The room we stayed in (27) was comfortable for the 3 of us- they put a cot in for DS but he preferred to sleep with us in the King. We enjoyed yummy homemade breakfasts on Sat & Sun and hung out in the parlor for wine & cheese on Sat afternoon. They kept the parlor stocked with tea, coffee, fruit, and treats. It also had a low table that DS liked to color on.

DH and DS got to Crayola (http://www.crayolaexperience.com) when it opened (10am), took a lunch break (nearby (walk-able) Subway and chocolate store), and then returned until around 2pm. It sounded like it was good to get there when it opened since it was much more crowded when they came back post lunch.

There are 4 floors; they spent the day mainly on 2 & 3. There are a few more activities than what I am describing here too.

1: Store, Café and Entertainment
2: How Crayons are Made show (great post lunch activity), Make your own crayons & markers, small toddler playground.
3: Water table with crayon boats, Color playground- 2 story climber (DS favorite activity that they returned to a few times), Doodle in Dark Room (Color and other activities in dark)
4: Drip art, painting using crayon wax

DS came home with many keepsakes (crayons, markers) and (another!) Frozen coloring book they bought.

That evening we went to dinner at Pearly Bakers (also right near Crayola) (http://www.pearlybakers.net) for a good low key meal with interesting beers for DH and I to try.

DS had a great time and I am glad we made a weekend out of the shower I was attending. Definitely recommend for 2 ½-5 year olds from what I heard!

[browneyes8]

Mar 3, 2015 9:34:43 GMT -5 jenn said:

browneyes8 - what kind of business are you going to start?! I think that is incredibly amazing. Good luck with your venture!

Thank you!  

[pinkie]

browneyes8 we aren't too far away (I think 1-1.5 hr drive) so we will keep this on our radar. We haven't done any far away event with both kids yet and are a little nervous to drive and pay just to have one melt down thanks for sharing your review.

[roxy]

1) I thought today was Wednesday
2) I think I need new tires. It snowed today and I thought my car was going to spin out.
3) My new favorite snack is the sweet potato triskets and mashed avocado.
4) I'm starting to get busy at work and it's really cutting into my online time
5)I found out my POS step sister is pregnant. She already has 2 teens that are wards of the state. This one should end well too.
6) Finally scheduled time to get the unibrow that I've been rocking taken care of.
7) I'm so excited that it is finally going to be warmish this weekend. The pups and I will be taking a much needed long walk.
8) My brother and sister decided to sign up for a team triathlon this summer.
9) I got up early enough to actually start dinner the crockpot.
10) I have started mostly making all of our dinners in the crockpot.

[jwinct]

1. Our homestudy visit for tonight was rescheduled to next week because - guess what- it's going to snow tonight, starting around 4pm. The snow is then going to turn to sleet/freezing rain, then to rain and not end until tomorrow night.
2. I am so freaking sick of snow and freezing cold weather.
3. I selfishly cannot wait for my co-worker to come back from San Juan vacation. I don't like doing her job at all.
4. My DD's 8th birthday is next Friday and she keeps telling everyone we encounter. LOL
5. Yesterday morning, my 5 year old was playing a game and yelled "What the hell?!" and I said, "What did you just say?" and my 8 year old immediately said, "She said 'What the hell'," so I gave the 8 year old the side-eye and said to the little one, "You don' say that!" and she replied, "Well, I didn't know!" and I said, "Well, now you do!" You had to be there, but it was rather hilarious!
6. I'm not really a fan of the Shamrock Shake, but this DIY recipe just came into my email inbox via a daily recipe email I get: tinyurl.com/mwa9u87
7. This day cannot end soon enough.
8. It has taken me all day to write this post because I'm so busy. LOL
9. I love IPAs and there is a double IPA called Lawson's Sip O Sunshine that is outstanding (it's brewed here in CT), but it's really hard to get. It's like a victory when you find out a package store has some and you actually get there in time to buy some before it's sold out. I've only had it once so far, but it's fantastic. I just found out that a package store in my town has it today, so I think I'm going to stop there after work in hopes that they still have some left. The liquor store I got it at last time would only sell you 2 cans at a time and they are in brown paper bags, all stapled shut, and you had to pay cash. It's insane! Wish me luck that this other liquor store still has some when I get there after work. lol
10. I brought one of my cats for his yearly checkup on Saturday and the vet just called and said his bloodwork results look good, except that his thyroid level is on the high side, so they want to retest in 3 months.

[roxy]

jwinct, that's awful. I'm sorry you are getting delayed, yet again, because of snow.

[persianmaman]

jwinct ~ Again? I'm going to bring my hair dryer over and start melting all the snow for you. Sorry about the delay.

1. Forgot my charger at home today - had to do all my meetings without my laptop then gave up and come home.
2. Love my neighbors, hate their landlord. A branch from our tree fell through their window and now we're doing the insurance dance of who is liable for what.
3. I really wanna go out for ramen, but my "diet" is working, so I have to be good.
4. In two weeks I get to see my maman for Persian New Year!
5. Doing laundry and watching Friends, I love this.
6. PERSIAN NEW YEAR IS THE BEST.
7. Feeling super anxious about Saturday's home study.
8. Wanna make bread this weekend. Might do the dutch oven one.
9. My birthday is Friday! I am hoping DH brings me daffodils. That is all I want - lots and lots of daffodils to drown out this snow and ice.
10. NO, really, Persian New Year is the best. I love seeing family, and each food, and getting brand new money (only a dollar, but it's NEW), and seeing the goldfish amongst the other sohfreh items.

[grannypantiesrock]

1. MY tattoo itches.
2. If I try to raise my eyebrows really hard, only the outer corners go up and I look like Cruella Deville... thanks botox!
3. I got out early from work today, but don't feel the need to tell my husband that.
4. My dog is acting like a douche.
5. I can't wait to watch my Downton Abby recording.
6. I hope I have time to binge watch some Parenthood.
7. I wish DH would find something to do other than sit with me in front of the TV so I can just watch "my" stuff instead of "our" stuff.
8. I watch too much TV.
9. I went out to lunch with coworkers (after getting out from work early), had a drink, now I feel like I shouldn't have my standard fish bowl-sized class of wine.'
10. Screw it, I'm having the wine.

[grannypantiesrock]

jenn, pinkie, I live 5 minutes from the Crayola Factory.
jwinct, That blows!

[girliegus]

1. I got accepted to an amazing summer writing program yesterday. I'll be earning graduate credit and working with some truly incredible people in the field of literacy education at one of the top universities in the state.

2. Rainy days make me think of that Carpenters song "rainy days and Mondays".

3. I wear Crocs flats to work almost every day and I feel zero shame. Teachers should get fashion judgement exemptions on footwear.

4. I have never seen the Bachelor until two weeks ago and I may or may not have spent the last two weeks watching the whole current season from the beginning on demand. The crazy is addicting.

5. We went to dinner on Sunday night at our favorite hibachi place and the only other group at our table was a couple who was obviously in their first date. It was so cute watching them try to get to know each other!mmy first date with DH was significantly less cute.

6. We are having lasagna for dinner tonight and I think I'm more excited about the garlic bread than the actual meal.

7. One of my students wrote a story called "the horny monster" in class today. It was about a monster with lots of crazy looking horns. I could not stop myself from giggling.

8. My grocery store started carrying banana dark chocolate swirl gelato. I'm pretty sure I'm about to gain a million pounds.

9. I'm reading a book about Mother Teresa and I feel guilty for finding it boring. It's an interview with her about two years before she died and I feel like the author either did a crappy job interviewing her, or she wasn't a big cooperative fan of interviews.

10. My younger dog ate one of our dish towels and has had epically bad farts ever since. I love him, but dear god this is terrible.

[carolinah]

1. Buying a house is exciting but stressful

2. I miss A. I'm hoping we can find times in our busy March schedules to get together because I need some lovin' from that girl.

3. I wish I could take a sick day for being this tired.

4. I wish I had PTO

5. I just sunk in this week that this baby is stinking and I'm going to finally be a Mom. I cried. And cried. And cried. It just started again while writing this, and I'm not a cryer.

6. I wish I could put into words how very amazing, empowering, and beautiful it is to place a child for adoption and watch her and her family blossom. The pain and scars suck, but one look at that incredible girl and the look in her Mom and Dad's faces make it worth it.

7. Our tax return was way more than anticipated and I'm excited.

8. Gap is having a fantastic sale --->here. Make sure to enter the promo code for an extra 25% at checkout. You're welcome.

9. I'm itching for another tattoo.

10. Few people know I have one and are shocked to find out. I've always been considered goody-goody. I was absolutely not expected to get knocked up by some random guy and choose adoption for the child. My poor parents were shocked. They actually laugh about it now because of the kind of person I was.

11. (bonus) I like who I am now better ;-)

[milehighmama]

1. I am looking forward to spending some time with H while we are both not working this week.
2. I should be freaking out over both of us making big career changes but I'm not.
3. 2 nights in the mountains and I have 1 whole day to myself as H and jr go skiing.
4. Tonight I am experimenting with bedtime - if he goes to bed later maybe he will sleep past 630
5. We have mysteriously lost sound on our television.
6. I have a very long list of projects I want to complete while I am not working.
7. Looking forward to getting back into working out and losing weight.
8. Bourbon aged barleywine is tasty.
9. I think I am getting sick which will stink for our weekend away.
10. Revamping my resume is a time consuming process.

[lovelyplanet]

1) Just had the most horrible ride home. Took me over 3 hours doing pretty much 10 mph the whole way! Shouldn't have underestimated the bad weather and laughed at my colleagues.

2) Someone at work passed away while on vacation yesterday. I didn't actually know him but so sad and tragic.

3) I told my HR yesterday that we are adopting. She seemed excited for us. In fact she even asked if I had looked into FMLA and looked up the labor laws in my state that offers some kind of insurance pay while on leave.

4) Still not much news from the agency. They are supposed to be completing the home study report this week but haven't seen anything yet. I know it's only Tuesday but my confidence level in them is pretty low at this point.

5) I am absolutely loving this amazing winter we have had so far. I mean what's not to love? Snow shoveling, layers of clothes, no going outside for long, long commute home - the list goes on.
(I am hoping this reverse psychology will work and it will be 70 soon.)

6) My 55lb dog thinks she is a lap dog and gets super jealous of the cats when we cuddle with them. They so act like siblings.

7) My BIL is coming to visit us on Friday and I feel like I should make him a nice home cooked meal. But I always feel too tired to cook on weekdays.

8) I need to lose 5lbs. Need to psyche myself to just put some effort into it.

9) I am watching a Chopped show about meatballs and now I am craving some.

10) We had the foresight to prepare a wild rice chicken soup in the crackpot today. Now the house smells amazing and our tummies are happy.

[pinkie]

1) I hate winter. Had sleet yesterday and will be getting 8-10 inches of snow tonight into tomorrow.
2) our baby rolled back to belly in his crib this morning
3) our older son is still totally in love with the decorations from his party. A few dollar store balloons provide hours of entertainment.
4) I got a nice bonus from my work review. My husband had an even better one. I think some celebratory sushi is in order.
5) we had tried to plan a trip to florida but couldn't find a rental. I really wish we were going.
6) 2 years ago we were sitting in a hotel room and were nervous wrecks waiting for TPR to be signed. I literally didn't sleep a wink the night before as I was so convinced something would go wrong.
7) I'm really sad and disappointed that DS1's BM did not contact us on his birthday. I hope she is ok and that she will contact us in the future.
8) I saw some baseball on Tv last night and it fave me hope for spring.
9) I have so much laundy to fold. I'm procrasticaniting starting by writing this post.
10) I have 2 lunches set up next week. Yippee that I'll get out of the house 2 days in a row lol.

[shemarie82]

1) It is Wednesday, but I still want to play along.
2) I went to my aunt's funeral yesterday, it was very hard! She just had turned 50 and left behind 4 boys
3) Until my engagement, the previous 10 years, I have had very little contact with my extended family. Since coming out and allowing them in my life, it has been great to reconnect with them.
4) I had a broken tooth that had to be taken out on Monday. I have been on an antibiotic since then, today I feel like absolute poo. That means whatever this bug is, it is a virus, or the antibiotic would be taking care of it.
5) I have lots of people on social media that are doing Spring Break in sunny warm climates. I hate them!
6) Just 2 weeks ago I was in Nevada where it was 70+, but that feels like ancient history now.
7) Tonight we go for our reorientation process with DHS for our license.
8) The social worker said that if I needed to do family things (due to the death) that we could do it at another time. I told her that we really need to feel like we are making steps to make this thing happen.
9) While I know that we have just started this process in the big scheme of things, I sometimes panic and think that I would be okay if I didn't become a mom.
10) To be a mom is what I have always dreamed of. I think I might need to talk to my shrink to see why I am trying to talk myself out of it now...

[shemarie82]

Mar 3, 2015 15:25:57 GMT -5 jwinct said:

9. I love IPAs and there is a double IPA called Lawson's Sip O Sunshine that is outstanding (it's brewed here in CT), but it's really hard to get. It's like a victory when you find out a package store has some and you actually get there in time to buy some before it's sold out. I've only had it once so far, but it's fantastic. I just found out that a package store in my town has it today, so I think I'm going to stop there after work in hopes that they still have some left. The liquor store I got it at last time would only sell you 2 cans at a time and they are in brown paper bags, all stapled shut, and you had to pay cash. It's insane! Wish me luck that this other liquor store still has some when I get there after work. lol
.

If my wife could drink nothing else for life, it would be fine by her. She may like IPAs more than she likes me! 

[pinkie]

I totally love IPAs too

[jwinct]

So glad to have found some fellow IPA lovers!

[jwinct]

pinkie, What's your favorite IPA? I think mine is Stone Ruination. Though, Sip o Sunshine is up there, too!

[pinkie]

jwinct I'm not sure I have a favorite, right now I'm enjoying a goose island, I also like the Hawaiian one (castaway??). I enjoy the lagunitas and Sierra Nevada ones too. I tend or order unique ones if we are out and then forget the names lol. I'll have to look for the ones you suggest the next time I'm at the store.

[shemarie82]

B's favorite is Bell's Two Hearted Ale. It is a Michigan company, so that is why she started drinking it, but now she picks that over almost everything. It was voted in the Top 15 IPAs in the US.