I know! I can't wait to try the poblano peppers, I'll make those Friday. I hope I won't be disappointed!!!
MH put his foot down and wouldn't do the squid ink pasta (he's a very unadventurous eater and Blue Apron has expanded his horizons some but he has a limit). Usually I get it anyway and make the meal he won't eat as lunches for me (makes four lunches usually!) but I thought shrimp might be tough to transport for work, so we skipped this week...but I'm sad to miss the stuffed peppers! I want to hear how they are!!
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My random: I am constantly reminded of TCF when driving because I see our acronyms everywhere on license plates. Today I saw one with "DTD." Cue immature chortling.
I'm working on "project IF" at work and "IF costs". It blows.
Ugh. One of my coworkers who's been here longer than I have is moving to our parent company's east coast office. This is his last week, so they're doing a big going away thing tomorrow. It's at 4:30 in a park like a half hour from here. I have to be at a stupid HOA thing at 5:30 near my house. If I go, I can only stay for like 20 minutes.
I really want to go, but I'm not sure it's worth the aggravation of 30 minutes there, then 30 minutes back just to stay for 20 minutes or so. AND I'd have to pay for parking.
If I skip ONE of the HOA things tomorrow night I could stay for maybe 45 minutes. That's probably the better option.
I know! I can't wait to try the poblano peppers, I'll make those Friday. I hope I won't be disappointed!!!
MH put his foot down and wouldn't do the squid ink pasta (he's a very unadventurous eater and Blue Apron has expanded his horizons some but he has a limit). Usually I get it anyway and make the meal he won't eat as lunches for me (makes four lunches usually!) but I thought shrimp might be tough to transport for work, so we skipped this week...but I'm sad to miss the stuffed peppers! I want to hear how they are!!
I'll keep you posted, I love poblano peppers, so I'm a little biased but I'll let you know what MH thinks of it.
Post by shemarie82 on Jul 22, 2015 10:15:31 GMT -5
I went into bitch mode with the douchebag from the health department. Within about 30 minutes, the correct forms were turned in to licensing! FFS, lets do this damn thing!
Ugh. One of my coworkers who's been here longer than I have is moving to our parent company's east coast office. This is his last week, so they're doing a big going away thing tomorrow. It's at 4:30 in a park like a half hour from here. I have to be at a stupid HOA thing at 5:30 near my house. If I go, I can only stay for like 20 minutes.
I really want to go, but I'm not sure it's worth the aggravation of 30 minutes there, then 30 minutes back just to stay for 20 minutes or so. AND I'd have to pay for parking.
If I skip ONE of the HOA things tomorrow night I could stay for maybe 45 minutes. That's probably the better option.
It seems like being on the HOA is SO much work! How many meetings do you have a week? It seems like quite a few! Is being on an HOA board a volunteer position? Sorry, I've never been part of an HOA community so I'm just curious since I see you post about it a lot.
I went into bitch mode with the douchebag from the health department. Within about 30 minutes, the correct forms were turned in to licensing! FFS, lets do this damn thing!
Good! I'm glad things are actually moving forward now. :)
My niece is sick and got sent home from daycare. Instead of taking a day off my BIL and SIL decided to leave her with DH at work for the day. Apparently she has been crying all morning and DH hasn't gotten anything done. SIL works for her family business and BIL works for his plus there are other family members that don't work and could watch her. DH sent me a picture that they basically put blankets down on a hard concrete floor and boxed her in. No wonder she's pissed.
I'm tempted to work from home this afternoon and pick her up and take her back to our house.
Ugh. One of my coworkers who's been here longer than I have is moving to our parent company's east coast office. This is his last week, so they're doing a big going away thing tomorrow. It's at 4:30 in a park like a half hour from here. I have to be at a stupid HOA thing at 5:30 near my house. If I go, I can only stay for like 20 minutes.
I really want to go, but I'm not sure it's worth the aggravation of 30 minutes there, then 30 minutes back just to stay for 20 minutes or so. AND I'd have to pay for parking.
If I skip ONE of the HOA things tomorrow night I could stay for maybe 45 minutes. That's probably the better option.
It seems like being on the HOA is SO much work! How many meetings do you have a week? It seems like quite a few! Is being on an HOA board a volunteer position? Sorry, I've never been part of an HOA community so I'm just curious since I see you post about it a lot.
I'm on the Board of Directors, I chair the Long Range Planning Committee and I'm on the Finance Committee, so it's a bit more work than just being on the board would be. Normally it's a board meeting (a few hours) 2 Thursdays a month, Finance committee meetings (2 hours or less) 2 Wednesdays a month (different weeks than the Board Meetings) and 2 or 3 Long Range Planning Committee meetings (every other Monday, 1 - 2 hours).
The last two weeks have been insane because we're prepping for the annual general meeting and election, so we've had an extra Board meeting (which went FIVE FUCKING HOURS on Monday night), and I had to bring some documents from Long Range Planning to the document review group's meeting last night.
Normally? I'd say I put about 20 hours a month into it. This month it's going to be double, probably. Especially if you include the time taken to read over all the documents that are being passed around before the election.
Our Board and committees are totally volunteer, no compensation allowed. I really enjoy it, 85% of the time. I have a much better understanding of what's going on in the community (3100 homes, about 7000 people) than I did before, and I feel like I'm helping in some way, at least. The downside is stretches like this where there's a ton of work to get done and we're putting lots of extra hours in. And the people who will never be satisfied and are convinced we're siphoning their dues money off into bank accounts in Grand Cayman for our own nefarious purposes.
My niece is sick and got sent home from daycare. Instead of taking a day off my BIL and SIL decided to leave her with DH at work for the day. Apparently she has been crying all morning and DH hasn't gotten anything done. SIL works for her family business and BIL works for his plus there are other family members that don't work and could watch her. DH sent me a picture that they basically put blankets down on a hard concrete floor and boxed her in. No wonder she's pissed.
I'm tempted to work from home this afternoon and pick her up and take her back to our house.
Poor kid. I mean, I get that sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, but it sounds like in this case there are way better options your BIL & SIL could have chosen.
It seems like being on the HOA is SO much work! How many meetings do you have a week? It seems like quite a few! Is being on an HOA board a volunteer position? Sorry, I've never been part of an HOA community so I'm just curious since I see you post about it a lot.
I'm on the Board of Directors, I chair the Long Range Planning Committee and I'm on the Finance Committee, so it's a bit more work than just being on the board would be. Normally it's a board meeting (a few hours) 2 Thursdays a month, Finance committee meetings (2 hours or less) 2 Wednesdays a month (different weeks than the Board Meetings) and 2 or 3 Long Range Planning Committee meetings (every other Monday, 1 - 2 hours).
The last two weeks have been insane because we're prepping for the annual general meeting and election, so we've had an extra Board meeting (which went FIVE FUCKING HOURS on Monday night), and I had to bring some documents from Long Range Planning to the document review group's meeting last night.
Normally? I'd say I put about 20 hours a month into it. This month it's going to be double, probably. Especially if you include the time taken to read over all the documents that are being passed around before the election.
Our Board and committees are totally volunteer, no compensation allowed. I really enjoy it, 85% of the time. I have a much better understanding of what's going on in the community (3100 homes, about 7000 people) than I did before, and I feel like I'm helping in some way, at least. The downside is stretches like this where there's a ton of work to get done and we're putting lots of extra hours in. And the people who will never be satisfied and are convinced we're siphoning their dues money off into bank accounts in Grand Cayman for our own nefarious purposes.
Wow, 3100 homes is a lot- I can see why so many meetings are needed! Thanks for the explanation, I was always curious about it!I bet you will be happy when the annual meeting is over
I'm on the Board of Directors, I chair the Long Range Planning Committee and I'm on the Finance Committee, so it's a bit more work than just being on the board would be. Normally it's a board meeting (a few hours) 2 Thursdays a month, Finance committee meetings (2 hours or less) 2 Wednesdays a month (different weeks than the Board Meetings) and 2 or 3 Long Range Planning Committee meetings (every other Monday, 1 - 2 hours).
The last two weeks have been insane because we're prepping for the annual general meeting and election, so we've had an extra Board meeting (which went FIVE FUCKING HOURS on Monday night), and I had to bring some documents from Long Range Planning to the document review group's meeting last night.
Normally? I'd say I put about 20 hours a month into it. This month it's going to be double, probably. Especially if you include the time taken to read over all the documents that are being passed around before the election.
Our Board and committees are totally volunteer, no compensation allowed. I really enjoy it, 85% of the time. I have a much better understanding of what's going on in the community (3100 homes, about 7000 people) than I did before, and I feel like I'm helping in some way, at least. The downside is stretches like this where there's a ton of work to get done and we're putting lots of extra hours in. And the people who will never be satisfied and are convinced we're siphoning their dues money off into bank accounts in Grand Cayman for our own nefarious purposes.
Wow, 3100 homes is a lot- I can see why so many meetings are needed! Thanks for the explanation, I was always curious about it!I bet you will be happy when the annual meeting is over
I think in the next week or so things will slow down. We have to get final language for the ballot sent to our attorney for review, then we might have to make some minor tweaks, but once we do it's all on to the elections committee to send it to the printers, etc, etc.
I'm not sure how I'll feel after the annual meeting - my spot is up for election, so I might be extra relieved (but sad) if I don't get elected (I was appointed to fill a vacancy earlier this year, so this is my first time actually standing for election).
My niece is sick and got sent home from daycare. Instead of taking a day off my BIL and SIL decided to leave her with DH at work for the day. Apparently she has been crying all morning and DH hasn't gotten anything done. SIL works for her family business and BIL works for his plus there are other family members that don't work and could watch her. DH sent me a picture that they basically put blankets down on a hard concrete floor and boxed her in. No wonder she's pissed.
I'm tempted to work from home this afternoon and pick her up and take her back to our house.
I'm rather horrified by this.
It's also confusing that they would dump their child on YH while he is at work. Does not compute.
It's a family business. DH runs the office and his brother does field work. DH is literally the only person in the office all day except at lunch time.
I am seriously considering going at lunch and getting her when I can get BIL to help with the car seat. She doesn't deserve this.
I'm going in for an emergency root canal in 4 hours. I'm terrified. Someone tell me they aren't as bad as they seem.
It wasn't bad. Mine took forever because I had a fresh out of dental school dentist, so she was really slow and thorough. My jaw hurt more than anything being open for so long.
My random: I am constantly reminded of TCF when driving because I see our acronyms everywhere on license plates. Today I saw one with "DTD." Cue immature chortling.
My license plates start with GKU and I bought the car the same day I found out I was KTFU with DS. Woah.
I'm going in for an emergency root canal in 4 hours. I'm terrified. Someone tell me they aren't as bad as they seem.
It wasn't bad. Mine took forever because I had a fresh out of dental school dentist, so she was really slow and thorough. My jaw hurt more than anything being open for so long.
I second youdontsay's experience. My jaw was not happy afterwards, but the actual root canal itself was not bad.
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My day has been crap so far. I am still job searching and having no luck. I found one job to apply for this morning but it was the first I'm qualified for in the past month. I then scrolled through FB and got all depressed at posts about pregnancy and babies. I just want a full time job using my degree that I spent 5 years earning and I want a baby. Is that too much to ask for?
We're going to a baseball game tonight so I'm hoping I'll be in a better mood by then.
My day has been crap so far. I am still job searching and having no luck. I found one job to apply for this morning but it was the first I'm qualified for in the past month. I then scrolled through FB and got all depressed. I just want a full time job using my degree that I spent 5 years earning and I want a baby. Is that too much to ask for?
We're going to a baseball game tonight so I'm hoping I'll be in a better mood by then.
Ugh, finding a good job can be so frustrating. I hope you find something soon. MH struggles with this, too.
What kind of job are you looking for?
Thanks! I want a job teaching. I currently work in a high school as a glorified tutor (that's seriously how I feel) without so much as a job description and really crappy pay. I hate the lack of structure. It's way more running reports and compiling data than teaching which wasn't what I was told during my interview. So frustrating.
ETA I run our 2 hour after school tutoring program which I piloted last year. That's where the student contact comes in. The other 6 hours of the day are usually spent running reports, compiling data, etc. Just not what I want to be doing.
Ugh, finding a good job can be so frustrating. I hope you find something soon. MH struggles with this, too.
What kind of job are you looking for?
Thanks! I want a job teaching. I currently work in a high school as a glorified tutor (that's seriously how I feel) without so much as a job description and really crappy pay. I hate the lack of structure. It's way more running reports and compiling data than teaching which wasn't what I was told during my interview. So frustrating.
ETA I run our 2 hour after school tutoring program which is where the student contact comes in. The other 6 hours of the day are usually pointless.
Where abouts are you? I also teach and around here they are hard to come by. We were told in TC that if we wanted a job we'd have to go West, North, French, or Overseas. (I went French)
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