Board Check-in 10/05

[toratoratori]

I need to kill the last 20 minutes of my workday, and what better way than a check-in?

My parents were here this weekend and it was actually great. I think it helped that I called my mom in advance to be like, "Steel thyself. The house is going to be messy. It doesn't mean I love you any less." She always gets upset when my house is a mess but it's like, we both have full-time jobs and a toddler. I literally do not have time to clean to your expectations. Deal.

There's a Seahawks game tonight and I'm dreading traffic. We don't leave daycare until 5:45 so I'm hoping it will have mostly cleared up by then (the game starts at 5:30) but I am prepared to be trapped in my car on I-5 for a full 90 minutes. Hopefully will have some snacks left from daycare, because I definitely forgot her diaper bag.

My MIL bought me a Starbucks card out of the blue, which is sweet but also ... weird? Like I feel like there's an ulterior motive but I'm not sure what it is. I love coffee too much to question it, though.

[bonzo2012]

toratoratori, I'm glad you had a good visit with your parents! And I hope there's no sneaky motive behind the Starbucks card from MIL...I can't think of what it would be, but then again I don't know her!

Welcome back @musicboxdancr, I hope you hang out with us more on this board!

We had a good weekend here. A friend was visiting from CA, and originally she was going to stay with us but she had a cold and really didn't want to share her germs so she stayed at a nearby hotel. So we got the fun of an out of town guest, without needing to fix up the guest room again! We saw The Martian, hiked at Garden of the Gods, and went to the Museum of Nature and Science. It was a lot of fun.

It's looking to be a pretty normal work week here, so no big exciting plans. It's quickly becoming fall though, and I think I need to go shopping. My boobs grew this last year and I have some shirts that just don't fit right in that area anymore. I hate shopping though, it's always such a pain since I'm short, curvy, but fairly thin in the torso. Clothing companies just do not understand that you can be short and thin but have curves!

[toratoratori]

Welcome back, @musicboxdancr! How's your pregnancy going? Hopefully it's been smooth sailing!

bonzo2012 We saw The Martian this weekend, too! Did you LOOOOOOVE it? I didn't know what to expect, but I love Matt Damon and my hubs loves sci-fi so we just went for it and were both really impressed.

[bonzo2012]

toratoratori, The Martian was so good! I'm part way through the book, and there were a few changes but I'm pretty impressed with how well they did the movie. The friend who was visiting isn't normally a big sci-fi fan, and she loved it too! I've been recommending that everyone see it since it was just so good and so close to reality that I hope it reignites interest in real life space programs.

[elin]

Hi ladies. This is my first check-in here.

DH and I applied to a surrogacy agency a few weeks ago and finally got a reply yesterday. We have an initial interview with one, but got rejected outright from the other. It's so exciting to be moving forward with the surrogacy side of things finally, since we've been TTA for 18 months.

We had a nice lazy weekend last weekend, except from walking the dogs. We spend most of the time curled up in bed binging on Vikings. Other than that, we're going to have a pretty standard week.

[missjenniebean]

@musicboxdancr I hang in NJCD as well. Welcome! I want to teach our LO Indonesian so that she can talk with his parents, but he doesn't seem to care to teach and I know none. Sesame street shall be her teacher. Haha

toratoratori enjoy the card! Worry about motives later. Hehe glad your visit went well.

bonzo2012 those guests are the best. Good luck shopping and have fun!


elin welcome!!

Hope it goes well.


Should be a normal week here! Nothing too exciting but the fair is next week.

[kaeguri]

Hi hi! So life with a newborn is apparently really busy and exhausting, who knew? 

toratoratori, my mom does the same with my house. She used to go around and check for dust. Crazy Korean lady. She's going to have to lower her standards from now on! lol.

Hi @musicboxdancr! Congrats on the pregnancy!

bonzo2012, clothing companies suck. They think every female fits into their mold or something. I can never wear dresses because I'm a large on top and my butt is the size of a 12 year old, soooo nothing fits. Jean shopping is also miserable. I'm going to have to pick up some more jeans soon and I'm dreading it. I was hoping to fit back into my pre pregnancy jeans before winter then I saw they were a size 2 and I fell over laughing. Yeeeeeah nope.

Welcome elin!

So, E is 2 months old as of last Saturday. I know they say time flies, but holy cow. She got her vaccinations Monday and has been fairly fussy. She started STTN for 7-11 hours every night like a perfect angel at about 7 weeks. I've finally stopped waking up MOTN in a panic and rushing to check if she's still breathing lol. Mostly. She weighed 13lbs 14 oz and was 24.25 inches long on Monday, finally fitting her OS cloth diapers and in 6 month clothes, with a few 9 month pjs because she has an abnormally long torso and short legs like her momma. Sorry kid.

I'm heartbroken over the flood in Columbia. It's my hometown, I just moved from there in March. I saw my old apartment flooded to the second level, my best friends had to evacuate when a dam broke and lost everything, my office I still work for got about a foot of water, and someone I knew died. Charleston, where I live, got hit pretty hard too. Being a civil engineer who specializes in storm water design ironically, I made sure we lived on high ground so we got a minimum of water. Our patio flooded but that's it. We were cut off from leaving for a few days because of flooded roads, but it's receded now. I've always seen floods on TV, but never dreamed it could happen here.

[bonzo2012]

kaeguri, that must be scary to be so close to the flooding! I'm glad you're on high ground at least.

elin, welcome to the check in threads! Good luck with the surrogacy!

[bonzo2012]

Well, I found one cute dress and a pair of heeled ankle boots that I love. No luck finding black pumps which I really need since my last ones literally fell apart the last time I wore them. I didn't even venture into the realm of trying to find shirts!

[missjenniebean]

Shopping is worse. Do they have to be pumps? If you have payless where you are there are these cheap heels that are super comfortable and cute. The are by comfort plus and a lot of my coworkers and I use them. I was also in a wedding where we wore them.

[bonzo2012]

No, they don't have to be pumps. I just need black heels that don't look like I'm a teenager going to a dance and at DSW the other day it was either pumps or 4" glittery things!
I can try Payless. I haven't had much luck there before but it never hurts to try again.

[missjenniebean]

bonzo2012, I notice that too when I am out trying to find decent shoes for work. I just settle for old lady shoes half the time.