Election Day Spam

[kaydee0402]

If there is an Election in your state today, don't forget to vote!

[kaydee0402]

P.S. I love The Campaign

P.P.S. That was my first gif! What what!

[kaydee0402]

I love elections and campaigns, debates...all of it. I'll be dragging my husband and Little Man to the polls tonight and then watching results all evening.

I have issues.

[kaydee0402]

Nov 3, 2015 9:07:46 GMT -5 @holachica said:

My school is a polling place, so we don't have classes but are having a professional development day. It's outside at the zoo (yay, it's a gorgeous day!) besides a few meetings inside. But, it's all day and I typically only teach afternoons. So it is a little bit of a bummer to be away from DS all day.

The zoo, how fun!  It's too bad you can't bring him with you.

[seamonster]

I want to buy a space heater for the pumping room. How can it be so cold in here when the heat is on?

[lilyelayne]

@holachica hope you enjoy your day, even if you're away from LO.
mumomma13 good luck! Sending you motivation to keep studying til the finish line!
seamonster well the cold certainly doesn't help your output

[lilyelayne]

Me:


I feel like I've been gifing a lot lately. I should probably scale back.

[kaydee0402]

lilyelayne, there's no such thing as too much gifing.

Seriously. The gifs crack me up.

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Nov 3, 2015 10:07:02 GMT -5 kaydee0402 said:

lilyelayne, there's no such thing as too much gifing.

Seriously. The gifs crack me up.

Agreed.

[cloe111479]

No elections here today... they always do them on Saturdays (except for Presidential years)

At work.. blah. I want to go home already.

[cloe111479]

And there is no such thing as too many gifs.

[kaydee0402]

My son still isn't getting the DST memo. He was up again at 5. He was even up a little later than his normal bedtime because we were trying to catch up from having family in town all weekend. Then he fell asleep on the way to daycare because in his mind, it was nap time.

On the bright side, do you know how much housework you can get done when you're up a full hour early? I can now check laundry off my list for tonight!

[dmorgendorffer]

DD kind of sort of sttn - not really but it was the longest solid stretch I've gotten in a while - 10:30 -5:30. Woke up to her standing in her crib yelling at the door. It seems like she just started crawling and now she just wants to stand up all the time.

[dreemkin]

*peeks around door**whispers* I think Anna is STTN...
*crosses fingers I didn't just jinx it*

[aggiebug]

Hello! We have elections today but I am out of town so I can't vote.

Texas always keeps me busy. DD is happy to entertain everyone however she is a tad clingy so she prefers to entertain everyone while attached to me in some fashion. Silly girl.

[pitdigger]

Full day of prep before flying tomorrow.

Laundry, cleaning, packing/organizing.

I'm taking the bigger pack and play, the backpack carrier, the table chair (needs washing), and the stroller. Packing the car will be special.

I really hope G doesn't cut his teeth on the plane. That's my biggest worry at the moment.

[GeekBeagle]

Hello! I had a dentist appointment early this morning and just threw on whatever clothes I found. As I was sitting in the dentist chair, I realized that I had spit-up on the crotch of my jeans from the other night. Fail. I really need to do laundry.

[danitaec]

Happy Tuesday!
My sweet husband sent flowers from him and the baby to school this morning! It was sweet and totally unexpected, and makes me feel guilty because I've been rather negative in my thoughts toward him. Maybe he picked up on that...! The card was signed from him and the baby, so of course I teared up like the big softie I've become.

Other than that I'm feeling very overwhelmed at school. I know I'm "just the music teacher" but I have standards and things my kids are supposed to learn each year. Some of the teachers think I can just put together a program whenever it suits them; for example, the fifth grade lead teacher is expecting a Veterans' Day program next Friday (even though I was out last week for baby's surgery and she's out all this week chaperoning her kid's band trip), and it's not going to be ready. Plus 4th grade has just decided to start talking about the Christmas program they're supposed to be doing, which has turned into a "can they just sing some songs?" instead of a collaborative effort. Bleh, this is why I've always hated "group work".

Sorry for the rant. Off to eat my feelings now.

[johanna]

Effie and I voted. I was so disappointed we didn't get the "i voted today" sticker. I wanted to put it on her and take pictures of her first election!

[danitaec]

Amazon's offering its employees 20 weeks of paid maternity leave: 4 weeks of medical leave before delivery, 10 weeks paid mat leave, and another 6 weeks available for people employed more than a year. Employees can even share some of that last 6 weeks with their partner who works at another company that doesn't offer paid leave. Dang. Why can't, I dunno, school systems offer this for their employees?

[kaydee0402]

danitaec, love tit for the flowers.

[jensoprano82]

Nov 3, 2015 13:03:46 GMT -5 danitaec said:

Amazon's offering its employees 20 weeks of paid maternity leave: 4 weeks of medical leave before delivery, 10 weeks paid mat leave, and another 6 weeks available for people employed more than a year. Employees can even share some of that last 6 weeks with their partner who works at another company that doesn't offer paid leave. Dang. Why can't, I dunno, school systems offer this for their employees?

Dang that's a lot! Wonder if they're hiring?

[danitaec]

lilyelayne, Should you stop gifing (giffing)?

[aggiebug]

Does anyone elses baby seem to be competing in nursing Olympics? This child of mine is crawling all over me while eating. Its is quite impressive what she can do while eating.

[lilyelayne]

pitdigger safe travels!
danitaec the flowers are so sweet sorry work is so crappy.
johanna our elections were last month & we didn't get stickers either
aggiebug I prefer nursing olympics to refusing to nurse because life is more interesting during the day, then nurse all night to make up for it. I like it when DS crawls over to me and nurses kneeling or laying next to me. It's adorable.

[mishka29]

AF came calling today. So I'm feeling very ughhhh.

Mil came to visit which is always nice. The weather was surprisingly nice today so we hit the park after dinner in the dark lol

[kerrigrooves]

Nov 3, 2015 10:33:51 GMT -5 kaydee0402 said:

My son still isn't getting the DST memo. He was up again at 5. He was even up a little later than his normal bedtime because we were trying to catch up from having family in town all weekend. Then he fell asleep on the way to daycare because in his mind, it was nap time.

On the bright side, do you know how much housework you can get done when you're up a full hour early? I can now check laundry off my list for tonight!

This. We were up at again 4:50, ugh!!!  It makes for the longest day.

[johanna]

Nov 3, 2015 22:38:49 GMT -5 kerrigrooves said:

Nov 3, 2015 10:33:51 GMT -5 kaydee0402 said:

My son still isn't getting the DST memo. He was up again at 5. He was even up a little later than his normal bedtime because we were trying to catch up from having family in town all weekend. Then he fell asleep on the way to daycare because in his mind, it was nap time.

On the bright side, do you know how much housework you can get done when you're up a full hour early? I can now check laundry off my list for tonight!

This. We were up at again 4:50, ugh!!!  It makes for the longest day.

+1 for the early morning walk ups. 5am and she is chattering away in her crib. No. Not cool.

Btw the day before "fall back," she slept until 815am. She was luling us into a sense of complacency. She is a cunning child.

[seamonster]

I'm trying to get another hour of sleep out of DS. He's still feverish, but is in a relatively good mood. He's up for playing, but I keep putting him down in his crib. DH was ready just to be up for the day with him, but that leads to 430 am being the normal time to be up. I want 6 to be that time. So DH is sleeping on the couch while I get this kid back to sleep.

[stephanie]

My own sleep schedule sucks even though DD's keeps improving. I saw my GP yesterday and she prescribed a low dose of an antidepressant to aid in sleeping more than two hours at a time (my norm now). She asked if I was depressed and I told her I didn't think so until she prescribed me an antidepressant!! I didn't take it last night because I was too scared to (I can't co-sleep while using it) then didn't take it tonight because I had a glass of wine. So far it's not working. Haha.

She did suggest I go back to working out as much as possible (I previously worked out 3-5 days a week but haven't at all for the last month). She says it'll help tire me out (already exhausted) and make me feel better about myself (wtf? I'm not depressed!). So I worked out today. I'm tired but feel better about myself. :/