Wednesday Randoms 12/16

[mrsmonogrammed]

[mrsmonogrammed]

Accidentally forgot to delay my Honest Co. diaper shipment, but their customer service was awesome! They cancelled the order and postponed it for me no hassle:) woo!

[Bluedaisy]

Need to make cupcakes today because my husband decided he needs the oven tomorrow.

Also LO was up stupid early for him.

[dmoney]

I was told today by 2 different cowrokers that i look like I am loosing weight... I dont see it but I will take it as a win!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Dec 16, 2015 9:11:13 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

I forgot my badge so I can't get anywhere in the building today.
My coffee cup literally started to disintegrate as I was walking in to work.
LO slept like shit.
I think I'm going to try and take a half day today.

Definitely sounds like you deserve a 1/2 day today!

[tiffbot]

A year ago today we heard DD's heartbeat for the first time! I remember because it is a good friend's birthday and I'm just a date person like that.

Tonight is the school Christmas concert, my kids are too little but since H is a VP we spend a lot of time there and that's a lot of our friend group so I think I'll take the kids in to watch and see Santa after (aka the principal).

The school is also going to the park to sing Christmas carols today, it starts near the end of when DS usually naps so we'll just have to see how the timing goes for that.

Happy hump day! We are getting so close to Christmas, I'm getting so excited to see everyone's LOs as they celebrate their first and excited especially for all the FTM's for their first moments!!

[mrsmonogrammed]

Dec 16, 2015 10:03:11 GMT -5 budders said:

I am trying hard to stick to my budget for Christmas. I was planning on spending about $30 on each of my sisters, but found out that I have to pay a minimum of $50 to purchase an airline GC for my one sister (she lives across the country), and it's the only thing she said she wanted. Now I'm stumped as to what to do for her. She'll he grateful for anything I give her, but I want it to be useful for her.

What about a "travel kit" with snacks/mags/blanket/neck pillow/etc? (If she's traveling soon of course) That way it's still for traveling, but in your budget? Or you could leave the travel theme all together and get her some sort of clothing:)

[gigi3126]

Wtf is wrong with me!! I keep getting weepy about random crap. Example: I just welled up reading tiffbot's post...it wasn't even sad. I'm ridiculous.
Also, my students are taking finals, so I'm bored and trying not to snack on random junk. It's hard to lose weight when you work at a school. I'm looking at you, PTA.

[mrsdee1982]

So, yesterday I posted how LAUSD shut down all 900+ schools for the day, displacing over 700,000 students, due to a threat.

Last night they reported that the threat turned out to be a hoax.

Well, today, my nanny just got notice that her daughters, my 14 year old goddaughter, high school is now shut down for the day due to a note with a threat taped to the door of the administrator office. Police are sweeping the campus now.

I am certain this will turn out to be a hoax too. What is so infuriating about this is that every hoax will diminish the response to an actual threat. It's the "boy who cried wolf".

Oh, and now my 14 year old goddaughter who canceled going to a concert a few days after the Paris attacks because she was just too afraid is crying and telling her mom she's afraid of going to school because "what if it is real one day?" ugh...

[beersandweirs]

mrsdee1982, "ugh" is right... I just don't even know how to express how I feel about all of this stuff going on.

[beersandweirs]

I was super stoked I pumped 4oz during my first session yesterday, only to get 2.5oz today, womp womp.

[alayne926]

Dec 16, 2015 11:02:21 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

And I just got projectile puked on by my patient. Fuck today in the ear.

Oh my gosh...I would just leave....

[alayne926]

mrsdee1982, DH and I were talking about this lastnight. All of the hoaxes and one day it's going to be real and no one is going to do anything about it. I hope for everyone's sake, that they keep taking these seriously, but so many resources and time are being used up by this.

[billyhorrible]

I'm not a rabid swearer, so I forget sometimes I need to watch my language. We had some frozen peaches with breakfast this morning, and BH was having a hard time hanging on to them.

Me: Yep. Peaches can be slippery mofos.
LBB: What's a mofo?
Me: Ummmmmmmmmmm. Buddies. Like a buddy.
DH: (from the kitchen) NOPE. Not a good idea. We do not want him going around school calling his friends mofos.

[Bluedaisy]

budders, you could also get a visa gift card that she could put towards a ticket.

[alayne926]

Dec 16, 2015 12:42:25 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

I'm not a rabid swearer, so I forget sometimes I need to watch my language. We had some frozen peaches with breakfast this morning, and BH was having a hard time hanging on to them.

Me: Yep. Peaches can be slippery mofos.
LBB: What's a mofo?
Me: Ummmmmmmmmmm. Buddies. Like a buddy.
DH: (from the kitchen) NOPE. Not a good idea. We do not want him going around school calling his friends mofos.

This made me LOL. 

[tiffbot]

gigi3126 lol I'm sorry! If it makes you feel better, I choked up watching Elf the other day, Yep. The part at the end where Zoey stands up and gets the crowd to sing 'Santa Claus is Coming To Town"...no idea.

I made DS ants on a log today and he informed me they are not ants, they are bees, lol. I love that he's getting imaginative!

[silv3rlining]

Dec 16, 2015 13:35:38 GMT -5 budders said:

Mother's milk tea is disgusting.

Did you try adding honey/sugar and milk?

[beersandweirs]

Dec 16, 2015 13:40:26 GMT -5 carrots said:

Dec 16, 2015 13:35:38 GMT -5 budders said:

Mother's milk tea is disgusting.

Womp womp. I just added some to my Amazon cart this morning. Is it like "unbearable/not worth it" disgusting or "this isn't good but oh well I'll drink it" disgusting?

This from the lady who currently smells like maple syrup...thanks fenugreek.

Haha, I also smell like maple over here!

I honestly don't think the tea is that bad, it's pretty mild, I think it smells worse than it tastes.  However, I stopped drinking it and am just taking fenugreek and that seems to be working better, but maybe if you did both you would get double the benefits?

ETA: Husband and I were having sex the other day and he laughed because I smelled like maple.

[wegrowsheep]

Dec 16, 2015 12:42:25 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

I'm not a rabid swearer, so I forget sometimes I need to watch my language. We had some frozen peaches with breakfast this morning, and BH was having a hard time hanging on to them.

Me: Yep. Peaches can be slippery mofos.
LBB: What's a mofo?
Me: Ummmmmmmmmmm. Buddies. Like a buddy.
DH: (from the kitchen) NOPE. Not a good idea. We do not want him going around school calling his friends mofos.

You win everything today, LOL.

[erbear]

The tea was horrible to me at first, but it's gotten better. I add a truvia and almond milk.

[mrsdee1982]

I am so tired today. We didn't get home from my godsons 2nd grade holiday concert until close to 8:30 last night, which is 2 hours past C's bedtime so getting her down was a disaster. I didn't end up in bed until after 11 and then she woke up at 2 for about 45 minutes. Then I had to be up for work at 4:30. SOOOO TIRED...

[mrsdee1982]

I just saw this on FB with the caption "In a Perfect World". (Disclaimer - I do not know any of these people)

This rubs me the wrong way. I know it's meant to be funny, but it is really bugging me.

[sugarkissed]

I've got guests here from Australia so I haven't been online at all! I've been touring them around and giving them the white Christmas experience.

They are currently skiing while I relax with the kids, it's been fun but a bit exhausting being so busy and having to haul the kids everywhere.

DH's family is making me feel super guilty about not spending Christmas with them even though we did last year and it's my family's turn this year. I love the holidays but I'm having a hard time getting in the spirit when it's all about guilt trips and detailed lists of what to get SIL's kids for Christmas.

[alayne926]

mrsdee1982, I saw that on Parenting yesterday. I think it's in bad taste. The look on the mom's face and the daughter on the right is just sad to me. They are not teaching those kids anything about healthy relationships at all by subjecting them to those poses. Awful!

[carolyngrace]

Dec 16, 2015 16:27:26 GMT -5 alayne926 said:

mrsdee1982 , I saw that on Parenting yesterday. I think it's in bad taste. The look on the mom's face and the daughter on the right is just sad to me. They are not teaching those kids anything about healthy relationships at all by subjecting them to those poses. Awful!

Seriously! You want to teach your son that life would be "better" if all the women in the house would just be quiet? Not to mention the girls.... It would be MILDLY funny if all of the kids were silenced, and the parents were looking happy, but this is awful. 

[trixi282]

I finally have just over 8 hours of PTO!!!! I was allowed to go into a negative balance when E was in the NICU, and I since I went to 30 hours it takes longer to gain hours back... so I finally have EIGHT hours of PTO and I'm so happy about it

[erbear]

Ugh, I hate that photo. What a message to send to your kids.

[billyhorrible]

I am legitimately bummed.

When I get a chance to run at work it's fantastic because I'm less than half a mile from the coast, so I have a gorgeous view when I run. Yesterday I was thinking about how I've never seen a whale, even though I run along the coast a lot.

Today I got all ready to go for a run and got called in to my boss's office to discuss a motion. After, there wasn't enough time to go for a run before pumping so I just ran across the street to the market to pick up some bread. Some guy stopped me to chat about my shirt (from a race this weekend) and mentioned that he just spent the past half hour watching a whale flip over and jump through the water about 12 times.

[wegrowsheep]

Dec 16, 2015 18:31:20 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

I am legitimately bummed.

When I get a chance to run at work it's fantastic because I'm less than half a mile from the coast, so I have a gorgeous view when I run. Yesterday I was thinking about how I've never seen a whale, even though I run along the coast a lot.

Today I got all ready to go for a run and got called in to my boss's office to discuss a motion. After, there wasn't enough time to go for a run before pumping so I just ran across the street to the market to pick up some bread. Some guy stopped me to chat about my shirt (from a race this weekend) and mentioned that he just spent the past half hour watching a whale flip over and jump through the water about 12 times.

Major bummer! Whale watching season isn't til February up here.
I am majorly bummed that I haven't run in 8 days.