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Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Sometimes it's Sunday

chef · Guru

I'm only ready for Monday because Tuesday is our Monday :P

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I will totally accept that chef. Sunday is awesome. It is the season premiere of The Walking Dead.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Oh you zombie lovers!

Today I get to see Itty bitty, then Meeting, then work...

flan

FNW · Guru

Monday is a holiday for me. I think I'll surprise the boys and take them to the Verizon Center. The Wizards are hosting a practice where we can go for free and there's face painting, autographs from the players, and activities for the kids and the kids can take a turn trying to make a free throw. Then we'll go for a bite to eat. Maybe Chinatown, too, depending on how adventurous they want to be....Mr. FNW has to work so it will just be me and my little men.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

I ordered the neatest thing for Itty yesterday (from zulily). It's a name stamper, one of those pre-inked ones. It was only $10.

flan

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

Doing yard work today. Hopefully, I will get the rest of the Halloween decorations up. This year is the first time in decades that I don't have the holiday off. Instead I get most of Thanksgiving week off and nearly two weeks off at Christmas. I'll take that!

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

flan327 wrote:
I ordered the neatest thing for Itty yesterday (from zulily). It's a name stamper, one of those pre-inked ones. It was only $10.

flan

She will stamp her name of everything! She'll love it. DD loved stamps when she was 3.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
flan327 wrote:
I ordered the neatest thing for Itty yesterday (from zulily). It's a name stamper, one of those pre-inked ones. It was only $10.

flan
She will stamp her name of everything! She'll love it. DD loved stamps when she was 3.

And the ink is HOT PINK!

flan

FNW · Guru

That sounds like fun, flan! I bought name stickers for the boys' clothes when they were in preschool. I still use them for some of their matching clothes because they want to know which one is "theirs".

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
I will totally accept that chef. Sunday is awesome. It is the season premiere of The Walking Dead.

Oh boy! We're looking forward to it, too! smile

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Morning!

Nothing planned.

Gonna be one of those do nothing days.

Just normal daily stuff.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

An hour is NOT long enough for a visit with Itty bitty...

But I missed Meeting last week & wanted to go.

flan

jlbear71 · Guru

Afternoon everyone! Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Been busy catching up on chores. Did some shopping, got beef tenderloin for filet mignon for $5.99/lb. Ground beef is around $4.50 so this was a good deal. Need to break it down myself tho. Will probably incorporate the smaller bits for dinner tonight.

I have off Monday since I am in limbo of continuing internship. I will give them until the end of the week then start seriously looking.

flan, at least you are close enough to see Itty bitty on a regular basis.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

jlbear71 wrote:
Afternoon everyone! Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Been busy catching up on chores. Did some shopping, got beef tenderloin for filet mignon for $5.99/lb. Ground beef is around $4.50 so this was a good deal. Need to break it down myself tho. Will probably incorporate the smaller bits for dinner tonight.

I have off Monday since I am in limbo of continuing internship. I will give them until the end of the week then start seriously looking.

flan, at least you are close enough to see Itty bitty on a regular basis.

Wow that is a great price! I pay about 11.99/lb on sale.

I mowed the lawn, wow is it green and thick I bought the loaner mower from the repair guy for $75 plus gave him my broken ond. My broken one ran great but the wheels/axle broke and the parts alone were $150, I had priced them out on line. The mower was 7 YO. So I have a used lawn mower that had been well cared for and paid only $75. I thought that was a great deal. Anyway, I also dug up two arborvitaes that were injured during the winter, I had hoped they would get better but were totally dead by end of summer, so I dug them up and tossed them in the woods. I removed all the outside hoses and put them away and turned the water off on the faucet on the back. The front won't freeze so I leave that one on JIC.

I have to take a shower and bring the dog out.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

jlbear71 wrote:
Afternoon everyone! Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Been busy catching up on chores. Did some shopping, got beef tenderloin for filet mignon for $5.99/lb. Ground beef is around $4.50 so this was a good deal. Need to break it down myself tho. Will probably incorporate the smaller bits for dinner tonight.

I have off Monday since I am in limbo of continuing internship. I will give them until the end of the week then start seriously looking.

flan, at least you are close enough to see Itty bitty on a regular basis.

I know, but she's like a drug: the more I get, the more I want...

flan

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Yeah Walking Dead. Go! It's a boring day here. We have a few things to get done but not much.

jlbear, we're looking at buying a half a cow from a farm near here. It is between our house and SS's house and we see the ad on their fence every time we drive by. They are supposed raise their beef naturally.

I am very upset. We have a dog daycare here in town. I looked up their rules to see if we could take the dogs. They will not take our dogs. They do not take dogs with health problems or dogs who take medicine. Rules our dogs out.

NAOW · Vette's SS

You might still call them and see if they can recommend someone else to watch your dogs?

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

When we were at the vet's we saw a card for a teacher and her son who dog sit. We took one of the cards. I think we're going to call them and explain the situation to them and see what they say.

FNW · Guru

I never watched Walking Dead.

jlbear71 · Guru

Shredded 1/2 a laundry basket of paper yesterday, other half to be done later.

Two loads of towels laundry done. Three more of winter clothes and one of sheets to go.

Two of the three tenderloins have been butchered. I have 21 filet mignons and a few pounds that I cubed up. One more whole tenderloin to go.

Now to figure how I want to cook the cubed up parts for dinner tonight.

DH is happy, the Eagles won.

jlbear71 · Guru

FNW wrote:
I never watched Walking Dead.

You are not alone. I can't get into that type of SciFi.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

jlbear71 wrote:
FNW wrote:
I never watched Walking Dead.
You are not alone. I can't get into that type of SciFi.

I don't do zombies.

flan

Tangerine · Guru

Bunny's fever was 103+ this morning so we went to urgent care. Rapid strep was negative, doc prescribed Popsicles. He's resting now on an elaborate bed made up on the couch.
Fingers crossed Husband and I don't catch this.

Dona Worry Be Happy · Vette's SS!!

Name that baby!!!
Pett.

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

Tangerine wrote:
Bunny's fever was 103+ this morning so we went to urgent care. Rapid strep was negative, doc prescribed Popsicles. He's resting now on an elaborate bed made up on the couch.
Fingers crossed Husband and I don't catch this.

I hope he feels better soon!

Divine Geek · Guru

I am taking it easy today. Went to chruch, picked up a pizza and I am now watching football. This was a horrible week for me. I worked nearly 70 hours, today is a do-nothing day before another long week starts.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Aww... poor Bunny. Hope he feels better soon.

If he still has a sore throat in a few days and still has a negative strip test, make them culture it.

Walking Dead is ok. Shawn of the Dead is great.

Baby names!
Puddin
Piper
Pepper
Peta
Paisley
Punk
Pinky
Pasquale
Patton
Pez
Pedro
Poinsettia
Petunia
Plunky

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

You have made a wise decision DG.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

Divine Geek wrote:
I am taking it easy today. Went to chruch, picked up a pizza and I am now watching football. This was a horrible week for me. I worked nearly 70 hours, today is a do-nothing day before another long week starts.

70 hours? Good gosh woman!

Take a break.

Yes, some weeks are bad. Hope this next week is better for you.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

Tangerine wrote:
Bunny's fever was 103+ this morning so we went to urgent care. Rapid strep was negative, doc prescribed Popsicles. He's resting now on an elaborate bed made up on the couch.
Fingers crossed Husband and I don't catch this.

Kids can have a raging fever one minute and a half hour later be running all over the place.

Hope the bug is gone soon.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

flan327 wrote:
jlbear71 wrote:
FNW wrote:
I never watched Walking Dead.
You are not alone. I can't get into that type of SciFi.
I don't do zombies.
flan

Good gosh, the commercials scare the beejee's out of me!

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

jlbear71 wrote:
Shredded 1/2 a laundry basket of paper yesterday, other half to be done later.

Two loads of towels laundry done. Three more of winter clothes and one of sheets to go.

Two of the three tenderloins have been butchered. I have 21 filet mignons and a few pounds that I cubed up. One more whole tenderloin to go.

Now to figure how I want to cook the cubed up parts for dinner tonight.

DH is happy, the Eagles won.

The cubes make the best stew ever! Lucky you.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:
Yeah Walking Dead. Go! It's a boring day here. We have a few things to get done but not much.

jlbear, we're looking at buying a half a cow from a farm near here. It is between our house and SS's house and we see the ad on their fence every time we drive by. They are supposed raise their beef naturally.

I am very upset. We have a dog daycare here in town. I looked up their rules to see if we could take the dogs. They will not take our dogs. They do not take dogs with health problems or dogs who take medicine. Rules our dogs out.

Hope you can find another dog sitter, NJN.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

IKWTDS, are you preparing for winter already?

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Monster is getting on my last nerve today.

Dad is trying to fix a drainage problem. So dad has been in, under and all around the house more times than I can count. Monster wants with him, but then he doesnt.

Monster is finally in my lap. Maybe he is just tired of it now.

Lindley · Guru

flan327 wrote:
I ordered the neatest thing for Itty yesterday (from zulily). It's a name stamper, one of those pre-inked ones. It was only $10.

flan

I would love to get that for my granddaughters. Your a good grandma.

Lindley · Guru

just Czech wrote:
flan327 wrote:
jlbear71 wrote:
FNW wrote:
I never watched Walking Dead.
You are not alone. I can't get into that type of SciFi.
I don't do zombies.
flan
Good gosh, the commercials scare the beejee's out of me!

I tried watching the walking dead marathon. Turned it off halfway the episode. It was gross.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

flan327 wrote:
jlbear71 wrote:
FNW wrote:
I never watched Walking Dead.
You are not alone. I can't get into that type of SciFi.
I don't do zombies.
flan

It took us awhile to get into it. Now we're hooked!

Tang, I hope Bunny gets to feeling better.

Lindley · Guru

Tangerine wrote:
Bunny's fever was 103+ this morning so we went to urgent care. Rapid strep was negative, doc prescribed Popsicles. He's resting now on an elaborate bed made up on the couch.
Fingers crossed Husband and I don't catch this.

Hope he feels better soon.

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Lindley wrote:
just Czech wrote:
flan327 wrote:
jlbear71 wrote:
FNW wrote:
I never watched Walking Dead.
You are not alone. I can't get into that type of SciFi.
I don't do zombies.
flan
Good gosh, the commercials scare the beejee's out of me!
I tried watching the walking dead marathon. Turned it off halfway the episode. It was gross.

We've been watching all week. We're so excited.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

just Czech wrote:
IKWTDS, are you preparing for winter already?

Yes I am. It sneaks up quick. I even had my oil delivered. Filled the tank for $400! Won't need oil until January or Feb, this will be a cheap heating year. I need to get wood delivered though. I am very low.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

just Czech wrote:
Divine Geek wrote:
I am taking it easy today. Went to chruch, picked up a pizza and I am now watching football. This was a horrible week for me. I worked nearly 70 hours, today is a do-nothing day before another long week starts.
70 hours? Good gosh woman!
Take a break.
Yes, some weeks are bad. Hope this next week is better for you.

I know how DG feels. I worked 60 last week. I don't mind but it leaves little time for me time. The one great thing is it made my lawn work day and winterizing day feel like a picnic!

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Lindley wrote:
flan327 wrote:
I ordered the neatest thing for Itty yesterday (from zulily). It's a name stamper, one of those pre-inked ones. It was only $10.

flan
I would love to get that for my granddaughters. Your a good grandma.

Be warned: zulily is like crack cocaine for me!

flan

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I went on it and didn't see anything I really liked. However, that will probably change one day.

Divine Geek · Guru

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
just Czech wrote:
Divine Geek wrote:
I am taking it easy today. Went to chruch, picked up a pizza and I am now watching football. This was a horrible week for me. I worked nearly 70 hours, today is a do-nothing day before another long week starts.
70 hours? Good gosh woman!
Take a break.
Yes, some weeks are bad. Hope this next week is better for you.
I know how DG feels. I worked 60 last week. I don't mind but it leaves little time for me time. The one great thing is it made my lawn work day and winterizing day feel like a picnic!

50 is a normal week for me, I'm fine at that level. 60 is busy, starting to get a little overwhelming, but it also depends how it is split up (if I work a full day on Saturday, it will be a 60 hour week, but its not as bad as staying super late during the week). 70 hours seems to be approaching my "want to cry" level. I survived, and boss-man told me twice on Friday that I did a good job last week. He left Friday on a 2+ week business trip, that's most of what caused my crazy week. He told me I could leave early on Friday, but I just had too much to do - actually, his words were "if you were to leave early while I'm gone, that would be ok" so I might try to take an afternoon sometime.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

I remember those weeks.

You know what? I miss them.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

Divine Geek wrote:
I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
just Czech wrote:
Divine Geek wrote:
I am taking it easy today. Went to chruch, picked up a pizza and I am now watching football. This was a horrible week for me. I worked nearly 70 hours, today is a do-nothing day before another long week starts.
70 hours? Good gosh woman!
Take a break.
Yes, some weeks are bad. Hope this next week is better for you.
I know how DG feels. I worked 60 last week. I don't mind but it leaves little time for me time. The one great thing is it made my lawn work day and winterizing day feel like a picnic!
50 is a normal week for me, I'm fine at that level. 60 is busy, starting to get a little overwhelming, but it also depends how it is split up (if I work a full day on Saturday, it will be a 60 hour week, but its not as bad as staying super late during the week). 70 hours seems to be approaching my "want to cry" level. I survived, and boss-man told me twice on Friday that I did a good job last week. He left Friday on a 2+ week business trip, that's most of what caused my crazy week. He told me I could leave early on Friday, but I just had too much to do - actually, his words were "if you were to leave early while I'm gone, that would be ok" so I might try to take an afternoon sometime.

OMG I think that term, didn't know anyone else did! Thank you for saying that you made me feel so much better about my "cry level". I had it last night at 8.

Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

Divine Geek wrote:
I know what to do_sometimes wrote:
just Czech wrote:
Divine Geek wrote:
I am taking it easy today. Went to chruch, picked up a pizza and I am now watching football. This was a horrible week for me. I worked nearly 70 hours, today is a do-nothing day before another long week starts.
70 hours? Good gosh woman!
Take a break.
Yes, some weeks are bad. Hope this next week is better for you.
I know how DG feels. I worked 60 last week. I don't mind but it leaves little time for me time. The one great thing is it made my lawn work day and winterizing day feel like a picnic!
50 is a normal week for me, I'm fine at that level. 60 is busy, starting to get a little overwhelming, but it also depends how it is split up (if I work a full day on Saturday, it will be a 60 hour week, but its not as bad as staying super late during the week). 70 hours seems to be approaching my "want to cry" level. I survived, and boss-man told me twice on Friday that I did a good job last week. He left Friday on a 2+ week business trip, that's most of what caused my crazy week. He told me I could leave early on Friday, but I just had too much to do - actually, his words were "if you were to leave early while I'm gone, that would be ok" so I might try to take an afternoon sometime.

I am now suddenly terrified. Our GM is headed out on a 2 week vacation (well, one week of a conference and one week of vacation) and I am up as the second in command. Its probably going to look a lot like your week.

Glad you got through it. Once you are on the other side, and get some rest and some decent food, it seems like no big deal. But while you are in the midst of it, it can be draining and frustrating as all heck.

Divine Geek · Guru

oh, there is most definitely a "want to cry" level, you are not alone at that. My closest moment of the week was on Thursday night at about 9:30pm - I had been at work since 7am. I was working on the big corporate power point presentation. And all of a sudden, my computer decided I no longer had permission to save the file I was working on. An hour of work, in danger of disappearing. I was the only person in the building and I almost started to cry, I didn't know what to do and there was no one there to ask. Somehow, a few brain cells were working and I thought to copy all the slides into a new file, and that one I was allowed to save.

MM - you will make it these next couple of weeks. Make sure to take moments for yourself. Even if its just locking yourself in a bathroom stall and taking a few deep breathes. Oh, and a little advice, potato chips are NOT "dinner", no matter what we tell ourselves.