Thank you all.

[Wisconsin Beth]

Dear DH,
It's a grocery list.  You buy what's on it.  If you think we need stuff that's not on the list, either buy it or don't buy it, based on what you recollect is in the kitchen.  It's not hard.  How the hell did you manage without a cell phone to constantly call me on?  I think you called 6 times yesterday, in an hour and a half.
Love,
Beth

[Wisconsin Beth]

We had K's b-day party on Sat.  She turned 6 on Sunday.  Jeez, 6 years ago today I was in the hospital trying to figure out breastfeeding.    And DH was in school part time, working part time and having exams. 

[taz157]

Mar 31, 2014 9:05:48 GMT -5 Wisconsin Beth said:

Mar 31, 2014 9:03:11 GMT -5 taz157 said:

Good wishes getting DH's heart / other sensation(s) worked out. 

Love the new red on you!    Glad you had a good weekend. 

I got the impression the other sensation is digestive in nature.  It didn't show up with DH was plugged into everything at the ER and he did have some there. 

Thanks.  HOw are you guys doing? 

Doing ok. DH is mostly following his doctor's orders. He needs to work on the walking aspect of the orders. He's doing well on taking his meds and the low sodium diet though. He is thinking of changing cardiologist as he's always asking questions that he thought he would have been told beforehand. From his research on AFib doctors, we moved from a location that had some of the best. Go figure!

Thanks for asking.

[Jaguar]

Beth I hope everything with your DH palpitations works out. I have heart palpitations too caused by Atenolol heart medication. It's getting better on it's own and I to use homeopathic stuff. I use brainwave entrainment.

[Wisconsin Beth]

Hugs. 

I'd kill for some solid sleep.  Over the weekend, DH agreed to not take his sleep meds so he could deal with the kids so I could sleep.  Walla, we have a sick kid that night.  I'm so damn tired.  And it's impacting my job.  So I'll talk to DH tonight about it. 

Part of the problem is that the kids want me in the middle of the night.  So even when DH does take night duty I still get woken up.  I'm back in that damn vicious circle of sleeplessness that I was in when the kids were like 2.  The only difference this time is that I'm not leaping in to rescue everyone.  Of course, Scott will put the kids back into bed, snuggle with them or whatnot and then 5 minutes after he leaves they either wake up or haven't fallen asleep and come find me.  If I'm in our queen bed, I tend to just pull them in with me and go back to sleep which isn't helping any.  But hauling dead weight kids back to bed at 4am isn't helping either.  Esp. since my kids are both in the 55 lb area, give or take a pound or two. 

Anyway, I'm rambling.  I'm going to make more tea and focus on work.  I've got some stuff to document for a Go live date of 5/17.  Thank God I've got people willing to demo and proof it. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Shit.  I think I fucked myself up.  I'm having dizzy spells off and on the last few days.  Mainly when I'm walking around.  I've been really, really, REALLY lousy about taking my anti depressents the last month and I think I'm having withdrawal symptoms.  I pick up the new script today, come hell or high water, so hopefully once I get back on it the dizziness will stop.  But I need to make an appt. with my doctor about properly weaning myself off them.  At least I can do that when I pick up the meds as my pharmacy is on the first floor and my doctor on the 2nd.

I wasn't trying to wean myself off them, I just kept forgetting to take them.  It took me 2 months to use a 1 month supply and I ran out at least 5 days ago.  The script's been waiting for me but I've been so busy and overtired I didn't go pick it up. 

[taz157]

Take care of yourself Beth. (((((Hugs)))))

FWIW, I don't recall getting dizzy when I weaned myself off my anti-depressants. I just slowly stopped taking it. You may not be eating or drinking enough during the day.

[Wisconsin Beth]

May 8, 2014 10:55:08 GMT -5 taz157 said:

Take care of yourself Beth. (((((Hugs)))))

FWIW, I don't recall getting dizzy when I weaned myself off my anti-depressants. I just slowly stopped taking it. You may not be eating or drinking enough during the day.

I eat plenty.  lol.  But the liquids might be an issue.  I'm trying to drink more water. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Ok, I had my annual physical today.  No Pap test!  Woohoo!  I do my mammograms later in the year (I'm trying to get them more in the middle of the year too) so I don't have to do that for a while.  No shots.  Everything ok.  We're officially weaning me off the sertaline.  I'm to break my 100 mg pills in half until they're gone, then take 25 mg for 14 days, then break THOSE in half until they're gone.  So it's a couple of months process.  I'm still 5 foot, 6 inches (so much for the shrinking while pregnant thing for me) and 205 lbs.  Dr. N. did the push/pull on my arms and legs and once again was surprised at how strong I am.  I may be fat but I'm not a weakling!  She says I'm stronger than she is. 

K had her annual physical today too.  She's 46.5 inches tall and weighs 57 lbs.  No shots for her either.  Blood pressure and pulse were good.  I brought up the tummyaches and 30 minute potty breaks.  Dr. N. says push fluids and fruits and veggies.  If that doesn't work, we can try fiber stuff, after that, we talk about x-rays.  None of us want to do x-rays on K though. 

My Dad and I did a half-assed measuring of C last night.  We had Cabe stand still and straight, he was level with the top of Dad's vise clamp thing in the workshop.  Then we took a yard stick to measure up to that point.  Dad's finger slipped at the end of the yardstick and he tilted the yardstick to read the top part, so we got 46 inches but I'll concede 1/2 an inch either way if someone wants to argue.  :-) 

DH is doing ok.  I don't know how to help him so I alternate between keeping my mouth shut and asking how he's doing.  He's seeing Dr. N. and a chiropractor right now.  The cardiologist and the back doctor don't want to see him for a year unless something changes.  They say he's normal.  The chiropractor says that whatever is going on isn't spinal, that DH's adjustments are moving along just nicely and shouldn't be causing the pain Dh has.  So DH is likely going to max out on the insurance this year on testing and whatnot.  Which is fine, we need answers. 

My Dad's having some kind of procedure done on the back of an ear.  It's some kind of skin cancer I guess.  Mom didn't want company while the doctors do whatever it is they're doing with Dad.  I feel kinda guilty that she's there alone though. 

Work sucks but I'm plugging along there. 

We're going to a water park this weekend. I'm getting more excited about it. The kids are just going nuts about it. Esp. since it's got an alcove room with bunkbeds and a TV mounted on the wall by the foot of the beds.  DH still needs to find places he can eat for dinner.  We're bringing breakfast and lunch stuff for all of us since we've got a fridge in the room.  But dinners we will be eating out. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

I'm in hellweek.  Sigh.  We released a program update at work last weekend.  Now I'm working with the vendor to fix everything.  Spent about 4-5 hours on the phone yesterday. Today is going to be something similar.  And I'm on jury duty Wed. and Thurs.  Furloughed on Friday.  So the overtime I have from Monday and possibly today will be paid out as straight time. 

K had soccer last night, which I remembered at 520 as I was pulling out of hte grocery store.  Started at 530.  We got there at 545.  K and I didn't get dinner until about 645. 

I wanted to scream at DH last night.  You know dude, I like Thor too.  And I'd love to be able to sit my ass down and watch it and leave you to deal with the kids, dishes, laundry and bedtime shit. 

We had a great weekend though.  Kids loved the waterpark.  It's really good for kids under 10 or so.  I like vacation but that might be because someone else is cleaning up and dealing with food...  K asked to go back this weekend.  I said no.  She wanted to know when we'd go back and I told her that DH and I would have to look at our budget, amount of vacation, schedules, etc.  And that it wouldn't be soon when we went back. 

I also "rescued" a lost child.  We were leaving the waterpark on Sat. night to go back to our room and there was this little girl, maybe 2-3 crying like her heart was broken in the hallway.  I asked her what was wrong and she managed to get something out about Mommy and Auntie.  So I took her by the hand and we went back into the park to find a lifeguard.  Ended up holding her in my arms (she was a solid, but tiny one) and soaking my tshirt.  Lifeguard got one of her supervisors over by us and the little girl refused to leave me for her.  So we headed to the office (DH took the kids back to our room around this point) and on the other side of the park the little girl started saying something about a woman.  So I asked if she knew her and she said Auntie.  So we went up to the lady and I asked if the girl was one of hers.  She was packing up a couple of kids and we gave her the rundown and the girl went to her.  I caught up with DH and the kids at the elevator though.  I have no idea where the mom was but I guess the girl wandered off after mom and aunt thought she was playing.  Anyway, all's well that ends well. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Well, my vendor gave us a broken file.  Which they'd released to other clients.  Who never noticed it was broken. 

Jury Duty ended up being 1 day.  So I'm at work today.  Gonna pound stuff out and see what all I can accomplish. 

I have a ton of paperwork to deal with for the kids.  I really need to get that done tonight as I'm getting requests for it from teachers. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Oh boy.  Interesting kid stuff this weekend. 

On Friday, I was talking with a parent in K's class about arranging sleepovers.  Their rule is "No sleepovers with boys" because their daughter has a lot of friends who are boys.  Ok, not a problem, except I have a 4.5 year old son.  So I asked "what about brothers" and pointed to C as he was with me at the time.  She floundered and admitted she'd never thought about brothers.    So I may or may not be hosting a sleepover for K in June.  I'm not sweating it.  I'll email M and we'll figure it out.  My guess is that they'll be ok with it for now but put the kibosh on it in about 3-5 years. 

On Monday, the kids and I spent about 4 hours at my parents for a family gathering.  DH came, swapped cars with me, dropped over K, and left to go rototill his Mom's garden.  He had both sets of car keys (don't ask, really) and was supposed to come back.  About 3 hours later, I'm getting worried and he and I play phone tag.  Eventually he drops keys off and I sent food home with him (he was having tummy troubles and didn't want to tie up Mom's single bathroom.)

When he dropped K off, she promptly took off for her girlfriends across the street.  This used to be their day care so we're comfortable with the family.  There's 5 kids and 1 girl is about a year younger than K (A) and the other is about 18 months older than K (B).  The girls played over there for a while and then came over to play at Mom's.  They walk in the backdoor and a chorus of people tell them to play outside (I heard them.)  They don't come outside and to be honest, I don't think much about it one way or the other.  Eventually, my younger sister walks into Mom's room and finds the 3 of them in there, with the door closed.   According to my sister, they looked freaked/scared/something.  Mom goes in and finds them eating candy.  She asks where they got it and is told it came from across the street.  Mom doesn't believe them and inquires if she asks across the street what would the answer be.  She gets no response but the girls move outdoors.  A bit later I chase the girls home while we eat.  K's done about 20 minutes later and the girls come back and then head back across the street.  This is when Mom tells me about the candy.  I told her I'd talk to K at bedtime and see what I could find out. 

Eventually, we get home and do bedtime.  I ask K.  She's quiet for a moment and blurts out "It was B's idea"    So I told her that it's hard to tell friends no when they want you to do something you know is wrong but you have to speak up.  And I use Auntie J's comments about letting K, A and B cross the street on their own from earlier in the day as an example.  Auntie thought I was doing something wrong and spoke up.  And I let the topic drop.  K's my rule follower.  I'd much rather she learn how to stand up for what's right when it involves something small and innocent like candy at the age of 6 then when she's 16 and it involves drugs, booze or sex.  When I ran though this whole thing with DH, he agreed.  And while I think he was relieved he didn't have to have the conversation with K (can't say that I blame him) he got my thinking and was ok with dropping it for now. 

I also called my Mom and gave her the rundown on the conversation (before I talked to DH) and she informed me that B is an instigator and she (my Mom) wasn't surprised to hear what K said.  She also mentioned that due to B, she's moved her snacks up to a higher shelf.  And that the girls play is different when B's not around.  I wasn't aware of most of that.  Mom's going to watch the girls a bit more closely when B's over.  And she also agreed to let the topic drop (and she thought that my sister was nuts about the not crossing the street thing...) 

I came thisclose to mentioning the candy thing to H when I crossed the street to pick up K yesterday.  I opted not to because I wanted to talk to K first.  But I don't know if there's a way to have K only play with A.  I need to talk to Mom about watching K this summer or not.  Also MIL as my plan, prior to this, was to have Mom watch her 2 days a week and MIL 2 days and have H watch her the 5th day. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

K lost her 3rd tooth this morning.  Poor C is scared to lose his teeth. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Woohoo!  Dh just sent me his retirement figures, which prompted me to check on mine. 

Total in retirement account = 420,303.37.  And there's another $9K or so in my IRA.  I'm getting Vanguard to reset the password so I can verify.  But we're looking at $429,300 and change between us.  Not bad at all in my book.    Of course, YM would say we're behind which is why I'm not posting this there right now.  I'll have a pension, currently valued at $30K a year.  We've got 20 years to go, so we'll just keep plugging along. 

We make around $100K, with 15% going to the 401k/457 plans.  I figure we live on around $70K now, after taxes and retirement come out.  And yeah, we should be saving more but I think we'll be ok. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Well, I've got babysitting for the kids figured out.  K's back at Holly's on Mondays.  Tues. and Wed. she's at my Mom's.  Thurs. and Fri. she's at MILs.  C's at dcp still for M, W and F.  My Mom's on Tues. and MIL's on Thurs. 

Why do I hate to cook lately?  Have to think about that. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

God, I'm in such a funk lately.  Don't wanna work.  Don't wanna cook.  Don't wanna clean.  Just wanna sleep.  And my taste buds changed on me.  Sigh.  Don't wanna drink my wine.  Not sure what I do want to eat or drink.  I think if I was single, I'd be living on bread and/or noodles right now. 

Got to stay out of Carl's food costs thread.  And the Are you happy thread.  Don't wanna poop on everyone's parade. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Gonna be an expensive couple of weeks.  We need to buy a tent.  We're going to my family gathering in Door Co.  DH is coming!!!  We didn't know if he could get off.  But he can!  AND he's willing to spend 4 days with my family.  At this point, it's my parents; my younger brother; my older sister (and her dog); my younger sister and her family and dog; us and possibly my older brother.  And there's 5 teenagers/early twenties who may or may not be coming up too.  We're loud when we gather.  And the age range means that the stuff the teenagers do isn't "right" for our kids.  On the other hand, everyone will help keep an eye on the kids.  And take them to the pool or swings.  And part of the cost of having my brother help with the swingset last summer was to pay for a bunch of booze for this gathering.    The kids adore the swingset so it's a good deal any way I look at it. 

We'll use the tent for camping on our land later this summer and a camping trip with friends in August.  So at least 3 users this summer and possibly up to 5-6.  And similar for the next few years. 

My Kindle is dying - it's charging very slowly and you have to wiggle the cord to get just the right spot or it won't charge.  This is the result of being dropped and/or being yanked out of the charger.  I'm looking at the Kindle Fire HDX but DH has a pricepoint he'd like to hit.  So I'm keeping an eye out for sales. 

And we need new screen doors for the front and back doors.  And a crap ton of sand once I get the sandbox finished. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

God, I'm off all of next week.  This day isn't going to end fast enough.  There's no way I'm going to make a full work day.  None. 

We've got a party to go to tonight, haircuts tomorrow, another party SAt. night.  Need to grocery shop for vacation and clean.  And turn 44.  Which definitely beats the alternative (being dead.) 

[Wisconsin Beth]

I've been on a roller coster of emotions the last few weeks.  Maybe weaning off the anti depressants wasn't such a good idea. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Overall we had a pretty good weekend.  Got the school supplies bought for both kids and their new sneakers.  They need new clothes and winter coats, boots and snowpants still. 

DH got royally drunk at a party on Friday night.  Which was sort of expected and why I was driving.    My older sister watched the kids and ended up putting them to bed.  Party started at 9pm so we'd done some of it before she got there. 

Ate out a lot.  Took kids to the Zoo to do the Sting Ray/Shark experience while it's still in town. 

We're still setting up plans for 1st 2 weeks of school.  I have 34 hrs. of vacation and will accrue another 80.1 between 8/31-12/20.  I've also got 192.2 hrs. of previously accrued vacation and comptime.  That's my emergency time.  I've also got a crapload of sick leave banked.  the only way to tap the sick leave is for me to be sick, get paperwork for FMLA or to lie if/when I use it (not recommended because if caught, I think the highest penalty is firing.)  They sort of monitor us on sick leave.  ETA - I have plans for about 9 hours of VAC. due to school startings.  ETA2 - I have 2 days of VAC scheduled for Nov. that I forgot about.  I may be taking time over Christmas too.

I can roll any unused vacation time over to next year.  There's a cap somewhere but I think it's like 2 years worth of vacation plus 80 hrs.  I talked to DH about all of the time - we want to build a shelter on our land next year.  I'm thinking one of us needs to be there to check up and make appts and stuff.  We're talking about pouring a slab and then having something the size of a 2 car garage/shed built on the slab, then running power to it.  So not an all summer job but maybe a day for concrete setup, a day to check the poured concrete.  A day for power.  And a couple of days to a week for the actually building.  I don't think I'd need to be there for the entire building but I could be wrong.  And maybe they'd be able to do it in 1 day. 

We want enough space to store a boat, some of the fishing gear, assorted yard tools, some of the camping/cooking gear that we'd only use there.  We can't run water without running septic.  And we're not willing to spend that much at this time. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Damn it I broke a tooth this morning.  Or rather, the filling and a piece of tooth fell out this morning while I was brushing my teeth.  The good news, pain is minimal.  But I fucking hate going to the dentist.  And MY dentist retired.  And since I hate going to the dentist, I've procrastinated on contacting the ones people have referred me too.  So I guess tomorrow I'm going to just show up at the location where my dentist sent all his records to and hope for the best. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Dear self,
You did good by checking the rules, lists and list targets.  You know you did.  And you found mistakes and fixed them.  All you can do now is wait to see if this fixed the problems.  On the other hand, you have a crapload of backlogged work to deal with.  So as soon as you finish rerunning the list, you HAVE to start plugging along on the other stuff.  You may have made Car3 happy but there are lots of other people unhappy with you right now.  So get caught up and then gloat. 
Beth

[Wisconsin Beth]

Fixed some other lists.  Still getting errors and I have no clue where they're coming from.  I've looked over the rules, the lists and the list targets with a fine tooth comb.  All I can figure out is that there is something wrong when 4+ vacation days are used in the 27 day FLSA cycle.  So, I have to be done with this for this week. 

Time to move on to the joy of creating a new group in the auctions module. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

I broke down over the weekend.  Called my Mom and most have sounded pretty desperate because she immediately asked what was up.  But she took the kids for the night.  I made DH take me out to dinner too.  It was so nice to not have to be a parent and to destress and relax. 

Sunday afternoon we all were outside.  DH dealing with the overgrown bushes and the garden, me mowing the lawn (DH asked that I do it, I think he's hoping I'll take that job over again) and then digging the sandbox I promised Cabe he'd have in spring 2014.  Sigh.  Better late than never I guess.  I'm going to move the dirt from the sandbox hole to either the gardens or the depression in the front lawn (tree was moved at least 8 years ago the depression has been getting bigger and deeper.)  It's supposed to rain tomorrow so I need to finished shaking out the roots from the dirt and move it tonight. 

The kids want a pet.  And it seems like they'd prefer a kitten.  Joy.  DH is gonna want it declawed and I know damn well I'm gonna end up taking care of it.  And I don't want to right now. 

Signed the kids up for care at the gym.  $10 a month per kid.  Went yesterday.  I treadmilled for 26 minutes and did a few ab crunches.  Not sure if I used that machine correctly.  I need to spend some time in the weight section of the gym - I need something for arms or tummy or back.  And the guy who checked in the kids to the kid club said he thought the kids were twins at first - same height, same coloring.  I just said no, they're almost 18 months apart. 

And either the gym's scale is wrong; I was inept in using it or I've lost about 10 pounds.  My clothes are fitting worse than ever so I'm inclined to believe that the scale is incorrect. 

[Sam_2.0]

Glad you got some time to relax

[Wisconsin Beth]

Yeah, it was good.  And I get a weekend off in a couple of weeks - one of my cousins organizes a Cousin's Weekend and I'm going.  No kids, just somewhere between 4-8 of us.  My cousin borrows a house via her ILs so the only cost is food and gas.  Plus whatever we spend goofing off.  One of my sisters is driving up with me on Friday night and both of them are driving down with me.  Older sister is going up with my parents to help them close their trailer.  So I need to clean out the minivan soon. 

I went to the new dentist yesterday.  I need 2 crowns on the left side.  They didn't even look at the right side yet but I'm guessing there's going to be at least 1 crown there too.  My old dentist warned me a few years ago that I was going to need crowns so it's not a shock and it's not a scam.    Embarrassingly, I told the dental hygienist about the wrong tooth.   Which is when they realized I need 2 crowns.  Both of my back molars have huge fillings in them already.  My old dentist tried to save as much tooth as he could so when my cavities come back, I tend to lose a piece of tooth in place of or in addition to part of a filling.  My dental insurance will pay 80% of crowns and for 2 visits a year.  The Office is counting yesterday as 1 visit and we've got an appt. for a cleaning set up for the 2nd.  The receptionist said the cleaning is the expensive one and to make sure that gets counted as a freebie.  1.5 hours for cleaning.  I'm kinda stunned about that as I think my old dentist took more like 45 minutes.  But whatever.  It needs to be done. 

And I walked in the door to have DH in my space telling me the fridge is broken and started defrosting itself during the day.  Lovely Honey.  Do you think you can let me get in the door and drop off the kid packs and my purse first?  So dinner yesterday and tonight is stuff that was frozen and needs to be eaten.  I think tonight is chicken strips, garlic toast and peas.  We did manage to get everything downstairs into the basement fridge, barely.  We did toss some stuff too.  Clearly I'm not going to be making turkey carcass soup since the carcass had been in there like 2 years. 

The fridge hums but there's no cold air being produced in the fridge or freezer section.  And since we forgot to empty out the ice that collects on the bottom of the freezer, the carpet is a soggy mess.  So I think we're going to haul the fridge out to the alley tonight (if it's not raining) and rip up the carpet.  I really don't know if I should be praying for the floor to be a mess or in good shape underneath it.  If it's in good shape, we can procastinate on dealing with the kitchen more.  IF the flooring is toast, we'll need to check on the subflooring.  And if we're replacing subflooring, the cabinets go too so we can do the entire floor.  ANd if the cabinets go, I get a new countertop.  One thing leads to another in my kitchen.  For what it's worth, theoretically DH is in agreement that if the subfloor needs work we redo the entire floor and he knows it leads to cabinets and countertops, at min.  And I told him I'm not sure if I'm hoping for good subfloor or bad.  He understands but I honestly don't think he gets the depth of my hatred of that kitchen.  But first things first.  Let's get the fridge out of the kitchen. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Proof for my theory that the gym's scale was incorrect = scale was gone yesterday.  Either they moved it something else or it's being repaired/replaced.  I did peek around a bit and didn't see it so I'm going with repaired/replaced. 

K's open house is tonight.  Mom's keeping Cabe because with him around there's no way we can pay attention to Frau S. 

DH and I talked briefly about the fridge.  We're letting it defrost completely, then I'm going to pull the plug tonight and let it sit for 24 hours.  Will plug it back in.  If it works, we've got a reprieve.  If it doesn't, a coworker gave us info for someone that will deal with it for free. 

And if it doesn't work, once it's gone we're gonna rip up the carpet and see what's under there.  We'll make do with the basement fridge while we determine what's going on with the kitchen floor.

[Wisconsin Beth]

Fridge is outside and hopefully picked up by now. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

We ordered a new fridge on Sat.  Delivery isn't until Oct. 11th, sadly.  It's an LG 24 cu ft French Door model.  No water or ice maker.  And it's gonna be white.  DH and I loathe stainless and the kitchen is too dark for black appliances.  It's from Best Buy, cost $1805 and apparently that particular model is only sold at Best Buy.  But LG put a LOT of thought into the interior which is probably why it's so popular. 

We started at Home Depot and they're going to send out someone to do a kitchen remodel consult with us.  We agreed that while we WANT to do the 2nd project more, we NEED to do the kitchen first.  What all we're going to do is going to depend on what the consultant comes up with and how much it costs.  I'm probably going to owe my family a ton of favors if they help with stuff to lower the costs or just keep the kids out of the way. 

Now I'm off to try to find my fridge thread to update there. 

[Wisconsin Beth]

Kitchen remodel guy is coming 10/20.  I wanted an evening appt. so DH can be there. 

I cannot wait for this weekend - I'm going to a cousins' weekend thing and will be gone Friday night to Sunday afternoonn.  I may even get 2 nights of decent, non-kid interrupted sleep.  I need to make a stop for provisions before then - beer/wine, bread and cheese and some ham.  We're going out for dinner Sat. night so I just need basics.  oh and a big bag of m&ms.