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Post by startsmart on Feb 5, 2019 23:22:57 GMT -5
Busy couple of days and I have to go spelunking to find my list to update. I’ve been reboxing the china from storage and that’s going well, almost done emptying the storage unit too. I need to take some old tube light bulbs to the tomorrow and then start working on the shelving for the garage storage.
The quilt pieces are coming along, about 50% done with the fabric so I should be done in another 10 days and then will start piecing. It’s been a nice distraction from all the family drama and my goal is to actually complete it by summer in memory of my grandma (who left behind a lot of unfinished stuff).
Tonight I cleaned up the living room, put away groceries and am finishing up some laundry. Also, the fan I use at night died so I ha e to deal with contacting that company. It’s only about 5 months old and was not cheap so I want it replaced.
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Post by sheilaincali on Feb 6, 2019 9:44:07 GMT -5
They aren't all out of the house yet but the Hubs finished going through his board games and there are easily 100 total that will be leaving the house. Some like I said are going to my non profit (not mine, but I'm the board president). Some are headed to the local university for their board gaming club. Some will be sold on consignment at the game store. Half a dozen will be mailed to DH's nephew as he games. And the rest are destined for eBay. They are out of the man cave and organized in the piles in the guest room- cleanly organized (eBay) and in boxes waiting for me to mail them or bring them to the university. Huge accomplishment. The big cardboard is in the garage- weather has been really bad here this week- ice on Monday, 5 inches of snow yesterday afternoon, more snow forecasted for today and tomorrow. Hopefully this weekend we'll get a chance to haul the cardboard down here to recycling. It's all big and bulky- cardboard the headboard came in, the mattress, the box spring, etc. Way too big for our little street can. Tiny (employee) is coming in for a management meeting today and I'll be able to give him my old garbage disposal so that's one more bulky thing out of my house. Yeah!! progress.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 6, 2019 10:38:55 GMT -5
Another ice storm so I will be putting salt on my drive and sidewalk
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Post by nidena on Feb 6, 2019 11:26:14 GMT -5
I think I have more homework than week this week. I took care of the HW for Macro and Quan. Bus. Analysis on Saturday. Sunday, I tackled some more of the QBA and then Policy and Strat because I thought P&S was due today. Turns out, it's not due until Thurs. She told the class last Thursday but I didn't go and I didn't find out until I had spent a good four hours, on Sunday, getting it all done. This morning, I started on the presentation that is due for the Mgmt class tomorrow night--the Grad class--and I HAVE TO, HAVE TO, HAVE TO finish it in between my QBA class 2-3:15 and my class start time of 6pm. I have a test in QBA tomorrow so I'm hoping I'm done before 3 so that I have that much more time to get the powerpoint done. I'm just kind of wishing I had known the P&S paper wasn't due until Thursday 'cause I would have prioritized the Mgmt thing instead. BUT, I don't feel guilty because it's not like I sloughed off this weekend. I put in a good eight or nine hours on homework. I just am running short on time. Wish me luck tomorrow. My professor is an egomaniac, too. He has you create these epically long powerpoints--literally a regurgitation of the material rather than just bullet points for reminders--and then steals your thunder by talking about shit that is three slides further into the presentation. Unlike my much younger classmates, I have no problem calling him on it. I can't stand that shit. Tomorrow's presentation is going to be a real test. It's about Euro Disneyland and he lived in Europe for more than a decade. I know he's going to have all kinds of "insight" and other tidbits that he can't resist sharing. Ugh! In the meantime, I'm going to take a bubble bath, read a book, and go to bed. Made a command decision: Since my E-marketing class is a full semester and, therefore, any missed classes is minuscule in comparison to the whole, I didn't go. I also emailed the Tutor Coordinator that I wouldn't be available to tutor this morning. That gave me another four hours to work on this damn powerpoint. I've been at it for 2.5 so far. I'm up to 17 slides and anticipate another 4-6 before it's complete.
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Post by nidena on Feb 6, 2019 11:27:34 GMT -5
They aren't all out of the house yet but the Hubs finished going through his board games and there are easily 100 total that will be leaving the house. Some like I said are going to my non profit (not mine, but I'm the board president). Some are headed to the local university for their board gaming club. Some will be sold on consignment at the game store. Half a dozen will be mailed to DH's nephew as he games. And the rest are destined for eBay. They are out of the man cave and organized in the piles in the guest room- cleanly organized (eBay) and in boxes waiting for me to mail them or bring them to the university. Huge accomplishment. <snip> 100 board games? I didn't know there were even that many in existence. lol
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Post by debthaven on Feb 6, 2019 17:46:01 GMT -5
That's AMAZING progress sheilaincali ! Another all day rehearsal on Sat. I'm at the end of my rope. When I offered for the two young women to stay here, I did NOT realize that one has to be at work at 8 and the other at 10. So I'm regretting that! The early one will just have to take the bus to the station. I don't want DH or I waking up at 6 or 6.30 just to drive her there. By miracle, Job 2 is off next Wednesday so I get an extra day off, which is great timing for me. We older ladies passed around an envelope for an "uber fund" for the two young'uns. I feel horrible saying this, but now that I know that they start two hours apart, I am hoping they choose NOT to stay here every night next week. They are both "young and in love" so I'm guessing they won't. In the end I'm going to post a list for this week because otherwise my weekend list will be too overwhelming for me. This week - mend coat/Wed
- bottle bank (DH)/Wed
- pick up altered pants (DH)/Thurs DH is having lunch with his friend C tomorrow. C is the husband of the woman who took in my pants. So DH offered to pick them up, which means I won't need to do it tomorrow evening (I'm hoping DH doesn't forget!)
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 6, 2019 17:54:22 GMT -5
Another ice storm so I will be putting salt on my drive and sidewalk Which helped but it's currently sleeting and is to snow tomorrow.
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Post by debthaven on Feb 6, 2019 17:55:47 GMT -5
Stay safe TheOtherMe ! But yikes, tomorrow is Thursday (ie your "Dad day").
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 6, 2019 19:51:32 GMT -5
Stay safe TheOtherMe ! But yikes, tomorrow is Thursday (ie your "Dad day"). If the weather forecast happens, dad day will be Friday. No way will I drive on those roads or take him out as sleet and ice is falling from the sky. It's hilly around where I live and there are two plows on county roads in the ditch.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 7, 2019 10:13:21 GMT -5
Travel is not advised in my county. Dad and I will go to the store tomorrow.
Ice, ice, ice.
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Post by sheilaincali on Feb 7, 2019 11:04:50 GMT -5
You'd be surprised at how many board games there are out there. When we travel the first stop is always the game store in whatever town we are in.
Another snow day today so we won't be leaving the house but we should be able to get a few things around the house done.
DH listed 8 games on eBay last night. It's more manageable if he does them in small batches. Will take a while to get through them all.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 7, 2019 11:37:31 GMT -5
I have sold stuff on eBay. I always broke them down in to smaller batches. Otherwise I found out I would get totally confused when the listings ended.
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Post by debthaven on Feb 7, 2019 12:48:09 GMT -5
This week- mend coat/Wed - bottle bank (DH)/Wed - pick up altered pants (DH)/ThursDH picked up my pants from his friend's house so I didn't have to. This weekend- send timesheet/Thurs - hairdresser/Thurs- pharmacy/Fri
- Shitepile - do DH's books I was hoping to see A this weekend but we have another all-day rehearsal Sat or Sun so we'll see.
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Post by startsmart on Feb 7, 2019 14:09:16 GMT -5
One of the background projects I've been working on is moving all of my content from one software that I've used for the past 6 years into a new system. It's exhausting. I've completed the easy stuff but now it's dealing with campaigns. To give you an idea, I have 32 campaigns left (down from 59!) and each one will contain 1-2 webforms I will have to recreate, anywhere from 2-60 emails and purchase options that need to be set up anew. When dealing with the order forms that means creating products, importing images, adding payment plans and coupons and linking it all up so it works seamlessly. I need to get it all complete by February 20th so I have less than 2 weeks to get those 32 campaigns done and everything updated.
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Post by finnime on Feb 7, 2019 14:41:18 GMT -5
That's a tremendous amount of work. Conversions are always trickier than you can plan, too.
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Post by nikiz628 on Feb 7, 2019 15:07:10 GMT -5
I have a few hours until I have to take DS1 to basketball practice. I am trying to will myself into the kitchen to do some cleaning....but the rainy, gray day is really working against me.
I've at least kept up on my daily cleaning schedule this week....
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Post by debthaven on Feb 7, 2019 16:20:24 GMT -5
Kudos to you startsmart . IT is always tricky. I really wish I were better at it. This year my Job 2 boss told me (laughing kindly), you're a bit of a Luddite, aren't you? I said yes indeed I am, on your system (which was new to me). But it may surprise you to know that I'm one of the two people my colleagues at Job 1 consult whenever they need help with anything IT-related. Things change SO FAST, and there are SO MANY different systems. It's not easy to keep up.
So ! ETA: Although I am THRILLED to owe so little on the kitchen loan, I should NOT have sent an extra payment this month. Since I'm behind on Shitepile, I forgot that we still have to pay the gutter guy/ boiler chimney sweeper bill. I'll pay that tomorrow.
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Post by startsmart on Feb 7, 2019 18:48:28 GMT -5
Overall I've been happy with this software for years but they keep making really big mistakes that are costing me money and my reputation. I had to set another customer service rep straight today who wanted to "wait and see" if their system would erroneously process thousands of dollars in incorrect orders again this month so they could troubleshoot the problem.
Absolutely not. I will not *$&@ up my business and reputation because your software doesn't work. At this point the only way to ensure it doesn't happen is to delete the previous orders, delete the client, delete the product, remove my merchant account info and delete the account. So... that's been fun.
Also, I'm 100% out of the storage unit! I'm not unhappy that I did it for the last year but also glad to have things much simpler at home and will shift to work on the garage plans soon.
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Post by debthaven on Feb 7, 2019 19:32:19 GMT -5
This weekend (updated) - pharmacy/Fri - Shitepile - do DH's books
Sorry to repost so soon. I know I will do nothing next week, so I'm hoping to catch up this weekend.
Laundry/dishes/kitchen up to date.
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Post by nidena on Feb 7, 2019 20:39:17 GMT -5
I think I have more homework than week this week. I took care of the HW for Macro and Quan. Bus. Analysis on Saturday. Sunday, I tackled some more of the QBA and then Policy and Strat because I thought P&S was due today. Turns out, it's not due until Thurs. She told the class last Thursday but I didn't go and I didn't find out until I had spent a good four hours, on Sunday, getting it all done. This morning, I started on the presentation that is due for the Mgmt class tomorrow night--the Grad class--and I HAVE TO, HAVE TO, HAVE TO finish it in between my QBA class 2-3:15 and my class start time of 6pm. I have a test in QBA tomorrow so I'm hoping I'm done before 3 so that I have that much more time to get the powerpoint done. I'm just kind of wishing I had known the P&S paper wasn't due until Thursday 'cause I would have prioritized the Mgmt thing instead. BUT, I don't feel guilty because it's not like I sloughed off this weekend. I put in a good eight or nine hours on homework. I just am running short on time. Wish me luck tomorrow. My professor is an egomaniac, too. He has you create these epically long powerpoints--literally a regurgitation of the material rather than just bullet points for reminders--and then steals your thunder by talking about shit that is three slides further into the presentation. Unlike my much younger classmates, I have no problem calling him on it. I can't stand that shit. Tomorrow's presentation is going to be a real test. It's about Euro Disneyland and he lived in Europe for more than a decade. I know he's going to have all kinds of "insight" and other tidbits that he can't resist sharing. Ugh! In the meantime, I'm going to take a bubble bath, read a book, and go to bed. Made a command decision: Since my E-marketing class is a full semester and, therefore, any missed classes is minuscule in comparison to the whole, I didn't go. I also emailed the Tutor Coordinator that I wouldn't be available to tutor this morning. That gave me another four hours to work on this damn powerpoint. I've been at it for 2.5 so far. I'm up to 17 slides and anticipate another 4-6 before it's complete. Looks like I made the right decision. I gave the presentation last night and the professor loaded the grade today: 85 which is an improvement over last week's presentation. I got an 83 on that one. I have a reprieve on powerpoint until next week BUT I still have homework for the class: four essay questions, each of which must have answers that are 3-5 pages in length. Does this sound familiar? Yeah, I had this professor last spring and my final for BOTH classes with him was...you guessed it...four essay questions, 3-5 pages per answer, for EACH class. My Environmental Ethics collection was 15 pages and Business Ethics was 11 pages. It *would* have been 15 pages also but the first question was an environmental ethics question and I REFUSED to answer a fifth question on the topic. I got Bs in both classes. I expect I'll get the same out of this class but I'm going to bust my butt to get an A. I also have a one-page paper for Macro to complete and some reading assignments (still!) for EMarketing. I don't anticipate doing much after school tomorrow other than taking my cats to the vet. I'll be taking three but coming home with only two.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Feb 8, 2019 8:52:30 GMT -5
I now have 35 empty hangers in my closet!!!!!!!!!!!! I was as close to ruthless as I could get with purging the closet. I did do some damage at Dillards yesterday, and most of it was on sale, but at least now what is in my closet is what I actually wear.
The young lady helping me said that when she re-did her closet, when she wears something she will turn the hanger around when it is hung back up. That way she knows what pieces she actually wears and after 6-12 months whatever is still turned around she removes. I just have 1 piece on a turned around hanger.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 8, 2019 9:03:08 GMT -5
I don't anticipate doing much after school tomorrow other than taking my cats to the vet. I'll be taking three but coming home with only two. I'm sorry.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 8, 2019 9:04:44 GMT -5
The sun is out but it's very cold and icy. I'm going grocery shopping and I plan to take dad's shopping list and not dad. It's too icy in parking lots and I am not going to be with him if he falls. He won't stay in the car, so I can't even take him for the ride.
I know he won't be happy.
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Post by debthaven on Feb 8, 2019 9:25:44 GMT -5
This weekend (updated)- Shitepile/Fri - do DH's books/Fri- pharmacy Good news! Job 2 boss confirmed, I will do my 30 hours there as originally planned! It's over 2 days/week instead of 1 day, but that's fine! I am so relieved. And it only took me about 15 min to do DH's books! From now on I'll do it once at the end of the month.
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Post by mollyanna58 on Feb 8, 2019 11:34:26 GMT -5
I don't anticipate doing much after school tomorrow other than taking my cats to the vet. I'll be taking three but coming home with only two. I'm sorry. I am sorry for your loss, nidena
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 8, 2019 12:14:32 GMT -5
The sun is out but it's very cold and icy. I'm going grocery shopping and I plan to take dad's shopping list and not dad. It's too icy in parking lots and I am not going to be with him if he falls. He won't stay in the car, so I can't even take him for the ride. I know he won't be happy. I am so happy dad agreed to let me do the grocery shopping alone today. I was right about the parking lot being icy. Added bonus: I can't believe how quickly I finished the shopping. I ran in to sister's former boss on way out. She asked how dad is (after being surprised I knew who she was). I told her what I think, that he belongs in assisted living and the reasons but that sister doesn't agree. She said eventually she will see it. I told her the day can't come soon enough for me.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 8, 2019 12:15:36 GMT -5
This weekend (updated)- Shitepile/Fri - do DH's books/Fri- pharmacy Good news! Job 2 boss confirmed, I will do my 30 hours there as originally planned! It's over 2 days/week instead of 1 day, but that's fine! I am so relieved. And it only took me about 15 min to do DH's books! From now on I'll do it once at the end of the month.
Once you understand the process and get set up, it doesn't take long.
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Post by Iggy aka IG on Feb 8, 2019 13:05:33 GMT -5
Checking in about the 3.5 weeks with no heat drama. It was 4 degrees outside last night. I slept in my sweatshirt and heavy yoga pants. Yes, we have space heaters, but they can only do so much. DH and I are not speaking at the moment. Wednesday I finally had enough of having to get angry with him so he'd treat this as a priority. The last one was me pleading with him to call the HVAC company at a certain time when he was in cell range yesterday AM. (To be fair, he's out of range most of the day.)
So, at 4 AM today, I made an executive decision. When they opened for business, I called the HVAC place DH was supposed call to confirm he called them and to check on the bids. They are still waiting for two equipment companies to get back with them. I will call later today. I also called and ordered the fireplace part DH refused to buy last Friday because of the cost. It will be here mid-week. I then texted him to ask if he can install it without delay, or do I need to hire someone. I own a business and am good excel at getting shit done. Guess that means I must do the same when it comes to coordinating household repairs, too.
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Post by debthaven on Feb 8, 2019 13:11:23 GMT -5
Oh no Iggy aka IG ! I didn't realize the heat issue was still unresolved! You did the right thing. And you just had pneumonia!
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Feb 8, 2019 14:10:11 GMT -5
I think Iggy aka IG should be nominated for sainthood. I mean, her DH is still alive.
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