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Post by andi9899 on Oct 22, 2024 18:59:30 GMT -5
I was sitting on the deck having a post painting beer with dad and uncle when you texted me. I told them about you being a fiend. They thought it was great. Hey, I think Chiver is pretty nice, def not a FIEND She's a pozole fiend. Or maybe a bandit? Either way she loves her some pozole.
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Post by giramomma on Oct 22, 2024 19:01:41 GMT -5
Hoping you get good news on your Biopsy Giramomma. Hoping you can convince yourself to relax - maybe find something to watch on Netflix? I did I finished baby reindeer and stitched. And then I watched hoarders and stitched Andi I chatted with the woman who owns the store that I got the block of the month from.
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Post by soupandstew on Oct 22, 2024 19:03:33 GMT -5
I'm so glad the work is progressing and YAY for free fencing. Hint for gray toilet aka lime build-up, push as much water out of the bowl with a toilet brush as you can and pour in ordinary vinegar, let sit for as long as you can. Makes it easier to clean with a pumice stone as vinegar dissolves lime I put beach in both toilets and let it sit there for a few hours and they both look better. I think they need lime away or something. Actually, both of them need Jesus. Girl, you are killing me here! If you have to get new ones, go for the "comfort height" because older knees really appreciate not having to bend as far as the old style models require. Just saying....
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 22, 2024 19:07:38 GMT -5
Since we are talking about toilets, I have never had toilets get nasty as quickly as the ones here do. By “nasty”, I mean a pink/gray ring at the waterline in the toilet. It starts forming in less than a week. Everywhere else I’ve lived, I cleaned the toilets once/week, and even if I was a couple days late for some reason, they never got nasty looking like that.
What is causing that? Have my toilets just always been nasty even though there was no visible indicator, and I should’ve always been cleaning them more often than once/week? I will be thoroughly embarrassed if that’s true, but I’d rather know than not know.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 22, 2024 19:11:49 GMT -5
Since we are talking about toilets, I have never had toilets get nasty as quickly as the ones here do. By “nasty”, I mean a pink/gray ring at the waterline in the toilet. It starts forming in less than a week. Everywhere else I’ve lived, I cleaned the toilets once/week, and even if I was a couple days late for some reason, they never got nasty looking like that. What is causing that? Have my toilets just always been nasty even though there was no visible indicator, and I should’ve always been cleaning them more often than once/week? I will be thoroughly embarrassed if that’s true, but I’d rather know than not know. You have hard water
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Post by giramomma on Oct 22, 2024 19:13:37 GMT -5
In today's nut saga, she called teen and said I got you a psychiatrist appointment on Fri at 1 via telehealth as you like it. Just have "that woman" drop you off at this library and I'll pick you up and you can do the appointment from our house. To which teen said I'm NOT doing that. Took teen to school at 9 and she disassociated in the parking lot so we came home and I've been on safety watch again. Of course nut also had to point out how much school teen is missing again. Then social worker called me back and said nut is hell bent on going back to very original dentist via walk-in appt so we should be prepared to comply. Great, let's miss more school and work so she can pull another stunt and get us nowhere. Apparently nut has been blowing up social worker's phone threatening to send the police my way and social worker got fed up and called her bluff and said do it. Gee thanks for all your help lady. And social worker is no longer making calls about the tooth bc of nut's new plan. Meanwhile social worker is working with her supervisor on how to handle nut. I told her about psych appt demand and she said oh great and good grief but wouldn't say if I'd be in trouble if I don't make teen go. Fun times. I know the calling of the bluff seems bad but I think k it was good. I'm sorry you are going through this.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 22, 2024 19:17:11 GMT -5
Since we are talking about toilets, I have never had toilets get nasty as quickly as the ones here do. By “nasty”, I mean a pink/gray ring at the waterline in the toilet. It starts forming in less than a week. Everywhere else I’ve lived, I cleaned the toilets once/week, and even if I was a couple days late for some reason, they never got nasty looking like that. What is causing that? Have my toilets just always been nasty even though there was no visible indicator, and I should’ve always been cleaning them more often than once/week? I will be thoroughly embarrassed if that’s true, but I’d rather know than not know. You have hard water I am pretty sure the water here comes from the same source as everywhere else I have lived. I am not 100% sure though. I have visited places that have hard water, and can tell the difference just from bathing or shampooing my hair. FWIW, these aren’t mineral deposits in the toilets, it’s mold/mildew.
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Post by chiver78 on Oct 22, 2024 19:26:33 GMT -5
Hey, I think Chiver is pretty nice, def not a FIEND She's a pozole fiend. Or maybe a bandit? Either way she loves her some pozole. lmfao, lately I've definitely been something else. but for real, I can't believe I never stumbled onto a recipe anywhere along the way, for this deliciousness. andi, you've created a monster hahaha
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Post by chiver78 on Oct 22, 2024 19:30:31 GMT -5
I'm sprawled out on the couch tonight, first up was watching the Celtics raise NBA-leading banner #18. now is DWTS on Disney night, and Ill close out the night with the Bruins on the sleep timer from bed. I need to make up my bed with clean sheets, they are still in the dryer si ce I fell asleep on the couch last night after tuning in to the Voice.
one thing I am looking forward to, in completely unplugging after termination, is resetting my damn head and everything else. I almost hope I don't get an offer from last week's panel interview, since they want someone to start so quickly. I need a little time.
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Post by tallguy on Oct 22, 2024 19:31:18 GMT -5
Went to the vote drop box and its moved, but we have another place close to home, so will go there this afternoon and drop our ballots. Hubs got his drivers license last week and his registered ballot came yesterday, wow! they make it easy here.Yes, that is the difference between a liberal state that WANTS everyone to vote and a conservative state that wants to make it as difficult as possible for the WRONG people to vote. Mail-in for everybody. Convenient drop boxes in many areas for people who want to do that instead. Get your ballot, fill it out at your convenience, and send it back. Much easier and cheaper than having to maintain polling stations and no lines or weather issues. You don't even need a stamp to mail the ballot back.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 22, 2024 20:38:20 GMT -5
Watching What We Do In The Shadows.
I love the costumes they put Nadja in.
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Post by taz157 on Oct 22, 2024 20:40:35 GMT -5
How long was the person there for? That stinks that your workload went back up. New employee started September 30, 2024. This was a new position, so everyone had their workload reduced a bit. We all went back to where we were before the new employee started. I am trying to look at the bright side - we still have time to get hire and train someone before another co-worker goes on Maternity leave (Hopely not until March. trained before one of my co-workers goes on maternity leave.) That’s pretty quick to realize it’s not a good fit but better sooner than later. It stinks if they were good at it though. We had an employee that stayed for 6 weeks and decided the job wasn’t a good fit. There were still messes be cleaned up a year later too. We’ve had 2 other employees that were there for less than 6 months each, and weren’t given a choice on their end date and messes that needed to be cleaned up from them either. I was more directly involved with some of that clean up than the 6 week person
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Post by resolution on Oct 22, 2024 20:45:34 GMT -5
They are in MD so they are required to be following a curriculum of some sort and save samples of her work. There is no standardized testing and the state doesn't issue a diploma unless she passes a GED test. She is using the curriculum from www.goodandbeautiful.com/ so for every lesson we watch a 10 minute video and she has a book with problems to solve based on the video. It seems to be a decent curriculum. I find it odd that about half of the videos start with something about God that is unrelated to the math lesson, but the instructor does fine explaining the math concepts and I show her a couple of other ways to solve things. I do plan to keep teaching her, and will have to work something out on the days. I just hate how SIL constantly changes things and my husband gets triggered by her changes. We agreed early in our marriage that I take the lead on issues with my family and he takes the lead on issues with his family, so it makes it difficult when SIL is pushing one thing and he starts pushing back. I'm in Virginia, and home schooling is big in this area. But in this area the kids and parents check in quarterly and take tests to show they are learning. Kids here are encouraged to get a standard diploma, and the home schooling is set up to do that and more. I also understand the family issue. What side of the family is the SIL on? It sounds like your husband's side because you mentioned having the husbands talk it out. SIL is married to my husband's brother. So my normal pattern when something questionable comes up is to have my husband talk to his brother (her husband) about it. In this case I told her I was going to have DH talk to her husband, and she responded back that she talked to her husband and he said the schedule that I don't want is the only option. So today when DH got home from work I asked if he had talked to his brother, and the brother had come up with two other options, both of which were better than what SIL was demanding. DH said her text was a flat out lie, since her husband was the one that had come up with the two acceptable options.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Oct 22, 2024 20:49:10 GMT -5
I'm so glad the work is progressing and YAY for free fencing. Hint for gray toilet aka lime build-up, push as much water out of the bowl with a toilet brush as you can and pour in ordinary vinegar, let sit for as long as you can. Makes it easier to clean with a pumice stone as vinegar dissolves lime I put beach in both toilets and let it sit there for a few hours and they both look better. I think they need lime away or something. Actually, both of them need Jesus. I may have you confused with someone else but aren’t you in Kansas? Is someone selling Beach front property there? Ok just picking at you! Glad you have finished the house hunting and getting down to the nitty gritty of new home. Going to be so worth it when all is up to speed. Enjoy, enjoy.
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Post by jerseygirl on Oct 22, 2024 21:03:56 GMT -5
CLR liquid is great to get rid of hard water and lime deposits that are gray Calcium lime rust. We had a well that had lots of iron so needed a filter to prevent iron ( rust) stains. But the CLR cleaned the toilets sink and tub nicely before putting in the filter
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Post by andi9899 on Oct 22, 2024 21:11:19 GMT -5
How complicated is a shower diverter? I went to clean the hallway bathroom shower today and no water came out. The sink and toilet work. I looked at the inspection report and it says the shower diverter doesn't work.
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Post by andi9899 on Oct 22, 2024 21:14:40 GMT -5
Since we are talking about toilets, I have never had toilets get nasty as quickly as the ones here do. By “nasty”, I mean a pink/gray ring at the waterline in the toilet. It starts forming in less than a week. Everywhere else I’ve lived, I cleaned the toilets once/week, and even if I was a couple days late for some reason, they never got nasty looking like that. What is causing that? Have my toilets just always been nasty even though there was no visible indicator, and I should’ve always been cleaning them more often than once/week? I will be thoroughly embarrassed if that’s true, but I’d rather know than not know. You have hard water That's what I was thinking. I wonder if there are hard water stains in the shower too. I clean toilets once a week and have never seen that.
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Post by andi9899 on Oct 22, 2024 21:17:59 GMT -5
How complicated is a shower diverter? I went to clean the hallway bathroom shower today and no water came out. The sink and toilet work. I looked at the inspection report and it says the shower diverter doesn't work. Turns out it shouldn't be that bad according to my cousin. I love my village both here and IRL.
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Post by raeoflyte on Oct 22, 2024 22:05:20 GMT -5
I hit pads so hard and often in class tonight that my knuckles are bruised. I'm very impressed with myself. And I need to work on conditioning my hands.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 22, 2024 22:28:39 GMT -5
I called Mrs. T this evening and asked for a favor with something small, because I didn’t want to fool with asking Mister to do it. I understand what that says about my current relationship with Mister.
Because I hate asking anybody to go out of their way to do anything for me, no matter how minor it is, I started trying to explain to Mrs. T, and she basically yelled at me and told me to shut up and said “I got you”. I shut up and said “yes ma’am” lol.
I have come through for her the rare times she’s needed something that I could do, but I have issues that make me much more comfortable with doing stuff for other people vs other people doing something for me. I try to sprinkle love, kindness and generosity in the world, when and where I can, even with random strangers. But I do that just because that’s who I am. And even though I believe that somehow I will be blessed one way or another, for being a kind and generous person and doing those things, that’s not why I do it. I do it just because that is one of the few things that I understand that my soul requires of me, regardless of religion and what I am “supposed” to do.
I recognize that I am trying to explain again, here. Which has to do with some other things I am working on in my therapy. I am trying to learn that I can just be me, and I’m not a bad person. IRT to this post, I do genuinely desire to be there for the people I care about, and do things I can, even for people I don’t know that well or at all. I have done that kind of thing since I was a teenager. But my mind is so messed up by having always tried to be the total opposite of my Mom….. to the point that one of the worst things a person can say to me is that I’m just like my Mom (when for most people that would be a compliment)….. that I really don’t know how to deal with people doing things for me in the same spirit that I do things for other people.
Anyway, I know I went through the woods and across some rivers with this post, when I really just wanted to share another reason why I love Mrs. T.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 22, 2024 22:57:13 GMT -5
I can’t sleep because I have monkey brain, even though I am feeling better mentally. So I am rambling some more, please feel free to keep scrolling.
Just like I said I would after Mister ran into my car with the Tahoe, I put her back in the garage. Today, I put the Jeep in the “extra” spot in the driveway where I’d moved my Honda to a few weeks ago.
It makes sense for the Jeep to be parked in that spot since it’s the smallest vehicle, which is was I said to Mister last week when I said we needed to rearrange the vehicles. But that’s not the only reason I decided to move it. Another reason is that I hope that Mister will get rid of the junk on that side of the driveway if he has to park his car there.
That worked when he had to park his Honda in the garage and all the crap in the garage became a problem for him, trying to get his Honda in the garage, to the point that he parked it in the driveway a few times instead of trying to get it in the small garage and maneuver around all of that shit. Which made my point lol. So maybe it will work again with that side of the driveway, where I’ve always parked the Jeep. Idk, but I’m willing to see.
If his Lincoln wasn’t in the driveway, we’d have room for the vehicles we actually drive. I’m not going to insist he get rid of the Lincoln, because I know it has sentimental value to him. But if he gets tired of having to deal with us having too many vehicles and having to maneuver around them and move them around, maybe he will also decide that it is a waste of space to have a vehicle that is just sitting up and not running. I’m good with it if he fixes it and drives it sometimes. I am irritated though that he is letting it just sit there and fall apart and take up needed space.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 22, 2024 23:44:28 GMT -5
And now I am preparing for another run in with Mister tomorrow. I get unreasonably hot at night, so I keep a container of ice water on my nightstand every night, for me to drink water when get overheated during the night. Tonight, I had issues getting ice, and just dumped the whole ice maker thing in the sink, because I couldn’t get it situated so I could close the refrigerator door. The refrigerator the previous owners left in this house is a French door style. I’ve not been a fan of the style since we moved here, because the freezer part is difficult to organize, but I was willing to try to work with it. Then after a couple of years, the ice dispenser in the door started acting up. I know a lot of people don’t care for water and ice dispensers on the door to their refrigerator, but I am somewhere close, but not quite a real germaphobe, and I prefer people getting ice from the dispenser in the door, over digging around in an ice bin with what may or may not be clean hands. So we had to stop using the ice dispenser because it didn’t work anymore. Mister did some research and said the ice dispenser and the ice maker itself is a known and common issue in the refrigerator we have. Then the ice maker itself started getting wonky. It’s in the refrigerator, and if it’s not sitting right, you can’t close the refrigerator door. So I had to have classes (I am being extra and ornery, really Mister just showed me) on how to line the damn thing up with what’s behind it, so it fits correctly and you can close the refrigerator door. Tonight is not the first night that even with my classes, I couldn’t get everything to line up so I could close the refrigerator door. Mister has heard me fumbling around with it and came to fix it. Well tonight, he was already in bed, and after about 10 minutes of struggling with it, I said fuck it, and just put the whole big ice maker part in the sink so I could at least close the refrigerator door. I use a lot of ice, and if this refrigerator didn’t have such a stupid design, I would’ve just bought and use some ice trays. But the freezer part is made so stupid, there is no sensible place to put ice trays. A leftover bag of ice that we had for a gathering, has come in handy before so maybe I just need to buy bags of ice instead of ice trays. Or maybe we could just try to make sure our appliances work properly !!! Anyway, I feel like Mister is going to be irritated in the morning when he sees that I dumped the whole ice maker thing in the sink. I really don’t care. I’m tired of so many things in this house being a struggle fest for me.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Oct 23, 2024 2:30:21 GMT -5
I hate printers, hate them. I fiddled with this damn Epson for an hour. First was connection, then said was offline. Then I got that fixed and the paper wouldn't feed. It kept saying check ink, it has the tanks you fill from a bottle, supposed to be able to see the level from the outside. You can't, I tried putting ink in them and they wouldn't take any. So then I finally got a page to feed and the printing was like no ink, I gave up. I need a letter printed out to mail to get them to stop taking Aetna out of my account. You can't just tell them you have another supplement. I got my other stuff done but I need this. I'm thinking I can take my computer to one of the stores and they can print it out from my laptop. The only printer I ever had that worked well, was an old HP but it finally wore out. My son who works with stuff hates them too, said they are awful in many cases to get and keep working. I am frustrated and just m ad, I won't sleep good tonight.
I wish I had had taken the time to research all the candidates up here more that I voted for. I read about most of them though, otherwise this year just voted dem I am that disgusted with repubs.. But in Washington apparently you can look up and see who the lobbyists they are working with. Would like that info for all national offices.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Oct 23, 2024 3:03:48 GMT -5
We haven't done anything about getting guy out of house yet. I'm not sure how well hubs feels so not sure he can go down and work on the place. I think we will both have to go and take DD and do it. I think he will need me to help him. His heart doc said the worse thing about the hormone shots were they make you so tired and in his case also weak. This morning just taping he got light headed. I'm not pushing him, he is trying to push himself. I think we will be lucky to finish this. I have so much to keep up with, hard for me to do more. I am worried about him. I will just have to let laundry and stuff get behind to get this painting done I think. I don't want him to just give up. I'm sure this next test is bothering him that something else is showing up, I sure hope it isn't cancer in the adrenals or anywhere. I hate cancer.
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Post by azucena on Oct 23, 2024 4:29:26 GMT -5
Pink - I'm with you on wanting things to work properly and be well cared for in my own house. Things that we spent hard earned money for. And I get frustrated that our kids see the laziness and lack of care which is not how I was raised.
Proud of you for asking Mrs T for help and of course she was happy to do it.
Need to lean into that myself. My small circle of close friends have moved on with regular life and left me stranded on this difficult fostering island by myself. It's impossible for them to understand how hard this is but it's up to me to be straightforward and continue to tell them and ask them to step up and support me like I've done for them thru the years. Unfortunately this reminds me way too much of how all of our friends ditched us when dh was chronically ill in our 20s. Life moved on for them while we were stuck struggling. But our friends aren't 20 anymore and are more than capable of dealing with this hard stuff.
Sorry if it feels like I've been blowing up the board but it's been a good avenue of processing and support.
I did go to one of the Pastors at my new church for counseling today. He was amazing and began to offer concrete help including money. We are so blessed not to struggle with that. Teen joined us for service this past Sunday for the first time since one of our initial church shopping visits this summer. Pastor's wife ran right up to her and asked if she'd be coming to high school choir this week and if she'd been practicing the songs for service in Nov. Teen lit up. Then she even offered the mic to teen for one song that morning but teen said nah. I said she'll just sing it loudly from the pew and boy did she. After service the female couple who has sat in front of us for several weeks introduced themselves to her and said pls tell us you're in choir somewhere. Teen said I'm dabbling in it here and they said some sit behind us every week puh-lease. In the car I told teen I've been sitting behind them and they've never been as friendly to me or asked me about my singing ROFL.
So anyway I told Pastor to just keep including us in our new church home as it really is starting to feel like home. And when teen comes with us to pray that people continue to build her up with us.
Also up with monkey brain, teen spent a couple hours this evening being close by but clammed up which I've learned means she's got something hard to tell me. Just before bedtime she said I'm causing you more trouble than I ever meant to so I'll be moving back with my mom. I said uh, no ma'am, young lady. (Wanted to say you can't let nut win but bit my tongue hard). Instead I asked if anything had changed to make that choice safe and she wouldn't answer. I said let's go thru your list of trusted adults and you tell me which of them would say good decision. Not a one and I named at least 15 of them. This is something one of her prior teacher friends has tipped me off to when I asked what worked for her during teens spirals. She said naming all the good people who have stepped up for teen even in small ways. Man has that been powerful advice.
I said if this is bc you know I've been crying these past couple of weeks. She said yes and I said I can handle it and that I haven't been trying to hide it (it's frequent enough that I couldn't if I wanted to). Told her I've been leaning into my therapy work and letting myself feel the emotions and talk or write them out to really process instead of stuffing. Agreed that this was hard and not what I thought I was signing up for but that she's even more amazing than I knew.
Pointed out that she's been crying more lately too but also asked if she'd noticed that even with some huge triggers she hasn't had seizures. Can't find real research on it but seems to me that crying releases some of the hardest emotions so maybe she doesn't quite spin into ptsd. That really hit home for her although then she went dark humor and said she'd rather have a seizure or vomit than cry. I said i hate to cry but prefer it over puking and then I went darker and said that I haven't tried out this seizure thing that all the cool kids are doing these days. We got to giggling so loud that DH came to check on us which only made us giggle harder. She him it was a woman thing about processing emotions and he wouldn't understand so he fled pretty quick.
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Post by azucena on Oct 23, 2024 4:35:10 GMT -5
Teen woke me with a headache about an hour ago and I rubber her back to get her back to sleep and then she had a seizure which I expected as headache has become leading indicator.
Spent some time praying over her that she will continue to fight for herself.
Reflected on Pastor saying that he's going to keep asking what we need so I should come up with suggestions.
Patting myself on the back that I have been asking my mom for support and she came and stayed a couple hours with teen so I could go to Pastor mtg. My mom is great with teen and must have pestered her for Christmas list. She told me do you know that girl only got earbuds and a pair of socks last year. You guys the earbuds were from us. My poor, sweet child isn't going to know what hit her this season esp now that #white grandma is on the case 😀
Working up the nerve to text my two besties tomorrow.
Thankful for the 4 or 5 close work friends that have been checking on me. And my crazy boss has been very supportive. He went to HR and chief actuary last week and gathered some options and suggested fmla. I'd reviewed that policy months ago and it's currently written to use all pto first and then go unpaid. I think I've taken fmla 4 times - twice at my first job and here in 2020 for his emergency surgery and recovery. Once in this job in about 2015 for my own major depression.
At this point, flexing my work time is best bc fmla would just give me time to stew over things I can't fix for teen. Boss was very straightforward that I need to hit 35 hours per week (our work week is a weird 37.5 for full time) and they'd give grace on the 2.5 for a while recognizing that I've routinely worked 45+ through the years. I told him I've had no problem delegating more than usual and calling in favors as needed.
Plus with two months left I can spend down my remaining pto on tough days and have already started doing that which he noticed and approved.
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Post by azucena on Oct 23, 2024 4:47:02 GMT -5
And now Finn is up for her crazy early morning start to the day (Lord don't let me be an extreme early riser retiree lol) so that's my cue to sleep two more hours so I can wake up to her beautiful post and pic.
Morning FINN!
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finnime
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Post by finnime on Oct 23, 2024 5:11:31 GMT -5
Good morning, active and erudite invisipeeps, immersed in your lives. Welcome to Wednesday. I hope this day shows you are a big stride ahead of where you were yesterday due to your vigilent efforts. I've just read through the last several pages of posts and I'm moved at how much so many of you have done and are doing, at home and at work. Tough stuff, too. cooper88, I hope you are able to clear the mud and rest some giramomma, I pray you hear good news azucena, best to you and your continued care of BT andi9899, congratulations and am cheering on your efforts at cleaning up and readying for moving in Pink Cashmere, thinking of you and praying for a good end to your patience And for all others, I'm thinking of you. Need to get to the beach now. Yesterday was great, DH's birthday with an oom pah pah. Here is a fishing boat coming in in the early morning:
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Post by ners on Oct 23, 2024 6:10:27 GMT -5
Morning all Need to get moving for the day.
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Post by toomuchreality on Oct 23, 2024 7:28:34 GMT -5
G'morning everyone. It's much too early for me, so I hope to go back to sleep for a while.
Hugs. ♡
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