Ssshhh, Nat. Don’t eake up people in other cities. That’s not nice.
Ergh. Mr. Lissar talked to his brother last night. He and his wife are again on the point of divorce. I would like to smack her and her whole family with a shovel. I just love in when people continually put down and are horrible to, oh, their husbands, for instance.
This is about the fifth time they’ve nearly divorced. My main concerns are a) he’ll never see his kids, one of whom isn’t even born yet, and b) his already extremely low self-confidence may drop to nothing.
Nat didn’t keep me up at all. I slept all the way through the night! Yay!
Thanks for the hugs, rigs. Haze is right; your daughter looks like you. And yes, you should have another picture taken before she goes off to school. Yeah, reading and thinking about all of this makes everyone nostalgic, I think. Hugs.
Hmmm…wonder how long it will take till you get back to normal Korean texting speed and know all the bus routes again, Haze?
Guess I should get ready for work. I need to be in early since I didn’t go in on the weekend.
Great OP, Tagfree - I’m on the list of folks who miss their father. Mine passed away in 1985, although the week before last we did get to visit his grave and admire the newly re-lettered and polished up headstone.
Busy weekend, very busy morning! Today I have one of those “drop everything else and do this” jobs - it’s the hugely important list of medicine grads which has to be signed by the Worthies of the university and then has the official seal stuck on it before it gets sent to the General Medical Council so that all those shiny sparkly new docs are allowed to work.
Last year I got into a near-stand up argument with Tin Knickers over the importance of said document when she decided it should be number 3 on my list of priorities, and I had to go over her head to the Director of Student Records to make her understand that it had to be number 1 on my list.
This year I’ll be dealing with TK’s assistant, Stuck Up Twunt. Wish me luck.
This thread is reminding me why I stopped noticing parent’s days. It seems to be an opportunity for people to indulge in regret about their childhoods. Fortunately both of my parents were born close to their Hallmark days, so I just honored the birthday instead. More personal that way anyhow.
I’ve been up since around 5:00 am - I went to bed early last night, after sleeping on the couch for about an hour.
Dad and I are taking the dogs to the park in a little while. I’m off today! I decided I might as well, since I would have had to take off early anyway for my pre-op check in blood test at, um, 4:00 pm. We have been having all kinds of trouble with the server at work anyway. Last Friday we all logged in 8 hours of “downtime.” Can you say boring? I knew you could!
Other plans for the day include washing sheets and towels, and shampooing the carpet in the bedroom where Ernie shit all over the place Saturday night. He’s feeling much better, BTW.
Ok, breakfast is being delivered as I type this. I’m just here on beebwatch to see if there is any news.
ETA: Oh yeah, forgot to mention earlier that my employee that usually causes me the most stress wants to have lunch with me today. Not sure what to make of this, hopefully it’s just a social gesture. If not, though, I don’t see where I have any room to move on hours, rate of pay, etc. I’m just barely, barely scraping by as it is.
OK, ladies. Last week I did some shopping and needed some new bras (TMI?, nah). For the first time I let one of the assisstants measure me and fit me for one.
Oh my god-- it is the best fitting bra I have ever worn. It looks really good. I never knew what difference a fitting makes.
So I’m preaching it- at least once get the fitting and buy the way too expensive bra, if this is an issue for you.
I just had to share. This has been a Public Service Announcement (and yes, I checked the spelling of Public three times before I hit post)
ETA: I got first on 2 without having to count! Yeah!
I managed to oogie VWife this weekend. One of the stitches in my thumb tore through the skin, so I cut it and pulled it out myself, grossing her out 'cuz she had to watch. :dubious: :smack:
LiLi, how many fangs has TNC popped? Teething will turn the sweetest kid in the world into the focus of eeeeevil, just so ya know.
Anyone wanna take the bet that the real story on Beeb’s seizure is that he really seized some girl’s behind, and she went medieval on him? Get better, dude.
I bought tickets last night for the VunderKind Summer Tour '08. He’ll be at the VunderLair the week of the 4th of July. Much merriment is planned.
In the Dad department, mine has been gone just shy of 7 years now. Echoing waht many of you have already said, we had a tempestuous relationship during my teen years, with skirt-chasing, a divorce when I was 7th-8th gradish, not getting along afterwards, etc. He was not abusive, FWIW. Things got a lot better when I got out of college part 1 and married. To this day, I get along with his wife better than ever.
Oh well, gotta go do my 7 impossible tasks before lunch.
Howdy all. Nice OP, Nola! Being in a different country from my parents really brings things like Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day home to me, particularly as I have only recently joined the parents’ club myself. FTR, Fathers’ Day is in September in Australia, so I still have some time to figure what the Fathers’ Day equivalent is of Interflora!
No time right now to wax lyrical about my childhood and my Daddy. Suffice to say, he was (and is) a good father, if occasionally distant. A tough disciplinarian, who sometimes favoured the rod more than I would have liked, it took him until he was 53 to realise that working all the hours in the day was not always the best way to be a good father!
My parents have been married for over 44 years now, and I sometimes realise (with no small amount of fear) that they are both approaching “old age”. Dad is 67 and Mum is 65. How does it feel to lose someone you love, who has ALWAYS been in your life? I don’t know how I will cope when that time comes.
Haze, I’m glad to hear you got back to Seoul safely, and I hope you will settle in okay. I spent over 2 years living apart from the man who is now my husband (me in Australia, him in Bahrain), so I know how you might be feeling on that front. It will take some time to adjust to the new dynamics of the relationship, but ULDRs (Ultra Long Distance Relationships, for the uninitiated) can work!
{{{beebs}}} I hope you’re okay buddy! We miss our resident troublemaker!
So that’s why I woke up much earlier than usual today! It’s all Nat’s fault. That kid has a set of lungs on him!
Yay! Haze and Olive have arrived! Plus she’s gone forward in time! So tell me, Haze, what are today’s lottery numbers?
Where did you go for the bra fitting, Soapy? I keep thinking I should do that, but the place I want to go for that bra fitting is in New York (the Town Shop). And it does seem a trifle expensive to go to New York for a bra!
You have the best names for your workplace fellows, BooFae. Stuck Up Twunt. Hee!
I don’t have regrets about my childhood, Spaz – it helped make me what I am today, and I like me the way I am. Any regrets I might have are for my dad, not because of him. If that makes sense.
I have another new toy arriving today – my desktop computer is six years old, so to match my shiny new laptop, Papa Tigs ordered me a shiny new desktop! It should make a lot of things I do much faster – I spend an inordinate amount of time these days sitting and waiting on my computer, or rebooting because it can’t handle everything I have open at once after more than a few hours. Now I just have to figure out how to migrate everything off my old one onto my new one. Because I am not going to reinvent the wheel, after collecting stuff on this machine for six years!
Well, since Nat got me out of bed much earlier than planned, I guess I should take advantage of it to get a pile of work done. I’m working on an international roundtable, with representatives from around the world, most of whose English is questionable at best. I finally quit last night when I couldn’t figure out who was having a harder time, the poor Chinese lady trying to speak English or me trying to understand her speaking English!
Glad you and Olive got there safely, Haze!
I’ve turned into Efficiency Monster- I’m done almost all the chores. Go me!
Nat doesn’t have any teeth yet. I shudder to think what it’s going to be like. He’s really a very nice baby, he just hates going to sleep, especially Alone and Lonely. Unfortunately he needs to go to sleep five times every day, or every hour and a half. I couldn’t have got one of the models with Sleeps More Than Forty Minutes at a Time, could I?
I look forward to the mythical time when he’ll sleep through the night.
Okay, a question- Mr. Lissar’s alarm goes off every nine minutes, from 5 to 5:45, when he gets up. The alarm will wake the kid the very first time. Anyone know of any earpiece alarms, electroshock alarms, or something? So far I’ve avoided the issue by going to the couch with the baby around three. I Do Not Want to get Nat up earlier than he’s inclined to, and I’m not keen on five in the morning. The couch solution will probably only work for another few weeks at best. Suggestions?
Tigs, what version of Windows is the old one running? I don’t have a Windows box in front of me, but I think that XP had some sort of migration assistant, so Vista probably has it too. ::waits for confirmation from the crowd::
After I took my two-hour nap last night, I wasn’t even up for another two hours before I went back to bed and slept for another almost 11 hours. Ugh.
Also, I spent about 100 more dollars in Little Rock than I had meant to, depending on how much cash is left in my wallet. Ugh. I know who’s eating PB&J for the next 2 weeks! (I don’t much care for ramen)
We have been having all kinds of trouble with the server at work anyway. Last Friday we all logged in 8 hours of “downtime.” Can you say boring? I knew you could!