We’ve all had moments that we put on our grown up panties and did what has to be done, even though we didn’t wanna.
Yesterday I got up at 5:45, worked all day, came home, and had to give the cat a bath. Needless to say he was less than overjoyed at this prospect. He really fought me. Hard. THEN I did a bunch of dishes, THEN I made supper. From scratch.
So, what have you done lately to deserve an adulting sticker?
I got dressed, did some work, did dishes and laundry and I am fully dressed. Soon I will be making diner. Oh and I called and scheduled my doctor appt.
Aside - Viglink sucks - I clicked the link and was sent to a page called “Places Just Like Etsy.com” and it included links to Target and Walmart.
I get that the majority of times I click on an Etsy link from the Dope.
I attended the military funeral of my (now ex-) husband’s troop in his place b/c his deployment was extended. Walking behind the cortege w/ the other airmen and families was a thing I cannot wipe from my memory and a moment that I really wanted to be a child who could run and hide.
I ironed 5 cotton shirts for my husband. He’s gone back to work after being off most of 2016 due to multiple spinal surgeries, and be bought himself some new shirts for work. All cotton. All needing ironing. He hates to iron and he does a lousy job. So I spent about 10 minutes per shirt taking them from wrinkles to fabulous! Go me!!!
I called my health insurance after I received a puzzling Explanation of Benefits, and hashed it out with them until we found out where the problem lay. I hate doing this, but it has to be done.
I went to a co-worker’s desk and explained to her again how to do certain functions in Word, and I did it without getting annoyed. She tries hard, but she regards computers as magical, scary things and gets intimidated easily.
I’m useless when it comes to fixing appliances. But we can’t afford a new clothes dryer now, so I figured, if I can find a recipe online and make dinner…
Well, I watched a couple of youtube videos of manly dudes wrestling with our exact model of old clothes dryer, drove across town for one part, ordered another part used online, and fixed it…
AND got it put all back together again!
One of my kittehs has cancer, and he’s on chemo plus other medications. He has absolutely no adverse side-effects from the chemo (YAY!!!), but the other meds give him loose stools… which he does not do in the litter boxes. So I have to go around the house in search of his loose stools, and clean them up. And with my bad back, that’s not easy. My husband would have gladly done it for me, but the kittehs are my responsibility.
After several days of continuous rain, the huge snow pile in the tiny front yard completely disappeared…revealing a truly prodigious amount of dog poop.
In the early morning, as the sun was coming up I bundled up and went out and cleaned it all up, (before temps warmed up and it got all mushy! Yipes!)
Husband has been travelling on business for the last 3 weeks (home for weekends, yay). Boy child comes down with flu on Friday. I come down with flu yesterday. Daughter comes down with flu today. Husband leaves. Can I haz sticker?
Daughter swallowed bone Xmas eve, Xrays couldn’t find it on Xmas morning, was a royal PITA for the week we went camping, two days back I had an eye operation, kid goes back to doc for CT scan, bone still there, emergency surgery scheduled, docs STILL can’t find bone, my eye deteriorates, ANOTHER trip into the hospital, kid goes back to GP, gets call from hospital for another (maybe) surgery this Friday.
And when I wasn’t driving to and/or from hospital for either myself or the kid, I was working to earn a bloody living so I can pay the rent and the bills.
Replaced the car battery despite the sub-zero temperature and turned in the old one for a refund.
Couldn’t deposit a check because there’s no ATM nearby and the mobile banking app refused to work. So I got to a Fed Ex place, filled out the byzantine paperwork, and sent the check by mail. I could have gone with overnight delivery, but I saved twelve samoleons by sending the check by next-day air.