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Post by tj on Aug 14, 2020 14:10:45 GMT -6
Today went very differently than my last one. I had immediate relief from the lidocaine, but it was already hurting again before I left the hospital. But then the pain has steadily gone down throughout the day, I’m assuming that’s the actual bupivicaine in the spine. But I’m wondering if they could have nicked the fluid sack bc I have a raging fucking headache. I’ve been asleep all day. I have am very confused. And hungry. Nobody has fed me.
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Post by milano on Aug 14, 2020 14:17:53 GMT -6
Today went very differently than my last one. I had immediate relief from the lidocaine, but it was already hurting again before I left the hospital. But then the pain has steadily gone down throughout the day, I’m assuming that’s the actual bupivicaine in the spine. But I’m wondering if they could have nicked the fluid sack bc I have a raging fucking headache. I’ve been asleep all day. I have am very confused. And hungry. Nobody has fed me. Ah someone needs to feed you and then tuck you into bed for the night. At least the pain is decreasing but raging headaches are so miserable too.
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Post by sarenu on Aug 14, 2020 15:29:38 GMT -6
We filled the pool today. Then it didnt get that warm.
I'm outside in a suit, enjoying the last of summer.
Its bitter sweet that the kids should have been in school already and we just got the teacher assignments.
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Post by charlotte on Aug 14, 2020 16:03:40 GMT -6
sarenu you can borrow some of our heat! Our “feels like” temp is 104 😰
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Post by rugger on Aug 16, 2020 11:49:37 GMT -6
R is learning to whistle and it is driving me crazy to hear it all day long
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Post by mapleme on Aug 16, 2020 14:10:26 GMT -6
R is learning to whistle and it is driving me crazy to hear it all day long I loved that TV show so hard as a kid.
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Post by ovenrack on Aug 17, 2020 6:57:15 GMT -6
T is in her two-year-old screaming phase. And it’s so terrible. We were just outside and she got water on her dress. It sounded just like the screaming and sobbing from when she ran into the oven door and had to go to the ER for her eye. I cannot.
I got mad and yelled in return, eventually having to yank her dress off her body. She still screamed, so I carried her inside. Sideways. I swear, I’m shocked no one called the police.
Is this phase over yet?!?! Someone tell me how I should savor every moment again.
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Post by snowmoon on Aug 17, 2020 7:09:29 GMT -6
ovenrack, we’re there too! For E it’s the car seat every single time we try to go anywhere. On Saturday at the playground I waited 20 minutes for her before I bent her in half and held her down to buckle her while she screamed. So many stares.
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Post by violajack on Aug 17, 2020 11:21:54 GMT -6
S just turned 3 and is smack in the middle of full bore screaming, and now has the intentionality of a 3 year old to go with it. I do not savor these days. He's my last and I'm just holding on until we can get out of the irrational screaming years. I plan on enjoying at least a brief respite before the oldest starts irrational screaming of a different sort.
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Post by nikkipal on Aug 17, 2020 17:16:19 GMT -6
Helpful (*not helpful*) observation from MIL: No wonder you guys spend so much on groceries, you buy so many prepared foods! My reply was, Yes we do. We’re just trying to survive here. See also: If you have to clean for the housekeepers, why not just clean yourselves and don’t pay someone else to do it. Sigh.
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Post by charlotte on Aug 17, 2020 18:27:25 GMT -6
nikkipal hang in there! I would be turning red at the collar. Doesn’t she know this is a judgement-free time of just surviving? Give me all of the prepared foods!
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Post by mapleme on Aug 18, 2020 14:31:51 GMT -6
I just pre-ordered sparkle syrup. It's maple syrup with pearlescent mica to make it sparkle. DH showed it to me and was all, "OMG isn't this ridiculous" and I was all, "OMG I have to have that." Pandemic pancakes demand sparkles.
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Post by Speedy on Aug 18, 2020 15:58:42 GMT -6
mapleme, because why the hell not!?
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Post by rugger on Aug 18, 2020 16:35:45 GMT -6
It's so hot today. When does Fall get here?!
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Post by Speedy on Aug 18, 2020 16:57:58 GMT -6
We got rain today! The first time in what feels like a LONG time. We really really needed it, and need more, but it's a start. We're actually on water restrictions because our reservoir is so low that there's a chance of blue green algae in it =O Of course it started raining just as I left to go to the campground to drop some stuff off for my folks, and they have the part where my parents are completely blocked off so I had to get out and walk up so I got a teensy bit damp lol
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Post by tj on Aug 18, 2020 17:20:51 GMT -6
It's so hot today. When does Fall get here?! Ssshhhhhhh.
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Post by mapleme on Aug 18, 2020 17:36:23 GMT -6
It's so hot today. When does Fall get here?! Fall has arrived here. At least for today. Both our house and bakery mouse traps have yielded a lot of mice (outside the bakery, not inside). This is really early for mice to be seeking food and warmth for the winter. At least it feels early. Which means that it feels like it's going be an early or hard winter. I do not want that. Not during a pandemic.
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Post by snowmoon on Aug 18, 2020 18:37:55 GMT -6
It’s starting to feel like fall here already. The mornings and evenings are pretty chilly and there are some trees already starting to change.
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Post by charlotte on Aug 18, 2020 18:42:30 GMT -6
I’m so jealous of any of you with fall weather! We will be sweating for another few months.
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Post by pbandj714 on Aug 18, 2020 19:39:31 GMT -6
Today and tomorrow are showing a glimmer of fall. It will be 53 when I drop the kids off at school and 77 when I pick them up. I loooove sweatshirt mornings!
But then it's getting hot again.
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Post by rugger on Aug 18, 2020 20:02:35 GMT -6
It's so hot today. When does Fall get here?! Ssshhhhhhh. It was 100° today! And we haven't had rain for a while and there are multiple forest fires that are sending ash all the way here. Summer can get the H-E-DoubleHockeySticks outta here.
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Post by tj on Aug 19, 2020 7:46:05 GMT -6
It was 100° today! And we haven't had rain for a while and there are multiple forest fires that are sending ash all the way here. Summer can get the H-E-DoubleHockeySticks outta here. Fine. Send all the hot weather here. I’m sorry you are experiencing ash from the fires. I will pray y’all get rain to tamp down those fires.
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Post by milano on Aug 19, 2020 8:00:43 GMT -6
I'll take all the summer weather. The thought of fall's arrival gives me the Sads. I can't even process winter right now.
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Post by rugger on Aug 19, 2020 11:52:42 GMT -6
It was 100° today! And we haven't had rain for a while and there are multiple forest fires that are sending ash all the way here. Summer can get the H-E-DoubleHockeySticks outta here. Fine. Send all the hot weather here. I’m sorry you are experiencing ash from the fires. I will pray y’all get rain to tamp down those fires. Thanks. It's crazy. This photo was taken (not by me) of a recent sunset.
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Post by Speedy on Aug 19, 2020 15:34:47 GMT -6
It's soooo nice here today. I was able to sit outside for almost two hours with my parents having a socially distanced visit.
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Post by mc13 on Aug 19, 2020 17:23:34 GMT -6
It's soooo nice here today. I was able to sit outside for almost two hours with my parents having a socially distanced visit. Same here! I had to put a sweatshirt on for R’s horseback riding lesson tonight. I can feel a little bit of Fall and I love it.
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Post by Dramaphile on Aug 20, 2020 6:51:14 GMT -6
I took the afternoon off so I could do a zoom appointment with my college's alumni career services and I forgot to tell J, so I'm going to enjoy my few hours of freedom before my appointment (and then go get my leaky tire replaced after).
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Post by milano on Aug 20, 2020 9:53:26 GMT -6
This has been such a weird week. I miss my kids like crazy, but am enjoying the silence. The silence is also weirding me out. I'm bored, but also don't want to do anything. I have to go pick up J's chromebook at the school this afternoon and I'm dreading leaving the house. But also looking forward to it. I'm just feeling very blah. And still in pain so can't really do much.
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Post by mapleme on Aug 20, 2020 19:12:37 GMT -6
Gosh, it's been an adjustment having an admin taking duties off my hands. But he came to the bakery because of values (his old employer was full of human beings that made him feel yucky to exist with) and he is being strong about his values.
He didn't like that our new-hire form asked for a male/female gender declaration. I've never liked that either, but the Vermont Department of Labor required it. So he called the DOL to ask them to take it off the new hire form. They agreed with him and said that they had been re-doing their forms and had already taken it off. That meant that my payroll provider (Square) was still requiring it and hadn't updated their forms in the last 2 or so years. So I told my admin that we could just leave it off our internal form (since the response goes nowhere). But when he tried to leave it blank, the error message was "Please enter a valid gender." Ew. So much ew. So he called Square and asked them to take it off. Square said that this was the first such request that they had gotten and agreed with him wholeheartedly. They said that they would escalate the request internally and gave him advice to put an external push on the matter.
So yeah, that's awesome. He's been working for us for about 2 weeks, but has already advocated for trans rights within a trans friendly workplace. That's awesome.
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Post by Speedy on Aug 20, 2020 21:30:33 GMT -6
I was supposed to have just a phone appointment today, but I mentioned to the doctor that I've been having a horrible headache for better part of the week so she made me come in for BP and an NST (both of which looked good). She's pretty sure it's just a long lasting migraine that's aggravated by the fact that F accidentally threw my phone at my head on Sunday, but I got to have all of the testing done for preeclampsia, woo. In the meantime, I got a prescription for tylenol 3s and if that doesn't help then I have to go get an IV.
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