Today...

[SoonerTexan]

Today I'm buying our artificial Christmas tree. $99!

[SoonerTexan]

Today my husband left his socks on the living room floor again and told me in not so many words that he was going to keep on doing it and to get over it. It is a huge pet peeve of mine.

This is his pillow:


They're nice and crusty

[niener]

ST I would have (and have) done the same damn thing. When we got dogs though, that little problem took care of itself

[SoonerTexan]

I cant wait til bedtime. I need to make sure I'm there, though, or he will put them on my pillow!

[bokelley]

I tend to leave clothes hangers around the house, dh puts them in the bed on my side under the covers.

[diggitydot]

I tend to leave clothes hangers around the house, dh puts them in the bed on my side under the covers.

Brilliant!

[GreyhoundsRUs]

I tend to leave clothes hangers around the house, dh puts them in the bed on my side under the covers.

Excellent

[MrsK]

Today, I am The Meanest Mommy in the World. Apparently, making ghost cookies and taking my kids to the library for storytime a sort of torture that mommies come up with to traumatize innocent toddlers. K1 has been so incredibly uncooperative. Forty-five minutes to get him to potty and put his shoes on so we could go to the library, thowing-himself-on-the floor tantrums while we picked out books, repeatedly running out of the room during storytime, thowing-himself-on-the-floor tantrums while trying to leave the library, repeatedly whining "eyyyy caaaaaaaaan nooooooottt" every. single. time. I ask him to do any thing, climbing into the front seat of the car to rummage through the glovebox, reset the radio, and engage the emergency brake while I was strapping K2 into his carseat, acting up in the grocery store, refusing to get out of the car when we got home, he "caaaaaaan noooooootttt" take off his shoes, he "caaaaaaan nooooooooottttt" potty, he "caaaaaaaaaaaannn noooooootttt" eat lunch, mimicking me, talking back, lots of complaining and crying. . . My patience is running out. Naptime cannot come soon enough. (And I'd better not hear that he caaaaaan nooootttt nap.)

ETA: I forgot hitting. Lots of hitting today. He's been hitting me in protest and telling me how mean I am. And hitting his little brother everytime K2 tries to hug him. (K2 is surprisingly sympathetic when someone around him is out of sort and tries to comfort them, bless his sweet little soul.) I just had to hoist K1 over my shoulder to haul him into his room for a nap. Hoping that a nap resets him.

[diggitydot]

Poor kiddo and poor mama. Hope a nap returns him to homeostasis.

[Thirteen]

Today, the company in charge of our free trip to FL called, and tried to get me to upgrade for like 500 dollars. (?!)
I was basically "threatened" with late night/early morning travel, possible multiple stops, and a crappy hotel 30 minutes from Disney.

Renting a car for 2 days and getting my own hotel of choice (out of pocket) is still cheaper than their upgrade.
The guy was totally slimy and mean. Whatever, dude.


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[Liisi]

Today is weird. I spent the weekend preparing for about a week without power. I went to about 4 or 5 different stores, to stock up on non-perishable foods (including soft ones that SO can eat while she recovers from oral surgery), paper plates, paper bowls (to avoid doing dishes during a power outage), batteries, flash lights, long matches to light the gas stove, half gallon mason jars to fill with water, hand warmers, etc. I filled about 20 containers of various sizes with water, and put some in each bathroom. I filled the bathtub. I did laundry and ran the dishwasher, since I soon wouldn't be able to use those appliances. I got the extra blankets out of the attic, stocked up on dog food, wrote down emergency numbers, arranged half a dozen votive candles in the center of the kitchen table, took the screens out of the windows, and put the patio furniture in the basement. I had our landlord come over to talk to me about how to use the wood-burning furnace safely when there's no electricity for the blower part, and to clear the gutters. I closed the garage doors, got the Rescue Remedy for pets out to put in our beagle's water if he got anxious, and regularly checked various news sources for the latest updates on the storm. I called and emailed my family members who were going to be impacted by the storm, to see how they were doing and to make a plan on how to connect after the storm. I emailed with my employers in regards to rescheduling meetings. I put several bags of water in the freezer so they would freeze and take up more space, and turned the thermostats in the fridge and freezer to their coldest settings. I put flashlights in strategic locations around the house.

I was extremely prepared for the superstorm, and waited for it to arrive. The rain and the wind seemed to pick up just as SO and I went to sleep. I put my watch next to my pillow so that I could use my flashlight to see what time it was, even when the power went out. As I drifted off to sleep, I wondered if the wind would get so bad that our dog would start howling downstairs, and if we should bring him into our bedroom or not.

AND THEN, I woke up this morning to find not only was the electricity on, but it hadn't even flickered! I got on the Internet - no one in my town lost power, all the roads are open, and the storm was not really a big deal. SO got dressed and went to work as usual, just as the sun came out.

And now, my day feels so weird. I was soooo prepared to be spending the day in the dark, in the quiet, maybe reading a book with a flashlight. And now it's just a normal day?? I'm trying to switch gears and motivate myself to get back to work with my writing, and get the house put back together, and plan a real dinner, now that we don't need to eat rice and beans out of a can.

[SoonerTexan]

He just pushed the socks off the bed on to the floor. I put them back on his pillow. I wonder how long this will last.

[L.Jane]

Today since I couldn't go to work I spent the last four hours typing up and organizing my recipes. I typed up 29.5 recipes. The half recipe is because I started to type up J's recipes but in the end couldn't decipher them, so I have to wait for him to get home to do the last 3.5 Why is it if I have over 30 recipes (not all main dishes) Do I feel like I still eat the same stuff over and over again?

[Pollyanna]

Wait, ST isn't your hubby doing rotations now? No need to leave dirty socks on his pillow, simply remind him that all the yuck he gets on his socks he is spreading on the floor where his sweet baby crawls...

[SoonerTexan]

Good point. Which reminds me that we need to wash that nasty white coat!!