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daycare was cancelled today and tomorrow. Luckily the gym was open and so was their daycare, so materialsbaby and I went there for two hours to hang out. Will do that again tomorrow. This reminds me a lot of ’96 when the state of minnesota shut down. Radiostar had to go into work because we HAD to keep running so things wouldn’t break at the plant.
anyway, shes down for a nap now and i’m trying to get a bunch of work done. Butter chicken is in the slow cooker and smells delicious.so a bunch of my ex-boyfriends were all scorpios with birthdays within a week of each other. Radiostar is an Aries. I have broken my ‘type’
I just bought pairs of stretchy pants from costco 🙂 total win today (i’m wearing a pair under a wool dress today)
Yes, tungsten will shatter or crack under a vice grip. There are definitely ways to get it off, just different than the standard malleable metals
daycare is thinking about doing a datenight on the 16th so we went ahead and got $30 theater week tickets to the Lyric. That will be our valentines day. On actual Vday, i’m going to the dermatologist for my quarterly check up, so that’s love to myself right? The over under on getting something cut out is about 100% these days. Damn you melanoma.
The commute this morning was terrible. Red line delays cause of “unauthorized personnel” and the usual 95th bus ridiculousness. 1.5 hours.. at least daycare wasn’t cancelled. None of my employees are in. Guess this will be a good “get shit done” done.
ALE: yuk yuk yuk. yeah, that was more than a bit forward. Glad you deleted the message.
Rings: i wear the plain rose gold band everyday and the fancy one one special occasions too. Mostly because I don’t want to lose it or have it stolen. RadioStar has a palladium band because 1) he only wears it on occasion (manufacturing job) and 2) tungsten carbide freaks me out because of the difficulty to cut it off should something happen. The palladium is definitely scratched to shit, but eh.
@Copa, have you heard of Kitchfix? They’re a meal delivery or pick up kitchen in Chicago and they do whole30 meals that are amazing. I didn’t even realize it followed a diet, but a friend had given me a few meals when I was on maternity leave.
On that note, I’m back to work full time. It’s like trying to jump on a treadmill already going 12 mph. Baby MaterialStar is doing really well at daycare and I’m a bit obsessed with watching her on the videos.
Pants are kinda starting to fit.. I’m slowly getting back to running but the time for morning runs is no longer there when I’m stuffing a 3 month old into a snowsuit to go to daycare.
Congrats on the move-in veritek! I was in your neck of the woods after Christmas visiting the extended inlaw family. We had a luncheon at Arris’ Bistro.
Chiming in on rings: I Love Love Love my estate ring. We got it at this jeweler in the Drake and it’s from the 1840’s. I wear a small rose gold band as my everyday though.
For the birth of our daughter, Radiostar gave me this small butterfly pin from that same jeweler. So pretty. It has a hook to add a drop pearl for susequent kids. I love the antique thing.. not always cheaper but I love that it has a story.
Also, I had a baby!!
hey Cleo! I wasn’t ready after a year with Dbag and wasn’t ready again with RadioStar. Nothing wrong with waiting.. I had the conversation of where my expectations were prior to moving in (like, hey, i think we should be at “X” point in our relationship, have done these things from Wendy’s list etc. For RadioStar, I said, let’s table this conversation for 6 months and bring it up then. After the 6 months, I felt a lot better about where things were going and then at that point, it was “let’s just get married.” So we did (6 months later).
As long as you’re clear and not avoiding, i”ve found it to be a helpful conversation to get priorities in sync. Also, I HATE the cheaper/convenient argument. Dammit, we are both worth the inconvenience.. and what’s more inconvenient than breaking up and having to move early anyway?
For #2, we were at a bar discussing moving in together. I was pretty adamant that if we were sure about that, we should also be pretty sure that we would be getting married etc. Then we started talking about the court house (in chicago) which we decided was too ugly/would be complicated because then there would be people who would feel they SHOULD or HAVE to be invited.. and that morphed into .. San Fran City Hall.. Napa.. Yosemite.. So i woke up one morning three months before the weekend we figured we should get married (based on when we could get off work and when yosemite was available), i booked our wedding..
I wasn’t expecting a proposal since I paid the deposit for city hall, but we did propose the weekend before we moved in together while we were in San Diego. That was unexpected and very nice
I grew up going to Widow lake (near woman lake). Always fun!
ahhh the bed! My ex had this bed that he loved and it was WAY to soft. He had gotten it just out of college and it was a cali king. I sorta got used to it, but once we divorced, I spent a weekend finding the perfect mattress for me. My husband’s mattress was some cheap thing that I hated, so now that it is in teh guest room, I bought a good topper and it sleeps much better for guests. At some point when we move, we’ll go and pick out a new mattress together. SO IMPORTANT THOUGH.. We love coming home after travel and sleeping on strange beds. Thankfully, when his parents moved, they got rid of the 40+year old full size mattress that we had to sleep on so no more springs in my back!
ooOoooo veritek!! so exciting 🙂
