Friday Night Leftovers....

 

Swing by Sippy Cups are not for Starbucks to see what other folks are serving up this Friday night~

• You know those COEXIST bumper stickers you see on cars?  Well I am embarrassed to admit it, but for years I thought they said Geologist!  Swear to god.  It was not until I was behind a car at a stop light once that I actually read what it said and was like DUH!  I made the mistake of telling this to T shortly after and now EVERYTIME we see one together he says "oh yeah look, they must be a geologist"  Dick!
• We had our first official Heat wave this week.  It was AWESOME.  I will make no secret of the fact that I love the heat.  It is so cold here most of the year so the couple of months we get of Hot weather I savour.
• What got me is how wussy we are raising our children.  They closed down schools here because it was too hot?  Seriously?  At the risk of sounding ancient, when I was in school I remember super hot days, wearing shorts and tanks, sitting in classes with the windows open, fans blowing and the lights turned out.  The school systems these days are ridiculous.  They cancel school if it is too cold, because god forbid the kids stand out for the bus and wear weather appropriate clothing.  No instead they should cancel the day, prolonging the school year, and then cancel later in the year anyway cause it is too hot.  WTF?
• Our big vacation to the Cape is in 20 days!  I am so excited, but I am trying to figure out what to do about K's sleeping arrangement.  She is still in a crib, and I really don't want to convert her to the toddler bed yet.  The house we are renting has no crib and she is way to big for a week of pack-n-ply sleeping.  So do I go out and buy bed rails for a 1 time vacation?  Do we try sleeping her on a mattress on her floor for a couple weeks before we go?  Do we just sleep her on the mattress on the floor when we get there?  Someone who has been through this please share your thoughts.  One thing I will make clear that is NOT an option is her sharing a bed with us.  She has never slept in our bed and I have no intention of starting that at this age.
• I ordered and Iphone 4.  It arrived Wednesday and I set it up/activated it only to find that on Thursday I was unable to send or receive and calls.  Hmmm kind of defeats the purpose of a phone right?  I swung by AT&T on my way home and found that they were deeming my phone DOA.  No problem right?  They just exchange it right?  WRONG.  You see I was trying to be good to mother nature and reuse/recycle so I bought a refurbished phone.  So now I have to go to the APPLE store to exchange.  The apple store that is 45 mins away.  Great.
• We had a pretty major announcement at work this week.  A major project that has been in the works for nearly a decade was canceled.  Additionally they plan to move forward with our sourcing initiative.  We were advised that by the end of this month every single employee will know their "disposition".  Super.  While we have known the sourcing was coming for a long time, having time lines around it makes it so much more real.  And no one really expected the cancelling of the major project.  We all felt like it should have been done a long time ago, so the timing is what shocked us the most.  Anyway, I guess I will know right before I go on vacation whether or not I have a job.
• We have officially begun car shopping.  Today T and I left K with her GiGi and went off to test drive a couple cars.  We drove the Hyundai Sante Fe and Tuscon as well as the Honda CRV.  We ruled out the Tuscon and am beginning to rule out the Sante Fe.  Loved the CRV but they did not have any of the colors I wanted in the EX model, so I need to keep looking.  For $400 a month payment I am not willing to settle for anything less than what I want.  We still need to go look/drive the Nissan Rogue, Subaru Forrester, and Mazda CX-7.
• I am a nail biter.  Always have been.  I went through a period of time several years ago where I managed to stop, grow my nails nicely and get them strong.  But then I started to bite them again.  It is such a disgusting (and filthy) habit.  I have trying really hard to not bite lately.  If I catch myself I remind myself how dirty and gross it is.  I had a manicure done last week.  Having them painted helps keep me from biting.  Of course all the stress of potentially losing my job does not help.

So yeah, that was my leftovers!  Enjoy your weekend, busy one for me so I may not get back on until Sunday night~