sarameg, that's great to hear. Good for your life, good for your soul.

It was/is really scary. But I recognized my line and threw down, fully ready to do a full walk. I'm just really lucky with the people I actually do work for and that they don't want that.

(I keep wanting to add caveats in case they disappoint. I don't expect them to, but that's my nature. If they do, it'll pretty much destroy all the reasons I don't want to leave, so walking will be easy. Once I find a new job, of course.)

Here’s a good, old fashioned meara

I am so tired and not so interested in working. I can't believe Christmas is next week!

me too, only cross off ‘working’ and sub in ‘everything’

Poor, Franny. I'm almost afraid to ask how old she is now.

She’s 12 now. And FTR she did not make it to school today much less the dance. Her headache didn’t abate until sometime after 3.

I would tell you all how often Jane is still waking up at night, but I might start to cry, so perhaps best if I don't let myself think about it too much.

I don’t know if I talked about it here, but for a while there little newborn Franny would have slept through the night but she wasn’t keeping her weight up, so I had to set my alarm to wake me every 2 hours to feed her. And then a month later, I reset it to every 3 hours, and then a month after that, every 4. She mostly slept through it all, as did her father, while I slowly became a wreck.

Good for you, sarameg, it's been hard watching you be so unhappy about work for so long.

Ugh, on parenting detail I had to make an effortful pumpkin cookie recipe that Matilda had copied down from somewhere. I was dubious but I indulged her. Made the first batch. Rather Meh. Made the second bath after doing everything I could to adulterate and improve the recipe. Still meh. Much effort for boring cookies that nobody will eat tomorrow. Bah.

Why didn't she let me make good cookies?!

Thank you all, for putting up with my complaints and validating them.

Still gotta be patient but I hope things are gonna change and my managers are really going to fix things for me like they said.

I've got contingency plans if they don't.

Kat, they have to tear out the entire middle of our house and install a new bathroom. We will get official lab results tomorrow or Monday, but it's at least four kinds of mold, most likely at least one toxic variety.

Yay new bathroom at least? Um

Poor Franny--I have medication for migraines that dissolves on my tongue, because there are times when even if my tummy wouldn't actively reject it, the idea of eating anything or swallowing anything is just anathema.

I made molasses cookies. But I would love if msbelle came over and made cookies with me. There should totally be a word for that (I figured it was just "lonesome extrovert")

Pix, so what happens to you in the interim? I mean, while construction happens?

We have zero cookies in the house which is okay. But I'm not feeling the excitement for the holidays without MOAR SUGAR and BUTTR!

Last day of school for the calendar year. I'm still up and headed to the gym. Someone put cement in my sinuses. It's taking all of my will to go.

Oh, wow, Pix, that sounds enormous! I'm sorry you have to deal with that.

Today is Operation's annual Brunch and a Movie day. Guess what we're seeing. That's right, Heart of the Sea. Anyway, the movie doesn't end until after I usually go home so I might go in late because getting out of bed is haaaaard.

sarameg, I hope your jury duty goes well, for whatever value of "well" you prefer.

Kat, marriage may bollocks up your taxes, but it depends on your situation. It worked well for Hubs and me. I have the larger income (especially now that he's retired), and he has lots of medical expenses. Which means we can use more deductions.

Looking forward to next week, I think. Office lunch means long lunch on Monday, and at least it's good food with only forced socialization and not forced merriment. Half-day Thursday and a holiday Friday. And I can't work late on Tuesday because I have my regular therapist appointment. On the other hand, I have an assignment that a Someone wants done by the end of the year -- and two other Someones want delayed until a different matter is resolved.