[Betsy]

This is a hugely popular thread on other sites I belong to.

You don't have to (and aren't expected to) respond to every post. This is a thread to chat about your day, vent, wonder what's for lunch, vent, discuss your uncomfortable bra, brag about a great bargain find, chat, vent, ask a quick question, be sarcastic if the mood strikes you, etc.

Just let it all out... (Go ahead, fling that bra! LOL!)

[Betsy]

I'll start...


My tongue hurts. Yep, my tongue. How does that even happen? It's not like I bit it either. it feels like a taste bud exploded or something. What's that about?

[Betsy]

Also, I am hungry. But can't decide what I want for lunch. Mac & Cheese? Flauta? Quesadilla? Pizza? Turkey sandwich? This is the problem with going grocery shopping - you end up with too many choices...

[Leila]

Quesadilla for sure.

[Erica]

This week as been soooooooooooooooooooooooo long!!!! Can't wait for the weekend!!!

[Betsy]

Had a sandwhich.

My tongue still hurts.

I had coffee and managed to spill some on me. On my knee. Not even sure *how* I did that!

[Betsy]

And because I had coffee, it means all my random thoughts are coming out of my mouth. Not good. I am already a babbling moron, and I have a LOoooooonnnnggg night at work ahead of me!

[varanda]

I want the dancing cow!

[varanda]

Gee, my DH is going off to play poker, and he found someone besides me to watch his kid! WOOHOO! What shall I do tonite?

[varanda]

Think I'll go check the movie page! See something he'd hate. Wish all my friends didn't live so far away. That's the problem with the Bay Area: traffic and everyone's at least 45 minutes off.

[talina]

This is my dilemna tonight. I have to teach a class at my LSS at 10am tomorrow. I have been prepared for a while because I had the class scheduled two months ago, and then had to cancel because of a spur of the moment beach trip.

Anyway--I can't find the LOs that I was going to use to teach the class!!!! I had them loose somewhere. And I think I remember putting them up so they wouldn't get bent/creased--and so I wouldn't forget where I put them!

Well, I guess that is what I get for last minute preparation! I mean, it really isn't last minute, but then again, I guess it is!

What to do? The LSS has copies of my LOs on display (to advertise the class). I can attempt to teach with them, but I don't have them in front of me tonight to get things straight in my head!

The class is about mixing patterned paper. Hmmmm. Off to search online for some 'lecture' material...

[ScrappingForever]

We just got back from Williamsburg. We decided to do an end of summer fling with our boys, so we went to Busch Gardens and Water Country USA. An awesome weekend.

But now it's back to reality! My oldest DS starts school tomorrow, second greade.
We have our parent-teacher conference tomorrow with my little DS's teacher, starting Kindergarten this year. What an incredible thought!

Poor DH is fighting with the bills. Opened two in a row that said they hadn't gotten the payment last month, even though he has copies of the checks/email confirmation that he paid!!! UGH!!

And he's already decided he's staying home from work tomorrow to get our new DVD done. It's gotta get burned to disk, and reviewed tomorrow, and in the mail to the repro house so we'll have the copies we need for Memory Trends...which is just 3 WEEKS AWAY!!!! AAAAAHHHH!!! TOO much to doo!!!

[Betsy]

Boring weekend. But boring is good sometimes.

[shaggysmomma]

I just got back from a week in Mississippi and I have to go back to work tomorrow and I'm still so tired! All I did all week was run around! Blah!

[Ro]

I'm avoiding going to bed because I have to get up early in the morning to get my kids off to their first day of school AND I have to pay the bills. I hate to pay the bills. I wish I was rich and could hire an accountant to do it for me. (Add that to my dream list, Valerie...)

Now there's logic for you. Staying up late because I have to get up early.

That sounds like something my 3 year old grandson would want to do.

Wahhh... LOL

[Betsy]

Must.get.DH's.brochure.done.today.

This thing is driving me crazy - full color, doublesided, trifold brochure. And he wants to try a *new* printing place... grrrrrr...

[varanda]

Bookkeepers---I can't afford mine so now we're trading. She needs a brochure designed and scrapbook pages done!

With four sole proprietorships (LONG STORY---I'll have to scrap it---LOL), and a DH who never balances a checkbook or tracks an invoice or remembers what he quotes, or saves his receipts, it was all I could do to keep from killing him.

No longer is it me who does everything bill related, its her! Gives me time to create and if we ever get audited (gawd forbid) our books will be CLEAN!

Start dreaming big, RO---everyone needs a bookkeeper!

[Betsy]

Oh, man, we'd be LOST without our accountant! Honestly, I thought DH was NUTS when he insisted we get our taxes done. But then add in a marriage, a name change, a Personal Corporation and now a new small business and taking over a tax ID and all that, well, we NEED him!

[Betsy]

As I told DH - I can do *dimensions* but not numbers! LOL! I can figure out the sizes of stuff for a computer project, but don't expect me to balance the checkbook!

[Betsy]

Hey V - I just realized, I'm number 15, and you're 16! COOL!

[varanda]

Hey Betsy, that is cool!

[varanda]

Flood control! Can't post as fast in case I have a stream of thoughts.

Spent today redoing galleries, so much to upchuck, so little time. many more to go!

Tomorrow the goal is not to turn. on. the. computer. and get sucked in. try. to write...have so much to do.

[talina]

My husband is fed up with me being on the computer. See, he works from home. I hate it. He is always in my way.

I was on the computer ALL DAY yesterday and this morning too. The little boys and I are taking a trip to the mall after their naps.

[varanda]

Here I am, on the computer: so much for resistance.

ACK! Talina---I know what you mean.

I at least have my own studio, so I can escape but my DH has been "home" most of the time we've been together (8 years) and I'm just not used to it. I love my solitude.

He does a lot of stuff: silkscreens tee shirts, paints, builds furniture, grows vegetables, but his income has been inconsistent.

This last year our roles reversed and I went from being the major breadwinner, to, well....reinventing myself (again). It required him to get something slightly more consistent so now he has a construction job and I love it when he LEAVES every day!

This last week, they were waiting for design changes and bldg. supplies, so he didn't work but he left today and I waved a hearty SEE YOU TONITE! lol

[talina]

Oh, I wish my DH left the house and went to a REAL job. I mean, he has a real job, but he works from the house--without a designated OFFICE area!

Often it is ME leaving the house saying, "See you tonight!" Just to get away!!!

[Betsy]

Dh just bought his own office, but for the 5 weeks or so in late July through August, he was home. Everyday. Every.Day. All.Day. Drove me up the freaking wall! I work nights, he works days, so it was a big adjustment to go from never seeing each other to being in each other's way all day. Now he's working, which is good, but still no income, which is scary and stressful and downright tiring.

I made a cool set of papers today, I really like it and can't wait to share!

[talina]

Oooh, Betsy, I can't wait to SEE! I am excited about a set that I was inspired to make tonight. I got started, then I had to come to work...

[Betsy]

OH! Don't you HATE that!? Stupid WORK! Why do they seem so interested in when I get there? LOL!

[varanda]

He's back already! DH just showed up, the bldg. supplies weren't delivered so they were sent home. And he was hanging out in my studio---trying to "help" me but asking too many questions, using my phone, making a huge mess on my desk that I just tidied up---so I picked a small fight to get him to LEAVE.

He has his own studio. It's not like I needed the help at this moment, what I need to do is keep working on my page sets!

Now he's not talking to me. Oh well. Win some, lose some! At least he's not in my space! I'll sooth his ruffled feathers lately. MEN!

[Jadedolphin]

Wow! You really like your space ladies!! LOL!!

My DH is at home all day every day for the last 16 years! It was a case of who ever got a job first took it and the other would look after our DS. I got the job, it paid well enough for DH to stay home and rear DS and a great job he did too. Occasionally he gets once off jobs and it's great to have the house to my self especially if DS is out too!! Dh and I share a room for our computers, so we are side by side most of the time, luckilly we do get on very well and share the same sense of humour, we don't "interfere" with each others projects unless asked. But it annoys me when DS stands behind me and reads what I'm typing!! :tappingfingers: Still it could be worse, we could not get on and I'd find that unbearable. But I do look forward to days when I'm on my own even for a couple of hours!! It's heaven!!