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Post by Bean on Dec 22, 2020 7:57:39 GMT
I might use that substitute myself sometime, see how it goes down when the conversation is getting all serious!
Great to see you Amber, and I'm glad you're back home too. That must have been a shock to realise you'd lost track and missed your flight - you're normally so organised. I'm glad it only delayed your return a little and didn't mess up all your plans.
Enjoy your time with hub and the pigs, and hope you can catch up on some much needed relaxation too. Sounds like you've been working really hard. Bad luck about the useless supervisor though, hope that changes.
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Post by amber89 on Dec 23, 2020 0:18:33 GMT
Both hubby and me believe that the whole mishap was due to extreme exhaustion...for the last 2 weeks before my departure i have been working 10-12 hours daily in the lab, including full weekends. I was starting to make mistakes also during my experiments. I think that at that point i couldn't even say what date there was or what my name was.
Yes, i am really glad to finally be home again.
If i decide to continue this project, then the supervisor won't change...which is a big bummer
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Post by Bean on Dec 23, 2020 8:16:44 GMT
Ah that's a shame. A good one would certainly make your life easier.
It sounds like your break is very much needed! Are you and hubby planning any festive baking or are you just collapsing in a heap for now?!
Later on I'm picking up some lovely festive flowers from a local florist (including an entertaining little cracker table arrangement), and tomorrow I'm collecting an order from a local bakery (they're entirely gluten free but don't market themselves as such so loads of their customers don't even realise). A few special treats for Christmas!
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Post by amber89 on Dec 23, 2020 17:08:12 GMT
I am still working on the report now...deadline is in about 4h Hubby did some ginger bread yesterday, but only because the dough was already done. A month ago we decided that we'll do some baking, but all that is cancelled now...even the christmas menu has been simplified on a short notice. I just want to sleep and not get out of bed for a few days. I am so exhausted. I want 3 days of just relaxing, without spending endless hours in the kitchen and running around. Even so, the 24th will be a busy day...the tree is not yet up and we still need to do some last minute groceries.
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Post by Seffy on Dec 23, 2020 19:26:21 GMT
Hope you can still squeeze in a little "down time" over the holidays! I'm so frustrated. Spent extra at the Post Office on Friday to have my 82-year old dad's Christmas package delivered by US Postal Service via Priority Mail, which should have been delivered to him this past Monday. No package on Monday, yesterday OR today. This was his main gift---a care package that I put together for him with some of his favorite goodies. I'm kicking myself that I didn't mail it sooner. He did receive the small box from Amazon.com that I had shipped to him directly, but still. Just hope his box hasn't gotten lost somewhere. Tracking only says "In Transit."
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 24, 2020 2:31:40 GMT
Hubby ordered me as gift. It's been sitting at the Postal depot 20 miles from since 12/16. No more tracking info than that. No idea when it might be delivered. Sorry his main gift might not arrive in time. I'd demand my money back, if it doesn't.
Amber, I hope you get enough sleep and relaxation to feel more like your old self. Take the holiday off. The project can wait.
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Post by Bean on Dec 24, 2020 7:34:28 GMT
Ah I'm sorry your gift to your dad hasn't got there yet, Seffy. I really hope it gets there today - fingers are crossed.
Sorry Amber, I didn't realise you were still grafting away. I hope you got the report in and can now switch off completely - maybe stay in bed while hubby does the food shopping today and decorate the tree together on Christmas Day, when you'll hopefully be feeling human again! Things are definitely going to be different this year, and without the socialising aspect, it's easier to just do exactly what suits us and not work to a timetable!
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Post by bazookagoof on Dec 25, 2020 2:32:29 GMT
We did our food trade-off today, and it went well... but my parents decided to get us gifts, despite our telling them not to. I know it's the thought that counts, but my wife ended up getting yet another bottle of shower gel (she has three already) and I got a coin counter... in the middle of a coin shortage. Sigh...
I haven't had use for coins in ages; I usually give my spare change to my daughter, who ends up making about $70-$100 a year and puts it in her new bank account. (She needs it, and the experience in dealing with money, so I can do no less for her.)
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 25, 2020 14:14:11 GMT
It is the thought that counts, but I know how you feel. One year at my sisters, hubby and I, my parents and my BiLs parents all gave each other ait popcorn poppers. We each got three popcorn poppers, and idendown to the brand 🤗
Glad the food exchange went really well. Great way to get a great meal, and only have to make part of it 🤗
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Post by Seffy on Dec 29, 2020 0:41:07 GMT
One word for you, bazookagoof: REGIFT! My dad finally got his gift box today! Yay! Mailed it on the 17th and paid for 2-day delivery so he'd get it in time for Christmas, but I had no idea of the delays. Just glad it arrived and didn't get lost in the shuffle.
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Post by Bean on Dec 29, 2020 8:19:15 GMT
Glad it's arrived! Christmas is keeping on coming for him!
A few days before Christmas I realised something I'd ordered on the 11th and was supposed to be on 48 hour delivery hadn't come. I'd been assuming it had been delayed in the Christmas rush, but checked the tracking and it said it had been delivered two days after I'd ordered it? Not to me! Anyway the company do the investigations about what's happened to it and are sending me a replacement (it wasn't a Christmas gift) so it should all work out fine in the end.
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 29, 2020 21:51:46 GMT
I still have a gift in the shipping pipeline. Hubby really needs to call the post office and find out what he can do.
I usually forget to give one gift, and find it months or years later.
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Post by bazookagoof on Dec 30, 2020 1:20:48 GMT
We finally got snow! Not that I'm excited; I hate driving in it and my fellow motorists inspire no confidence, either. Also, tomorrow's weather is supposed to be rain and about 40 degrees! My wife insisted on shoveling the back walk- I let her (she needed the exercise anyway.)
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 30, 2020 20:37:00 GMT
We get what you get, a day or two after you get it, and that weather is arriving Friday PM. Saturday is wet. We'll get a mix to start, but it will all change to rain, with temps in the 40sF. The lite, puffy snow we got has all turned to concrete. I can walk on top of it. More of that will be gone, after the next warm/wet stint. We'll get more, but we haven't even gotten to our January thaw!
Hubby did call the post office, learned the gift he bought me, that's been sitting in a NH depot about 30 miles from here, got sent to Springfield, Massachusetts, about 140 miles from here, so it can be sent back to our post office, and delivered. I'm being very good not trying to get him to tell me what it is. Oy!
I hope Steffy's package to her dad arrived on time!
The post office said they can't get workers. Same thing all the delivery companies are saying, yet tRump wasn't another $2K to every household? Why don't the out of work people in those households get jobs in the delivery companies?
Not to be unkind to the unemployed, and possibly unemployable, but when we first moved to NH, we lived in Pelham. I don't know if it was a Pelham rule or a state rule, but anyone applying for unemployment/welfare had 1 week to find a job, any job. The town then paid them the difference between what they earned, and a living wage. I think that must have stopped, as we seem to have an awful lot of people getting welfare and unemployment, while there are We're Hiring signs everywhere. Daughter said she can't get anyone to work at her convenience store. It doesn't pay a lot, but if you're out of work and about to get evicted, it's a paycheck!
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