Friday Five!

I'm allergic to almonds now so it's not really an issue But it's good they have one made not to separate. I don't know *how* because homemade almond milk definitely does.

lol totally fair! I don't question how but it's one of the "barista" versions that are made specifically for hot drinks. Might have loads of crap in it! lol

XoD, you are doing all this work just to list your house?!?!?  Where are you going to move to?  I'm hoping you stay local!

I looked up your suite in the hotel.  WOW WOW WOW!!!  That will be a night to remember!!

We were doing all this work anyways just because we got this house as a project house (the bathroom we knew had to go ASAP as it was just vom inducing - only slightly hyperbolic lol) but are in a decent position to move now since husband has got a new job and we want to find a detached house that we can stay in for 5 - 10 years at an absolute minimum. We're maybe working quicker than we would in order to list it but we would be doing all this anyways, just maybe with more expensive "furniture" or more personal taste injected. We tried to keep things on the based but quality side to appeal to be the least offensive possible.

I'm gutted it's only a night! haha we definitely couldn't afford more than 1 night but  the view of the city in the distance and the rainbow bridge looked amazing! Gonna make the most of it though as we're in tiny airbnbs for the rest of the trip haha

It's tough.  I don't think uniforms are a bad thing.  I just think they don't need to be so complicated.  My 4 year old must wear a pointed collared blouse (not polo) with a tie!  What's wrong with jogging bottoms and a polo?  Let 4 year olds be 4 year olds.  Though I suspect she will look super adorable! 

Having grown up at a tough inner-city (well....  okay, it was Clearwater not exactly rough) middle school full of diversity and then going to a high school that was associated with a country club and the mass majority of kids came from serious money - I definitely think uniforms are no bad thing.  Kids already feel a lot of pressure in high school.  Uniforms can help with "evening the score".  But I think starting in secondary school is the way to go.  Oh well.  Not my choice.  At least it'll make getting ready in the morning easy.

I totally respect that and I can see how it makes certain areas of a child's life easier. I just can't fully get on board with liking it (even though I would totally respect the rules - never get people who are like "I let my kid do what they want because the rules are stupid!"...those people aren't helping their child out in life at all).

XoD how was your anniversary dinner?

XoD how was your anniversary dinner?

Was good! We went to Ichiban in Windsor. It had some really good dishes (Katsu Curry & Chicken Yakisoba & pumpkin croquettes) and some decent ones (crispy chili beef - too much better, not enough beef - & chicken kara-age - I liked it, husband thought it was just okay) but husband said sushi was "sickly". Dunno what that means and I don't eat sushi! I would eat there again for sure,  but I wouldn't give it a perfect score Staff and service was good though until it was time to pay the bill when they took their time - but that seems to be standard here

Yummmmmm.... have I mentioned I'm on a diet.  <sigh>  Food!

Yummmmmm.... have I mentioned I'm on a diet.  <sigh>  Food!

Was dyinnnngggg for the food truck you sent me!

This just made me laugh out loud..

1. In agreement that it's the MUTHERTRUCKING WEEKEND! How did this week fly by so quickly?! Oh, I know! Because work has been so stressful that there's just not been enough hours in the day.

2. Husband's friend is popping by this evening to catch up. She lives in Ireland now and tries to pop by when she's over here (as her parents don't live too far away). She is really lovely and everything but can be really self-centered. She will spend about an hour talking about herself and then she will ask you a question and you start to answer and she just clearly tunes out. She did it to me one of the last times we saw her and she later messaged me to apologise and said it wasn't her intentionally trying to be rude, she was just exhausted because of her fibromyalgia....yet it didn't stop her from talking so much after the fact when I stopped responding because I could tell she was disinterested pretty much instantly. I now just take the apparoach of speak as little as possible, let her and my husband chat, and hope that she goes home sooner rather than later because I would feel it's rude for me to go make myself busy with other things while she was around but I get so BORED sitting there listening to her talk for HOURS with nothing I can add. I know that makes me sound horrible. She's also the type to read one science magazine in passing and suddenly she's a scientist and she will talk to you like you wouldn't have heard about the things she's speaking about and that can get frustrating.

Please tell me your husband finds her behaviour equally tiresome, but he continues to indulge her only because they've been friends for so long.  I'd be beyond annoyed if someone did that to me, but I could possibly tolerate it better if I knew my husband was on my side.  If I thought he was fooled by her air of self-importance, I'm afraid I would have to put her in her intellectual place if given half a chance.

Please tell me your husband finds her behaviour equally tiresome, but he continues to indulge her only because they've been friends for so long.  I'd be beyond annoyed if someone did that to me, but I could possibly tolerate it better if I knew my husband was on my side.  If I thought he was fooled by her air of self-importance, I'm afraid I would have to put her in her intellectual place if given half a chance.

Yeah the whole friend group kind of knows she's like this as she's renown for being this way. What I don't like is that they choose to make these comments behind her back. I think you either continue to indulge the behaviour and put up and shut up as you value her as a friend OR say it's too much and move along. I don't get the point of making comments about how annoying it is behind her back BUT continuing to keep going on with it. She's not intentionally being rude and she means well, she just has always been enabled to be this self absorbed and she doesn't even realise she's being this way. It doesn't really matter if you try to be like "you do realise I know what you're talking about so you don't need to explain it in the detail you are explaining it, right?", she'll just move quickly onward so there's no real "put her in her place". Even so, I don't think she'd even realise she was being put in her place. I just try to stay present while she's there and that can be enough of a struggle sometimes as I want to just take out my phone and piss about because I'm not engaged in the conversation 99% of the time lol. She's that friend that would meet you out for a coffee, tell you all about what's going on in her life THEN ask you about yours but while you start answering says "OH WOW! LOOK AT THE TIME! Sorry I didn't get to hear more but I absolutely must go as I have to make an appointment!" then apologise after the fact by text that she didn't get to hear much about you lol. I know what to expect so it's whatever.

My Five.

1. I'm loving being at the beach. It is roasting here this week and it's amazing.  I'm not going to want to go home and go back to work.

2. Both my daughter and I have been severely hampered because of foot issues. Her with her genetic blister condition and I hurt myself. I pulled my Achilles tendon. We are both in a great deal of pain but we are making things work. We haven't seen everything we wanted to but we are together.  And that means everything.

3. I'm eating all the stuff. Lots of gelato, pastry, cakes, donuts. And I don't feel the least bit guilty about my horrible vacation diet.

4. My tan looks amazing. I wish I could wear clothes to show it off in Scotland but nae bother. It's too shite normally.  Lol. Stuart says it's been raining since I left.

5. I'm going to miss my daughter. I don't want to go without her another day. Every visit with her makes it harder and harder to go back to Scotland. I do because I love Stuart and Scotland but I so miss my babies. I underestimated how incredibly hard it would be.

5.

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My Five.

1. I'm loving being at the beach. It is roasting here this week and it's amazing.  I'm not going to want to go home and go back to work.

2. Both my daughter and I have been severely hampered because of foot issues. Her with her genetic blister condition and I hurt myself. I pulled my Achilles tendon. We are both in a great deal of pain but we are making things work. We haven't seen everything we wanted to but we are together.  And that means everything.

3. I'm eating all the stuff. Lots of gelato, pastry, cakes, donuts. And I don't feel the least bit guilty about my horrible vacation diet.

4. My tan looks amazing. I wish I could wear clothes to show it off in Scotland but nae bother. It's too shite normally.  Lol. Stuart says it's been raining since I left.

5. I'm going to miss my daughter. I don't want to go without her another day. Every visit with her makes it harder and harder to go back to Scotland. I do because I love Stuart and Scotland but I so miss my babies. I underestimated how incredibly hard it would be.

5.

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You need to move further down south! It's LUSH out today! (arguably too warm! ) Makes me WISH there was a beach close enough by!

I can't even imagine. I wish there was some type of visa that could be granted to non-dependent adult children of residents. Just seems so pants

I totally respect that and I can see how it makes certain areas of a child's life easier. I just can't fully get on board with liking it (even though I would totally respect the rules - never get people who are like "I let my kid do what they want because the rules are stupid!"...those people aren't helping their child out in life at all).

Uniforms. I remember wearing the school uniform. It identified us in public places, made us a cohesive (supposedly) group, kept our attention on study instead of fashion (supposedly), made us all "equal" (supposedly)... etc., etc., etc.  I had one jumper, two blouses, a tie, and a cap. Plus the  two pairs of itchy wool knee socks. The blouses and socks were in rotation daily and the jumper was worn over a slip so it really didn't get much "body" stuff on it, so it would make it the week.  Funny thing is, as it was designed to make us all "equal' (etc.), was that the rich kids managed to have uniforms/blouses/ties/caps/shoes that were just a bit nicer, somehow, and so you could still pick out the poor kids (us) from the rich kids! 

It did make it easier in the morning for our moms, I guess. There was no question about what you were going to wear the next day.

5. I'm going to miss my daughter. I don't want to go without her another day. Every visit with her makes it harder and harder to go back to Scotland. I do because I love Stuart and Scotland but I so miss my babies. I underestimated how incredibly hard it would be.

Aww... but even if you didn't find Stuart and move to Scotland, at some point, your daughter was going to go off to do her own thing.  I feel like she can't be as young as she looks in the photos (I know she's related to you, so she must be older than she appears!), but at some point, she stops being your baby, and starts being that awesome friend you created and get to hang out with every once in a while.

You need to move further down south! It's LUSH out today! (arguably too warm! ) Makes me WISH there was a beach close enough by!

I can't even imagine. I wish there was some type of visa that could be granted to non-dependent adult children of residents. Just seems so pants

I don't know what the weather is usually like in NL but I was here exactly a year ago and I had my coat on the whole time. Now I'm in spaghetti strap vests and shorts.

I was born and raised on the beach. (Cocoa Beach, FL) and the beach and water will always call to me. I love the Scottish beaches... I just wish we had the sun and warmth to go with them.

And yes, it's pants! I need my kids but I also recognise they are adults now on their own journeys. Even if I was still in North Carolina, I wouldn't see them that often. And I love that they've grown up to be so independent. But also, I hate I'm not the center of their world anymore.

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I don't know what the weather is usually like in NL but I was here exactly a year ago and I had my coat on the whole time. Now I'm in spaghetti strap vests and shorts.

I was born and raised on the beach. (Cocoa Beach, FL) and the beach and water will always call to me. I love the Scottish beaches... I just wish we had the sun and warmth to go with them.

And yes, it's pants! I need my kids but I also recognise they are adults now on their own journeys. Even if I was still in North Carolina, I wouldn't see them that often. And I love that they've grown up to be so independent. But also, I hate I'm not the center of their world anymore.

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The positive is that your location now gives you (and them) the excuse to do more travelling together!

Aww... but even if you didn't find Stuart and move to Scotland, at some point, your daughter was going to go off to do her own thing.  I feel like she can't be as young as she looks in the photos (I know she's related to you, so she must be older than she appears!), but at some point, she stops being your baby, and starts being that awesome friend you created and get to hang out with every once in a while.

She looks like a baby. She got that from her dad. He looked 14 until he was in his 30's. When I met him, I didn't think he was old enough to be in the bar. He was 27. Eden will be 19 in a few weeks. She graduated high school at 16 and has been working full time since with some occasional college classes. She is a money saver and very responsible for a pot head. Lol

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