I have spent too much time shopping the Nordstrom Anniversary sale today. Yesterday was D2’s birthday so I met her at the store and bought her some new clothes that will hopefully get her through her pregnancy. I also shopped a little for me! 
I love my new leopard print mules!
Waving hello to all! I’ve been reading the posts; just haven’t been commenting.
We got back yesterday from our annual week at family camp in NH. Great fun, as always. D & her fiancé
came for the 2nd part of the week. Since this is their wedding venue,we did menu planning with the chef, took inventory in the “Wedding Closet,” mapped out where to put directional signs, buried the “good weather” bottle of bourbon and more. The countdown is at 69 days. Invitations will be mailed by the end of this week. Her shower (hosted by her 4 aunts) is July 29. First dress fitting is July 27.
S flew up from FL for 10 days! Of course his real reason was to see his girlfriend (insert long story here about how he met her in Abu Dhabi), but he did come to a family BBQ on the 4th, AND came to family camp for the first night. The next day (July 9) he was officially promoted to Captain! Woot, woot!! I had the camp kitchen do a promotion cake for him. And today is his 26th birthday. AND, there’s now a chance he’ll be able to make it to D’s wedding!!! We haven’t told D – hope it all works out and he can surprise the heck out of her.
My brother (bladder cancer) is slowly improving, but it’s definitely a long haul. My father (89) slipped doing yard work and ended up with a massive hematoma on his butt. He was on a blood thinner, so there were a scary couple of days of various tests and blood counts. He’s fine, but was very sore for a while. Of course he was then worried about getting further behind on yard work, so I ended up doing quite a bit for him.
In between driving to/from various locations I’m still playing as much golf as I can.
Great news CBB! Congrats on the promotion news and how exciting that he was able to spend some time with you. Sending healing thoughts to your brother and father.
Congrats on the news CBB! Sounds like you are on your way with the wedding planning. We are getting there. Invites for shower and wedding are out. Invites for the rehearsal dinner should go out this week. Great news on improvement of your brother - even if it is a slow recovery - still improvement is great. Sorry to hear about your father. Hopefully he will recover and start to feel better soon. Great news on your S’s promo and the fact that he may be able to attend the wedding. What a great surprise potentially!
NM - I missed it! I didn’t know that your D was pregnant. Must have somehow skimmed over that. How exciting!!
Yes, RM! We are very excited! She is due at the beginning of December. 
DIL is due with number 3 in mid-Oct. I’m still waiting to see if her bridesmaid dress is going to fit her. They will have 3 under 3. More power to them. It is exciting to have grandkids!
Congrats, kudos etc. on promotions, babies, and melding wedding plans.
Survived the party but I fear it was a little too popular because now FB is abuzz about how folks should not miss it “next year.” Perchance its time to hire a caterer
The band was absolutely awesome (helped that we had mcson to do a pro sound check/set up) and it really was a great night. My cousin, whose a pro guitarist, joined the band and floored em. He’s from Toronto and now the just-formed band wants him to come back to play out with them.
All kinds of other crazy shenanigans I could report but I just wanted to pop in with a belated proof-of-life report and a thank you for your no-rain group prayers…not a drop
Breaking news just received… IT’S A GIRL!!! We are so excited! Woohoo!!!
Congrats NM! We won’t find out until Oct. They are not finding out - they didn’t with the other 2 either. I’m betting on a boy though.
KMC - sounds like you are a fantastic hostess! Glad it was rain free for you and that it all came of in high fashion.
NM, so exciting!
This is also a proof of life post, but also I have an ethical question.
There is an employee with whom I work a lot but do not supervise. (She has an absentee supervisor.) We are friendly, but not friends. She is about my age, so very experienced in her field. In the past few months, she has started making constant mistakes on simple items. For example, there are two documents to be signed, and she has only one of them signed. Then when I remind her to she get the other document signed, she first says she already has, then when she does get it signed, she sends it to the wrong person. This is not a tired -at- the -end -of- a -long day occurrence. These mistakes are constant.
She is going to be let go in the next month or so, with nice severance. She perceives that people are being mean to her when they ask her to correct her mistakes. Others think her careless and lazy. I am worried that something else is going on - like early onset Alzheimer’s or a brain tumor. (This sounds exactly like what happened to my neighbor before her Alzheimer’s was diagnosed.)
I just can’t imagine telling someone “your work is so incredibly bad that there must be something wrong with your brain.” I’m pretty sure that she will be covered by her husband’s health insurance after she leaves here.
I am inclined to keep my mouth shut. Thoughts?
I would hold off expressing concern until after she is severed, if at all.
If you chose to see her after she leaves and want to ask if she feels she’s had attentional difficulties, that might be the way to go. Sometime hormonal imbalances or other medical issues not necessarily related to Alzheimer’s can be the root in such a case. Its best that she have medical guidance in determining what’s at work.
Thanks. She is totally unaware of her issues, which is why she is so similar to my neighbor. I have resolved to be kind to her. I keep kindly guiding her to the correct actions, which increases my workload. So far all she has done is embarrassed us to friendly third parties. If she had the capacity to put us in legal peril, she would have to go sooner rather than later.
I wouldn’t say anything, MP. It could possibly be that she is under some sort of outside pressure/stress that no one knows about. It could be a lot of things.
I don’t know enough about the subject to offer an informed opinion, but I wonder if she had a medical diagnosis, if that might be considered a disability? It may change how HR handles the situation.
Agree to say nothing. And it is nice of you to be helpful to her.
My first thought was depression.
Cleaning out the garage today–fun and games. Storage room yesterday.
I’d be tempted to ask, “I notice that the work seems to be giving you more difficulty recently. Is there something going on outside of work?” But, I would generally trust people with better social skils.
Well, she no showed work today.
Gosh, maybe she know something is going on and is trying to get out.
cq-- any news on your H’s future?
Ha Ha, this just so like me–the wedding is Sept. 9th and what are we doing–
OH, spending tons of money on the side yard that no one can see from the house to repair
drainage issues and, gosh, finally landscape it and pressure wash and restain the fence.
It is gorgeous and I only look out the laundry door
to enjoy it.
And then, tomorrow, we are having the garage repaired–dry wall, some concrete work, press washed.
And Monday–way way down our steep lot H decided we need to put in proper steps coming up from
the street below.
Wow! not one thing would every matter for a wedding.
Hi! No job news yet for H. He’s had some additional interviews/interest. At least one is hoping to get someone to start by Sept. 1, so it’s possible the timing will work?
Well, yesterday what I figured would happen eventually finally happened. I traveled for work, and my suitcase did not arrive. When traveling by plane, I typically check my bag, because 1) it’s free for me; and 2) I’m really short, and hate trying to hoist a bag up and down over my head. In addition, I have to travel with a lot of business-related materials, and don’t like cramming everything I need into a carry-on size.
My initial flight was delayed taking off. I originally had 1.5 hours to make a connection, but basically I landed, transferred terminals, and walked onto the next plane’s “final boarding.” A couple of people boarded after me, so I wasn’t the last one on the plane. I expressed concern about my bag, but they assured me if I was able to make it, the luggage was likely to make it.
Well, it didn’t arrive. They said I should expect it to be delivered to my hotel around 11:30 pm. I decided to fall asleep, and woke up around midnight and realized they hadn’t called yet. I was starting to panic, since I dress VERY casually to travel, and didn’t relish wearing day-old clothing I had slept in to the client. Fortunately they called around 12:15 am with my suitcase.
So crisis averted.
Oregon, sounds like your home is getting some nice updates, even if they won’t be noticeable for the wedding!
missypie, hope your co-worker is okay.
Here we are a little less than 2 months before the wedding and D is officially in full panic mode. I sent her a text yesterday morning with a couple of questions and she fired back that a barrage of texts was only going to increase her stress; that she was already having a breakdown; that we needed to figure out a better way to communicate. OK then … I’m driving up later today to go to her first dress fitting with her. We’ll have dinner after and hopefully sort through some of this. I really don’t need her losing it at this point – there’s still a lengthy checklist of things to do.
@missypie - Hope things work out for you co-worker; tough situation.
@oregon101 - Well, at least your house/yard will be in great shape! I remember shortly before H & I got married, my father decided the kitchen in their house needed to be repainted. Drove my mother nuts. (They were hosting a big after-party for all the guests.)
@college_query - Sending all good job mojo to your H.