Random news flashes
Oct. 11th, 2005 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julival2I got a few bits of surprising news recently...
My brother called me this afternoon to tell me that we had an offer on Mom's house. We're going to accept it. The closing will be next month and all the sibs will get a nice little Christmas bonus. I'm so glad that it's finally going to be wrapped up. I've felt bad for my brother having to do all the work and shoulder all that responsibility. It's not easy dealing with three V@llery sisters. He's been a trooper. Despite his little mishap with the initial pricing on the house, I'm really proud of him and grateful to him and have told him so. Maybe I'll write him a nice note after the closing, too. He should know he's appreciated.
My brother-in-law called us last night to tell us we have a nephew joining the family on Thursday. Crazy times. As I told Carrie B, I'm getting a new nephew and a new soul nephew on the same day. Both just a week before my illustrious birthday. It'll be easy to remember, as long as they both manage to follow through on their labor inductions within the day. My sister-in-law wasn't due until the 23rd, but I guess the baby was getting a little too big for his birth canal.
My boss is taking his staff out to dinner Thursday night. In northern Ohio. We have a company-wide quarterly meeting on Friday and the whole office is heading up after work on Thursday and staying overnight so that we can be treated to a nice dinner. I'm trying to be grateful and excited - and on one level, I am. It's still amazing to me how NICE all these people are. But...and here comes the whiny part...we have to carpool up together and share rooms! Whaaaaaaa. I don't WANT to carpool or share a room! I understand the reason, but that doesn't make it any more fun to go thirty-six hours with no privacy and too much togetherness with people I've only known less than two months. I get to share a room with my pregnant 25 year old supervisor. I wonder who gets the shower first. Bleh. I probably won't sleep at all.
What's worse is that I'll be on pins and needles all day long (or, if the ladies in question are lucky, not all day long...or if they aren't...possibly into the night...) waiting for phone calls about the new little babies and the mommies (well, and the daddies, too, of course, but you know)!!!! I wish I had a jet. OR a Helicopter. and pilots. and a lot of money. this could get out of hand.
Once again, the mfssob mlb has pre-empted my House fix for the week. *scowl* I wish I could hit them with a bat. Hard.
Other than all that, the week is pretty run of the mill. Didn't post last night because the book I've been slowly but surely meandering through for the last three weeks or so just got interesting. I'm off to shower and read now.
My brother called me this afternoon to tell me that we had an offer on Mom's house. We're going to accept it. The closing will be next month and all the sibs will get a nice little Christmas bonus. I'm so glad that it's finally going to be wrapped up. I've felt bad for my brother having to do all the work and shoulder all that responsibility. It's not easy dealing with three V@llery sisters. He's been a trooper. Despite his little mishap with the initial pricing on the house, I'm really proud of him and grateful to him and have told him so. Maybe I'll write him a nice note after the closing, too. He should know he's appreciated.
My brother-in-law called us last night to tell us we have a nephew joining the family on Thursday. Crazy times. As I told Carrie B, I'm getting a new nephew and a new soul nephew on the same day. Both just a week before my illustrious birthday. It'll be easy to remember, as long as they both manage to follow through on their labor inductions within the day. My sister-in-law wasn't due until the 23rd, but I guess the baby was getting a little too big for his birth canal.
My boss is taking his staff out to dinner Thursday night. In northern Ohio. We have a company-wide quarterly meeting on Friday and the whole office is heading up after work on Thursday and staying overnight so that we can be treated to a nice dinner. I'm trying to be grateful and excited - and on one level, I am. It's still amazing to me how NICE all these people are. But...and here comes the whiny part...we have to carpool up together and share rooms! Whaaaaaaa. I don't WANT to carpool or share a room! I understand the reason, but that doesn't make it any more fun to go thirty-six hours with no privacy and too much togetherness with people I've only known less than two months. I get to share a room with my pregnant 25 year old supervisor. I wonder who gets the shower first. Bleh. I probably won't sleep at all.
What's worse is that I'll be on pins and needles all day long (or, if the ladies in question are lucky, not all day long...or if they aren't...possibly into the night...) waiting for phone calls about the new little babies and the mommies (well, and the daddies, too, of course, but you know)!!!! I wish I had a jet. OR a Helicopter. and pilots. and a lot of money. this could get out of hand.
Once again, the mfssob mlb has pre-empted my House fix for the week. *scowl* I wish I could hit them with a bat. Hard.
Other than all that, the week is pretty run of the mill. Didn't post last night because the book I've been slowly but surely meandering through for the last three weeks or so just got interesting. I'm off to shower and read now.
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Date: 2005-10-12 10:55 am (UTC)