It has been a long time for all of us hasn't it!!! Since our kids were little, since some of us met each other....time passes fast.

Thats true , I just don't often think of it that way. I just look around and see all the things that need to be done and I am the only one to do them and I don't want to. But yea, no wonder I don't want to. Work, dealing w/ Nathan, schoolwork. Phew. I also disliked the time difference (still do) between the school levels. I would much prefer they all started/ended at the same time. But I know that can't be, due to many different reasons, the biggest usually being transportation. Parents can't be at 2 or 3 schools at the same time, and neither can buses. Buses also need time to do routes. Only if you are a small enough system would the kids of different schools ride the bus together....and to be fair, as a parent I would be freaked out if my K student rode the bus with teenagers!!! (Tho I admit, there are some teens that would be great with them there, its the others that would worry me, the ones who ignore or are mean or dangerous). Nathan gets out at 3pm. I do not get off work til 315, even tho our kids dismiss at 225 (busses are gone by 245, car rider is over by 250 usually - we are efficent! - and the biggest elementary!). I am glad he is a teenager, because I feel he is safe enough sitting at the high school or walking over to my school since we are less than a mile away from each other.

Morning

Good morning I am tired today. Weird dreams and woke up at 430, but managed to go back to sleep until 530. Got up and showered and now playing for a little bit before leaving for work. How has your morning/day been?

Morning is so far going ok. Works boring as I virtually have no work to do 😢

Managed to get some wish list items from the free shop and Freyalise

Wishlist items are the best!!

When we were doing virtual school I often felt bored all day. We were spending maybe 2-3 hrs to do what would normally take us an 8hr day to accomplish. Mainly because we couldn't have the kids on the comp all day, preK requires learning thru play, so we had to give them activities for the rest of the time to do on their own. So I felt like I was doing nothing for work most of the day! On one hand I enjoyed it, on the other I hated it lol

That’s kinda of what it’s like: I was in the office so could do other things, talk to people. However as I’m still mostly working from home till next spring.I just get on with it. No distractions

Good morning, ladies. waves Pretty sleepy this morning, myself.

The sheer amount of dropoff traffic for the schools and the teenager traffic combined w/ dropoff makes me completely understand the staggered start/end times. It's just insane.

I have no motivation to stalk that shop today, lol. I will, but I'm just tiirrred.

Exactly. When you are in person there are other things you can do. Friday is one of the 5 days they scheduled for at home learning. K-12 kids get to do paper packets of work. PreK has to do live virtual sessions like we did then. So about 2hrs of being online. Then the rest of they day..... They wanted us to go to this big "appreciation" celebration. But I think enough teachers complained system wide that they thought this was a day they could catch up on stuff and plan stuff that they made that celebration optional last night. We wouldn't have been able to go anyway because the busses were picking people up at 1030 and our online time did t end til 11!! Poor planning although I think they meant well

Good morning taarna. I feel ya. I would like to go back to bed. Also, yea. Dropoff/pick up traffic is insane!

Had to give up on Chase this morning (Item Hunt). He wanted a 5mil MC item. Nope dude.

I think they need to make an achievement for restocking at Freyalise :P ONCE (maybe twice) I have bought something worth buying. The other three? maybe four times I've now been able to buy something it sells for less than I bought it. At least an achievement would make me feel better about that. Oh well. Such is life eh? At least I am finally SEEING and being able to buy things (sometimes!)

Morning I’ve been back to bed as just sitting with the lap top. But also on here on the iPad. It’s nearly noon. So can have lunch. Then I finish at 4. Started at 7.30. After that it’s a hour session at the gym 😭

I quit chase too today he wanted a 2 million item for like level 56. Definitely a nope there.

I haven't played chase for awhile. I like to make sure I have extra funds that I can just throw away before I start playing him again.

I went to the gym a few times when my daughter was going. I don't feel comfortable going by myself, tho.

Morning guys!

My stomach has always been.. wonky. I also can't get too close to hot dogs or I'll throw up. Once Lilys friend hopped into the car still holding one after the homecoming bonfire and we were all like "WAIT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT".

I honestly can't remember any of what you guys talked about, even though I had responses in my head. My brain is.. not here, this morning.

<3<3<3<3

LOL Mieke. Seems to be the trend this morning.
Foggy brain syndrome.

You got a forum point while making a post! Check out the shop here! Did get this on my last post and got absolutely nothing after all the chatting done yesterday.

Keep running into stupid lag this morning, too.

Yeah, I've only gotten one forum point in like.. months. And it was from yesterdays rant about my children :P

Alex before he left this morning was like "Don't forget to go to work!". Which like.. OK fair. But also. AHHHHHH. I was super nervous last night. Then I forgot. Then I ate soup for breakfast. Now I remembered again any my stomach is doing a good impression of a roller coaster. :/

Oo, that doesn't sound good. :(

Funny you got that forum point after the rant. Almost like a Congratulations! lol

Freyalise Seems to be restocking every six minutes.

Also three restocks every hour (in the past five hours) has just had older items.

Mieke you’ve got this. I know what it’s like my anxiety kicks in in situations like that.

Yeah, I'm just nervous. I'll be fine once I get there, meet people, find out what to do, etc.

BUT FOR NOWWWWW... :P

Just think about those creepy octopii.... w/ their tentacles and all the suckers to stick to you and draw you in to that sharp, freaky beak they have hiding under that blob of a head....

😂

I don't actually like octopii :P They're just extremely intelligent.

I like the brainless blobs LOL

Makes me think of Dory and Marlin bouncing on all those jellies in the movie. :P

Yesss haha.

THOUGH. How I still like jellyfish.. did I mention, not at the beach?

When I was 18, a jellyfish stung my boob and THE TENTACLE GOT STUCK

And my FATHER IN LAW had to pull it off with tweezers. And it was mortifying.