I'm catching the cold from the residual germs living here. I didn't sleep well, have the sinus head-ache and my dog won't stop barking. My Irish dancing girls are having a treble jig dance off in their bedroom and I'm too lazy to move to tell them to stop. I'll just sit here and wait for my aspirin to work and be thankful that the boys are gone for the afternoon.
I'm imposing a 9:00 PM bedtime the remainder of the weekend. My less-than-well-rested children have succumbed to bad behavior and I had my second consecutive day with a tantrum. Ugh, I don't think I could take it if it was a regular occurrence in my house.
I walked my mom's dogs yesterday and she upped the pay from $10 to $15. 
I also got a free breakfast with the new committee chair for cub scouts. I really want to simply be the Treasurer, but I'm in some sort of pseudo-management position. Anyhow, it was long and unproductive breakfast with a man who I will have to be dealing with for the next three years. Someone who feels the need to be helpful all the time and fix problems with my family that don't need to be fixed (i.e., offering his wife's seamstress skills to alter my daughter's homecoming dress after I told my daughter to only buy a dress that fits her; AND trying to get my 2nd grade son on a basketball team at the YMCA when really I want is a refund of the fee). And I should add that both of these "attempts to fix" came from simply overhearing private conversations I had with my DH when we were sort of passing in the night updating one another on "stuff" at either soccer games or scouting events.
My resolution at the top of my list was to not complain or say anything bad about anyone in a gossipy way. I found myself at a loss for words and went dumbingly silent on three occasions in the past two days. Still not sure what the proper protocol is for not engaging in nasty talk. Not that I was that nasty and most of what I do say I'd be willing to share in person with an individual. But, still ...
So yesterday I made $15 and got a free breakfast.
Today is pretty much a NSD and I have $45 left til Friday for groceries. Thankfully we're still pretty full in the cabinets. I'll be passing on the Sunday paper coupons and ads again this weekend, as I'm still buying only what we need.
I think the aspirin is starting to work, maybe. I think I'll go take a nap.
And NGG, if you read this, I hope that things are going well with you!
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Dealing with nasty talk ... I guess that would depend on who it is/what your relationship with them is.. I know I've been in situations where people at my table are saying some rather not nice things about another person, and I just sit there quietly and eat my food not engaging .. more often than not, the person saying most of the nastiness notices this and starts feeling guilty (as evidenced by the person trying to justify to me what they're saying..)
If they're people that are constantly into the negative talk, I might consider finding ways to just avoid them. If that's not possible, then (again, depending on your relationship with them), I might speak up and say something like, "you know, it makes me really uncomfortable to hear you speak about so and so like that. It makes me wonder what you say about me when I'm not around, and I'm not sure if I want to be friends with people who can be so negative towards others."