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Re: Ten Things Tuesdays
1. I really want a new job.
2. I'm just bored.
3. I drink too much soda.
4. Should I give up soda for TTC?
5. What if we have twins?
6. I've already eaten my snacks. Its 10:30.
7. I am baby obsessed.
8. I think my dog is half pit (we adopted him as a half border collie half unknown) and he's amazing and great but I never say that aloud b/c people are so weird about it even though they're good dogs and the PEOPLE are the nuts.
9. I am really nervous for my impending fall time crunch that is all my fault.
10. I kind of am sad we're going to finish all this work on our house just to sell it.
1. The beep of the smoke dector battery needing to be changed at 4am is not a good way to start the day.
2. Thankfully, L went down, dug out the stepstool, replaced the battery, and came back to bed. I pretended to sleep through it.
3. I am LOVING my new cleaned out and newly tiled office. I think I want to go to Ikea to get some more decorations.
4. I can't wait to eat my lunch (that I acutally packed) - a sweet onion burger and a chocolate ganache cupcake (that L brought home for me last night.)
5. We sold the boys cribs and got full asking price. I posted them on Cragislist Sunday morning, the people came to look last night, decided to buy both, and will come Saturday to take them away. It'll be bittersweet. Another vestige of babyhood gone. But the boys are beyond excited about getting "big boy beds!"
6. I won't be sad when another vestige of babyhood goes - pull-ups/diapers. I figured last night that the boys have been changed AT LEAST 23,000 times. Heck, I had to change them 4x this morning between 7a-8a. Hope this doesn't scare you C&S!
7. I friended a former co-worker on FB yesterday. I had a major crush on her in the mid 90s (pre L) and I think a bit of the crush remains. However, apparently she has become a hardcore conservative Republican. That kills the crush a bit.
8. I have a cool new desktop phone for work. It is so much sleeker than the nasty old phone that I had and has so many cool featrures - like caller ID! YAY!
9. We are taking the boys swimming after work. I am excited - they love it!
10. I love that we are going to have cooler weather later this week/this weekend. Ahhhhh.
"Scare" is probably an understatement!
1. One of our dogs is probably 1/2 pitt too. She's a therapy dog and the sweetest thing ever. I think pitts are beautiful animals that have gotten an unfair reputation.
2. Bella Band = Heaven
3. I just made my first OBGYN appt which made me giggle.
4. I'm thinking about painting the hallway this week. It's the last painting project we have in the house and it would be a great surprise for K.
5. I wonder if Walmart carries low/no VOC paint? I really don't want to pay $50 gallon to paint a hallway.
6. I still don't have tenants for my property and it's worrying me.
7. My voicemail light is flashing - I wonder when the phone rang ??
8. It's hot and humid but we've yet to turn on the A/C and I'm proud of that (yea lower bill!).
9. K went out with friends (ex-gf and wife) and their kids last night. I hope she had fun (especially with the kids)!
10. I better go prep my paperwork for my afternoon meeting.
1. I passed in the fmla Dr form to HR yesterday and am really worried that they will not give me the leave that I want. The Dr. said no daycare until 2/1 I hope they give me paid leave until then. That would be amazing!
2. My dog is totally tramatized by this whole experience and I think he needs doggie prozac
3. We found a nice bar/pub las night near the hospital and I had really good food
4. The lactation consultants are pretty intense and want me at the hospital all the time to practice nursing Ella (which is great but who can pay for parking to do that!)
5. I slept in today and I felt great!
6. I am off schedule for pumping today due to 5
7. My friend P is coming to the hospital today and I am excited to see her. She also has not seen Ella since week one so I can't wait for her to see Ella and how much she has changed
8 I love trying new foods that people are sending us. It is so fun to see what their version of comfort food is
9. I love my wife
10 I am glad this experience is bringing S and I closer together. We have found that we really like eachother since we really only intereact with eachother and the nurses on a daily basis. I guess I picked the right one!
1. There was an organized GLBT meeting in my city last night (that is the first of its kind) and I was so excited to go, but fell asleep and missed it!
2. My "work wife" is leaving. Her last day is Friday and I am SUPER sad about it.
3. Two people in my office of 9 people are pregnant and I'm trying to be happy for them while not being bitter.
4. I've never so unsure of so many things at one time in my life.
5. I really want a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese icing right now.
6. I miss San Diego every day.
7. Even though I love my job, I'm sure that I don't want to work at a magazine forever.
8. I'm going to start up with my creative photography again.
9. Did I mention that I really want a cupcake right now?
10. My car looks like homeless people live in it.
1) i love when i can feel andrea smiling through her texts
2) i won the 'what to do tonight' battle. outcome = movie night!
3) my wife is my bestest friend
4) i've been daydreaming about our honeymoon a lot lately. i wish so much we could go back (soon)
5) i hate the heat
6) i've begun my countdown the the Big E (for those not in the northeast, this is a HUGE yearly fair consisting of delicious food, crafts, rides, tractor pulls, and horse shows. cause thats how we do it)
7) Andrea and i came up with a fun date night for Aug 31st
8) i cant wait for our anniversary cake. i think i actually dreamt about it last night
9) have you noticed that there's an "i'm feeling lucky" button on google now?
10) after months of no-show AF and wondering if i was somehow miraculously pregnant its confirmed that i am, in fact, not pregnant. fyi.
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1. thank goodness for google calendar or i never would have remembered my dentist appointment this afternoon.
2. i hate the window a/c in my office because it's so loud, but it's so humid i've had to leave it running non-stop for the past two days.
3. i walked by my old boss's office and stopped to say hi. i left with a huge bowl of delicious cantaloupe.
4. the cantaloupe is already gone.
5. i spent a bunch of time playing with photoshop last night.
6. i should have been working on other things, but you should see how some of the pictures of my friends' baby turned out.
7. i really need to get that lens for my camera.
8.i also really need to clean and rearrange my office at home so we can move the futon from the future nursery in there.
9. i should probably work on that tonight instead of playing with more pictures.
10. i wish my headache would go away.
SSG have you contacted Parking and asked them for discounted tickets? I know most hospitals have discounted parking. Also, check and see if the hospital has an ombudsman; maybe there is something better than just discounted tickets.
I think if you have a baby in the NICU you should get unlimited free parking!!! This is crazy!!!
1. I am now officially running late for work
2. I'm going to write out 10 things anyway.
3. I brought my cake to work today and it was a hit! The cake itself wansn't as moist as I'd hoped, though.
4. I burned my finger on refried beans, but my mouth is fine...
5. A thunderstorm is rolling in!!
6. I forgot to put out the recycling last night so now I'll have to drive it in
7. I pulled up a peice of carpet last night to find we have hardwood underneath! It's stapled, so we could totally pull it up, if our landlord lets us.
8. Unfortunately, I also found a pee spot from one of the dogs. And I know there are many more... How do you fix this? Get it re-finished? Will it look totally better or still gross?
9. I want to start TTC NOW.
10. We'll have to wait to TTC cuz our cc's are maxed out on tuition
Our (new) policy is that you get 4 tickets per week (previously you got 1 per day - but they slashed our parking budget my 1/2 this year.) Unfortunately, our tickets are only good for 1 in and out.
Most parking garages in hospitals aren't owned and operated by the hostpital. They are managed by an outside vendor and even employees have to pay to park. I know in many suburban hospitals (where land isn't at such a premium parking is much more plentiful - but it is the burden of being an urban hospital.)
IUI #3 gave us the best 2nd anniv. gift ever: 2 babies! (born 03/09/10)
Peanut and Little Man are getting so big! 2 years old already!
finally blogging again at This Will Be: An Adventure
Jumping in late but here are my 10 things from today:
1) I work nights and stay on a pretty regular night schedule. I hate when my I have to flip to a day shift so that I can attend a class. Why can't they hold one for day shifters and one for night shifters? They do with all the other meetings.
2) I am trying not to be jealous that my friend just told me that she's pregnant with her 4th child after lying to me and saying she got her tubes tied after she had her 3rd.
3) I really miss Jenn this week. She works nights as well and since I had that class today and traffic was no fun on the way home I haven't seen her since Sunday afternoon.
4) I hate my insurance company. They are denying my infertility benefits because I'm not legally married. *sigh*
5) I really wanted a chocolate milkshake on the way home from work but I was good and didn't stop and get one. I didn't need the calories or to spend the money.
6) I'm feeling super hopeful about our upcoming cycle with the RE. I just feel like we are making progress and it's keeping my spirits up.
7) My brother is having surgery tomorrow to have his gallbladder taken out. He's so scared and I've really tried to be supportive. I hope I've been able to ease his mind a little bit.
8) My niece stayed the whole summer with my parents and it was great to have her here. She went home on Sunday and I'm missing her like crazy.
9) I'm so excited for our move to Atlanta. We'll be closer to my brother and his family and we'll be closer to Jenn's family.
10) I'm so proud of how far our families have come in the past 6 years to accept us as a couple and recognize that we're a family. I can honestly say now that I love her family just as much as I love mine.
Well technically it is Wednesday but can I still play?
1. I am not enjoying being back at work and want to be on mat. leave forever.
2. I love coming home in the morning and finding Carol and Annie all curled up alseep together.
3. We never had planned to co-sleep but are finding out we both love it and it is working out really well for us so far.
4. I am eating an asian chicken wrap from Costco and its 1:35 in the morning. I hate working nights.
5.Finding time to pump at work is a pain. Everytime I sit down the phone rings. Grrr.
6. My work has been denying all vacation requests after they laid off a bunch of people so now there is noone to work. I am now worried my parents won't get to see Annie for Christmas.
7. I am debating on ordering a drug from Canada online so I can get it without a prescription and pay wayyy less than at my pharmacy. Part of me is scared to do it.
8. I really don't want to know how many calories are in the dressing I am putting on my wrap... but it is really good.
9.I am worried about how I am going to handle being a working mom when Carol goes back to work. I don't function too well on very little sleep.
10. I worry all the time if I am being a good mom. I wish I could go back and redo the last 2 months so I could fix all my mistakes.
~Kennedy
its thursday i want to still play..
1. one more day till TGIF
2. i was in a car accident on monday and my neck is feeling better, im just tired
3. starbucks is my hero
4. i want a baby
but we gotta wait till we buy our house!
5. i really hope DH gets a job soon..hes been outa work for almost 2 months
6. the cops came to work here yesterday looking for one of the salesmen and now im scared someone he pissed off is gona come in here looking for him!
7. i dont want to do any work!
8. this weekend is my only nephews 1st birthday party and no one likes his mom....this should be an interesting party
9. just found out that 2 girls here in the office were looking at employees personal files! and yet, nothing will happen to them!
10. last but not least! i want a beer!