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Friday Confessions/AW/Vent
Confession - I feel awful saying this, but I'm not ready for my boss to come back to the office. He was supposed to be out until the 22nd on business travel but his BIL passed away on Tuesday so he's coming back to the office on Wednesday next week. And since he'll be back in the US today, i know he's going to be emailing and calling me constantly. I really like the guy but he doesn't "bundle" his thoughts well so it's 8-10 emails and phone calls a day instead of 2 where he rattles off a list. it really messes with my groove.
AW - None really. I found 2 cute tops at TJ Maxx last night which is a miracle because i NEVER find stuff there that i like.
Vent - I'm WAY out of shape but lack the motivation to do anything about it. I hate this cycle. I wish I had the will power to change it.
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My boss is like this too, and I hate it! So annoying when you're trying to get stuff done!
AW....I know everyone thinks this about their children, but man, I have the cutest daughter ever!
Also, I am taking 2 classes this semester, and I am really excited about it!
Vent - My throat has been hurting all week, and I just want it to get better! Not looking forward to the cold weather (that is already in full swing here in Duluth) and all the headaches that come with it!
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Confession AND vent: After a long weekend out of town last weekend I really really really really don't want to drive to Des Moines after work tonight. We're heading down for a 60th anniversary party with DH's family and I just am NOT in the mood to drive down, sleep in a strange bed, not see my puppies, and socialize all weekend. I like DH's family fine...I'm just NOT in the mood. I need some ME time since the next 2 weekends will be crazy busy as well. Ugh. And DH was super crabby last night which was REALLY fun to come home to. Not. :-/
AW: Nothing today. Call back tomorrow? :-/
You DO have a cute daughter!! :-)
Confession: I've only been to the gym once since we got back from Sturgis. Once. I am starting to gain a couple of pounds back and I fee yucky, but don't have the motivation.
AW: booked all the hotels, some dinner reservations and Opry tickets for our trip in a couple of weeks. Now I'm super excited to go. The two weeks better fly.
Vent: DH wants to 'clean and organize' the garage. Only we have different ways of going about this. His way is to just pile crap up for me to go through and shove his stuff in random boxes. I've 'organized' the garage a couple of times and he uses things and doesn't put them back so it gets junky looking again. Then we go through the whole process again.
Thanks, Kiz!
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I have another vent. One of my dearest college friends had a baby in mid July. None of us have heard from her since.
I've sent a few e-mails, left a few voice messages, and even e-mailed her hubby to make sure things are okay. It's frustrating. Does being a new mom really zap 100% of your time??? I tend to doubt it because I know plenty of new moms that have the time to put 100 pictures on Facebook and write about Junior's every milestone. Even just a quick, "Hey, we're okay, busy but good" e-mail would be nice. I'm afraid she's slipping away to MommyLand and will never come back. I get that it's a tough job but you can't completely cut out everyone that is important in your life just because you had a kid. :-( I miss her. :-( I can't help but worry something IS wrong.
Ugh. :-(
Confession- My BFF and I had a falling out a couple of months ago and just started talking again recently. I know things will never be the same between us but it still hurts to look at her FB pics and know that I am no longer a part of her life.
Vent- H and I are TTC. This is only month 3 but the roller coaster of emotions every month is starting to drive me crazy. I get really anxious and then have to wait 2 weeks only to find out I am not pregnant. I don't know how people do this. LOL
AW- H and I have been together for 10 years on the 14th of this month. I feel so blessed that after 10 years we still get along so well and are still head over heals in love with each other!
I've had a couple of friends like that. One had bad PPD and it was just too much physically and emotionally to be around people. The other just got so involved in her new little one that nothing else mattered. Although she was like that when she first met her DH too. Then she came back around.
I didn't even think of PPD. Ugh. I hope they are all okay!!
She lives 6 hours from me and 4 hours from her family and I don't know that she has made any really good friends in their new city. I think she was lonely for awhile so this baby is really all she has going on right now. It's just hard not knowing what's up. I want to be there for her if there IS a problem but she is just not communicating right now. :-(
Confession/Vent: I am so ready for summer to be over. We have been remodeling our cabin all this summer and last and are finally to the point of being able to stay in it. But between trips to our cabin and to my parent's lake home, we haven't been home 1 weekend all summer. I am in desperate need of some home time, and my house is in desperate need of a cleaning. Just need to make it through the month of September and then our cabin will be closed up and we'll be home again. The end of near.
AW: My 4 year old niece walked up to me on Sunday and said "I love you" and then walked away again. Then later that day she was holding my hand and said "I love you because you have a very pretty ring." Gotta love the unsolicited love from a child.
No real vents other than the dumb A!@#HOLE driver that just totaled my car. I was turning into my office (left side of the road) and I was in the right lane. The jackmunch behind me PASSED ME on my drivers side. Totaled the whole side of my car. I can't even open my door. Sore as hell and my boss made me go to the ER to be checked out. Already have some fun bruises from the seatbelt.
AW: i have insurance and a second car thank God! And non crap related...I have now finished 12 of my 24 snowman embroidery blocks for the quilts for Christmas. So half done then I can actually start the quilt part of it.
I'm going to take more Advil now...have a good day....
I can't wait to get out of town this weekend.
No vents or confessions, but two AWs:
1 - I have NOTHING planned this weekend and that's a huge rarity for me. I'm usually booked doing work or family things every single weekend, but I looked at the calendar for this weekend and ZIPPO! It's the last relaxing weekend I'm going to get in a LONG time, so I'm going to milk it. (Except for Sunday afternoon, when I'm jumping around like a crazy person, cheering for my Packers!)
2 - I did a paid discussion group today and earned $100. Totally refreshing to our financial situation! And I even came to the Mall of America afterward and haven't spent any of it on any needless items yet, whoo hoo!)
Confession: Now that I am finally showing (my pregnancy bump), I am having body issues and I hate it. Before getting pregnant, I lost 13 pounds and was really dilligent about getting into shape and eating low calorie foods and eating less- now I am not supposed to count my calories any more and i am feeling HUGE (even though I have only gained 2 lbs). I hate feeling like this, but I keep reminding myself that I am now loaning my body to my baby and once baby is here, I can start back on my old path.
AW: I finally posted on facebook that I am pregnant and I got great comments and notes. That felt good!
Vent: My freakin' pants don't fit anymore and I hate my belly band- I am SO close to buying maternity pants, but I really wanted to wait it out until at least 20 weeks... ugh.
I am so lame... everything above is pregnancy related. Sorry ladies!
Confession: I have been a slacker at work today.
AW: It's hard because of my confession. Can't really plan ahead well but I am really excited (if all works out well) to host our first thanksgiving. I am hoping my family will come in from Ohio and we can all get together.
Vent: I am so frustrated with the house situation. Short sales suck. We put our offer down on May 11th. We still don't have a closing date. The bank has played games this entire time. Apparently we should have our closing date soon and it should move very quickly from that point but until that happens I refuse to get excited. We also agreed if we don't hear anything early next week we are going to start looking at other houses. But I also can't stop decorating this house in my head.
Jumping in kind of late, but I want to play too!
Confession: I'm pretending to love the birthday present my husband got for me. While I really did want an outdoor fire pit eventually, I was thinking that the fire pit would be more of a home improvement type of purchase. I wanted something a bit less practical :-(
AW: I love my teaching job right now, and I had almost forgotten how good I am at it. I also really enjoy having co-workers again (despite the fact that I was surrounded by other humans every single day, subbing and nannying were very lonely jobs).
Vent: My stupid teaching contract still isn't ready yet for me to sign, so I could potentially not get paid until October, and that is something that I can't afford to have happen when I've got student loans up the wazoo and a mortgage to pay... I have to sign by Wednesday to get entered into the pay cycle for September, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I get a call by then.
A few AWs:
-H and I are going to Vegas next weekend to celebrate our birthdays. I've never been and I'm really excited!
-I love my new job. Part of the training is taking a quiz every week and I scored 100% on the one today. This job is so much less stressful than my old one too and I am so much happier.
Confession: A tree fell down in our back yard on Monday night. We started to clean it up. At this point, I want someone else to do the work and I'll pay them. I just want to be left alone so I can relax when I come home from work.
AW: I have four wedding ceremonies booked for September. My wedding officiant business has really taken off. I am super proud of myself.
Vent: The kids I work with a my new job are super duper disrespectful. My job title is Positive Interventions and Supports Coach. So I have to be appear positive and supportive to teachers and the kiddos. Some days, it takes every ounce of strength I have not to go off on them.
In addition, I am ready to give my MIL a verbal lashing. Her mental illness is way too much to lately. Every fall we go through some tough times with her.
Confession: I'm supposed to be eating right and exercising, but tonight I stopped at Dairy Queen on my way home and sat on the couch and ate my blizzard instead of working out.
AW: We're celebrating our anniversary tomorrow and I'm so excited
Vent: Not much. Life is pretty darn good. Except I'm starving and DH was supposed to be home from work with dinner picked up like 5 minutes ago. So I"m starting to get hungry-cranky.
Kate - I have to ask - how can you even be teaching WITHOUT a signed contract? It should be the same contract for all teachers - for me, they pulled a copy out of a drawer and I signed it. I'd be bugging them every day! Good luck - and I'm glad you're enjoying the TEACHING part of the job!
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Confession: I feel like I did NOTHING to prep for the first week of school. I did a TON of work last year, so most of my stuff was ready, but I feel like a bit of a slacker right now.
AW: I'm glad to be back with my kids. It's nice to know that I can still scare some of them.
Vent: I have two - not huge, but annoying. First - it rained all day yesterday, and I had wet floors in the basement. I'm afraid that there's a bigger problem than lousy gutters. Second, it looks like I will not get staff development funds from school to go to my conferences this year. All the requests have to be able to prove that what you learn at the conference will help test scores. Well, I teach electives. I can support core classes, but I don't directly teach the skills/knowledge that kids use on the tests. So, it's pretty doubtful that I will get a CENT this year to go to my FACS conferences. The double whammy is both are out of state, so if they were approved, I need superintendent approval to travel. I need the clock hours to renew my license, and I really want to attend the sessions, so I'm paying for them out of pocket, AND I have to take personal days to do it. Not pleased.
Apparently being hired as a .67 FTE makes things complicated? Not one of my APs or my Principal can tell me why it's taking them so long. When I walked out of the school yesterday, one of my APs told me that they had just gotten off the phone with the person who is putting together my contract and they were working on it right then (supposedly). Not only are they putting me in a crappy financial situation, they're kind of putting themselves at risk too. Since I'm not actually contracted to work, I could totally walk out on them and screw them over (not that I would ever do that, but I just wanted to point out that they are at risk).
Confession - DH and I have a rule where we only drink pop on Friday nights with our pizza. I broke that rule 3 times this week. It was a busy week.
AW - We moved DD from her bassinet to her crib this week and she did great! We are both sleeping better now.
Last week I found out my one sister is pregnant and this week my other sister her finalized her wedding date!
Vent - I had a bit of a breakdown yesterday. I was way too overwhelmed with work and DH still doesn't have a job and it all came pouring out. I just need a break.
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That must be hard for you. I'll be sending your mom lots of quick healing dust!
Confession: We have been eating fast food constantly lately because I don't want to bring any food into the house since we are moving. Lame since we aren't moving for two weeks, but it's why I tell myself it's ok to be lazy. lol
AW: We move to MN two weeks from yesterday!!! Well, we leave FL and we are driving up so we'll be there two weeks from today! We hopefully close on our house the last week of September! Fingers crossed it all goes well. I'll be paranoid until I have keys in my hand.
Vent: I work in real estate and I've had to do the job of our realtor up there and it's annoying me to no end that she is getting a fat commission check and doing none of the work.
Thank you so much!
I hope you have a safe move up here! What a beautiful time of year to move to MN : )
Good luck to your mom Amber. I'll be sending T & P her way.
Thank you!!