September 2009 Weddings
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Monday Confessions?
Who's got 'em?
Re: Monday Confessions?
Dx: Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism After 2 years TTC & failed IUs,we have our IVF baby born 9/24/11
LO#2 aka 'Miracle Baby' Orig. EDD= 9/28 EDD moved to 10/3/13
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
After the 24 inches of snow we got last week, today it is sunny and 65. I have totally checked out mentally from work. All I want to do is go outside!
I met my mom's new boyfriend this weekend. He seemed relatively normal, but I don't WANT to like him. I'm a brat. Oh well, he'll be history in 3 months anyway.
After hearing Tearin' Up My Heart on the radio, I went to the car and got all my old nsync and JT cd's to listen to the rest of the afternoon.
I am feeling sorry for myself today.
We're never going to be able to buy a house around here and don't want to move a gazillion miles outside of the city to be able to do so. Our time > sq ft. But it sucks the 2 bed 1.5 bath, 1057sq ft half a duplex on the street behind to ours is $850K.
I am pmsing and not happy about anything.
I am bloated now and that's going to look just fabulous in my slinky black dress for my H's event with his new company on Wed.
Stand up for something you believe in.
I never shut the burner off yesterday after cooking dinner. I noticed it this morning.
This is the first year ever that I haven't gotten my hopes up about Valentine's Day. I always expect some big declaration of love despite agreeing that it's a ridiculous superficial, overrated holiday. I can honestly say that I'm just really excited to have dinner with Doug tonight, at home, instead of doing some big date night.
Mark sent me flowers at work since he is in London and I can totally feel bad that I wish he would have saved his money. I like them, however, I just dont find flowers necessary. I have been in a craptastic mood all day after my 3 hour and everything has pretty much blown up so I am looking forward to a coke and eating spinach con queso dip with a girlfriend this afternoon.
I did a half-ass job on Robin's Valentine's Day gift this year. I blame him, because I've been asking for 2 weeks if we're doing presents, and he waited until Saturday to actually answer me. I hope he loves it, but I'm not that excited. I confess that I'm most excited about my outfit.
I need to go visit my grandmother in assisted living, but I don't really want to. It's different when it's a family thing, but for Robin and I to just go there feels weird. I don't know what to talk to her about. She can't even hear me. I'm an awful person.
My boss was sweet as pie when the lab took me out for lunch today, telling me how much they'll miss me and I need to come back and visit and let's arrange a time to all have dinner in a few weeks, and she's sure I'll find a job really fast, I'm so talented.
BULLSH!T. She's the one that told me I shouldn't be in this line of work and has yelled at me day after day. That two-faced b!tch. I wouldn't sit through a dinner with her for anything, I barely even made it through today's lunch. But at least she paid for my app, soup, salad and beer
We just found out that our niece Maci is not BIL's baby (we always knew this was possible) I feel bad for Ben since he has taken care of her since day one. But, I have a hard time feeling bad about my MIL, and her tattoo of the baby's name on her arm!
Seriously?! I could not believe it when she got it done knowing it may not be her grandchild. Ben is only 19 years old and who knows if he will stay with Kristy knowing that the baby is not his. If he does that is wonderful, but no one knows what the future holds for them.
But back to my MIL's tat.. Part of me wants to ask what she is going to do once we have our first baby.. cross off Maci and add our kid's name?!
updated 10.03.12
AWW! That makes me sad! Maybe he'll do something tonight?
I've had two Scotcharoos today, a piece of chocolate, a mini Twix, and two cherry gummy hearts. I will likely be topping that off with a cupcake when I get home. I'm a little ashamed because I generally try to eat pretty well and avoid subjecting Baby C to serious sugar rushes, but I just can't resist it today.
A couple more:
I've consumed at least a half bag of Hersheys Kisses today.
I watched Robsessed on Friday night. It was the lamest hour and 10 minutes of my life. I really question my intelligence now.
I forgot one.
In our lab, everyone has one menial chore they're in charge of. I put the clean dishes away (washed by someone who does the dishes for all the labs in our dept) every morning. there are usually about 20 things total to put away.
Today I emptied out about 30 bottles of my buffers and solutions and put all the bottles and caps in the wash bucket... for someone to put away tomorrow morning, hahaha. I could have easily done it last week, but someone else can do it.
No you're not. It's just really hard to go to places like that and see people in a different state than what we were used to. It's hard to watch grandparents/parents get older and start to fail. One of the most helpless feelings in the world.
And I know you're dreading it, but it will probably make your grandmother's day. Just seeing a different face and knowing that you are thinking about her will make such a difference. Just give yourself a timeframe so it's not an open-ended visit. Like 30 minutes or an hour, and tell her that. That way it might be a little easier. Bring her some cookies or some snack thing (if she can have them) or some flowers, crosswords. And another way to break up the visit is to get her out of her room and into the common area or outside on the patio if it's nice. And that might take the pressure off the conversation. This is all stuff you probably know and do, but might help ease the visit for you.
dont beat yourself up about it. im in the same boat right now, sort of.
i went to see my grandfather once and he called me names and yelled at me. when i said, "i have to go now, i love you" he said, "well i dont love YOU!". i dont want to go back. at all.
i feel guilty about it because i should want to go, but i just dont.
It's not Monday anymore, but I have a confession:
One of my good friends just annouced that she's PG "and it only took one try!!"
I want so badly to be happy for her, but it totally bums me out and I'm trying really hard not to cry right now.
ugh, that's hard.
feel better!!