January 2010 Weddings
Noron
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January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013
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Weekend recap?
What did you do this weekend?
And happy belated birthday to Nvanhelden!
January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013
Re: Weekend recap?
Friday: worked from 8am to 8pm, ate some dinner and crashed.
Saturday: worked from 7am to 10pm, ate some dinner, drank some well-deserved beers, and crashed.
Yesterday: dragged my sore, exhausted ass out of bed for a friend's baby shower wayyyyy far south; ate some dinner, drank some more beers, watched some of the Academy Awards, and crashed.
January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013
Friday/Saturday: Spent time with hubby, errands, etc.
Sunday: Started new job. Essentially hated it. Came home and cried for an hour in part because I don't like the job and in part because this NOT how I pictured my life.
Monday: Started surfing Internet want ads before heading into for a training shift.
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aw, pand, why don't you like the job? i would imagine it's difficult to have your career on hold, since you guys move so much. ((hugs))
friday: pouted on the couch with DH all night. criminal minds marathons usually suck us in, and friday was no exception.
saturday: DH worked 12-10pm. i grabbed a beer with SIL, hung out, then spent the rest of the night relaxing/cleaning the house.
sunday: more pouting. more criminal minds marathon. more cleaning. DH cooked pulled pork all day, and the weather was nice so at least we could open the windows.
Panda-I'm sorry to hear that your job is not going well. It's really hard to be at a job that you don't like. Hopefully you'll find something more in line with what you want to do soon!
Friday: Came home from work with a massive migraine (from out of nowhere). I had intentions of packing but took the dogs out for a quick pee & then laid down for a quick nap (which turned into 3 hours)...migraine was definitely still there when I got up. Took a couple of advil, black coffee & a brownie (prescription advice from a friend who gets migraines often) & it actually worked. We went to Rock Bottom when DH got home from work.
Saturday: Workout @7:30, fabric shopping with a friend (I'm making a tango dress for her), donated blood at Hollywood Blvd (theater) in order to get 2 free movie tickets, hung out with my nieces & their mastiff. Then I went shopping (window more than actual) until I got a worried call from DH (forgot to tell him I wouldn't be home right away...it was the first time I got the "worried mom" call from the hubby...oops), came home & made dinner, then crashed @ 8:30.
Sunday: Church in the morning, ate lunch with my parents, took dogs on a long walk, shopping with my mom (needed a new bra), shopping with DH (he needed decent clothes for friend's wedding this weekend), pizza for dinner, caught the end of the snoozefest Oscars.
On a more exciting note, we may actually be closing on our house this Wednesday (if all goes well)...long overdue considering we've been working on the same house since November & it's not a short sale. Then we're flying out to Hawaii for the weekend to watch my best friend's sister marry the man of her dreams. Happy Monday!
Sandra, what happened with the job? I'm definitely having a "how is this my life????" day, so I feel you on that. It sucks.
CCH, I'm jealous of your good weather! My car was coated in an inch of ice this morning. Grrrrr.
Da, congrats on the house! Where in Hawaii are you going this weekend?
January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013
Sandra - I'm so sorry about the job, I've definitely had days like that! I have a friend who is a writer and she has talked to Nicholas Sparks a few times (from his hometown) and he told her that the key to being a good writer is to work shitty jobs. It gives you all of the characters, and all you have to do is fill in the plot.
Friday: my favorite bar is closing so I spent wayyyy too much time and money there on Friday night.
Saturday: slow morning because of Friday night. worked on a design competition entry, worked at the botanical garden hort house, grocery shopped, cooked dinner, started the Insanity workout series and diet. H won a blu-ray player from work so we set that up and watched two movies before crashing.
Sunday: worked out, cleaned, did school work, started watching Friends series again, which will continue until I'm finished with it.
Thanks Noron for the belated wish.
Friday night we pigged out at an all-you-can-eat pizza joint and retired early for the night.
Saturday I did a 6 hour study marathon for an exam this week and we went to dinner with my parents to celebrate my birthday. At the restaurant, it is free margaritas all night and get to keep the glass.
Sunday did a 12 hour study marathon while H went to work and then snowmobiling with a couple of his friends. He didn't want to interupt me while studying and it might of been the last horah for the trails to be open for the year.
We're going to Honolulu/Oahu. We're leaving Thursday afternoon & getting back super early on Monday...soooooo excited!
I significantly like this. I guess I'm having a quarter life crisis. I have a useless degree and if I want to do something more significant than retail I need at least a masters in something. For the longest time, like up until the past month, I thought I didn't even want a career, just a job to make money until babies. But now I'm starting to think I want a career. But I would have to wait to get a masters until H is done with med school (for money reasons) and I told him I was thinking about this and he was like, "but what about babies?!" I guess I need to do some hardcore soul searching or something.
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Sandra, I think I get what you mean. I'm currently in grad school but I keep thinking that we should wait to TTC until after I have graduated with my masters degree, have a secure job and have guaranteed maternity leave. That puts us at 2.5-3 years before we even start trying. Theoretically I could get pregnant now, write my thesis while I'm pregnant and then have an infant while I'm job hunting but it just doesn't make sense for us. You can definitely have a career and babies, and I know people that have done school and babies, but I know my personality and know that the later wouldn't work for us.
There are a lot of options for grad school. Most programs are one to two years, and there are non-thesis masters programs that you can look in to. Also, if you go to a school with graduate assistantships, you get paid while you go to school. Another option is to take one or two masters classes at a time and then you can have a family. The only thing I would heavily advise against is online masters programs like University of Phoenix, etc. I know a lot of recruiters that look down upon those because they assume that the student "couldn't" get into another school...not that that is always the case, but it is a common assumption from head hunters.
I would want to finish the masters before babies so that I wouldn't get to a point where I never finish. And when I have a baby I will stay home until it goes to Kindergarten, so no job then. I'm still working through it in my head.
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