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Five Things Friday
1. We have to take Emma to a pediatric cardiologist next month for them to check up on her heart murmur. The last time she was there was when she was 8 months old, so almost two years ago.
2. We just found out yesterday (at her regular ped.) that they're also going to be checking up on an "enlarged atrium" to rule out a possible hole in her heart.
3. WTF?!?!
4. No idea why we weren't informed of this little tid-bit back when she was 8 months old. Clearly I'm pissed that we're just NOW finding out about this.
5. I just called the cardiologist's office and left a message for someone to call me back so I can get some questions answered. It's going to be a long six weeks of me assuming the worst otherwise.
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Re: Five Things Friday
1. Thank god I get to leave at 3 today. Only 3 more hours to waste.
2. I want to have a garage sale, like, yesterday. I can't wait to get rid of all this sh*t!
3. I love the fact that my city doesn't require a permit to have a garage sale.
4. I'm going to paint a dresser yellow for the basement, but I'm nervous about choosing the "wrong" shade of yellow. I don't want it to be glowing neon or dark mustard. Yellow is such a hard shade to pinpoint based on swatches. It always looks different in real life.
5. I still need recs for a travel agent if anyone knows one. Pretty please?
1. I hate my SIL with all my being lately. She's a self-centered b!tch and too much of a princess for me. I dread our upcoming family vacation because she'll be there the whole week.
2. There's a lot more to that story and now I'm really angry at and hurt by my MIL. I'm having a hard time letting it go and want to talk to MIL about it, but I fear stirring up too much drama. So I'm sitting on it and making myself sick about it. Which makes me even more angry because it's not this big of a deal in reality, but there's just so much built up behind it that it feels big.
3. Even though it's a holiday weekend, I don't feel like it's a holiday and sad that it will just be 'us'. I have no desire to pretend it's a celebration and make a cookout meal for dh.
4. I think I'm feeling home sick. Not really missing my 'home' but I'm missing being around people I know and can meet up with for a coffee just to get away from home for an hour. (I went for coffee last week by myself and ended up just sitting in my car in a parking lot talking on the phone to a friend- which in itself was good because I caught up without distractions, but it was lonely) Pity party for 1 please!
5. I'm antsy to get looking at houses and to buy one. I want to decorate and make a house mine. I can't do that here in a rental. We still haven't sold our Buffalo house, so we're stuck for now.
Wow, I'm really negative today
Getting back to it- my diet and exercise blog
Losing it...Without Losing it
1. I worked 4 days this week and I'll only work 2 days next week, I never take time off, so I am quite excited!
2. Yay for the beautiful weather we've had this week!
3. We had company this week, so the house is pretty clean, I REALLY need to try to keep it that way!
4. I need to do my weekly meal plans again, I hate coming home and not having anything planned for dinner.
5. I can't wait to have smores this weekend :-)
1. I ended up getting to work an hour late today. I pulled into the parking lot (on-time) only to see DH's car keys in my cup holder. So, 30min home & 30min back, I finally got into work
2. I'm not sure that anyone really noticed how late I got in today. The big-boss-man just said we could leave an hour early because of the holiday. So now I'm torn whether to leave early (in essence 2hours early) or just on-time to make up for this morning.
3. We tried out a faux wood grain painting technique last night and it really turned out well. It's still going to take a long time to paint the whole bedroom furniture set this weekend, but I'm pretty confident in how its going to turn out.
4. I went out for chipotle yesterday and am planning on taco bell for today. Since t-bell isn't really mexican (and probably chipotle isn't either) this is still cool, right?
5. This morning, we had a 'all hands on deck' emergency company meeting. People were all gossipy that that we were all getting laid off. Well, they are apparently closing our pennsylvania site. It really sucks for them, but has somewhat solidified our site in the company, so its a bit of a relief. I hope feeling like this doesn't make me a bad person.
1. MIL sucks
2. I guess we aren't getting out as early as I thought
3. DS is obsessed with his jumper, and his laughs are worth another large baby item in our house
4. I have been obsessing over something that happened last night all.damn.day
5. I need to repaint my toe nails.
1. I am officially getting married in one year and one week - July 8, 2012.
2. I am super excited about #1.
3. Future SIL still has no plans for their wedding, and have already been informed by family that if they have to choose between the two weddings because she hasn't cooperated in the timing of these weddings, I will be the losing party because this will be my second. Effing awesome.
4. I am going to see future SIL this weekend. It should be interesting to say the least.
5. Regardless of #3 and #4, I am over the moon happy because I am marrying the most amazing man!! (and she will always suck...Winning!)
1. I wish landscape work wasn't so damn expensive so we can get all the things we want done and over with.
2. I wish they would hurry up and tear out our pool so that I don't have to keep staring at it and get angry every time it's hot and I can't use it.
3. I was at my brothers house a few days ago and they just finished up his landscape and well I'm JEALOUS of how awesome it looks damn it!
4. In the year and 3 months that I've lived here, DH and I finally went to downtown Plymouth yesterday. Where the heck have I been, it's the cutest lil area. Any other areas like that around here?
5. We're having a BBQ on Sunday at my SIL and so I decided I'm making mini cake ball cupcakes. Now if only I can decide how I want to decorate them.
DX: MFI
Taking a break from being poked and prodded
1. I asked my cube mate to turn down her headphones this morning because I could hear her music CLEARLY through the cube wall. She flipped her sh!t on me, openly b!tched to 5 coworkers about how rude I was, told me she was trying to drown out my noise, and that she couldn't wait til she moved desks and we could just never talk again. Um, overreact much??
2. I am looking into day care options and I am overwhelmed.
3. We are getting together with ILs tonight which means I am not leaving for north until 8pm. We see them all.the.time. I wish we could skip this dinner.
4. BIL and his nutty gf still aren't engaged. I can't wait til they get engaged so I can watch the circus. But I also love every day that passes that they aren't engaged.
5. I am regularly 15 minutes late for work and no one notices/cares. But no one notices/cares that I work through my lunch and late every night, either.
Wow, I can't believe they never said anything to you about this before. I would be flipping out!
I called the Ped. Cardiologist's office this morning and asked to have someone call me back. The receptionist got kinda' snippy on the phone, almost like "what questions could you possibly have, you haven't been in since 2009?" and of course that set me off. I just said "Well, we just found out about X yesterday and naturally we have some questions. Ya know, questions that would have been nice to ask the Dr. in person two years ago, except for the fact that she didn't mention the problem to us." (Silence)
A nurse called back later and unfortunately even though I had my phone on the entire time, I apparently wasn't getting a signal in Target. So she left a message on my phone and basically just said "well if it was super serious, I'm sure the Dr. would have wanted to see you back earlier than two year". Um thanks. Granted, this is logically something I've been telling myself for the past 24 hours when I start to freak out thinking that my 2 year old is going to require open heart surgery, but still. I wish she would have gone a bit more in depth on what exactly they're looking for, planning on doing. She said to call back if I still had questions, so needless to say I'll be calling back Tuesday.
I just wanted to throw out there, that even if there is a hole, it may not require surgery. I'm not sure if this is just when they're babies, so maybe two years is too old, but I've heard of many cases where they just monitor confirmed holes in the heart because they oftentimes fill in on their own. I know this doesn't really make you feel any better, but I just wanted to mention it.
Oh no, I realize I'm completely jumping to conclusions. There would only be a slim chance of that happening I'm sure, but that was immediately what my head went to when the Ped. mentioned a possible hole in her heart. This is why they should have told us two years ago. It would have been nice to just have the reassurance from the actual cardiologist and not be randomly told this fact with absolutely no information to ease your "worse-case" fears.
Thank you for the reality check though.