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tuesday is fucked
**taking advantage of the uncensored word**
so tired. slept through 2 alarms this am. hate.
had a great run last night, a yummy dinner, and relaxed with G.
today after work I need to do laundry, do errands, and pack for my trips. we are getting chinese takeout (steamed dumplings and broccoli and chicken with brown rice. 14 WW pts...) and relaxing at home before I need to leave tomorrow morning.
my flight isn't until tomorrow at 2 something, so I SHOULD come in to work before hand. I really would prefer to finish packing and go for a run and do some work from home though. I will talk to my boss today about it.
Then it is off to NOLA and then DENVER for MISTY! We are getting together Monday night next week, it will be glorious! We will post pictures of us being menaces together on the old FB.
Also, seriously, I am so tired.
Also, even more seriously, I am in one of those blah moods where I just compare where I am at in my life with those around me. They own houses, have nice cars, have puppies. Or they rent great apartments and go on multiple vacations a year. Or they make great money and save it and have $100K saved. Or they are skinny and pretty. Or all of the above. I rent a mediocre apartment, can't have a dog, weigh 30 pounds more than I like, have a husband who is stuck in a shitty job, live where I don't want to, have no money to buy even a jacket or get a haircut...blergh. /FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF.
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Morning! In a good mood. Had a fantastic dinner w/ Yuki, good beer, good food and great company! SO much fun. We stayed out late (which for me is anything past 10), got home at 11, fitfull sleep, but bright eyed this morning. The jeans I'm wearing make me look 10 lbs lighter. Paired w/ a slim fitting WHITE sweater, I'm rocking it today, if I do say so myself
Pugface was snuggly baby this morning and I had a hard time getting up and leaving her. Sad. Big meetings today and tomorrow and shiit is going to hit the fan. Hope I get the office I was promised, but it doesn't look good. People are all sorts of butt-hurt. Wah, I wanna work the bare minimum, but get upset when other people who work harder than me get rewarded. Wah!
Shauni, I feel you on the life comparisons. I mean hard core. At my age, my friends are solid homeowners, with toddlers/kids, stable jobs, trips to Costa Rica, blah blah blah. DH and I are just fighting to survive. But keep in mind, things aren't always what they appear on the inside. Just be happy w/ Mr. G and what you DO have. Keep your chin up. And OMFLKSHJFKHGDI; I cannot WAIT for Monday!
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
Right there with you, Shauni.
I'm not only feeling this way, but also experiencing some rather intense ovulation pain. WTF? I didn't even know that was a thing. It was bad enough finding out that I now experience pain during AF, but this was even more unexpected. Blargh. Someone get me a hot pack and I will just go lie down in an empty office.
Get better soon!! That was me last week! Friday i was feeling blah. Saturday it hit me hard! Unfortunetly, sunday was even worse! I had my 3 hour testing at the doctor yesterday, then came to work and had to leave 1.5 hours later b/c I just felt like complete crap.
Hang in there!!!
today sucks for sure.
I'm still emotional but I know i need to just pull my crap together to get a handle on this gestational diabetes. Looking at the results, my body clearly doesn't know how to handle sugar. I mean, my results were normal, Extremely high, high, and then so low that normally i would have been considered hypoglycemic. Seriously body!?!? WTF!?!?!
I have to go to a training this morning that I don't want to go to. It's for Prezi, which i guess is some up and coming presenation program (better than power point). Basically my boss wants me to learn it "just in case" and then i can also teach it to the directors. Um, no thanks.
Other than that, not much is new.
Oh Shauni- I'm sorry I get like that too sometimes. I will try and think of why I am better then them for other reasons. Or we have friends who are due the week before us and they just bought a townhouse. At first I was upset and jealous that I wanted to be able to own our home. Then I realized that 1. We don;t like town homes and there is no point for us to buy one right now. You have no yard and with a kid and a dog (and they have 2) you really need one. 2. The town where they bought is annoyting to get to. This is not very mature but it makes me feel better when I am having apity party.
Last night I vegged out watch How I met your Mother, 2 Broke Girls. When Greg came home we watched Sunday Family Guy, it was VERY WIERD and distrubing. Did anyone watch this??
I hate feeling sorry for myself. Hang in there Shauni.
Trying to sort of line things up for MFD's trip to FL, but it's hard to do when we don't know when the funeral is, if it's one or two days, and what hotel he should stay at. Oy. I sent Katie (Cathy's daughter) a message on FB saying sorry. She's like I can't wait to see you. Um...
Last night I picked up BCP, then went food shopping. Home to unload, give out candy, and boil eggs. We were out of 7 bags of candy in an hour. I was in bed by 9, watching a bunch of Mike & Molly episodes.
I have to work on a proposal today and I don't want to.
Thanks, guys
I know it is normal to feel this way, it is just so frustrating. I even look at you guys, people I have never even met, and I see "Misty has a beautiful house. Laura is always shopping and getting fun new stuff. Christine lives in FLORIDA where it is cheap and warm and vacationland..." And the blogs I read are full of pretty, skinny, funny women who have nice houses, or expensive clothes, etc. And I have old navy. And a ski condo with wall to wall stained carpet.
I need to stop whining. Thanks for letting me vent.
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Xtine, that's how I try to talk myself out of those funks, too. And I watched HIMYM and Two Broke Girls (for the first time, not impressed) last night, but not Family Guy.
Moleson - The book I'm currently reading was just talking about GD. It was actually pretty fascinating, but the point is that it's not that something is wrong with your body, it's just that moms and fetuses are engaged in a tug-of-war over glucose levels, and sometimes the baby wins.
..that her MIL owns and we pay RENT for. And MIL uses as leverage for anything. And MIL comes over all the time, any time. And it's too big for just Rob and I. And it's expensive to heat and/or cool. And And And it's no picnic, trust me...
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have a pretty place to live, but OY VEY!
This is one of the things I tell myself when I'm all butthurt about not having a house; sometimes it's just easier to rent.
Morning.
I'm having concentration issues today. I have a ton of work to get done, but its just not happening.
Can I jump on the woe is me train? Well, more woe is H train. He went to get his jacket out of his trunk this morning and his key broke off in the trunk. Luckily we were already at work but now H's car had to be towed to the dealership and its $145 for a key. Not to mention what its going to cost for them to remove the half of the key thats stuck in the trunk. Or whatever else could possibly need to be replaced when you need a key. I have a feeling all of the money we saved for Christmas is now going towards this. And since we can say , !
If anyones read my updates on FB, the damn kitties still don't like each other. I know that its only the second day and they're not required to like each other at all, but I'd like them to be in the same room together. I'm too tired to come home, make dinner and referee kitties. And now Itsie (kitten) is hissing at Gidget. I don't think she means it, I think she's just mimicking Gidget since Gidget does it to her.
Edit: HEY! WTF! I typed f*ck twice and its not on my post! This is BS!
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I also tell myself:
SHAUNI GET IT TOGETHER. you rent a really nice 2 bedroom, 2 bath place. carpets be damn, it is warm (enough). you have two cars. you have food on your table. you have enough money to eat out once a week. we always have beer. we can generally go on vacation every year (even if we put it on the CC card). Even in this country there are people living out of their cars. Eating at homeless shelters. Living with abusive partners. Dying from cancer, aids, starvation.
I AM SO FORTUNATE.
(doing this really helps.)
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Today is not my day. I really wanted some maple brown sugar oatmeal and I didn't think we had any. But then I opened up the cabinet where I keep my tea and there was a packet. SCORE! At least, so I thought. I make my tea and my oatmeal and sit down on the couch. I go to eat my oatmeal and there, on my spoon, is a meal worm. The sad part? If I wasn't pregnant, I would have given the meal worm to the cat and carefully eaten the rest of the oatmeal. But now Ie'm all like "oh no, meal worms probably have germs and diseases and maybe the pooped on the oatmeal. I can't give that to my kid!"
Being pregnant has made me realize how gross I am food wise. I cut mold out of all sorts of things and eat the rest (cheese, bread, fruit). I do the sniff test on leftovers, even if they've been in the fridge for a week and if they smell ok, I'll eat them. Not anymore. Grr.
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
Morning! I skipped class last night and visited a friends baby and ate chinese instead. Glorious.
Shauni - sorry your feeling a little down, it happens to everyone. Friends look at J and I and are jealous of our vacations and my ridiculous shopping habit. But we don't own a home, we have very little in savings, and I am 30 and J is 32, definitely ages we should own and have babies and savings. We look at friends who are 25 to 30 who are married with homes and jobs and it's hard not to be like... why isn't that us with a house and a yard and a dog and a downpayment?
When it comes down to it, you are right in that last post, even if everything isn't exactly as you want it to be, you are far better off then some.
And I bet you have friends that are super jealous of your always having beer or going out to dinner every week, or think your apartment is 10x better than theirs. Chin up!!!
sofaking tired. Got 6.25 hours of sleep, not bad but not great either. DH and I had fun last night at the IL's house. They go all out for Halloween and we love watching the kiddies come up and get candy. Except, I can not stand it when parents bring infants that clearly can't eat candy up as well as teenagers who are way too old for trick-or-treating.
Shauni - hugs, don't beat yourself up. Sometimes I think about this stuff too, but then I realize how grateful I am for what I have - the grass isn't always greener. We all have our first world problems.
IUI #1 10/12/11 (Bravelle + HCG + Prometrium & acupuncture) = 10/26 BFP! Beta #1=250, Beta #2= 615. 1st u/s 11/8.
Blurg, Tuesday. Agree with everyone - we all have these feelings, and it is always greener on the other side. I had major green eyes, seeing JenO's cute new Rogue - I want a new car so badly! Didn't expect to be taking baby home in my Civic, but a new car is not our priority right now, and my stupid car isn't even paid off. Boo.
Other than that, determined to enjoy leave today. After I visit a daycare at 9 and the dentist at noon.
Planning a yummy dinner tonight, and hoping I have enough energy after the dentist to walk to the store with the dog to pick up the last things I need. Natural induction method!
When is your actual due date Mush?
And what's for dinner?
Holy crap Mush, you're so close!
And QofA, I am the same way, but maybe not to the same extent. Meal worms give me NIGHTMARES. So...I wouldn't have eaten the oatmeal, and reading your post made me a little
But I am guilty of the other stuff, and have been trying hard to clean up my act lately. I figure if I do it gradually, it won't be such a chore when I'm actually KU.
Hey girls.
I've been on the pity train a lot lately (especially since this summer when I wasn't working). We're slowly pulling out of it, but seriously, it sucks. Everytime I get a paycheck, it's gone to bills, groceries, and gas. I can't even put any back in my empty savings account. I don't even have a clue how Christmas is gonna happen for us this year, let alone starting to TTC around Christmas too. *sigh* That's enough.
Home today, trying to get motivated to work on the 15ish mugs H's boss has ordered from me for the workers for Christmas (with their bonuses). H told me last night that they are thinking of planning the party for Dec. 10th. I gotta get moving on them. Still having issues getting new listings up in my etsy shop, which is really just starting to piss me off. I figured out that apparently the photos are too large, so I resized down to what they recommend, and it's still not really working from my phone internet connection. GRR.
Have to get my bootay outside this afternoon while the weather is mid 50s to attempt to finish up cutting down my irises. I always forget how many there really are, and if I wait for spring when there is new growth it sucks even more.
Sorry! After I posted I was like "hmm, maybe I should have put some kind of warning.
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
No worries. I mean, I said something about ovulating and that's probably a bit TMI as well!
11/22.
And I'm going to do a pan roasted chicken breast and then try to make a pan sauce with a little butter and chicken stock. Then roasted red new potatoes with garlic and rosemary. Just need to decide on a veggie.
YUM, I am starving.
And I'm all out of healthy snacks for the day. Reduced fat cheez-its or rice cakes will be on the menu in a minute.
I'm way late on this, busy working and working on gma's program.
Shauni, I will join ya.
Sometimes I wonder WTF I am doing with my life. I went to college, a UC which is one of the best university systems, and I am stuck in this crappy low paying job. I can't find a good paying job, too much experience or not enough? I don't know. I had planned on law school but could not get the student loans so I had to defer until next year. I would apply to other schools by my GPA and LSAT score sucketh. Rich and I will probably not own for a few years. Luckily he has a better job than I do (with less education than I do) and no student loans.
We are lucky that we are both working, have two cars, our health and eachother. Sometimes I see people with Escalades, Mercedes, houses, etc. and it doesn't bother me because I know that I am lucky because I have Richard. What we have is so special that I would never trade it for any amount of money in the world. He is my prized possession (not trying to sound possesive or like I own him). He treats me like his equal, respects me, and has never laid a hand on me, and for that I am so lucky.