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Come out, come out, wherever you are Friday!
Good morning and Happy Friday! Looks like we made it.
I killed it last night. I got home at 6, changed, let the dogs out, started laundry (did 4 loads total), walked and did weights for a half hour, walked the dogs for 20 minutes, picked up on the top floor, put all Halloween stuff away including outside lights and put out limited Thanksgiving stuff, dusted the living and dining rooms, made veggie lasagna with zucchini/mushrooms/spinach, cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, packed lunch, removed nail polish and watched next Iron Chef and Vampire Diaries. I fell asleep around 12.
This morning I got up and changed sheets, put sheets in the wash, and folded a load of laundry.
It is so much easier to keep a tidy house when you are the only one in it.
When letting the dogs out this morning I thought I saw a skunk in the yard - there was a definite skunk odor - and I tripped and fell trying to get back inside. Hahahaa. TGIF.
The sky was utterly amazing this morning.
Re: Come out, come out, wherever you are Friday!
My morning started off sh*tty! My toliet overflew and of course I am by myself and Pierce needed to go out and was looking at me like I need to pee..
I;m not feeling great this morning and I made the mistake of mention this at work and now all the women are like oh my you don't feel good. It's nice to be cared about but really I'm ok. Apparently it looks like I am also going to pop because everyone keeps mention that to me as well. Hopefully not! this is not a great weekend for me. We have a wedding tomorrow and Sunday is the annual holiday bazaar and my friend and I have plans for breakfast and then we are going.
UGH, what the farg, that crap always happens to me when MFD is out of town.
Nothing insane has happened yet, so I'm sure I will go home to a house with a crater in it or something.
Taking the 4:21 train today, holler! Dogs can't hold it until 6.
New blog is up, discussing peeves: http://weinerwhistle.blogspot.com/2011/11/ill-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours.html
You know what I don't understand? Why it's so difficult to spend 10 minutes talking to the person you're living with. Yesterday afternoon K ran to get the new front door / screen door for the front of the house. He came home, fed and bathed Baby Q while I was cooking dinner, showered himself and then went downstairs to play on the computer until it was time for him to leave for bowling. By the time he came home I was already passed out. And then he wonders why I'm pissy. Argh.
Needed to get up early this morning to wash bottles and pack bags for me and Baby Q. It didn't happen. And then it was one of those days where nothing goes right. Apparently I'm not the only one - I was chatting with another mom on the way out of daycare this morning and she walked right up to the driver's door of my car with her key out. I just gave her a funny look and said "um, that's not your car." We both had a good laugh, which I needed to cheer up my shitty morning.
Can't wait for the weekend. BFF coming up to visit tomorrow afternoon, then dinner with one of K's coworker's tomorrow night. Supposed to have plans with other friends on Sunday but they only just got power back yesterday from Saturday's storm so they've got massive amounts of cleanup to do. It's going to go fast.
I cannot wait to sleep this weekend. Extra hour woot!
Yesterday, I returned a sports bra I got on Wed night. (38DD is TOO SMALL FOR MAH BOOBIES! I'm going to cry!) And got Petey a gentle leader. Seriously best $20 I ever spent on the dog. He hated it at first but after 10 min it was the easiest walk I ever had with him. I watched Grey's last night and really wished I could drink a couple of glasses of wine like I always used to do when I watched Grey's. Not that any of you care about Grey's, but I cried at the scene where Callie tells George's mom (her dead ex-h's super Catholic mother) that she married a woman and has a baby and her XMIL tears up and goes "Oh my God, you have a baby? Can I see your baby?" and they bond over pictures. Callie's own mother disowned her for being gay.
BFF found this etsy shop. And I want to buy liek 10 onesies from it.
Also if you have not done this yet, google this exactly: Do a barrel roll
I am looking forward to doing nothing after work today. And H is at home partially because we have guys coming to clean our our heating system and partially cause he has my cold.
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
SusieQ-I hear you on the lack of 10 minutes a day of talking that doesn't concern bills or logistics or household chores. It's maddening. I hate mornings where it seems like everything is going wrong too.
QoA-I haven't watched Grey's in years, but that sounds like an awesome scene. I'm also looking forward to the extra hour of sleep!
Weekend plans, anyone?
Tonight I'm taking the dog to get their nails clipped and hausfrauing.
Tomorrow my mom is coming over, we're going to visit and have lasagna and run a few errands together. I need to work in the yard doing cleanup. Girls night out on Saturday night. I volunteered to be the DD, so I can only have like 3 beers. My waistline is appreciative.
Sunday more yardwork and bulb planting, and I'm supposed to go to my neighbor's partylite demonstration. Blah. I'm also going to make PDub's burgundy mushrooms.
I always feel crappy in the morning, even not pregnant, I've had "morning sickness" for years, some days are worse than other on my recoop time.
Yaaaaay, Friday! Went shopping yesterday at a local baby store that's closing, and had this weird run in with this weird kid (maybe 4-5?) who kept touching my belly and calling me mama. His mother and grandmother were oblivious. He also pushed my belly button and said "pop!" even though I still have a innie. Weirdo.
H's cold seems to be waning and he actually didn't keep me up last might with snoring, so woot for that!
Yay to being super-productive last night!
Boo to not feeling well!
Boo to big boobies! (I went from a DD to a DDD in the first 12 weeks. It sucked)
Boo to weirdo kids. Who does that?!?!?
All but 1 daycare/preschool I have ever worked at the parents had to supply lunch. The school would normally supply AM/PM snack but lunch was parents. It was really nice the one school that they supplied all food.
Last night J and i went and got the mattress for the baby's crib. 1 more thing off the list! As I thought, he bought a movie. But it was with his extra spending money for the week, so whatever..... :-)
I passed out around 8:30 and J cleaned the house a bit. He had tracked dried mud through the house so his chore before he could go hunting this weekend was to sweep. I woke up this morning and he had sweeped the entire house AND cleaned up his dishes from the nightstand and livingroom AND unloaded and loaded the dishwasher. I think my real husband was obducted by aliens after i fell asleep.
He gets off today at noon and his going hunting and won't be back till i'm probaby asleep tomorrow.
Tomorrow i was supposed to be meeting a college friend for lunch at a half way point (live about 3 hours apart), but she can't anymore, so I'm going to clean (unless i do it tonight), take down halloween decorations, and then sew a crib skirt and cover the lamp for the baby's room. Just call me Martha Stewart.
TGIF! WFH today and then see my acupuncturist this afternoon. Last night after work it decided to start raining on the way home which scrapped the walk. So DH, the dog and I went to the pet store for some more treats and had to refill our 5 gallon water bottle. My roast beef in the crockpot turned out divine.
This weekend - tomorrow DH has it off from work, wahoo. We have to take down our patio cover, hopefully get a walk in and maybe go rent a movie or two. Sunday, I'm invited to a cousin's jewelry party but I'm going to wing it - I want weekends to be low-key for now on.
IUI #1 10/12/11 (Bravelle + HCG + Prometrium & acupuncture) = 10/26 BFP! Beta #1=250, Beta #2= 615. 1st u/s 11/8.
The DCC has a lunch program where you pay, I think like $5 per week, and they'll feed whatever is on the menu. You can opt in to that or just bring your kid's lunch. I'm not sure about breakfasts or snacks. I do know that if you forget your kid's lunch more than once they automatically enroll you in the lunch program and you have no choice (so you may want to check what their backup plan is if you forget to take Predator's lunch one day - they can't let your child starve).
Baby Q is 6 months and still mostly on BM so I send 3 bottles per day for him. I also send a fruit and a veggie and cereal which he gets at lunchtime. At this point, since I already have to pack the bottles for him, it's not really a big deal to pack the other stuff. I got/bought disposable plastic containers and since I make his food I just get fruit & veggie cubes out of the freezer at night for the next day. I'd have to get them out if he was at home instead of DC, so no more work there. Everything goes in the cooler in the morning and then in the fridge in the infant room at the DCC. I think it's pretty standard that even if the DCC has a lunch program you have to provide the baby's food until they're fully on solids and can eat the same as the bigger kids.
I haven't decided yet if I'll be sending his lunch or letting him eat off the school's menu when he's able, but K and I both generally take our lunch to work so packing one more probably won't be as big of a deal in our case.
Thanks, Susie! I'm planning to make Predator's food, so I can see it being fine for a while, but once he's on normal table food, I don't think we'd manage the every day part. We're discussing starting at the DC close to my work for now, then maybe one of the two in our hometown (both have kitchens) when he's older.
Xtine, I'm surprised! Most of the DCs we looked at serve food, and no extra charge. Will yours accept cloth diapers? That's the big lure for me for the last one, that they will.
Late today. That Etsy shop (was it Xtine who posted it?) is so farking cute. And Mush, I would have said something to the mom, I've done it in the past when a kid in a waiting room was trying to dig around in my purse. Like Steph, I just don't understand why some parents suck so hard.
I'm in a good mood today,even though I was crazy busy at work. One of my projects, which has been the bane of my existence, has taken a good turn and I think I'm going to get it published very soon. I will be so glad when it's finally over, and I'm happy that I am actually going to be proud of the results after these new developments. Before I hated it and it was all bullshitt.
Also, and this is TMI, I have been grumpy the past couple of days because I was supposedly in my prime baby-making time, and Jeff wasn't feeling well. I was given a 6-day window and we 'tried' the first three days, but not the last three, which were more important. I didn't want to give him a hard time because I don't want to force the man to hump me, but I was really bummed at the missed opportunity, especially since the longer it takes for me to get pregnant, the longer I'm going without my daily migraine meds with no end in sight. But this morning, I put in my most recent temperature and it recalculated, and apparently I was fertile three days earlier than projected, meaning we actually did take full advantage! I know this is all boring and kinda gross, but I feel much better now, even if I don't get pregnant this time (I probably won't).