July 2009 Weddings
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B&M Monday
This 3 week wait for the final decision from the College of Education is killing me. I think I may be bald by the time my letter gets here on Thursday.
Having to come back after a full week off just to jump straight into finals is dumb. People need to plan the semester better.
There is snow in the forecast for tonight and tomorrow. It isn't supposed to stick, but just the fact that it is the tail end of November and there will be SNOW in the deep south tells me that this winter is going to get ugly.
What does everyone else have going on today?
Re: B&M Monday
I don't have much to B&M about today. I took the day off because I had to work all last week, except Thursday. I knew I'd want the day to finish decorating for Christmas and get other stuff done. Problem is that now I don't feel like doing any of it!
Good luck on your acceptance into the College of Ed, Panda!!
I don't really have anything to B&M about today, except that I now have to figure out when we're heading back home and I don't have a flight yet, and also I have to go deal with the bank and get a cashier's check to send to our realtor for our new house. But she's pretty flaky, so I feel like I'm going to have to contact her before she actually calls and lets me know how much it needs to be and who it needs to be made out to.
ETA: I have more to add, T just called telling me he filled out the forms wrong for our move, so our supposed scheduled move date for next week is now in jeopardy and they are now saying they may not be able to move us for 3-4 weeks. I'm going to pull my hair out! We were supposed to move and be in our new place before Christmas so we could be settled before we leave to spend the holidays with the family. Not to mention I really don't want to have to pay our 3 mortgages plus rent on the new place for an extra month if we aren't going to be living in the house until late Dec/early Jan.
My arthritis has officially flared up-it takes me about 30 minutes to an hour to be able to have full use of my hands.
It's cold out...brrrr! We were in the 50's 2 days ago, now we are in the teens...
We have 2.5 weeks left before family is here (straight through until January 7th) and I feel like I have SO much to do and no time at all. Family being here means the baby will be here soon....eeek!
I don't have much to B&M about this morning either except the fact that I'm back at work after a long break. It was so nice being home and it makes me that much more excited for these next 3 weeks to get finished so I can start my maternity leave.
Also, I see my regular OBGYN along with a maternal fetal medicine dr for my GD. My GD dr tells me he wants to induce at 39 weeks because with GD so many things start to go wrong with your placenta and there's a higher % rate of still born deaths the further along in the pregnancy you go. My OBGYN hasn't made up her mind about it yet. I go see her today and I am going to demand an answer. I want to know if I will be induced early or not (seeing as its kind of a big deal) and to also know if I have 2 or 3 weeks left.
Nothing got done for FIL this weekend because all the doctors were on Thanksgiving break. I fully understand that doctors need days off too, but it's so hard to just sit around waiting.
Last week, MIL had okayed chemo, and now the nurses keep telling her to really think about it before making the decision so she's second guessing herself. I want to smack them all and tell them to mind their own damn business. They're not helping anything.
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Dear parent of student who failed my class for the first term..Don't write me a letter telling me you're all "surprised" by this. I've given your child her missing work notice every week for the past two months and she has failed to complete it. I emailed you to tell you, but you essentially said "yeah, it's a problem" and ignored it after that. SO tell me..how do I grade your child if she is missing OVER 6 assignments? OH...and she has missed 11 days already this year because you don't bring her..how is she supposed to learn how to do her work?
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
This is the kind of cray cray that strikes fear into the hearts of education students everywhere. That parent sounds liek a real joy to interact with.
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I spent the first 35 minutes of my day in the back with the guys who didn't have anything for the jobs today. I love the guys back there but when they're not happy, I'm not happy.
And work BFF felt the need to rant about the problem. Which was a big mistake. You can't tell the guys what the problem is because they won't listen. And if you try to tell them who's to blame, they'll yell at you. Trust me-I've been there.
It rained here last night, then snowed on top of it. The roads are going to be a nightmare.
I don't feel good. I think I might have a stomach bug that has been going around.
Coming back to work after 5 days off sucks, as does the voicemail I got from the student who showed up for our appointment on Wednesday and realized no one was here. Our campus was closed due to the snow storm and it was announced on every news channel and our alert system, yet I feel guilty that he showed up anyway.
DH's company laid him off effective January 19th and I'm panicking about it, especially since he has been very apathetic about his job since they told him about the layoff. I can't say I blame him, but he still has 2 months to make good commission if he doesn't become lazy about it, and it's money we really need towards taxes.
A family friend was denied by the transplant board 2 weeks ago, and then was told a few days later that his health improved enough that he could have a deceased donor transplant if one became available. He passed away in the early morning on Thanksgiving. With all the divorce in the world and people who do horrible things, this had to happen to a couple who had a stable home environment, loved each other very much, and to a man who would do anything for anyone who needed him. And for that, I'm pissed.
I'm one of the only AAC's for my sorority in the area, so whenever Nationals says that an AAC member has to be there, 85% of the time, it has to be me. I enjoy mentoring the active members and being there for them, but do I want to go to a meeting tonight at 6:30pm after working all day? No.
Yep...ridiculous. I TOLD the girl two days before my grades had to be in that she would fail if she didn't get the work in. How much more can I can to warn her about her grade?! ARGH...Is it Christmas break yet?
I am back to work after 4 glorious days off. It was so nice to spend time with my family, my IL's, R, decorating the house for Christmas and celebrating my birthday on Saturday! Needless to say, I did not want to come back to work today.
I'm having stomach issues and I don't know what to do about it. A friend (who's also a RN) says it's acid reflux but I can't imagine acid reflux being this painful and so frequently
I don't want to go to the dr and have it just be acid reflux and feel like a dummy for going to them for that. =
Can you explain the feeling? I've been having bad heartburn/reflux issues this pregnancy as well. It feels almost like my chest is caving in and a big huge weight is stuck on there. It's hard to breathe, sit, stand-basically anything. I'm on the 24hr prevacid daily and still take chewables sometimes. it gets bad and causes me to vomit. Eventually it goes away and I can breath again. It feels wonderful but I hate that it comes so frequently and just vanishes like nothing every happened.
- I am still SO blah. I could lay on the couch for days. If I didn't have Maggie to take care of, I probably would do just that.
- Also, I was talking to a friend who knew what happened. She asked how Thanksgiving was. I said it sucked for a few reasons. First was that we were going to announce our pregnancy on that day so up until the week before the day was going to be so joyous. Also, it was very tough b/c a lot of our family didn't know and those that did know didn't want to talk about it. So everyone was going on with life and having a great holiday. It was so hard to watch that. On top of this I still have emotions over losing the baby.
Anyway - she said hers sucked as much b/c her husband got in a fight, he called her an idiot, made her cry and embarrassed her to his family. Ummm.... no way in hell does that compare AT ALL to what I went through and I take offense in her thinking it does.It just aches right in between my rib cage and sometimes I get the burning sensation but it just aches mostly. I can hardly sit up straight or stand because of it and lying down seems to be the only way to "cope" with it. I also have difficulty breathing during it and it makes me not want to eat because I know that feeling will come. It has never caused me to vomit though.
Meg, check your PMs in a few minutes!