It's Tuesday.

Swazzle

Or as I like to call it... Friday... or.... my last day of work until February 16th. 

SORRY. I COULDN'T RESIST. 



Last night I did a little food shopping and got some of H's favorite things. I figured we'll have a movie night at some point over the next week and a half and since I don't have a microwave, I bought JIFFY POP. H literally jumped up and down when he saw it. 

Tonight I have a Devils game and it's against our rivals (cc: @Peaseblossom55 ) so it'll definitely be a good game! 

H's surgery is scheduled for early tomorrow morning and we have to be at the hospital at 6am. I'm (maybe irrationally) a little nervous, mainly because anesthesia freaks me out a bit. This is the first time he's had surgery or been the one needing to be looked after in the nearly 9 years we've been together. It's a simple surgery so I'm sure everything will be ok, I just want it over quickly and for it to go smoothly. 

And then I'm off for a while. My coworker goes out on maternity leave at the end of the month so this is my last chance to take time off for a really long time (she'll be out for 6 months). I have no real plans and I'm really looking forward to it. I'll pop into TK when I can, H tends to hog the laptop when we're both home so sadly it might not be often unless I can get logged in on my phone/iPad. Please don't forget me! 

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JEALOUS that you will be off work @Swazzle.  Way to rub it in!!  I'm sure everything will go well with your H's surgery, but hopefully he won't hog the laptop so you can check in.

Our warm weather streak is over so I'm back in a sweater and boots.  BOO!

Only working until 1:30 today because I have a behbeh check-up appointment this afternoon.  

Swazzle

@CocoBellaF - I think you sent us your warm weather, it was 58 yesterday and will be 60 tomorrow. It's so weird! Yay for baby appointment! Is it a routine check up or is it a "big" one? 

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Just a routine, @Swazzle.  The big one is on the 19th!!

LizzyTish88

@swazzle vibes that the surgery goes well and quickly!

I got stuck in a massive project yesterday that took all day so I couldn't play. Today is looking like much of the same. Last night I went home, did Zumba and did a little tidying, then promptly fell asleep on the couch. 

I have a meeting today with the Superintendent and we are thinking she is giving us raises. She just re-did all of our job descriptions and gave everyone a little more responsibilities. I really hope so, because she said it will be retro back to July 1 of last year. FINGERS CROSSED!!

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@Swazzle So jealous!!! Enjoy your time off with your H. I hope he heals quickly! I hope you can pop in often! We won't forget you!

@CocoBellaF Have a good appointment today!

Callie's constipation is gone! Whoop! I also ordered her Easter basket yesterday and it's adorable! I can't wait until it's here! Here is what it will look like, look at the one with coral chevron:



Our plumber is coming today to fix our leak! Whoop! I hope that this will be the last time we have to deal with this for a while. Ugh I'm so over home ownership right now lol.

untouchablets

@swazzle I love jiffy pop! Also I can't imagine life without a microwave lol

Yesterday was fun! After the class I taught yesterday I came home and followed my vets orders to give Coraline Dramamine a full hour before we left the house because the last time k used it it didn't work. Then we went across town to her breeders! I broke my promise and didn't get any pictures of the puppies playing because there's was so much going on (they have like seven mini poodles and five standards and I had to get to know ALL of them because I'll be dogsitting for her when she travels for shows). BUT I did get pics of a new litter of puppies they have!


And I got to spend time with Coraline's mom while she played with the two litter mates they had and ALL the minis!



We were there for about four hours, and when we got home she slept the rest of the night! We are going back next week for more playtime!

I've been trying to get BF Billy Joel tickets for Valentines day since yesterday but Ticketmaster is NOT COOPERATING.

Today I'll be doing homework and teaching classes in the evening. I really really really love my job you guys!!

jenna8984

@swazzle that's awesome that you have the time to take with him! Good luck, I'm sure surgery will go great. Why don't you have a microwave? lol

@cocobellaf good luck at the check up!

@southernpeach89 Yay that's adorable! My parents (as we all know are assholes) never did things like Easter baskets. I can't wait to do fun shit like that for my child!

Well I'm in the middle of month end so I couldn't chat yesterday and I'll probably get way busy today as well. I have to get it all done by Thursday because Friday I fly out to AZ for my cousin's shitshow of a wedding. Looking forward to my 88 year old grandparents coming with me and spending time with them!

Swazzle

@CocoBellaF - Ohhhh that is SO soon! 

@caseface5 - Everything is crossed for a good meeting! 

@southernpeach89 - Callie's basket is going to be SO cute! 

@untouchablets - Lookit all those nuggets!

@jenna8984 - The one in our apartment was tiny and we rarely used it so we just left it for the next renters to have. When we moved into our house we just didn't buy one and I haven't missed it. Have a great time in AZ! 

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@caseface5 Fingers crossed for a raise!!!

@untouchablets OMG puppies! They are so tiny!!!

@jenna8984 It's so much fun! I love buying her stuff...I wish my wallet loved it too but it doesn't lol.

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I love the Easter basket, @southernpeach89!  My parents were really great about doing fun things on holidays.  H's family didn't do much, so he's looking forward to doing all of this with the baby.  Easter is all sorts of fun!!

@Swazzle - I KNOW!!  I'm starting to get antsy... finally.  This is really the first time I've been excited about something baby.  I've been so sick that it's hard to see past that, but finding out if it's a boy or a girl will be so much fun.

jenna8984

@swazzle oh man I use mine all the time! leftovers, melt butter or cream cheese for recipes, defrost bread and bagels, hot chocolate, popcorn, heat up queso.... but jiffy pop yum! Also I stalk the SF thread, did you hear back from customer service about your shitty box?

minskat30

@swazzle - I'll miss you if you don't post regularly so please check in.  I hope you have a really relaxing time off though.  Also, all the vibes for your H.  I'm sure all will be well but I'll be thinking of you guys.

@cocobellaf - Have a good appointment with baby!

@caseface5 - Fingers crossed for raises!!!

@southernpeach89 - I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I think you are a great mom to do all these projects with your home and Callie.  I'm sure it makes her and will continue to make her feel loved.

@jenna8984 - You will need to give us an update/recap about the wedding please.

@untouchablets - Those puppies are adorable.  I don't think Raj was ever that small...lol.

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I'm exhausted.  I couldn't sleep last night.  H and I checked out a daycare after work and it was lovely but already the idea of leaving baby minskat with someone else while I go to work made me emotional...and she isn't even here yet (well, sort of)!  I did a ton of more research on daycare options because the hours for the one we went to suck and it is the cost of our mortgage almost.  Ouch.  So I was up all night writing myself notes on things not to forget.  

When I finally fell asleep I had a dream that H was cheating on me and leaving me alone with the baby.  I was very sad when I woke up from it and couldn't fall back asleep.  When H woke up and I told him about it, he understood the reasoning behind the dream better than me (a combination of me dealing with my childhood abandonment issues and feeling insecure about my changing body).  Sorry for the psych 101 diversion but I was actually very impressed with H at psychoanalyzing me better than I do myself.  He was dead on with his analysis.  Poor guy, I'm a stereotypical emotional pregnant mess.  He keeps sending me texts now to cheer me up.  I swear some days I feel like I'm rocking the bump and other days I feel like a blob.     

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@minskat30 - Right there with you!  I hope you get a lot of rest tonight.

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@minskat30 My mom always did really fun things for us growing up around the holidays and I want Callie to experience the same thing! It wouldn't ever be anything outlandish or expensive either...it would just be simple things like writing on our mirror in lipstick little notes or dying the milk green for St. Patrick's Day. It's so much fun to surprise them even if she doesn't quite understand what we are doing yet lol.

minskat30

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@minskat30 My mom always did really fun things for us growing up around the holidays and I want Callie to experience the same thing! It wouldn't ever be anything outlandish or expensive either...it would just be simple things like writing on our mirror in lipstick little notes or dying the milk green for St. Patrick's Day. It's so much fun to surprise them even if she doesn't quite understand what we are doing yet lol.

I think she does though.  I know it makes her feel secure and loved.  As someone who grew up without an active mom and dad, I may notice it more but I see all the things you do and it inspires me.  Truly.    

Swazzle

@CocoBellaF - That's seriously so exciting. Are you and your H leaning a certain way towards what you each think it is?

@jenna8984 - I just melt butter on the stove and heat up leftovers there/in the oven (which actually tastes 1 billion times better!) and cream cheese softens really quickly if left out on my counter so I really haven't missed it! I did hear back, I meant to post about it over there and forgot! 

@minskat30 - Thank you No matter how you feel, you look gorgeous to me! Dreams are so weird. 

@southernpeach89 - You're an incredible mama! 

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@Swazzle - H would like to have a girl, but he either way he is going to be stoked.  I kind of feel like it might be a boy sometimes, might be a girl sometimes.  I really don't know!!  I don't have a preference either way.

labro

@Swazzle All the surgery vibes tomorrow for your H! I'm glad you get to stay with him afterwards because you can make him follow all of his post-op and recovery instructions!! Please check in here because I will miss you SO MUCH!!!!

@CocoBellaF I hope you have a good check up today! I vote BOY on February 19th!

@minskat30 I you so much. I'm glad your H is there to read in to your dreams and he can recognize and talk to you about your insecurities. I have no doubt that you are going to be one amazing momma to your little girl!

@southernpeach89 Cinders was pooped last night after playing with Maddux all day....get ready for this weekend lol. They are nuts!

@jenna8984 You had better AW that shitshow wedding when you get back! I want to read all about it!

@untouchablets OMG look at all the puppies!

I wish today was my Friday!! Technically it's my Wednesday at least so that makes it a bit better. H had a really really great review yesterday...he got 5/5 which is pretty fucking outstanding. But, his boss said NOTHING about a bonus or a raise so I don't know what's up with that. Total FWP I know, but usually they announce bonuses/raises at the review so I wonder if maybe his company is still figuring out when they are awarding them. Ugh!

I have another contractor coming by today to give us an estimate for siding. I think at this point I'm just taking information and I'm not actually going to hire anyone. I don't feel comfortable spending the money until we have our final tax bill and I'm just not excited about anyone I've talked to so far about the project.

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@minskat30 Aw thank you! I can tell you're going to be a spectacular mother already! Your little girl is very lucky!

@labro Maddux was exhausted yesterday when I picked him up. He slept the rest of the day. I felt bad but then I didn't because he was psychotic last week when I kept him home with me lol.

@Swazzle Thank you! You are giving me all the feels!

minskat30

@labro - All the love right back to you.  I'm glad your H had a kick-ass review but WTF is up with no talks about bonus/raises?!?  You guys better get bank this year, you both have been working your tails off...

jenna8984

@swazzle Oh that works! We hate doing dishes and putting saucepans in the dishwasher, so I love being able to heat up butter in a tiny little Tupperware rather than dirtying a whole pan. That sounds so lazy hahaha. Whatever works!!

@minskat30 ugh same here on the daycares, I have a few lined up to meet when I get back from AZ and they are 75% of our mortgage cost. I still have to talk to my boss about working 1 day from home per week so that would help but I don't know if they will approve that, they are kind of stupid about that kind of thing.

@labro man I hope your H gets his raise or bonus!

cu97tiger

@swazzle - I miss you already!! Get Google Hangouts on your phone, please. Kthx. Also, just want to say that while it stinks for you to not be able to take time off, I think it's pretty cool that your co-worker can take 6 full months of maternity leave.

@untouchablets - My in-laws love poodles and just yesterday adopted a rescue standard. I can't wait to see pictures. Her name used to be Leia, and before that Kacey, so they are going to call her Lacy.

@jenna8984 - Shit show or no shit show, I'm jealous that you get to go to AZ. Oh wait, I'll be there in 10 days... WOOT!

@minskat30 - You're rocking the hell out of the bump and out of motherhood already!

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This morning DH was up and down quite a bit from 4a on. When it was time for me to get up, he was sleeping soundly, so I let him sleep and didn't go out for my run until 7:45. I was late for work but I don't give a damn. DH's sleep is more important.

I'm overwhelmed at this fertility clinic research. I'm really mesmerized by the clinic that would allow us to do a whole bunch of cycles for not much money, but they are the most complicated logistically, as well as not having the greatest success numbers. I don't love the idea of having consultative visits with three or four different places, but it's probably the best adulting decision. I've started a list of questions but my heart isn't in it. UGH.

Is it 5p yet? I'm over this day.

labro

@cu97tiger Ugh....I wish this process was easier for you but I think the research and talking to different clinics is probably for the best. You absolutely want someone who cares all about you and your H and your history and is really going to look deeply at everything. This isn't casual at all and if you find a place that takes it as seriously as this procedure SHOULD be taken then i think it's the right place to go to. The initial effort and research will be worth it in the end if you have a successful cycle! Plus we're all rooting for some tiger cubs!

minskat30

@cu97tiger - Is your heart not in it because you are exhausted from research, exhausted from the process of trying or something else?  No shame in taking a break for a while to clear your mind if you need it.  I keep thinking of you and @Peaseblossom55 - you are both in my prayers every night to get pregnant with healthy babies.  I feel like life is so incredibly unfair sometimes that the people that would make the best parents have difficulties getting pregnant and the people that wouldn't (aka, my parents and a few others I know in real life) conceive with ease.  

cu97tiger

@minskat30 - My heart isn't into the research because I feel like my mind is already made up on the financially-feasible clinic in NY. I'm not excited about waiting two more months for an IVF cycle, but the upside of that is I'll get to run in the 10 miler race in DC in April and a half marathon in my town in May.

eilis1228

@swazzle So jealous of all your time off! Enjoy your staycation! Sending tons of vibes to your H tomorrow too.
@CocoBellaF The high today is 65. Please send me your cold weather!
@caseface5 Crossing all appendages that you get a raise!
@southernpeach89 I LOVE the Easter basket! That is so cute!
@untouchablets Awwww puppies!
@jenna8984 I can't wait to hear all about this wedding! 
@minskat30 Daycares are ridiculously expensive. I'm so sorry you had such a rough night I love that your H was able to help you sort through all your emotions and figure out the root of your problem. 
@labro That's awesome news about your H, though I'm side eyeing his company for not announcing bonuses or raises or anything. Your H definitely deserves a financial incentive for all of his hard work. Hopefully they announce them soon, and I hope even more that 1. your tax bill isn't as high as you've estimated and 2. the awesome amazing award your H gets will help cover the tax bill so you guys can get new siding. 
@cu97tiger I have no sage advice to offer, but this is what I would like to do to you IRL:

I'm sorry this whole process is complicated and expensive and stressful. I'm sending you ALL the vibes!
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I had a really fun night with @audrewuh, her H, and my quilt. @audrewuh watched me make the same very stupid  mistake 3 times, and then when she tried to fix it, we somehow made everything worse. Wine and sewing aren't the greatest combo, but we definitely had a fun night. I didn't get home until 11, and then Zoey wanted to play fetch and tug of war all night long. She got a new toy recently, and she's head over heels in love with it. She wanted to play with it all morning too. Such a goober.

Tonight we start Zoey's Intermediate Training course, which should be fun. She's mastered sit, shake, stay, and come. She also has started responding to non-verbal commands, which is really cool. I'm excited to see what else we all learn with this new class.

Today is my last day with all my hairs! I will no longer resemble Cousin It as of 10:30am tomorrow! 


I am so unbelievably excited to finally chop off all this hair. I'll donate my hair to Children with Hair Loss (thanks again to @GoldenPenguin for the recommendation!), and it makes me happy to think that my headache will be someone else's blessing.

jenna8984

@eilis1228 haha cousin it! I got mine cut on Saturday and I asked H if he liked it. He replied "you can't cut off half an inch and expect me to notice". I was like uuuum try 4 inches buddy!

minskat30

@cu97tiger - Waiting two more months, when you've already waited so long, must be torture.  I'm sorry.    I am really proud of you though for taking that time off to do healthy things like run a half marathon...I would be using it to increase my edge in competitive wine drinking skills.  Know that, for whatever extent it helps, my thoughts and prayers are with you guys.  Hugs.

@eilis1228 - I can't WAIT to see the hair.  Please share before and afters.  

wink0erin

@Swazzle I hope your H's surgery goes well! Enjoy the time off. Your coworker is taking 6 months? That's really awesome for her and her baby. That would never be allowed where I work!
@Caseface5 I hope you get that raise!
@untouchablets Omg they are SO TINY!
@jenna8984 Hope your week goes well, and I look forward to you reporting back about the shitshow wedding. 
@minskat30 I'm sorry you couldn't sleep, but I'm glad your H was good at analyzing the bad dream! 

I stayed up too late last night and I'm paying for it today. I luckily have kind of a lull at work right now so I can just chill a bit and not think much. Also woke up before my alarm with some raging pain and I think I might have a bladder stone, so I'm drinking all the water today in hopes to get rid of it. If nothing changes and the pain continues I might need to hit up urgent care, and I really don't want to do that because EVERY TIME I go I end up catching illness. 

Yesterday I left work on time for the first time in over a week, so I used that time to go to Target and Lowes for adulting. Shopping isn't as much fun when it's shit you NEED. I did buy some snacks though, so that eased the pain. 

I have absolutely no plans today other than booking a flight for a conference, but at least that means in a little over a month I'll get to hang out in Florida for a couple days! I'll actually get some free time too, so I am hoping I can spend some time with my best friend who lives there. 

untouchablets

@cu97tiger aww yay! Poodles are so much fun. I'm keeping you in my thoughts that that this whole IVF process gets better *hugs!*