6 posts tagged “work”

Week 6-10 is a critical point in this pregnancy for me. After week 10 I'll feel a little better about breathing easy. Too bad that's a whole month away. It's going to be a lot of anxiety.

I'm still feeling sick in the morning and at night - good sign. Tonight I'm feeling a little cramping, normal, and I'm EXHAUSTED. I could have gone to bed the second I got home if it had been alright with Mike. It wasn't. Dinner to be made and then dishes to be washed. Laundry to do...blah blah blah. Someday I'm going to need a break more than I do now so I'll cash those freebees in later.

Work has been very hard to get through. I have about 3 hours of energy which kicks in from 9-12. Too bad one of those hours is lunch!

Wow! This week almost feels like it didn't exist.

Work has been my main priority. I've started training and it has been an eye opening experience. There's a lot to do in regards to making the work conditions better and get in compliance with new initiatives. I'm overwhelmed but really excited about what's to come. I'm happy to be part of the change...lets put it that way.

My first school week came and went. I did pretty well and my second week has started. Honestly, with my new 12 hour work days I've not done very well at starting but I'm hoping to get on it this afternoon while grandpa and grandma take Nathan for some fishing and an overnight stay.

Nathan is doing well. He's just moving along until preschool starts in 2 weeks. He's very excited and I know he's going to do just fine. They seperate the kids by ages (Nate is in the oldest class) and he's going to be a Frog. He tells this to everyone he meets. It's pretty cute.

Today is my husband's 29th birthday! We'll be hanging out with a friend of his later this afternoon and we're all supposed to go camping. I might just forgo the camping (reaching the low 40s tonight) and catch up on school work. I could really use some fun adult time though. It has just been an insane week.

The shop has been busy and I'm behind again in orders. I feel bad. I need to spend some time this morning with the admin part of everything and then get my booty on the couch and start making hats! I've been thinking of taking a small vacation to catch up on orders...lets see how much I get done this weekend.

I think that's it for now. It has just been a crazy life, but I love it.

I really really tried to destress my life this weekend. It didn't work. I'm still baffled by the whole feeling sick and dead tired all the time situation. I'm guessing it is just that I am SO STRESSED OUT. I thought I could be pregnant but today was the first day of my missed period (still hasn't arrived) but tests are negative. I'll try again if I still haven't started in a few days.

A coworker of mine is out on maternity leave so my sounding board is missing. I'm going to miss it. Being in HR I can't really say a lot of what I feel unless I talk to my other HR coworkers. She's the only one I really go to with the minor stuff when I need to just blow off steam. I just feel like pressure is on to do something spectacular this week on my Kaizen event and I'm praying we get the results they're looking for.

Mike came home crabby today. We feed off eachother so it's hard when he's moody. I get moody right along with him. Then we're both moody and turn on eachother. No good. Started talking money issues and we just stopped. It goes downhill from there.

I need a good day. One day that I'm not feeling like the world is caving in. One where I can have a good day at work, come home and get the house cleaned, do school work, play with my son, and end it cuddling with the hubby. Sounds so simple in writing.

It has been a nice weekend so far. Today started early since Nathan has decided that 5am is a great time to start the day…even on Saturday. He still doesn’t quite understand the difference between weekend and weekdays so he gets us up very early to watch cartoons and have breakfast. I’ve been trying to use the darker mornings as an excuse “Nathan, the sun isn’t up yet…we can’t wake up until the sun comes up!” However, this morning he wasn’t interested in going back to bed. He was hungry. (I stayed up too late watching news and stuff on the debate. I should have just gone back to bed. I know who I'm voting for. I don't need to watch them nit pick and twist each others words around for a few hours. Makes me not want to vote at all, which isn't an option.)

So, we got up early.  Mike’s mom called about 7am to let me know they’d be around at 11 to pick Nate up for an “adventure”. I’d asked them to watch Nate since Mike had to work and I had a lia sophia party to do. Deciding to pick  him up early was good news for me because I had a lot to do before the party started.

They ended up taking him to House On The Rock, a Frank Lloyd Wright house, which is pretty awesome. He had an amazing day with them and came home tuckered out and sleeping.

I had a great party with some awesome gals. I love the people I get to meet and the fun I have at these parties. This group of women are young and in a sorority together. They’re pretty much each having a party. It’s a lot of fun to see them again and again and I’ve been spicing up my presentation so it’s a little different each time. It has been fun. I also get great ideas of what items I should put in my kit next. I realized this time my lack of earrings is causing a lack of sales so I’ve ordered myself some new ones for next party. 7 new pairs, I’m so excited! I love my discount.

Anyways, it was a great party and when I got home Mike was finally back from work. He had slept at work last night actually. It’s the “factory sale” and all the boats were outside the building. Well, instead of putting all 200 of them back in the warehouse, someone needed to watch them all night. So, he did. It’s getting cold and the nats are really bad so he didn’t have a great night. After that with 60 hours of work this week, he was beat. He was sleeping on the couch when I got home. I got him awake and we went out to dinner. It was fun and good to see him. 60 hours does not lend to a lot of home time…I missed him.

We came home and watched a movie together. Nathan was back later than expected. By the time he got home we were ready for bed! Mike’s passed out, Nathan is passed out, and I was in need of a little computer time to myself. So here I am.

I’m looking forward to my Jr High kids tomorrow at church. I’m praying for a better day than last week. I just need to remember what age I’m dealing with and let it flow off my back. Duck in water, as they say. After church its laundry time and hopefully I can work on some school work. Mike plans on watching football all day and I’m sure Nathan will be happy to play with his toys and watch cartoons in his room. Hopefully it ends up being that peaceful!

Sounds like a lot going on but it’s all pretty boring family stuff right now. J Fine with me.

I am happy to say my much needed break is close at hand. Next weekend (the one after this one coming up) I'm going to Arizona for my cousin's wedding reception. I have to say I'm very very thankful! Mike and Nate are staying home (I'll keep my anger to a slow boil and not rehash the story right now) and I'm going by myself. I think this will be a good move even if I wish Mike were coming too. My mom said something about it being good to see me alone for a few days. I have a tendency to make sure Mike is alright all the time when we're around my family. This way I don't have to worry about anything but having fun.

Fun is a good idea as I've been feeling mighty drained and depressed lately.

Also, I'm taking a good two weeks from lia sophia parties after tonight. It just sorta happened that way and I'm a little happy about it. I have so much fun doing them but right now work is so busy it's hard to calm down from one and go straight into another. Not to mention I need some time to organize my office!

Well, time to get little man ready for daycare and me ready for work!

Welp, Nathan had only one accident today. He's doing pretty darn good at this potty thing if you ask me. Not only that but he went to bed quietly and without a fight! I might just do a little jig on that note!

 ::jigs::

Work was exciting today. I have a huge four week training coming up. I get to travel to North Carolina for it and stay in a hotel for a week! Today I went hotel shopping to decide where I wanted to stay. Obviously, I want to stay at the expensive one with room service. My boss probably has other ideas. We shall see ;) It's only across the street from the training center so I might just be able to justify it as I won't be needing a rental car to get back and forth. Brilliant! I'm still sure he's going to make me go with the cheaper option.

On another note I was thinkin' I was pregnant but I'm not. I was late. Not by much but I was also having very weird symptoms. My period has been completely out of wack lately ::see last 6 months:: and I'm starting that might just be my new normal. Mike and I were talking about the more children thing again and he's right. We just don't have the money right now. I'm not sure we ever will...or at least not until Nathan is in school. Then they would be so far apart. Ugh. Too much to worry about right now.

My doctor's appointment just made me mad. I have fibromyalgia. I still might have Lupes but nothing is conclusive. They did more tests and I haven't heard anything so I'm thinking they were fine. They also did xrays on my hands because they have been hurting so bad. They're thinking it might be degenerative arthritis. I asked about a certain medication and she didn't want to prescribe it. She wants me to get it from my family practitioner. WTF?? She's supposed to be the specialist!

Again, they don't know. They never seem to know. I hate that.

I'm exhausted. I'm going to watch the new LA Ink and get to bed. I'm hoping Mike will get home before I hit the sack...just so I can see him today... but he is trying to catch up at work. I really detest the people he works with sometimes. They don't do their job so he gets screwed. Gah.

Alright! On that note...bedtime.