4 hours of sleep. My dog has been a picky eater since he was a puppy (he's been checked out multiple times, nothing wrong). He will just decide not to eat. Then he gets hungry and his stomach growls. Then I think he thinks he's sick so he wants to eat grass. He's been barking to go outside off and on for the last hour. DH barely helped. I hate everyone
I've been awake since 2:30. We bought a new house last night, assuming we can sell ours. We close Dec 19. OMG that's close. We weren't planning on moving, and can just barely afford it, but it was the right location and house for us.
But now I'm in panic mode about everything I have to do.
I wet to bed late and did not sleep well last night. I am sooo tired right now! I just keep reminding myself that I only have to work today and tomorrow and then I have six days off. Woohoo!
I have zero motivation to work this morning but since I will be gone all next week I should probably get my ass in gear before Jax wakes up.
We went to breakfast with MIL yesterday and she has been a completely different person for the past six months. She told us yesterday that is she is reading self help books on happiness and she wore lipstick. I brought up Christmas plans which have historically been a shit show and we came to a perfect arrangement for this year. We are going to her house the Sunday before so she is happy we are coming to her and I am happy we can Christmas day at our own house.
Complaints: the weather is disgusting here today and I'm bummed that I have a lot of driving to do. DH fed the cats at 2:30 this morning so they would stop bothering him. Now they woke me up at 6:30 asking for second breakfast- one keeps hitting me and biting me. I have things to do for work, which I hate doing on a vacation day. The house is a disaster.
Happy Things: I'm on vacation until next Monday, yay! I have a meeting with the owner of the company I'm going to work for this morning to get the ball rolling, I'm excited! I got my "snail mail my email," (yes, I wrote a letter to myself!) and it's so well done, it's about letting go of the bad things and looking forward to the good things in the coming year and the colors , little drawings and handwriting are really cute and uplifting.
I have so much to get done around the house in the next couple of days that its ridiculous. Though - some of it is my own doing.
I'm going to attempt to make my own wreath from the branches we had to cut from the bottom of the Christmas tree. It's guaranteed to be the best or the worst thing ever.
It's going to be do hard to get any work done today since I will be obsessively checking my personal email for my offer letter. I really want the 5th to be my last day which means I need to put on my two weeks notice today. Throw me a bone here universe!
My morning is going downhill and I haven't even arrived at work.
Shower on time, dressed in time, made coffee, made toast. Was a little behind but gathered my things before I ate my toast. At the time I need to leave, realized it looks like rain. Can't find umbrella. So leave without. Get outside. It was super warm. Race in, change coat, run to bus (which I almost miss - I got to the stop as the bus did) where I realize my metro card and my $1 for the bus are in my other coat. And my coffee is on the kitchen counter.
Bus driver said I can pay tomorrow, and I have my wallet, so I can buy a new metro card. But I hate racing around and running late. And I am bummed about my coffee.
I went to swim laps and the whole pool was full, with some people already doubled up. Normally it's just me and one other guy. I'm irrationally irritated.
G woke up with a fever and says her mouth and stomach hurt. My money is on strep. The first course of antibiotics must not have totally killed it off (siiiiiigh)
I had the most bizarre dreams last night. Among them: we obtained a wolf and the wolf needed very special wolf preparations- like specifically cut brambles and some sort of special pie. So we hired a gruff, angry wolf dude to help us. He hated me and wouldn't let me help, so I ate freezies while I waited for them to make the special pie and cut brambles.
DS has been sp SO good these past few days, and I am so hopeful that he has grown out of his gas issues. That would make me so happy for both of us. (I'm totally jinxing this, lol) But I have this weird feeling of not quite sadness, maybe disappointment?, that I got "robbed" of 13 weeks of sweet/happy moments and instead just tried to survive my leave. But it's not like we're shipping him off to boarding school; we have years to make better memories and put this rough patch in the memory vault.
MY PARENTS ARE COMING TODAAAY and I am over the moon. It's like Christmas morning. This is really the best way to end my leave on a good note!
I have 2 days of school this week and really wish we'd just have the whole week off. I'm sure classroom teachers will get things done, but I will literally sit in my class for 95% of the school day because of all the shows/assemblies/class events that precede Thanksgiving.
I am supposed to have dinner with my sister tonight and am thinking of canceling. I don't want to drive 45 minutes each way.
DS has been sp SO good these past few days, and I am so hopeful that he has grown out of his gas issues. That would make me so happy for both of us. (I'm totally jinxing this, lol) But I have this weird feeling of not quite sadness, maybe disappointment?, that I got "robbed" of 13 weeks of sweet/happy moments and instead just tried to survive my leave. But it's not like we're shipping him off to boarding school; we have years to make better memories and put this rough patch in the memory vault.
MY PARENTS ARE COMING TODAAAY and I am over the moon. It's like Christmas morning. This is really the best way to end my leave on a good note!
A good percentage of newborns aren't very pleasant their first three months! Try not to dwell on it.
We had a great weekend- DD's party was awesome (no one wanted to leave, even the adults, lol), kids were well-behaved and charming at DH's office party, things that needed to be done got done.
I need to AW my kids a bit too, at church yesterday morning DD totally took a couple of new girls under wing to make sure they got to the right room at Sunday School, got a seat next to her, and just made sure they knew they had a friend. I got so many comments on what a sweetheart she is. DS is getting sneaky, he hid a set of cars sometime yesterday morning, said "no" whenever we asked where they were, and then laughed maniacally when DD finally found them in her nightstand at bedtime. He may be turning into a psychopath, but at least he's a super cute one.
And finally, DH and I actually put down our tablets/computers and watched the Giants game together and snuggled, which led to making out, which led to really good sex. Perfect way to end the weekend.
And I just have today in the office and WFH tomorrow, and then I'm off until Monday next week!
I didn't get to go to the Eagles game yesterday because I had severe back spasms that rendered me useless. I have never in my life experienced pain like this! So I'm on almost a full 24 hours laying in bed, unable to walk.