Never a dull moment

Everyday with me is like a new adventure. You just never know what to expect. Hubby and I have discussed finding a church to start attending since we moved a year and a half ago. We visited one and hated it, and have not attempted to visit another one until last Sunday. We ironed our clothes on Saturday night and had everything ready for Sunday morning. We got up and got dressed and I must admit, we do clean up nicely! We got there and things were going fine, the church seemed nice enough. We sung a few songs, listened to a few announcements. Things were going great, and then the pastor got up and announced that it was a baptism service. Awe how wonderful, someone is going to be baptized. The family goes up there and it isn't just someone it is a baby and a child of maybe about 3 or 4. So the pastor goes on to ask the questions that they ask and I am tearing up. Yeah hormones going full blast, not a good thing! So after the pastor is done he brings the children down the aisle of the church to show them to the congregation. Well seeing that sweet baby was just more than I could handle. All these things are going through my mind, pregnancy does that to you. It also hit me at that very minute that I am really having a baby. Anywho the pastor gets about 2 rows from us with the baby and I feel it, the real tears are coming. You know you can only silently cry for a little bit before it turns into sobbing. Well it turned into sobbing, one big horrendous noise escaped my body before I could shove my hubby out of the pew and out the door. It was so quiet in the church that you could have heard a pin drop, but instead they heard me sobbing as I ran for the door. We got outside and I think my hubby was in shock, I was still sobbing, I could not catch my breath, I thought I was gonna throw up. Then he starts laughing at me. I eventually calm down and blow my nose and regain my composure, and I started laughing too. We did not go back into the church, we left and got some lunch instead. I think we may try to go back next week, but only if there isn't a baptism on the bulletin. You see I told you never a dull moment with me.

Thursday tidbits

Updates...let's see where do I begin? I went to the doctor yesterday for my 16 week (4 month) check up. All seems to be well with me and baby. The heartbeat sounds great. I have not gained anymore weight, which is really good! I am feeling alright most days. I still have some times when I am extremely nauseated and gag at the least little thing, like when I brush my teeth. For the most part though I am feeling better. I have more energy than I did a month ago and I am able to stay awake past 9:00. Next month is the big sonogram! I can't wait to find out if the baby is a girl or a boy.

The office assistant search is over, you can stop sending the resumes. I was very relieved last week when a former employee called to see about filing the position. We worked out everything and she was to start on Wednesday. Okay she has worked here before so she knows how our boss is about things. He hates tardiness! He fired one of the assistants for always being late, and she knows this. I got here yesterday right at 8:30 and she wasn't here yet. I was a little worried, but I knew there had to be a good explanation. I tried calling her house to make sure that she had not overslept or something, no answer. The boss kept calling me asking if I had heard from her, well of course I had not. She comes in at 9:15 like it is no big deal that she is 45 minutes late and didn't bother to call on her first day of work! So I had to fire her, yeah that was not pleasant. I don't make the rules, I just try my best to follow them and if the boss says send her home, then I have to. It was really hard because not only is she a former co-worker, she is a friend of mine, but there was no excuse for her not to call and let us know she was going to be late. So then I was back at square one, with no assistant. Keep in mind that I have been running the ofice by myself all week, which means that most of my work has not been getting done. There was one girl left that I had interviewed that seemed to have her wits about her. She starts tomorrow, so here I go again having to train a newby! I hate training people, I just pray that she catches on and it doesn't take me long to train her on the basics.

I trust everyone was on the edge of their seats last night to see who would be crowned the next Amreican Idol. I know I was! NOT! I did watch it this season though, for the first time. I really liked Kerry and Bo, so I didn't care who won. Now I am a little sad because I don't have anything to watch on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I guess it means that I can get off the sofa and do something.

One last thing, just want to tell my bestest friend Happy Anniversary today! She has been married 5 years. I was gonna send you a card, but hey, I can't remember every freakin' thing okay? I hope you have fun on your little get a way this weekend.

I think that about covers everything that has been going on with me, if I left anything out, leave it in comments and I will get back to you.

Ewwweee...gag........

Lately the least little stinky smell makes me want to vomit. It is really awful. I am one of those people that hate to throw up, not that I really know anyone who admittedly likes to throw up, but you know what I mean. Although lately I find myself gagging at the least little thing. My hubby farted in the car Sunday and I had to hang my head out the window as I was gagging. I know it made him feel bad, but honestly I can't help it. So I get here to work this morning and when I get to the top of the stairs it hits me, the smell! Now I don't exactly know what the smell was, but it wasn't pleasant. After I had been here about an hour a co-worker came into my office and asked if I had smelled the stinch. Well of course I had, it nearly made me sick. She then informs me that it was her trash can. Okay how could you not smell that funk in your tiny little office? She has scrubbed her trash can now and I think the smell is gone. I have ran through the office with a can of air freshner to at least momentarily cover the funky odor and hopefully prevent anymore gagging on my part. Is there a remedy for the gagging at the least little funky smell?

Taking some time off

I have decided to take part of the day off today. No I am not sick or anything, I just have some things to do. Oh and no one else knows that I am taking this time off. You see, I am here at work. As a matter of fact I am even at my desk. I was running late this morning so I did not have time to put on my face. I also had to leave my house a little early this morning to run by Burger King and get a croissant-wich, I was really craving one today. So after I got here I remembered that I had bills to pay (today is payday for me!), so I wrote out checks for them and got them ready to be mailed. Then I decided I might as well put my face on. When I was looking in the mirror, I realized that I really needed to pluck my stray brows. So I got out my trusty tweezers and plucked away. Then I put my face on. I think I am going to paint my finger nails next. I don't usually do things like thia at work, unless I am at lunch or something, but you see with my office assistant leaving next week and me having to train the new person, things are guaranteed to be chaotic for a few weeks until the new person catches on. Oh yeah and I basically worked yesterday by myself, my office assistant was off and my boss left early, and I had all my regular job duties as well as hers and I interviewed 6 people. So I think I deserve a break today. I am sure that I will get to work soon, as soon as my nails are dry. I wish I had the day off today. My hubby is off at field day with his child and my best friend (Well Fed Pheonix) is in town getting her hair done and shopping. I am having lunch with her, so I have that to look forward to. I hope everyone has a nice relaxing Friday and a great weekend.

Driving a car

Am I the only one left still driving a car in a SUV world? I am the only person at work who still drives a car. When we go to my child's school or ball games ours is the only car there usually. Most people either have a SUV or a mini-van. I really don't want a SUV or mini-van. I have always swore that I would never be that mom. You know that mom that drives her kids and everyone else's everywhere in the mini-van. You know your typical soccer mom. If you are that mom I apologize to you up front. A mini-van has never been a dream car for me. I know they are practical when you have a basketball team of children, but we all know that I am not a practical person. I am about somethings, but not about a freakin' van. Now there are some SUV's that I would not mind owning, if someone gave them to me. You see the thing is my car is paid for and I love my car. We have been through 2 marriages, a divorce, 6 neices, so much together. My car is a great car, we have many miles left to travel together! One of the downsides to having a car now is that you can't see around the larger than life SUV or van in front of you in traffic. I think they should have a special lane on the freeway for cars and only cars. No SUVs or vans allowed. Another thing about a SUV or van is the gas mileage. With gas more than 2 bucks a gallon who can afford to drive them? Well I know there are people who get paid more than peanuts, but still, you have to admit that 8 mpg is not a good thing! I feel like I am becoming one of a dying breed, a car driver.

Help wanted

My office assistant informed me last week that she was leaving. She is moving back to her home town to help her parents. They are in their late 70s or early 80s and need someone to check in on them and help them with tasks such as grocery shopping and cooking, you know those pesky things that we must all do. So the last full week of this month will be her last week. She gave me a nice big notice and for that I am grateful. Now comes the really hard part, finding a replacement. The ad for the job was in the paper yesterday and it is posted on Career Builder on the web, so I have been skimming through resumes all day today. You would not believe how many people do not proofread their resume. I am sorry but I am not going to hire someone who can't use the spell check or make complete sentences. Just because you put a period at the end of a phrase does not make it a sentence. I was going to post some examples on here, but knowing my luck they would find this post and sue me or something. Just know that it is bad, very bad. It is so bad that my head is hurting. It hurts like I want to rest my head on my desk and start over.

I hate trying to hire a new person, especially now. I need someone really fast because my boss will be on vacation next month and I will be on vacation in July. Oh yeah and the whole maternity leave thing,, yeah this whole hiring a newby is stressing me out. Not only do I have to interview and find just the right person, I have to hire them and then train them. I think I have weeded out a few decent resumes to call for interviews. Something else I hate, interviewing... Yeah it sucks, big time. As much as a person hates to be interviewed, I hate to interview them. I am probably more nervous than they are about the interview. My interview lasts about 15 minutes, because really I don't care about most of the shit that they ask in interviews. I just want to know if they mind coming to work and putting in 8 hours and then going home. You can't ask some of the more important questions because they are considered discrimination or some crap. Wish me luck in finding a new office assistant, I certainly need it!

I hope everyone had a great mother's day, even if you aren't a mother. I know I did. I went to my mom's for lunch. She cooked homemade Lasagna. One word---YUMMY! I got to see 2 of my sisters and 5 of my 6 nieces, oh yeah and my Granny, let's not leave her out.. My mom has a new little kitten and it is so adorable. I had a good visit with my family. My hubby went to church with his mom and then to lunch with her.

I met up with them in the afternoon and we went to see "Monster-in-law". What a great way to spend mother's day. The movie was good. My hubby was bored with it, but his mom and I enjoyed it and isn't that really what counts. After the movie, we went to see his Grandmother. Then we went home, finally! All in all it was a great ending to a good weekend!

Let's talk about sex!

I think I need to have sex. I was awakened this morning by an orgasm. I had a very erotic dream and actually had an orgasm, without being touched! After I woke up I was left wondering was it real or not. Well the orgasm was real, but the dream unfortunately wasn't. My hubby and I have a good sex life, I think we do it more than the average married couple. Since I have gotten pregnant, things have just been different in our sex life. For one I am constantly tired and nauseated. I am asleep most nights by nine or ten o'clock. If we don't have sex as soon as I get home from work during the week, it just ain't gonna happen. There is no waiting until after supper or after we take the child back home. We have the child on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and every other weekend, so that only leaves a few days open for sex. It is bad that our lives have gotten so busy that we have to schedule sex, but hey if it works, do it. We do have sex at random other times, but not as much as we would like. Hubby has also been tired and cranky since I have gotten pregnant. He has been doing most of the household chores, as well as grocery shopping and stuff like that. So he is tired too. He also thinks that I am too tired to have sex so he doesn't even try. I have told him to at least try, he will not be disappointed. Sometimes I am too tired to initiate it, but not too tired to take part in it. Does that make sense? Anyway back to my original thought, I think I need to have some sex. All I have to say is hubby better look out, because here I come!!!

Breathless moments

Do things like this only happen to me?

I had to call tech support for our software system this morning. As I am sitting on the phone waiting for this guy to fix our problem, which by the way took like 20 minutes or so, he is breathing into the phone. I thought I was in a wind tunnell or something. It was so annoying. Could he not hear himself in the phone? Has he never heard of taking his mouth away from the phone when he is just breathing? I just wanted to scream. If his breathing was sexy, maybe I would not have minded so much, but it was just like holding the phone in front of a fan on high. Do they not teach phone ettiquette in tech support classes?

Sword swallowers and court jesters

Welcome to Monday. I am tired, my tummy hurts, and I really feel like whining. Although I won't whine too much. I did have a great lunch today with my best friend. Thanks Well-Fed Pheonix for lunch and wonderful company. So far that has been the best part of my day. It has all been down hill from there, but what do you expect it is Monday.

My weekend was alright. On Saturday me, hubby, child, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law all loaded up in the car to head towards Atlanta to the Renaissance Festival. It rained all the way there! Not just sprinkles of rain, but torrents of rain. Big lightning and thunder accompanied the rain. It was a mess. So we finally got to our destination and it did stop raining. The Renaissance Festival is held outside, of course. So it was a huge mud pit of people dressed in all the fancy Medieval attire. It was not very crowded, which was nice. We really did have a good time. I will spare you the details of all the side shows and the sword swallower. I nearly threw up while we watched the sword swallower, my stomach is much weaker than it was before I got pregnant. This court jester took a liking to my mother-in-law and everytime we saw him he called out to her from where ever he was at and came over and talked to her. It was hilaroius! You would have to know my mother-in-law, all prim and proper, being flirted with by this man in tights and a costume. We always have such a good time. This is the third year that we have gone and we aren't all into Renaissance stuff or anything like that, it is just something different to do.

We walked for miles and miles Saturday, so Sunday I laid my big pregnant ass on the sofa and slept on and off most of the day. I just really vegged out yesterday. I did not even bother to take a shower. I did however manage to paint my nails. They so badly needed it. Even after all the resting yesterday I am still tired today. I need some energy!