Wednesday, November 28, 2007

irritated at work…

So, one of the ladies in HR is pregnant.  There are only 3 ladies in HR and this will likely be the last time they have a baby in the dept for quite a while.  HR & the business office (where i’m at) tend to do all the parties and showers and everything as one big group.  We always include them in the showers we have over here and in everything else we do.  Well, we got an email saying they were going to do a shower and we could donate about $15 for the gift if we would like.  When asked about food, they responded “We’ll take care of it”.  Usually, when we would do a shower, we would ask everyone if they wanted to bring something. But fine, whatever, they’re excited and want to take care of by themselves.  So, I donated $20 to kind of cover the expense of the food as well. 

So we had the shower on Monday.  She got a ton of presents(which we had no idea what they were, but we bought them.)  But do you know what they brought for food?  A cake, a bag of candy, and peanuts.  THAT’S IT!!  My boss brought in brownies and they asked one other lady to bring in chips.  But they only brought in a cake for the party basically b/c no one opened the candy or had any peanuts.  It was really nice that the diabetic people in our department were nice enough to donate but yet couldn’t enjoy the food since they did a piss-poor job of ‘catering’ the shower. 

Then when the HR dept head handed her the card, she said, “I just signed everyone’s name.”  Now we have ALWAYS passed around the card for everyone to sign their own name and note if they wished (even for occassions outside of our departments - like retirements or people leaving).  I could not believe that I couldn’t even sign my own congratulatory note.  Basically, they just wanted our money and then for us to stay out of it.  I was very upset with the way it was handled.

I know they were excited, but other people besides them like this co-worker and I could have done a heck of a lot better job than what they did.  I thought it was a pitiful excuse for a shower.

Of course, I was pms’ing at the time and very upset with the head HR lady already, so it didn’t take much to get me started.  I was super-bitchy that day. 

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current musings….

Not too much going on here. Just work, Christmas stuff, ya know, normal stuff…

The little one is going to get tubes in his ears on Friday. We have to be there by 6:30 Friday morning. good thing I’m an early bird!! Hubby won’t like it too much tho!

Thanksgiving went well. Had my fam and hubby’s fam over on Wednesday and had a big Thanksgiving meal. Then on Thanksgiving day we went to hubby’s aunt’s house, then his grandmother’s house, and then to see the meadow lights. I love going to the meadow lights every year! There are so many lights and they have an old-tyme country store with TONS of old-fashioned candy! wonderful! We got the little one’s pic taken with Santa - he didn’t much care for Santa. ‘Course when he’s got mama, he’s not one much for strangers anyway. Oh well!!

Then on Saturday I woke up sick - had an upset tummy. After a couple of hours I finally threw up. Wouldn’t you know it, but DH was throwing up 30 mins later as well. He felt fine after getting sick; however I did not. I was sick all day. Tummy felt bettr by night-time, but then I had a horrible headache. I went to bed at 7:30 that night. Felt sooooo much better on Sunday!

Sunday we finally got around to doing some decorating. We put some red rope lights around the posts outside. We bought some icicle lights to hang up, but haven’t been able to hang them up yet. I can’t wait to get the Christmas tree and get it decorated. I think we’ll do that this sunday. Saturday I have a brunch for work that morning and then we’re going to a club for a concert that night. (yay!! A night out!! Finally!) Oh, just realized we might can get the tree on Friday since we’ll be out for Justin’s surgery anyway! yay!! :)

That’s about all that’s going on in my boring life right now…..

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Learning to love myself….

I have never ever loved the way I look.  I have never thought of myself as pretty or beautiful.  I’ve thought that the potential is there, but that my beauty is hidden beneath all this fat I carry and that I need a lot of work.  But I’m realizing that I already show beauty.  Granted, I’m not going to be working the runways of New York, Paris, or Milan anytime soon, but I am learning to appreciate myself more than I used to.  I’m losing weight and feeling better about myself.  I see how if I just take a few mins every morning, a little extra makeup or jewelry, can really make me feel super sexy.  Just little things can add up big time.  Now, I still have a long ways to go and still have a lot to work on, but I’m getting there.  This morning, my boss (a woman - and she wasn’t hitting on me) told me that I was beautiful and that my husband was a lucky man.  You know what, I agree!! We had some pics taken this weekend.  I can really see my beauty showing here.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

In a funk today….

I don’t know really what’s wrong with me today. Last week i was bubbly and confident and felt sexy. Today, I feel like, I don’t know….

I gained 2 lbs at WI last night.

I didn’t get up and workout like I intended to the past few mornings.

DH said something last night that made me mad this morning.

DS woke up grumpy this morning, don’t know if he’s sick or just grumpy - and I got grumpy.

I feel like DH and I don’t talk anymore - he just watches TV and I apparantly only spend time on the computer (which I have really slacked up on so it’s now no excuse).

The house is a total mess and I don’t know what to do with it all. We have stuff that we need to store but have not storage space. I don’t really want to pay for a storage unit but probaby will have to.

I hate that I am so tired by 8 pm that I end up going to bed and get nothing done.

I hate being broke. I hate not owning our own house. I hate that it will probably be years before we can.

I hate that my DH won’t step up and take care of his job issues.

I just am starting to feel so depressed. Last time I felt like this was in February. I was still nursing DS. I was so out of whack I thought I was getting PPD 5 months post partum. Then I found out I was pregnant, which then turned out that it was just a chemical pregnancy not a true pregnancy.

I just want to go back home and go back to bed.   Cry

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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Halloween

My little one was a lion for halloween.  And he was the cutest darn lion you’ve ever seen!! Daycare had signs up for everyone to wear their costumes today.  So, I put DS in his costume, and he was the only one in his class that dressed up!!  Others had on halloween shirts, but no costumes.  I took an extra set of clothes though b/c I knew he wouldn’t wear it all day, but he was just so cute anyway!!

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He didn’t last very long tonight though.  He was tired, and when I went to change his diaper, I discovered he had a very bad diaper rash.  Poor thing.  I’ll probably take more pictures this weekend of him in his costume.

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