Today we were supposed to be getting Lydia's pictures made, but her outfit didn't come so I guess we will have to reschedule for next Saturday.
I have no idea what we are going to do today. I have an appointment at 8:45 to get a manicure that again was suppose to be for the pictures. They take those close up pictures of the babies feet and fingers in your hands and I want to have nice nails for her first pictures. And I wanted to get pampered a little. I'm working now and making extra income so we should be able to pamper ourselves after pinching pennies for 3 years while I went to school and had babies. So, I take that back, I am not getting my nails done for the pictures. I am getting them done for me. So there, lol.
Anyway everything has been going good. Delores has been doing better. She is still a bit whiny, but she probably always will be. That is just her, but we have it down to a minimum. Lydia is also doing good. She is sleeping 10 hours at night and eating 4 oz at a time. She weighs about 12 pounds and is 24 inches long. Next month Delores has her 18 month check up and we will find out if she has put on any weight or grown any. At 12 months she was 19 pounds and hadn't grown any in 9 months. Now She fits well in her 18 month clothes so maybe she has gained around 2 or 3 pounds. Maybe.
Josh is good. I think he is enjoying his job and right now he is enjoying sleeping late. I'm on the other side of the house with the tv on and I can hearing him snoring in the bedroom lol.
I am good I guess. My job gets to me sometimes. My boss has turned out to be a jerk 80% of the time and then we will have one good day where he says something like "I've got a good paralegal now," instead of looking at me and talking to me like I'm an idiot the rest of the time.
My projects are at a stand still. Lydia's room is done except for the wall painting and the slip cover for the chair. I've decided I'm not gonna do that though cause my sewing machine is on the fritz. I'll post pictures eventually. I'm staying right at my goal weight at 110. The diapers are just sitting there in pieces because, again, my sewing machine is one the fritz.
We have decided we are going to do something about Ava because she is just (as Delores says) a bad dog. She won't stay in the back yard. She has been pooping in the house. She disobeys. She growls at Delores when she gets near her food bowl. She tears things up in the house when we are gone so she has to either stay outside or stay in a crate. She has snapped at Delores before but she knows who is boss now. She freaks out when we put her in the car. She freaks out during thunderstorms and hides under the bed where she has hidden to poop or throw up before, and when Josh tries to get her out she snaps at him. She is just not the dog for us and we need to get rid of her. The problem is, who wants a dog like that? Also Delores really does like Ava, so I don't want to do anything with her until we can get another dog to replace her. I can't train another dog right now. So I think we have decided to wait till Lydia is walking and then it is good bye bad dog. She has no idea how good she has it.
Well, I have to go get Josh up because I have to get ready for my appointment and also because he is really starting to annoy me lol. Bye for now
Saturday, May 28, 2011
long time overdue
A lot has gone on since I last wrote. In fact I don't even know where to begin. I guess I should start off by saying this post started before mother's day weekend so It is all off on dates. I apologize for that.
Last week was pretty intense. Josh had to go to GA for training for FedEx and it was my first week of work. I didn't mention that Josh was gone to facebook or on here because I didn't want some surprise at my house while he was gone. Plus he took the computer so we could still talk and see each other via Skype. Which, I just have to say, must be the best invention since the iphone.
It was pretty stressful without Josh here, but I kind of liked it. I (and my mom) was amazed at how clean I can keep the house when there isn't a man in it lol. It isn't that he is unusually messy, it's just that since I didn't have anything to do, I cleaned. He got done early though and he was home Thursday afternoon and I got to see him after I got off work.
Work is up and down. I love the work but the work is crazy. I really need to be full-time to handle the work load but he thinks he doesn't have enough cases to keep me busy. Well maybe he doesn't have enough cases for a full-time paralegal, but he does have enough traffic for a full-time paralegal/receptionist. Seriously, I can't get any work done for answering phone calls, greeting clients, going to the post office and bank, and chasing after faxes. And the bad thing is that he thinks 24 hours a week is a perfect amount of time to do all this and work on 10 cases at one time. He complains about how unorganized his last paralegal was, but I am slowly starting to understand why the files are such a mess. No one, no matter how much experience (which she had a lot of) could do everything he wants done in 24 hours a week. Other than that though, I love the work I'm doing. I just have to get over this mommy brain and start remembering more things so I can stop being scolded every day.
So since I don't work Fridays and Josh got back early last week, we had a long weekend. It was like a mini vacation, except we didn't go anywhere. Friday we went to the park with the girl and had dinner with his dad. Saturday we did our grocery shopping and Sunday we went to church, had lunch, and then went shopping for work clothes. That was a pain again. I went to NY and comp. and found 4 shirts. Then we went to Khol's and I found absolutely nothing in my size. Then we went to Steinmart and I had the same problem. All I wanted to get my a high waisted pencil skirt and some pantyhose and new underwear. I got none of that. I really wanted to go to my favorite store (White House Black Market), but we ran out of time and had to get back so we could feed Delores and get the girls to bed. It was very frustrating. Josh and I joke that we have the same problem at different extremes. I have to go to expensive specialty stores because I'm so small and so does he because he is such a big guy. Huff.
Lydia is doing okay. She is still struggling with allergies and she is reacting to the dairy I'm eating again. I started introducing it last week into my diet and this week she started showing signs that she was having a reaction to it. So I'm back on a no dairy, no coffee diet. =( Other than those two things she is doing good. She weighs about 12 pounds now. She is sleeping about 10 hours at night and still eating about every 3 hours during the day. She isn't napping very well during the day but I think it's just because she is adjusting to me not being here 3 days a week.
Delores is about as good as a wild 16 month old can be. She is very whiny and spoiled and is having a hard time adjusting to me being gone. She is very clingy now and very demanding. She is testing how much she can get away with when my mom is watching her and honestly I can see her temperment and behavior going downhill fast. I'm afraid she's going to learn that whining and throwing fits are ways to get what she wants. I feel like we are slowly starting to became canidates for the Supernanny show.
This weekend we have a busy schedule once again. I was determined to finish doing my shopping because it is so frustrating to have to keep going out just to be let down. So I went to my store and then to Victoria's Secret and then I was done. After that I pick up his dad's truck and to Wendy's to get my man a large Frosty as a thank you for watching the girls while I did my thing. After I got back we went to TR for my Grandma's 86th birthday party/ Mother's day celebration. Then we are taking the truck over to my papa's vacant house and get their deep freezer for my 1350 ounces (and growing) of frozen breast milk. Then back home to put the girls to bed. Tomorrow we have church an lunch and then Josh is taking me out to dinner for mother's day. I refuse to relive the same Mother's day I had last year. Which had to have been the worst day of that year.
Last week was pretty intense. Josh had to go to GA for training for FedEx and it was my first week of work. I didn't mention that Josh was gone to facebook or on here because I didn't want some surprise at my house while he was gone. Plus he took the computer so we could still talk and see each other via Skype. Which, I just have to say, must be the best invention since the iphone.
It was pretty stressful without Josh here, but I kind of liked it. I (and my mom) was amazed at how clean I can keep the house when there isn't a man in it lol. It isn't that he is unusually messy, it's just that since I didn't have anything to do, I cleaned. He got done early though and he was home Thursday afternoon and I got to see him after I got off work.
Work is up and down. I love the work but the work is crazy. I really need to be full-time to handle the work load but he thinks he doesn't have enough cases to keep me busy. Well maybe he doesn't have enough cases for a full-time paralegal, but he does have enough traffic for a full-time paralegal/receptionist. Seriously, I can't get any work done for answering phone calls, greeting clients, going to the post office and bank, and chasing after faxes. And the bad thing is that he thinks 24 hours a week is a perfect amount of time to do all this and work on 10 cases at one time. He complains about how unorganized his last paralegal was, but I am slowly starting to understand why the files are such a mess. No one, no matter how much experience (which she had a lot of) could do everything he wants done in 24 hours a week. Other than that though, I love the work I'm doing. I just have to get over this mommy brain and start remembering more things so I can stop being scolded every day.
So since I don't work Fridays and Josh got back early last week, we had a long weekend. It was like a mini vacation, except we didn't go anywhere. Friday we went to the park with the girl and had dinner with his dad. Saturday we did our grocery shopping and Sunday we went to church, had lunch, and then went shopping for work clothes. That was a pain again. I went to NY and comp. and found 4 shirts. Then we went to Khol's and I found absolutely nothing in my size. Then we went to Steinmart and I had the same problem. All I wanted to get my a high waisted pencil skirt and some pantyhose and new underwear. I got none of that. I really wanted to go to my favorite store (White House Black Market), but we ran out of time and had to get back so we could feed Delores and get the girls to bed. It was very frustrating. Josh and I joke that we have the same problem at different extremes. I have to go to expensive specialty stores because I'm so small and so does he because he is such a big guy. Huff.
Lydia is doing okay. She is still struggling with allergies and she is reacting to the dairy I'm eating again. I started introducing it last week into my diet and this week she started showing signs that she was having a reaction to it. So I'm back on a no dairy, no coffee diet. =( Other than those two things she is doing good. She weighs about 12 pounds now. She is sleeping about 10 hours at night and still eating about every 3 hours during the day. She isn't napping very well during the day but I think it's just because she is adjusting to me not being here 3 days a week.
Delores is about as good as a wild 16 month old can be. She is very whiny and spoiled and is having a hard time adjusting to me being gone. She is very clingy now and very demanding. She is testing how much she can get away with when my mom is watching her and honestly I can see her temperment and behavior going downhill fast. I'm afraid she's going to learn that whining and throwing fits are ways to get what she wants. I feel like we are slowly starting to became canidates for the Supernanny show.
This weekend we have a busy schedule once again. I was determined to finish doing my shopping because it is so frustrating to have to keep going out just to be let down. So I went to my store and then to Victoria's Secret and then I was done. After that I pick up his dad's truck and to Wendy's to get my man a large Frosty as a thank you for watching the girls while I did my thing. After I got back we went to TR for my Grandma's 86th birthday party/ Mother's day celebration. Then we are taking the truck over to my papa's vacant house and get their deep freezer for my 1350 ounces (and growing) of frozen breast milk. Then back home to put the girls to bed. Tomorrow we have church an lunch and then Josh is taking me out to dinner for mother's day. I refuse to relive the same Mother's day I had last year. Which had to have been the worst day of that year.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Midnight and fig faced
So it's midnight and I'm up eating fig newtons like they are about to stop making them.
My neighbor's dog started barking off an on around 10 and really started picking up at 11:30. I had to wake poor Josh up to call our neighbor and see if he could put the dog up so she wouldn't wake the girls and I could get some sleep. At first I thought he was doing it to be spiteful because Ava got out today and terrorized the neighborhood. Turns out he wasn't even home. So I got up and came to watch some "Sex and the City," on my dvr till he get home and puts the dog up. Our bedroom window is right beside their backyard so I can't stay in the bedroom or I'd just get more and more frustrated with every bark.
So did you know I was an idiot? Apparently I had to go to work to see that. I don't even know where to begin. My boss is just one of those people you can't please no matter what you do. I do what he asks me to one day and then he complains because I did what he asked me to the next day. My confidence is dwindling and I'm afraid to speak to him because I'm tired of getting scolded for just doing what he asked me to do. I'm not a mind reader, you know? When I don't have confidence in myself my work goes to pot. I don't want to quit because I do like what I do and it is good experience and I need a good reference on my resume. But really, how long can I go on being talked to like I'm a kindergartner and keep a decent amount of good self esteem. Ugh. I guess I'm just going to have to develop some thick skin and throw it back at him.
Well the dog has stopped and that is all I have energy for tonight. Maybe I'll write tomorrow about my other daily adventures. We'll see. Goodnight
My neighbor's dog started barking off an on around 10 and really started picking up at 11:30. I had to wake poor Josh up to call our neighbor and see if he could put the dog up so she wouldn't wake the girls and I could get some sleep. At first I thought he was doing it to be spiteful because Ava got out today and terrorized the neighborhood. Turns out he wasn't even home. So I got up and came to watch some "Sex and the City," on my dvr till he get home and puts the dog up. Our bedroom window is right beside their backyard so I can't stay in the bedroom or I'd just get more and more frustrated with every bark.
So did you know I was an idiot? Apparently I had to go to work to see that. I don't even know where to begin. My boss is just one of those people you can't please no matter what you do. I do what he asks me to one day and then he complains because I did what he asked me to the next day. My confidence is dwindling and I'm afraid to speak to him because I'm tired of getting scolded for just doing what he asked me to do. I'm not a mind reader, you know? When I don't have confidence in myself my work goes to pot. I don't want to quit because I do like what I do and it is good experience and I need a good reference on my resume. But really, how long can I go on being talked to like I'm a kindergartner and keep a decent amount of good self esteem. Ugh. I guess I'm just going to have to develop some thick skin and throw it back at him.
Well the dog has stopped and that is all I have energy for tonight. Maybe I'll write tomorrow about my other daily adventures. We'll see. Goodnight