This morning was a normal day...Natalie didn't want to get out of bed, protested wearing jeans, demanded a blanket while in the car...same old stuff.
Until about 2 blocks from my house when I had the sudden uncontrollable need to throw up. Shit!
So I'm debating what to do, pull over, turn around, keep going, hold back the barf....decisions, decisions.
So the uncontrollable need became so bad that I had to pull over and throw up all over the side of the road. Awesome! Cars are driving by, I barely got my seat belt off and the door open...and there I am puking my guts out on the corner.
At 31 weeks I really didn't think this would be something I'd be dealing with...but such is life.
Oh and my kid finds throwing up hilarious, so this made her morning.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Buying a down comfortor...aka the bitch at the Select Comfort store.
For Christmas we asked my MIL for a new down comforter, our old one was really worn out and we couldn't think of anything else we wanted or needed so it seemed like a great gift.
My MIL decided to get us a comforter at the Select Comfort store, we have a sleep number bed and love it (as do our ILs) so it seemed a good fit, plus it's two separate pockets so each person can choose their own insert and warmth rating.
So in early January we headed to the mall to visit our local Select Comfort store. Dan hates the mall so it was quite an outing for him to go to the mall. We get to the store and tell the sales gal that we're looking for two inserts for a down comforter (MIL had already bought the cover and some gift cards to put towards the inserts).
The girl is helpful and we decide on which inserts we want (of course we choose the same so it sort of defeated the purpose but whatever) and started looking at the other things they sell since they were having a buy one get one free sale on accessories.
I've been trying to find a duvet set that I love to replace ours, and they just happened to have a gorgeous blue duvet set.
At this point we're pawned off on another sales woman...fine whatever. It should have been a red flag that as soon as she started helping us she oh-so-kindly pointed out that Natalie needed to have her nose wiped. Uh okay thanks but it's not really your business (and it wasn't bad at all)...but I guess since we were letting her jump on the beds she felt the need to point out the snot faucet my kid had going on.
Then, I tell her I'm interested in the duvet set, she looks at me blankly, I again say that I'm interested in the comforter cover set (thinking maybe she doesn't know what a duvet is), to which so replies "you already have a comforter cover...your MIL bought it for you" (apparently she helped MIL buy this stuff). I reply that I know we have the cover, but I'm interested in the decorative covers, and gesture to the display. Again she snottily tells me that I already have the comforter cover, at which point I start getting peeved...WTF lady do I need to spell it out for you I've said it 3 different ways and I'm speaking clearly. So I walk over (er waddle cause ya know I had to play up how difficult she was making this for me) to the duvet cover and hold it up for her to see. She says "oh you mean the bedding sets", at this point I'm fuming, Dan is watching me from the other side of the room ready to run over to diffuse the situation if need be. So I calmly reply "yes the bedding sets otherwise known as a duvet right?!?" she looks at me and says "uh yeah sure", then looks at the price tag and says in a condescending tone "Um you know this is a $500 bedding set"
At this point I'm choosing my words carefully as there are other customers in the store and my kid is sitting only a couple feet away, so I say "yes I know, can you tell me what is included in that set" Dan is now inching towards me since apparently he can see the future.
Again she snidely replies " well it IS $500, is that really workable for you". Are you fucking kidding me lady, I've been trying my hardest to hold back but now you're just baiting me. Who are you to assume how much I can afford to spend on something. At this point she must be able to read my face and the fact that I'm about to rip her fucking face off....so she starts back peddling...with things like "oh well it is very nice, what size would you be looking at?, it includes xy&z etc"
Dan has now made it across the room and is fully prepared to hold me back. But I take a deep breath and say "I think we're done here" she keeps trying to smooth over the issue, and finally sternly I tell her "I'll gladly pay for the inserts, but I won't be buying anything else from you."
Finally she stops, walks to the register and begins processing the order, then she starts trying to make small talk with me....of course I'm in no mood for that so I tell her "I've had enough, I'd like to just pay, no need for you to try to butter me up now"
Dumbfounded she looks at me and stammers "umm, err, uh..." I tell her to just complete the order so I can leave, and she does so in silence.
See...I'm making progress....I may not need anger management after all.
My MIL decided to get us a comforter at the Select Comfort store, we have a sleep number bed and love it (as do our ILs) so it seemed a good fit, plus it's two separate pockets so each person can choose their own insert and warmth rating.
So in early January we headed to the mall to visit our local Select Comfort store. Dan hates the mall so it was quite an outing for him to go to the mall. We get to the store and tell the sales gal that we're looking for two inserts for a down comforter (MIL had already bought the cover and some gift cards to put towards the inserts).
The girl is helpful and we decide on which inserts we want (of course we choose the same so it sort of defeated the purpose but whatever) and started looking at the other things they sell since they were having a buy one get one free sale on accessories.
I've been trying to find a duvet set that I love to replace ours, and they just happened to have a gorgeous blue duvet set.
At this point we're pawned off on another sales woman...fine whatever. It should have been a red flag that as soon as she started helping us she oh-so-kindly pointed out that Natalie needed to have her nose wiped. Uh okay thanks but it's not really your business (and it wasn't bad at all)...but I guess since we were letting her jump on the beds she felt the need to point out the snot faucet my kid had going on.
Then, I tell her I'm interested in the duvet set, she looks at me blankly, I again say that I'm interested in the comforter cover set (thinking maybe she doesn't know what a duvet is), to which so replies "you already have a comforter cover...your MIL bought it for you" (apparently she helped MIL buy this stuff). I reply that I know we have the cover, but I'm interested in the decorative covers, and gesture to the display. Again she snottily tells me that I already have the comforter cover, at which point I start getting peeved...WTF lady do I need to spell it out for you I've said it 3 different ways and I'm speaking clearly. So I walk over (er waddle cause ya know I had to play up how difficult she was making this for me) to the duvet cover and hold it up for her to see. She says "oh you mean the bedding sets", at this point I'm fuming, Dan is watching me from the other side of the room ready to run over to diffuse the situation if need be. So I calmly reply "yes the bedding sets otherwise known as a duvet right?!?" she looks at me and says "uh yeah sure", then looks at the price tag and says in a condescending tone "Um you know this is a $500 bedding set"
At this point I'm choosing my words carefully as there are other customers in the store and my kid is sitting only a couple feet away, so I say "yes I know, can you tell me what is included in that set" Dan is now inching towards me since apparently he can see the future.
Again she snidely replies " well it IS $500, is that really workable for you". Are you fucking kidding me lady, I've been trying my hardest to hold back but now you're just baiting me. Who are you to assume how much I can afford to spend on something. At this point she must be able to read my face and the fact that I'm about to rip her fucking face off....so she starts back peddling...with things like "oh well it is very nice, what size would you be looking at?, it includes xy&z etc"
Dan has now made it across the room and is fully prepared to hold me back. But I take a deep breath and say "I think we're done here" she keeps trying to smooth over the issue, and finally sternly I tell her "I'll gladly pay for the inserts, but I won't be buying anything else from you."
Finally she stops, walks to the register and begins processing the order, then she starts trying to make small talk with me....of course I'm in no mood for that so I tell her "I've had enough, I'd like to just pay, no need for you to try to butter me up now"
Dumbfounded she looks at me and stammers "umm, err, uh..." I tell her to just complete the order so I can leave, and she does so in silence.
See...I'm making progress....I may not need anger management after all.
Pregnancy Rage...
I'm quite sure I've posted about pregnancy rage before...it is after all, one of my favorite side effects of being pregnant.
When I was pregnant with Natalie my rage was mainly focused on Dan, and the fact he was sleeping through the nights while I was up about 10 times a night to pee. It took all my self control to not punch him after my 5th trip to the bathroom every night.
This time I've done a good job of keeping my rage in check. Even when the sales lady at the Select Comfort store was a raging bitch and Dan came over to try to diffuse the situation because he thought I was going to throttle the woman. But I restrained myself and very calmly verbally bitch slapped her and left the store (it felt great by the way...I think I'll post more about that later).
Anyhow, fast forward to today, I'm currently 30 weeks and 4 days pregnant, I'm hot and uncomfortable and generally short fused. I am on a committee at work called the Customer Service Committee...somehow I got appointed to this committee because I was a member of a different committee and the two went hand in hand (it clearly wasn't because of my excellent customer service....trust me).
Well the committee is in charge of putting on events for the office quarterly, today was our final meeting before the event on Thursday. Today was apparently not a great day for the meeting since my pregnancy rage was in full effect. By the end of the meeting I had set one woman straight multiple times and was being treated with kid gloves so as to not lash out again.
It doesn't help that I'm not a big "rah rah" type (despite my years of cheer leading experience) so I'm not one to kiss other peoples asses for doing their jobs....which apparently is the entire job of the customer service committee....I'm currently waiting to be "let go" from the committee...I figure one more pregnancy rage episode should do it. So stay tuned.
When I was pregnant with Natalie my rage was mainly focused on Dan, and the fact he was sleeping through the nights while I was up about 10 times a night to pee. It took all my self control to not punch him after my 5th trip to the bathroom every night.
This time I've done a good job of keeping my rage in check. Even when the sales lady at the Select Comfort store was a raging bitch and Dan came over to try to diffuse the situation because he thought I was going to throttle the woman. But I restrained myself and very calmly verbally bitch slapped her and left the store (it felt great by the way...I think I'll post more about that later).
Anyhow, fast forward to today, I'm currently 30 weeks and 4 days pregnant, I'm hot and uncomfortable and generally short fused. I am on a committee at work called the Customer Service Committee...somehow I got appointed to this committee because I was a member of a different committee and the two went hand in hand (it clearly wasn't because of my excellent customer service....trust me).
Well the committee is in charge of putting on events for the office quarterly, today was our final meeting before the event on Thursday. Today was apparently not a great day for the meeting since my pregnancy rage was in full effect. By the end of the meeting I had set one woman straight multiple times and was being treated with kid gloves so as to not lash out again.
It doesn't help that I'm not a big "rah rah" type (despite my years of cheer leading experience) so I'm not one to kiss other peoples asses for doing their jobs....which apparently is the entire job of the customer service committee....I'm currently waiting to be "let go" from the committee...I figure one more pregnancy rage episode should do it. So stay tuned.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
3/4s of the way done
On Friday I'll be 30 weeks...so officially 3/4 of the way done with this pregnancy. Which has gotten me thinking, this pregnancy went by much faster than my pregnancy with Natalie....likely because I was busy with Natalie and unable to just sit and enjoy all of the little pregnancy moments.
It's now the final stretch, so to speak, and I've really got to get on the ball with the things I need to do. But for some reason doing all those little things makes this all feel more real and I can't quite deal with that right now...so I'll procrastinate.
I officially have 37 more days to work...but counting all the time I have to take off for doctors appts, the various off site things I have to do and the likely hood of me taking at least one or two of those days off....I'm really getting down to the wire....but that's not stopping me from the count down.
It's now the final stretch, so to speak, and I've really got to get on the ball with the things I need to do. But for some reason doing all those little things makes this all feel more real and I can't quite deal with that right now...so I'll procrastinate.
I officially have 37 more days to work...but counting all the time I have to take off for doctors appts, the various off site things I have to do and the likely hood of me taking at least one or two of those days off....I'm really getting down to the wire....but that's not stopping me from the count down.
Name game...
When we had Natalie we had a hell of a time deciding on a name, we finally narrowed it down to two names and decided to wait and see what she looked like. When she was born the nurse asked us what her name was and Dan replied "Natalie" to which I started crying, and said "no that's not her name" (Dan's story is that he said Caitlin...but I distinctly remember Natalie). Anyway after 2 days in the hospital as "baby girl Roberts" and being told I'd be responsible for mailing in the birth certificate and social security info...I decided I must name this child. So we named her Natalie...I blame my insane hormones for not allowing that to just be the name from the announcement in the delivery room but whatever.
So now we're faced with the same dilemma...only we've already found our "favorite" girl name and used it...so now I have to find one we like equally as well as Natalie. And it's proving to be a difficult task.
I think we've again narrowed it down to two names, this time Addison and Isabel. Dan really prefers Isabel, and I prefer Addison...so again we'll wait and see what she looks like when she's born.
I really think naming kids is the hardest part of pregnancy...yeah other things are difficult, and painful...but nothing weighs more heavily on your than choosing a name. And then you think back to the age old question (okay maybe not age old but whatever)...does the person make the name or does the name make the person? Will choosing the wrong name for her push her to be someone she wouldn't have been...ugh.
I hate making decisions!!
So now we're faced with the same dilemma...only we've already found our "favorite" girl name and used it...so now I have to find one we like equally as well as Natalie. And it's proving to be a difficult task.
I think we've again narrowed it down to two names, this time Addison and Isabel. Dan really prefers Isabel, and I prefer Addison...so again we'll wait and see what she looks like when she's born.
I really think naming kids is the hardest part of pregnancy...yeah other things are difficult, and painful...but nothing weighs more heavily on your than choosing a name. And then you think back to the age old question (okay maybe not age old but whatever)...does the person make the name or does the name make the person? Will choosing the wrong name for her push her to be someone she wouldn't have been...ugh.
I hate making decisions!!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Goals for 2010...
I've decided to stop calling them resolutions...since I continuously break all of my New Years Resolutions...so now they're goals. Hopefully I won't fail to achieve all of my goals but we'll see.
This year I'd like to
1. de-clutter the house, I want to clean out the closets, cabinets, drawers, etc etc...because we have WAY too much stuff.
2. Spend less money, this means eating out less as well as buying less unnecessary crap...which will help with #1.
3. Communicate better, I've been really working on this one already but of course I need to work a little harder. I need to pick my battles and reduce the use of words like the F bomb...which colors my speech a little too much these days.
4. Take time for myself, I want to do something for me once per month, even if it's something small like getting a pedicure or enjoying a book for an hour...I need to take time for myself so I can be a better mother.
5. And finally my biggest goal, transition to being a family of 4 smoothly. I am really hoping that the arrival of baby #2 won't be too traumatic for Natalie and that we can easily get back into our routine.
This year I'd like to
1. de-clutter the house, I want to clean out the closets, cabinets, drawers, etc etc...because we have WAY too much stuff.
2. Spend less money, this means eating out less as well as buying less unnecessary crap...which will help with #1.
3. Communicate better, I've been really working on this one already but of course I need to work a little harder. I need to pick my battles and reduce the use of words like the F bomb...which colors my speech a little too much these days.
4. Take time for myself, I want to do something for me once per month, even if it's something small like getting a pedicure or enjoying a book for an hour...I need to take time for myself so I can be a better mother.
5. And finally my biggest goal, transition to being a family of 4 smoothly. I am really hoping that the arrival of baby #2 won't be too traumatic for Natalie and that we can easily get back into our routine.
27 week pregnant...
My first belly picture of this pregnancy...taken in the awesome light of our office bathroom with my iphone...so it's really high quality photography.
But I thought I'd share anyhow.
I had planned to get a better picture this weekend, but spending the majority of the weekend in yoga pants and tank tops wasn't really picture worthy.
Long time no blog
So I realized today that I haven't blogged since November...and I really need to be better about updating.
December was a busy month for us, we had lots to celebrations and fun events...all of which I failed to bring my camera to so you'll just have to believe me that I was there. I did finally get an iphone so I can now hopefully remember to take more pictures.
Christmas was a huge success, Natalie got spoiled...but lucky for us we were able to keep the gift buying to a minimum this year since she still doesn't get it...Santa brought her a couple things, and then we headed to both sets of Grandma & Grandpa's where she got a ridiculous amount of stuff...our house is overflowing with toys, and Dan really needs to get on building that toy storage thing he keeps talking about and buying tools for.
We had our annual New Years Eve party, which was also a huge success. Natalie and I made it to midnight (go right ahead and judge me for keeping my kid up until midnight...it's fine), and everyone had a great time eating nachos. The kids out numbered the adults this year and it's only going to get worse...but they had a great time so we can't complain.
The remainder of the New Years weekend was filled with lots of laying around on the couch and reading, Dan and Natalie read her new book over and over, and I got through about half of my book....aka Breaking Dawn, cause I'm a dork and am finally finishing the Twilight series...FINALLY.
Here's a pic of Dan and Natalie reading for your enjoyment!
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