Where have you been young lady?

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Sorry about the lack of posting.  It’s been a bit hectic lately.  This post will be a bit messy and LONG, as so much has happened since the last post and I don’t really feel like posting more than one post.  Get a cup of a coffee and a bite to eat because you’re in for a t least a half hours worth of reading.

1.  How I’ve been feeling?

Good for the most part, besides the days that I decide to take my prenatal vitamins. The doctors have switched me to something with more nutrients in it and it’s really ripping my insides apart.  I’ve tried taking them during the day, but I feel so nauseous and gross feeling that, that wasn’t working.  I tried taking them after work and that wasn’t working either.  About an hour after I take it, I start the sick feeling.  I tried taking it before bed with a completely full stomach, but the same thing happens.  The bottle tells me not to lay down for a half hour after taking them, which I’m going to listen to.  I don’t want to vomit.  I’ve made it this far without it, I want to continue on my good streak.  I’ve pretty much stuck to the after work plan and just rode out the sickness.  It’s such a terrible feeling, but when I go to the doc. on 11/8 I’m going to ask about taking 2 Flintstones a day.  It seems as though a lot of pregnant women are doing that these days with a folic acid pill and they feel fine.  My energy has been up, besides when  I’m at work, which will be written about below.  My stomach is growing and my appetite has settled down a bit.  Hopefully the weight gain does too.  I’ve been gaining 1 pound  a week.  I’m up to 9 pounds now, but if I keep this up I’ll be up to 50 pounds before I know it.  It’s such a good feeling knowing that I’m in the second tri-mester already and that I’m almost halfway done.  I’ll be 15 weeks on Sunday.  wOOHOO!

2. Work

Well it’s not going so well.   In the 12 years that I have been working 3 at the current job I’m in.  I’ve never gotten in trouble or written up.  I’m kinda a goody toochoes when it comes to doing things the write way.  I’m so affraid of getting trouble that it’s not funny.  Long story short VERY short. I got written up for forgetting (he said it was conduct) to enter time that I took off onto my time card. I truely forgot and didn’t do it intentionall.  I was planning on using some of the time that I have left (vacation time), but my boss didn’t care about that. He said the next time I do anything wrong I’ll be fired. I’m freaking out.  Who’s going to hire a prenant woman?  I’ve never been fired from a job in my lifetime.  I’ve always been the good employee. My work ethic has totally gone down the tubes and I just plain don’t like being at work anymore.  I used to love going to work LOVE going to work, but this past few months has really been difficult for me.  I don’t want anything to do with it.  It’s so uncomfortable there.  Maybe sometime I’ll get balls enough to talk about it on here, but for now the goodie toochoes in me is freakin’ out about them reading the little blurb I wrote about.  Even though only 2 people I know (not work people) know that I am even keeping a blog.  It still freaks me out.

3. Speaking of pregnancy brain

I have found myself slipping these days on A LOT of things. I usually have the BEST memory around.  My girlfriends always tell me that and can’t believe some of the things that I remember, however lately that is not the case. As you can see in #2.  I find myself asking the same questions over and over again because I forgot what the answer was or just plain forgot that I already asked that question. Many people have said to me”you just asked me that last week”.  It really bothers me.  I feel like i’m losing control and I am the type of person that needs to be in control of my thoughts and body and other things.   Some of the ladies that I have asked (that have been pregnant before) tell me that it’s normal and that it’s happened to them as well.  It really bothers me the most because of work things.  I don’t want to mess up anymore for fear that I’m going to get fired. I’ve tried putting a rubberband around my finger, but that only works for one memory.  What do I do when I have to remember more than one thing?  I’ve tried typing it into the computer as a reminder that pops up, but sometimes it’s just not that type of thing. Other times,what I have to do comes to me, but i’m not near anything to write on or type in and it’s just gone in a second anyway. I just wish that my boss could understand that, before he wrote me up.

4.  My grandfather

I think I’ve mentioned before that I bascially take care of my grandfather. I mean he can take care of himself, but he’s 80 years old and he leaves the stove on sometimes and doesn’t really cook himself good meals or go grocery shopping or any those types of things. He drives but shouldn’t be driving if you catch my drift. It’s really taking a toll on me these days though.  Being prenant and all. It’s just tiring going to work and then coming home to have to cook or clean or run earrands for gramps. It’s mostly mentally exhausting. Ecspecially when he too has pregnancy brain, or should I say maybe the start of alhiemers.  He’s really starting to forget a lot of stuff and it’s really starting to bother me. I visit with him most days but every day it just gets harder and harder. For example, he called me at work one day. He asked me how much a 1 and 000 were.  I said one thousand.  He asked if I was sure.  I ended up going home on my lunch break to count the checks that he had and put together the deposit slip so he could go to the bank. while I was eating my lunch he called me up and said that he just tried to go to the bank to deposit the money, but the teller told him that he doesn’t have a checking account there.  He argued with the lady for a minute and then drove home. He went to the bank where his savings account was and tried to use a deposit slip for the bank that his checking account was. When he called me up to have me go downstairs and look over things I did. After getting everything together and understanding what was going on, I explained to him that he had to go to the other bank. He was insitant that he doesn’t have another bank and that all of his checks come from the bank that he went to.  Finally he understood, but he didn’t know how to get to the bank with his checking account.  Mind you, his lived in this house and gone to that bank for the past (at least) 30 years. This is just one of the examples of what goes on with him. It just hurts so bad to know that his days are numbered and that someday he’s not going to be around anymore. He’s been there for me through so much and helped me through so much as  have I.  It’s just so hard to see the people that you love go downhill like that. It’s ecspcially hard because I see him every day and live upstairs from him.  Why do we have to get old.

5.  Houses

We have been looking for houses for the past 4 or 5 months and have had no luck at all. We’ve found houses that we like, we’ve put offers in, but the idiots just were plain idiots. The first offer we put in, the woman had just dropped the price of the house and decided not to take our offer in fear that she might get a better one down the line.  That was oh say in May maybe.  The house is still on the market.  The 2nd house we put an offer in on, gotten takin’ away from us, by an investor with CASH, BASTARD! The 3rd house we put an offer in on, the guy was lying through his teeth about the septic system and saying that it was brand new and just been flushed and so on and so forth.  Finally after discussion with my real estate agent we agreed on a price for the house and never heard back from jerk. We stopped looking for a bit and just started again, we really don’t need to get out of where we are now and have a great thing going right now, but it’s not going to be forever so we might as well start building equity while we can. The 4th house we found, we put an offer in the guy denied the offer and said that he wouldn’t take less than $$$$.  We said fine we’ll give you that.  My agent called us back at the very last minute and said that the guy decided not to sell the house anymore. Yep, back at square one again. I guess it’s not meant to be for us at the moment.

What number am I on? Oh right 6

Good news.

I got a call on Wednesday morning (1am) that my good friend was having her baby. I then called my best friend to tell her about it.  We decided to sleep for an hour and then make the half hour drive to the hospital to support her and her husband. We woke up at about 2:45 and got ready, I picked her up and we drove to the hospital.  It was quite amusing because we were so tired.  I had just fallen asleep at 12:30am and when I got the news I could barely sleep anymore. We got to the hospital around 3:30 and we didn’t leave until 1pm the next day.  She was in labor from 10:30- 10:30.  Nothing bad at all.  she got the epidoral when she first got there because she was already 4 centimeters.  The pain stopped and didn’t come back until the epidoral didn’t work anymore.  For some reason, it got stuck in a postion where it was allowing it to break through the tissue.  She  was in some serious pain for about 45 minutes, they finally fixed the epidoral and she was good to go until it was time to push. She didn’t even realize that she was pushing and only pushed for 14 minutes, with no pain. Little brat!  she had a healthy baby boy.  8lbs 1.3 oz and 20 inches long. SO FREAKIN CUTE!  I sure hope my labor is like that.

Ya this was a long and winded post. I knew it would be long but not this long.  I’m sure there are things that I haven’t mentioned here that have happened over the past few weeks, but with the pregnancy brain thing going on, I just plain can’t remember. I will try to keep up with the posting as the time is counting down. Hopefully I didn’t bore you too much. Take care.

I love you flutter!

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