quickies for a Friday
*Xandman has gotten his first two teeth (not all the way through the gums but the majority of each of them is through) He has his real baby hair coming in, his eyes are still blue, and his hair still seems awfully red/light sandy brown/blonde which has me fleclempt.
*We got a new cat. Someone I work with (who should NEVER EVER NEVER have pets) wanted to get rid of him. As the shelters are overly flowing with household pets Jamers and I decided to take him in. He came with the name "Well his name is Smokey, but usually we call him fatcat, or tubby, or tummycat" We have renamed him Kyiv like the Russian city, but old school spelling. He is big and beautiful weighing in at 19lbs 14ozs when we took him to the vet Monday. They had not taken him to the vet since they got him, had been feeding him Whiskas, and to get him out from behind the couch so we could take him they shot him with a plastic gun/darts. Needless to say he was more than happy to go into the crate to leave their house. Since bringing him home, he has turned out to be quite the lovekitty and is totally well behaved. The only downside is he is long hair and I find myself brushing him morning and night. He is on weight management food and seems to just be enjoying our home and family.
*My work is moving our office in three weeks. There is a huge mess around our current office with everyone purging and recycling. It is excitement around the office at an unparalleled level since I've been there. The bad thing is most of us are moving into Workpods, not even cubes. The walls are like 5' high so everyone can see in and they are ubber small. Bascially think jailcell. I'm not even going to bring up the fact that the amount of noise is going to go through the roof with almost all 50+ of us out in one big room. I'm not looking forward to this at all.
*My job is slow right now. I emailed my PMs, my supervisor and other PAs in the office to see if anybody needed help. Unfortunately everyone is sorta in the same boat. It is nice though as I'm on top of everything on my desk and I'm actually getting around to saving emails in the appropriate job files on the network.
*I'm worried I may be out of a job within the next couple of months if work doesn't pick up.
*I'm going to an Acupuncturist tomorrow for the second time in my life and the first since moving up here. I'm hoping it goes well and I look forward to going on a regular basis. Since the birth my back/neck/shoulders have been in almost constant pain. Coupled with the fact that my tailbone has not fully recovered over the last 6 months and I'm pretty unhappy physically.
*I have dropped back down below pregancy weight now. Now I just have that last pesky 60lbs to drop to get back to my happier smaller days. Don't worry I never get real skinny even at 60lbs less I only ever dropped down to a size 10. That was with working out constantly. I'm just a big gal even when I'm ubber fit.
That is all for now. My 10 minutes of free time on the computer are long gone.
*Xandman has gotten his first two teeth (not all the way through the gums but the majority of each of them is through) He has his real baby hair coming in, his eyes are still blue, and his hair still seems awfully red/light sandy brown/blonde which has me fleclempt.
*We got a new cat. Someone I work with (who should NEVER EVER NEVER have pets) wanted to get rid of him. As the shelters are overly flowing with household pets Jamers and I decided to take him in. He came with the name "Well his name is Smokey, but usually we call him fatcat, or tubby, or tummycat" We have renamed him Kyiv like the Russian city, but old school spelling. He is big and beautiful weighing in at 19lbs 14ozs when we took him to the vet Monday. They had not taken him to the vet since they got him, had been feeding him Whiskas, and to get him out from behind the couch so we could take him they shot him with a plastic gun/darts. Needless to say he was more than happy to go into the crate to leave their house. Since bringing him home, he has turned out to be quite the lovekitty and is totally well behaved. The only downside is he is long hair and I find myself brushing him morning and night. He is on weight management food and seems to just be enjoying our home and family.
*My work is moving our office in three weeks. There is a huge mess around our current office with everyone purging and recycling. It is excitement around the office at an unparalleled level since I've been there. The bad thing is most of us are moving into Workpods, not even cubes. The walls are like 5' high so everyone can see in and they are ubber small. Bascially think jailcell. I'm not even going to bring up the fact that the amount of noise is going to go through the roof with almost all 50+ of us out in one big room. I'm not looking forward to this at all.
*My job is slow right now. I emailed my PMs, my supervisor and other PAs in the office to see if anybody needed help. Unfortunately everyone is sorta in the same boat. It is nice though as I'm on top of everything on my desk and I'm actually getting around to saving emails in the appropriate job files on the network.
*I'm worried I may be out of a job within the next couple of months if work doesn't pick up.
*I'm going to an Acupuncturist tomorrow for the second time in my life and the first since moving up here. I'm hoping it goes well and I look forward to going on a regular basis. Since the birth my back/neck/shoulders have been in almost constant pain. Coupled with the fact that my tailbone has not fully recovered over the last 6 months and I'm pretty unhappy physically.
*I have dropped back down below pregancy weight now. Now I just have that last pesky 60lbs to drop to get back to my happier smaller days. Don't worry I never get real skinny even at 60lbs less I only ever dropped down to a size 10. That was with working out constantly. I'm just a big gal even when I'm ubber fit.
That is all for now. My 10 minutes of free time on the computer are long gone.
- Mood:
sick
I went to my old place of employment today to join in their BBQ Friday and to say good-bye to an ex-co-worker who is becoming unemployed. Now I knew that one of the PMs in the office was expecting his first baby around the same time as Xander. In speaking to him today, I found out that his son shares Xander's birthday of 2/15/09 - really what are the odds?
Whereas both our babies are boys that is pretty much where the similarities stop. His son, Luke, was born at about 9 1/2 lbs, right where Xander was as of his two month check up on Tuesday. Luke who also had his two month check up is weighing in at approximately 15 lbs. Xander was in the 8% for weight, where Luke was in the 96% for weight. Xander was 23 1/2 inches long at 71% - Luke 26 1/2 inches long - 98%.
I was totally blown away. Granted Luke's dad is like 6'4" or 6'5" (I can't remember which) and well built even he is amazed at the size of his baby. He was in awe at Xander's size since Xander is on the lanky side and Luke is on the gynormous size. It was an interesting comparision to say the least.
I have so many things I want to post about but I've been away from the computer for the last couple of days. I've sorta given up on being able to accomplish anything when I'm alone at home anymore and that includes being on the computer.
Must toodle off now and see about getting some foodlins in my tumtum.
Whereas both our babies are boys that is pretty much where the similarities stop. His son, Luke, was born at about 9 1/2 lbs, right where Xander was as of his two month check up on Tuesday. Luke who also had his two month check up is weighing in at approximately 15 lbs. Xander was in the 8% for weight, where Luke was in the 96% for weight. Xander was 23 1/2 inches long at 71% - Luke 26 1/2 inches long - 98%.
I was totally blown away. Granted Luke's dad is like 6'4" or 6'5" (I can't remember which) and well built even he is amazed at the size of his baby. He was in awe at Xander's size since Xander is on the lanky side and Luke is on the gynormous size. It was an interesting comparision to say the least.
I have so many things I want to post about but I've been away from the computer for the last couple of days. I've sorta given up on being able to accomplish anything when I'm alone at home anymore and that includes being on the computer.
Must toodle off now and see about getting some foodlins in my tumtum.
- Mood:
hungry - Music:Xander wailing
Santa Cruz trip was fun, but completely exhausting. I lost my voice the day after we got there and I'm just starting to sound normal again. We got to see most of our friends even if only for a short duration. The baby shower was wonderful. Xander handled the 12 hour car trip loverly, but we still broke up each way into two days to minimize the strain on us and him.
*and the crying has begun
Otay, where was I? Ah, yes, Santa Cruz. We got to eat at Mobo and have our evening time at Well Within. The hot tub ended up being a hot tub/sauna room for 80 mins instead of hot tub only for 50 mins not by any fault of ours they just set us up with the more expensive room. It was alright though because I think Jamers really appreciated the sauna and I know I appreciated the extra time. The only pooplins about our date night was that my sister who was babysitting, couldn't seem to appease Xander with milk and he kept crying. He seems to be going through a stage of constant eating and growing. He has finally outgrown his newbie clothes and is now into 0-3 month sizes. Actually he is wearing them because that is the next size but to be fair, most of the baby clothes we have had on him (including 0-3 months clothes) seem to be designed for fat short torso babies of which he is not. He seems to be outgrowing the length of his clothes, while barely beginning to fill them out width wise. I'm told that he will fill out and lengthen in alternating growth spurts so we'll see. So far he just seems to be gaining length while only slightly increasing in girth.
I have decided that going forward I will add a new tag, "Dear God what is that thing?" for all Xander development entries. Under the cut is the first entry to fall under that tag.
( Gross baby development )
On the trip I got a call from my boss "double checking" that I would be back part-time at 8 weeks and full time at 12, it not sooner. I was a little pissed off. When I spoke to her, I reminded her that the "8 weeks" was not 8 weeks, but April 11th which was when Jamers unemployment was going to run out and that I was only coming back part time if he didn't find a job. Apparently she doesn't remember all those little pieces of the discussion. I told her he did find a job and that we didn't have daycare set up yet as my sister was seriously considering it and we were on our way there and would discuss it with her that week. I guess my temp is screwing up far worse than I could've guessed and they really need me back. If we didn't need money so much (as we are now upside down financially) I would've told her in no uncertain terms that my 12 weeks would be taken in full. However as we do need the money, we are working out an arrangement with Jamer's employers so that he will work 3 days a week and I'll work the other two until my 12 weeks is up at which point we'll need to get a part time daycare provider until Jamers goes full time and we'll need a full time provider.
In any case, we'll be burning through our savings now as with James part time, and my full time after my maternity leave ends) we'll only have about $400 a month left after mortgage payments are made. With that $400, we need to pay the gas, electricity, water, garbage, credit cards, gas for cars, food, life insurance, phones, internet and now baby care, oh and the hospital bills for the delivery and pediatrician visits. Um, yeah, that $400 is enough to pay for our food bill with none of the other costs being taken care of and that is just grocery shopping - no going out to eat. James job better go full time otherwise he better find another part time or full time job. Or we'll end up losing the house which is the pooplins. Mom offered me money again this trip and Dad has as well. I don't want to take money from my parents at this stage of my life. Hopefully after I'm back full time, we can get the loan modified down and be able to get by until the New Depression is over.
Anyhoo, Xander is beckoning me to feed him and change him so I shall depart.
*and the crying has begun
Otay, where was I? Ah, yes, Santa Cruz. We got to eat at Mobo and have our evening time at Well Within. The hot tub ended up being a hot tub/sauna room for 80 mins instead of hot tub only for 50 mins not by any fault of ours they just set us up with the more expensive room. It was alright though because I think Jamers really appreciated the sauna and I know I appreciated the extra time. The only pooplins about our date night was that my sister who was babysitting, couldn't seem to appease Xander with milk and he kept crying. He seems to be going through a stage of constant eating and growing. He has finally outgrown his newbie clothes and is now into 0-3 month sizes. Actually he is wearing them because that is the next size but to be fair, most of the baby clothes we have had on him (including 0-3 months clothes) seem to be designed for fat short torso babies of which he is not. He seems to be outgrowing the length of his clothes, while barely beginning to fill them out width wise. I'm told that he will fill out and lengthen in alternating growth spurts so we'll see. So far he just seems to be gaining length while only slightly increasing in girth.
I have decided that going forward I will add a new tag, "Dear God what is that thing?" for all Xander development entries. Under the cut is the first entry to fall under that tag.
( Gross baby development )
On the trip I got a call from my boss "double checking" that I would be back part-time at 8 weeks and full time at 12, it not sooner. I was a little pissed off. When I spoke to her, I reminded her that the "8 weeks" was not 8 weeks, but April 11th which was when Jamers unemployment was going to run out and that I was only coming back part time if he didn't find a job. Apparently she doesn't remember all those little pieces of the discussion. I told her he did find a job and that we didn't have daycare set up yet as my sister was seriously considering it and we were on our way there and would discuss it with her that week. I guess my temp is screwing up far worse than I could've guessed and they really need me back. If we didn't need money so much (as we are now upside down financially) I would've told her in no uncertain terms that my 12 weeks would be taken in full. However as we do need the money, we are working out an arrangement with Jamer's employers so that he will work 3 days a week and I'll work the other two until my 12 weeks is up at which point we'll need to get a part time daycare provider until Jamers goes full time and we'll need a full time provider.
In any case, we'll be burning through our savings now as with James part time, and my full time after my maternity leave ends) we'll only have about $400 a month left after mortgage payments are made. With that $400, we need to pay the gas, electricity, water, garbage, credit cards, gas for cars, food, life insurance, phones, internet and now baby care, oh and the hospital bills for the delivery and pediatrician visits. Um, yeah, that $400 is enough to pay for our food bill with none of the other costs being taken care of and that is just grocery shopping - no going out to eat. James job better go full time otherwise he better find another part time or full time job. Or we'll end up losing the house which is the pooplins. Mom offered me money again this trip and Dad has as well. I don't want to take money from my parents at this stage of my life. Hopefully after I'm back full time, we can get the loan modified down and be able to get by until the New Depression is over.
Anyhoo, Xander is beckoning me to feed him and change him so I shall depart.
- Mood: hungry
- Music:Alexander the Wailer
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