It has been a while since I last posted anything and I have good reason, too. 1) I had news that was not ready to go public. 2) All other happenings paled in comparison to #1 and 3) All of the other said happenings could not be completely explained without divulging #1.
So, want to know what #1 is? Do you? You probably already know and if you didn't you are smart enough to have figured it out. What news, from a 30 year old female, married 5 years (almost), has to be announced at just the right time? Yep. I'm pregnant; 13 weeks today. Due November 5th. No, we don't know the sex of the baby as it is too early and yes we are going to find out the very first chance we are given because we are not the patient types. Well, I'm not patient and Ryan likes to plan.
If it's a girl Ryan will think of all the ways he can get her to play soccer and basketball - he seems to think if it's a girl she will not want to play sports. I am trying to tell him that he is just tempting fate with his poo-pooing of a girl's desire to play sports and talking up the natural desire for boys to play sports. If he doesn't watch it he's going to get a boy who doesn't like to get dirty and would rather bake snickerdoodle cookies with me than play a sport.
What other questions for the woman with a bun in the oven? I have not had morning sickness. There have been a few times when I felt mild waves of nausea but they were so mild that I had to stop and think, "Hmm, am I feeling queasy?" Hardly counts as morning sickness.
Instead of morning sickness I got an extra helping of tired. I heard that pregnant women were more tired than usual but this has been unreal. If I wake up at 7:30 in the morning I am ready for a nap by 9:30 - AM, as in 2 hours later. No joke. My productivity at work has taken a serious nose dive. I am good for the first half hour since I start work at 9:00. Then, out of nowhere, the pregnant fairy waves her fatigue wand and *poof* I'm exhausted. I perk up right before lunch then half way through I'm ready to sleep again - this time it lasts right up until I am ready to leave work for home and sometimes it lasts all evening. Last weekend I took 5 hours worth of naps on Saturday and on Sunday. And I was still tired.
I think the all day exhaustion is easing up a bit since it is 7:30 in the evening and I'm awake. Today I was only tired for about a quarter of the day. When I'm tired I get grumpy and cry at the drop of a hat. Fortunately I've only had to run off to the bathroom at work a couple of times to cry.
That's the big news. A couple of weeks ago - no make that about 2.5 months ago I was debating on whether or not I should leave my current job since I saw that I was going nowhere fast. There were promises to promote me as the company grew and the operations manager needed help but alas the company would not grow in the time frame everyone had set out in their business plan. I kept trudging along as the Agent Services Administrator (receptionist w/ a minor role as an office manager of sorts). Finally I could take it no more. There were major changes in management, which were for the better, but I didn't think I could work with the new proposed head honcho - who happens to be a terrific woman and great business woman but her style was too corporate for me.... Anyway... I decided it was time for me to jump ship. I interviewed with Redfin and was offered a job - it payed a little more and would have allowed me to take my dog to work (I told them they should meet my dog before making that kind of offer - Kea is a super freak of the wiggly sort). But the interviews came just days before I found out I was pregnant. I even told Redfin of 'my condition' and they still wanted to hire me knowing that I would only be there until November. There was even talk of me working from home - even a few hours after the baby was born if I so desired.
Not being one who likes change I decided that I should only go through one huge life change at a time. I really hope I made the right decision. I'm really not liking my job but that shouldn't be too surprising - being a receptionist is not the most exciting or fulfilling job out there.
That's all I have for now. I think my next post will be about my wierd dream that was, I believe, influenced by my friends living in Palestine and by the t.v. show Jericho (I'm a t.v. junkie).
