Politics Fun Day

-Waiting in line to vote.

-Freezing instead of roasting. I kinda like it.

-Hub had to stop for Obama's motorcade today and says he saw him inside. Cool.

-Working on a post about the loss of my boldness in blogging. Hoping you will like me when you see it

Comments, Questions and a few things

1. JEN asked how gluten free was going, but I haven't been doing that. Just sugar as much as possible. :)

2. I've been told to switch to WordPress and know it is better, but I don't want to lose this blog. Can I switch it all over??

3. I got Epic Mickey for my birthday. I love it.

4. Why can't I find anyone else to geek out over Naruto with? At least Hub likes it.

Whining

So I have been trying to be more consistent about posting, but the work week goes like this: I get up before 6, get E's daycare stuff ready and me ready for work and drive the half an hour in. Then I put in my 11 hour day (with lunch) and drive home and sometimes pick up E. I get home between 630 and 7 where we then do baths, dinner, a little play and readiness for the next day and usually bed by 830 or 9 (hopefully. Even if E doesn't need the rest, I do!)

I'd love to sneak Internet time at work but not only is it an offense worth termination, but I'm rarely at a desk. So .. Here we are. My days are one reason I can't wait to go part time. My days off are filled with all the things I can't get to during the week.

So, part of the problems I've referred to that I needed help with have resolved themselves. E was having a horrible time with daycare, and we had a lot of pressure from certain sources. We were trying to decide if we should move him, but he must have popped out of that phase!

Work is tense for so many reasons... many of them acknowledged by department heads and directors with a promise that we will get better. It's a nice promise, but the stress from that (and some team stuff) isn't cake.

Anyway.. There's my rambly story told via my break on an iPod app.

Out of the Mouth of E

As I said goodbye to Hub this morning: "Daddy, you have Mommy on your face."

Hard Day

What a flippin day. I have not had one like this in a while. I would like to unleash all my woes, but I'm currently on lunch at work, and this precludes going into much detail or taking much time. It involves daycare, work crap and the like. You know. The usual. Are you prepared to answer some question for me? I'm really going to do it this time.

Work and Home

As I've mentioned, we figured out how to make part time work possible for me after E goes to pre-K. That's not for almost 2 years, but I've already been preparing for it. One of those prep items involves notifying certain people for various reasons. Some of the reactions I got had me thinking, "hm. Am I really sure?"

Well, this long weekend home has cemented my feelings. My sense of well being and satisfaction is so much higher the more time I spend at home. And I'm so much more motivated here to do great stuff! At work the opposite is true. The more time I spend there, the less I care, and the more stressed I become. Counting the days baby...

My Canadian Friends

Happy Thanksgiving neighbors to the great white north! We miss you lots!

The AMA Birthday

Tomorrow I will be 35. And I'm so tired still from our trip that I'm feeling every one of those years.  It's been cause for a lot of reflection lately though... this 35 thing; this advanced maternal age starting block. If you've read, you already know we don't plan on having a second biological child and all the reasons for that. However, we are now facing down our original cut off point for trying for a first. We had planned to at least not use protection until I turned 35, whether we had already adopted or not. Then, for reasons of our own, we decided we would begin some sort of birth control. If there was no pregnancy by 35, there would be none. 

I still feel that way, but it's very odd to be here at this major point in our lives. Would we have kept "trying" if there was no E? I don't think so. I was already so done with IF that I can't imagine either one of us would want to continue. At the same time though, it's disconcerting to know that that decision is rapidly being taken from us by nature in any case. Of course I could still conceive possibly into my 40's. But we know the stats, and we can't deny that they add a layer of complication to an already densely packed shit pie. 

It's just weird to face my own mortality and even more so at this point, the mortality of my childbearing years. Happy birthday to me!

Don't mistake this post as a morose one though. It's merely one of my many dark musings. I'm actually very happy our lives turned out happily for us, and I'm very excited to celebrate tomorrow. My son and Hub are awesome, and I was greeted at the door by a tremendously excited child. "Hey Mama! I have a SUPWISE for you!! WAIT RIGHT HERE!" Hub had taken E to get me some agave nectar, gluten free cupcakes (DELICIOUSNESS) as my birthday treat for tomorrow. He told E it was a surprise, and apparently E could not wait! So I got to eat a cupcake tonight. I think it was worth it. 

West Coast Stylin Update

Hey all! Look at silly me. I went and booked a trip when I would like to be staring at Jen's new baby all day. In my defense, this has been planned for a while.

In any case, here are some updates:

1. Charro on a Southwest flight connecting in Kansas City? WTF?

2. The heat is a lot easier to take here than in FL.

3. The Kansas City airport is kinda disappointing.

4. The Disneyland Haunted Mansion dressed for Halloween (Nightmare) is amazing!

5. E thought he was in Cars Heaven in Cars Land

6. If Hub's snoring was a sentient being, I would tell it to go.. Well you can fill in the blanks.

I think I'll do a post on what we thought of Disneyland vs Walt Disney World.