Day 1381: Twenty-seven weeks and counting
Check-in:
Spirituality! Good this week. In general I think I’m on an upward trend, with slow but steady improvement. I’m not expecting to be perfect any time soon, but I think with continued effort I will be perfect at trying my best.
Fitness! Continues to be super lame, since dance class was canceled and it was very cold and I had a lot of incentive to just stay inside where it was nice and warm and not venture out. I have been doing better about taking the stairs unless I’m carrying something fairly heavy. On the other hand, I swear I woke up one morning and was twice as fat as I’d been the night before, so when it comes t walking the hills around campus when I’m accompanying my husband to the lab I am slower than usual and breathe hard and it’s just very pathetic to witness.
Tidiness! My husband continues to be much better at the whole endeavor than me. He is doing the deep cleaning and I continue to do the maintenance things. He will take ten minutes to scrub the bathroom but then still leave empty soda cans on every available surface, and I’m the person who comes along and gathers them up and throws them away. Between us, we are one clean person. Unfortunately the snow last week mades for a very muddy garden, and Ivy and Dingo get really precious about not letting people touch their paws, so I spent a good chunk of today trying to clean up muddy puppy paw prints. Hopefully their paws will have dried off and the mud will have frozen soon.
The Good:
I found words, and I finished a book, and overall last week was...okay! I got to spend time weigh my husband if only by hanging out at the lab with him, and both of us are tired and stressed out, but I feel like I made it through the week all right. My BFF told me about an upcoming K-pop concert, and we bought tickets and made plans to go together even after I move to New York. The concert is in Vegas, so we could crash with my parents who only live a couple hours outside Vegas, and my mom could watch the baby - who will be old enough to travel by then - and then we could go to the concert. Hang out. It would be fun times. Also I made plans to see one of my other BFFs in person before she goes off to ChiCon for Stargate, since I can’t go (baby will be a bit too wee for such an excursion then), and I am pretty excited about those.
My mom helped me get into touch with a lady who lives out in New York where we plan on moving and she’s been really great about reaching out to people in her community to help us scare up some resources about places to live, places to board our dogs, and also useful medical providers for me, which will be very nice indeed.
I feel like I’ve been sleeping better this week, and that’s been nice. Curling up on the bed with my Kindle and the dogs at the end of the day is a great way to fall asleep, so I am super grateful to my husband for a very sweet Valentine’s gift on that score.
For all that the roads were pretty crazy, I was safe while I was out and about, and for that I’m pretty grateful. Also, I did a home visit for the first time in a while and my little toddler client let me cuddle him, so that was pretty fun.
Monsta X, my favorite K-pop band, released a new album, and that’s been pretty fun! I’ve been enjoying listening to it a lot. With the new album comes a whole new promotion cycle, so the band has been on variety shows and performing and it’s super fun to watch.
Baby Girl is coming along well! She’s getting bigger, which means I can feel her kicks even more, and that’s been pretty cool.
The Bad:
Work continues to just...make me crazy. So crazy. I agreed to cover a hearing for a coworker while she was on vacation. It turned into a three-hour trial. For no good reason, because everyone agreed that the parents were not able to take the child home with them from the NICU...because they have no home and the child is medically fragile. There was absolutely ZERO dispute about that issue, which was the central issue for the proceeding, and yet it still took three hours and five witnesses to get there.
I was mad.
And also hungry. For reals. Hangry is a real thing for me, probably worse now that I’m pregnant, but for reals.
But in the end that case is not mine and I am okay with that. Granted, I have not one but FOUR trials this week (two of them in one day) and other cases of mine have been set for trial, but...I am surviving.
Also there was politics at work this week. Since I work for The Man there are some inherent politics in the job, but as I don’t work at the head office, as long as I stay in my trench and get my work done, the politics should not bother me. Except for when I have to go to committee meetings, and then politics get crazy. I will not miss the politics, no lies. I never wanted office politics, let alone interagency politics, which is why I have stuck with this job instead of going for a big firm and trying to make partner and all the politics that involves.
But sometimes the politics find me anyway.
This week is going to be a rough one, but we will survive, I know we will. I’ve spent most of the weekend in the lab with Cody while he works on his dissertation. I did do edits for him yesterday, and it’s hard, trying to help clean up a document when I don’t understand it very well, but on basic grammar and style I was pretty helpful. Just...it was SO BORING. I think even for him it’s pretty tedious to deal with that document twelve hours a day every day for weeks on end even though he loves science, but...I wanted to take a nap halfway through. It was so boring and technical that it was exhausting. On the other hand, he is generally a good writer, but he’s picked up some bad habits from his boss and some scientific writing conventions (passive voice), so working with his writing isn’t too bad (I’ve done it before).
People keep telling me that when he gets his doctorate I should get an honorary doctorate as well because I supported him through his process. I gently remind them that I had my Juris Doctor before Cody and I even met, and I’m okay without a second one.
This week I go into to get tested to see if I have gestational diabetes, and I have my prenatal class all day Saturday, and also a dental appointment, so it’s going to be an adventure, but I can do it! It’ll be okay.
Cross your fingers.