Seriously?

I wasn't going to post this little story, I've told a few friends and coworkers, and was going to leave it at that.

That was before I saw this cartoon over at Garfield Minus Garfield...

I was at a home this week of my 'work kids' and his foster mom (who, to put it kindly, is a little nutty) figured out I was pregnant the week before at a court hearing.

She said to me, while we were talking at the kitchen table, "Why don't you wear those pregnancy shirts?" I was wearing a regular shirt, that still fits and I thought was still acceptable at this stage of the incubation. I answered that I do sometimes, but sometimes I wear other shirts too.

"Oh... well you just look FAT! If you wore those pregnancy shirts, you wouldn't look like you had one of those... what do they call it... a MUFFIN TOP".

Oh... okay, thanks.

If she was half-way sane, I may have actually taken offense.

Too funny

I just had to share... I got this yesterday in an email. I couldn't find a youtube clip without talking, but I have a file that just loops the fall over and over again, if you want it.


It reminded me of this little gem...



I'm not sure how 'real' either of the videos are... but they sure make me laugh.

D.I.N.K.

Have you ever heard of the term D.I.N.K.? I hadn't, until one of Justin's coworkers called him a 'dink'. Dual Income, No Kids.

I guess that's us (for the time being).

And what do DINK's do, when they have a few months savings in the bank and are expecting to shortly become... non-DINK's (I'm not even going to try to make up an acronym for what we will be becoming)? We furnish our home that we haven't paid much attention to for the last few months.

Also... it helps if you have a husband who is now working from home.

For those of you who don't check the baby blog (if you want to be added, just let me know) we have half of the baby's furniture...

And yesterday I came home to this in our bedroom (I'll post pic's of our actual bedroom when I get home from work today)

****Clarification**** the following are photo's of the pieces of furniture from the website... NOT my bedroom. I'll post photos' of MY bedroom (a bit smaller, and less of an interior decorating masterpiece) a little later.

Okay... here's photo's of our actual bedroom. You'll probably notice the lighting isn't as good!

See ya in another Ten

I went to my 10 year high school reunion last night.

To quote one of my friends from yesterday, -It was kind of anti-climatic.

I should preface with this by saying, I really enjoyed high school, particularly my senior year. I was looking forward to seeing everyone (or at least a small chunk of 'everyone') and catching up with a few friends that I haven't seen for a while. Friday night they had a "bring your kids if you got 'em" evening at a park, and we didn't attend that, but yesterday was a dinner at another park and it turned out really nice. I'm not sure how it compares to other reunion's... but I thought there were a lot of people there and it was a fun evening.

I have a confession to make... I didn't really take any pictures (I know, that's pretty bad) but I'm pretty sure Andrea will be posting some soon, if anyone is all that interested. (By the way Ange, feel free to crop me out of any and all photo's -you already know what I look like).

Justin survived the night, and enjoyed seeing a few people he new on our senior video that played during the night (especially a certain someone in her cotillion dress and another someone singing during an assembly.) I guess we'll see everyone in another 10 years or so.

10 hours and counting

*Warning, this is a highly charged and one-sided editorial*

I don't think I've mentioned this on the blog, but if you've been around me (or any other State employee) in the last month, I'm sure you've heard about it.

(According to my new voicemail message) "Due to the Governor's Initiative ALL state employee's will now be working from 7am - 6pm, Monday through Thursday...". Yep... In an effort to 1-save the state money, 2- reduce energy costs (to the state, NOT individual employees), and 3- spend more time with family (you mean, losing time in the evenings with family, while being home on Fridays when your kids are at school and your spouse is working), we are going to 4-10's.

Okay, no one is complaining about the 3 day weekend -yay! Also, we'll be driving to work one less day a week (that eliminates 20 miles a week for me -not too bad). And... I'm searching here for more Pro's... seriously, I am.

If you're in Utah, you may have your own opinions about this new direction. Maybe you've even read or heard about the survey state workers took and came up with a 70-80% approval rate for the change (I have no more than 2 or 3 undergraduate research classes under my belt, and even I was quite impressed with the ability of the survey authors to word things in such a way or offer multiple choice questions where you couldn't NOT be for the change). Or... if you ever watch national news shows and have seen our lovely Governor Huntsman and all of his glorious media attention he is receiving, you may think this is great, maybe you're even saying to yourself, I wish I had a 3 day weekend.

Can I just vent for a few minutes? (Of course I can, this is my blog, and that's what it's for, you don't have to read it -or agree with me).

I work for Human Services, more specific, Child and Family Services. I'm not the DMV or working in a lab... we're responsible for thousands (not me personally, although it feels that way some days) of children and their families. We're a little concerned about the lack of contact these cases will have 3 days out of the week -not to mention our community partners (school, the courts, shelters) will still be operating 5 days a week without support or input from us. We're a little nervous about this.

And one more comment and I'll be done, I promise. Most workers had essentially 3 weeks to plan for this. To arrange new or adjusted child care schedules, second jobs, many of my coworkers are in the middle of graduate degree programs. Not to mention, the administration had about a month to plan for increasing on-call workers, working with the Judges to beg them not to schedule hearings on Fridays (it's about 50-50 of judges that won't), and informing other community partners. In short... we had a very limited amount of time to make a lot of big changes, and a week into the new schedule, very little has been worked out.

In a more selfish, self-centered rant...
It's Thursday morning at 8:30am. I've been at work for over an hour. I'm tired, and I'm just hoping I make it to 6 today. I have ZERO energy at the end of the day, and yesterday I almost got teary just thinking about waking up early and coming into work. I'm sure the majority of us will get used to the new work schedule, and maybe it's just cuz' I'm pregnant... but we're struggling around here!

A few girls

Okay... my computer is back, I uploaded pictures, so here's an update over the past week (and a half).

I went to Girls Camp last week. I should clarify and say I spent one evening (Tuesday) with the girls and then about 24 hours with them from Thursday to Friday. They -and most of the other leaders were up there from Monday -Thursday. Between work and... an excuse of being pregnant, I got a lighter duty.

The camp area was pretty nice and they had a lake/pond that the girls swam, went canoeing (I looked up if that was a real word, and how to spell it) and jumped (or fell) off a zip line into. The leaders in charge of the whole camp (stake leaders) tried to kill us that afternoon (I'm sorry, but it was just TOO HOT to sit in the sun for 2 hours, are you KIDDING me?), had dinner with other ward members and then packed up the next morning. It was a nice time, but I'm also glad I only spent one night up there.

On Saturday a friend and coworker got married in a backyard ceremony. A few of us went and had a really good time. Bobbie looked very calm (she said she wasn't) and it was a nice, relaxed evening. I didn't get a lot of photo's, but here are a few.

It's coming

A new post. I promise. I finally have my computer (not to mention my husband) back in the house.

Pictures will be uploaded. And a new post will be here shortly.