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January 2013 Moms
KatieM558
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This is not helping...
KatieM558
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Well I'm off work now. Sitting around lamenting about the cold weather, watching a baby story, crying, and planning my next meal. Grrr.....I think I'm going to go do laps at the Target. The nearest indoor mall is too far to drive. I need to do SOMETHING!
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Re: This is not helping...
I went on maternity leave a week before my due date and now I'm still sitting here 3 days AFTER my stupid due date. I tried watching a baby story to get excited about my baby but it just pissed me off. I've been cleaning (well the housekeeper did a lot of that for me lol), organizing, grocery shopping, arranging and rearranging the baby's room, watching way too much TV, walking the dogs, etc.
Hang in there. It has to happen soon right?
DH:34 - Me: 33
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I am due today and my last day of work was last Wednesday. I have been home for a week and it is far too cold to go outside! I might persuade DH to go to the mall tonight for some walking and exercise. I do feel like I have been wasting maternity leave just sitting here (I only get 8 weeks). But you know what, if I have to extend my leave, my job will just have to get over it and let it happen! These last days are WAY harder than I thought they would be.
Now that the seed of online shopping is in my brain, it may become my new obsession!
This is me on the weekends! Even though it's annoying to be at work, wearing the same dress pants I wear every day because no others fit, I'm enjoying making the day go by faster. I'm actually dreading another weekend of nothing to do but watching TV, online shopping, going to Target/grocery store, and eating/cooking. Blah.
Ha--same here, right down to the pants. I think LO dropped finally and it's making the pants even MORE uncomfortable. My last day is Friday unless LO comes earlier, and while I have been totally bored on the weekends, I find that it's easier for me to entertain myself when DH isn't around so I think not working will be okay (if I get to experience it at all). But, I feel you! There's only so much TV I can watch before I feel like a total bum.
I had originally planned to work until tomorrow but because of stupid rules in my district I basically was forced to take my paid sick days off. (And people wonder why the public school system is going broke.) I would rather be at school teaching or at least sitting in the office answering phones! Although I guess I should feel lucky to have this time to myself and not be exposed to every virus under the sun and head lice.
Today's to do list:
Go to grocery store and buy my husband some ham. (Exciting I know! it's like the fun never stops.)
Wander giant yuppie grocery store looking at foreign vegetables (that I don't know how to cook) and weird bulk grains (that I would never eat) until I can't walk right.
Go to local nail place and get a chair massage from brutal old Chinese woman in hopes that she will bang on some pressure point that gets this baby moving in the near future.
Come home and wander house looking for something to clean/wash/dust/or organize.
The irony of all of this is that once the baby comes I will be yearning for the days when I could just flit off to the store to buy ham as a moment's notice. The grass is always greener isn't it...
Ok, I'm going to quit my selfish bitching and go ogle weird grains.
I can't take on any additional projects at work so I've been sitting around checking thebump and Pinterest. I'm so bored and it's not even noon yet, but at least I'm getting paid.
My husband works afternoon shift so I'm bored when I get home from work too. There are only so many freezer meals a person can prepare. I'd really appreciate going into labor any minute now.