So my weekend was pretty awesome. Friday, DH and I finally got to do our hike. We went to Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland. We drove up there in the morning and started walking. We had a little rain but we dressed warmly and it turned out good for the most part. We enjoyed having the trail to ourselves for a lot of the way. It wasn’t too strenuous at all. There was a waterfall on the hike that was pretty. The leaves were all different colors and very nice. Saturday, we had our flag football game which didn’t turn out as well. We lost. They were a pretty good team and we knew it all along. I think we can beat them but we just need to come up with a game plan and practice some plays. UVA lost their game as well. Saturday night we went to my friend’s place for a scary movie night. We watched “The Number 23” (incredibly stupid as I suspected it would be) and “Amityville Horror” which was better but not that great. Sunday, we spent cleaning and watching football.
I’ve decided to try to teach myself Spanish. I spent a lot of Sunday afternoon on the computer with Rosetta Stone. I discovered through work that I can get free access to Rosetta Stone to learn whatever language I want for like 9 months! So I started level 1 Spanish since I will be volunteering to teach English with Spanish speakers and knowing a little Spanish will probably help me out. I was obsessed with doing the program all day. It’s fun and easy and very effective at teaching you.
DH and I went for a run yesterday after the football game and it turned out pretty good at least for me. We’re just two weeks away from when we are going to run the 5K. I know I’ll be ready but I don’t know if DH is. We’re going again tonight. I hope it turns out well.
This weekend our friends from NYC are moving back to the DC Metro area. Yay! We’re pretty happy about this because we like hanging out with them and they’re getting married next year so I’m excited about helping them with wedding stuff.
In fertility news, I’ve been trying to keep up with the charting thing but it has been challenging. I have a hard time on the weekends because I love to sleep in and I usually drink which affects my temperatures. But according to fertility friend, I ovulated last Wednesday. Unfortunately this was smack dab in the middle of a 4 day run of DH and I not having sex for a variety of reasons. He was out of town one night, another night he was not feeling well, another night we came home late from a bar. But whatever, we’ll see. At least it’s reassuring that I ovulated.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Will this day ever end?
It just seems to be dragging on and on. DH is back in town from his business trip tonight. But I’ve already been forewarned that he is very hungover and will be going to straight to bed. He was out drinking with his coworkers and supervisors and they were buying. Hence, he got pretty drunk. I guess I’ll be running by myself L. He might be exaggerating (he likes to do that) about going straight to bed but I know he won’t go running with me. I wonder if I’ll get any sex. It’s a bummer that he’s coming home “damaged.” But that’s the way it is. I guess I’m a little bitter that he was out having fun in Charlottesville while I was stuck at home.
The weekend can’t come soon enough.
The weekend can’t come soon enough.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
So the dinner party went off without a hitch. Everyone showed up in a timely fashion. Everyone loved our food and our apartment and everyone had a great time. Success! Thank god our flag football game was cancelled Saturday morning. We spent most of the day cooking and prepping for our dinner party. It was really nice cooking with DH. Usually I sit back and let him work his magic, but we worked together to get everything done. I spent a lot of the day working on a Party Mix, which was a big PITA because all my music was distributed over 10 CDs, but not all of it was good music so I had to farm out the good stuff.
Sunday we were recovering from our hangovers. Since neither of us had to drive anywhere we ended up drinking a lot. Our friends Emily and Matt decided to stay later than everyone else and hang out. We watched a lot of football. The Redskins being the losers that they are lost again….But I wasn’t as bummed out as usual because I’m expecting it. This season is down the tubes. UVA won on Saturday against Maryland. That was pretty awesome. DH and I had thought about going to that game but decided not to. Considering how crappy the weather was, I’m really glad we didn’t buy tickets for it.
I’ve been feeling kind of bored and restless lately. I don’t like being at work but all I want to do when I get home is collapse on the couch. DH and I are training to run a 5K in a few weeks. Nothing could inspire me to go out in the cold last night. I’ve been missing out on my gym classes too. I’ve haven’t gone to yoga or my dance class in weeks. I know I’ll get back to the gym eventually but right now, it’s like since I’m out of the habit of going, nothing on earth can get me there.
DH is out of town tonight for work. I’m jealous he got to go to Charlottesville to meet with his manager. He seems to have a really good time because his manager takes them out to dinner and out to bars around Charlottesville. I could’ve gone with him, but I didn’t want to take the time off work. I need to save my leave for when I’ll need maternity leave. We’re trying to go for a hike on Friday for our day off but once again the weather is not cooperating. So we might have to delay it until Sunday. We’ll see.
I keep thinking about how our lives will change after we have a baby. It’s going to be a challenge to balance working and having a child. I think we can handle it, but there will be a lot of sacrifices. I know we’ll adjust.
Sunday we were recovering from our hangovers. Since neither of us had to drive anywhere we ended up drinking a lot. Our friends Emily and Matt decided to stay later than everyone else and hang out. We watched a lot of football. The Redskins being the losers that they are lost again….But I wasn’t as bummed out as usual because I’m expecting it. This season is down the tubes. UVA won on Saturday against Maryland. That was pretty awesome. DH and I had thought about going to that game but decided not to. Considering how crappy the weather was, I’m really glad we didn’t buy tickets for it.
I’ve been feeling kind of bored and restless lately. I don’t like being at work but all I want to do when I get home is collapse on the couch. DH and I are training to run a 5K in a few weeks. Nothing could inspire me to go out in the cold last night. I’ve been missing out on my gym classes too. I’ve haven’t gone to yoga or my dance class in weeks. I know I’ll get back to the gym eventually but right now, it’s like since I’m out of the habit of going, nothing on earth can get me there.
DH is out of town tonight for work. I’m jealous he got to go to Charlottesville to meet with his manager. He seems to have a really good time because his manager takes them out to dinner and out to bars around Charlottesville. I could’ve gone with him, but I didn’t want to take the time off work. I need to save my leave for when I’ll need maternity leave. We’re trying to go for a hike on Friday for our day off but once again the weather is not cooperating. So we might have to delay it until Sunday. We’ll see.
I keep thinking about how our lives will change after we have a baby. It’s going to be a challenge to balance working and having a child. I think we can handle it, but there will be a lot of sacrifices. I know we’ll adjust.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Another weekend...
My four-day weekend is long gone. This week at work has really sucked. But I really don’t want to go into that because writing about it just makes me more annoyed.
It’s Friday again. Yay! The week was uneventful. Monday DH had to go to work and I had off so I spent cooking most of the day, which is very abnormal for me. I made a soup for DH and I’s lunches for the week, I made some healthy muffins for snacks, and I made dinner for us. It was a long day and not something that I really enjoyed doing that much. I’m not cut out to be a SAHM at all. I’m realizing this more and more. I resent the very idea. DH and I were watching a Dr. Phil episode with the age-old debate between SAHM and Working Mom. The sanctimonious SAHMs really got my blood boiling….Begin rant
First of all, I have nothing against parents that choose to stay home with their children. But there is NO reason that it should automatically fall on a woman to do this. Women have just as much right to be in the work-force as men. There is no reason that the default person to stay home should be the woman. This was not expressed adequately in this episode and it p!ssed me off.
Second, a child going to daycare or other child care is not any worse off that a child that stays at home all day with a parent. My mom got very limited time off after my sister and I were born and my Dad was overseas with the Navy for a lot of our childhood. They both worked full-time throughout our entire childhood. I don’t think I’m any more worse off for it. If anything, I think I’m much more independent because of that. But we had family time on the weekends and during the week. We had dinner every night at 6PM and had fun-family activities throughout the weekend.
Third, I realized that DH and I disagree somewhat on this topic. His mom stayed at home with him and his brother until they were older. He thinks that it is “better” if a parent can stay at home. This fundamentally went against my second point. But throughout the show Dr. Phil chimed in like he was part of the conversation refuting his argument that one way is better than the other. DH was left with the argument that it is cheaper and it can be difficult to find appropriate child-care, which I guess is true. But it will probably never cheaper for me to stay at home. I bring him home the bacon….I make about $25K more than DH. He’s not intimidated by it though.
DH and I are having a dinner party this weekend. The menu is coming together pretty nicely. I think it’s going to be a huge hit. The only thing I regret is that we don’t have a bigger place. It’s going to be pretty crowded with 10 people and not everyone can fit around our dining room table. But all of our friends are used to this. They live in small apartments too so it’s not something to be worried about. We have a ton to do to get ready for it. We don’t have people over often (like once a month or once every couple of weeks). We’re kind of isolated where we live. Most of our friends live in DC or Maryland and don’t have cars so we meet in the middle in DC. I like it this way for the most part. We don’t have to worry about cleaning on a daily basis for fear of people dropping by. Our apartment can get rather messy a lot of times. But neither of us harp on each other to clean it because we’re content with the messiness. Eventually, we say, “Hey this apartment is a mess” and both work together to clean it. Sometimes if one of us is home by ourselves we’ll clean up the place as a nice surprise. So far it’s worked for us but I imagine once we have kids, a bigger place, and more people coming over on a regular basis we’ll have to figure out a new system.
Whoa this has gotten really long…must do a bit of work now.
It’s Friday again. Yay! The week was uneventful. Monday DH had to go to work and I had off so I spent cooking most of the day, which is very abnormal for me. I made a soup for DH and I’s lunches for the week, I made some healthy muffins for snacks, and I made dinner for us. It was a long day and not something that I really enjoyed doing that much. I’m not cut out to be a SAHM at all. I’m realizing this more and more. I resent the very idea. DH and I were watching a Dr. Phil episode with the age-old debate between SAHM and Working Mom. The sanctimonious SAHMs really got my blood boiling….Begin rant
First of all, I have nothing against parents that choose to stay home with their children. But there is NO reason that it should automatically fall on a woman to do this. Women have just as much right to be in the work-force as men. There is no reason that the default person to stay home should be the woman. This was not expressed adequately in this episode and it p!ssed me off.
Second, a child going to daycare or other child care is not any worse off that a child that stays at home all day with a parent. My mom got very limited time off after my sister and I were born and my Dad was overseas with the Navy for a lot of our childhood. They both worked full-time throughout our entire childhood. I don’t think I’m any more worse off for it. If anything, I think I’m much more independent because of that. But we had family time on the weekends and during the week. We had dinner every night at 6PM and had fun-family activities throughout the weekend.
Third, I realized that DH and I disagree somewhat on this topic. His mom stayed at home with him and his brother until they were older. He thinks that it is “better” if a parent can stay at home. This fundamentally went against my second point. But throughout the show Dr. Phil chimed in like he was part of the conversation refuting his argument that one way is better than the other. DH was left with the argument that it is cheaper and it can be difficult to find appropriate child-care, which I guess is true. But it will probably never cheaper for me to stay at home. I bring him home the bacon….I make about $25K more than DH. He’s not intimidated by it though.
DH and I are having a dinner party this weekend. The menu is coming together pretty nicely. I think it’s going to be a huge hit. The only thing I regret is that we don’t have a bigger place. It’s going to be pretty crowded with 10 people and not everyone can fit around our dining room table. But all of our friends are used to this. They live in small apartments too so it’s not something to be worried about. We have a ton to do to get ready for it. We don’t have people over often (like once a month or once every couple of weeks). We’re kind of isolated where we live. Most of our friends live in DC or Maryland and don’t have cars so we meet in the middle in DC. I like it this way for the most part. We don’t have to worry about cleaning on a daily basis for fear of people dropping by. Our apartment can get rather messy a lot of times. But neither of us harp on each other to clean it because we’re content with the messiness. Eventually, we say, “Hey this apartment is a mess” and both work together to clean it. Sometimes if one of us is home by ourselves we’ll clean up the place as a nice surprise. So far it’s worked for us but I imagine once we have kids, a bigger place, and more people coming over on a regular basis we’ll have to figure out a new system.
Whoa this has gotten really long…must do a bit of work now.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
4-day weekend here we come!
I’m pretty excited about it considering how much I hate work and have no interest in being there. I need to spend some of the weekend applying for jobs. I have to keep telling myself a job is not going to fly out of the sky. I have to pursue it relentlessly so I can get out of this office. DH and I both have tomorrow off, which is good and bad. Good because we can do fun things together and get out of town together. Bad because I was going to use that time to apply for jobs that are coming up with the closing date tomorrow. I applied for one already and the other one I’m going to apply for some this evening and some tomorrow morning and afternoon. It wouldn’t be that big of a deal but with applying for govt jobs means having to spend a couple of hours preparing essays on how you are qualified for the job. They SUCK!! You spend so much time on something that will probably never come to fruition. It is just so frustrating, but I have to keep going.
Ok, enough complaining for now. Think happy thoughts. Tomorrow DH and I were supposed to go on a hike but it looks like it is going to rain. So scratch that, we’re going south to the Northern Neck in VA to a few wineries. It is not supposed to rain in VA but it is supposed to rain in MD so go figure. DH has been wanting to do this forever. I’m not like uber excited because I’ve been to the Northern Neck and I don’t find it that interesting but he really wants to go. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there so maybe it’s nicer than it used to be.
Tonight is my training to be a volunteer teaching English to immigrants. I hope it goes well. I’m not sure when we’ll start teaching, but it should be in a few weeks. DH and I have been doing a couch-to-5k program. We kind of started in the middle of the program because we can run for a while and are not that out of shape. It’s been going well so far. It’s fun to run together and it is a lot easier to commit to a run than a trip to they gym. But it means that I haven’t been to the gym in a while. Eeek! I told myself I would never do this because I don’t want to waste my money. I’ll have to go back sometime this weekend. I’m just not sure when. We have our 2nd flag football game on Sunday. It’s another scrimmage, but it will be useful to keep working out the kinks in our game.
I’m looking forward to Monday. I have it off because it is a government holiday and DH has to work. I have a day-off to myself and I’m pretty excited about it. As much as I love DH very much and enjoy my time with him, I do miss my Fridays some time.
Ok, enough complaining for now. Think happy thoughts. Tomorrow DH and I were supposed to go on a hike but it looks like it is going to rain. So scratch that, we’re going south to the Northern Neck in VA to a few wineries. It is not supposed to rain in VA but it is supposed to rain in MD so go figure. DH has been wanting to do this forever. I’m not like uber excited because I’ve been to the Northern Neck and I don’t find it that interesting but he really wants to go. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there so maybe it’s nicer than it used to be.
Tonight is my training to be a volunteer teaching English to immigrants. I hope it goes well. I’m not sure when we’ll start teaching, but it should be in a few weeks. DH and I have been doing a couch-to-5k program. We kind of started in the middle of the program because we can run for a while and are not that out of shape. It’s been going well so far. It’s fun to run together and it is a lot easier to commit to a run than a trip to they gym. But it means that I haven’t been to the gym in a while. Eeek! I told myself I would never do this because I don’t want to waste my money. I’ll have to go back sometime this weekend. I’m just not sure when. We have our 2nd flag football game on Sunday. It’s another scrimmage, but it will be useful to keep working out the kinks in our game.
I’m looking forward to Monday. I have it off because it is a government holiday and DH has to work. I have a day-off to myself and I’m pretty excited about it. As much as I love DH very much and enjoy my time with him, I do miss my Fridays some time.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Hello biotch,
So I started to feel sick around lunch time yesterday and I thought, hmm….maybe I should test again. By the time I got home, I had pretty much convinced myself I was pregnant. I test = BFN. AF shows up later that night and I realize I made the age-old mistake of women TTC by mistaking AF symptoms for pregnancy symptoms and peed away $4.50. I’m not too choked up about it. It’s actually better because I would hate to abandon my flag football team before we even had our first official game and even more important, DH and I booked a cruise for February. I looked at the regulations regarding pregnant women because I was curious and it said that you had to be less than 24 weeks. I would have been right around 24 weeks if it had miraculously happened this month. But it didn’t so all is well.
The weekend went off without a hitch. Our friends from NYC came down for what will be their last trip visiting us Friday night (they’re moving back to DC at the end of the month, yay!). They came in late and we all headed to bed. DH and I had had a productive evening cleaning our apartment, taking a jog around the neighborhood, watching Y Tu Mamba Tambien, and getting frisky after watching that movie. If you’ve seen that movie you can see why it would make you frisky….(at least for girls). It wasn’t quite DH’s cup of tea because of the raunchiness and the two kids making out at the end, but I liked it for the most part. I saw what they were trying to do with the movie and enjoyed its rawness. There is nothing wrong with sexuality and exploring it. Saturday morning we went to our flag football game and it was a lot more fun than we expected. We won the game! I made a few plays. Girls are required to be integrated into every third offensive play, so they have to do something with us. I enjoyed competing and meeting new people. I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.
After we got home, it was time for Oktoberfest! DH and I showered and then walked down. We met up with our friends a little while after being there. The first half of the day was spent going around to all the different beer vendors. I loved tasting all the beers! Later in the afternoon we had to report to volunteer. It turned out way better than last year. We had extra people so we got to take a lot of breaks and try a lot of different beers. We were able to chat with people because it was a lot slower. The only bummer was the after party which turned out really crowded so we didn’t feel like staying. All of our friends came over our place afterwards and we hung out and surprisingly drank more beer. All of this equaled a major hangover the next day, but it was fun and I think all of our friends enjoyed it.
Sunday was spent watching football and nursing our hangovers. I have a 4-day weekend next weekend and I can’t wait!
The weekend went off without a hitch. Our friends from NYC came down for what will be their last trip visiting us Friday night (they’re moving back to DC at the end of the month, yay!). They came in late and we all headed to bed. DH and I had had a productive evening cleaning our apartment, taking a jog around the neighborhood, watching Y Tu Mamba Tambien, and getting frisky after watching that movie. If you’ve seen that movie you can see why it would make you frisky….(at least for girls). It wasn’t quite DH’s cup of tea because of the raunchiness and the two kids making out at the end, but I liked it for the most part. I saw what they were trying to do with the movie and enjoyed its rawness. There is nothing wrong with sexuality and exploring it. Saturday morning we went to our flag football game and it was a lot more fun than we expected. We won the game! I made a few plays. Girls are required to be integrated into every third offensive play, so they have to do something with us. I enjoyed competing and meeting new people. I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.
After we got home, it was time for Oktoberfest! DH and I showered and then walked down. We met up with our friends a little while after being there. The first half of the day was spent going around to all the different beer vendors. I loved tasting all the beers! Later in the afternoon we had to report to volunteer. It turned out way better than last year. We had extra people so we got to take a lot of breaks and try a lot of different beers. We were able to chat with people because it was a lot slower. The only bummer was the after party which turned out really crowded so we didn’t feel like staying. All of our friends came over our place afterwards and we hung out and surprisingly drank more beer. All of this equaled a major hangover the next day, but it was fun and I think all of our friends enjoyed it.
Sunday was spent watching football and nursing our hangovers. I have a 4-day weekend next weekend and I can’t wait!
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