All work and no play....

Well, I probably should just skip this entry - it seems nothing particularly interesting happened yesterday. But here goes....

We never did hear anything on that house in the hills - it makes me angry that the woman didn't even have the courtesy to call us after we went through the time to fill out the application and fax it to her, it seems the least she could do was call and tell us she chose someone else. Why don't people treat others with just a little more common decency?

Yesterday after I FINALLY got my entry done, I was rushing around trying to get Thomas ready to go to the gym and finally decided to heck with it, I'd go to the gym today and just relax and not be rushing him and getting impatient with him because I know I've got to be at work at 4pm. After that things went much more smoothly. We went up to his room and read a huge stack of books, he is INSATIABLE with reading!! I'm so excited about that! It's in the genes - my Grandpa loved to read, my Mom and Uncle Sonny are big readers and so I am (when there's enough time to breathe). Actually, Emmetts a pretty big reader, too, even if he usually gets bored and doesn't get around to finishing the books he starts. Anyway, Thomas just kept getting book after book. It's so funny because he walks over, picks up a book, walks back over, plops down in my lap and says "I read" (errr, I think I already explained this in another entry) - BUT, if I don't take the book right away he will pick up my hand and wrap it around the book - it's so cute.

So we read alot and then he was ready for his nap. I ran around like a maniac getting everything together to leave for work. I started 4 auctions on EBay, responded to a couple of emails, took my shower, did two loads of laundry, sorted through some of Thomas's clothes, put away the dishes, cooked food for my dinner at work and got dressed, before waking Thomas up, changing his stinky diaper and rushing us both out the door. Whew...it's tough going to work the 4pm shift. But it does have it's advantages - only $24 in daycare, I do get to spend some time during the day with him when he's at his best, I get some time to be productive while he's napping, and $2/hour shift differential. The downside of course is not getting to be home in the evening with both the boys. :-( But working a combination of evenings and nights or days would work out okay, I think. I wish so much that they would reconsider letting me work at 80%, but if they did I'm sure several people would want it before me.

Last night at work was crazy, it was quite busy and someone called in sick so I was by myself in registration. I worked my tushie off! I was so wound up when I got home that I couldn't go to bed until 1:30am and I had to get up this morning at 7:30 so I could have some time to get my head together before the boy got up. I'm pretty tired today but at least I'm not going back to work until 12am and then I will be in registration which is much more mellow at night than working as unit coordinator. Hopefully I'll get a chance for a nap before work.

One other thing that made me chuckle was yesterdays reminder of how Emmett was raised so unconventionally and with so many different influences and ideas. I was telling him this awful story about this 27 year old patient that was dying from metastatic colon cancer and he said, quite casually but seriously, "wow, she must have really had some bad karma left over from a previous lifetime." Not exactly what I was expecting from my Catholic boyfriend, but then one of the things I love about him is the study in contrasts and that comment was such an illustration of that.

Well, that's about it.

Love,
Melissa