Archive for July, 2009

Adam’s been looking for an exercise bike, and he saw one at a garage sale down the street when he was driving to work and called to ask me to go look at it.

I figured gap khakis don’t really say, “give me a good deal,” so I found some older black capris, an old t-shirt from a trip to montana and put a baseball cap over my very dirty hair. The bike ended up being $100, so even my poor dressing wasn’t going to help that.

A little later my mom called and we went to old navy to use our 30% coupon. While we were shopping I got confused for an employee 3 different times. Seriously? Half my wardrobe is old navy, and every other time I’ve shopped there I’d wearing something I bought there and would have showered, but today, in my filth and old clothes people think I work there? Weird.

So my last day isn’t till Monday, so that means I have to work another full week. Funny because when the clients know they are graduating they stop doing their chores and being nice and we call it “short-timers” so I definitely have a case of that. Though one good thing is that they print the progress notes for us to sign every wednesday, and since I won’t be there next wednesday, I can’t do any of these notes, horay!!

So we’re at week 17, with the baby being 5 inches and 5 ounces. Once website says onion sized and one says turnip (not that I can say I’ve actually ever seen a turnip). I am beyond excited for our ultrasound next week, especially since I haven’t felt the baby yet, so I want to know it is indeed still in there. I still don’t want to know the gender but Adam is wavering a bit. He hasn’t decided yet, but had promised that if he does find out he won’t tell me or anyone else.

So now I’m counting down till Monday at 11pm when I’m officially jobless and free. Unless I get a call and interview for one of the 5 jobs I applied for yesterday.

I went to work yesterday same as always and the program director asked to talk to me. I figured maybe she was going to give me some feedback or something. Instead she told me that because of the low numbers of clients, they are laying me off. They’re going to let me work through August 1st so I have health insurance through the end of August. So as of August 2nd, I’ll be unemployed.

I really wasn’t expecting it, they didn’t give me any idea when they hired me that they might not need me in a couple months. The director said I could work “on call” for the next few months and maybe get my job back in October. I was too busy trying not to cry to tell her that I didn’t need a paycheck, what I really need is health insurance.

Luckily they had too many people scheduled for my shift (the reason I’m being let go) so I got permission to leave. My parents were nice enough to come get me (the truck is in the shop) so I could hang out at their house till Adam got done with work. I cried a little more, Yoshi bit me until I stopped so that was a good motivator, haha.

Adam pointed out that this could be a really good thing. The work was really stressful, and the shifts were awkward. He also figured out that I’d make more with unemployment checks then I currently do, silly government. I’m going to apply for a few of the other looking glass openings today, and see what happens. Adam’s insurance starts October 1st, and he can put me on that, so I’d only have a month without insurance, which is very doable.

Weird monday. I’m so thankful that I lost my job and not Adam.

I’m not sure why, but even though it’s only 76 outside, and we have all the windows open, it’s 87 inside, ew. We need to figure out a better fan placement method or something, because it’s way too hot in here.

Other than overheating, things are good in beckerland. We talked more realistically about what we could actually afford to pay monthly for mortgage if I wasn’t working full time, which will most likely be reality after this child exits my uterus. So we reset our house hunting price range and our realtor gave us a new list of houses to look at. Adam and David went and drove around tonight checking them out so we could decide which ones to actually go see. Adam really liked a few of them.

I still haven’t felt the baby kick. Though the pooch is getting more obvious each day. The girls at work finally figured it out, and they were very excited for me. It’s even funnier because now some of them feel a new connection to me and pull me aside to tell me about when they were pregnant when they were 13, or how they think they are pregnant now. At least work is never boring. I’m really excited for the ultrasound on August 5th.

a site that gives this weeks development from a male fetal perspective. (because Jeff was worried we weren’t giving peni a chance)    =)

“How your baby’s growing:

Get ready for a growth spurt. In the next few weeks, your baby will double his weight and add inches to his length. Right now, he’s about the size of an avocado: 4 1/2 inches long (head to rump) and 3 1/2 ounces. His legs are much more developed, his head is more erect than it has been, and his eyes have moved closer to the front of his head. His ears are close to their final position, too. The patterning of his scalp has begun, though his locks aren’t recognizable yet. He’s even started growing toenails. And there’s a lot happening inside as well. For example, his heart is now pumping about 25 quarts of blood each day, and this amount will continue to increase as your baby continues to develop.”

my feet are hot, ew.

I left work a little early so the dogs wouldn’t need to be alone for the entire 8 hours. Adam is up in Monmoth visiting Jeff in his pimp new RD apartment. Now I’ve placed the fans strategically in the windows and am waiting for the inside temperature to drop and meet the outside temperature. 11 degrees to go.

The belly bump must be getting more obvious because the clients where I work have started asking about it. I have successfully avoided the question or changed the subject 3 times now, but I think eventually they will catch on that I’m not answering them. I won’t mind them knowing, but they are especially good at using anything they know about you against you when they’re mad. so I’m imagining something along the lines of, “You’re just taking my points because your pregnant!!!” hahahahahaha. Funny girls.

I’m getting so much good practice at being the bad cop, I’ll be set for the teenage years, now I guess I should get some experince with a child under the age of 14. If your 6 month old won’t stop crying you just tell them to go to their room and take their ipod and cell phone right?

Today we went and saw 4 houses. One was a surprise duplex, we had a good laugh with the realtor about that one. One was in a cute neighborhood, but the layout was terrible. I think they had added on a bunch of rooms so you kept turning corners and going up and down single steps and popping out into new spaces, awkward. One had a fantastic garden, but no grass, so not dog friendly, plus it already had an offer and we don’t want to have a bid war.

We saw one we like a lot. It’s on a panhandle lot, which I guess means it’s a lot behind someone else house, so pretty far off the street. It has a gravel drive that goes down past someones house, then you pop out in front of the house. It’s on a really small lot, but the house in brand new, with great fixtures and such. The drawbacks are that it’s on a small lot, only has one garage, and is on a panhandle. It’s been on the market for 4 months, so it might be hard to resell, and none of those factors are things we can change. So we’d have to decide if a different market might make it easier to resell, and if we could offer a much lower price then they are asking. Luckily we don’t have to rush anything about it.

Tomorrow we help with the middle school group at church. Then I’ve got work at 3.