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I wouldn't typically use this as a forum to bitch about work but an unnamed fellow employee in an unnamed office in the State of Florida pissed me off. I had a simple request for him to send a junior level staff member to a client safety meeting that I would provide billable time for and he totally copped an attitude with me. Stating "what is in it for me" and when we resolved the issue and I told him another person from another office was going to go, he in turn sent a snide email back. Total rudeness.
Big news, some might already know. We went to Denver a few weekends ago to visit my brother-in-law and my in-laws drove up from Omaha to meet us. It was a great trip. Good time with family and great weather. The purpose of our trip was two fold, to visit family and to consider relocation. I looked into transferring with my company and we took a real hard look on whether we still wanted to live there. Long story short, we aren't moving, at least not right now. The housing market is considerably higher than here in Charlotte and if we wanted to buy the same house we have now it would be 3-4 times more expensive in Denver. Secondly, the opportunity to transfer isn't there right now. Lastly (the biggest reason I think), the trip allowed us to take a step back and really evaluate what we are missing in Charlotte that we think Denver will give us, and yes Denver puts us closer to family but we have a good life here. I think if we were being handed a transfer on a silver platter this post would be different, but since we aren't we are content to stay in Charlotte and continue to build our life. We have some great friends, good jobs, a house we love all right here. We just need to figure out how to make the distance between our families smaller through technology and yearly visits. We are at a good place with our decision.
Since we decided to stay in Charlotte, we are considering selling our home for an upgrade next year. I know I just said we love our house, which we do but we can't say the same thing about the neighborhood. Jeremy got a great deal on some new kitchen cabinets so he is in the middle of a remodel project, 2 weeks before a 1st birthday party mind you. Nothing like a little pressure to get a project done. I'll do a separate post when we are done.
Update on Holden. We have a bottom tooth poking through. I suspect there are more coming in the near future. Thanks to Stacey, Motrin is a life saver. Also, Jeremy and I are in a battle to see if "da da" or " ma ma" is going to win out. He says both but we aren't 100% convinced that he puts recognition to the words. I think I might be winning though, last night I got home late so I didn't get to see Holden before he went to bed. I went and checked on him around 10:30 and he stirred. I tried to sneak out of the room but he must have woke up and saw me because he started crying. I went back in after a couple minutes and he was standing up in the crib, crying and saying "ma ma". We will see if he repeats it before I declare victory. Lastly, he is recognizing "kitty", if we ask him to go get the kitties he goes right for Moe or Homer. Its pretty funny. We started weening Holden onto whole milk and its going great so far. Our strategy is 3/4 formula, 1/4 milk this week; 1/2 of each next week; 3/4 milk 1/4 formula in week 3 and straight milk by the 4th week. Daycare is doing the same thing so we are consistent and so far so good.
I had a really strange dream last night that Jeremy took a 2nd wife (a girl I didn't care for in high school at that) and it caused major problems for me. And somewhere in the dream she dressed Holden up like a girl with pigtails. Strange. I guess I have been watching way to much Big Love.
Lastly, Lent has started today and I decided to sacrifice my Diet Coke for 40 days. Its going to be hard. But I am also trying to cut out high fructose corn syrup from our diet, here is a good article about why, and cut down our T.V. time. I think we need to get our T.V. time to about 2 hours a night so we don't set a bad example for Holden as he gets older. I think I'm going to have a hard time convincing Jeremy of this one.
OK enough rambling for now, here is a great photo of Holden exploring the snow we got last weekend in Charlotte.
3 comments:
I tried convincing Lucas to cut back on TV for Lent, too, but he just laughed at me. We don't watch much while Lincoln's awake, but I'm sure we'd be a lot more productive in the evenings if we weren't sucked into so much TV. Also, glad the switch to milk is going well! Lincoln has been sick, so we've put the process on hold. The method you are using sounds good--if I wouldn't have to pump, I would totally use that. No desire to pump at this point (plus, I bet I'd hardly get anything...). I found warming the milk helped a bit. Maybe when he is better, he'll forget he didn't like it :)
I love the rambling post! And I am not so secretly happy you are staying in Charlotte :-) I've also heard for teething if you run a frozen spoon back and forth over the spot where the tooth is coming in it will help it pop out faster. Cameron hates cold stuff so I couldn't try it with her. But motrin is a must! We've introduced milk to Cameron in her sippy cup at dinner and sometimes lunch or breakfast. Daycare won't give her milk until a year so we have some time to migrate her bottles entirely. My bigger concern is cutting back on bottles themselves and going just with table/jarred food and sippy cups. I seriously don't want to deal with that level of change! It's been far too long since we saw you...let me know if my Jeremy can help with the kitchen remodel.
I think you should claim victory. :)
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