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guess where i spent my day today? well, most of it was spent at the rockdale hospital emergency room.. last night around 1:30am i started feeling really, really sick to my stomach and wallowed in self pity until i finally got mega ill around 3:45am. that progressed on to a fever and such painful stomach cramps that i went to the ER, as i thought something might be terribly, horribly wrong.
nothing really wrong - just your average gastric flu. blergh. the good things is that we had to wait SO long to be seen that by the time we left, i felt pretty decent. hopefully i'm over the worst of it. ick. not a very nice way to spend the day - andrew, as always, was a gem - any man that will clean up my sick and rub my back when i think i'm dying and sit in an uncomfortable chair in the hospital for nine hours is definitely a keeper. thanks, andrew. xx
today we threw a birthday party for mary catherine and two of her friends here in georgia. i've written about this group before - short story, my mom worked with two other women who have daughters my age. all three daughters were pregnant at the same time and the three girls at the right were born within three weeks of each other. when we visit for christmas every year, we always get together with the entire group to celebrate.
this year we had a princess party - and all three got to wear their cinderella dresses and it was so funny. amazingly, they each had a different version of cindy's dress. too funny. pictures from our trip thus far, can be found here.
ahh - back home after our 24 hours of not being parents and having to answer to constant calls for mummy and daddy. we had a lovely time - i'd recommend the w atlanta, definitely. it was a very trendy hotel - a tad bit shabby in a way i can't put my finger on. fantastic staff - the couples in room massage was glorious and i wish i could have it done more often. you know, like once a week.
everyone else has gone to bed - and here's me. totally awake. thanks a billion diet coke, you caffeinated beverage from satan. have mercy - when did i get old enough to be affected by caffeine? uh - hello?
anyway - so i'm wired, everyone else is asleep and well, umm.. yeah. at least i have my new powerbook to keep me company. seriously - it just feels gorgeous under my fingers. the screen resoluation is so much nicer than my old powerbook's. i haven't fully decided what to name it - but most likely i will call it the death star, which is what my other powerbook was called.
see, i married a man who names his computers after the planets in star wars. ever hear of anything geekier? isn't that totally sweet? so when i brought machines to our relationship, i fell in line with his tradition. although, he claims that the death star wasn't a planet. i say it's round, it floats in space, i'm not as nerdy as he is, therefore if i say it's a planet - hey, it's a planet.
while i say i'm not as geeky as he is - i have to admit whenever i get a gadget, i name it in the star wars tradition. so my mobile is C3P0 and my bluetooth headset? yeah, you guessed it R2D2. my digital camera? jawa. my ipod shuffle? boba.
andrew doesn't name anything other than machines - so i guess i technically, maybe, possibly am a little nerdy.
okay - i'm going to go upstairs and attempt to get some sleep. fingers x'd.
for christmas, andrew gave me a fabulous evening at a posh hotel .... we're enjoying that now. so hello from the w hotel atlanta. so far, we've had a fantastic time. we were upgraded to a suite and just had glorious massages in our room.
another really cool point is that i'm writing from my new computer. today i bought a new mac powerbook - it's really really nice and i'm already in love.
okay, back to my regularly scheduled relaxation..
doesn't get better..
Here I sit typing - well, trying to, with Mary Catherine sitting backwards on my lap facing me. This is, of course, preferable to her sitting facing the keyboard and helping me type. I say helping me, I mean pressing every key she can.
We had a pretty uneventful flight across the Atlantic and Christmas day seemed to last forever. Well, I mean - we did gain five hours thanks to the time difference. We opened all of our presents, except Mary Catherine - who, like last year, seems to be taking a few days to get them all open and played with. Fine with me.
I'm sure I'll write more when I can - but for now, suffice it to say that I've already had 24 hours straight with my family and I'm so happy about it that I have better things to do than type. You know, things like playing dress up, eating homemade food, taking jacuzzi baths with too much bubble bath and the like. Merry Christmas everyone!
Pictures coming soon!
Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring-ting-tinglying-tooo... (those are the words, n'est pas?)
Tomorrow is the children's party at work - I bet the place is going to be manic. Mary Catherine is very excited about it and so am I, as I will have a chance to see my very first pantomime. I think it's 'the Jungle Book'.
We are in no way, shape or form packed and ready to go to the States. But we are all having haircuts tomorrow and I suppose that is a step in the right direction. Too much to think about - so much so, that I can only see myself putting it all off until the last minute, because that's when it's going to get done anyway. How's that for faulty logic?
We had a run in this evening with one of the more unsavoury characters in our building - he's really horrible and every time you try and speak to him, he just keeps talking until you get so seriously pissed off that you just want the conversation to be over. I seriously detest him - how's that for some Christmas spirit? Thank goodness he's just a renter and not an owner. Ugh. Truly dreadful.
I just took a quiz on line and it said that I was 46% rebel and 54% yankee. I don't quite know what to say, other than I feel that I am being penalised for speaking properly. so there.
Sorry for the ramblings!
T minus 2 days left to work and counting.....
Firstly, I don't know Amy who belongs to the stocking at the right - I just liked the photo. I finally made it to a Christmas Carol rehearsal this afternoon, after missing the first one last week. See, I've volunteered to sing with a group here at work to raise money for our charity of the year.
So, I merrily go along thinking it'll be, you know, like 'hey, let's sing a few carols..' Uh - it was more like, 'hey, let's sing about 20 carols a cappella just for fun.. oh and in four part harmony!'
It's been a while since I've done any sight singing and I was always horrible at way back when I belonged to choirs you had to audition to be in.. So, gee - tomorrow, I'll be lip syncing a few of the tunes! Either that or finding my musical way to the melody!
Alright, I admit it. Saying I was going to the gym this morning was a very lofty goal. Considering that I didn't get to bed until 1:30 last night there was no way I was going to sweat it out with the masses this morning. Fuhgeddaboudit.
We're seeing Andrew's family this weekend for our Christmas with them. I'm pleased with the gifts we're giving people this year - we thought about some of them long and hard and have tried to do more than just a gift voucher in an envelope. I think they'll like them.
My brain is very, very tired this morning - so I will spare you mindless dribble!
On the work front, not really what I was expecting. I said that I had no expectations, but I suppose I did in the back of my mind. But hey, you know - I'm terribly pleased to have a job that I love and who knows, maybe next year will be my year. So there.
Tonight is my old department's Christmas party. It's black tie and I'm worried my outfit will not pass muster. We've just had a champagne reception to celebrate promotions and I've had maybe half a glass. I can already feel it - that's a disgrace! Where my alcoholic self has gone, is beyond me.
I do not plan on drinking this evening and oddly, I'm even planning on going to the gym tomorrow morning. I'm so weird.
Tomorrow is a big day around the tiny little company I work for. BIG day. It's been very interesting watching the run up to this time. Apparently things are going to slow down after tomorrow and there will be a lot of champagne flowing in the afternoon. Fingers crossed that I have good reason to celebrate as well.
Tomorrow evening is my old department's Christmas party. It's black tie. I feel like I'll look more like black bin liner than black tie! I don't do formal very well. Suffice it to say that for fun I will be wearing my festive red glitter shoes.
We're a mere week and a half from our trip home to the States - I SO can not wait. I am ready to relax and enjoy being around those I love.
For fun, Andrew and I are ditching our parental responsibilities for 24 hours and shacking up in a posh, swanky hotel one night. We splurged on a room with a view, big bath and a living room. I think we're going to go out, but I'm so tempted to just get take away and stay in - some party animal I am, huh?
I went to the gym today. Not too exciting, but I did manage 15 minutes on the bike without much knee pain. I also broke a sweat, I mean - I was exercising! It's so strange! Today is the first day that I've not walked with a marked limp, so I think that all the exercises I've been doing are really helping.
On Friday it was so painful, I thought I was going to have to start using my crutches again - so I very much welcome having an easier time.
We had a nice weekend - didn't do much but go to Christmas parties. They were both nice. Oh - there were other children at the one we visited on Saturday and Mary Catherine went with the others upstairs and we hardly saw her the entire three hours we were there! She would amble downstairs every now and again to have a nibble of food and check we were still there, but otherwise ... it was so very strange.
I actually was at a bit of a loss without her by my side. Normally I tend to do social activities with about half my brain and use the other half to pay attention to Mary Catherine and tend to her needs/demands. I am quite capable of carrying on a social conversation while talking to her at the same time. But on Saturday, I didn't have to and it made me realise that I've gotten so comfortable in the role of WonderMother that I've sort of forgotten what it's like to be on my own in an adult conversation.
It was like a part of me was missing and I didn't enjoy it very much at all!
Yesterday morning, I went to the gym at work for my first workout. well, i say workout - i joined mainly to rehabilitate my knee. so i spent 15 minutes on the exercise bike as instructed by my physio, broke a sweat and then went to have a shower and get ready for work in the women's changing room.
Now, I'm not a shy person. My years in the theatre got rid of any trace of modesty changing around others. However, it's one thing to be stripping off to do a quick change, it's another to casually stroll around and talk business while starkers, don't you think?
I keep fearing that I'll see one of those women and my first reaction won't be 'oh there's so and so from 'x' department' - but more like, 'oh I know what her boobs look like'. Oy vey.
Newborn baby registered for school
"The parents of a newborn baby were claiming a place in the record books today - after registering her for a popular primary school when she was only two hours old.
Baby Rhea's name was put on the waiting list for a place at Lytchett Matravers primary school in Dorset, soon after she was born on November 29 2005.
Her father, Michael Moors, 27, called his sister to have her register his daughter with the school straight after she made her entrance into the world.
Rhea's mother, Emma Moors, 25, said: "It happened so quick. She was born at 1.12pm and my sister-in-law was down there at 3.15pm.
"It is such a good school that we just wanted to get her in. The competition is very tough for that school...." full story here.
I am not surprised by this story one bit and the amount of worrying I've been doing about Mary Catherine's schooling makes me wish I'd put her on the list for our top choice sooner! She was actually on the list for her nursery school when I was three months pregnant, so it doesn't feel abnormal.
Yesterday we had an informal meeting/play at our top choice school that we're hoping she'll get into for next September. It was nice to see the school again - we'd been to an open day back in October. This time it was nice to see it during a school day. Fingers crossed that we'll get in for next September. I really like the school and have a nice feeling when we're there, like we'll be a good fit.
It did feel a little strange that we were there with a lot of nannies and their charges, who are also trying for a place. The school is a private one and there are obviously pupils there who have much different lives than ours. It will be interesting, I'm sure.
I'm actually toying with the idea of looking for a nanny to take care of Mary Catherine in the two to three hour gap after school and before Andrew and I get off work every day. It's an idea in its infancy, but who knows. Thinking about all this stuff just really makes my brain hurt.
What I'd really like is to be independently wealthy, give up my job and stay home with Mary Catherine as much as I could whilst still allowing her to be socialised with other children. Oh and I'd also like world peace and a cure for cancer while I'm wishing.
Speaking of wishes - the Christmas season is upon us! Just in case any of Santa's elves are reading.. I wouldn't mind this bag from Cath Kidston!
So I'm back in the proverbial saddle here at work. Since I worked from home all last week, it's been like any other day. Nothing much to report really. We had a very nice weekend spent with friends old and new. More later.
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