Yucky Day

Well the cold bug has hit our house now. Timothy had been coughing for the past week and over the weekend it turned into the runny nose and fever and fussiness and then Sunday I began to feel the sore throat coming on and now I've got the coughing and runny nose and fever so we're in full swing here! I did take him to the doctor just to make sure it was just a cold and nothing more serious since the cough had lasted for over a week. She said he looked fine and we just had to wait it out. So here were are...I stayed home from work today because I assumed his babysitter didn't want him infecting her or any of the other children she keeps and I didn't want to be at work with a fever and a cold. I'm trying to get as much done as I can on my lap top at home, but I just don't feel like working at the moment. We had our month end closing last week so I've finished up all of my financial statements and I'm taking a "my baby is still sleeping and I don't feel like thinking right now" break.

I know I complain about my job and I've said I'm looking for a new one, but perhaps you're wondering why. Aside from the fact that I work 4 10 hour days and don't get home until almost 7pm every night and I have to leave my baby 4 days a week, I absolutely hate what I do. I have no idea why I majored in accounting and I wish I would have thought this whole career thing out a little better when I was young and in college and didn't have a whole lot of responsibility. They really should have provided better career counseling. I would have majored in something that allowed me more time at home, like teaching or something? My manager is a complete jerk. He has no family, has never been married, has no children and he's probably in his 50's and he lives by himself in an apartment and his whole life is all about his job. His boss is the same way. She's married but has no family and doesn't understand children. So I'm 0 for 2 there, I'm the only one in my department with a baby, the next youngest child is like 12 so she can stay at home by herself and she's in school all day. So I get comments about how my family interferes too much with my job and it's not their problem that I have a family and my boss even had the audacity to make a negative comment about the (two 15 minute) breaks I take to pump every day. They are so not family friendly. I don't see why it's such a problem, I get my work done on time every month. Apparently that's not good enough. So it's completely a hostile work environment and I'm so stressed because of it and I really just need to get out. It's not healthy for myself or my family. I was talking to the girl that cuts my hair last night (I love my new haircut, thanks Drew!) and she told me I need to get out before I go crazy and throw something at my boss...that time is coming faster than he realizes!

But enough of that, just wanted to make it clear why I hate my job so much, it's not that I'm picky or lazy, it's just a really really bad situation. I still haven't packed much of anything, my mom's coming over in a little bit to bring me newspapers so I can pack up my dishes and she's going to go in the basement for me to get the rest of my boxes so I can pack. For those of you that don't know, our house is 100 years old and the basement really scares me. Brandon is the one that goes down there (thank goodness because that's where the washer and dryer are so he does our laundry), but my mom will go down there too, which is good because I've packed all the boxes that are up here and I need more! We may be able to get into the house to move in some new couches tomorrow, I really hope we can...we have no where to put them in here!

Timothy is doing fine with the exception of being sick. He's started to move a little when he's standing and holding on to the furniture. He was actually pushing a chair around the other day, walking and holding onto it. But he mostly just wants to stand there and bang on whatever he's holding onto. He has cut his front two bottom teeth, I can't wait for them to grow in all the way, they're just little stubs now, but they are so cute! We gave him some Orajel for the first time on Sunday and he was so funny with it. He kept sticking his tongue out, like he was trying to figure out what was going on in there! I can't believe he's practically 7 and 1/2 months old, time flies...we've completely finished Christmas shopping with the exception of a pair of shoes for Timothy and our mom's gifts which I have to finish making. It's a nice feeling to have all of that done and over with! Only like 20 more days til Christmas, I can't wait!!

Well I should go, he's starting to move around and I should probably get a little more work done before he wakes up. Pray for us to get better quickly, I hate being sick and I hate even more that he's sick. Not good timing with Brandon going out of town and having to pack up and move! But we'll get through it, it can only get better :)