My poor Mummy

My mom just got some upsetting news. I mentioned earlier that she has to re-apply for her job since it is only for an 8 month contract, so she has to reapply every year. Well, there is absolutely no reason to have thought she wouldn’t get the job again since she does an excellent job, the students say things like she’s the best prof at the university, she was nominated for a teaching award, etc. Well apparently this has caused some jealousy within the department since she’s new and already being nominated for awards; some profs go their whole career without that. So, a couple people in the department have started making allogations towards her, accusing her of tampering with her application after it was submitted or something like that. Which of course, she didn’t do. They are also saying the university where she’s doing her PhD is not prestigious enough. They are just grasping at straws since they don’t want her to be hired. This is only 2 people out of the department, everyone else absolutely loves her. So, I think she should still be okay, but the allegation of her tampering with her application is very serious, it will have to go through the whole investigation process.

I feel so badly for her. Her interview is today at 2pm. I hope it goes well and she doesn’t let this stuff affect it! So, I’m sure she’ll want to vent for our whole walk, and I’ll let her. She can vent the whole time and then when CT and I go over there for dinner, we’ll give her our happy news, which I’m sure will pick up her spirits and cheer her up. I’m sure it will be exactly what she needs to be able to focus on something else.

Stupid university politics! I wish they would just hire the best person for the job and not let people’s own insecurities get in the way!

Is there a cloud 10?

Because cloud 9 just doesn’t seem to cut it! I am completely over-the-moon excited that CT are expecting a baby! We have been planning this for awhile. Pretty much ever since we got married, we decided we’d start trying within a year of getting married. I really wanted to get my P.Eng. before getting pregnant, and that’s what happened!

I am absolutely bursting to tell my mom our news!!! I only have to wait until tomorrow evening though, yay! Only 1 more sleep! I know she’ll be SUPER excited since she has made comments pretty much since the wedding that she is really looking forward to being a grandma. I’m not sure if she’ll scream with glee or start crying with joy. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow ;)

I’m going for a walk with my mom tomorrow afternoon, so I am going to have to make sure that she talks the whole time so that I’m distracted. I’m sure that won’t be a problem since you all know how much my mom likes to talk ;) I just hope she doesn’t suspect anything by looking at me (CT says I have been ‘glowing’ in the last few days). It’s very important to me that I not tell her until dinner tomorrow when the family is together and we give her the present, so I’ll just have to hide it for the hour I spend with her tomorrow afternoon.

Heard from the docs office

I just got the call. Which is kind of ironic because I just posted that it looks like I wasn't getting the call today (so I promptly deleted that post).

They said the results came back that I am pregnant, but very early on. Which of course, I knew since I wasn't officially late until yesterday! So, they want me to come back next Tuesday to have my bloodwork run again to make sure that my HcG levels are rising (that's the hormone that is present in pregnancy and it doubles every couple of days in early pregnancy).

So, this is good news!!! Time to celebrate! Oh, and it's my half birthday today! I am exactly 27.5 years old today! What a nice half birthday present!

Bloodwork - check!

My doctor’s office called and turns out I don’t need an appointment to get the pregnancy confirmed. I just show up at the office and they send me for the bloodwork. So, I went today at lunch. I will get the results likely tomorrow, Thursday at the latest. I would be very shocked if it came back negative since I had 3 positive pregnancy tests, but it will be nice to have it confirmed!

I will of course post as soon as I get the results!

Digital test results

After tossing and turning for a couple hours, I finally got out of bed around 4:30am this morning to do the digital test. I guess I was just too excited to sleep! I woke up CT to let him know I was doing the test. So, I went and peed on the stick and then brought it back so CT and I could see the results together. The result showed up after about a minute and it said “Pregnant”!!!!! We are both absolutely thrilled! I only got about a half hour of sleep after that before my alarm went off, so it wasn’t a good night sleep-wise. But I’m too happy to care! ;)

I called my doctor this morning (they weren’t open yet, but I didn’t want to call from work for obvious reasons) to see if I can get an appointment to have the pregnancy confirmed. I should hopefully hear back later this morning to see if I can get in this week. I am not too concerned though, we now have 3 positive pregnancy tests, so I am pretty confident that I’m pregnant! Very rarely is there a false positive, and we have 3 positives in a row now for the last 3 days.

Based on several online due date calculators, the baby would be due during the first week of February. So exciting! We went to Babies R Us last month when we officially began trying to conceive and we bought 2 “I love gramdma” bibs to give our mothers when we tell them our news (I guess we were planning ahead since the nearest babies r us is an hour away). So, we’re telling my parents the good news on Friday evening and CT’s parents on Sunday afternoon! I can’t wait! I really wanted to tell my mom before Saturday since she and I are spending the entire day together on Saturday and I wouldn’t be able to keep this secret from her. We are going shopping in Toronto and then to see Dirty Dancing.

I really wasn’t expecting this to happen so fast! It was only our second month trying! I am so happy that it did happen when it did though, I think a February baby will be absolutely perfect!

Some potentially big news

I think I may be pregnant!

I have taken a couple pregnancy tests and they came back positive. With faint lines, but the one this morning was a lot darker than the one yesterday morning. I bought a digital test and I’ll take that one tomorrow morning so that I can get a “pregnant” or “not pregnant” result instead of all this interpretation of faint lines. I am trying not to get my hopes up (good luck) until I see the word “pregnant”, but the instructions for the pregnancy tests I’ve taken so far basically say that even if the second line is faint, it’s still a positive result. I was using an “early response” test that can be used before your period is due, so that would explain the faint line; not as much of the hormone in my body as if I had waited a few more days. But, I still saw a line and it was definitely darker on today’s test than yesterdays, I wouldn’t even call today’s line faint. It’s not as dark as the “control” line, but definitely there!

So, I am VERY happy, I can hardly contain myself. I’m trying hard not to get ahead of myself until I have this confirmed though. If the digital test tomorrow morning is positive, I will call my doctor right away and hopefully I can get in this week to have it confirmed.

I love short work weeks!

It’s already Thursday; yay! This has been a bit of a slow week for me work-wise. I have had to wait for data from other people, so that’s not cool. I have what I was waiting for now, but they did the tables all wrong; sheesh! It’s the client, so it’s not as if I can complain to them. Just means my interp will take a little longer since they broke the data apart really strangely. Oh well.

Tonight, I am going out to a pub with some coworkers and a former coworker. I can only stay for an hour thought since I have a massage booked for tonight! I love my monthly massage!

So looking forward to the weekend! Saturday, CT and I are meeting nej at the zoo for some fun in the sun! Seems to be an annual thing, I make it to the zoo about once a year. At least it’s not supposed to be as hot as it was last time ;) It’s supposed to be about 20 degrees on Saturday and sunny, so just perfect. I’ll have to find my sunscreen!

Sunday, we have to study for our boating exam. We want to do the exam sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Cold weekend!

The weekend at the cottage was a cold one! When we got there, it was raining, which is never nice for crossing the lake. But, as soon as we got there, dad started a fire in the fireplace which was great. That really made the place cozy and dried us off. We were opening the cottage, so it actually was good weather for cleaning. So, we spent the weekend cleaning, playing games, eating, drinking, and lighting off roman candles. So, it was a good weekend nonetheless. And the bugs weren’t as bad as I was expecting.

So glad it’s a 4-day workweek!

Who am I jealous of?

CT! He just called me to tell me he’s already done work for the day. So, he worked a total of 2.5 hours today. I am SO JEALOUS! Oh well, I’m done at 3pm today, it just ticks me off that I work 40+ hours per week and he’s lucky if he gets to 30! Lucky duck!

I hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend! I know I am going to really enjoy the break…

In other news... As of tomorrow, I have been at my job for exactly 4 years!

How’s this for crazy…

I just called my doctor’s office to book my annual physical (I am due as of the end of May), and they are booking into July! Crazy! It’s a good thing I’m not on the pill anymore and don’t need a prescription refill! They had a couple openings on my week off in July, but since I want to spend most of that week at the cottage, I don’t want to have to come into town for an appointment. I would rather miss work, so I booked it for a work day ;)

My doctor only works 4 days a week and only 1:30-4:30pm, so I guess I can understand why she’s so booked up. And I’m sure if it was something of a more urgent nature, I could have gotten in earlier. It just surprised me! I’ll know for next year to call 2 months ahead of when my physical is due!

Well that’s done.

The drilling finished up today around noon. So, all in all, it didn’t take too much longer than I had hoped. If they had started drilling before 5pm on Monday, then it would have been done in 2 days for sure. Needless to say, we will NEVER be using this company again, it was a real pain to deal with them. And I wasn’t even the one out there with them! Apparently they had a VERY poor attitude and just complained about everything and really dragged out the work, which is not cool. So glad to have that all done!

I am really looking forward to Friday at 3pm because that’s when the long weekend officially starts for me, thanks to summer hours! Mom and I are going for a long walk after I’m done work on Friday. Then on Saturday morning, CT and I are heading up to the cottage until Monday. It will be a nice break! I think the black flies will be out, but I’m going to have fun anyway!

Speaking of the cottage, CT and I bought our very own boat. Which will be nice. CT’s father was selling it, and of course he let us have it for much cheaper. (actual price has yet to be determined, I have a feeling he may give it to us for free). The boat is nothing special, just a 12 foot aluminum boat with a 4.5 horsepower motor, but it will be perfect for the two of us to cruise around in and get back and forth to the cottage. It could fit up to 4 people or 2 people with luggage and supplies. We’re not sure if we’ll be able to get the boat up to the cottage this weekend since CT’s dad wants to fix it up a bit before giving it to us, but that’s okay. That will give us more time to get our boating license since you need it for any boats which are less than 13 feet. Strange rule, but oh well.

Misery loves company

I am having one of those days where I want to pull my hair out. Anyone ever work with geotech drillers? At one of the sites I manage, we are attempting to install 4 monitoring wells. We know the materials and the depths and only require split spoon sampling on 1 of the 4, so the other 3 are just straight installs. Should be easy, right? Think again! It is almost 4pm and they still have yet to START drilling! First, they showed up an hour late (supposed to be there at 10am, showed up at 11am). Then, they were all concerned they couldn’t get to the well location because of mud. You have a track mounted rig, buddy! Whatever, we move location slightly to accommodate. I have a feeling some of the problems we're experiencing with these drillers is the guy is 23 and has only been an operator for a month. Great.

Then they got their vehicles stuck in the mud going down an old logging road where they should have only taken their track mounted rig down, not their pick-up truck. So, I had to call the Township to get them to pull them out. That finally got all sorted out and they were all ready to start when they decided they didn’t feel comfortable drilling because of the presence of bears. Which I understand is a concern, there are bears in the area, but the noise of the drill rig in operation will scare away any bears! Give me a break. Well, they outright refused to start drilling unless we provided them with bear spray and an air horn. Our field staff only had 1 bear spray on them, so they ran into town to buy another one and the only store in town that sells bear spray sold the last one this morning. Perfect. So, I had to get our other field crew who was an hour away to drive to the site on their way home to drop off another bear spray. If we’re lucky, we’ll start drilling by 5pm and get maybe an hour or two at the most in today. GAH!

Just had to vent. Sometimes being a project manager is not all it’s cracked up to be. Because I spent half my day on the phone with our field staff and the client trying to get this all sorted out and in the end, it will get done, but likely severely over budget which I am accountable for!

Thank goodness for summer hours!

Starting on Monday, we are going on summer hours! Which means I’ll work 8.5 hours on Monday-Thursday and then 6 hours on Fridays to be done at 3pm. Which will be so nice! Mom and I are going to go for a long walk (1.5 - 2 hours) together most Friday afternoons throughout the summer, so that will be great! That should help me out with my new focus on upping my fitness level.

My other plan for getting back into shape is I’m going to take a beginner Pilates class. I think this might help me with my hip flexor problem, which is really holding me back right now. I had this problem 2 years ago, and it has crept back. So, I’m willing to give Pilates a try to see if that helps. Classes start on May 28th and will be Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30 and run for 8 weeks. Then I’ll assess whether it is helping me and decide whether I want to move on to level 2. The benefit of being in level 2 is I could take classes with my mom, which would be fun.

I submitted my vacation request for the summer, so I hope it’s approved. Since we had a very expensive year last year with the wedding and honeymoon and we have been spending a lot on the house lately, we don’t really want to spend the money on a huge trip this year (other than our weekend trip to Niagara Falls planned for our first anniversary). So, we’re going to spend 2 weeks at the cottage, 1 in July and 1 in August. I am really excited about this since last year I didn’t get to spend nearly as much time at the cottage as I would have liked.

Back to the grind

I had a fabulous 4 days off. Saturday, we worked in the basement cleaning up and getting rid of stuff. I always love the feeling that comes with de-cluttering. We also celebrated with my bro Thom who got a full-time job. Get this, the kid is 18 years old, has no education (not even highschool), no experience, and gets a job that has benefits and pension with a starting salary of $33,000! The job is working in a group-home type deal. Thom is such a go-getter, he’s already talking about saving money and buying a house and then renting out rooms to students to help with the bills. I have a feeling he will move out long before my other brother who is 4 years older than Thom.

Sunday, we didn’t do much and it was great! Monday, we went to Toronto to meet up with CT’s groomsmen from the wedding for dinner. Then CT and I went to see the wrestling event. We had AMAZING seats! 11th row and it was so awesome!!!!

Yesterday, I relaxed for the day and then mom and I walked down to WW, which was an hour walk. It felt good to get some exercise in.

Speaking of WW, I am sort of at a crossroads right now. I think all the celebrations and meals out lately have finally caught up to me because I gained 3.5 pounds this past week. Which I am sure is partly water retention, but it is depressing nonetheless. As of right now, I have been on WW for 15 weeks and have lost 3.5 pounds. Not the results I was hoping for. I am at the end of the pre-paid plan I paid for when I started, so I have to make a choice whether I want to continue with the meetings or not. I just don’t think it’s worth it to me to keep paying when this obviously isn’t working. I would rather put my money to try something else, like pilates or something. My mom has been going to pilates for the last few months and absolutely loves it. I think that would be something to help me out with my hip flexor problems since that has crept back again and is keeping me from being able to run.

I by no means want to give up. I just don’t think I want to continue to pay for the meetings when it is a constant disappointment. The weeks I lose, I feel great, but the weeks I gain, it totally depresses me and sometimes I end up crying when I get home from the meeting. And I have been gaining more often than not lately. Not something I want to put myself through anymore. I think I may even try to NOT weigh myself so often, I think I am driving myself nuts. I am also getting really sick of counting points. So, I may try the core plan for a bit on my own and see how that works out.

Can’t wait for my long, long weekend!

I am leaving today at 3pm since I have some extra hours for the week. And then I am outta here until 8am on Wednesday morning. Yay! Can’t wait until my 4 day weekend! I made myself a deal that if I leave early today, I have to exercise when I get home. So, I’m not going to let myself down! ;)

Tomorrow, we have some work around the house planned. We are replacing the door from the outside to the basement since it is in very rough shape and water is getting in. So, dad is ripping it out and putting a new door in. While the men are working on that, mom and I are taking a load or two to the dump. We have this “room of junk” that has been sitting in the basement since we moved in that we want to get rid of. It will feel so good to get rid of that stuff!

Sunday, we have no plans, but if it’s nice, I want to go for a long walk. And I’m sure we’ll play some Halo 3 too ;)

Monday, we are heading to Toronto in the afternoon to meet up with CT’s cousin Nuno and his wife as well as Josh (Carlos’ groomsmen from the wedding). We are meeting them for dinner and then CT and I are going to the ACC for Monday Night Raw. Should be a good show!

Tuesday, I have the day off too (trying to use up some of my OT). CT will have to work, but he doesn’t start until 11am. So, I will have the afternoon to myself to go for a long walk with my mom and do whatever I want! Should be a fabulous weekend!

EDIT 2:45 pm

Also, tomorrow is Zeke's 7th birthday! Hard to believe I've had him for that long! He doesn't even have 100,000 km on him yet, but he will after the weekend since he's at 99,800+ right now.