Week 35/36: One Month Today!

Alright folks, today marks ONE MONTH until Baby H's arrival!  They should have Advent Calendars for one month before, not starting on December 1.

Weekend was nice; but let's start with Friday and how frustrated I was at work.  Every time I have had to complete a schedule for the music department's classes, I have now had to use a different form every time.  No biggie, just transferring the same information into a different Excel file every time.  But every time I submit these forms, they ALWAYS come back riddled with errors as someone else enters the same data into a different form.  I swear our school is behind the times...but anyway, so I'm now having to enter in data into drop-boxes, so instead of just typing, I have to click on EVERY single box in this file, which means clicking "MUS" for every class (which is the only option they give me anyway), click each class number, click how many credits, click what type of class it is, click the name, click the teacher, click the time, etc. etc.  Well, let's say there are classes missing.  And class numbers missing.  And rooms.

So I tell the registrar's office this, and they correct it.  I start over because they want me to use the updated form.  But then something else is missing.

I do the same thing, and lo and behold, 10 CLASSES ARE MISSING.  So then I start over a NEW form.  Again.

I've been filling/refilling this form over the course of a few days.  I'm taking a break from it now because I'm so frustrated-I'm going to submit what I have with notes on the side of everything that is missing.  Just know I'm thankful that I will be on maternity leave when these proofs come back, because I know the form will be riddled with more errors, just like usual.  Not my problem soon...

Sorry, that was a long work tangent, but that was me Friday (and today).  The nice thing was my chair was on vacation and my old chair took off early and said if the other faculty members don't have anything for me to do that I could take off early as well.  Yippee!

Friday night was uneventful, but hubby and I were baffled on how the weekend snuck up on us so quickly.  We celebrated with a trip to El Toritos, a restaurant we ate at when we went down to Disneyland (of course this was a lot closer).  Delicious dinner.  Afterwards hubby graciously accompanied me to Michael's to pick up materials to make our Christmas wreath, then we headed over to Babies R Us since we forgot to get a changing table pad.  Babies R Us/Toys R Us is one of the smartest stores.  They must rake in so much money, because a changing pad costs you $30, and you use it for only so much time.  Yes, it will help if you have multiple kids, but the life span is still pretty short.  Then the changing pad covers-holy smokes-$15-$17!  Seriously, a sheet that fits over the pad that your baby will most likely pee/poop on?  Nonsense.  I need to really learn how to sew/get a sewing machine.

Saturday we took Miles to the dog park which wasn't as exciting as it usually is.  Then we took a walk around Lake Balboa, close to the dog park.  I used to take Coltrane there all the time since it's about 20 minutes away from our old place.  Lots of birds flock there, and strange enough, weird people, but what can you do.

I wasn't sure what type of birds these were, but they kept their wings open and flashing as if it was a mating thing.  Or a gang thing.

Later that afternoon I worked on our wreath, and voila!

Simple yet holiday-ish.  :)

Hubby got tired early, which made me sleepy, so we turned in early.  Might as well catch up on sleep as much as possible now, right?

Sunday after watching a little bit of football, we took Miles to the closer dog park which was boring since he really didn't find a special dog friend to play with.  After an hour or so I went and got groceries at TJs while hubby took Miles to Petco next door.  TJs was a mad house filled with surprisingly a lot of old people.  But I survived.  : )

Sunday afternoon/evening consisted of taking Miles for a walk around the block, Target run, laundry and dinner.  Not super exciting but got a lot accomplished.  Mr. Miles was a very sleepy pup though.

He briefly fell asleep on hubby while standing on him.  It was precious.

Today towards the end of work I have another rehearsal with the choir for the Christmas concerts, but the composer will be there which makes me a little nervous seeing how I'm a classical musician trying to play a "gospel" tune.  Wish me luck!