Week 33: Good & Bittersweet Times

Last week flew by, but here we go with photo updates starting Thursday since not much else happened earlier except that it rained like crazy on Tuesday...and of course my lovely Hubs turned 34 on Wednesday!  I gave him a present from Leif-dress shoes for his CAS Awards night...but of course, they turned out to be almost exactly the same as his other dress shoes, so he's going to return them soon and we'll do some hiking shoe shopping.  :)

Thursday, February 18

Co-worker Kyle had his going away lunch on Thursday.  He's the one who had my position then moved over to the Assistant to the Chair position.  He's a really sweet guy and super knowledgable-I'm going to miss him!

Lunch at Acapulco close to our university-Kyle is all the way at the end; I'm there two seats to the right. 

And that day I was super tired and out of it; I took a Benadryl on top of it all because my allergies were haywire, and that didn't help.  Of course my interview for Kyle's position was at 2:30pm-pretty much soon after lunch.  Food did help wake me up, but I was honestly out of it for the interview-especially since I knew the panel (which Kyle was on too, haha).  I blanked on one question mid-way and am unsure if I answered it correctly, but I did something right...I was told the next day I got the job!  Woohoo!

Friday, February 19

Some of the staff went to lunch once more to say goodbye to Kyle, and we took a staff photo before he left:

Over half of these lovely faces are student assistants and we're missing one other staff person.  I'm huge, right?

I was a little stressed that day because 1. I was trying to train my student assistant on my position while 2. Learning how to do Kyle's job in oh, about half an hour.  It was nuts.  I still am unsure on a lot of things, but good thing I'm a quick learner.  They asked for me to start the following Monday, but I can't do anything until I get the phone call from HR...

That night we celebrated Hubs' birthday since it was in the middle of the week...I invited our friend Daryl over, and we had a nice time.  It was SO cute-I lit Hubs' candles on the cake, and Leif blew them out immediately.  At least he knows what to do now!

My sweet boy loves cake.  Who doesn't?!

Happy 34th birthday Hubs!

Our friend Daryl enjoying cake too.  :)

After Leif went to bed, we just ordered pizza and watched South Park.  Fun Friday evening...but of course Hubs had to pass out earlier than later.  Darn his dairy problem.

Saturday, February 20

CAS Awards Night!

First we thought we should bring Miles to the dog park so that he wouldn't be so crazy with the babysitter.

Miles making new friends.

When we arrived to the dog park, Leif was passed out-but he woke up a little later and came out to see the pups with daddy (daddy is a trooper and stays in the car with Leif as he naps!).  He traded daddy his hat for sunglasses.  :)

We got home way later than we wanted to, and it was a mad dash to try and get ready while watching Leif.  Hubs let me get a head start, and we should have had our babysitter come earlier so that we could get ready easier...but the driver they sent for us was nice and patient.  We were 20 minutes late out the door, and we could have taken our time-the car was sent at 3:15pm, the event didn't start until 5:30pm and that was just cocktail hour.  We left the house around 3:40pm, got to the hotel at 4:45pm, and had to kill SO much time-we didn't know anyone there and so we meandered around for quite a while.

Pretty hotel!

Look at my huge bump!

Handsome Hubs.  :)

In the cocktail room, they had this harpist play.    

Beginning of cocktail hour-this place was way more packed right before the event.

Decided to grab a drink for Hubs/water for me at the bar-cheaper than the cocktail room!

We finally loaded into the main event-they had this Irish band play which was fun.

Beautiful location!

Selfies :)

Good luck Hubs!

Yay!

No need to choose, they just give you surf and turf!  We were all trying to figure out what that yellow thing was on our plate-turned out to be a weird little squash.

We didn't realize it until he got up, but Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad/Malcolm in the Middle was sitting at the table in front of us the whole time!  He was honoring Director Jay Roach.

Ed Asner presented the last award of the night, and he gave such a pervy little speech about how the movie Up got him laid more than ever.  LOL.  I don't know the lady next to him, but he kept staring at her boobs the whole time.  Good times.

Hubs unfortunately didn't win-his team lost to Game of Thrones, which I thought was BS because they should have separated the categories into Drama/Comedy and Action.  Better Call Saul was up against Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead!  No fair.  Next time though-I'm sure he'll be back!

The Awards ran long and we didn't get home until 11:45pm.  Apparently Leif was very good with the babysitter...I'm sure Miles was worse than him.

Sunday, February 21

We went out for breakfast that morning, and we believe the world is trying to teach us a lesson about going out to eat.  We put our name down for a table, they said it would be around 5 minutes, and the next thing I see is other people getting called to sit that came after us.  Hubs didn't want me to make a big deal, but I'm glad I went and checked because they had crossed our name out for some reason!  Then we asked for a booster seat, never came (we are so bad luck with booster seats!).  We ordered Leif's food before ours, and it came after our food.  Good thing the food was good, because we were getting very grumpy.  Oh, and Leif fell out of his booster seat and onto the floor (we had to ask the manager for it finally, but bad choice)...that scared us big time.  To top it all off, this Lexus SUV parked so close to our car that Hubs could barely get the door open.  Seriously people?!  Rough start.

Hubs then went over to Daryl's house to watch NASCAR/update our Xbox (no internet is wearing thin), and after Leif and I took a nap (oh yes-he was asleep on our way home and managed to stay asleep thanks to Hubs), we played most the afternoon.

He sure loves Buzz Lightyear.  What do you think -Buzz Hovland?  lol.

And there's your update.  As you previously saw my bump, I'm so huge I'm surprised I'm not toppling over.  I can't believe I have six more weeks to go!  By the way, I learned that if you show up to an Awards Night pregnant, you get more compliments and congrats than if you weren't pregnant.  So that was fun!  Lots of really gorgeous ladies would come up and say how beautiful I was, and men would congratulate me.  It was weird, but very uplifting considering I felt so huge.

We will see how February wraps up-I'm just trying to stay sane at work as yesterday I had very stern phone calls/emails, all because I was told to do something by my predecessor...for example, I needed to switch copiers out of the office across the hall into my office to do stapled programs and asked about computer switching when I take over.  The Dean's Office called and said that was a job for someone else (who I CC'd-but I was told to contact them in the first place) and that I'm not officially over there until HR calls me so I can't worry about that yet.  Sounds harmless but you should have heard this lady.  Then I get a parking pass request from a faculty member for the day of and even though I was forwarded an email from Kyle with the same kind of request and kind reply, I got a stern "we will try to accommodate your request but we need parking requests turned in 24 hours in advance".  Kyle didn't get that notification!  WTF.  So yeah, rough start yesterday.  I know Hubs was struggling at work yesterday too.  Damn Mondays.

On top of all of this, I'm still having trouble breathing-I think it's allergies still, but it could be a cold; I don't have a headache and generally feel fine, I just have a stuffed up nose and sore throat when I wake up.  And I refuse to rely on my benadryl as it makes me even sleepier than I am!  Sorry to be so whiny...I just haven't had a "perfect" day in a while where I feel rested, work is good, I can breathe and Leif behaves.  Is that too much to ask for?!  Haha.

Okay, back to the grindstone.  Hope everyone else is having a lovely day!