Oh stress, how I've missed the...

Warning: This blog may be bitchy, read as your own risk!

Well, I'm just having a really bad week, and I'm so happy that I'm have a nice long weekend ahead of me. Oh wait, no I don't...I have to work on Sunday, crap. Just a reminder to read the warning label above this blog before continuing on below :) Like I said, I'm having a bad week.

We will start this blog out on a good note. Harrison is doing great! He finally started really crawling the other day towards, you guessed it, the iPhone. That thing is the best invention ever made to get a kid to crawl! He's definitely more into sitting up on his own though. He does it about 20 times a day I'd say, and i'm working on trying to get him to pull himself up on things, but it's not really getting it. Soon enough though! His head is doing great, and it seems to be improving more and more each day, only bad part is that now that it's nice out, he's sweating a lot more in it everyday, so I try to give him more frequent breaks from it.

It's amazing how fast he is growing, he's only 2 months away from being a year old, how crazy is that? I don't want to miss anything that he's doing, I constantly want to be with him, but unfortunately, I have to work, and have been working more it seems this week, so I've missed out on a few days with him, which sucks. But, what can you do? Here are some pictures of him, I finally got some naked ones :) Can't wait to pull these out at prom time!

On to the venting. Work. Don't you hate unnecessary drama at work? It seems that it's a constant in my life, everyday there SOMETHING going on with a particular employee and it really sets me off. She's only been there about 8 months, and she's called in at least over 7 times. 7 times in 8 months. I've called in twice in 2.5 years and they were for Harrison. Insane. She's been off the last 3 or 4 fridays in a row when everyone else (myself included) has been busting their butt on Fridays. We are supposed to be on a rotation, and the girls that are working all the time, with no time off, haven't even gotten the opportunity to get off early. Not cool in my book. To me, you reward hard workers, and get rid of the weakest links. This girl is a weak link. I'm not going to sit here and say that I deserve time off because I don't, I work 35 hours a week, and i'm fine with that. I'm not burnout, but i can tell that my boss is, and she can't even take 1 day off of work because of everything that goes on there. It's just so upsetting. So I'm trying not to stress out, but obviously, not happening. I am constantly feeling panic attacks coming on, and I have to really calm myself down, which is tough when your dealing with all this crap. I love my job, I just don't love the people that work there. There are only 3 other girls there that I can stand, and if it were just us all the time, things would be great. And trying to show my boss how things are when she's not around, it's embarrassing, i feel like a 5th grader all the time, but she deserves to know what's going on with her business when shes' not there. I wish she would just make me a supervisor so I could tell people what to do and get the respect that comes with that title. But, because of another employee who's feelings might get hurt if that happened, she won't do it. It's crazy. Whew. I feel a little better. If only I could have a beer only 2 more months of nursing and I can have one, woo hoo!

To top it all off today, my dog Gladys, the sweetest dog in the world, is sick. Of course it happens when I'm broke. $250.00 after I had just paid $4,000 for another dog back in September. I guess it comes with owning dogs, but geez, $150.00 for blood work?! That's insane! Hopefully everything comes back okay and my little girl is fine, but it's just an unexpected expense right now that I really didn't need.

Sorry for all of the ranting and raving, I'm going to try to stay positive because if you thing positive, then positive things will happen. So, on a positive note, it's my 10th day with no Pepsi. Go me! I swear this is harder than quitting smoking!

First tooth, first sit, first foster...

A lot has happened in the last few weeks of writing on this! Harrison FINALLY got his first tooth!! It broke through about a week ago, it's the bottom right one, and it's about half way out of there now. Thank God! The poor kid has been teething for 5 months now with nada happening until now, it's so cool to actually brush his teeth, and he loves it! I think because the toothpaste is banana flavored :) This kid is crazy for bananas!
Which brings me to his eating habits :) This week, after reading books, and talking to my best friend Cori, who I call constantly about things baby related, said that I could start feeding him "real" food! Holy crap! I was freaking out! He's 9 months, he's actually 9 months now, it's so hard to believe that this week I was cutting up bananas and steaming carrots (which I burned the first batch..........ha ha, only me!) to give to him, and 9 months ago he was just coming out. It's crazy! So, in addition to breast feeding, having baby food once a day, he's now starting to try some carrots, banana, and cooked apples. I'm so afraid that he's going to choke, so the bites haven't been big at all. I must confess, I have been taking the potato masher to them, so the "real" food has been just mashed food :) I'm sure I'll get over this fear of choking, but I'm always afraid for the next milestone in his life. I am always wondering "What will I do when....", like now What will I do when he's pulling himself up? What will I do when he's really crawling around? How will I get anything done that needs to get done? But with each milestone we've adjusted as I'm sure we will do with each one coming up.
Speaking of milestones! On Monday this week I was laying on the floor with him watching him get up on all fours and rocking back and forth, lunging himself forward, and plop :) It was hilarious! So then he did it again, and his back leg was kind of underneath him at an angle, i was like "whatcha doing there bud?"...and he slowlystraightened out his other leg, and sat himself up! It was crazy! I was yelling at Kenney to get in the room and he said "You did that, you sat him up didn't you?"...Heck no I didn't! You should have seen Harrison's face, he was like "Whoa! What the heck did I just do?" He hasn't done it again since, but he's been working on it, I just wasn't expecting that at all and boom, it happened in a matter of seconds!
Now you might be asking first foster? What is that? Well I recently got another dog, yes, I am currently a 4 dog, 3 person family. But this one is just temporary! He's a foster dog named Marley, and I got him through Beagle Buddies Rescue. He's 9 years old, so I figured, no big deal right? He'll probably just sleep all the time! Well, he does sleep all the time like an old guy, but he's also very much like a puppy :) He is not fully potty trained yet, and he's a garbage dog. He's into my trash every chance he gets, no matter how high we put it, he seems to find a way to get it down. So, we've resorted to crate training, which he hates and cries the whole time he's in there, which is hard for me to take a shower, while Harrison is sleeping and Marley is barking the whole time. But it's well worth it. This little guy has had such a hard life so far and the least I can do is give him a good home during his golden years. So, despite what I've just written, he is the sweetest little guy, so if anyone knows of someone looking for an older dog, with a little snoring problem, be sure to send them my way! :) Hope all is well with everyone and I'll post some pictures of Harrison later :)