tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31252412011-10-14T01:04:48.323-04:00it's all happeningmonkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.comBlogger5901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-71125845490599572452011-10-06T01:57:00.002-04:002011-10-06T02:04:43.429-04:00

i have the best husband in the world. we have four kids and i homeschool three of them. i love them to pieces and wouldn't trade this life in for any other. i am fortunate to have incredible perspective on this matter, having been in the workforce for nearly a decade, three of those years juggling job and kids.i am happy. truly. happy.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-66186315267712603582010-06-22T23:10:00.003-04:002010-06-22T23:32:13.005-04:00

i'm recovering from a long, exhausting - yet very fun - weekend. we went to chicago. porta graduated from kellog with his mba and we wouldn't have missed it. so we went. my weekend started on thursday. but let's back up to wednesday and the 12 loads of laundry i did because it had been a week since i had done any laundry and we needed clean clothes to take on our trip. have you ever done 12

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a year ago i was getting ready to staff my very last relay. i was constantly anxious and stressed about work and i just couldn't shake it off. it's such a good cause, but, man, the work just beats you down. it was like a dark cloud looming around my shoulders, engulfing my head and not letting me out. my poor family never got all of me when i was with them. i'd be home, but my head would be

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two days ago, i attended the funeral for a baby girl. she was born with down's syndrome and a weak heart and the Lord decided that it was too much for her to keep fighting...He took that precious, precious life into His arms at just 5 days old.i cannot express the pain and sadness that i felt as i watched her 10 brothers and sisters weep over her tiny white coffin. uncle, father and 2 brothers

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-39005759355505285602010-01-26T13:57:00.001-05:002010-01-26T13:57:57.234-05:00

p90x. day 18. i don't think i've ever worked out daily for this long in my life. not even during the dancing days of college. i think by far yoga is my favorite...i can hardly do the balance poses, but it's still fun to try. it feels more like a dance than a workout. i don't even care that it's 90 minutes. (i'll do yoga over plyometrics any day.) regardless, the post-workout soreness feels good.i

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-16873970584636418352009-09-11T19:48:00.002-04:002009-09-11T20:04:55.511-04:00

baby agustin #4 is now online!can it be that it has taken me this long to blog about my tiniest boy? eric did a really good job with the details again, so you can always visit his blog for a re-cap if you haven't already.i'm not gonna lie. i'm ti-red. (it deserved two syllables - i'm that tired.) but life is good. i couldn't ask for more. i'm finally home with my boys and giving them more

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-34958170232056498872009-07-29T00:47:00.003-04:002009-07-29T01:15:59.248-04:00

a presumably uneventful week has become somewhat eventful. i think i received the most phone calls yesterday (monday) than i have in one day in a while...all dear friends checking on the status of baby xavier's arrival. he's still en womb...doesn't seem like he's in any hurry at all to get out.then there was this morning. tuesday, 7/28, xavier's estimated due date. got a call from the senior

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-65898877247332210352009-07-21T20:28:00.003-04:002009-07-21T20:31:20.889-04:00

ethan's birthday has come and gone. i got my wish and did not spend his birthday at the hospital giving birth to his new baby brother. i would have been so sad if i couldn't spend ethan's birthday with him. eric and i took just ethan to mcdonald's for lunch and then went to chuck e. cheese with the rest of the fam. he asked me this morning if it was still his birthday. when i told him no he

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-19162991476069796972009-06-24T09:58:00.003-04:002009-06-24T10:18:38.848-04:00

i'm not sure that i've ever done this...blog at work (at this job). it's definitely an indication of the change that is about to come. things are winding down...this morning i had a hard time getting out of bed. i've been so exhausted. i could blame it on the fact that i'm in my 9th month of pregnancy, but the reality is that i've been staying up way too late. (darn, bejeweled blitz! i

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-67974922654618202722009-06-08T13:50:00.001-04:002009-06-08T13:50:27.283-04:00

t-minus one month and 2 days...

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-84115662162667672642009-04-30T01:03:00.002-04:002009-04-30T01:09:23.665-04:00

i have a relay in three days. for whatever reason, i have not been overcome by a wave of anxiety and panic. it could be that i don't care...that's probably only a tiny bit true. i think it's more that i can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-26999948796905643692009-03-01T22:06:00.001-05:002009-03-01T22:06:54.775-05:00

what do you name a 4th baby boy agustin????

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-37635919075223269382009-02-16T22:34:00.002-05:002009-02-16T23:30:06.743-05:00

if there was ever a time that i was getting my butt kicked, it was nothing compared to 2009. we are six weeks into the new year, and i'm fried. physically, i can't find enough time in the day. emotionally, i can't divide myself into more pieces. the work-life balance is not so balanced. i'm feeling a lot of sadness because work pulls me away from eric and the boys a lot these days. i knew

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-21476412745949484202008-12-17T18:20:00.002-05:002008-12-17T18:25:15.053-05:00

i've been collecting the state quarters for 10 years. in just a couple weeks, all of the state quarters will have been issued. it's the only thing i've ever collected. i have them all (thanks to help from connie and donna who always kept me in mind whenever they got change)...except the non-contiguous states. i just need alaska and hawaii and my collection will be complete!

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-10726742082585312372008-10-22T22:07:00.002-04:002008-10-22T22:19:07.907-04:00

my scramble skills are deteriorating. i randomly played several games of scramble with one of my high school classmates. we weren't really friends in high school yet we were facebook scramble buddies. i ran into her at the finish line of our breast cancer walk last saturday. it's funny how much closer facebook makes people to one another.the three-hour time difference between michigan and

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-12943166824362561542008-09-12T21:38:00.001-04:002008-09-12T21:38:45.149-04:00

there is no time to blog. only time to play scramble.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-82855822625777562092008-07-17T11:52:00.002-04:002008-07-17T12:58:16.147-04:00

i got the call this morning at 10 a.m. it was eric. "The United States' chances of winning gold in women's soccer at next month's Olympics were dealt a major blow Wednesday when striker Abby Wambach suffered a broken leg in a friendly against Brazil.":O!!!!!!!!!!i love love love the u.s. women's soccer teams so this news is so upsetting. wambach is out for at least 12 weeks...meaning she's

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-34532878280298818972008-07-13T23:31:00.003-04:002008-07-13T23:49:12.242-04:00

summer is half over. it has been eventful so far...isaiah finishing his first year of school, road trip to jersey for a wedding, road trip to cheboygan to join the guevaras for their first weekend in their new home, relay after relay, ryan's surprise party (er, parties), new babies, plenty of hanging out - especially with rob, ellen, noah, and ellie....the rest of the summer is going to fly by.

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i'm still recovering from our trip to new jersey last weekend. we drove. the 10 hour trip to new jersey turned into a 20 hour one because we decided to be smart and crash in a hotel instead of trying to drive through the night. the 10 hour trip home was really 11.5, thanks to angels and demons on audio book. i swear if i had to, i could drive across the country listening to that book. the

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-26315401072012331702008-05-19T22:59:00.002-04:002008-05-19T23:37:25.379-04:00

so the day after my last post was probably the worst day of work that i have ever had. it was probably the most humbling as well, so i am thankful for it. i have been working my butt off with more focus and accomplishment ever since.it has been a rough six weeks returning to work. these weeks have been hard. on me, on eric, on our family. and the laundry has piled up again. i swear it will

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-25827638360639337292008-04-23T22:26:00.002-04:002008-04-23T22:34:41.734-04:00

i am exhausted and overwhelmed. i hate to admit that i am either of these things because it makes me feel weak and incompetent, which i hate. i have been able to will myself to push through anything up until now. the truth is that i am exhausted. i have run out of steam. my body just does not want to keep up with all the things my mind wants it to do. there are not enough hours in the day or

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-31911526193327428422008-03-27T21:53:00.002-04:002008-03-27T22:50:12.365-04:00

today was my last full day with my boys before heading back to work. my maternity leave officially ends tomorrow. after that, it's just another weekend.we spent a few hours today getting our butts kicked by isaiah at wii sports. (yes, eric too!) isaiah actually mercied eric in baseball. isaiah hit 9 homeruns in the first inning and eric could not hang. ha. i think one of the reasons that

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-68055565270403583682008-03-18T22:10:00.002-04:002008-03-18T22:25:23.301-04:00

less than two weeks left of maternity leave. the nice part is that isaiah is off of school all next week for spring break, so i will have to make sure that i take advantage of the rest of my time off with the boys.owen is HUGE. at least compared to when he was born. i'm guessing he's pushing 9 pounds by now. 7 weeks old. how did 7 weeks go by already? he has to wear mittens because he

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-73200891187752730442008-03-02T01:12:00.001-05:002008-03-02T01:14:42.054-05:00

let it be known that today i am officially caught up with the laundry!!!

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-13942893727570645402008-02-28T14:13:00.003-05:002008-02-28T14:26:45.896-05:00

i met eric in 1995. i was 15 and a sophomore and he was 17 on the verge of turning 18 and a senior. he invited me to his birthday party at his house where i knew exactly 1 person: him. my brother came with me since he was also friends with eric...it also happened that a couple of his friends (that i didn't know) were also at the party. i don't remember remember having much fun at the party

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-16667263505768456272008-02-19T11:02:00.002-05:002008-02-19T11:03:35.049-05:00

my three sons

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i have this thing for pop. i love drinking it. most pop is caffeinated, so giving it up during pregnancy is pretty tough (i'm not the biggest fan of sprite/sierra mist).faygo red pop is one of my favorite drinks and happens to be caffeine free. :) my meijer store stocks it at the end of the pop aisle. one day, it was not in its usual spot - it was more towards the middle of the pop aisle,

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13 days old.

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introducing owen.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-77439909458656718902008-02-06T01:08:00.000-05:002008-02-06T01:18:43.460-05:00

i think this past week of lack of sleep has shortened my patience by about 40%. i don't like being cranky. it is probably good timing with lent starting today.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-40334095363077874942008-01-31T14:50:00.000-05:002008-01-31T15:00:17.652-05:00

the bet:players - me and kimmiethe stakes - achatz piethe terms - owen comes after feb. 2, i win. owen comes before feb. 2, kimmie wins.on the way home from the hospital on tuesday, eric and i stopped by achatz to pick up a banana split pie for kimmie.i don't think that you should be allowed to go into labor when you have the flu. it was like the second my fever broke and my headache subsided,

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-10493507229821280542008-01-17T20:37:00.000-05:002008-01-17T20:43:20.573-05:00

wow. first post of 2008. i'm surprised it has taken me this long.it was great having a lazy two and a half weeks at home. it wasn't really lazy because it's hard to be lazy when hanging out with two toddlers. but it was nice to just all be home together. especially since 2008 came around and proceeded to kick my butt up until tuesday. and now i'm coasting through to the end of the month

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-45894180849814218852007-12-17T23:38:00.000-05:002007-12-18T00:25:06.713-05:00

...and i'm done working for 2007.today was a long day. i told eric i would be working late because i had to wrap a lot of things up. i told him at 5pm that i would probably work until 6pm. i finally left the office at 8:30 pm. i hate that i told eric that i'd be an extra hour at work and ended up being an extra three and a half. he was wonderfully understanding, so i am thankful for that. i

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-40141431133179279222007-11-28T12:06:00.001-05:002007-11-28T12:16:44.367-05:00

there is LOTS to do before the holidays. i'm hoping to be able to take off the last two weeks in December because i have 9 vacation days to burn before the year ends. i'm not really sure when i'm going to be able to take them. i've never had this problem before. it's an odd feeling. i'm going to have to bust my ass to get everything done because i really really really don't want to have to

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-579696470932663982007-10-24T22:28:00.000-04:002007-10-24T22:47:28.589-04:00

it has been 4 days since alvin and jenny got married. gorgeous. elegant. lovely. all the things that alvin and jenny are...their wedding echoed them. i'm not even going to try to describe it. i'll just say this: what. a kick ass. party. :D (oh, and i think i'm still full from all of the food i ate over the weekend.)i couldn't help thinking when i saw alvin walk down the aisle, that this

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-34978206348354296052007-10-17T07:31:00.000-04:002007-10-17T07:45:53.022-04:00

i'm so overwhelmed. work is so so so so so so so so busy. life is so so so so so busy. i couldn't possibly fit anything more into my days. i worked until 9pm last night and started my day today at 5:15am. the good part is that the work madness just lights a fire under me and makes me want to work really hard so that i can get home. i feel that if this was any other job, i would just want to

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-78328007937800715312007-09-14T18:23:00.000-04:002007-09-14T18:53:49.621-04:00

dot is my car. i think porta named her. she has been through a lot with me. i love my car. she's so fun to drive. so much fun, that i think that i will forever favor manual cars. when i bought dot, i threw all practicality out the window. she wasn't the most affordable. she wasn't going to be able to fit a ton of people in her comfortably. she wasn't the safest. she wasn't going to drive

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-50383026034616799262007-09-04T13:01:00.000-04:002007-09-05T14:56:38.721-04:00

labor day weekend brain dump:it started on my birthday, which was spent mostly in a meeting at our headquarters in lansing. fast forward to a quick stop home to finish packing and then to my mom's. she's so cute. she tried calling me several times that day, and when she finally got a hold of me, she asked if i was going to eat pancit. (it's tradition to eat pancit or long noodles on your birthday

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-73877663673831182692007-08-23T09:29:00.001-04:002007-08-23T09:31:43.563-04:00

for the first time ever, i am taking a sick day that i don't want to take. i figured that my co-workers would not appreciate me coughing all over them and infecting them with my germs. i'm so mad at myself for not taking my computer home with me.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-31048492123442645642007-08-10T12:55:00.000-04:002007-08-10T13:02:03.766-04:00

these are exciting times...congrats to dinner buddy on finishing your thesis and having a stellar defense. from now on, you will be known as master chrissy.new job, same organization. promotion and management responsibilities (i get my own admin assistant!)...all because God has a plan to take care of my family. i could write pages of how things have *just happened* to have fallen into place.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-79635656409476971612007-07-23T13:49:00.000-04:002007-07-23T13:51:17.122-04:00

i brought the new harry potter book into the office today.my co-worker reserved the large board room for lunch so a bunch of us could have a quiet place to read.i am a useless employee today.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-91705264093917875742007-07-11T11:55:00.001-04:002007-07-11T12:19:44.515-04:00

i am spoiled by air conditioning.in 2005, my whole family, including my mom's brothers and sister and spouses, went to boracay on vacation. we had an awesome time. except for the ride in the van on the way back to the airport. we were wet to our hips from having to wade to shore from the boat. it was hot. like 100 degrees hot. it was humid. we were stuffed in a van with no a/c. we were cranky.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-754214368646738832007-06-25T16:31:00.000-04:002007-06-25T16:41:47.149-04:00

yay! benda and rosie are married! congrats!highlights:eric and i getting to spend an evening as a young hip couple (sans parental duties)boogie-ing with my mom (that woman can lead a mean boogie!)the grapeslyrical dancing by ryan and...phil pompa (??!!) - this statement does absolutely no justice to what actually transpiredryan and phil on the cordless mics

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-83610961526967570122007-06-19T14:57:00.000-04:002007-06-19T15:13:13.440-04:00

i think that all of the moths in michigan got together last week and decided to bombard my garage and driveway, and then follow me to the state capitol building in lansing.now i know that moths aren't dangerous and that i shouldn't be afraid of them. however, i have a problem with 4-inch bugs constantly flying at my head. i have a HUGE problem with 4-inch bugs flying at my head while i'm in the

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-50079602871250177442007-06-05T15:36:00.000-04:002007-06-05T15:37:24.373-04:00

my co-worker had to make a call today to a company called "athletic support."heh heh.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-52449371774832801832007-05-21T12:18:00.000-04:002007-05-30T16:20:31.074-04:00

*EXHALE*it is really important to have an insanely supportive husband when working 30 days straight (including three 30+ hour shifts). eric's the bomb. he watched our two very active boys for three weekends in a row and did not complain once.wanna know the count for my three events?dollars raised: $184,000+# participants: 890# luminaria lit to honor/remember a loved one who has faced cancer:

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hell week. it's what we called the week before the high school play. crunch time before the big show. a series of hell weeks are about to commence for me. i'd love it if you'd send up a prayer or send some good thoughts my way. i'm stressed, mildly scared, very excited. i have been very blessed to have so many great (and not so great) volunteers to help me make these events happen. it made

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-42643056903777441452007-04-16T16:06:00.000-04:002007-04-16T16:12:17.549-04:00

2 (looong) meetings with volunteers+ 3 hours in starbucks+ 2 big coffees+ 1 iced tea+ 0 meals good ideajittery and sick to my stomach

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-29213591115042844372007-03-28T20:15:00.000-04:002007-03-28T20:27:30.757-04:00

i've been to three pistons game this season:1.17.07 chris webber debuts as a piston. lose to utah. strike one.2.14.07 get stomped by the spurs. that sucked. strike two.3.20.07 eric gets free tickets to the denver game. score. we take the boys.1.5 seconds left in the game. down 95-98. we don't have the ball. all of a sudden, i just see the ball sailing across the court and bank in.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-6986438057464107322007-03-01T06:48:00.000-05:002007-03-01T06:51:25.339-05:00

been up since 4am packing. accidentally fell asleep when putting isaiah to sleep. drive to lansing. go to training. drive home. pack up car. drive to connie's. drive to dtw. go go go...park city, here we come!

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-59793497456093671222007-02-19T23:39:00.000-05:002007-02-19T23:52:51.377-05:00

points points points. points for wearing sweats. more points if they match. even more points if they are not name brand. even more if they cuff at the ankle. super star points for wearing hyper color. points for beating ariel at eating white castle. points for every shot in le club de centuree. points for knowing more pop culture/celebrity gossip than lorie. points for beating eric at

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-14124802789814936972007-02-09T09:55:00.000-05:002007-01-19T01:21:31.383-05:00

head on. i've heard the commercials are obnoxious. i've never seen them. all i know is that it works freakishly well. i don't really care to know how...all i know is that my headache disappears when i use it. i've never been a headache person. i never understood people that constantly had a headache. how could you ALWAYS have a headache? i never got them (except when i had the flu), so i

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-17537131226716905572007-01-19T01:00:00.000-05:002007-01-19T01:21:31.524-05:00

i miss being able to randomly im people during the work day. sometimes it's the only time you get to catch up with people. if i could have im'ed you last week i would have told you that every time someone asks me how my boys are doing, they reciprocate with stories about their dogs. my co-workers love their dogs. none of them have children.if i could have im'ed this week i would have told you

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-31839148441962123292007-01-15T09:48:00.000-05:002007-01-15T09:59:01.045-05:00

two weeks into 2007 already. happy new year, everybody!i started off the new year in florida. spent new years day at discovery cove in the water all day. isaiah looked very cool in a wetsuit. ethan was so cute in the little swimming vest. we swam with a ridiculous number of fish and ENORMOUS manta rays. i like swimming with the fish, but i don't like getting swarmed by them. i'd rather

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two more days until florida! hope everyone had a merry christmas and has a happy new year!!

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i am behind. the day i accepted this job, i was already behind. the good part about my job is that i blink, and half of my work day has gone by. the bad part is that i blink and half of my work day has gone by and my "to do" list just keeps getting longer. i decided to opt for the paper planner rather than use my pda. i like writing stuff down and crossing stuff off. there's something about

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1164952323212442812006-12-01T00:36:00.000-05:002006-12-01T00:52:03.230-05:00

it's supposed to snow up to 3 inches tomorrow. i'm fully anticipating crazy driving (not from me, of course) and lots of traffic. one would think that i would go to bed earlier so that i could wake up earlier in order to give myself a little more commute time. but no. i've been up late a lot lately. i've also been getting bad sleep. i think that bad sleep is worse than not enough sleep.i'm

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1163457311140818122006-11-13T17:33:00.000-05:002006-11-13T17:35:11.156-05:00

thanksgiving is next week, which means that christmas is just around the corner. where did the fall go?by the way - did anyone catch extreme makeover: home edition last night? that's a big part of my job. relay for life. fyi.

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i wish i had a camera. i have sparkly confetti on my desk. streamers strewn over my head with foil spirals and stars hanging from my ceiling. i have a window. a window! and living flowers. those might not last, but it's the thought that counts. i also have a really cute pumpkin basket with healthy treats from my new boss. ahhh....i love it here!

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1162353635144157212006-10-31T22:57:00.000-05:002006-10-31T23:00:35.160-05:00

i am...exhausted.leaving a job is hard work. i can finally exhale without having this dark linger cloud of report-writing stress hanging over me.can i just say that my manager didn't know today was my last day?goodbye consulting! hello acs!

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i like that starbucks will give you a coupon for a free drink if they think you've waited too long. "too long" is pretty subjective, but in my experience, i've found "too long" to be more than 3 minutes. i would like all food service establishments to adopt this practice. today, i just want einsteins bagels to adopt it. or at least give me a sincere apology when you've just made me wait 10

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1161145834191080472006-10-18T00:00:00.000-04:002006-10-18T00:30:34.206-04:00

that's it. i'm doing it. switching careers. no longer an engineer.can you believe it?i have wanted to be an engineer for as long as i can remember knowing what that an engineer had to be good at math and science. math? check. LOVED math (still do). science? check. okay, i kind of sucked at physics, but i think that was because i didn't apply myself. and then i graduated from umich,

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this is pretty funny to me.i seriously considered buying it. isaiah and ethan like to fall asleep in the crook of your arm. sometimes they snuggle right up into your armpit. one time ethan spent the night with his forehead in eric's armpit. i was pretty grossed out when i picked up ethan the next morning and gave him a big kiss on his armpit-smelling forehead. blech!

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1160778136070765972006-10-13T18:20:00.000-04:002006-10-13T18:22:16.176-04:00

*twiddle twiddle twiddle*last interview down. now all i have to do is wait.*twiddle twiddle twiddle*

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1160404941054669542006-10-09T10:42:00.000-04:002006-10-09T10:42:21.066-04:00

three interviews down. one more to go...

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1160064685336559552006-10-05T11:19:00.000-04:002006-10-05T12:11:25.463-04:00

i went to starbucks three times yesterday. i think i'm still running on the caffeine.malan is creepy creepy creepy. that laugh...*shudder*vincent is also creepy creepy creepy.holy cow, lane is pregnant!

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1159197232265892502006-09-25T11:06:00.000-04:002006-09-25T11:13:52.290-04:00

my office is participating in ymca's america on the move week program. with my low-tech pedometer, i have already logged almost 400 steps in just a half hour! it takes 34 steps just to get to the printer from my desk. it's fun to walk around the office when you have a means of tracking your progress. now onto getting some progress with the pile of work on my desk...p.s. third interview

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1158591905273477722006-09-18T10:58:00.000-04:002006-09-18T11:05:05.290-04:00

confession: i cheated and looked online at the photos from the project runway show at olympus fashion week. eric will probably be mad at me for skipping to the end, so to speak. my impatience got the best of me. in my defense, they make it so that you can't tell who the final three are. i'm pulling for michael. he's cool. uli is cool, too, but her dresses all look the same. i used the

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my last full week of maternity leave is over. i go back to work on thursday. i get to spend my first day back in vehicle safety training. my office manager made it a point to tell my manager that i should take that training. =\ i hope it's because i spend a lot of time traveling for my job and not because he thinks i'm a bad driver for putting a dent in the company truck (oops).

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september 1. where did the summer go? i officially go back to work on the 14th. boo. =( i wish we had the same maternity leave policy as the canadians. i would love a year of paid time off after i had a baby. i'm not ready to leave ethan for a whole day yet. the longest so far has been 4 hours while eric and i went to a movie and then dinner. that was quite long enough. with isaiah, i

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1155737903517197652006-08-16T10:04:00.000-04:002006-08-16T10:18:23.533-04:00

so i'm not planning on returning to my job after maternity leave. no one at work knows this, although my manager might be expecting it. the plan is to get a new job while on maternity leave just in time to give them my two weeks without having to actually go back to work. i've decided that my career is steering itself down the event planning path. it took a while to come to this realization,

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1155314892885736712006-08-11T12:40:00.000-04:002006-08-11T12:48:13.276-04:00

there are times when i look at ethan and think i'm looking at an infant isaiah. he's sleeping right now - whew. he was crying before - fighting sleep and from isaiah knocking him on the head (accidentally) with his sippy cup. isaiah was crying at the same time - wanting to drive his blue car outside mixed with hunger and over-tiredness. he's playing in the basement with kimmie right now -

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1154241691741057532006-07-30T01:51:00.000-04:002006-07-30T02:41:31.816-04:00

update: 9 days postpartum. tired, but happy. recovering well. i think i'm functioning on adrenaline. relieved to no longer be pregnant.i was supposed to be induced last thursday (7/20). i started having contractions at about 3:30am and went into the hospital at 7:00am to be induced. i was worried that because i seemed to be going into labor on my own they would send me home and tell me to wait

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1153273551490348902006-07-18T21:43:00.000-04:002006-07-18T21:45:51.503-04:00

update: 41 weeks. STILL pregnant.if it doesn't happen tonight or tomorrow, it's happening on thursday for sure. prayers and thoughts are much appreciated!!

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update: still pregnant. still. 40 weeks plus 5 days.i've run every errand and organized and cleaned everything i have the strength to organize or clean. eric just put up new shelves for me to organize my stamping stuff. i could do that, except i just made a big mess of it making little disney puppets for isaiah. at first, i just made little einstein puppets. those were quickly shredded

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1152886674716994642006-07-14T10:17:00.000-04:002006-07-14T10:17:54.730-04:00

update: still pregnant. 40 weeks plus 3 days. ethan, don't you want to meet us?

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update: still pregnant. 40 weeks plus one day.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1152335490849065532006-07-08T00:52:00.000-04:002006-07-08T01:13:35.606-04:00

t minus four days until ethan is due. eric thought he would have been here by now. me, i think he's going to be late just like his brother. regardless, i've been a little apprehensive about going somewhere by myself and having to drive while in labor. my doctor keeps telling me that this one is going to go really fast. i don't know what "really fast" means to him, but to me, it sounds like a few

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1152124671343912162006-07-05T14:34:00.000-04:002006-07-05T14:37:51.353-04:00

i just found my nkotb "hanging tough" tape. whoa.i also found a bunch of mix tapes from college. was college so long ago that i still made mix tapes instead of cds?

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1151689377138186202006-06-30T13:12:00.000-04:002006-06-30T13:42:57.206-04:00

did i mention that i saw wicked for the second time a couple weeks ago?i LOVE wicked. i loved it from when i first heard "the wizard and i" on launchcast. i loved it even more when eric got me the cd. and when i finally got to see it in chicago on mother's day last year, it was everything i wanted it to be and more. even after reading a detailed synopsis and knowing the cd cold, the musical

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1151426411963149152006-06-27T12:39:00.000-04:002006-06-27T12:40:11.980-04:00

bye bye work!! see you in september.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1150999407565114982006-06-22T13:40:00.000-04:002006-06-22T14:03:27.630-04:00

-2 station. 50% effacement.i'm off on maternity leave starting june 28. sweet!! i can't wait. eric will be off at least the first week of july for gm shut down, so it will be nice to have time off of work together at home. we're both totally nesting...cleaning everything in sight, finally getting the laundry out of the way, putting up a new tv in the kitchen so i won't be all alone on the

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1150292809051646792006-06-14T09:46:00.000-04:002006-06-14T09:46:49.063-04:00

9 more days of work until i'm off until september.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1149779029287911112006-06-08T09:58:00.000-04:002006-06-08T11:03:49.366-04:00

currently listening: natural vibe live, gypsy cafe, 4.16.00.this is by far my favorite vibe performance ever. it wasn't their last, but it might as well have been. they weren't perfect, but the joy that came from singing and jamming with good friends exuded. it was a gorgeous sunny sunday, close friends and fans crammed into the back of a coffee shop in kerry town. it was intimate and fun.

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they are fixing the roof of my office building, and it sounds like there is an airplane constantly flying overhead. it makes it kind of difficult to get any work done. (it's also a little difficult to get any work done when you don't really have any work to do.) regardless, the noise from the roofers is pretty annoying. friday night was pretty disappointing. i hate the heat. i hope the mavs

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1149093738949450772006-05-31T12:30:00.000-04:002006-05-31T12:42:19.036-04:00

phew! a crazy weekend came and went just like that. two wedding rehearsals, two weddings, out of town guests, bbq, foosball, x3, no sleep, tons of fun, lots of dancing, lots of eating.......and now i'm back at work. yuck. thank God everyone loves isaiah (and that isaiah loves them right back). it would have been infinitely harder to take care of him during the weekend festivities if we

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1148325994638048522006-05-22T15:23:00.000-04:002006-05-22T15:26:35.256-04:00

i just scored a bag of gardettos with tons of rye chips. yesss.i've been staring blankly at word and excel documents all day while listening to the da vinci code audio book. it's impossible to get any work done while listening to this story...

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tomorrow. 7pm ET. assume game time positions.

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you know that work is slow when you've just spent a good part of your morning deleting almost 800 messages from your inbox and sent mail folder.i have the best message on my work voicemail. it's isaiah saying "hi mama" and "love you" and "later!"i had pizza house chicken tenders and fries for lunch. it's okay to be jealous.nba playoffs, round 2, game 2 tonight: GO PISTONS!!

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1146754420113493812006-05-04T10:51:00.000-04:002006-05-04T10:55:08.456-04:00

.just in time for my materinity leave.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1146063245010487492006-04-26T10:39:00.000-04:002006-04-26T10:54:05.866-04:00

i was on my way to work this morning when i realize that i left my computer and all of the paper work i would need for the day at home. after a quick call to my manager, i turned my car around and headed home to "work" for the day. i actually need to get a lot of stuff done, but i'm not very motivated. therefore, i blog. eric just finished 8 weeks of hard core work hell that ended yesterday.

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is it not the best when work buys you ice cream because it's a nice day?(of course, not as nice as giving us the afternoon off...but it'll do.)

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1145327278747193092006-04-17T22:15:00.000-04:002006-04-18T13:23:00.463-04:00

what a great weekend. not really wanting to go into work tomorrow (as if that's different from most days).had a great weekend hanging out with family. definitely ate too much saturday, yesterday, and today. with ethan growing so fast in addition to eating too much, my stomach feels like it's going to explode. i'm definitely a waddling pregnant lady right now. i can't believe that i was barely

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1144869531283127572006-04-12T15:14:00.000-04:002006-04-12T15:18:51.300-04:00

it's amazing. two weeks ago i was in over my head with work work work. the kind of work where you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. and now here i am. with. nothing. to. do. this is a rare occasion that must be remembered. we get friday off. i'm taking monday off. i have no pressing deadlines. this is great! now what to do, what to do....

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this might only be funny to me:setting - dinner time, monday nightme: babe, can you go get isaiah some milk?eric: yeah, yeah. sure.(eric gets up and goes to the kitchen. sits back down at the table a minute later eating a brownie. i stare at him. eric has no idea why i would stare at him in that way.)me: i'll go get isaiah some milk.eric: did you just ask me to get isaiah milk and i came back

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1144247415961582292006-04-05T10:16:00.000-04:002006-04-05T10:30:16.076-04:00

maurice evans is really nice. he didn't have to chit chat with us after he signed my pistons hard hat and after he took a picture with us. but he did. and he now has the agustins cheering for him every game he plays. yeah!(thanks, benda, for letting us into your poker tournament so we could meet mo. you're the man.)

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1143819721293492892006-03-31T10:34:00.000-05:002006-03-31T10:42:01.340-05:00

i'm tired.kimmie and i spent 3+ hours last night cleaning up a half-gallon of red latex paint off the carpet.thank God for kimmie and eHow.com and lowe's being open until 10pm.note to self: never leave half-full paint cans at the top of the stairs (even if you think you've closed them securely). isaiah will surely find it and throw it down the stairs for fun.

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1143733488570211812006-03-30T10:22:00.000-05:002006-03-30T10:49:27.890-05:00

yesterday at 11:15am, i got a call from one of our more "demanding" clients:client: i have some questions regarding so and so project for your manager.me: is it something i can help you with? she's out all today and won't be back until tomorrow.client: no. i need to speak with your manager. i know she's at a funeral today, but do you expect her to call in today to check in on things?me (in total

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1143559914144326422006-03-28T10:15:00.000-05:002006-03-28T10:31:54.270-05:00

we painted our living room and our dining room. it feels like we have a new house. finally, our house has color! i love that we have a big window in our living room looking out into the park. it's like a big picture that changes with the weather...kind of like the ceiling at hogwarts, except that it's not magical. one of the best parts about the window is this barely noticeable digital

monkey bar chicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125241.post-1142354211322404932006-03-14T11:33:00.000-05:002006-03-14T11:38:12.186-05:00

lesson of the day: myanmar is the largest country in mainland southeast asia. it sits west of thailand and was formerly known as burma.

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