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Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Monday, December 13
Tuesday, November 23
Tuesday, October 19
accomplished
i can be very efficient at multi-tasking when i need to be. worked from home today and managed to put in a full day while simultaneously doing 7 loads of laundry and emptying the dishwasher. i'm exhausted.
Thursday, October 7
gray pants: $20
black button down long sleeve blouse: $20
Tuesday, September 28
quick post
work's taken over my life so all these draft posts i had sitting in here are just going to get published as is. so scroll on down to read!
today, i was thankful to be in the office and hang out with a good friend. on a conference call in the morning, one of the participants had her kids screaming in the background and it made me SO HAPPY to be in office (not that i usually hear the kids when i work from home, since i'm in the office upstairs and punky has them down in the basement).
getting dressed up and putting on make up is so much fun when you don't have to do it every single day!
today, i was thankful to be in the office and hang out with a good friend. on a conference call in the morning, one of the participants had her kids screaming in the background and it made me SO HAPPY to be in office (not that i usually hear the kids when i work from home, since i'm in the office upstairs and punky has them down in the basement).
getting dressed up and putting on make up is so much fun when you don't have to do it every single day!
Tuesday, September 21
working girl
went into the office today. whenever i do, it makes me so much happier when i get home and hug my babies.
which made tonight even more special, with all of us in one room, sleeping in one bed. it's been more than 6 months! as we were laying there, belly turned to bulilit, trying to put her to slee. she whispered, "close your eyes, good night. i love you very much." (just like what i say to her!) and then she started singing bulilit's preferred lullaby, happy birthday. (don't ask.)
which made tonight even more special, with all of us in one room, sleeping in one bed. it's been more than 6 months! as we were laying there, belly turned to bulilit, trying to put her to slee. she whispered, "close your eyes, good night. i love you very much." (just like what i say to her!) and then she started singing bulilit's preferred lullaby, happy birthday. (don't ask.)
Friday, July 30
friday night excitement
sooooo i was supposed to be partying it up with some hot mamas tonight (DC! drinking! kid-free!) but what am i doing instead? working. on proofing a 277 page award application, with edits due by 9am tomorrow (that would be saturday). FML.
Wednesday, June 30
what happens when you lack sleep
i'm exhausted... can't do many more of these late nights... feels like i'm in college again... too much work to do, not enough time to do it ... slave driving managers ... want something now, this is an emergency! ... my "normal" now is to work 9-5:30, make dinner/play with kids/put kids to bed until 8, then back to work from 8-2a... when will it end?
on the bright side... in my half-asleep/half-wakefulness this morning, i hear belly singing, "what do you want from me? what do you want from me?"
then this conversation ensues:
b: mommy are you tired?
m: mmm hmmm.
b: are you really really really really really tired?
m: yes.
b: but you have to work.
m: no it's ok.
b: but you have to, ok? because you have a lot of work.
m: but i'm tired.
b: but you have to work so you can get money.
on the bright side... in my half-asleep/half-wakefulness this morning, i hear belly singing, "what do you want from me? what do you want from me?"
then this conversation ensues:
b: mommy are you tired?
m: mmm hmmm.
b: are you really really really really really tired?
m: yes.
b: but you have to work.
m: no it's ok.
b: but you have to, ok? because you have a lot of work.
m: but i'm tired.
b: but you have to work so you can get money.
Sunday, April 4
easter 2010
what a weekend. first off, happy easter everyone! belly and bulilit helped me stuff the eggs for our annual easter egg hunt yesterday. well, belly actually helped and bulilit kept herself busy ripping open the candy bags and attempting to eat the chocolate. when all was said and done after the hunt, belly had 4 eggs and bulilit had 3. they're still too young to get it though, so candy and $1 bills made them very happy. (secretly, i wish i could be satisfied with candy and $1 bills.)
anyway, i'm off by a few days (again) and this post will actually be on the short side seeing as its 11:20pm on a sunday night after a very long and tiring weekend.
thursday - thankful for a good relationship with my boss. when you work virtually, it's sometimes hard to feel that team spirit and to feel like you're truly contributing something. but the team i work with and my boss in particular are fabulous, and i appreciate the support and understanding they've given me, all while doing something i enjoy doing.
friday - thankful for chipotle's vegetarian burrito bowl (my big meal on good friday!) and for time with my dad.
saturday - starbucks grande skim dark cherry mocha no whip; music on my phone; bathtime with the girls; my mom and my husband.
sunday - cousins.
anyway, i'm off by a few days (again) and this post will actually be on the short side seeing as its 11:20pm on a sunday night after a very long and tiring weekend.
thursday - thankful for a good relationship with my boss. when you work virtually, it's sometimes hard to feel that team spirit and to feel like you're truly contributing something. but the team i work with and my boss in particular are fabulous, and i appreciate the support and understanding they've given me, all while doing something i enjoy doing.
friday - thankful for chipotle's vegetarian burrito bowl (my big meal on good friday!) and for time with my dad.
saturday - starbucks grande skim dark cherry mocha no whip; music on my phone; bathtime with the girls; my mom and my husband.
sunday - cousins.
Monday, March 15
hmmmm
so i guess i'm not as good as i hoped to be in keeping this up on a daily basis. huh. i'm up to what, 10 things i need to be thankful for. damn, that's a LOT.
i don't even really have a good excuse this time. there's the usual 'kid was sick then i was sick so updating a blog was last on my priority list' ... or the work event that we have been spending all of this time planning actually happened ... or the shower for our former nanny finally happened ... yeah. i'm good at coming up with excuses.
so let's try to recreate my calendar and figure out things to be thankful for this past week and a half.
saturday, march 6: nephew's birthday party! thankful that others really were the ones to do the work for the party, as we were only hosting at our house. all i had to really do was clean up the house. also thankful that parents made it back from the west coast safely.
sunday, march 7: thankful for H&M! man, it's been a long time since i shopped at that store (now that i've been working from home for the better part of a YEAR, e always asks me why i need to buy new clothes. well excuse me, dear husband, but just because i work from home doesn't mean i need to be in pajamas 24/7! though, to be fair, i used to rock the PJs all day. til we got a new, non-family member nanny). ANYWAYS, walked into H&M on a whim while Ami watched the girls at Barnes & Noble, and found cute shirts and dresses, all made of organic cotton, for a FRACTION of the cost at hanna andersson. (and let's get serious, the cutesy stuff at HA is nice for awhile, but some of their prints are really out there. e calls some of them circus outfits.) then, i walked into esprit and found a very cute dress for me!
monday, march 8: thankful for my mommy, who came and watched the girls, because i REALLY had to go to work. and belly is still experiencing severe separation anxiety, so leaving her with her sister and new nanny was just not an option.
tuesday, march 9: sounds silly, but thankful that i still know how to small talk. i hate it with a passion and still don't think i'm very good at it, but i had to attend another work event -- this time, a dinner -- and i chit chatted with a random person at the cocktail hour, then my table neighbor for a good 45 minutes combined. honestly? i don't even remember what we talked about.
wednesday, march 10: thankful for gatorade and town house wheat crackers. because that's the only thing that calmed my stomach somewhat after upchucking a meal i had eaten 12 hours prior. nothing like getting a stomach bug from your kid!! (p.s. shout out thank you to e, who got me gatorade at 10 pm. now that doesn't sound super late but since we've had kids, 10 pm is the new 2 am.)
thursday, march 11: mentioned it before but i don't think i've limited myself to something NEW to be thankful for each day. so on this day i was again thankful that i have a flexible schedule. belly and i ventured out on this beautiful spring day to pick up some needed items for the baby shower i was throwing. dropped off my dry cleaning at this new place, which had -- i kid you not -- a giant, costumed cow right in the doorway. (the place is called 'spots' so haha, cow, get it? :p) belly would not even walk in the door. i had to block the 6' cow as best i could and she ran inside. ooh, also am thankful for cool, fun carts at the new harris teeter and the free balloons and cookies for kids. 
friday, march 12: i ended up taking a day off, both to recover from the illness from earlier in the week and to get a few things done that needed to get done. also, because i felt guilty for missing 2 hours of work in the morning taking belly to ballet, and knowing i'd miss another 2 in the afternoon because we had to head downtown for dinner for my sister-in-law slash best friend. (ever try getting downtown at rush hour, in the rain, along 66, when there's a game at the verizon center??) no way we'd miss it though, b/c SIL slash BFF is turning thirty. and i love her to death.
oh, and totally thankful for maggie moo's ice cream cake.
(author's note: am i done yet? this will teach me to go too long between updates!!!!)
saturday, march 13: don't gag with the sweetness, but thankful for my husband. he took the girls and kept them occupied for a good 2.5 hours while i prepped for the baby shower for former nanny. then, while i was hosting the shower, he kept all the kids occupied in the basement. i'm surprised he didn't pass out from all the estrogen in the house. love you!
sunday, march 14: hmmm. not much to be thankful for on this day. between emotional outbursts, daylight savings time and cars that decide not to start so e has to wait in the parking lot while it's raining until AAA can get to him... well, i guess technically pacquiao beat clottey after midnight so that would count right??
monday, march 15: wow, lots of double thanks in this post... thankful for my mommy, who rolled up in a loaner BMW X5 (she definitely thought she was stylin, ha, love you!) to take belly out for a bit. belly went with just a little whining... maybe this will bode well for easing her separation anxiety??
i don't even really have a good excuse this time. there's the usual 'kid was sick then i was sick so updating a blog was last on my priority list' ... or the work event that we have been spending all of this time planning actually happened ... or the shower for our former nanny finally happened ... yeah. i'm good at coming up with excuses.
so let's try to recreate my calendar and figure out things to be thankful for this past week and a half.
saturday, march 6: nephew's birthday party! thankful that others really were the ones to do the work for the party, as we were only hosting at our house. all i had to really do was clean up the house. also thankful that parents made it back from the west coast safely.
sunday, march 7: thankful for H&M! man, it's been a long time since i shopped at that store (now that i've been working from home for the better part of a YEAR, e always asks me why i need to buy new clothes. well excuse me, dear husband, but just because i work from home doesn't mean i need to be in pajamas 24/7! though, to be fair, i used to rock the PJs all day. til we got a new, non-family member nanny). ANYWAYS, walked into H&M on a whim while Ami watched the girls at Barnes & Noble, and found cute shirts and dresses, all made of organic cotton, for a FRACTION of the cost at hanna andersson. (and let's get serious, the cutesy stuff at HA is nice for awhile, but some of their prints are really out there. e calls some of them circus outfits.) then, i walked into esprit and found a very cute dress for me!
monday, march 8: thankful for my mommy, who came and watched the girls, because i REALLY had to go to work. and belly is still experiencing severe separation anxiety, so leaving her with her sister and new nanny was just not an option.
tuesday, march 9: sounds silly, but thankful that i still know how to small talk. i hate it with a passion and still don't think i'm very good at it, but i had to attend another work event -- this time, a dinner -- and i chit chatted with a random person at the cocktail hour, then my table neighbor for a good 45 minutes combined. honestly? i don't even remember what we talked about.
wednesday, march 10: thankful for gatorade and town house wheat crackers. because that's the only thing that calmed my stomach somewhat after upchucking a meal i had eaten 12 hours prior. nothing like getting a stomach bug from your kid!! (p.s. shout out thank you to e, who got me gatorade at 10 pm. now that doesn't sound super late but since we've had kids, 10 pm is the new 2 am.)
thursday, march 11: mentioned it before but i don't think i've limited myself to something NEW to be thankful for each day. so on this day i was again thankful that i have a flexible schedule. belly and i ventured out on this beautiful spring day to pick up some needed items for the baby shower i was throwing. dropped off my dry cleaning at this new place, which had -- i kid you not -- a giant, costumed cow right in the doorway. (the place is called 'spots' so haha, cow, get it? :p) belly would not even walk in the door. i had to block the 6' cow as best i could and she ran inside. ooh, also am thankful for cool, fun carts at the new harris teeter and the free balloons and cookies for kids. 
friday, march 12: i ended up taking a day off, both to recover from the illness from earlier in the week and to get a few things done that needed to get done. also, because i felt guilty for missing 2 hours of work in the morning taking belly to ballet, and knowing i'd miss another 2 in the afternoon because we had to head downtown for dinner for my sister-in-law slash best friend. (ever try getting downtown at rush hour, in the rain, along 66, when there's a game at the verizon center??) no way we'd miss it though, b/c SIL slash BFF is turning thirty. and i love her to death.
oh, and totally thankful for maggie moo's ice cream cake.
(author's note: am i done yet? this will teach me to go too long between updates!!!!)
saturday, march 13: don't gag with the sweetness, but thankful for my husband. he took the girls and kept them occupied for a good 2.5 hours while i prepped for the baby shower for former nanny. then, while i was hosting the shower, he kept all the kids occupied in the basement. i'm surprised he didn't pass out from all the estrogen in the house. love you!
sunday, march 14: hmmm. not much to be thankful for on this day. between emotional outbursts, daylight savings time and cars that decide not to start so e has to wait in the parking lot while it's raining until AAA can get to him... well, i guess technically pacquiao beat clottey after midnight so that would count right??
monday, march 15: wow, lots of double thanks in this post... thankful for my mommy, who rolled up in a loaner BMW X5 (she definitely thought she was stylin, ha, love you!) to take belly out for a bit. belly went with just a little whining... maybe this will bode well for easing her separation anxiety??
Wednesday, March 3
this crazy life
work is crazy right now. like unbelievably crazy. to the point that my manager was asking me to do one more thing and then says, "since i know you have nothing else to do - ha ;-) "
anyways, work is good because the day goes by so much faster and before i know it, i get to my absolute favorite part of the day: the time between when the nanny goes home and when we need to start getting the kids ready for bed because it's pure fun time with belly, bulilit, e and me. (at twilight, haha)
yesterday's thing to be thankful for: my nephew's 3rd birthday! bear turned 3 yesterday and it always reminds me of 2007 when my 2 cousins and i were pregnant together and bear's mom went first. (8 days after belly, ballerina was born... kinda funny how my nicknames for each of the '07 kids starts with a b.) we did dinner then had a cake for him, and it made me laugh how belly was asking to blow out the candles and asked where her presents were. ahh, kids.
today's thing to be thankful for: very few conference calls!
anyways, work is good because the day goes by so much faster and before i know it, i get to my absolute favorite part of the day: the time between when the nanny goes home and when we need to start getting the kids ready for bed because it's pure fun time with belly, bulilit, e and me. (at twilight, haha)
yesterday's thing to be thankful for: my nephew's 3rd birthday! bear turned 3 yesterday and it always reminds me of 2007 when my 2 cousins and i were pregnant together and bear's mom went first. (8 days after belly, ballerina was born... kinda funny how my nicknames for each of the '07 kids starts with a b.) we did dinner then had a cake for him, and it made me laugh how belly was asking to blow out the candles and asked where her presents were. ahh, kids.
today's thing to be thankful for: very few conference calls!
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