It's amazing

It's amazing how much you can miss a four legged friend. Our little guy has been gone for nearly two months and there is still a vacancy in our hearts and our home.

Life in Sports

Well, after a dismal last month of playing our beloved Stars knocked themselves out of the playoffs so we are hockey free until October-ish.

Monday night was the first game that the Rangers had Yu Darvish pitch and we scored some sweet suite tickets to the game. My brothers, themanfolk and I all piled in and cheered loud. He had a rocky start but a lot of offensive help. The weather was perfect the hot dogs (and beer) were free and I had great company. Awesome start to the season.

And theNugget is going to be a baseball fan. He/she wiggled like CRAZY most of the game. He/she takes after his mom with a passion for Rangers baseball.

Where does the time go?

Things have been good, but hectic.

Brief recap -

The littlest brother and SIL and their untrained puppy moved in during the second week in March. It’s been good, except for working with the puppy. My brother and his wife currently owe us some carpet cleaning, an ottoman and a couch (ref pictures of the pooch’s handiwork). As the cost of rebuying furniture has increased they have finally caved to letting us crate the dog. It’s a dog, it will be fine. Every dog I’ve ever had has been crate trained and is perfectly well adjusted (and spoiled).

I like having them around, plus he's currently entertaining a job offer in another part of the country so it's nice to have some time in before they jet off to a new life (where it would be much harder to see him on a whim).

Job change at work. They finally hired for my old position so I’m working through transitioning stuff instead of doing double duty. Pretty amazed at how much I used to do. Still getting my feet wet in the new stuff – lots to learn.

Location change at work. We are all in cubicles now (no big deal for me but you would think some people are being tortured the way they are reacting) I think it makes me more productive (definitely less likely to go on a blog rant at work when people can walk up behind me and see it). This was a giant whuppin’ because I was in charge of this one too – at least this time everyone knew more of what they were in for and that I was pregnant so I didn’t have to lift anything (yay me).

Manfolk job change. Got a job he loves. Taking a chance on a technology company with part time hours. He was miserable before and it makes my heart happy to see him settling in to his new gig.

TheNugget is growing like crazy and sapping my brain power and energy. Brother and themanfolk painted the nursery last weekend. That’s quite a load off. 25 down… Doc scared the crap out of both of us when he told us that technically the baby could show up at any time from here on out.

All this, plus the normal family, friends and daily craziness has made me a blog slacker. I’m working on it.

A little perspective

Everyone needs a little perspective.  In times when things are going right in my world and I hear so many others beating themselves (and their families and the people around them) down with their negativity - a little outside perspective goes a long way. 

The Least Read Blog In The World!: Life and Perspective: To say that life has been challenging over the past few years would be an understatement.  It seems that every turn we have made there is so...

*shakes head*

So I have a consultant sitting next to me during a testing phase in the new work space. On his white board he wrote his to-do list:

1. Organize to do list

If he’s making more than minimum wage I may cry.