It's Sunday early evening and I'm working....something that next to no one in France can say they are doing at this time! Most of my friends are finishing up their day of skiing, and I'm here working.
O and did I mention that my boss hasn't paid us? Yep, our pay was due on Feb 1....it's Feb 24. What a great guy, I'm so happy to work over my weekend extra hours on his project.
YUCK!
On another note...the hubs and I are fighting (over working all weekend & still not being preggo).
Basically this morning went like this:
-Woke up...took a pregnancy test. I'm due for AF (aunt Flow) on Tuesday....it was NEGATIVE...just like the other 50 I've taken thus far. I'm defeated, but honestly it's expected since we only tried 4 times (due to David working until 1-4am every single night this month) so I wasn't that upset.
-David rolled over about an hour after that, I told him it was wierd that the test was negative since I'm having a few funny symptoms. He proceeded to tell me that I need to stop stressing, that it will happen when its meant to happen, that I shouldn't get so worked up.
Which in turn MAKES ME worked up & upset ab the situation. I start to feel shitty, and like I will never get preggo.
-We leave for church, where I proceed to CRY....in church. How embarrassing!! I was atleast able to pull myself together for communion.
-After church we poured drinks at reception, where everyone gathers for a bit of socializing. Here a friend proceeds to ask when we're having kids. I take a deep breath, trying not to cry, and say that we're leaving it up to God (since we've tried everything known to man, I didn't tell him this, but I was def thinking it!).
And now it's 6pm, and I should be in full relatxation mode, but NOPE...I'm working.
What is today's lesson?? Hmmm....that God has a master plan for an amazing child and an amazing career for David & me and that I just need to have a little patience!! Shit, I hope so!
Oh and did I mention that David's drug addict, loser friend ( I use that term loosely, more like an acquaintance) just had a baby yesterday. Oh and he has medical debit (from a drug overdose) of something like $40k. Great guy, totally deserving of a child. Lesson to be learned here?? Life isn't fair!!
Awesome weekend, can't wait for the week!
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
The Weekend Wrap Up
Phew...this weekend FLEW by.
Friday we were scheduled to meet with our clients to present their projects, but unfortunately the workload was too much and we were forced to pushed the meeting to Saturday. I despise Saturday meetings, but this one wasn't too bad:
1. The client LOVED everything. Small tweaks here and there, but overall everything was approved and is now moving forward YAY.
2. We had lunch at the restaurant (for free) after our meeting...love that perk!
3. Ran into friends while having our FREE lunch, and got a chance to catch up.
After that we hustled to the car rental place to pick up our ride for the weekend.
We drove to Limone (just 1.5 hours drive from Monaco). We left Monaco around 5pm, so we were in Limone around 7pm since we took a pit stop when one of the doggies got car sick with all the windy, twisty switch backs into the mountains. We arrived to our hotel: hotel marguareis....which was THE ONLY HOTEL WITH A ROOM. We booked last minute and had to pay the consequences. We arrived (with the dogs) and the first thing I notice on the door is the NO DOGS sign. Ah, shit....o well we will sneak them in. Checked into our room, no probs. Changed our clothes and went out to meet our friends for dinner. On our way back the hubs says "check out is tomorrow at 10:30am, what are we gonna do with the dogs while we ski tomorrow?". O man...small crisis.
After dinner, we stop at the front desk to book another night since clearly we can't check out at 10:30am. The lady proceeds to tell me that they can't keep us in our room they will have to move us. Ok, no probs. Then we head back to our room for bed. Let's make a note regarding this hotel...our room smells like piss, the bed cover is disgusting and smells so much that I can't sleep because it bothers me so much. Not to mention the bed and pillow are like sleeping on cement. Oh yea, and the walls are so thin that I can hear some other guy snoring all night. Needless to say we got an AWESOME night of sleep.
Wake up in the morning, head downstairs for breakfast. Not much to choose from...yogurt, cereal, a hot croissant, coffee and hot cocoa. The lady from the front desk comes over to our table to let us know that they have to put us in a different room for the following night, and it won't be ready until 2om...so they will just move our stuff into our new room once it's ready. PROBLEM....we have our doggies (who are staying here illegally). So we are forced to tell them about the dogs. They get pissed, and call a different hotel for us to stay in. All I can say is THANK GOD.
Our new hotel is nice and clean, the staff is friendly, bathroom is better AND we have a balcony with an amazing view. La Piazzetta, needless to say we will be staying here next time we visit Limone. Here's the link if you need it: http://www.lapiazzettalimone.it/!
So our Sunday morning was a bit stressful with the hotel move. But we finally head out to rent our ski gear and get to the mountain...and have an amazing day of skiing with great weather, great friends and only a few falls!! After that we headed back to the hotel where I proceeded to get the chills, and feel like shit. O NO...I'm getting the flu. I feel like I couldn't get warm and I proceed to get an excruciating headache which continues until mid day on Monday. No good.
Here I am Monday at workie, and finally have taken some Tylenol to get rid of the headache....so now I'm feeling pretty good and happy with a nice little weekend. Here's to another great week ahead of us!!
Friday we were scheduled to meet with our clients to present their projects, but unfortunately the workload was too much and we were forced to pushed the meeting to Saturday. I despise Saturday meetings, but this one wasn't too bad:
1. The client LOVED everything. Small tweaks here and there, but overall everything was approved and is now moving forward YAY.
2. We had lunch at the restaurant (for free) after our meeting...love that perk!
3. Ran into friends while having our FREE lunch, and got a chance to catch up.
After that we hustled to the car rental place to pick up our ride for the weekend.
We drove to Limone (just 1.5 hours drive from Monaco). We left Monaco around 5pm, so we were in Limone around 7pm since we took a pit stop when one of the doggies got car sick with all the windy, twisty switch backs into the mountains. We arrived to our hotel: hotel marguareis....which was THE ONLY HOTEL WITH A ROOM. We booked last minute and had to pay the consequences. We arrived (with the dogs) and the first thing I notice on the door is the NO DOGS sign. Ah, shit....o well we will sneak them in. Checked into our room, no probs. Changed our clothes and went out to meet our friends for dinner. On our way back the hubs says "check out is tomorrow at 10:30am, what are we gonna do with the dogs while we ski tomorrow?". O man...small crisis.
After dinner, we stop at the front desk to book another night since clearly we can't check out at 10:30am. The lady proceeds to tell me that they can't keep us in our room they will have to move us. Ok, no probs. Then we head back to our room for bed. Let's make a note regarding this hotel...our room smells like piss, the bed cover is disgusting and smells so much that I can't sleep because it bothers me so much. Not to mention the bed and pillow are like sleeping on cement. Oh yea, and the walls are so thin that I can hear some other guy snoring all night. Needless to say we got an AWESOME night of sleep.
Wake up in the morning, head downstairs for breakfast. Not much to choose from...yogurt, cereal, a hot croissant, coffee and hot cocoa. The lady from the front desk comes over to our table to let us know that they have to put us in a different room for the following night, and it won't be ready until 2om...so they will just move our stuff into our new room once it's ready. PROBLEM....we have our doggies (who are staying here illegally). So we are forced to tell them about the dogs. They get pissed, and call a different hotel for us to stay in. All I can say is THANK GOD.
Our new hotel is nice and clean, the staff is friendly, bathroom is better AND we have a balcony with an amazing view. La Piazzetta, needless to say we will be staying here next time we visit Limone. Here's the link if you need it: http://www.lapiazzettalimone.it/!
So our Sunday morning was a bit stressful with the hotel move. But we finally head out to rent our ski gear and get to the mountain...and have an amazing day of skiing with great weather, great friends and only a few falls!! After that we headed back to the hotel where I proceeded to get the chills, and feel like shit. O NO...I'm getting the flu. I feel like I couldn't get warm and I proceed to get an excruciating headache which continues until mid day on Monday. No good.
Monday, February 11, 2013
16 Ways To Not Blow My Marriage
So as you all know, I'm obsessed with Pinterest...and I found this gem there today and got to thinking about my own life and my own relationship.
And I realized that some of the things on here, my hubs and I are totally guilty of. Shame on us, and with the wonderful season of lent upon us...I think we will not only work on our relationship with God, but our relationship with eachother!
So in response to Dan's 16 ways be blew his marriage...here are 16 ways that I will try to avoid blowing mine.
1. Don't stop holding hands....ok, check this one we do and do often!
2. Don't stop trying to be attractive. I admit, with the cold and gross weather when I'm home I don't always get myself put together. But this is an easy one that I can fix!!
3. Don't always point out weaknesses. Hmmm, this will be a hard one since David's weakness of procrastination may be impeding our future. But I guess I can try...
4. Don't stop cooking for eachother...ok, check. We still do this one as well.
5. Don't yell at your spouse. Hollering for another cookie from the couch is bad manners, ugh...even with a 50m2 apartment I totally find myself doing this. Having grown up with a younger brother, his job was to do all my dirty work while I lounged languidly (alliteration...yay me) on the couch. I guess I shouldn't make my poor hubs be the slave I made my bro be. Ok, David, you're getting an upgrade. From now on, I will drag my sorry ass off the couch to get whatever I need**.
**Unless one of the dogs are sitting on my lap, it would be absolutely terrible to disrupt them!!
6. Don't call names. I must sound like a mah-jor bitch because I am constantly nagging on poor David....but I guess I will try to curb that. But again, I can't help it if he's impossible to deal with sometimes.
7. Don't be stingy with money. Ok, check...we already do that. We have our budget and mostly stick to it. So here we are good!
8. Don't argue in front of kids. Our fur babies don't understand english, ok that's a lie....they totally do, but they don't mind if we argue. SO we're good here! And hopefully soon, when the stork finally decides to make it all the way to MONACO to drop off our baby, we will definitely NOT argue in front of her. You hear that Mr. Stork...we will be the best, most amazing, most deserving parents ever. So how's about you pay us a visit, ok??
9. Don't encourage one anther to skip working out. Check and check...this we totally do not do. Normally we are trying to encourage one another TO work out.
10. Don't poop with the bathroom door open. Ok, I'm not even going there...Done and DONE....
11. Don't stop kissing. Check and check....we smooch everywhere we go. Restaurants, trains, planes, automobiles. HELLO I married a Brazilian, he's totally into the PDA thing!! YAY for moi!
12. Don't pressure one another. Oh, you mean my expectations of David supporting me fully after having our baby is pressure? Ok, sorry...I will stop doing that.
13. Don't stop having fun together. Not gonna lie, we're in a rut....it's pretty bad. I mostly blame it on the weather. Oh and the fact that we just took a 1 month vacay to the US and Brazil, so funds are pretty tight. But I'm telling you, if we don't do "something fun" to get out of the house next weekend, I may commit suicide (please all of you serious ppl out there, this is a joke, I value my life WAyyyyyy too much to do something as silly as that). But yea, seriously, we need to do something fun and SOON!
14. Don't label eachother with negative labels. Ah, that sounds easy enough, even if David is a lazy idiot. I totally can handle this(again, joking ppl!!)!
15. Don't skip out on things that are important to him. Ok, I won't, wait....what's important to him that I might skip out on?? Hmm, dunno so I'm not going to worry about it!
16. Don't emotionally distance yourself after a fight. Naw, not us....when we fight big we make up big. No distance between us here :)
Now that I have my personal business all out there....how's ur relationship measure up to all these things? Are there some things you should fix? Not gonna lie, I'm pretty proud of my relationship. Not that it's 100% perfect, there's always more work to be put in. So why not start today?
And I realized that some of the things on here, my hubs and I are totally guilty of. Shame on us, and with the wonderful season of lent upon us...I think we will not only work on our relationship with God, but our relationship with eachother!
So in response to Dan's 16 ways be blew his marriage...here are 16 ways that I will try to avoid blowing mine.
1. Don't stop holding hands....ok, check this one we do and do often!
2. Don't stop trying to be attractive. I admit, with the cold and gross weather when I'm home I don't always get myself put together. But this is an easy one that I can fix!!
3. Don't always point out weaknesses. Hmmm, this will be a hard one since David's weakness of procrastination may be impeding our future. But I guess I can try...
4. Don't stop cooking for eachother...ok, check. We still do this one as well.
5. Don't yell at your spouse. Hollering for another cookie from the couch is bad manners, ugh...even with a 50m2 apartment I totally find myself doing this. Having grown up with a younger brother, his job was to do all my dirty work while I lounged languidly (alliteration...yay me) on the couch. I guess I shouldn't make my poor hubs be the slave I made my bro be. Ok, David, you're getting an upgrade. From now on, I will drag my sorry ass off the couch to get whatever I need**.
**Unless one of the dogs are sitting on my lap, it would be absolutely terrible to disrupt them!!
6. Don't call names. I must sound like a mah-jor bitch because I am constantly nagging on poor David....but I guess I will try to curb that. But again, I can't help it if he's impossible to deal with sometimes.
7. Don't be stingy with money. Ok, check...we already do that. We have our budget and mostly stick to it. So here we are good!
8. Don't argue in front of kids. Our fur babies don't understand english, ok that's a lie....they totally do, but they don't mind if we argue. SO we're good here! And hopefully soon, when the stork finally decides to make it all the way to MONACO to drop off our baby, we will definitely NOT argue in front of her. You hear that Mr. Stork...we will be the best, most amazing, most deserving parents ever. So how's about you pay us a visit, ok??
9. Don't encourage one anther to skip working out. Check and check...this we totally do not do. Normally we are trying to encourage one another TO work out.
10. Don't poop with the bathroom door open. Ok, I'm not even going there...Done and DONE....
11. Don't stop kissing. Check and check....we smooch everywhere we go. Restaurants, trains, planes, automobiles. HELLO I married a Brazilian, he's totally into the PDA thing!! YAY for moi!
12. Don't pressure one another. Oh, you mean my expectations of David supporting me fully after having our baby is pressure? Ok, sorry...I will stop doing that.
13. Don't stop having fun together. Not gonna lie, we're in a rut....it's pretty bad. I mostly blame it on the weather. Oh and the fact that we just took a 1 month vacay to the US and Brazil, so funds are pretty tight. But I'm telling you, if we don't do "something fun" to get out of the house next weekend, I may commit suicide (please all of you serious ppl out there, this is a joke, I value my life WAyyyyyy too much to do something as silly as that). But yea, seriously, we need to do something fun and SOON!
14. Don't label eachother with negative labels. Ah, that sounds easy enough, even if David is a lazy idiot. I totally can handle this(again, joking ppl!!)!
15. Don't skip out on things that are important to him. Ok, I won't, wait....what's important to him that I might skip out on?? Hmm, dunno so I'm not going to worry about it!
16. Don't emotionally distance yourself after a fight. Naw, not us....when we fight big we make up big. No distance between us here :)
Now that I have my personal business all out there....how's ur relationship measure up to all these things? Are there some things you should fix? Not gonna lie, I'm pretty proud of my relationship. Not that it's 100% perfect, there's always more work to be put in. So why not start today?
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
No Buns in This Oven - YET!
Yay, guess what came in the mail today? Our ovulation prediction kit!!
Remember how I mentioned we were trying to conceive?? Well it's been over 3 months now, and we're pulling out the big guns!
I'm currently reading "Eat, Love, Get Pregnant" by Niels Lauersen about changing our diet to prep for a baby, and to continue eating this awesome diet while preggo since it's the best nutrition for a developing baby. It's basically adding 5 or more of the following per day: walnuts, avocado, bluberries, raspberries, pomegranite, quinoa, brown rice, oranges, sweet potato, celery, ice cream (yes, you read that right)...the list goes on, but I'd hate to bore you!
In addition I ordered some ovulation predictor sticks, which basically measure your LH (Luteinising Hormone) levels, and during a spike is when you are ovulating. Giving us a 24-36 hour window to "do the deed" to try to make our little one.
We decided to take the month of Feb off, and start again in March since I was getting a bit worked up over the fact that it hadn't happend for us yet and to give our new diet a chance to start. But I plan on trying out the ovulation predictor strips to see if I'm even ovulating...which could be the reason for our lack of pregnancy yet.
I'm excited to have a plan in place and work the plan, and to soon become parents! baby dust!!
Remember how I mentioned we were trying to conceive?? Well it's been over 3 months now, and we're pulling out the big guns!
I'm currently reading "Eat, Love, Get Pregnant" by Niels Lauersen about changing our diet to prep for a baby, and to continue eating this awesome diet while preggo since it's the best nutrition for a developing baby. It's basically adding 5 or more of the following per day: walnuts, avocado, bluberries, raspberries, pomegranite, quinoa, brown rice, oranges, sweet potato, celery, ice cream (yes, you read that right)...the list goes on, but I'd hate to bore you!
In addition I ordered some ovulation predictor sticks, which basically measure your LH (Luteinising Hormone) levels, and during a spike is when you are ovulating. Giving us a 24-36 hour window to "do the deed" to try to make our little one.
We decided to take the month of Feb off, and start again in March since I was getting a bit worked up over the fact that it hadn't happend for us yet and to give our new diet a chance to start. But I plan on trying out the ovulation predictor strips to see if I'm even ovulating...which could be the reason for our lack of pregnancy yet.
I'm excited to have a plan in place and work the plan, and to soon become parents! baby dust!!
Monday, February 4, 2013
Positivity for a New Week
Well, it's the start of another week....and here's to moving forward and hoping that this week is better than last.
Last week was full of tears, disappointment, loneliness, anger, isolation, poor eating, too much drinking, laziness, and numerous other things that were bad and not how I want to live my life.
Therefore this week will be full of: fun, friendship, laughter, smiling, eating healthy, drinking in moderation, running and exercising, cleaning and more!
I already started the week out right with this cute little outfit to make me feel more confident and walk a little taller.
So here's to a great, awesome, wonderful, amazing week tout le monde!!
Last week was full of tears, disappointment, loneliness, anger, isolation, poor eating, too much drinking, laziness, and numerous other things that were bad and not how I want to live my life.
Therefore this week will be full of: fun, friendship, laughter, smiling, eating healthy, drinking in moderation, running and exercising, cleaning and more!
I already started the week out right with this cute little outfit to make me feel more confident and walk a little taller.
So here's to a great, awesome, wonderful, amazing week tout le monde!!
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