TMI

You've been warned.....

So I'm sitting here with no pants on as I write this post. Why? Because it feels like NONE of my pants fit anymore!!! It's so frustrating! I've only gained 20 pounds my entire pregnancy but my stomach is sticking out to kingdom come and all of the elastic feels super tight. It actually makes Max uncomfortable too when I sit. He squirms more. It's awful. I'm actually thinking of looking for those underwear I bought like months ago that I swore would NEVER fit me, just to see if they do!
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So I've been having Braxton Hicks contractions about 4 an hour the last several days. They've started to slow down today, but they're super uncomfortable. My doctor said that I'm not dilated at all yet, which is good, but that if I get 6 or more in an hour I need to go to the ER. Then he says, "So are you still working full time?" Ummm, yes! I'm going to work until he tells me I can't work anymore. I don't want to waste any sick pay. I'd rather get paid for staying at home with Max. And I think he's tired of being in there. He won't stop moving! All the time. Stretching, pushing, kicking, punching, bumping. I'm going crazy! At some point I thought he was supposed to get too big to move this much. When is that going to happen?!?!?!
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My transmission also exploded yesterday. I was driving down the highway at 70 miles per hour, okay probably more like 75 miles per hour, and all of the sudden the engine started making this horrible sound and the car started to slow down. When I tried to hit the gas, I got nothing. So I put on my emergency flashers, cut over three lanes of traffic, and drove up the berm at 20 miles per hour. Fortunately I was at my work exit and I was able to drive at 20 miles per hour down the street to the mechanic I trust. They looked at the car and told me the transmission casing is cracked. So they can't rebuild it, they have to replace it. Several thousand dollars later, I'll have my car back on Thursday. *sigh* Just when we were getting our savings account back where we wanted it from the June flood.
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I've been taking a lot of abuse from parents via email at work lately. I'm not sure if they don't realize how rude they sound, or if they don't care. Here's an example: (This is just a portion of a letter from an irate grandmother. Her son (the student's father) had been sent a letter at the beginning of the year explaining a long term assignment that was given. The dad signed that he understood the assignment and that it was a long term grade that would more strongly affect his son's quarterly grade. That obviously wasn't enough for grandma.)

"As you can see, I am very unhappy about the situation...even though his Father signed the paperwork, he was not aware that Student X was not fulfilling his assignment. Now that we are aware of it, we will make sure there is not a repeat of the situation. Perhaps some thought should be given to some kind of an alert to parents before the 11th hour has been reached...even though by the 7th grade students need to take more responsibility."

No, perhaps some thought should have been given to the fact that PARENTS are responsible for asking their child if their homework is done. Now, didn't I just mention that dad was made aware of the assignment 9 weeks ago? That he acknowledge that he understood it was a LONG TERM assignment. Doesn't that make it HIS responsibility to be aware or whether his son is working on this assignment? I didn't realize that it was my job to send home a second notice to every parent that they should be periodically asking their child if they do their homework and school projects. I obviously wasn't thinking when I assumed that PARENTS were responsible for keeping track of these things AT HOME. Silly me.