A morning to myself

We are trying to teach the cats to use the (hefty) cat door into the basement. Daedalus and Ralph seem to have it down. Fin is lagging behind, as always. Man, he is a dumb cat. For at least 8 months, he was scared of /wind/. Hopefully he will get it soon so we can move the food bowls and litter box down there and then we don't need to have them around in the middle of the house. Especially the litter box. Yuck.

Jen went to work this morning for the first time since all the drama. I miss her. I like having her around even if she is just puttering around the house. She has me all set up, though - she put a blanket on the couch and a bottle of water on the coffee table for when I want to move into the living room. She was going to move my computer and everything for me but I like having a little computer time in bed on lazy mornings. Which this definitely is.

I am going stir crazy with the rest and I am very tempted to do a lot of work around the house, especially fill the dressers with clothes since they are now put together and I have been DYING to get the clothes out of boxes. But it's only one more day before I go for my follow-up and I think I can handle taking it easy for one more day until we can see what's up. We are so hopeful for good news and I am soaking up positive stories like a parched sponge - especially people who have lost twins AND had bleeding and still had a healthy pregnancy. I would really like to be one of those stories.

In a little over 24 hours (tomorrow at 10am), we will have more information. Jen is missing the morning of work so she can come with. I feel bad about her missing so much work but I know that it will be so much better to have her with me. She is the greatest ever.

Job

Well, I got the 3/4 time office job at St0newall with my former boss. I start January 2nd. By then hopefully we will be in our second trimester and things will be looking good.

Also, Former Boss and I will be working hard to get administration to turn the temporary Office Manager job into a full-time Assistant Director job for the next school year. Then I can languish away in Big Gay Academia. Also State Employee-ism.

At the very least, when this job ends I'll be able to apply for internal positions.

Job overkill, or, Wow, I'm so wanted.

So a couple of hours after I got the e-mail from my former boss that I was officially hired at St0newall, I got an e-mail from the Director of that long-term care program I interviewed at - and THEY want to hire me, too. Augh.

I'm already committed to the St0newall job (was committed as soon as I expressed interest, actually) and that job is the best job for me as a pregnant chick (because of the lower hours and easy work). But now that I might not be a pregnant chick? Yeah, I worry that we made a poor choice.

It is amazing how much of this is wrapped up in each other. When we decided about the part-time job, it was never even a thought that we might not be pregnant. Maybe that's naivete on our part, but it just didn't even factor in. It was unfathomable. We had seen heartbeats and the RE said we could expect a normal twin pregnancy.

Gosh, I hope it's still unfathomable. I am so scared for tomorrow. Please be growing, little dude!

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In other news, there is some movie on A&E tonight called Gays On Strike starring John Stamos as A GAY. Ha ha ha, we are SO watching. I love cable.