Judecorp.

hope_persists came over last night, with buddhafly4224 and their friend, Clara. Jessica brought over some maternity clothes that belong to a friend of hers who had a baby about a year ago. Not only does she seem to be the same size as me, she also seems to have spent at least some of her growing stages in the winter - so now there are a lot of jeans, pants, sweaters, and a vest. (We don't need to talk about the velour track suit. I don't know wtf is up with that. It's pimptacular!) laserkitty sent a lot of stuff, too, but a lot of the stuff is late spring/summer weight so I will have to wait to let it come in handy. I mean, it's 40° these days but that's hardly tshirt weather... and spring around here can easily stay away until May if it's feeling ornery.

So now I have this pile of clothes on my bed and it's like having REAL choices! Of course I don't have anywhere to put them in my dresser/closet so maybe I need to temporarily move things around so I can pretend all of this stuff is actually mine. We'll have to see.

I still don't have thatpatti's box that left the nearest "big" town 20 minutes away on FEBRUARY 22ND. The post office tells me that I can put in a complaint today, and you can bet I will. However, they previously told me I could complain on the 5th and when I called, they said, "No, the 12th." So who knows what they will say today. So frustrating. I don't know why they refuse to acknowledge that they lost this package, and even though Patti says it's no big deal, I feel guilty that all of her clothes are missing.

We went for our /third/ ultrasound this week (thank goodness it's covered by insurance, yo!) and the results were /still/ not great. We were really hoping that things would be mature and lovely yesterday and we would trigger last night for an IUI on Monday morning, when I could just skip my training class and everything would be groovy. Instead, we have to trigger tonight for an IUI on Tuesday morning. Which means I needed to find someone to sub-teach my toddler playgroup. And I have two new kids starting on Tuesday, so they are coming with their parents! Ugh! (And I'm losing 5 hours of billing, which means I won't make quota, which means I can't just comp Friday out.)

We were originally just going to head to Old Navy to look for some pants but I decided that since we were already up and out of the house really early, we should go to the Wrentham outlets. I'm not usually a shopper but sometimes a little Retail Therapy goes a long way. We went into one store to look for some pants for Jen, and while she was trying them on I was looking around. And I saw this dress on the rack that I thought was really cute. I don't usually get that feeling so I was like, "Well, if they have my size, I'll try it on." (They only had two on the rack.) They had the size just below my usual size and I said, "What the heck," and tried it on. And when I walked out of the room to check the full-length mirror, this whole gaggle of women started flooding me with compliments. It was so crazy! So I was kind of bummed that I couldn't think of an event to warrant buying a dress, and then I remembered we have Mindy and Jay's wedding in two weeks. So I bought a dress! Wacky. It also needed a strapless bra so I ended up needing to buy one of those, too. I'll be the belle of the ball at the wedding, after the bride of course. ;)

So Jen ended up with 4 pairs of neat pants, and I walked out of there with the dress, a pair of jeans that actually fits (the other two pairs I've had forever fall off me), a cute summer shirt, and a pair of flip-flops. I love the way pants are cut these days (the whole popular low rise, flare leg thing) because it means most of the pants fit me no problem. Buying pants used to be so stressful! (Oh, and I'm always too short for pants, but right now cuffing and cutting are cool.)

When we went to a restroom they had one of those weight/fortune machines and I stuck a quarter in... and weighed about 5 pounds more than I did all through college! When I started working out/Metformin in Feb. 05 I weighed about 28 pounds more than I did in college. DANG! I want to weigh myself everywhere. When I get knocked up, all that excitement will go right out the window!

So now we're scheduled to IUI on Tuesday at 10. And then I need to get to work at 1 to do a couple of home visits. I could probably just take the whole day, but I'm only visiting small infants (a preemie 6monther with an adjusted age of about 3 months, and a 4monther with Down's) so I'll pretty much sit on the floor and not move around much. I shouldn't sweat the productivity thing because I'll make quota by bonus time no problem (if we make our hours by June 30, we get $1500)... but my officemates and I are really trying to have our hours done by May 31st so we can coast through June.

p.s. Birthday party/game night at Shani and Matt's last night, including an appearance from Mr. William back from Japan with armloads of Pocky and Green Tea Kit Kats. Neat!