2011

Yesterday I worked 10 hours then came home to do the dinner/bath/betime ritual with the boys.

While at work yesterday I came up with a plan to celebrate the New Year with Paul in the comfort of our own apartment while our two little boys sleep - make a stop at 7-Eleven for a $1 Redbox movie, some Smartfood, and a Slurpee (size big of course, cause anything smaller is just a waste of time). 

Those plans were out the window once I sat down after the boys were in bed though, exhaustion won.

Apparently by 7:10pm I was asleep, dead asleep.  As in the kind of sleep where you are sitting up on a couch with drool coming down face.  But the sleep was so very worth it, even with my sore neck.  Sorry P for the lacking kiss at midnight.  And as much as I hate the phrase - I have to use it as it is so very appropriate for this situation...I caught the bus (more than 5 years ago), so I have no reason to keep running. 

So I didn't keep running last night, I slept, and to be honest I don't feel bad about it.  Paul, however, did go running. 

What is the big deal about ringing in the new year with a midnight kiss anyway.  I do, afterall, have a ring (that should be) on my finger which symbolizes I can kiss Paul anytime I want.

Speaking of the ring that should be on my finger, last night my feet were so swollen that I had cankles.  I also had +2 pitting edema in my legs, or in non-nursing terms - when I push on my shin using my fingers, craters the size of the grand canyon remain.  I wish I was joking.  Disgusting!  Anyway, I am 30 weeks pregnant, so it seems like I am going to have 9 long weeks left of water retention.

and this is all over the place.

So it is 2011, and as usual I have no resolutions. 

In fact, I am dreading the crowded gym for the next month and a half because of all the people who actually make resolutions.  Perhaps Okay, so this is totally rude, but I actually look forward to the resolutioners who fail in their gym resolution attempts.  No, I don't wish that they would fail, I hope that they can continue on with the positive lifestyle choices they are trying to make... 

But there is just something so irritating about waiting forever to use an elliptical machine that is currently occupied by someone who hasn't exercised in forever, and for their first time they plan on going for 60 minutes.  Or lap swimming in a lane with someone who thinks that they are fast enough to keep up in the "medium" lane, when actually they should be in the "super slow" lane if there even was such a thing.   Come on...seriously!  Make some realistic resolutions.  No wonder the failure rate is so high!

So here is to a lovely 2011.

2011 for us will be filled with a lot of exciting changes...

• P applying for jobs and going on multiple interviews
• A job offer for P 
• The completion of my first year working as a RN
• Lots of diaper changes - two little ones in diapers come March with the birth of our baby girl!  Perhaps I should seriously consider cloth?
• K leaning to talk
• R starting preschool - next week to be exact!
• Moving wherever P gets a job offer.
• Moving into a house (which, after being apartment dwellers since marriage this is beyond exciting for us)
• The search of a new nursing job for me, depending on wherever P's job takes us.