I'm sitting here going through my morning routine of getting up, dressed, letting Rain out to go potty, getting breakfast and then sitting down at the computer to check for "love" as I took to calling family emails while banished away in Georgia. It is so nice to hear Washington birds singing, and watching Washington clouds roll by, and enjoy early Washington Springtime - they're all so different from Georgia's and all feel like home. :)
Yesterday Tim and I did a bunch of much needed shopping that we have been too busy to do...basics like garbage bags and household cleaners. I feel much more at home now.
I also got my doctor referral all set up and ready to go...now I just need to find a fax machine to send over a copy of my records for the doctor to go over before they accept me as a patient. It was funny though, when I went over to the Women's Health center to get my referral I knew just what I needed and so I walked right up to the desk and told them I was there to get a referral to an OB/GYN off base. They paused a second and looked at me and then said, "Have you had a pregnancy test done yet?" I gasped inwardly then said as politely as I could, since I was half flattered and half irritated, "I'm actually almost 5 months pregnant...We just transferred here from Georgia." The two ladies both stood up and looked over the rather high desk at my tummy and exclaimed there was no way I was almost 5 months...I obliged them by turning sideways (I WAS wearing a snug shirt so they should have seen something already!!) to show off my bump and they still said, now teasingly, that they didn't think I was really pregnant at all so they shouldn't give me a referral until I got a pregnancy test done, and how much they hated me, etc. It was really an odd feeling because I was half flattered and happy, and half irritated and disappointed that at one week shy of entering my 5th month they couldn't tell I was even pregnant! lol. Gah. Ah well.
Today I'm going to try to get together the Marcela...I haven't seen her face to face in about a year and a half! It's ridiculous. I still haven't met Julian yet, so I get to do that today as well...he's almost a year old already. I'm a little nervous because a) I haven't seen her in so long that I am always awkward...She never is, lucky her. :P and b) The more people I connect with again here, the more social demands on my time there will be. I've always been something of a home-body - I love having time to myself to do whatever I want or just the normal, steady domestic stuff without any pressures, and I really don't like being pushed and pulled into doing stuff I don't want to do when all I want is just some time at home. Knowing this was going to be an issue when we moved back up here, I gave myself permission to turn down any social invitation or pressure that may come my way if I wanted to. I'm a people pleaser so this is rather difficult for me, but I know that if I don't do it, I'll end up resenting the other person for "making" me do something I didn't want to...and that's not fair to them or our relationship!! Anyway, I'm just going to have to keep that up...especially as more people are added to my social group here.
Well off I get.
<3
Yesterday Tim and I did a bunch of much needed shopping that we have been too busy to do...basics like garbage bags and household cleaners. I feel much more at home now.
I also got my doctor referral all set up and ready to go...now I just need to find a fax machine to send over a copy of my records for the doctor to go over before they accept me as a patient. It was funny though, when I went over to the Women's Health center to get my referral I knew just what I needed and so I walked right up to the desk and told them I was there to get a referral to an OB/GYN off base. They paused a second and looked at me and then said, "Have you had a pregnancy test done yet?" I gasped inwardly then said as politely as I could, since I was half flattered and half irritated, "I'm actually almost 5 months pregnant...We just transferred here from Georgia." The two ladies both stood up and looked over the rather high desk at my tummy and exclaimed there was no way I was almost 5 months...I obliged them by turning sideways (I WAS wearing a snug shirt so they should have seen something already!!) to show off my bump and they still said, now teasingly, that they didn't think I was really pregnant at all so they shouldn't give me a referral until I got a pregnancy test done, and how much they hated me, etc. It was really an odd feeling because I was half flattered and happy, and half irritated and disappointed that at one week shy of entering my 5th month they couldn't tell I was even pregnant! lol. Gah. Ah well.
Today I'm going to try to get together the Marcela...I haven't seen her face to face in about a year and a half! It's ridiculous. I still haven't met Julian yet, so I get to do that today as well...he's almost a year old already. I'm a little nervous because a) I haven't seen her in so long that I am always awkward...She never is, lucky her. :P and b) The more people I connect with again here, the more social demands on my time there will be. I've always been something of a home-body - I love having time to myself to do whatever I want or just the normal, steady domestic stuff without any pressures, and I really don't like being pushed and pulled into doing stuff I don't want to do when all I want is just some time at home. Knowing this was going to be an issue when we moved back up here, I gave myself permission to turn down any social invitation or pressure that may come my way if I wanted to. I'm a people pleaser so this is rather difficult for me, but I know that if I don't do it, I'll end up resenting the other person for "making" me do something I didn't want to...and that's not fair to them or our relationship!! Anyway, I'm just going to have to keep that up...especially as more people are added to my social group here.
Well off I get.
<3
