God, this week has been soooo long.  I think this is partially due to the fact that this has been my first 5-day week since last year.  Of course, I am in for 5 day weeks all the way until March 10th, which will be the last day of my last 5-day week.  Yes, only 6 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours and 16 minutes until maternity leave.  Whoo-hoo!  But I am not letting work get me down.  I am in a very good mood for some reason this morning, and I’ve even been WORKING this morning, rather than goofing off like yesterday.  Of course, once I start checking out the blogs and blogging myself, that work is probably all over, but we’ll see.  There’s  still a couple more things I really should get done.  Part of the problem is that all I have left to do now is “non-urgent” work.  Long projects like writing up a job description for the temp who will be taking over for me while I’m on maternity leave, writing instructions for them, etc.  Not exactly urgent stuff.  Although I shouldn’t put it off too long.  They’re supposed to start exactly 1 month from today. 

The other problem keeping me from working is that I am super-excited about this weekend!  We’re going to Houston, and for some reason, I always get excited when I’m leaving town, and tomorrow is my baby shower.  I’m a big dork who loves showers.  I love the games (I usually win at least one), I love the present-opening, but most of all, I love the cake.  Cake good!  I haven’t eaten any dessert all week, so tomorrow’s dessert will be my “one dessert of the week” I allow myself.  I can’t wait!  I also am Southern, so we are ingrained to love showers.  I went to a shower once and it was all wrong, they didn’t know how to run the games, how to give out prizes, how to properly greet people and get them to put on name tags, etc.  The food wasn’t even all out by the time people started arriving!  They really should have studied up a bit and I wound up kind of “taking over” despite my best intentions.  I think it’s because the shower was run by Northerners.  You can’t trust a Northerner to run a proper shower.  I realize many of the Grand Old Southern Shower Traditions are dying, but there are certain things you should always observe.  I’m trying to change with the times, both of our showers are even co-ed, which to me is so strange, why would men want to ooh and ahh over baby stuff?  But this is the norm now, I don’t even know that I’ve EVER been to an all female baby shower. 

The other reason I’m excited is that we’re going to Ikea this weekend.  Yum, Ikea!

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Comments

Tim

2006-01-27T20:10:10.000Z

is that in exchange for having a coed shower you get a husband who actually cooks, cleans and changes diapers. I’ve found most southern traditions are based upon something that seems nice until you start looking into the background. Then you realize that the men didn’t come to the showers because they had no intention to change diapers, clean the house, or cook.

Julie

2006-01-27T22:01:10.000Z

I hadn’t thought of that.  Trust me, I don’t take you for granted and I’m so glad that you’re excited enough to come to a baby shower!