nagi_schwarz | Day 1365: Seven weeks and counting

The good:

Surviving the week! Starting a new K-drama! Getting my words back. Still not like they were before Baby Seedling came along, but definitely better than those first few weeks. Hanging out with family! Went out for Thai Food with MIL and my husband's brothers and the one SO the younger one has. It was spicy but good. We had some good laughs for sure. Also we hung out with Cody's younger brother and his girlfriend at their place to watch the fights on Saturday night, which was fun. We had homemade tacos and a good time watching the fights. For once the place wasn't crowded with junkies, instead just straight-up fight fans, and we all yelled at the TV together. Also I spent the fights texting a colleague of mine who's also into the fights - he was watching as well - so we had a good time.

Fall is here! I'm not a fan of being cold but I am a fan of pumpkin spice and being warm. We took out our swamp cooler and window AC and fired up the furnace, and now we're breaking out the blankets and sweater. I need to finish my knitted sweater for reals, just to see how it fits (I suspect not well, even though I followed the pattern directions very closely).

Hanging out with my husband. I swear he hangs out with me more. Often just to pat my belly and look both fond and anxious. But we spent all day Saturday building sheaths for our knives - after I helped him mount handles the night before. Also on Sunday we went for a long drive while we listened to conference, and after we had dinner with our sweet old neighbor.

I got to have sodas (non-caffeinated, but yay ginger ale) with the ladies at the soda shack, along with snickerdoodles covered in pumpkin frosting. Usually I hate pumpkin frosting but those cookies are amazing.

The bad:

Tired all the time. Nauseous all the time. Dingo threw up multiple times.

Work. Always work. Had some long days. Had some brutal days. Had some chill days. Had a hearing left off my calendar and missed it. I felt really bad.

Driving in northern rush hour traffic makes me super cranky. Driving in rush hour traffic because my meeting ran well over an hour while my client described, in horrifying detail, about the time she was raped when she was seven, was almost more than my nerves could take.

A guy I knew in law school is on one of my cases as private counsel. He sat down beside me in the hallway and said, I hate these cases. So I said, Welcome to my life.

And then he asked me to jump ship and join him in private practice. Which...was flattering, but where I'm looking to be a stay-at-home mom, starting a new job while things are uncertain for my future is a poor choice.

Poor Cody has not been sleeping well or feeling well all this week, so I continue to be worried about him even though he is making progress on his dissertation and in the lab in general. Lab politics sound downright awful.

Check-in:

Fitness! Not so great. I'm tired and lazy all the time. Missed dance class again. But I have started walking Dingo and doing yoga again, so yay!

Spirituality! Better. Cody and I are working together to improve, so that's been helpful. I'm like every other human out there, only interested in spiritual guidance and assistance when things are rough, like making sure Baby Seedling continues to do all right.

Writing! Better than the week before and most of the month before. Getting my words back, which feels good, even though I'm blowing a lot of soft deadlines. Just gonna stick to the hard ones and not bite off any more than I can chew, which is not a lot these days.

Work! Now that I've started that prep course, I think gearing up for that test is going better. I am also doing my best to make sure I'm up on statutes and case law going into hearings.

Here's to this week going better! Having today as a holiday was pretty awesome, no lies.