Well, I was going to write something but Jellybean is calling my name. I will try and post something later.

A very long week!!!!

It's been a very looooonnnnnggg week!!!!!

I LOVE my new job. It really is the job I have been looking for since I graduated, almost 8 years (8 years, how the hell did that happen). I just love the people I am working with, they are all great. Everyone is professional, but they all have a great time too. It is such a relaxed atmosphere, it's just great.

Of course, with starting this new full time, 8 to 4:30 job, bring having to put the Jellybean in daycare, which I am not very happy about. But the center where we are taking her is great. All of the ladies in the Infants room just adore her, and she is only going three days a week right now. She will probably start going all week in March. Chuck feels that his schedule will change to having Saturdays and Sundays off. This makes me very happy and very sad. Happy in that we will finally get to start doing things together again, other than just see each other in the evenings and before one or both of us leave for work in the morning. We haven't had the same days off since August, but that happens when one of you works at a park that is open seven days a week. Sad that we will have to put the Jellybean in daycare five days and she will only get to be with us two. However she will get to be with both of us for those two days.

I have to say that Jellybean did really well these last three days. We didn't do too bad either. Chuck had a harder time than I did, but that's because I have been in a very intents training session all week. Wednesday, her first day at the center, was a very sloooooow day at the park, so Chuck had a great deal of free time to just sit and think about her, which wasn't a great thing.

I am hoping to start bloging more, we will just have to wait and see if it happens or not. The office is also Jellybean's nursery, so once she goes to bed at night, there is no using the computer. And of course when I first get home, I want to spend all my time with her, plus I have to make dinner (usually have to clean the kitchen first) and try and spend some time with Chuck.

Thus if I am not here very often, it's not because I do not want to be, it's because I just don't have the time.

Yes I know it's been a week since my last post, but I've been busy. Between trying to get everything ready for the Jellybean to start daycare (which she did today), getting ready to start my new job, trying to finish unpacking (which isn't going so well) and trying to stay on top of the kitchen and lanudry, getting online is difficult, don't even mention blogging.

Well as I stated earlier, the Jellybean started daycare today. She did fine, and if I hadn't had to run home to get my training binder before work and continue with my very difficult training program, I'm sure that I would not have been. I was just too busy with everything going on at work that I didn't really have time to think about the fact that she wasn't at home with her daddy, that someone else was taking care of her. Everyone at the center just adores her, thinks that she is just wonderful, it makes it a little easier.

The new job is GREAT!!!!!!!!!

This is the type of company and job I have been looking for since I finished college. Everyone is professional. They know what it takes to run a company and do so in a way that will not cause everyone to want to go somewhere else. I really cannot wait until I am done with my two week training session so that I can actually get out there and start doing my job.

On that note, I still have a number of things I need to get done tonight before I can even think about going to bed, and believe my bed is calling me!!!

Today I did something I have never had to do before in my entire life ... I had to go take a drug test, for the new job, of course, but it is still weird. You would think that as a brand-new mom, which the company knows I am, I wouldn't have to take one, but I guess there are enough women out there that being a new mom won't stop them from taking something, so I have to take one. I do not want to sound judgemental or superior or anything like that, I just have never understood taking drugs or mind-altering chemicals or whatever you want to call them and I never have. In fact, I have never smoked a cigarette or even been drunk for that matter. It's just not my thing. I enjoy a good drink now and then, just not to excess.

It's werid, but having to take a drug test made me feel dirty(???), (I don't know if dirty is the right word or not, but it is the only one I can think of right now). I feel like I am starting off this new job on the wrong footing simply because of this drug test. I know that I am clean and always have been, and that I never would and never will go to work impaired, not when you do want I do. You do not work with chemicals or microbials with anything but a clear and clean mind. I guess I feel like my integrity is in question and that bothers me, does that make any sense to anyone???

Yes, I realise that it has been almost a week since my last post, what can I say, I've been busy and while I have a lot to say, I truly did not realise how difficult it can be to think of things to post about. Well we finally have a day-care for the Jellybean. It is only a few minutes away from my new job and I am hopeful that this will be a good fit all the way around.

I have to say that neither of us were overly happy about signing the care of our daughter to someone else, especially someone who is not family, however we have no other options, at least not at this time. She will only be in three days a week, since Chuck has Mondays and Tuesdays off right now, and even though we have to pay for a full week, whether she is there or not, we both feel it is better for us to spend as much time with her as possible.

I have finally gotten Jellybean's crib done. Chuck put it together a couple of weeks ago and it has been a catch all for her toys and extra clothes and other things. Now it is a glowing tribute to Classic Winn the Pooh. We even have a mobile that plays "Winn the Pooh". I cannot wait to take a picture of her in it surrounded by all of her stuffed animals, of which she already has at least 15.

So today the Jellybean had her first vaccines and so far she is doing just fine. She is a little more sleepy that normal at this time of the evening, but other wise is she her normal happy little self. Of course, I could not be happier, she never even made a sound with any of the FOUR shots she got today. Yes, these are her first vaccines as I refused the Hep B vaccine in the hospital when she was first born and she will not be receiving her Hep B series until she is at least a year old. I spoke with her doctor about my concerns about newborns receiving the Hep B series and Dr. B agrees with me. Since we are not in a high risk group and will not be traveling to the Far East or Central and South America any time soon, there is no reason for a newborn to have to undergo a Hep B series. Thus the Jellybean will have one less vaccine series to undergo, at least for now anyway.

She is growing like a weed. She is now 12 lbs 9 oz and 23 in long. She is in the 90% for weight and 75% for lenght and head circum. I still cannot believe that she is mine. Sometimes I wonder when "they're" going to come and take her away, telling me my time is up, you know what I mean??? It just doesn't seem possible that she is mine. I look at her and just marvel at her, how perfect she is, how she is so tollerant of everything going on around her, she is just amazing.

The last couple of days have been extremely busy. We are still trying to get our apartment unpacked and organized, which is difficult when you do not share a day off with your husband, and you are trying to take care of a two month old and catch up on sleep. Then you add in the fact that aside from not sharing days off, you work different shifts. Chuck gets home and I have to leave, most days we only get to see each other for a few minutes in the morning, and a few minutes in the evening, before clasping a little after midnight.

But all of that is about to change ... because I just got a new job. I start on the 22nd and I cannot wait. Hopefully this is the last time I have to look for a new job. I am going to work for a great company that has been around for a long time and is not just nationwide, but world wide. I had an interview yesterday at 11, and got an offer before 1. Besides more money, there is the opportunity to work from home part time, of course that will not be for some time, as I have to get through training and up to speed. Hopefully, with any luck I am finally done paying my dues and finally have a job worth going to and keeping.

Now on to a completely different subject, I will post some pictures of the Jellybean in the next couple of days (as requested by her Aunt Becky and her Grammy). I just need to find a few extra minutes to do so. And now I need to get going as I am at work and really should get something done, but even if I don't, what are they going to do ... Fire me?!?!!?!

So here I sit at work, yes work, at 8:31 pm on Saturday night to complete my mandatory 6 hours of overtime. I will have to work another mandatory 6 hours next Saturday as well. All of this due to the astonishingly inept management of the department I work in. Without going into too much detail, we have ~18,000 surgical procedures to review, clean of mistakes and lock the data for sponsor upload, and we are no where close to being done. The data upload is to take place on Jan. 18th, management has only know about this since June, but did they do anything to insure that we would meet the deadline, no not until two weeks ago, even with 40 plus people working on this we will never get it done. Of course, when all is said and done, it will some how be "our" fault and not managements.

I will, however, not be staying until midnight as I was here until midnight last night (Friday night) and I only got roughly 4 and half hours of sleep last night (or early this morning) as Little Miss Jellybean decided to wake up at 4:30am. I got up to feed and change her as C had to be at work this morning. She ate just fine and then went back to sleep and I was back in bed at roughly 4:50am. I figured she would be good until at least 6:30am, if not 7:00am, but NO, she woke back up at 5:15am. I got up, gave her her pasie and went back to bed. She woke back up again about 5:30am, so you can see where this is going. I decided to just get up with her so she did not wake up her daddy and we went out to the front room. C got up at 6:45am to get ready for work and the Jellybean was still wide awake. I managed to get two short (very short) cat-naps in today, but neither was enough.

I guess I should wrap this up, as I am at work and I really should do something productive. So I will sign off for the night.

Well, this is my first post. After reading a number of different blogs for several years now, I have finally decided to start my own. I will be working on all aspect of the design in the coming days and weeks, hopefully to make this truly my own space.

I have a number of topics and issues I plan to make comments on, but of course most of them have decided to evacuate the neighborhood. On that note, I will post this and make history, well at least history for me.