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Feeling the pinch this week before our paycheck on Friday, so it's back to cooking until we get paid. Ingredients in the house are low, so dinner was hamburgers. I had planned some roasted sweet potatoes as a side since we didn't have fries or regular potatoes, but when I pulled them out of the bin I discovered they all had foot-long sprouts coming out of them, so they went into the trash instead. 

Kate ate all the cheese off the top of her hamburger patty and then ignored the meat. XP I supplemented her and M's dinners with some frozen potstickers, which seems to satisfy them both. 

Serbian pork for dinner tonight, since I have all the ingredients for that. 

Besides cooking dinner, the rest of the evening was pretty quiet. Kate was in a much better mood, except for a few small fusses about wanting to brush her teeth, which is her new favorite activity. She went down easily for the night, which was a relief. 

M heard back from HR at New Job, and all they need is a verification of employment letter and his college transcripts, and all this should be done with. The letter has been obtained, we're just waiting on the transcripts now. I know M will be massively relieved when all this is over with and he can put in his notice at Current Job. 

Saturday was a very busy day.  Had to get up early to get to LabCorp as soon as they opened so I could do my stupid gestational diabetes test. They give you a sugar drink then wait an hour to draw your blood, so it was a lot of sitting and waiting for just a few minutes of actual stuff to do. Got there at 8AM as the doors opened and it was already packed, and didn't leave until nearly 10. Blah. 

Once I was home, M went back to bed and I took over baby duty. She was in pretty good spirits and just sort of ran around for a couple of hours, then went down for a nap. I waited as long as I could before waking M again, then left at 2 to meet my sister for a movie. Saw the latest Conjuring movie. I didn't expect a masterpiece or anything, but I at least thought it could be a schlocky fun time. Unfortunately, it was just inexcusably boring. Even when they do finally get around to doing the damned exorcism during the last 20 minutes of the film, it was just so predictable and dull. Do not recommend. 

Got home to M in the middle of a cleaning whirlwind, which I got involuntarily swept up in. It was mostly just tidying up and taking out trash, which came to an abrupt end when we discovered that all the dumpsters in our complex had disappeared. 

After that, we packed up the baby and headed over to Carter's to get Kate some new shoes. It was a quick errand, and then M surprised me by suggesting we go out to dinner, so we went over to La Madeleine. It was Kate's first real restaurant outing where she wasn't tiny and asleep the entire time, and she did very well. She got some scrambled eggs and some cheesy pasta, and was very good about just sitting and eating and not disturbing anyone. Very proud of her.

The outing was enough to tucker her out, so she went to bed as soon as we got home. I finally got in a shower, and then headed to bed myself.

Sunday was a normal at-home day. Kate was well behaved in the morning, but as soon as she got up from her nap it was tantrum city for the rest of the day. -_- I know that's just the developmental stage that she's at, but good lord. By the end of the day I was just completely worn out, and my mood plummeted when she decided to throw her dinner into the cat litter. Then she dumped out the last of the cat food, and the cat's water bowl, and I was DONE and just put her to bed. 

Woke up this morning with a headache. At least it should be a slow day and I don't really have to concentrate too hard on anything.

Taking a FB break for a little while. So entirely sick of seeing stuff about Charlie Kirk. He was awful, he is dead, let's please relegate him to the trash can of memory where he belongs.

Quiet evening at home. Leftover pizza for dinner, no chores or projects were done, just did some flash cards with Kate and watched some TV. She had another night where she didn't get to sleep until very late, and I'm worried this may be her new sleep pattern. I need those couple of hours after she's in bed so I can actually relax! 

Late to bed and awake early this morning. She started babbling and making noise right around when my alarm went off. I didn't go in right away, but did my morning hygiene uninterrupted since she wasn't distressed, then I got her up and made her some breakfast, woke M to take over, got dressed, and headed out the door. Poor girl had a meltdown when she saw me grab my work bag, which made me just want to stay home with her. 

In other news, the terrible secretary who tried to get me in trouble a few months back for "coming and going as she pleases", and who was under actual investigation herself for canoodling with a married supervisor, has been demoted again, to 3rd shift clerk. They've stuck her on a shift where no one that has to deal with her now will have to see or interact with her. Hehehehe. 

Extremely tired. Had an awful night's sleep, then a stupid day at work, then chores after work. M took a nap as soon as I got home, so I had no backup, either. -_- Thankfully, the baby stayed mostly occupied by her flash cards, and she finally said the word "light" correctly, hooray!

Once M woke up, he went out and picked up our grocery order. When he got home, I filed everything away, and the baby helped by finding the container of grapes and eating as many as she could before I stored them away. XP 

Baby decided to have one of her nights, and didn't get to sleep until nearly 10. -_- I was already dead tired from a terrible night's sleep, so I'd been hoping to get her down on time and then crawl into bed, myself. Nope, she had other plans. She finally went to sleep, I took a shower, ate an ice cream sandwich and some chicken nuggets, and then collapsed into bed.

Had another terrible night's sleep, I think I've maybe just hit that part of my pregnancy where sleep is going to be difficult no matter what. Feeling very dead today.

Been keeping up with Dracula Daily, which emails you each chapter of the novel as it happens in real time. Van Helsing has just made his appearance, and good lord I'd forgotten how obnoxious he is on the page. XP 

Nosy Lieutenant and Good Lieutenant have been switched back to their old positions, hooray! Of course, that doesn't stop NL from coming up to the watch office dozens of times during the day for no reason whatsoever. (She hates the position that she's actually assigned to, so she makes every excuse to not do her actual work and come up and play shift Lt instead.)

Car is acting up again. The oil light is flickering, not flashing but flickering, and the engine started making rattling sounds this morning. When I go home for lunch, I'm going to switch out and drive the Jeep so I don't tax the Toyota's engine before we can oil it back up. ~sigh~ I'd really like all these little problems to just chill for a minute.

Got official word - M got the job! HR called with the official offer, explained benefits, yadda, yadda, so yay! His first day will be September 28th because they want to get him in there in time to qualify for this year's bonus. Extra yay!

Next step for us is figuring out the logistics of his new job's workload, caring for Kate, when I should come home, etc. We've both agreed that I should attempt to keep working up until I give birth, but that entirely depends on how involved this new position is, how my health goes in the next few months, etc. There's a lot of stuff we just have to wait-and-see on. Whatever happens, our lives are going to look very different by next year, which is a good thing!

Another good, if smaller, bit of news, we are finally getting our mail again! The post office had stopped delivering to our complex because there had been so many mailbox break-ins, but I guess that's been resolved because we had mail yesterday! One of the letters was a bill (boo) but another was a book for Kate (yay!) so it all balanced out.

Felt well enough last night to make a big pot of beef stew, which will last us for the next few days. This weekend I'm going to try and catch up on chores, because the dish pile is out of control, and I'm tired of tripping over the laundry pile in the bedroom every single damned day. M has also requested pumpkin bread for this weekend, so I'll bake up a couple of loaves to celebrate the good news and the cooler weather.