So I’ve got less than 4 weeks until my maternity leave starts (3 weeks, 3 days, 7 hours and 16 minutes to be exact), and I am finding it increasingly difficult to work.  It just seems hard to concentrate.  I really should be writing directions for my successor, but really, who wants to write down instructions for what they do? 

Speaking of successors, we are trying to find a temp to take my place while I’m out on maternity leave.  I’m involved in the process, which is difficult to say the least.  You want to see the resume that looks exactly like your own and then you’re like, “Ah ha!  That’s the person who should take over my job, my clone!”  I’ve only seen one resume (which is pretty bad since they want this person to start in a week and a half), but it just wasn’t up to snuff.  Especially at the outrageous rates the temp agency charges.  It kind of makes you feel like you might be overqualified for your own job:)  I hired my successor a few years ago at another job and had to train her and could see she was clueless even then.  Sure enough, she only lasted about a week after I left.  But the company wanted to save even more money (they paid me peanuts, which I had to fight for) and went with an even cheaper, less qualified replacement. 

I’m also distracted because the monkey has decided she really favors the right side of my stomach, particularly right under my rib cage, and likes to jab body parts (probably a knee or one of the giant feet I’m sure she has), out the right side of my body.  It doesn’t “hurt” exactly, it’s more like an unsettling discomfort.  Last night I discovered that if I put my seat back a little bit in my car, I can breathe much easier.  I was very grateful for that discovery, because driving is definitely the most uncomfortable thing I do these days.  Tim had never felt one of the monkey’s body parts and last night put his hand where she was sticking her knee/leg/foot out the right side of my body and his eyes got all big and he was like, “that’s a body part!”  It was very cute:)

Did anybody watch the Men’s Figure Skating last night?  That sucked!  How can silver and bronze both fall in their routines and gold be won by a guy with all the grace of a WWF wrestler?  Blech!  Although we did discover the Coolest New Olympic Sport:  Snowboard Cross.  4-5 Snowboarders race through a difficult, tight course to the finish line.  Two top finishers advance to the next round.  It was awesome!  It was amazing they didn’t run into each other more often.  It was definitely the most exciting Olympic sport I’d seen in a long time.  In case you can’t tell, I LOVE the Olympics!  Every 4 years when I was a kid, all activity would stop in the Winston Household and we would watch Olympics 24 hours a day until our eyes popped out of our head and hung there limply.  Luckily, I married a man who shares my love of the Olympics, although we Tivo it and only watch the parts that interest us.  I’m just a lot more busy than I was when I was a kid!  We realized something scary last night:  next time the winter olympics are on, our little Monkey will be nearly 4 AND we’ll probably have another kid!  Scary, because it doesn’t seem that long since the last winter olympics, but I guess a lot happens in 4 years.  4 years ago I had just started my job from hell at Silent Partners.  Ah, memories…

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Comments

David

2006-02-17T17:44:52.000Z

Marsha and I agree on the whole figure skating thing.  In fact Marsha regularly rants about the new scoring system.  Weeee i can do a bunch of quads and then gyrate in some sort of scary fashion and win the gold!  As for the snowboarding, I want to see more interesting contact then, “Oops, did I just slow down unexpectedly and make you crash into me and fall, teehee?”.  Like, give them bats or tennis rackets and give the guy who makes it to the finish line with both legs intact a medal.  Or make them hold a glass of water and the one who spills the least wins.  Now that’s excitement!