Technical difficulties here. I'm gonna try Not to be dark, but I might...don't put my name on the Board yet...PCma requested. mwah!
If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me
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Good news--the embryo is exactly where it should be, and we're about 99% sure we even saw the heartbeat. (At ~3.5 weeks gestation, you can't really see that much--it's not really baby-shaped, but there was definitely some kind of pulsing action going on.) The pain I was experiencing was from a corpus luteum cyst on my left ovary, which is A) not uncommon in early pregnancy, and B) usually resolves on its own.
I'd like to thank the Buffista who took it upon themself (is that a word?) to find out my snailmail address and send me a check to help out with the bills while unemployed.
I'm verklempt.
Of course, being from the midwest, having guilt about cashing it...haven't yet.
My new end date at work is now August 22. I think this one will stick.
Could use some Figuring Out What To Do With Myself-Ma.
Going from gray this evening to pitch black through Saturday. Viva Las Vegas!
I have been dark all day due to the Blaster Virus. Beware.
I have a second round of interviews with the same company I interviewed at last week. They're having me meet with HR, the CTO, and the people who would be my immediate co-workers. Jobma and endurance-ma would both be greatly, greatly appreciated between 3:30-6 Eastern (12:30-3pm board time).
having computer dewormed. hopefully, back for good this afternoon.
Just to prove it can be done:
Today is our twentieth wedding anniversary. We survived a kid, the job markets of one point one Bushes and a Reaganomics, multiple sclerosis, and numerous rescued cats.
Now we're officially working on the next twenty.
They went with another candidate.