I just had to share this picture and say hi!

Is that photo not insane? It just doesn't seem safe! And if you're going so far that you need to ride a Segway to get there, wouldn't it make more sense/be safer just to drive?? What is the Segway hits a bump or a curb and you lose your grip on the stroller??? Am I just old-fashioned that I think a stroller should be controlled by two feet on the ground?

Not much going on in Peanutnoodleland. Feeling pretty good, tummy is expanding though somehow my in-laws are still clueless. Can someone explain to me that if your uterus is still relatively small and between your hipbones at 14 weeks, why I've got the tummy poke-out? Is it because the uterus is pushing all the others organs up and out of the way? So many mysteries... As for my ILs, it'll be a relief after April 1st (finger crossed) to be able to tell them because my FIL has spoken about other people "getting fat" and has low tolerance for it, so I constantly wonder if he's saying the same about me when they go home! ;)

I ordered a fetal heart monitor yesterday and though I've gone 14 weeks without one, now that I've ordered it, I must HAVE.IT.NOW. I keep checking Amazon's shipment status, like every 15 minutes, and of course nothing has changed beyond "Your item has been shipped!". Can't they give me step by step updates?? And I mean, literally, every step of the postal service ;).

Work has been nutso lately -- not in the busy way, but in the departmental reorganizational way. Long story short, my current manager is the nicest guy in the world and the main reason I haven't actively looked to move on. I like my job, but it's gotten kind of old, I can't seem to extricate myself from the daily grind of tasks and focus on higher-level projects (as was promised) and I often work way too much OT. But he was such an easy guy, always ready to help out and, critical to IF, I could pretty much come and go at will. Well, in the reorg my department would have a new manager, one I've had before and I'll just say, one that I would not look forward to having again. Add that to the fact that I'm ready for new things, except, oh yea, there's a baby along for the ride, which makes it tough, if not impossible, to look for a new job. Plus, I work from home, something I really want to maintain after Peanut is born. And, oh yeah, the economy. There's no jobs out there, I've looked!

So, anyway, I've been in endless meetings that I've initiated trying to craft a new role for myself on another team. So far my good guy manager loves the idea, as does the manager to whom I'd go to. Now we need to get buy in from the big boss and hope the returning manager to whom I was supposed to be reporting will not try to kill the deal. I pretty much said if we can't make this happen, I won't be sticking around - bold talk in these times, both nationally and personally. And while I certainly didn't threaten imminent giving notice, they understood that I meant that I don't see a place for myself, long-term, in the current scenario. So, we'll see. I'm usually very laid back at work, everybody's go-to gal, but I can be feisty when needed. I found myself saying "That's not good enough" several times when speaking with my current manager about him trying to compromise on what I pitched, so we'll see where my feisty-ness gets me ;).

All I can say is....TGIF!