Catching up

It's seems to me that life is full of catching up! You can "catch up" with old friends..We have to get caught up on house work...Catch up on reading...We need to get caught up on things that are important. Its a never ending process of catching up. Its a state of being really...for me. For us. It doesn't seem that its ever something that is attainable. What would I do when I did actually catch up??? Die?
I haven't been such a great blogger as of late. I guess I need to catch up on that too. So I will try to bring everyone up to speed on my latest adventures, thoughts and meanderings.
I'll start with my least favorite subject of work. Work is what it is. I'm so grateful to have a job and be able to pay bills. I am like most people, under payed for the service, knowledge and ability that I bring to my job. I'm currently in a 3 month battle over getting paid for a day that I had to be out with my sick child. According to our work policy, if an employee works any part of the day they had to go home, they have to be paid. Well the powers that be, decided to be creative and consider it an UNEXCUSED ABSENCE....something that was not part of our policy. Well, after a bit of discussion, the powers decided that it wasn't fair to decide not to pay me...but I still haven't been paid. There is a WHOLE lot more involved and more stinkiness connected to all of this...but it makes for a sad employee. I'm not feeling the love right now. I'm hoping that this will all change.
The unfortunate thing to me is that when you have a job you love, its like any relationship...it seems that over time, things begin to change. "The honeymoon is over" sort of thing happens. Reality sets in. And its not that I don't still love my coworkers and my patients. Its just that my feelings have been hurt and the great pride I used to feel about my job....well...its been taken down a notch or two. Too bad they don't have work counselors like they have marriage counselors!! And please don't suggest to me that our HR person is the one that is supposed to handle this sort of thing......
Well, in true Marci form, I did it again!!!! This weekend, we (work) had a booth at a maternity fair. It was kind of neat getting to see all the cute little babies being toted around, some in slings and some in strollers. New mommies and mommies to be, paraded around, looking so content and happy! I love that. I don't miss that...but I love that! I didn't envy the cutie little mommies-to-be waddling around. Bellies poked out in all sorts of manners. Some looked like basketballs, some like oblong watermelons, some like little round pillows all out in front. Too cute. I didn't feel cute like that toward the end of both of my pregnancies and I WAS NOT cute in the last couple of months of my pregnancies!
But back to what I said that is so typical of me:
This little Mama was walking around carrying her almost 2 year old son, strapped across her in a sling. The little fellow was zonked out, oblivious to all the other screaming children and cooing mommies. His mom seemed to be a pro at toting her little man on her right hip. And as I found out after inquiry, she was pregnant with baby #2. WOW! Carrying at toddler and an unborn child....Daddy standing there with her....holding nothing.....
So I said something like,"Wow I bet carrying that baby around on your mommy hip that its probably caused you to walk bent over to one side all the time..." She replied,"No I just have scoliosis." As my buddy Steve said--Open mouth...insert foot!
Huh...well scoliosis will sure do that. I tried to recover by telling her that she should move him to the other hip to balance things out. Ok, so it was time to be packing up and taking myself to the house...but alas, I had a couple of more hours to go. A couple of more hours that I'm sure my salaried status won't be paying me for.
The other night, I was so in hopes of signing on to my blog to share the most awesome news I have heard recently...there has been a lot of really great news and praises amid all the stress and chaos of this life. But my computer and email account just wouldn't allow me to get on here to share the GOOD NEWS! So instead of a beautiful, elaborate story, I will keep it simple!
My friend Kitty, who is a single mom and has had to be creative in holding the household together (lately) financially...had multiple answered prayers! She got a small raise at work...but then another door opened that would allow her part time work with good pay! How AWESOME! Will she be "well to do" now? No, but God has shown her time and time again that he will provide for her and all of her needs as he sees fit. It has been so awesome to see how God has worked in her life! I really am in awe time and time again. God does answer prayers!! And just at the right time too.
Time, this thing that eludes most of us...thus we spend all of our time catching up....is an interesting thing. Tonight we went to dinner with some friends of mine that I knew from my teenage years. There we were, both couples married and with 2 girls. I remember going to their wedding! How neat to see each other, hairlines, facial lines and waist lines in slightly different spots than they once were! And how much wiser and more seasoned we all are! It was really great! It blows my mind to think that the last time I saw them, I was well over a decade younger. One whole decade. Almost two! Where does time go? I guess it goes wherever my waistline went and my nerves ran off to!