Official Announcement!

Okay, so maybe not that official, but since you guys already know- yes, I am preggers!  I had my first appointment on Aug 22nd and was told I was about 8 weeks along.  I was given a tentative due date of April 5th (yes Tracy, your b-day!), but that could change as we all know.  I go for my first sonogram on Sept 4th.  I am being treated as a high risk pregnancy because of my Crohn's Disease, better safe than sorry!  My friend Michele is currently carrying twins and is seeing the same high risk doctors I will be seeing, she said they are awesome.  So that's good to hear.  

As for the actually pregnancy so far, I'm having some terrible morning sickness.  Oy!  It's really quite terrible, I can't sugar coat it.  Anyone who has gone through it knows what I mean.  I haven't been eating after 6 pm and not before 10 am the next morning just to avoid throwing up.  Nothing seems to help.  I have Preggie Pops, I've sipped ginger ale, I've eaten saltine crackers, I've sucked on lemons... there's no relief for me.  But, Kim passed an old wives tale on to me yesterday "the worse the morning sickness, the healthier the baby".  Boy, I sure hope that's true!  Aside from the morning sickness, I've felt every cramp in my lower abdomen and back and feel like I could sleep for days.  Every side effect, I've got it!  I am truly envious of women who get through their first trimester without these ailments.  

Okay, I'm going to attempt a few chores around the house and run a few errands.  (and then take a nap!)

I won something!

Thanks Tracy for passing this award on :-)  I was so excited to see that!

So this past weekend was pretty enjoyable (well, most of it).  Friday night we had a few people over to celebrate Nicole's 26th Birthday.  I got her such a great gift at www.mommyjewelry.com (the Silhouette Circle) with her son's name and date of birth.  She was thrilled.  I also got her sTORI TELLING by Tori Spelling.   (I got one for me too!) And it's a fantastic book.  Honestly.  If you have see her show Tori and Dean, you'll love this.  She's incredibly witty and funny and not anything like you'd expect her to be.  Great easy read!  Saturday, we had to go up to Staten Island (booo!!)  Sal's grandparent's were having a BBQ.  We THOUGHT this BBQ was for Meemaw's birthday, however, it was for their housekeeper's birthday.  What?!  We were so confused.  It was just such an odd afternoon, I couldn't wait to leave.  I hate Staten Island.  Their whole backyard was the size of my office at work.  Yuck!  I'm just used to spacious yards here in the O.C.  Sunday was a pretty lazy day for us.  We went to breakfast at Fast Break on Route 37, delicious!  Then we went down to the boardwalk and walked for about an hour and change.  It's fun to people watch there on any given summer weekend.  Oh the things you'll see!  Oh, and Sal won an ipod speaker/stand thing.  He was thrilled!  And then we just came home and hung out, I made chili and we watched tv.  We're so lazy some days, but I was tired, so it was a welcomed laziness :-)

Okay, gotta get ready for work!  Thanks again Trace ;-)

I suck at the updates...

So, I'll do a quick review... Carrie Underwood concert was eh.  It poured, so the field where they had the stage set up was muddy and full of mosquitos (gross!)  We ended up not even going to our seats, we sat out on random bleachers at the end of the field.  She sounded great though, we stayed for about half her set before the chill of the night air got to us and we couldn't take it anymore!  So we hopped on the bus back to the car and decided to park by the tennis courts (behind Toys R Us) and watch the fireworks.  The fireworks were amazing, seriously.  So we enjoyed that!

Work has been work.  The New Girl never "talked" to me, but whatever.  I don't think she and the Lead Teller know that I know what happened and what was said.  I'll just tuck that info away in the back of my mind for now.

What else... oh we went to see Saltimbanco (a Cirque du Soleil show) last night at Prudential Center.  It was eh.  We've seen Cirque in Orlando and Vegas- both of which are excellent.  But this one last night... in comparison, it was just dull.  There was an entire segment dedicated to a guy juggling.  Yes, juggling.  That doesn't "wow" me.  Then, there were these people stomping and swinging ropes with little metal balls at the end.  Clack clack click click.. to a beat.  Really??  I paid $77 a ticket for this?!  I was over it.  So at intermission we left.  It was boring me to sleep, literally.  The costumes were cool- very colorful, but just eh overall.  

And then the 30th we're going to see Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd at PNC.  That will be sure to please.  I don't foresee us leaving that early due to boredom.  We're going with a bunch of people and tailgating before.  Expecting that to be a good time.

Okay, I'm off to the foodstore and then mom's for breakfast.

Utter and complete NONSENSE!

So, I get a phone call from my boss, Fatima, last night, telling me she wants to prepare me.  My reaction of course was, "Oh, no!  What'd I do now?"  To which she responds, "Oh, honey, you did nothing wrong".  So here's what happened:  When I left yesterday, the "new" girl started whispering with the Lead Teller.  Fatima doesn't put up with high school bullshit, so she calls them out- "What?  What's going on?"  They start mumbling "oh nothing, nothing".  She insisted they tell her and New Girl goes "I don't think Amy likes me" and walks outside for a cigarette.  Fatima follows her and confronts her about it; wanting to know why she feels that way, etc.  Apparently, I make her do things she doesn't know how to do, I don't help her and I give her the cold shoulder.  Fatima flat out said that she doesn't believe that because I am basically the "trainer" of the branch.  I wouldn't "make" her do something she doesn't know how to do.  Then Fatima tells her never to go to the Lead Teller with complaints, she has to go to the person she has a problem with.  New Girl mumbles some more and goes home.  THEN, Fatima goes to the Lead Teller and pulls her into the kitchen to talk.  The problem Fatima has with Lead Teller is she wasn't being a "supervisor" she was being a "shit stirrer" (her words not mine).  Instead of telling New Girl, "Listen, you need to talk to Amy about this" she was egging her on.  So Fatima asks what was said, etc and why Laurie would think I hated her.  Lead Teller tells Fatima she thinks I hate New Girl because she is poor.  (WHAT?!?!)  Fatima tells Lead Teller that is absurd, reprimands her about the other stuff and drops it.  

So now it comes to me.  After hearing all this, my jaw was on the floor.  Fatima knows its a crock of shit and just wanted to give me a heads up for today.  Apparently, New Girl wants to talk to me.  Whatever.  I have no problem with her as a person and I especially don't care that she "poor".  The only problem I have is she wants to be coddled.  She's been trained, she's going on being there for 3 months, she should be able handle basic transactions (but she chooses not to).  Every time a customer comes to her, she turns to me or Lead Teller, saying "I don't know how to do this".  She has a notebook full of notes and went to official training for 2 weeks and spent almost 2 months with me or Dawn (the Assistant Manager).  If it's something she doesn't "know how to do", she should be pulling out her notes and looking up how to do it.  That's what I did when I was new.  I didn't have someone watching over my shoulder every time I opened a new account or redeemed bonds.  That's where my issue lies with her and I have no problem laying that out there today when we "talk".  

I very easily could have a problem with other aspects of her personality, but I don't.  She's got a hard life, I get that.  So she doesn't have much money, who does?  None of that even crosses my mind.  But when she turns away a customer because she "doesn't know how to do that", I have an  issue.  

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.  I'll get off my soap box now.