7 weeks to go

I have also been shockingly silent on the BLD blog. I ask your forgiveness and point to Caleb's blog which is well over a month old as evidence of my general slacking as opposed to avoiding the BLD.

Seriously, I've been working insane hours as well, though vastly undercompensated compared to Walsh and Mazzucco. The only bright spot is that I'm earning comp days like mad, which all translate into actual money during my otherwise unpaid maternity leave.

I've decided my main problem is that I've been trying to convince my employer that they can't live without me. No, that's not the problem. The problem is I've come to believe it. So I'm trying to put 100 different things in place before I go on leave for 6 weeks, worried that everything will fall apart while I'm gone. Which it won't. Or maybe it will. Either way, it's only 6 weeks and I'm sure it would all be fine again within a few months.

Thank goodness I'm not playing Family Business at work. Real life FB would probably have me committing career suicide just to get into a different game, like the $1 buy in poker for $20 worth of chips where everyone can have a good time. (I'm sure you will all be shocked to learn that I am a terrible poker player. Seeing as it's my family's game of choice, Josh is always struggling to win at least as much as I lose so we come out as close to even as possible.)

Baby update: everything's good. Baby looks big. Doctor predicts on time or early arrival.