Can you believe I'm sitting at work right now?? Today is our last day of the semester and a half-day, but it just seems to be cutting it so close to Christmas! Everyone else got done with school last Friday! The only thing that made me feel "okay" about working this week was that our $2000 bonus hit my bank account. It turned out to be $1600 after taxes, which I was surprised it was that much. I sent $1500 of it right over to savings. For the first time ever, I have a nice little emergency fund going, thanks to a few stimulus checks and the student loan payment suspension (which will sadly be coming to an end soon).
Me, Nick, and our cat, Ollie, will be hitting the road to see family tomorrow. We got Ollie some calming cat chews to hopefully calm him down for the drive. Hopefully, that means he won't barf! We'll be staying at my mom's, who will be making her famous standing rib roast dinner. On Christmas day, we will have our usual amazing Christmas brunch as we open presents. We will see Nick's family, too.
Amber just sent some new ultrasound pics of the baby on our family message thread. She's now 21 weeks or so. She messaged me separately, asking if the baby has a weird nose and she also said "he kind of has a chimp looking jaw!". I just died laughing. That's so like her to obsessively worry about what her ultrasound pictures look like. I could sort of see what she was talking about, but the baby is only halfway done growing! I'm sure he will look just perfect when he is born.
11:18 a.m. - Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021