sight isn’t always necessary

So, I’m sneaky. Casey is pregnant, and she hasn’t “announced” it yet – or at least not officially to anyone but the sneaky shitheads (sorry Nick) she talks to, and apparently the people she also emails, and probably everyone else except the unprivileged people within 20 feet of her on a day-to-day basis. It bothers me, but not that much, because what I can do now is wish upon her all of the terrible ailments I have suffered through both of these pregnancies, and hope that they happen to her (or worse). Or not. Maybe I’ll just forget about it – I mean, she’ll be entering her third trimester right about the time when Elly is due, so she won’t be that big yet and I won’t really have to deal with her annoying me with being pregnant for too long.

I talked to an account manager in Connecticut today, and in talking about our pregnancies and the time we have left, she mentioned that Casey is also pregnant (so she knew, too!) I said, “Oh, yeah, I heard that – she’s not really telling many people around the office yet, strangely.” She apologized, as if… she had something to do with Casey being a bitch? Who knows. Then, because I’m sneaky and nosy and nobody will tell me and I refuse to ask Casey, I said something like, “Well, it’s early yet for her, although I’m not completely sure of her due date.” So she told me! HA HA! She’s due February 28th. So the calculations in my brain started to esssssplode out.

If Elly is born on November 20th, 6 weeks after that will be the beginning of January. I don’t plan on coming back right away though, so I’ll probably take about 6 more weeks of unpaid maternity leave, which brings us to mid-February. And if I come back then, Casey will likely be gone or leaving very soon after. And if she takes 6 weeks off from her proposed due date, that’ll bring us to mid-April, 2009…

AND THEN I CAN LEAVE THIS POO-HOLE!

And never have to deal with working with people I can’t stand again! Or… at least not these people that I can’t stand. I’m sure I’ll find more people to despise down the road.

I can take my profit sharing money (hopefully it’ll be $25K or so!) and HIT THE ROAD! Maybe pay off part of the house a bit, put the rest into the bank, and use that as a “few more months off”, or time to spend with Connor and Elly before school starts, or time to plan on making money from home… whatever. It’ll be time for me. Time well deserved, and hard earned.

They say that you should “live life in the present”, but today I’m happy that I can see the future and it looks to be pretty OK. Pretty good, even. I can’t even see any buses running me over, which is usually what I see when I look to the future (the whole “what if I get run over by a BUS tomorrow!?!” scenario), but today the future seems bright. Bus-free.