{"id":272,"date":"2011-03-24T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=272"},"modified":"2011-03-24T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:58:20","slug":"initial-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"initial thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple days have been a shitshow for me mentally.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not cause anything particularly bad or disconcerting has happened.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m just getting my period.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been completely spacing out, forgetting things left and right, and generally looking like a huge retarded moron to anyone and everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Really not good when one of your coworkers (who you work for) asks you if you went drinking the night before&#8230;.and not only did you not go drinking you were passed out by 9pm the night before.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m supposed to go to Ho.use of Pr.ime Rib, which serves, you guessed it, prime rib!\u00c2\u00a0 And I was all excited because they have the best prime rib AND\u00c2\u00a0it&#8217;s a client dinner which means The Company is paying, which means FREE PRIME RIB!\u00c2\u00a0 And I was all gloating about it to Paul until he reminded me, um, didn&#8217;t you give up beef for Lent?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ARGH!<\/p>\n<p>(But it&#8217;s not <em>supposed<\/em> to be easy right?\u00c2\u00a0 This is what I tell myself&#8230;and then people point out that I am not even Catholic&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, they have no chicken dish but they do serve a fresh fish dish that I hear is tasty&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the point of telling you all that is to talk about how I was supposed to be just coming home to pick up my car and head back out for drinks with coworkers and clients before the dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Except when I got home and was getting ready to head back out I got a phone call from the adoption coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Oops.\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t even supposed to be coming home at first, I was supposed to go straight to drinks with coworkers but I figured getting a cab tonight will be hell with the rain and all so I popped home first.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine how awkward that call would have been sandwiched in a cab between two coworkers?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this was supposed to be fast because I have to leave for the restaurant soon (I emailed my boss that I had to run an errand so I needed to skip drinks)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>** Program is smaller than I thought.\u00c2\u00a0 They only keep a max of 10 people on their waiting for referral list and quite often they have less than that.\u00c2\u00a0 On the flipside they have a few dozen families on the interested list, hence a 6-8 month guestimate of how long it may take to be put on the waiting list.\u00c2\u00a0 Only a dozen or so adoptions completed and the program has been around for only 2+yrs.<\/p>\n<p>** They recently referred a six. week. old.\u00c2\u00a0 They currently have a five and a half year old boy that they can&#8217;t find a match for.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s weird but we had decided 3 years and younger was what we wanted but when she said that they had a five and a half year old boy they couldn&#8217;t find a home for?\u00c2\u00a0 Part of me was like &#8211; SIGN US UP!\u00c2\u00a0 But I didn&#8217;t say that because, honestly, I don&#8217;t know&#8230;I think we&#8217;d definitely have to think about that together and whether or not we&#8217;re open to adopting an older child.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, the age range for the children is hugely disparate because there are no age restrictions on how young the child can be, it&#8217;s even technically possible to be referred a newborn, but the birth mothers tend to change their minds in those cases.\u00c2\u00a0 She said it was good that we were open to a boy or a girl.\u00c2\u00a0 I think if we do ultimately sign up with this program I will ask that they contact us regarding any child that becomes adoptable, but with her knowing that we will most likely only accept referral of a child under three or very close to it.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s just hard to imagine missing so much of my baby&#8217;s formative years, even maybe ALL of their babyhood?\u00c2\u00a0 The thought of it recently almost made me cry at our friend&#8217;s baby&#8217;s one year old bday party as we watched a slideshow of her first year.\u00c2\u00a0 But, I do realize now that part of me must be open to it based on the reaction I had to hearing about that five year old boy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>**My health may be an issue.\u00c2\u00a0 It may not be.\u00c2\u00a0 Have to write about this later as I&#8217;m already ten minutes late&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple days have been a shitshow for me mentally.\u00c2\u00a0 Not cause anything particularly bad or disconcerting has happened.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m just getting my period. I&#8217;ve been completely spacing out, forgetting things left and right, and generally looking like a huge retarded moron to anyone and everyone. Really not good when one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-talk","category-navel-gazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}