Tetris, maternity leave, and daycare

So I'm getting back into the work routine after being gone a couple of days. Unfortunately, when I'm not stressing and pulling-my-hair-out busy, I'm extremely bored at work. I had one meeting and reviewed one document today and spent waaay too much time playing Tetris on my cell phone. Robert recently beat my high score, so I now have to beat his without seeming like I'm really trying. So, of course, I have to do it at work. Speaking of video games, Robert hasn't really played his Xbox in a while. I don't want to mention it, for fear that he has forgotten and that my mentioning it will drive him to play endless games of Max Payne.

So my day was pretty uneventful. I called about maternity leave and the HR lady told me it was a really easy process and that I could call closer to my due date to start filling out the paperwork. We get six weeks off that doesn't come out of our FMLA, and those six weeks should be paid at either 60 or 80 percent. Then I'll take a few more weeks using all my sick leave and vacation that I've saved up. I want to take ten weeks total, but some of it may have to be without pay.

I was looking at daycare centers online the other day on the State of Texas website (these are the ones that are all licensed by the state of Texas -- my sister-in-law said she wouldn't go with an unlicensed one because the licensed ones are required to meet all kinds of standards like being CPR certified and stuff and if you go with one that isn't licensed you don't really know what you're getting unless you know the person personally, of course), and I honestly have no idea how we're going to be able to find one. I should start on my list of questions now. I'm also afraid of how much they are going to cost, but that's whole different story.

Although my work routine is back. We have yet to unpack on the homefront. I'll have to do some of that tonight because I hate wearing the same pair of maternity pants over and over. I desperately need to do laundry (which is much easier in this house now that we have a washer/dryer). I only have about three pairs of pants that look decent enough to wear to work. What sucks is that they're all capri pants, so when my ankles are swollen I have no place to hide them. Yesterday I ended up wearing my beat-up old reef flip-flops that were once black and are now a faded gray color. Nobody at work said anything although I could have sworn I saw a few people eyeing them, so I figured it was fine. Today my feet seemed to be back to normal. I wore my good old slip-on black leather sandals that I wear almost everyday. Hopefully my feet stay normal for a few more days.

My little one has been quite active lately. I'm not sure if it's hiccups sometimes. How does one know?