I just bumped into a twat ex line manager between my office and tube station. He made my life a bit of a misery two years ago when he came and threw his (puny) weight around over the job I had been almost single handedly delivering for the previous two years. Within a couple of months I was looking for a way to leave and so I found a post which turned out to be a brilliant springboard to the promotion I got three weeks ago! When I moved though, he really tried to screw me over with an absolute hack job of an appraisal. I got it mostly overturned but still would never want to be in the same area as him again... I couldn't trust him.
Anyway, he was all smiles just now, I sort of kept walking, all he said was "oh hello... got another bump I see!" and couldn't raise his eyes any higher than said bump! Yep, a social graces free zone... nothing else to say to me other than a physical observation. I wish I'd said "still got a pin head then!" or something. I bloody hope he looks me up on the system and sees I got promoted, the twatbadger.
Midwife appointment for me on Monday! 24 weeks I think, I've lost track. I need to send my Statement of Intention in at work next week so I hope I get my MATB1 from the MW - they haven't exactly been a model of efficiency with forms etc but they are nice and kind and give a good vibe that they know their stuff medically. I will be asking for Mat Leave to start on the 2nd Sept, although my scan-based EDD is 28 Aug, so I will have to ask the MW to use the EDD by LMP. I will be working from home almost all of August anyway, and if baby comes a bit early the Mat Leave just gets adjusted. I just need to hang on for the training course I'm doing at the end of July, then I have a week on hols at my parents' place. It's a brilliant plan, max time making my mark in new job, DH is a house husband from June so I have no domestic responsibilities almost at all, and then max time with baby.