Off to the specialist

Today is the day we've got our fertility specialist appointment.

My husband has taken the day off, he gets the usual ten days of sick leave a year on top of his annual leave and can use his sick leave if he is ill or has a doctor or dental appointment. But what's really lucky is if he doesn't use all of his sick leave, each year it gets rolled over, in most companies here if you don't use it by the end of the year you lose it. Seeing as he's been working for this company for seven years now, he has a tonne of sick leave accumulated.

As much as I despise the company he works for, I am grateful that they are generous with their leave benefits.

Our appointment isn't until this afternoon at 2pm. We've got a few things to do first, my husband has to go and get a dental xray that he's been putting off for weeks (he got the referral at his last check up but ignored it, now he's got a toothache and has to have the xray done before his dentists appointment tomorrow morning). I also need new ballet flats to wear to work, the ones I bought in winter last year just aren't cutting it. And I think we might go and have sushi from the local sushi train for lunch.

It's also a public holiday on Monday! Four day weekend! I was completely unaware until last week. I knew our FS appointment was on a Friday and that we'd both planned to take the day off work. But I didn't realise that it was the Friday before a long weekend.

I'm kind of glad that it worked out this way. If the FS appointment is a bit upsetting or we hear something that we've got to think about first, then we've got the rest of the four day weekend to process it and talk it through.

We won't be seeing any friends or family this weekend either. A lot of our friends are busy with work this weekend. It's coming up to the end of the financial year so everyone is busy or putting in extra hours over the next few weekends. And next weekend it's my mothers birthday lunch so we won't see my family this weekend as we'll be seeing them next weekend.

It's just the right weekend for my husband and I to hang out on our own together. I think we might go see a movie, maybe go to the beach for lunch and just take some time out.