My Simple Life?

The ultrasound pictures were emailed out. If you didn’t get to see them and you wanted to drop us a line.
Today we registered at Babies R Us today. It was the most clueless I have felt in a very long time. Although it was worse for Dave… he was deer in headlights. Poor guy. I am sure we didn’t register for stuff we needed and register for useless junk. Who knows.

We also have a nursery theme…kind of. We picked out wall decals for the nursery. I really like the rug and pillow and a couple other things that go with the decals. I think we will probably pick that stuff up gradually.

The baby is moving a lot now. Flip likes to kick especially when I am driving and when the baby hears Dave’s voice first thing in the morning or when he gets home from work. It’s actually very cute.

My lovely husband is really dragging his feet on scanning the ultrasound pictures into the computer. For some reason our scanner only scans to his computer. Regardless, if you happen to have his cell phone number, give him a call - let him know you would like to see the pictures.

My shirt fit today until I ate lunch…then not so much. I guess it is maternity shirts from here on out.

Ran into an old acquaintance last night. Hadn’t seen him since 1994 and by some bizarre life events we ended up at the same wedding. We weren’t close in high school, but I went to a small school so we definitely knew each other. regardless turns out he has a new son. We chatted a little and I told him we were expecting next year. That apparently opened up a whole can of worms…. his wife had all sorts of advice for me. Seriously, everyone is an expert. Some things I learned from them :

1. Have a water birth ( okay, yuck. I don’t even like swimming in public pools, why would I  swim in my own after birth).

2. Drink Caster Oil in your 39th week. It will induce labor and clean out your system (well yeah, this would be important if you were having an water birth - another reason I vote no for water birth)).

3. If your urine is bright yellow you will have a boy. (apparently this is true, I seem to think that sometimes taking vitamins can produce the same result)

So while I am thankful for any tidbits people have to offer, I think it is safe to say when you don’t see someone for roughly 15 years it may be best to stick with the basic “Hey, good to see you. How ya been? Great” conversation.

It is hard to believe that one year from today, with any luck, I will have a 6 month old. I can hardly wait. I think the only thing that would be better than that is if one year from now I have a 6 month old AND a new job.

I made dinner tonight and I didn’t cut, burn or otheriwse injure myself. Sometime I amaze even myself.

My sister called me a “hoser” today for not updating my blog. I don’t even know what a “hoser” is, but I am pretty sure no one has called me that since 6th grade.

So much to say and no desire to write.

So many times I have constructed these blog entries in my head, but just never had the urge to sit down and type it out. I am unsure how much longer this blog will continue. So I apologize if you check this on a regular basis - my heart is not here right now.

Anyway just to keep you all posted here are a few updates.

Dave has a new job. The commute is longer but the job itself is fabulous. I haven’t seen him this happy to go to work in a while. I think it was a realy good move for him career wise, both for his immediate career goals and his future career goals.

We had an amazing honeymoon. So beautiful and relaxing. I became a little tan obsessed, which is hard to be when you are as pale I am.

My job is getting better. I am not a mom, but I hope that if I ever am I will remember everything I have learned from this job.

Okay that is it from here. I will try…I really will

I scared someone today. I didn’t mean too, but I sure enjoyed it.

I was driving home from work today. Minding my own business when this stupid SUV tried to take me out…not once, but twice. I mean the guy clearly wanted to switch lanes, but like I said I was chugging along minding my own business. I would have known I was in his blind spot if he put on his blinker to indicate that he as switching lanes…but no. He veered into my lane and swerved back and than did it again. I layed on my horn mostly to let him know I was there. (I am from VT where we only beep when we know you, so honking my horn in anger is completely unnatural for me). Anyway, He switched lanes and got off at the next exit. Since my gas light was on, I also got off at the next exit. Gas is cheaper at this exit. He turned right off the exit, I did too- to get to the gas station. He turned left into the gas station. I put my left blinker on. I would have never said anything to this guy. The bottom line is there are two gas stations across the street from each other. The one on the left is $0.05 cheapers. Although I thought about using the other gas station to avoid confrontation I decided out of principle I would buy the cheaper gas. I pulled into the gas station, the SUV immediately pulled out. HA! I think he thought I as following him.

I pumped my gas and got back in my car. I felt some satisfaction that his stupid driving had at least forced him to spend a little extra cash at the pump. I mean I saved myself at least $0.50…

I am sick of looking at that last post.

A lot is happening here. Dave has a great new job. It can’t start soon enough. He will have a commute, but he will be so much happier there (read they gave him some sort of power). It does mean that he will no longer be my stand by lunch date and 4 nights a week I will have to cook my own dinner and eat alone. So for me his new job sucks and since this is MY blog this is the only place it can be about me. In all seriousness, this job could be a huge stepping stone for Dave.

I, on the other hand, have been in a total funk. I am not at all happy at work. I love the kids. I even like most of the people I work with. I can’t put my finger on what is so awful, but it is something. I am sure it will pass, I will make my self feel better by doing a few job searches, but in the end it will all work itself out.

I think our tropical vacation coming up in 3 weeks will help usher this funk out… actually I am sure of it.