Monday, Monday.

I wish it was Sunday still. I feel as though I wasted my weekend by being lazy. Plus I got pissy with Chris when I didn't decide on something to make for dinner Saturday night and I wanted him to decide after he had worked all day. Irrational, YES! But I felt like it was his duty to feed me. We ended up getting dipping strips Pizza. Which we ate while watching The Village.

I bought more stuff on ebay this weekend: 2 pairs of Carpri pants, some new running shoes and a cardigan. I freecycled my old coffeetable today to a nice lady named Kathy. If you don't know what freecycle is, go here to read more about it. It is really cool! Basically, it is a fee stuff message board. keeps things out of landfills and the like.

Yesterday we had such high hopes of getting things done. Instead, we went out for breakfast at 2pm at The Sunrise and then on to Wal-Mart. While at walmart we bought much needed rechargeable batteries for the digital camera, new socks for me, new cordless phones and a shiny new HUGE widescreen TV. Well, it's 27" but, we had a 19" one before, so this one really is BIG.

I had though that Chris would actually have his day off OFF, but no, he had to go in to work today. :( I had visions of window shopping for baby items, maybe tomorrow. So today I am doing laundry (surprise) and attempting to tidy the house which is still a disaster from "new furniture. There are still large cardboard boxes in the dining room, and crap all over the dining room table. I have made some headway, but not enough. I have to mail my phone back to the phone guy tomorrow and then wait for him to send one back, homefully it will actually work this time. ( what a novel concept)

I made a short list of boys and girls names that Chris and I like . Now we just have to see which one we put away after the ultrasound. Doctors appointment tomorrow at 1:40pm tomorrow. Maybe I will even get to do the U/s that afternoon! I can't wait. :D




I should be...

I should be doing a lot of things.

But... Instead I am writing this... ( hilarity ensues)

Really though, I have a job interview wednesday at 5pm that I should be preparing for. It just doesn't seem that urgent yet. After all, I am off all day wednesday. Right!

Laundry.... but I still have some clean underwear.... *right!

I did move the old coffee table out of the living room, sort piles of magazines, vaccum living room rug, unload and load dishwasher and make oven fries which are almost ready for me to eat. There's something very conforting about baked potato slices soaked in vinegar and salt that makes not getting things done just fine.

There was absolutely no mail today. I'm more than a little traumatized. Two whole days without mail. :|

~later

to make my day...

I have a mail obsession. Even junk mail. Well, maybe not credit card sign up letters... ( you aren't going to give us one anyway, you tease!)

Anyhoo, today I went out and got the mail and we got a magazine(Saveur), the local paper, a Dr's appointment letter and a letter from my friend and yours, the department of homeland security.

I tore into that letter so fast! Scanned quickly... Welcome to the United States of America. Then I could calm down. It was not a letter telling me when I was to be deported. Yay! The worst is over, I don't ever have to be without Chris. I'll get a shiny new ID card "Green card". I'll be allowed to leave the US and come back like a "normal" person. It's a huge relief.

Now... if I can only get really prepared for my job interview next Wednesday. I hate job interviews. I feel kind of weird about the whole thing. ie: why was the job posted externally if she knew I was going to apply. I read this as she doesn't want me or that job. but, who knows. I'm just negative about some things.. and I overthink.

Anyhoo... My new sofa and loveseat look great and I am in a pretty good mood. Well, except for the fact that it's already almost 11pm and I have to get up early for work.

Blah...

brief...

Well, there's this



Which I stole from MadameD.
Not such a bad age, I don't know if I want Chris to try that quiz. Hrrrrm.

Happy Valentines Day.

Well, we had the immigration interview this week. I guess it went well, of course I continue to second guess myself and wonder. Then I think, there's no way they could kick me out.. I'm married.. Right.. I'm having a baby. Arrgh. It is just not a possibility, so I am just not going to think about it.. till I get something in the mail that says otherwise.

I got a message on Friday from my boss about scheduling an interview for the children's desk job I applied for before. Just when I thought I had nothing coming up to fret about! I should know better. Life is a series of things to fret about, and brief times of peace. The one bright spot in all this is that I already have a job at the library, and so it isn't a huge awful thing if I don't get this job. Wait and see once again.

Chris' parents are going to Mexico for a week starting march 1st. I have a dr's appointment March 1st. I wonder which of us is getting a raw deal. Not that I'm allowed to leave the country anyway while I have a case pending, but I can dream. I know it will probably be a long time before Chris and I get any kind of vacation together. Or a honeymoon. Opps, bit late for that now I guess.

*till later.

Nagging feeling.

You know, that thing in the back of your mind and doesn't let you really relax until it's been taken care of. Right now for me its the funeral I have to go to today for Jim. I know I'm going to cry and I would really rather not do that around people I don't know well. Hell, the only people I really don't mind crying around are the cats, and to a lesser extent Chris. Also, we have the immigration interview on Thursday. This entails organizing everything we need to bring and the photocopies of them. Plus getting up really early to drive to Milwaukee. On top of that, conveying that we are *really* a couple. Well, duh... But, who knows how we will come off. We'll come with photos on disc and a couple albums.

I am a eBay-o-holic. Can't stop window shopping. I'm really not all that crazy about actually spending, but I look ALL THE TIME. Occasionally, I find a really amazing deal that I usually end up feeling guilty about because I feel bad that the person selling isn't getting more money. How dumb is that.

The yard looks gross. It has been in the 50's the past two days and the snow is really melting fast, leaving behind the ever so lovely brown grass and mud. Today the forecast is for rain, so it's not going to improve. Plus the fact that it will get colder again this winter and we will have to endure the melt and mud cycle at least once more this winter. *greaaaaaat.

Wednesday already...

Ah another day off. Time for catch up.

I had a really lazy Saturday, I think I window shopped on eBay all day. Kind of a waste, but I think I needed a day like that.

I plan to make up for it today with a heroic amount of laundry, and I think I really can install my closet organizer by myself. My motivation for this is to hang up all my shiny new maternity clothes and get rid of the box in my room.

On Monday Chris and I went to my monthly prenatal Dr's appointment. I think I mentioned earlier that I was concerned that I didn't have a live baby anymore because I have still not gained any weight and I wasn't showing at all yet. All was made better at the appointment though, we heard the baby's heartbeat, strong and steady. Dr. Jenkin said that I could still eat ramen even though it has WAYYYYY too much salt in it, because since my blood pressure is fine the sodium has no bearing on my pregnancy. Chris mentioned about my super ramen, and this is what I do to doctor it up: One tea spoonful of Thai curry paste (I use pad prihk king paste, but red works too) and a generous spoonful of chunky peanut butter. I add that at the beginning, while I wait for the water to boil. Then ad noodles and seasoning packet as directed. I usually add peas at the end so they are barely cooked. There you have it... instant easy Thai noodle soup :D YUM! I eat the whole packet, so that's easily 1900mg of sodium.
Oh, btw... Why do I call ramen Ichiban ( which is a brand)? What does ichiban MEAN? Maybe it's a BC thing... Or am I just weird.
After my next Dr's appointment I will get another ultrasound, we shall see if baby co-operates with us finding out the sex. HOW EXCITING!

I went on a mini shopping spree this past weekend as well. I bought this
this
and this on Sunday.
( that was odd.... it kept underlining everything in blue unless I went to the next line. :/)
Then after the Dr. on Monday I went and bought a pair of maternity pants at Kohl's for $7.00, and 4 shirts and a pair of capri pants at Fashion bug for $19.78! Pretty incredible hey... I love a good sale ( heh, sometimes I really am turning, into my mother)

Today is groundhog day. in puxatawny, PA. the groundhog saw his shadow. Fortunately for me, the ground hog in Sun Prairie did not. So, early spring for us, but not them, na na na na na!

Ok!

We were a little alarmed when ladybird ( the cat) did not appear for breakfast. Chris found her in the basement guarding a mouse she had played with to death. This actually got me out of bed at 7:30 am on my day off. What a sight, to see the little cat tossing this mouse 4 feet in the air and chasing it. Once she brought it in the kitchen, Chris put it outside. *sigh... She's all grown up now.

~ciao.