Forgive me Blogger...

For I have sinned. It has been sixteen days since my last post. Does anyone really read this thing anyway? If you do and don't normally comment, Say hello!

My feet hurt. I wore socks that were too thick and too new for my new shoes. They made prints in my skin with the texture of my sock. I have very impressionable skin, always have. I keep pillow face for way too long, and wearing a waffle weave shirt to bed does amazing things to my torso.

Pregnancy is amplifying my pet peeves. Mainly people that tap their fingers, library cards books papers what have you as they wait. I can only check books out so fast asshole, so you should just relax. I think a LOT of people really need to relax. Do they really need that thing right now? Does anyone take a moment to stop and enjoy something. Little things, things that are free or close to it, things that do not need to be plugged in. I'm happy that when I walk to work in the wind that it is no longer mind numbingly cold. I pause and smile at the thought of the absolute mess it must be making out of my hair.

There is so much *good* going on in my life it boggles my mind. I have the idea that it can all be gone in a flash but, you know, I really don't think it will. I feel blessed. Maybe it's the music... I'm listening to a song off of The Tragically Hip's album Road Apples. Ahh highschool. These songs are still so good. Long time running... that AHHHHHHH feeling. The relaxing one, not the angry one.

My crocus' are nearly an inch tall. Life is good.

Chris' parents were here for an extended weekend. Saturday through Tuesday. At the end of it all this is what was accomplished.

• My formerly rickety basement stairs were re-done. Solid!
• The basement no longer bring on my own anxiety attacks. It's ORGANIZED!
  
• Chris has this rather "grown up" work area with two work benches one of which is the new home of the kick-ass mitre saw he got for Christmas and has been sitting in its box since then, never opened.
• My kitchen now has baseboards, not hollow area's where the drywall stops short 5 inches above the floor.
• My Mother-in-Law and I went on a mini shop-a-thon. This produced a crib ( and mattress), a changing table/dresser and hutch and a swivel rocking chair.

Ahh progress.

Since then we have ordered this crib bedding set
and probably tomorrow we will order the stroller, infant car seat and pack and play.

We have to pick out our paint color and paint before the furniture stuff is delivered. ( We hope to anyway.) As well as pick the upholstery for the chair. I think right now I'll get the same velvety stuff that the display one had, but we shall see.

Ok. I more than made up for the 16 days didn't I!

Me Me ME...

So, in retaliation to friend blogs posting more personal things.. here are some possible little known facts about ME. In no particular order.

1. I once had a ferret latched onto my cheek. It was "the friendly one"... Go figure.
2. I have 3 cats
3. I have 2 tattoos
4. I have never broken any bones, not gotten any stitches. Although, I once should have gotten stitches...
5. I LOVE popsicles. The real fruit kinds usually because I tell myself they are better for me.
6. I have traveled to 11 countries spread over 5 continents.
7. I have lived in 4 different countries.
8. I graduated highschool with honors. ( granted.. I took a lot of art classes.. but I it still sounds kind of fancy)
9. I sanded and polyurathaned all the floors in my new house.
10. My cousin and I were born on each others due dates.
11. I dated four guys named Chris. ( including the BEST one... that I married)
12. I've worn glasses since the third grade.
13. I once had green hair. Don't try and henna light brown hair black...( trust me)
14. The one time I got up the guts to audition for a main part in a play, it was cancelled.
15. My mom took Leslie Nielson to a party once. I think she picked him up at a bar.. ( go MOM!)
16. I haven't been back to Canada since May 21, 2002.
17. I love movies that make me cry. ( books too)
18. I have a half sister, 2 step sisters and one step brother.

I don't have a 19 damnit....plus I went and had dinner when I was trying to think of more...

Oh well... I'll just post this incomplete or it will be 2 weeks since the last entry.

another week, another wow! has it really been a week...

Today was a rather glorious day. It was really warm, for winter anyway. Nearly 60 degrees, infact at one point today it was 72 in the sun on our outdoor thermometer. It couldn't have been that warm... Could it.

I hung a bunch of things today. A group of six framed vintage postcards in the stairway, a print of Quebec city in the bathroom ( to cover an unused electrical box) and this long horizontal antique mirror above our bed. ( rawr! .. just kidding) This one is pretty old and the mirror silver is starting to go on it, very cool.

We assembled a rubbermaid storage closet in the attic and put a bunch of coats and other seldom worn clothing inside of it. That thing is so worth the money! We even mostly finished putting away crap in the guestroom (soon to be baby room). But... not quite. It's still way better, of course, now the attic is getting a lot more crowded. There were swarms of flies on the two windows in the attic. It was SO disgusting, I think flies are really the most nasty bug ever. Chris didn't want to spray them with raid though, so they are still there now, swarming and copulating on my attic windows. *shudders

Mid day we went and exchanged the propane tank for a tank that actually had propane in it. Now we are ready for the grilling season. Chris is the grillmaster, I am the stir-fry guru. Then some Mcdonalds drive-through, a newspaper and home. We ate outside on the back patio that is still half covered in ice. I made a toast with my diet coke to "the new season" or something like that. It is unusual that I make toasts with drinks, I often just use food. For example, I'll hold up a fry or my hamburger and make a toast to whatever, then touch what i'm eating to whatever Chris is eating. I occasionally do it to my friend Shawna too. I am a strange bird.

We had Pa Naang with tilapia for dinner. It was really really good. (pa naang is a nutty red thai curry.) While we ate, we wasted 2 hours watching "King Arthur". It was... just ok. Even that might be a compliment.

This past Tuesdays doctors appointment went well. We heard the heartbeat as usual and scheduled an ultrasound. So now I have to wait till March 21st to possibly find out what the creature we will be having is. Chris says it is a girl, I have no feeling either way. What I do feel is it moving around now, fairly often too. It is truely pretty amazing and... Weird. That has been my word to describe a lot of feelings I have had since becoming pregnant.

On Saturday at work a patron asked me out for coffee. I was in complete shock... and amusment afterward. Who gets asked out at the Library? Especially when they are pregnant. Heh.. anyway, it was a VERY unusual occurance. I can't think of a time ever where someone I did not know already did that to me.

Chris is writing his blog behind me on his computer. He's wearing his glasses. He looks super hot in his glasses... I get the goofiest smile when ever I see him with them on. :D

<3 He's the one.