Monday Musings, No. 1 Vol. 19

Musings are back! It's been a crazy Monday - I overslept (by, um, nearly TWO HOURS...oh the joys of pregnancy exhaustion) and then whilst working from home, our Verizon FiOS internet crapped out (extended outage - no ETA for the fix), so I scrambled to get ready over the lunch hour and hauled myself into the office for the afternoon. Googily moogily. Let's muse:

I'm only supposed to be pregnant for another 15 weeks. That seems so weird. Also, scary.
I had a fun laid-back family baby shower in Spokane this weekend and got a LOT of great stuff. I even managed to put the baby's swing together by myself last night when I got home. And I only swore 3 times while doing so.
I love HGTV's Design Star. I'm rooting for Dan (he's from Portland)...he's adorable and I think he has great style.
We have had white peaches in the free fruit bins at work lately. I love white peaches, and since they're free, even the underripe ones taste good.
I like squeegying (sp?) the shower in the morning after I'm done in there. It's the perfect tiny, easy chore for neat freaks when time is short.
The baby is funny these days - she goes nuts with her rolling, kicking, and punching for several minutes at a time, but as soon as Nick comes over to feel her move, she stops. Stubborn little miss.
It's FOOTBALL SEASON! Yes! Should be interesting being the sober kid at tailgates this year, but I think I can manage. As long as no one drinks a pumpkin ale next to me, no blood or tears will be shed.
I have a package of Reese's Dark PB Cups sitting on my desk right now. I'm full from lunch, but I really want to eat one.
Nick and I played the "athlete mancrush" game on the drive home from Spokane yesterday. In a nutshell, the point of the game is to name the athletes you crush on, but in a totally platonic way. Halfway through my list, I realized this game is very difficult to play if you are a straight female. Nick killed it though.

Blogging Delinquency

I'm assuming I spelled "delinquency" correctly in the post title, but if not, feel free to correct me in a comment. I have forgotten to do a Musings post the last two Mondays, which is a little unusual for me. It's been a very hectic month (is August OVER yet?) so my blogging schedule has been a little out of whack. That being said, here are a few updates for you faithful readers:

• Baby: she's growing just fine and so is her mom. We have a follow-up ultrasound scheduled for Sept. 17th to check on the position of my low-lying placenta (typing all of this makes me feel like I'm violating my own HIPAA rights, but whatever) and take another gander at the babe. My 28-week appointment is the following day, and that will mark the end of my monthly visits to the doc, and starts the 'every two week' appt cycle until the last month of my pregnancy, when I have to go every flippin' week.

• Neighbor: No more blatant crazy, and in fact, she's keeping her dogs in check, so that's been nice. The polite thing to do would be to go over there with some muffins and thank her for her cooperation but I think it would just be awkward, and frankly, I'm not that polite. So I keep ignoring her and all is well.

• Work: This is a recession and I'm thankful I have a well-paying, stable job. But there's a lot to do these days, and projects are crazy, so it's stressful and makes it hard to remember to be thankful for said job. So here's my visible reminder: I'm thankful for my job.

• Play: We've spent the last two weekends traveling eastward (first to L-town for my reunion, then to Walla Walla for my friend's wedding) and will do so again this weekend (to Spokane for Nick's reunion and a baby shower). After that, we don't have to drive anywhere again until the weekend of UI homecoming, thanks God. All that time spent in the Civic has killed Nick's back and hasn't done mine any favors. But our weekends, while they will soon be road trip-free, aren't going to clear up anytime soon. My stepmom will be over for Labor Day, then we have the UI-UW game in Seattle the following weekend, and the weekend after that is our childbirth training seminar. I need a break.

Happy Hump Day and please check out this kid's Twitter feed, if you haven't already (site URL NSFW). It's hilarious.

Me @ Bite of Oregon

Alright, as promised, here is a photo of me and the bump at Bite a couple weeks ago. I should have posted on Monday, but I didn't have much to muse about, so I didn't. And this week has been chock-full of neighborhood soap opera FAIL and while it makes for some fun back-and-forth on my Facebook status updates, I don't really feel like retelling the story here on my blog.

Therefore, enjoy the pregnant happiness emanating from my person in this photo, and forget about my saltiness on the FB over recent days:

Monday Musings - No. 1, Vol. 18

I intended to jazz this post up with a photo of me and the bump at Bite of Oregon on Saturday, but I forgot to upload the photos last night, so that'll have to wait until maybe tomorrow. Or next week...actually, just plan on seeing them next week. It's been an interesting month around here - lots of baby planning stuff going on, work craziness showing no signs of letting up, and three weekends' worth of travel back to Idaho/E. Washington on the schedule through August. Musings commence.

Saw Julie and Julia with my BFF on Friday night. The theater was PACKED...which totally surprised me. It's was a pretty good movie and definitely makes me want to practice some fancy French cooking and baking.
Nick felt the bambina move for the first time yesterday. She was moving pretty well in there so I had him put his hand on the ol' belly and taaaa-daaa...she kicked (or punched, we don't know) him pretty well. I guess she assumed he'd be here this morning at 4:30 - he wasn't, back to Seattle for work - because she decided to kick/punch/flip like crazy and woke me out of a dead sleep. Thanks, baby.
Bite of Oregon was a load of fun - but I should post about that with photos. We took a lot, especially of our food. Highly recommend the Pommes Frites booth if they come back next year, and the seared scallop w/cucumber salad from H50 here in Portland.
For those who might be wondering, the baby now has a name. It is...still a surprise. We are determined to make everyone wait to find out when she's born, because well, it's fun for us. And we're the parents, so we're entitled to be this way about her name if we want to. Neener neener.
We signed up for Netflix and I love it! How did we manage to wait so long for this magical service? I don't think we'll get caught up on Mad Men in time for the S3 premiere on Sunday, but we'll just save them on the DVR until we are. What a great show.
Yesterday we got new towels at Bed Bath & Beyond. I love new towels.
My 1o-year reunion is this weekend and I'm hoping it's fun, but who knows. Should be interesting at the very least.

Quick Workday Posting

I didn't do a Musings post yesterday because I was too busy at work to take a blogging break and when I got home the last thing I wanted to do was sit in front of a computer again. So instead, I watched the rest of the first disc of Mad Men Season 1 (sorry, Nick!) and relaxed. It was nice, until the baby decided she wanted to practice her jujitsu on my uterine wall for an hour. Ah, kids.

But I wanted to get a quick posting in today before I got super-busy and forgot. Plans are coming together for the arrival of the little girl - her nursery furniture arrived yesterday; the boxes are just waiting in the garage for Nick to get home from Seattle and assemble. Of course, we might need to wait on that until we a) clear out the old furniture currently taking up space in her room and b) paint the walls and install a chair rail. In due time - pun intended. Our registries are complete - Target and Babies R Us, per the usual - and full of stuff you'd never think a baby required, but for some reason, they do. We're signed up for both a weekend birthing class AND a parenting/breastfeeding class in the fall. So yeah, we're making progress on the Great Parenting Project.

Just a quick plug for any of you who live in Portland: Bite of Oregon is this weekend at Waterfront Park. I love this event. We went for the first time last year and had a BLAST. Luckily, I can't partake of the sake, wine, and beer booths this year (that boozetastic combo did make my specific memories a little hazy) but the food...oh man, the food. I'm definitely looking forward to pigging my way through the delicious petits plats offered from both Portland-area and "outer Oregon" restaurants. If you have time this weekend, you should go. Admission is pretty cheap and so are the prices for food, beer, wine, gadgets, etc.