Last Day

Today is my last day of work.  Very crazy, it doesn’t seem any different than any other day yet.  I suppose it will start to sink in when I don’t wake up to go to work on Monday or Tuesday (etc), but it really does just seem like a normal Friday. 

But I am SICK.  AGAIN.  Apparently Jason did not get my sickness, he got some other sickness that he then passed on to me while I was taking care of him.  I suppose that is the difference.  If this was just another Friday and not my LAST FRIDAY, there is no way I would have come into work today because I feel like poo.  I will definitely be embarking on a lovely weekend-full of nada, just rest and emergen-C and TV.

I also had my last ultrasound appointment yesterday (nothing was wrong, just checking up on how big he is).  I really thought that I would get to see really good pictures of him since he’s so developed now, but I was wrong.  He’s actually so big now that they can’t get a good shot of him at all because they can’t get enough of him in the picture.  There may have been a good shot of his face possible, but he’s facing backwards (which is actually good for the birth, but come on baby, where are the picture posing skills?).  I guess I’ll take a bad pose for a better position for labor…

Still pending on that though (the labor, that is).  No contractions or even fake contractions (Braxton Hicks) yet…

Final Countdown...

So today starts the official countdown of my last week of work before baby time—super crazy, only 5 days left.  I don’t quite know what I’m going to do with myself at home, because since the last post we have awesome new appliances, a functioning kitchen that I used this weekend to make cheesecake bars and lemon bars for a super bowl party, I’ve installed the car seat base in my car, and the house is actually pretty clean right now…that doesn’t mean that I’m actually READY ready, but superficially ready anyway.

Not that that remotely affected my ability to sleep from 3:45-5:30 this morning.  So I’m super alert and chipper right now.  Luckily, this week is half days only, so I only need to make it till around noon (actually a little before since I start work at 7), so I can go home and take care of sick Jason at home.  He is currently completely wiped out on the couch, having taken his second round (since last night) of NyQuil, and I left him this morning set up with peanut butter & jelly toast, water, emergen-C, all the remotes, a movie playing, my iPad (since I downloaded fake Risk for him to play), and his laptop.  So I feel like he should be set for a few hours.  To be honest I don’t know how he isn’t going to be dead to the world until I get back home since he took NyQuil, I mean, I realize that he is much bigger than me, but whenever I’ve taken NyQuil, it knocks me out cold for hours and hours.

Eeek!

Ok, so I realize I should have seen this coming, but I just came to a realization yesterday and it kind of freaked me out. 

So I've been going through this whole pregnancy decorating and not eating the things I'm not supposed to and registering for stuff and whatnot, but the due date has always been some date far off in the future--but I realized yesterday that THE BABY COULD ACTUALLY BE BORN AT ANY TIME NOW. Yes, it's not quite at the +/- 2 weeks around the February 24th due date, but the baby would likely be perfectly healthy if it were born now. And I have to say I'm pretty freaked out by that. Partly because as the due date approaches I'm kind of nervous for, you know, actually getting the baby out of me. Partly because then I'm going to have to take care of a baby, and, you know, not screw it up.  And my floors at home right now: dirty from the mini kitchen redo that Jason is working on.  And I won't have a stove until Thursday.  And I keep forgetting to install the car seat base in my car.  And so on.  Maybe this is why I couldn't sleep last night...

Holy Crap!

So I just got done with my super fun work baby shower, and what a lovely day for it--sunny and 80 in January :).  And we played some games (baby word scramble, fill in the blank with candy names, and the ever popular guess the candy bar that's smashed up in the diaper)--and my office bought me an iPad!  I am so excited!  My laptop at home is just not what it once was at all.  A while back it got a virus, so then I reinstalled everything, but it just hasn't been the same.  When I try to scroll down on any page, it doesn't go smoothly, just kind of reloads after a few seconds and takes forever to load...BUT NO LONGER!  I am now super fancy!  I'm going to have to start dressing fancier and being way cooler in general...but here's the question:  I got the 16gb (which, thank you work, that is AMAZING), but do I need to upgrade it to the 32 or 64?  Thoughts anyone (other than the obvious jealousy, of course)?

Oh, hello not thank you cards

There is definitely something wrong with me.  I'm usually so efficient with my thank you notes, I get them out in record time, I swear, but I just can't bring myself to start writing the thank you notes for the awesome baby shower I had for all the awesome things that people brought me.  Even though I am very thankful for all the gifts that I got (thank you everyone!).  Instead I've been doing really exciting stuff like reading endless books about how not to have a jerky baby and trying to find new ways to sit/lie down so that those things can be done in a way that isn't super uncomfortable, and writing a blog post right now in order to try to put them off a little bit longer...

Also--3 more weeks of work!  So crazy, the 15 (business) day countdown is officially on!

LA Baby Shower

Had another great day this past weekend at Shannon's house at a baby shower thrown by Laura--thanks Laura!  here are some highlights of the cute bird decor:

Everyone had fun making quilt squares and trying to figure out nursury rhyme trivia:

And of course all the food that I pretty much pigged out on the whole time...

Although, sadly, I did have to pass on this:

I got so much great stuff and had so much fun with everyone, thanks to everyone who could make it!!!



Why must sleeping be done lying down?

So, what's up with this crippling hip pain?  I'm mostly fine during the day, you know, unless I try to do something really crazy like to go Restaurant Depot and Costco in the same day, where I am then completely wiped out for pretty much the rest of the day.  But really, I've been so wild and crazy, what was I expecting?  But at night, lying in bed, I dread having to turn over because it feels like my lower half is just going to fall off at the hip bone--the left side of me at least.  (and I know, I know, it could be so much worse, I could be on bed rest, or worse worse worse, but it is pretty painful and annoying). 

Yes, I have one of those giant pillows that takes up the whole bed, and it helps, but I think if I wasn't using it I'd just be paralyzed instead of in the amount of pain I'm in now...So, internet, build me a contraption so that I don't have to lie on either side at night?  Please?

Also, had a fabulous LA baby shower thrown by Laura & hosted by Shannon...more on that as soon as I get it together and copy pictures onto my computer :)