New picture in the fotolog.
Archive for June, 2003
I’ve oddly gotten hooked to Charmed lately.
You are Tank, from “The Matrix.” Loyal
till the end, you spare no expense in ensuring
the well-being of others.
What Matrix Persona Are You?
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Work is extremely boring right now. I’ve been sitting here fora good two hours doing nothing. Well I’ve been surfing blogs which is fun but I want time to fly and not creep. Maybe after 12 I’ll ask to go home, since that is considered a full day (leaving before four hours or half of your shift is an occurence). I’ve been working on the baby blankets and m mom was right (something you’ll not hear me say often), it has calmed me down a bit. So I’m going to start baby blankets for those I like. 
I just need to sew up the open end of mine and put the yarn ties in it. I need a steel yarn needle though. I started another one and have it completely sewed, it just needs yarn ties, I’ll do that tonight. It is for Erich’s friend Jason and his wife Krista. I hope it will be a sort of peace offering. She is due in November and HATES me. I won’t go into but she hates me for reasons that are none of her business and pertain to my dating Erich and such before we were married. Anyways maybe this peace offering will build a bridge so that Erich and Jason can hang out more regularly. And our kids will be close in age so it would be nice to have playdates and such.
I also need to start Melissa’s blanket. She is due any day now with a c-section scheduled on July 18. She is a girl from work and I haven’t had the cash to buy her an appropriate gift. I think this will be more personable.
I also want to make blankets for Shana and Rachel. I obviously need to start Rachels next. I’ll email her after a bit to see if she has color preferences and such. I have a while for Shana’s. 
I was given a great book but for the love of God I can’t remember the name. It’s fairly easy reading and goes pretty fast. I think Dawn would enjoy it immensely. I need to email her the name of it.
By the way, my grandmother came over and finally got the old model 15 singer sewing machine to work. She sat right down and said she had one just like that when she was a kid. Showed me the mechanics of that particular bobbin and got it working. Amazing. She said she has been sewing since age 4!
- Trolling:: stroll
- Profile :: murder
- Tin:: man
- Phenom:: snake?
- Mug shot:: license
- Tubular:: dude
- Six Flags:: ohio
- Pickup:: truck
- Auction:: it
- Astonishing:: times
By the way there are new pictures up on my fotolog of Erich and myself, from yesterday and today.
I’m not complaining but… Sleep doesn’t seem refreshing anymore. **sigh** I wake up with aching bones, my boobs so sore they hurt just by the change in gravity, and my bladder so sore from being filled up once again. I wake about every 2 hours to go to the batheroom at night. It was bad in the beginning but then got better and now is back to being bad again. Really bad, worse than ever. Poor Erich was waking up everytime I got up for a few days there but him and the dogs have learned to sleep through it. Friday night I was so tired that it must have not woken me up for a while so when I did wake up and realize that I had to go to the batheroom I couldn’t even stand up straight. I had to walk stooped over. I guess that little baby is making himself more room in there or something. Sheesh. And if anybody has any suggestions… what can I do for itchy nipples. Really really itchy nipples. I almost feel like walking around in the world just scratching myself, it’s getting harder to be “discrete” about it!
This morning though I layed in bed till about twenty minutes ago. I fell in and out of sleep and it seemed to help the nausea. I think the fatigue has been making it a bit worse this past week. I figure I better learn to enjoy sleeping in because in about 6 and 1/2 months it will be a thing of the past. I can’ t wait! Now back to my sewing…
My mom gave me this sewing machine (remember that I’m Betty Crocker) because I really wanted one. It came from a friend of hers and it is in a sewing cabinet (a very nice oak one) and to heavy and such to lug to her new house besides that my stepdad bought her one of those really really cool new ones with all the neatest stuff on it (and she doesn’t use it! ha! go figure!). She said she thought it worked but I haven’t had the time to sit down and play with it. She gave me some fabric the other day for me to make a baby blanket. The back side fabric is yellow and the front is moons and stars (yellow and blue). She said I could make a quilt and that it might help me calm down a bit since these have been a rough few weeks. (I also need to make drapes eventually for the nursery but also recover and drape box in the living room and make pillows for the couch and for our bed, did I mention that I am also Martha Stewart?) Anyways this model is EXTREMELY old and I can usually thread newer models after tinkering with them for a few minutes but this is a bit more complicated. So I figured I could probably hop online and find something that would help. The model number is 15. That’s right folks. It is the 15th Singer model sewing machine. They have over 200 now! They charge $15 manuals but for this particular it is available as a free download. Like yeah you idiot, if you are too cheap to buy a brand new sewing machine, I doubt you’ll buy a manual for a very old machine. I just found that very funny. **sigh** Someone please send my brain back to me!
Okay I’m officially nuts. E’s mom called to say she saw the u/s picture yada yada yada. Then she said she had been out at rummage sales all morning and that she had bought like a bathtub, a swing, etc etc etc. I think it’s great that she is excited and wants to buy us stuff, but I don’t want all used stuff. I know that sounds really snobby but this is our first baby. I want new stuff (which the stuff she bought is stuff that people will buy us in showers anyways). I want new stuff now because I know that this won’t be our only baby *God willing* and I want it to be nice and new so that it will last a long time. Is that wrong? It’s exciting to think of all the new and pretty things. I could probably handle some second hand stuff from people we knew but these are from random strangers. I don’t know where it’s been and stuff like that. Now I don’t mind hand me down clothes if they are stain ridden and so forth just because they are so expensive and are constant recurring needs, ya know? Am I being totally irrational and hormonal?
And on another note, I don’t think it’s wise to have all the “big” stuff before I get to 12 weeks. It isn’t needed yet and I don’t want her to jinx me. I don’t think that nurseries or registrys or stuff like that need to be done until the late second trimester. My mom brings us small things, little tiny toys or a pair of socks, but mostly just stuff for me like stretchy pants and rasberry lemonade. I just don’t want to go overboard. My gut says that this will last and to sit back and relax, I just don’t want to do anything to mess it up, ya know?
Okay I’ve completely lost my mind probably and you all will think that I’m some silly hormonal pregnant woman sitting at the computer crying my eyes out but this is what goes through my mind. You guys seem to be my only friends right now. Most of my friends are finishing up college and my best friend Phoebe is touring the country speaking at bible camps. I miss her. I need a friend.
I’m not feeling to terrific at all. I don’t know if it was something I ate or if it is all the book rearranging or what, but I’m going to barf (again) . Bleh. Maybe I should go home.
A hero among all college students.