The weekend wasn’t really filled with drama. The end of the week was. Thursday I blogged that I wasn’t feeling well. Friday, after E left for work, I ended up passing out. oops. The OB rushed me into a neurologist. The neurologist thinks my migraines are progressing and that sometimes pressure on the brain will make you pass out. gee, lovely. They are scanning my brain in the morning. I do think it will be somewhat cool because they will scan my whole body once. So you will be able to see all of me, my bones etc, with my little girl tucked inside my belly. Don’t you think that will be cool? Oh, and it is an MRI so no radiation. MRI = Magnetic Resonance Imaging. A big giant magnet. And NO radioactive dye. They’ll probably run me through that thing again with dye after baby girl is here. We’ll see.

Saturday E went to friends and I babysat during the day. Then came home, worked on painting the nursery and cleaned and took a nap and just kinda lazied around.

Sunday we went to BabysRExpensive and registered. That was kinda fun. Oh, and we went and visited a friend, E bought a table saw (talk about a kid in a toy store) and we came home. I worked on more painting in the nursery and I cleaned the upstairs thoroughly and worked on laundry. Man I seriously feel like I work 16 hour days, plus do side jobs.

Next up… worker rant, but I’ll have to fill my belly first.

Pottery Barn Kids is about to feel the full wrath of a ticked off pregnant woman. Urgh.

1. Wedding:: cake
   
2. Roach:: clip (heh, where did that come from)
   
3. Expense:: s
   
4. Fight:: for your right… to … paaaahteh! lol
   
5. Air:: force
   
6. Protect:: and serve
   
7. Glance:: s
   
8. Boo:: halloween
   
9. Steamy:: cars
   
10. Caviar::yuck
    

I owe my blog a lot of info. It’s been craziness this past week. I’m going to go grab some breakfast, get things organized here at work, then catch up my blog on whats been going on! I promise! Plus the worker rant.

I have some stuff I want to tell you guys, but I’m really tired, and just not feeling “right” this evening. I don’t know whats up. My neck hurts and I almost passed out at work today. I was talking to someone and all of a sudden the room started spinning, I got lightheaded, and they said I turned very very pale. And my leg is numb. Baby must be laying on a nerve or something. I promise to write tomorrow.

Remember me talking about my cousin who is having triplets? Well, she had another ultrasound on Tuesday. Baby A is 2.3 pounds, Baby B is 2.5, and Baby C a whopping 2.6! She will be 30 weeks tomorrow. All three were head down but Baby B seemed to wiggle out and is laying across the other twos feet. Little stinker! I told her that he was probably getting really squished! We are hoping she makes it at least another 2 weeks. 32 weeks is what they hope for with triplets. If she makes it to 34 weeks, she’ll have another scan for growth and position. Yay! She has already had a shot of steroids to speed up lung development and is already 1 cm dilated. I’m thinking 32 weeks is all she will make it.

Wow, this blog makes me want to cry.

Is it just me or does anyone else have major issues with people who bathe in perfume?

I’m looking for carseats now. I want to be able to put the portable hand carry do dad (ya know 5 to 20 lb one) and the big one on my registry in hopes that we’ll have a big turnout! So where do I start researching for the best ones? I know someone out there has to know. **mumbles Jennifer** (she seems to know just about everything

For all of the impatient people out there, **cough** Rachel **cough**, it appears that this baby may just be a girl. Or it could be a boy. They weren’t 100% sure. She/he had their legs squished together. But when you looked at the butt shot like Shanas there wasn’t anything in between the legs. Dr. said that she’ll make up a reason to have another ultrasound in a few weeks.

I was happy to know that the spine is very much closed, the intestines are INSIDE the body and she has really really really long legs, just like her 6’4″ daddy. I am going to call her her. Looks like a …. Ha! You thought I was going to say her name huh? Maybe I will in a few weeks. It’s such a beautiful name, right Rachel? So lets’ call her a girl, though I won’t stock up on pink. I’m not the hugest fan of pink anyways. I think I’ll paint the room the same green as the kitchen cabinets. That would go for boy and girl, yes?

Ultrasound is today! whoopee! I feel like it’s the first day of school or something. I couldn’t sleep. Bad dreams. This seems to be a regular thing lately. I just want everything to be alright. Why on Earth didn’t I schedule an 8am appointment? heh. I’m going to go lie down and eat and then get dressed and ready then do something around the house to kill time until 9. At 9, mom will be here (E has to go to school. boo.) and we’ll go buy a VHS tape to take with us. Then head off and away to the OB. Send me healthy baby with open legs vibes!

I said I would post yesterday and I didn’t. Sorry! I ended up being pretty busy, though I have no clue what I did. I’m to tired to post now. Been out at the festival. Baby seemed to like the marching bands of the parade again. When they went by baby would start kicking and flipping, it was kinda cool. I’m anxious for Monday, and I just want to see my babys face. I’d like to see what’s in between the legs too, heh, but I can live with not knowing. Isn’t anyone else a teeny bit excited to know what’s in there? My MIL is. My mom is like me, just wants a healthy baby, and E is the same way. My aunt and Nana gave me props today for saying I was very adament on breastfeeding and decided to clothe diaper. That made me happy. Though my other aunt said, “cloth diaper? well, i’ll say $5 you give that up within a month.” Which with the mood I’ve been in lately, I say SCREW YOU! I actually didn’t say that. I said something like, “Well Erich, remember that we need to collect our $5 in March.” She generally pisses me off. Like yesterday when we got to Nanas and I was pooped from walking all over town with E and I said, “Dang I’m exhausted, too much exercise for me today!” And she came back with a snide remark, “Well, when I was pregnant I worked out at the gym until I was 7 1/2 months.” I wanted to say ” I DON”T FREAKING CARE!” I didn’t, I was a good girl. I said, ” well, I didn’t work out before, so I guess I shouldn’t start now.” She said you don’t want to gain to much weight. To date folks I’ve lost 22lbs and gained back 3lbs. I think I’m okay. Back off! My nerves are wearing thin lately and she wasn’t helping. She ticked E off pretty bad too. Erich made the comment earlier that 20 years ago EVERYONE cloth diapered. It was unheard of to use disposable. Why must people comment on my choices? I don’t care if you don’t agree with it, and I understand, five years ago I would have thought it was pretty out there. But we must remember that I worked in nursing homes, changed old peoples diapers (and yes the Veterans home uses clothe) and had to take them and spray them out which was truly the most disgusting thing ever. I can handle baby poop and I can handle spending less money, and YOU aren’t going to be doing MY laundry. Feh. I need to go to bed I’m just working myself up again. But I will say…

That I’ve made choices that I don’t voice to a lot of people. Like extended breastfeeding, using a co-sleeper, and clothe diaper. I don’t vocalize to others about their choices. I realize that the mainstream was made to believe that formula is best and disposables are common. I may say, well breast is best, but I’m to passive to go stomping in and saying this is wrong. NOT that I think people who say that sort of stuff are bad, kudos to be able to voice your opinion. I’m just to passive too. I keep to myself. I think as long as I do what I think is best for my child, then I can say I gave it my all, right? So why do others try to impend and make me feel bad for saying that I’m going to clothe diaper or assuming that I won’t be able to do it? I just don’t understand why people insist (I’m talking about “real life” people) on thinking my ways are wrong, and that only they can teach me the “right” way. I’ve got to stop. This is making me cry. I just hear the phrase in my head, “why can’t we all just get along?” But I understand that it takes passive people like me and aggressive people to make the world work correctly. But lecturing and yelling and frowning tend to make us passive people feel like complete cow crap. That’s all. I hope you are all still reading and still my friend. Though I can only think of a couple of people that I read aggressively that would make me hurt if they turned away from me. I’m sure others have left my boring life long ago.

Well, it’s almost Friday. The weekend should go somewhat fast with the festival in town. Man it was crowded tonight! And on Monday… OUR BIG ULTRASOUND! Let’s hope baby is cooperative. **fingers crossed** I just want to make sure baby is the right size, four chambers to the heart, spine closed, intestines in they tummy, no water on the brain. The list is endless. Working in healthcare kills my optimism sometimes. I’m sure all is OK but I still worry and I should get used to it, cause I’m going to be worrying for the rest of my life, aren’t I? I’m waiting for E to get home but I’m getting very sleepy. More in the morning, and the worker rant is coming, still digesting it though. Sleep tight.

Baby gets really crazy when I eat. About half way through my meal, s/he starts jumping and flipping and acting crazy . S/he must run out of room or like the food coming down or something.

My last post was stopped prematurely, though now I’ve forgotten what else I was going to write. I have a big giant rant about the girl that works here in the library with me (inspired by Allison) but I’m to tired to write it right now. So, ya know, I’ll get back to reading blogs and doing nothing.

It appears that I have fixed it. Though the “posted by” section is entirely to big of a font for my likes and I tried changing that but was unsuccessful but beggars can’t be choosers right?

Lots to blog about really. Erich and I FINALLY figured out a middle name for a girl. Woot! SO glad to have that figured out. I did a TON around the house like dishes, 7 loads of laundry, made 2 pillows, picked up, changed the sheets, took all the laundry downstairs, organized my business office, did some business work. I feel productive.

Changing the subject, but…Why is it that people do not know what to do at 4 way stops? That aggravates me to no end. And I hate idling at a 4 way stop where the five stupid people can not figure out what to do while I sit in my car on EMPTY wondering if we are going to make it to a gas station. Argh. That drives me insane!

The local festival is rolling into town. It starts tonight. They have been making craziness by shutting off the side roads directly off the main highway (the only highway mind you) in town. My little town of 5,000 puts on this festival and everyone always looks forward to it (including me) though you really just go eat, look at booths, and maybe ride a carnival ride. Sucky part is I’m just about 19 weeks pregnant so no rides for me. And I saw this morning that they brought the tilt-a-whirl, my favorite carnival ride of all time. Really I only like that and the scrambler. I don’t care for rides that go off of the ground. I LOVE to fly though.

Melanie suggested that something was wrong with the blog ring codes. I took them completely out and that didn’t work. Dangit. I emailed blogger but they get to everyone but paying customers are a priority or some such like that. So uh… any more suggestions?