~*~Trimester Month Week Countdown~*

~FIRST TRIMESTERMonth One (1-4): COMPLETE!!

Month Two (5-8): COMPLETE!!

Month Three (9-13): COMPLETE!!

SECOND TRIMESTER

Month Four (14-17): COMPLETE!!

Month Five (18-21): COMPLETE!!

Month Six (22-26): COMPLETE!!

THIRD TRIMESTER

Month Seven (27-30):IN PROGRESS!!

Month Eight (31-35): SOON TO COME!!

Month Nine (36-40): SOON TO COME!!

I can't believe that I'm this close...12 more weeks until my due date... I just hope Peanut decides to come ontime...

YEAH!!! they are done installing our carpet... it looks so pretty now. John and Erik came over and I decided since we have a clean slate to reaarange it differently... There seems to be a bit more room now and it's more open. I would take pictures but I have no idea where our camera is. I will have John take some belly shots of me... Goodness. I have a definate belly now... there is no denying my abs of steel. only problem is that instead of a 6 pack I have a pony keg....

Friday, December 22, 2006

No, I didn't fall off the face of the planet... I have just been not able to get my thoughts together... On Sunday John discovered that we had a leak in the kitchen... So Monday came and Tuesday came and finally on Wednesday the plumber came to fix our sink at 8 in the morning... And as you know, John and I are not morning people. How can you be when I don't get home till midnight from work??? Then around 11:30 the drywall guy came and patched up the hole in the wall... Thursday came and I had to be at work for a meeting and the painter was supposed to come sometime between 9-4. Well I wasn't about to wait all day for him to get here so I left early and hung out at mom and dad's house. When I got home from scrambling to find lift tickets for John to go skiing on Meadows (no luck) we had a note on our door reminding us that we needed to have all our furniture moved out of our living and dining areas so they can quickly replace our carpet.... Well It's now 11:30 and they aren't even here yet. I can't get ready for work. My uniform is in the wash and if I had a camera I would show you how accessible that is. the couches are standing up on end, my bathroom has that gigantic cross and our coffee table and misc boxes in it, Our kitchen has our pantry shelves, table and chairs and all the groceries and tins that I didn't get put away... I haven't had anything to eat since before 8 last night and I'm ravishing... I might just walk to McDonald's. I can't get to my bathroom, or the kitchen, I can take a shower in the master bath but to get ready to go anywhere is impossible. This is just getting a bit ridiculous!!!

So last night was John's 30th birthday and some friends took us out for dinner. We came home and started destroying the apartment.... Trying to squeeze as much as i could in as little space I was scooting the bookshelf closer to the bathroom and my shelf that Alyssa gave me years ago that had all my precious wedding keepsakes on it fell to the ground and broke... And this is after John accidentally laid the couch leg against the wall crushing a porcelain cross Toni bought for our wedding.... I lost it. This is the tip of the ice burg for me.... All the crap that happened last summer with the bugs and the painting and the upstairs neighbors bathtub leaking through the ceiling.... And now this, the week before Christmas. Andrea, Have you been able to make cookies yet?? NO, I haven't been able to use the kitchen for most of the week. Have you had time to get the baby's room ready. No, I haven't had time, I was too busy mopping up the gallons of water that spilled out of our sink and washing the towels to do that on a daily basis..... ARG!!!

Well the carpet installers just showed up and quoted an hour and a half. If everything turns out okay then John and Eric can move the furniture back and I might be able to eat something before I go to work!!! And then I read last night that if we are planning on installing new carpet for the nursery don't do it while I'm home because of the new carpet fumes.... well Sherlock... Where shall I go? There are carpet installers blocking our doorways with padding and old carpet and they must be glueing something, It smells like a hot glue gun.... Prisoner in my own home. Well, I am gonna stop complaining and read about how big peanut is and what miseries are in store for me this week. Getting my shoes on is a challenge, going to the bathroom is getting very interesting.... I am starving all the time and Peanut is kicking the crap out of my cervix.... And they wonder why pregnant women have mood swings so often.

Happy Birthday Andrea!!! When can we get together and celebrate your birthday?

23 week pictures (notice the pink bra and underwear???)

15 weeks
I didn't realize I was holding my boob in both pictures until they were already on here... compare it to my 15 week belly shot. I think I have a little more pigment in that picture too... But I'm sure that it's the lighting and not the fact that I lack pigment...
Well, I have 119 more days until my due date. Apparently only 5-10% of women deliver on their due dates... And labor tends to be about 3 times longer for first time moms than for moms who have deliverd before... So instead of a "short" 7 hour labor, I'm looking at somwhere between 20-24 hours!!! But as many of you have already been through this I am sure that's it will be well worth it. John is still trying to convince me that we are going to have ten kids. He is seriously delusional. Thanksgiving is coming up next week and John will be taking off a couple days next week. I just called work and I have it off so that will be great!
Last night I attemped for the third time to make Petit Fours. They turned out as expected. The Poured fondant was made from the Decorette Shops dry fondant mix, but I have read about making it yourself which might be just as easy and if not atleast more affordable. I was curious of people's oppinions on them, when you bite into them is the "covering" crunchy or is it a little softer??? I can't seem to remeber. All the times I have made them it's crunchy. But I seem to remember having one at work comercially made and it was a quite a bit softer. Kinda like the coating on a Hoho or Little Debbie snack cake. Wilton has a couple recipies for covering them and in one they use the candy melts and vegetable oil. That to me sounds like it would be creamier and a little softer. Others have suggested the melts and cream or half n half. I'm just desperate enough to try all of them. I don't really mind that they take forever. I think they are so cute that's they're worth it. I bought different colors for Christmas and with any luck we will be able to have some by Thanksgiving. I would love to bring some, only if they turn out though. I might just get so fed up with little cakes that I'll go crazy. Well the time is now 3:21 and I have to leave for work in 40 minutes. I'll see everyone at Becca's birthday tomorrow!

I just wanted to share the ulrasound pictures of "Peanut" that we had taken at our last appointment. It's hard to tell but s/he's really cute!!!

~*~Trimester Month Week Countdown~*~
FIRST TRIMESTER
Month One (1-4): COMPLETE!!
Month Two (5-8): COMPLETE!!
Month Three (9-13): COMPLETE!!
SECOND TRIMESTER
Month Four (14-17): COMPLETE!!
Month Five (18-21): COMPLETE!!
Month Six (22-26): IN PROGRESS!!
THIRD TRIMESTER
Month Seven (27-30):SOON TO COME!!
Month Eight (31-35): SOON TO COME!!
Month Nine (36-40): SOON TO COME!!

"To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself." ~ Chinese Proverb

Where has the time gone. It seems like I was just finding out we were pregnant and now I'm almost 2/3 done!!! John and I are going to the "Weekend to Remember" conference this weekend and I am looking forward to seeing him. You know for more than 5 minutes a day. I have to figure out a way that I can have one weekend day off. This is driving me crazy. On a happier note, I will only be working for about 3 more months, maybe less if I can get all my Paid Time Off. I have over 110 hours that I have to use before I leave or I'm afraid I'll loose them. That's almost 4 weeks in three months. Amber will be thrilled!!! NOT!

Mama Cimino's out for the count!!!

I woke up this morning just before 3 and my stomach decided to vacate my body. With out getting too graphic, I lost over 4 pounds... use your imagination if it helps.

So today was the big ultrasound... and It's a BABY!!! whoo hoooo. For a while there it felt like a tiny bucking bronco, so i wasn't sure! Glad we checked on that before Peanut was born. That would have been a supprise! It was amazing seeing Peanut moving around and kicking, the tech said that s/he is very active and kicking a lot. We saw tiny feet, and arms and hands that waved to us. Peanut was even sucking his/her thumb in a few shots. As soon as I can I will scan the pictures in and show everyone. Normally I would be on the way to mom and dad's house to update them, but seeing as I think I have now what Dad and all the babies had, I think I'll keep this "Diet" to myself. Unfortunately we were not able to video tape it like I wanted. The tech explained that it's to do with malpractce and people useing it to sue. For whatever reason.... Yadda yadda yadda.
So I might wander to Albertsons and pick up some jello and more broth, I only have the "seasoning" packets from some ramen to use as broth and it's realy not that good unless there's noodles and some sirachi in it. I will try to post more when I get better and I will get the pictures up soon.

I am so bad at this blogging thing. At first I was really excited but then I just get caught up in all the other things that I do online and this seems to be the last thing I think of. I bought an antena for our tv and we get a couple channels. Right now there isn't anything on but football. Not that that's bad, I just don't have time to sit and watch the whole game. Alyssa is finally having her Oktoberfest today and I am really ready for some good food. At work we had a german feast for our Halloween Rally, I watched someone choke on a piece of meat (at the buffet line, which she wasn't supposed to be eating, but that's what you get when you hire a temp). It was pretty scarry at the time but Lauren and I had fun of making fun of Steven who was calmly freaking out... all in good fun. And by the way our pumpkin won first place... The restaurant's that is. Even though Lauren, Dani and I were the only people who worked on it, everyone got the prize which is dinner served in the restaurant by Mr. Dodson, Ralph and cooked my the exc. chef. One problem.... How is the restaurant staff going to eat dinner durrning the dinner shift? seems like we have a problem on our hands. So anyway. I have to get John up. He was at the shop working on someone's car until after 1 this morning. I have no idea as to why he HAD to stay... but I'll ask him when he is a little more awake.

Well week 20 is here and I am finally half way through. John has been feeling sick all week long so hopefully this weekend he'll get the rest he needs to get better. I remember dad's infamous saying of "You can be just as sick at school as you can at home". John and dad are a lot alike in that respect, 'cept John will come home before his 12 hours of work are up... and that is a good thing. I finally bought some shoes for work and they should last until I leave sometime this next winter... I can't believe that it's coming up so soon. I think I will leave at the begining of February or so. Three more months!!! My dr appointment went really well, he said my uterus was measuring high but is sure that is from my short torso... there isn't anywhere for the little peanut to go but up and out. I have my ultrasound in a week and a half and am so excited for it.

I finished knitting a scarf late Wednesday night. I was determined to finish it. John came home just before 7pm that day, he took a shower and we ate dinner, watched about an hour of "The Matrix Reloaded" and he passed out on the couch. So we both got up and headed for bed. It was 8:30. I was no where near being tired enough to fall asleep, so with the bathroom light on I sat in bed next to John and finished knitting my scarf. It's really warm and John likes it too. Maybe I'll make him one for work. It's getting so cold out and being in the shop all day with no heat is so miserable. I'm sure that helped him get sick.

Yesterday I spent the whole day with Toni. We haven't had a day off together for months so it was nice to catch up a little bit. We went to Chang's Mongolian Grill and had lunch, we spent an hour and a half there just talking, then we went to mom and dad's house and they had a bunch of "treasures" for us to take home. Then we drove to the German Bakery on Sandy Blvd and looked all around. I hadn't been in there since they remodeled and expanded. They now have a deli and all sorts of treats. We each bought some Pffefenuse and a pastry, Toni had an eclair and I bought a Marzipan Torte. It was delicious, Almond and Apricot. From there we went to K-mart so she could look at a computer desk and from there we went to Babies r Us and I showed her all the things that I have registerd for. She doesn't like the crib but I love it. Then to Baby Depot and we looked there for a bit too. After that I drove to Wal-mart so she could pick up the computer that they had on layaway. The clerk at the checkout lane was on crack or something. She told him atleast 4 times that I heard that the computer was paid for and she was just getting the desk. Well he tried to ring it in anyway. It even had a large pink sticker with all the layaway info on it. While she was checking out I went to my car to make room for all her big boxes. That was a challenge. She came out just as I was calling John to see when he would be home. Someone from the store helped load everything in and we were off to Toni's house. Toni wouldn't let me lift anything. But I carried in her printer... She scooted the desk all the way to the door and pushed it on the carpet to the spot that they were going to set it up. Then we left again, Chuckie met us at the Taco Bell near Winco so I could grocery shop. I ran into Adam Pinkston there (Taco Bell) and we chatted for a bit. He was on his way to an elders meeting. Toni and Chuckie left and I went shopping. By the time I was done I was so sleepy, I had another 25 minutes before I would be home. Then as everyone knows who's lived in an apartment loading everything to your kitchen is a chore. I had to make 4 trips back and forth to the parking lot. I bought a mop and bathtub cleaner and other cleaning supplies and I suddenly got a surge of energy, I started yet another load of laundry and began with the toilets. They have rust or something that just won't come off... Then I scrubbed the bath tub... Imagine if you will: months of grease and goo from the shop in layers on my bathtub and shower walls. It took about 20 min of hard scrubbing to get that off. Man, My arms were about to fall off by the time I was done. I should have done before and after pictures to show you. John was very pleased to have a clean tub to shower in... He was in such a good mood when he got home. Must have been all the fumes :-)

In Honnor of the cancelled Oktoberfest we had Brawts and kraut. Well I had kraut. We watched the first half of "Pearl Harbor" and called it a night, Well half of the first half. I don't think we have finished watching a whole movie in months. Pear Harbor was a good date movie for us. We would watch it in John's room at his folks house before we got married. He had a dvd player hooked up to a projector and we would watch it on the wall. "Big screen". Even then we fell asleep before it was over... Well the afternoon is upon me and I have to get ready for work. Another day another dollar, Right???

I love "Saturdays". It's a chance to see how much cleaning and house work that needs to be done and then I roll over and fall back asleep. Partially true though. I have been doing laundry for what seems like forever and the dishes never seem to end... The junk mail to sort through... We tend to get a lot of mail for John's dad seeing as they have the same same save their middle name. but how offen do you get mail addressed to your full name unless it's a bill and other unwanted mail??? and it's usually just your initial anyway.

I have been putting off buying new shoes for work. I have needed them for months now but I loath shoe shopping. I don't like spending money on things that are just for work. but they are a tax write off. I am loving the jeans that alyssa lent to me.... and the stretchy pants from tami. i have noticed while putting on my shoes a minute ago that there is a lot of pressure when i bend over... I have been feeling peanut move a lot lately and it has been a comfort to have that. My next doctor appointment is on Monday and then in two weeks from that is our big ultrasound. I don't know why it's refered as that.... maybe because it's when you can find out the sex of the baby... Which John and I are not. Shirley brought some baby outfits over to the shop along with some diapers... They are too cute, one for a girl and one for a boy. Now just to narrow that down from all the other cute outfits that I have and will be getting.

Well I have to get off the computer, if I don't know then I never will...

Oh, This is what John does while I'm at work

~*~Trimester Month Week Countdown~*~

FIRST TRIMESTER

Month One (1-4): COMPLETE!!

Month Two (5-8): COMPLETE!!

Month Three (9-13): COMPLETE!!

SECOND TRIMESTER

Month Four (14-17): IN PROGRESS!!

Month Five (18-21): SOON TO COME!!

Month Six (22-26): SOON TO COME!!

THIRD TRIMESTER

Month Seven (27-30):SOON TO COME!!

Month Eight (31-35): SOON TO COME!!

Month Nine (36-40): SOON TO COME!!

At work last night I was informed that I am not allowed to have a stool to sit on durring my shift... Being very hormonal and upset I called my boss an asshole (not to their face), not Amber the rest. manager but the GM for the hotel. Last time I read anything about standing for long periods of time while pregnant can cause serious complications. Low birth weight, early delivery, and vericose veins just to get started. I'm not talking about standing for two or three hours, my shift is 7 hours on my feet. 6.75 if i get a break and for the 2 times I need to use the restroom... Why is it the peole who 1) have a chair in their office that they're in most of the day think it "unprofessional" to be sitting down durring your shift. And 2) have never been pregnant and don't understand what it's like.... Give me a break. If a man ever had to go through the process of carrying a child and work a full time job things would be so different. I'm thinking about having my dr. fax a note advising him to allow me the stool. It's not like I'm up there slouching or reading a magazine. I should also copy off all the resources that I have to back up my claim.

I have also been given tips by uninformed MALES about my weight. One co-worker said to me
"be careful not to gain too much weight" Really, I thought I was supposed to eat everything in sight and gain 100 pounds. Good Lord. What plannet are these apes from. What women enjoys gaining weight??? I have yet to find one. I know he was trying to be helpful cause he looked akward when he said it as to be sure not to offend. I told him the next day that my uterus is the size of a cantalope or larger.... Where would he hide one if there was one in him....

Then last night another guy asked if the baby was due soon. Folks, I can still bend over and touch my toes, I can see my feet and shave my legs in the shower standing on one leg. I don't know too many non pregnant women who can do that.

I AM NOT THAT BIG!!!

I wonder what they are thinking. Have none of these people been around a woman who was pregnant and to term... we'll talk about huge then. I can't wait until Christmas time and early next year in the third trimester.... I love all the unwanted advice I have been getting.... And I know it's only going to get worse. Women who have had children or are in fact pregnant at that moment can comment.... but guys (unless a certified ob-gyn), honnestly, be quiet because you have no idea what you are talking about

Nough said

I was searching on MSN to get some more information on the newest "don't eat the vegetables cause it can kill you" news and I came across the trailer for a movie coming out on dad's birthday Dec. 1st.

It's called the Nativity Story and from what I can tell it will be well worth the money to go and see it. The web page is http://www.thenativitystory.com and I have included a trailer of the movie incase you want to see it now.

It is very dramatic and I don't know if it's the hormones or not but I couldn't help but sob. I think this is why I enjoy Christmas so much. It reminds us that Jesus Christ came to earth as a baby, and even though he deserved a palace he was born in a humble stable. He deserved to eat at banquet every night but grew up eating what a poor carpenter could afford. Please take a minute to truly appreciate what this season really is about and thank the Lord for it.

At work we have been having a group of mostly ladies staying at out hotel. They are with Art and Soul and have been invading our restaurant since last Tuesday night. Again we find our water glasses with residue from their paints and glitter, glue on the tables and notes written on our menus to write an essay. I think that the majority of them will be gone today and that's good. I haven't gotten off work on time for the whole week coming home at midnight is a stretch. And I just realized that I have 20 minutes to get ready for work....

So I am sitting here on the computer all morning reading about what to expect in my 17th week of pregnancy and "peanut" decided to start tapping at my tummy. It's such a great feeling. Last night during dinner I was leaning over, elbows on my knees and it felt like a fish squirming around in there... The first trimester your afraid because miscarriage is more common, second trimester most of your pregnancy symptoms have gone away 'cept for not being able to fit into your pants. And you start to feel the baby tap and move a little, and when you don't feel anything you're paranoid that the baby died and is just in there. But then the tapping and squishy fishy movements start again and I find myself overjoyed and sit here crying in my happiness. I have been one of the lucky ones and have been recognizing movements and tapping for a couple weeks now, which is considered really early, I guess I can tell the difference between baby and gas. Some women don't feel anything until the 20th week. That would drive me crazy. To be huge with baby and know it's there and growing but to not feel it move. It does at times make me just amazed at the human body. I have another human being inside. A little person that God decided to give to us. I really do feel fortunate. John is under the impression that we are going to be "popping" them out one after the other. 6 under 6. I don't think so. Unless there's like a set of twins or two. He thinks ten is a good number. That has to be a joke.

If any of you have been to Fred Meyer, target, Michael's or anywhere to shop you have noticed that the Christmas decoration frenzy has begun. I can't help but be excited, I have always loved this time of year. Maybe it's because my birthday is right around the corner, the early hopes for snow and hoping to get what I asked for. I remember looking through the JC Penny catalog and circling all the toys I wanted, still haven't gotten that electric keyboard, but that's okay. I remember getting matching everything with Toni. Either a doll that was the same but with different hair color or clothes and pj's that matched. Indeed. I remember spending all the birthday money that I received as presents from my grandparents and using that to buy my family their Christmas presents. I would usually need to "borrow" some money from mom to help pay for things. And it seems to me that we were always one of the shoppers who would be out the day before franticly trying to find something for someone. I have always been a planner, a list person. But I am also lazy and a procrastinator. What type personality is that? I love to plan things and think about how I want them but I truly lack motivation. Like this blog, I have a hard time sitting down doing the same thing until it's finished. Maybe that's why I have a half finished quilt, unraveled yarn and books half read. I get bored and move onto something else.

Well, speaking of needing to move onto something else, I think it's just about time.

Lunch today folks is turkey chili and rice with a bowl of grapes... Mmmmm. Anyone want to come over and share? What's for dinner... Alyssa apparently isn't making homemade Macaroni and Cheese... I'll just suffer at work and have some fruit and Salmon chowder. Which isn't usually bad. Especially when I'm hungry. Last night I went shopping with Toni at Wal-mart and got some fall leaves cookie cutters. I saw an idea from a magazine to use clay and the cutters to make napkin rings and some fall decorations. Then I went to Michael's for half an hour and just walked around feeling yarn and imagining us in a house by Christmas and how I want to decorate it. I didn't buy a single thing.

I came home and instantly remembered that I needed to get 9 volt batteries. Our smoke alarm has been beeping all week and I never remember to get them until I'm home and hear it remind me. So I had John pick some up on the way home. He brought me a bouquet of flowers!!! So sweet. He hopped in the shower and I attempted to replace the battery. Being barely 5'3 makes things hard even with a chair so he had to come to my rescue and finish the job. I didn't help that the alarm only had one screw when there should be 4 and all the fasteners but one were broken off... But we finally got to sleep in a house with no beeping. We have three alarms and they are all within 5 feet of each other. Not one if them is in the kitchen where it should be. We have yet to get our ceiling painted since our leak back in the spring. Not so much on top of things are they... Shannon and I get to have lunch together and that will be great! I haven't seen her for months. Next weekend is the Greek festival and I am really excited to go. Even though we had Gyros again for dinner. I was too tired to be creative and we already had most of the ingredients. I just hope the weather holds out, the last couple of years it has been great! I don't even know if Tom knows I'm pregnant. not that you can really tell unless I'm wearing a maternity shirt. What a supprise. Now we just have to figure out where we put those tokens from last year!

Apparently these are the celebrities that I look most like.... What do you think? I did a picture of John and he apparently looks most like Vince Vaughn, not so much to me, more like Ben Afleck or something... Anyhooo. The site is pretty cool, you can look up your geneology and make family trees and the like.

My left leg has been achy lately. When I sit down at the computer it's worse. But I can't seem to pull myself away from it. I spent most of the morning researching baby stuff to register for. I have been having a hard time sleeping, I don't see how I will be able to sleep on my left side all night long. Thinking about investing in one of those pregnancy body pillows. $40 is cheap if it'll allow me to sleep through the night. I already wake up parched and needing to pee at minimum three times a night. I hope John is used to it, I know it took me a long time to sleep through when he would get up in the night. I didn't think he did until I would find cereal bowls in the living room or empty ice cream containers.... Not in the garbage. But that's a seperate issue all together. He has been doing really well at the shop and is proud to tell me how much we have been making. He is upset as I am about the raise in our rent. Probably to pay for all the "upgrades" they did this summer. Rip off. So we either deal with the rent hike or find another place to live and move with in two months. Wish us luck. Good Greif.

I read in a book somewhere that I should be going to the bathroom less now in my second trimester than before... The book is lying. Monday I thought I was going to have another ultrasound but that didn't happen. After waiting half an hour in the waiting room with mom I was finally called in, the nurse said I had gained 4 pounds since my last appointment and that it was a good amount. Alyssa, I feel your pain. But I have been overweight my whole life so gaining weight for the baby is the only good reason I have had so far. Then we waited in the exam room for about another 20 minutes. Dr Drake found the heartbeat in about 10 seconds and it was so great to hear. I have heard the sound before but never with me. It all still seems like a movie to me. Or it's an elaborate joke someone is playing on me. I think I have felt the baby move. Pretty sure, but nothing will compare to when John and I will feel it kick and somersault in my belly. We scheduled my next appointment and my "Big Ultrasound" two weeks after that. 8:30 in the morning. I don't know how I am going to do it.
I have been waking up early lately and not been able to get back to sleep. I usually hop on the computer or read some more about my pregnancy or what's the best baby gear to get. And after about an hour I get sleepy again and get back in to the warm bed with John. Hopefully not to wake him up before he goes in the shower for 20 minutes. Not leaving me with any hot water. So a shower before 10am is not usual. Well Monday it had to be and it was the coldest shower I have ever had to take. I just washed my hair. I couldn't bare the cold any more.
We just got a notice from our manangement about our lease running out. We have 2 more months. IF we renew a 6 month lease will be $750 a month (35 more than we're paying now) 12 month lease is $720 and month to month is $775!!! Ridiculous. I hope this motivates John more to look for a house. Apparently the prices are only for the valued members of the community! Don't I feel special now!!!
I was thinking about getting one of these t-shirts to wear when I'm out in public... But I'll probably make my own, $23 for a t-shirt ? No thanks! And then embellish it with other answers to popular questions like breastfeeding and what diapers we are using and so on. What fun! Well I just got the mail and want to look at the cool catalogues I just got.

15 weeks

My sad attempt to take a belly shot. The real difference between this and before I was pregnant is now my tummy is hard... Or getting there. I think its the baby pushing up all my organs that used to be down there. Everything is more condensed and compact. Still squishy in some spots. But I am in no way huge yet.... I am very anxious for my next appointment. According to "Your pregnancy week to week" I am supposed to start sleeping on my side. Not for medical reasons now but just so I'll be used to it by the time I'll need to. Laying in bed last night I always spoon being John, but I got a little paranoid... Was his body heat and mine raising the baby's temperature??? I didn't feel like I was overheating but I couldn't help but get worried. I got up to turn on the fan and slept on my other side. The book also said that "Peanut" is about 4 1/2 inches and about 1.75 oz. The size of a softball.... Hmmm Funny, I had ovarian cysts that big once... Not as comfortable as I am now. But in the end it's apparently the same kind of pain. Yippee!!!

My weekend is over and that makes me sad. I have however been asked by two friends of mine separately to have lunch with them later on this week. Michelle just got married in August and we are meeting at Olive Garden after my ultrasound and Shannon, whom I work with but haven't seen in two months cause of schedules, and I are going out next Saturday... Don't know where too though, I went to Gustav's last sat with John and nearly ate myself sick their food is so good!!! And Olive Garden with Toni and now Michelle. Maybe we'll hit the Old Spagg and have spumoni (sp?) Ice cream... Speaking of restaurants in Clackamas I hear they are building a macaroni Grille. I have only been to one once and I thought the food was really good, I had lasagna and I can't remember what John had, something with noodles though. Duh!!!

Well my lovely family and friends, I must find something to eat before work. Goodness knows when I'll be able to eat again... Especially with my co-workers.

P.S. Shannon, Indir is the Neanderthal that told me to watch what I ate. You know he dips everything he puts in his mouth in remoulade right. Fat bastard....

Where do the weeks go? It's been almost that long since I've written anything. Not that I don't have the time but the only thing interesting that has been happening to me is my pregnancy and I don't want to bore ya'll with that all the time. Interesting evening, I had my first real Bitchy pregnancy moment. I guess not helping me finish folding the laundry before getting into bed with the clothes on it, not helping me "turn off the house" and not helping me clean up after dinner is a big deal to me, And of course telling me when to go to bed. it started out fine, but everything that John did last night was irritating me and I finally just snapped. And of course he doesn't understand. Why should he when I don't half the time. Tell me this will stop. I will be easy going and loving again and not want to punch him in the gut. Why do some of my pregnancy symptoms make him happy while I have to suffer through them? Not to get into detail but I think you can use your imagination.

I have another doctor appointment on Monday and we will be doing another ultra sound. I'm really excited to see the baby again and see the heartbeat. Toni will hopefully be going with me as John has to work. One of these days he'll get out for an hour or so I just have to schedule the appointments earlier in the morning. Which will be hard for both of us. I want him to meet the doctor before I go into labor at least once.

I went online to Old Navy last week and bought some maternity shirts. they came two days ago but the UPS guy didn't leave a note on our door. Let alone knock. I was here all day and certainly up by 11 when they said he came by. Anyway. I haven't found any cute pants that I must buy, the pants that have been donated to my cause are still too big in the belly... Which is good. I would shoot myself if I fit into the same size as their 8 month belly. Speaking of. What is with people telling me indiscreetly I need to watch my weight. The other day one of the servers said out loud "everyone here is loosing weight except for one" and he looks right at me... then on Monday that same server said to me as I was searching for a snack to calm my ragingly hungry stomach only for him to say "be careful, not too eat too much. " Okay Jerk. I haven't eaten anything since 2:30 and it was now after 8. any normal human would have been hungry by then... But apparently I should have been able to wait. I told him that he was really irritating me. If he says one more thing I'm going to HR. I am trying to not let comments irritate me. One of the front desk ladies calls me pudgy. WTF! Sorry for the language but I have always been overweight and just because I'm pregnant doesn't give them an excuse.... Most of the time I get comments like how many more months ("Oh, I thought you were farther along than that!") and when do you find out if it's a boy or girl. and then when I say not till march they don't quite get it. then they get upset and think I'm dumb or being selfish.

"How are you going to plan your nursery?" "how are you going to choose a name?" "Well the gift I want to give you is gender specific and I need to know in order to get it for you." People get a grip! I loath the day when strangers realize that i'm pregnant and feel the need to give me advice.

How am I going to get through this???

I am going to stop complaining. I need to get a new bra. Oh what fun that should be

Well it's official. I am on to my second trimester... For a while it felt as though I would never get here. I had a couple of nice days off. Mom and I went to Rossi Farms and picked up some sweet corn and I'll be making some to take to work tonight. We also went to Bed Bath & Beyond and I bought a new duvet cover for our bed. The one we have been using has been tearing and looking really shabby. Went grocery shopping and made gyros for dinner... no feta though. 1) I couldn't find it at the store, 2) I'm not sure if feta is pasturized, if not that's a big no no... The Greek Festival is coming in the begining of October. John and I have a friend that works it and who is the most greek person I know, not that I know many. A couple years ago he gave us a bunch of token that buy food and drinks for free and we have been using them for a couple years atleast. And Oktoberfest in Mt. Angel is also here... this weekend. But I have to work and if I can't drink Beer then why go??? I have been trying to get organized and so far it isn't as easy as I thought. We don't have the room not to be though and it's a struggle to do anything. In order to get it "organized" I have to make everything a mess. by the time that happens i'm too tired to finish and it looks worse than before I started!!! I need a magic wand. I mean, I still have my wedding dress hanging up in my closet, out of the bag.... I don't know where it is.... it needs to go to the cleaners... Well I need to get going. not a very productive day, I need a nap

For those of you who might sympathize with me I thought I would tell you I just threw up breakfast... Banana bread and hot tea isn't that bad coming up. I'm just glad it was something soft. unlike cereal. I have been one of the lucky women who has only gotten sick a few times. Three to be exact. and it seems to be worse the farther along I am. I will be at 14 weeks on Friday and officially out of the first trimester. Now the banana bread that I haven't finished is sitting here on my desk mocking me saying "you know you want to eat me, I taste so yummy!" But of course that is the last thing I want to eat. My throat hurts and I am hungry again... but the thought of eating anything right now is not tempting... Now I really need that shower...

A correction.

The listing 60776996 is incorrect. It should have been 6077697. Thanks dad for looking at them. I couldn't figure out why the house you didn't like was one I didn't even pick... And it was in McMinville too!!! Anyway, thanks for looking at them. The one you like the best has a nice kitchen... Well so far as the picture is telling the truth. Not too fond of the red white and green tiles but maybe I can really put John's heritage into decorating the house... All I need is a giant Italian flag, some leather boots and some Pinot Grisio. The one that should have been listed yesterday is nice too...it's been updated a lot. John is going to be meeting/talking with Greeg Goosetree today about looking at more houses coming up soon. He is the guy who played guitar durring the worship time for our ceremony. He sells houses and he can sing too... today is my Friday and I am hopefully going to go and get some Maternity blouses for work. They have to be white, long sleve and "professional" looking... So I'm guessing obnoxious cleavage is out... Dang! I need to get going or I'll end up staying on the computer all day till I have to drive to work.

Five years ago today I was laying in bed asleep when mom knocked on my door. I opened it to hear news that would change everyone's lives forever. "a plane has crashed into the twin towers s in New York City.... " It took me a while for me to understand what that meant. I kept thinking how horrible... how could that have happend? We went down stairs where we watched the the video from a tourist camers as he captured this horrible event. We watched as the second plane crashed into the other building. It was unreal. It felt like I was watching someone get murderd right infront of me and I felt sick to my stomach as the tears came. I felt as though I was there. As the week went on we learned that terrorists hyjacked the planes and intended to crash into the buildings in New York, Washington D.C.

It took me months and months to be able to look at the footage and not cry all day long. I would think about it and all the families that had lost someone they loved and it would bring me to tears. People wore the pins and hung out flags decorated their cars to show support for our country. Everyone seemed to come together and unite.

What a difference 5 years can make...

On a lighter note John and I have begun to look at houses. I hate to dissapoint Alyssa but the Coach house we looked at was horrible. Too cute in the pictures though. It was tiny, the building was a reproduction of an 1800's house and it looked like it was authentic. For being 20 years old it was in horrible shape. And it was also being used as a rental home and it was trashed. They are asking about 50k-75k too much for that small and run down of a house in my opinion. We also went to go look at another house that I have been eyeing on Craigslist. It would have been perfect, the bedrooms were nice and big, updated kitchen, deck, air conditioning, hardwood flooring etc. but it was on a semi busy street and the noise from the cars was a bit louder than we like. So if anyone can think of a way to cut the noise let us know. The property srtetches out to the street with no sidewalk so we would also have to put up a fence so the little one won't wander on to the road... One of John's friend's works for Haskins Reality and there are about 4 more homes on their website that I would like to look at. 60776996, 6070431, 6059803, and 6030697 are the MLS #'s if anyone is interested in looking at them and giving your thoughts.

Work last night was kind of a blur. We did 75 covers with two servers. Very hectic. Not my favorite kind of evening. I did however make about $136 last night and since I have cut down my serving shifts it was nice to get some cash. I didn't get a chance to eat anything last night until I came home at about 11:45. The last thing I did have was a Zesty Chicken Bowl from taco bell around 2pm right before we went house touring... Peanut was not happy, I need to figure out something to snack on when we get busy like that... and honnestly, I was running most of the night, so there really wasn't much time to eat anyway. It's not fair on my body to be that busy and I pray that it won't affect the baby at all. We have another hectic weekend next and I hope to be a little more prepared. Well I am needing a shower. I'm headed over to Toni's house to look at some brochures.

I have been looking at all the pregnancy recourses that are online... Still none of them can agree on what the size of my baby is. At thirteen weeks though they have all agreed that I am out of the danger zone and are free to tell my family, friends and co-workers... Well I can understand why someone might not want to tell people before their first trimester is over... But if no one knows you're pregnant then how are you going to cope if you do have a loss. I have only had experience (luckily) with one person very close to me with a miscarriage. If I hadn't known that Toni was pregnant in the first place how much of a hardship for her to go through that with no one knowing and then to announce that they were pregnant and then to say they lost the baby??? I never understood why so many people keep their lives a closed book. Especially to family. I agree that under certain circumstances that it's necessary, but the average family is disfunctional. At least in my experience and what I have been told from friends about their family. I wish that everyone would live with an open mind to sharing. How are we best to grow together as a family if we are all keeping secrets, or have unresolved issues??? I am glad to have the family that I have. It was hard at times while I was growing up. I could not see the wonderful plan that God has laid out for me. Talking to my mom last night helped me realize that we all wish that we could change our past. But as I look back now giggling, I can definitely say the the good outweighs the bad. I have many more fond memories growing up in that house on Shaver Street than I have of memories I wish to forget. Each one has or will teach me something. I hope to someday share them with my children.

Natalie always the curious asks everyone to "tell me a story about when you were little" It's hard to think of one that I think she'll understand or be amused with. How can you tell your niece a store of when you were little when it's strange to think that you are "grown up"? Even Alyssa who has three children I can still see as a teenager playing her Michael Jackson Thriller or Cindy Lauper record in her bedroom. She would let us (Toni and I) come in her room and we would dance in front of the big mirrors in front of her closet. Plastic bangles and ratted hair... Bop magazine pictures plasterd on her wall... Oh how cute Cory haim was and how cute cory feldman wasn't... Watching "Three Amigos" over and over and singing "My Little Buttercup" during that part in the movie. "who are these monkeys??" I still say that all the time and no one gets it 'cept my family. And that's what I love about it. Our spouses are starting to transform into Roush's but it will take a long time yet, Mom still is adapting to how strange we are... I think we came out that way.

You Are Likely a Third Born

At your darkest moments, you feel vulnerable. At work and school, you do best when you're comparing things. When you love someone, you tend to like to please them. In friendship, you are loyal to one person. Your ideal careers are: sales, police officer, newspaper reporter, inventor, poet, and animal trainer. You will leave your mark on the world with inventions, poetry, and inspiration.

The Birth Order Predictor

Sometimes I guess these things are right!!! I wonder what John would get... He's also a third born but the baby of the family and after his younger sister was 8.
I am attempting to make potroast again for dinner tomorrow and have invited mom and dad over. John won't be home till it's time for them to leave... I wish he would come home at a decent hour on the nights that I have off. It would be so nice.

Well, I bought my first pair of maternity pants today. The pants I have for work are getting tighter and tighter each week. These pants are so comfortable... I should have tried on more styles. But as we are saving for a house I didn't feel like was at liberty to buy more. I have a box full of clothes from Alyssa and Tami that I will be able to wear soon. Most of them won't fit until I am truly showing but I can wear sweatpants till then I suppose. First trimester is almost done. I am excited. Apparently it's the most comfortable I'll be until this baby is deliverd. I'll look forward to less nausia and being so sleepy all day long. It will be fun to feel the baby move for the first time and to have John see and feel all the kicks. It must be hard for a man to miss out on all the exciting things that happen. I am glad that he wants to be involved in the labor and delivery part.... just if he would get more enthusiastic about everything that happens before.

It's been nice to be at home and not have neighboor kids running around my porch and making all kinds of noises. I can handle a few in the pool but when there are 20 of them and the are all yelling, it gets old real quick.

Time to make dinner, we are having chicken and dumplings... One of my favorites.

Labor day is for shopping....

Toni and I ventured out yesterday to Jo-Ann's fabric and craft store and what a sale they were having. Everything I bought was onsale and ontop of that there was a 10% off your entire purchase coupon... Lots of fun. Gonna get my sewing machine out tomorrow and try to finish a few things. I bought a "boppy" form and it came with a pattern to make your own covers, I bought some fleece with stamped letters and numbers on it for $2.50 a yard. What a steal!! They had fall table cloths and all sorts of decor... Since I was there earlier that week I decided not to go overboard. We had fun looking at all the clothing patterns and the victorian and regency era costume patterns. Just if I had the skill money and time I would be the most out of date person you had ever met... and well this "bun in the oven" is making it hard to decide what size i am anyway... I bought a vouge pattern for maternity wear in the size i think i am. the measurements were strange though. It gave measurements for someone who isn't pregnant on it. When was the last time you saw someone pregnant and had a smaller tummy than their breasts or hips??? so I juts bought the pattern size that would fit my bust area... Hopefully that works.

Sunday afternoon I had my second episode of morning sickness.... and felt like crap for most of the night at work. Today is my friday and I am looking forward to getting things done around the apartment tomorrow. Well, I think I'll take a nap before I have to go to work. It was a late night for me yesterday and it's going to be the same tonight...

Can anyone give me ideas on how to bring in the fall this year??? I brought out all the decorations I had fun making last year and put them up. I need some new ideas on how i can make it a little more festive. I'll take picture later, John took the better camera to work today. I love this time of year, before you know it I'll be putting up a Christmas Tree and getting that decorated too. Yea for fall!!! P.S. my birthday is in 3 months and 3 days.....

Smell this....

So here is actual proof that I did make Banana Bread today. And let me tell you, if it tastes as good as it smells then we are all in for a treat!!! Mmmm

Easy to follow directions for Banana Bread:
You put this










into here , then


put these into






this for 50 minutes at 350 degrees









Then you poke it with a toothpick to be sure it's done.... and it should look like this










Good Luck!!! Hope this helps!

So I am learning how to knit and have been able figure it out thanks to mom and a couple books and websites information. Unfortunately, my first attempt I started out making 22 knits per row and about 12 rows later have 36 knits... That's bad. Calling mom to urgently figure out what I can do to fix my problem and the advice to me broke my heart. "Rip it out and start over". Loving words only someone who has known how to knit since the age of five could only say. Dad just said "knit one pearl two." well I'm not pearling yet so unfortunately being married to an expert doesn't make you one in dad's case... Very disappointed. John will be wondering what I did today and I won't have anything to show for it.... 'cept a pile of yarn that was to be my beautiful scarf.

I am proud that I was able to get it that far without noticing any problems. I have also attempted to crochet and I'll leave that to Tami.... Besides, It's more fun to receive booties that someone else made than to give them to yourself.... Right??? I'm thinking it took about three hours to get as far as I did... well I was watching Anne of Avonlea too. How the heck to people have the patience to make afgans and sweaters?? I mean honnestly, it must take hundreds of hours!!!

We are having pork ribs in the slow cooker tonight and our house has smelled like bbq sauce since noon... I just hope they turn out alright. It's always nerve racking making dinner in the crock pot. For Mom's 60th birthday I made potroast and was parrinoid i was going to overcook it... well apparently when you cook it in the crockpot the longer the better. So everyone was nice and said it tasted good... Liars... What family won't do to hurt your feelings. I had some and I know what it tasted like.... The vegetables, potatoes and gravy were all good. Luckily I made extra gravy for my tough roast. But since we were feeding 10 adults there were't any left overs and didn't have to think of a way to use it for another meal at our house.

Oh the joys of being newly married. I instantly wanted (want) to be the queen of everything domestic. I sometimes feel like Alyssa and I are in a (friendly) competition for who can be the most like Martha Stewart... aside from that whole scandal and jail thing.... and I fear that if we were to count points now she would have me beat ten fold. I haven't even had a party here yet. She is able to plan a million things at once and still pull of everything beautifully. There is no better complement than for her to ask me how to do something. and not just because she is my older sister but because for forever she has "known everything". But I do hope some of her skills rub off on me. I have no idea how Mom, Alyssa and Tami have been able to have kids and run a household... I have of course seen each house out of sorts but I have no kids, just a lame job and a wonderful husband and I am still in last place, well Toni and I tie for last... I am certain that having kids won't give me the energy to keep up a household... so what is it that keeps them ontop of things??? I can't even go grocery shopping without forgetting something. Speaking of, I didn't make banana bread yesterday and they are at the end of their rope. Nice and black... But before they are unsalvageable I should go and do that now before John get's home and wants dinner....

Well, another day another dollar. They are finished painting the outside of my building but they aren't done with the whole complex yet so i still wake up too early for my own good. For some reason there has been a group of boys in the swimming pool way too early in the morning his week... like 8:30... it's not even warm yet and the pool is not heated yet they are having "swimming" competitions to see who is best i guess. Lot's of yelling "That's not fair!!!" and "You have to say GO!!!" so early rise again... Oh well, school starts next week and I will get to sleep in for a while then. I am planning on making banana bread. Some folks at work have been complaining that I haven't been bringing anything in. Well sorry if I don't have the energy to and don't feel like heating my kitchen up durring the day in the summmer... I'll gladly do it when the weather cools down.

John and I are planning on going to the Family Life Weekend to Remember marriage confrence in November. I highly recomend it for anyone who is married, regardless of how old you are.... mom and dad!!! We went to it just before we got engaged and had a great time. They hold them nationally so regardless to where you live there is most likely one near you... We are going to stay in the hotel this time. It's all the way in Janzen Beach and since we wern't married last time it wasn't appropriate for us to do so, so we woke up at 6 in the morning each day to get there by 8... It'll be nice to get a way for a while. Even if it's not too far away!

John has purchased an exhaust bender for his shop and is going to be able to do that now instead of sending his customers to another shop and not make any money off of it. There is another shop in the area that does it and he has been having him do all the work so instead of John making any money off it he barely scrapes by. So now that he has one he is able to service his clients better. "Everything is for the future Princess...." Which is true, but I know he is having fun learning a new skill too...

That's about it from this side of things. I'll see if my darling husband would like to contribute anything later tonight.

Congratulations, Andrea!Your IQ score is 126

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others. Your Intellectual Type is Word Warrior. This means you have exceptional verbal skills. You can easily make sense of complex issues and take an unusually creative approach to solving problems. Your strengths also make you a visionary. Even without trying you're able to come up with lots of new and creative ideas

Too early...

So our apartments are in the process of being painted... There was someone outside of our bedroom window at 7:15 this morning... John get's up and closes the window so the paint doesn't get in and make it smelly. I tossed and turned until 8 and decided to get up. Too early... not being a morning person as I haven't gotten off work earlier than 11:00pm for a long time I have never been able to get up, and now my pregnancy has made me more sleepy and i feel a greater need for rest. I might take a nap after lunch though.

I had my second dr.'s appointment today and it went okay, pee in a cup, weigh in EEEKKK!!! not that i was skinny before but I have gained more than I thought(4 lbs). maybe that's why my pants are a little snug!! blood presure i think was 120 over 72??? i could be way off but i think that's what she said. Dr. Drake lubbed up my abdomen and slid the dopler around on it and tried to find the heartbeat. no luck but because i have a tilted uterus and i'm just 11.5 weeks it makes it harder to hear. three weeks ago i did see the hb on an ultrasound and Dr. Drake said he'll do another ultrasound in 4 weeks at my next appointment. The whole thing took about 20 minutes. I am excited to get another chance to see how big my peanut (My friend Lauren's endering tearm refering to my baby) is getting. I am a bit confused. I have read atleast 6 different books/websites and most of them don't agree on how big "peanut" really is, as small as a fig and a large lime to a small apple or a softball... that's quite a difference. All the organs are formed and working, as far as I know, and the next six months are just for letting the little Peanut grow. John and I have decided not to find out the sex of the baby. At first I really wanted to but I have realized that the supprise is worth the wait.

John and I have differing ideas as far as labor and delivery go. He does not want me to get an epidural... I being an optomist of course would like to have an all natural birth. There are pros and cons to both sides but I will feel especially proud if i can manage without. But I am not saying for certain that I will not. When I was 17 i had an ovarian cyst and the pain was so great, I threw up from it. Mom said that it is relitive to child birthing pains. Hmmmm no good. I have thought about taking the Bradely method birthing class with John. It seems to be what we are planning on attemping to do. John also wants to deliver the baby. In a hospital with the Dr.'s help, but as he puts it he wants to catch the baby like it's going to shoot out of me like a rocket!!! I have been watching several births online Half of the women are completely nakes and so it's a little weird but it give a good idea to what actually happens. Like all you moms and dad's don't already know(please don't look at the very grafic videos, it is about a 21 week gestation birth and it will tear your heart out) I am confident that he will be able to pull the baby out and lay him on my tummy. With the dr.'s help as long as everything is normal.But all the sucking of the nose and mouth and making sure I don't tear etc. I will leave to my doctor.
Well if I'm going to get my nap I must get off the computer. I think the painters are done with my building for right now, it seems to have quieted down.

The Gypsies are coming!!! The Gypsies are coming!!!!

Well I have aprox. One week before all hell breaks loose at work and Banquet season officially begins... And what a way to kick it all off with a big old fashioned Gypsy wedding... As of this moment I wish I was put on bed rest and not required to come back for about a month and a half. After the "beloved" gypsies are gone we have another group well known for rudeness and complaints and unstoppable hunger... They are called the Northwest Marketers Association... About 300 or more vendors and their staff invade our hotel for 3 days and nights and make the staff at the hotel near suicide... I have dealt with this group for 5 years now and seeing that they come 2 times a year makes me no novice to their dramas and problems. And soon after they leave we have the very strange and eccentric tea drinking art and soul ladies who try to entrap you with their tarrot card reading spirituality... Yes, their crafts are quite lovely... But they (most of them) have the manners and etiquette of someone raised in a barn. Very rude and impatient. And all of these groups will be taking place in one month!!! I hope I don't have an episode.... Or maybe I do.

John and I are trying to get out and start to look at homes. The small two bedroom apartment barely fits the two of us and with not much more room to fit a crib let alone the million of other things that come with having a baby. Our lease is up at the end of November so I would of course like to find something before then, I won't be too big, hopefully, then and will be able to do lots of packing and moving things around. I would of course like time to set up a nursery and start nesting after we move instead of before... I have found quite a few on craigslist and I was wondering if anyone could take a quick look to see if any of them stick out. We are looking in Clackamas county, Milwaukee, Clackamas, happy valley Damascus but not too far out in Estacada or Corbett or Molalla... Price range 250-375k. 3 bed 2 bath. Preferably not a manufactured home and with a decent yard... Thanks

Well I must off to work... I hope the few of you who went on the church campout this year had a good time... Talk to you later. Love Andrea

Why are pregnancy dreams so wild??? I have had the widest range of dreams in the last couple weeks. Half of them were about whether John and I should get married or our actual day and no part of the dream actually happened in real life... Last night we were getting married again in something that reminded me of Gateway Baptist Church, an airport and my old high school buildings. My food and bev. Director at work was giving me away and we were in the back of the church sitting down on the pews and the procession starts but before we can leave the highschool dance team gets up on the stage in white costumes and does a "wedding themed" recital. I get fed up with this nonsense and decide to go find John since he didn't seem to be at the church. I was running in my gown from building to building and people kept stepping on my dress... So I carried it. I had my 4th grade "boyfriend" ask me for my number and I told him plainly that I was married, he apparently didn't notice I was in a wedding gown... Then I am following a really tall man and it turns out to be John's dad. Then I turn around and John is there and he and I are going to some meeting with one of the pastors from Good Shepherd. I am now in the bathroom and we (john and I) are doing my hair and he says he wants me to wear something pink. I have the hair from hell and it's wild and untameable. I try to set it in hot rollers but for the first time in my life I had too much to deal with... Then I wake up, it's 9 am afterall and I have to pee....

John was still asleep but he got up shortly after I crawled back into bed, he's at the shop right now for some reason....

Last night at work was good, we were busy but the kitchen was ontop of things and we were able to turn tables easily. There was a couple in there that were arguing and swearing... I couldn't hear it from where I was standing but reports from two servers said they were. It was supposedly their anniversary... So another group of people come up to be seated and as I'm on my way back to the cashier stand I hear him say $#!* and since no one was around I didn't say anything about it... A half an hour later a family comes up and the only table that is set up was too close to them so I go place the menus on the table and another word vomit somes out of his mouth and I look at him and say "sir!!! You cannot talk like that in here!!! It is completely inappropriate and you'll have to leave." Mind you they have been done with their dinner for about an hour or more and they said "fine, let's just go to the bar... " Yeah... That's just what you need alcohol and a new set of witnesses to your drama. The server that was waiting on them came up to me and we got to talking about it and I said something about never ever belittle your partner, in private or in public.... I don't know what I would do if I was ever treated in such a fashion!!! I came home last night and kissed my darling Husband and told him that I was so glad I married him... I told him of the couple and what else I had to deal with that night.

Well I must get ready, we have a BBQ to go to in half an hour and I haven't even showered yet...

Saturday, July 08, 2006
Andrea's pregnant!!!! Current mood: excited
So for all my pals who actually talk to me and know what's been going on in my life I would just like to fill you in on the latest news.... As you can tell by the heading I found out yesterday morning that John and I are pregnant! The baby is estimated to be due on March 16 or sometime around then. I feel fine, no morning sickness and my bbs aren't overly sore... Yet. I have slight cramping and my back has been sore all week but this is just a prelude to everything else that will be happening the next 8 months. We are celebrating our one year anniversary today and this news couldn't have been a better present for either of us... I hope all of you (Lesa) who have been through this will be able to give me loads of advice.... But mainly just pray for all three of us that we will have a healthy pregnancy and the transition to parenthood won't be traumatic. Love ya'll, Andrea

Just to add more to your reading pleasure... I'll add some of my old myspace blogs here...

Peanut update and work issues Current mood: Stinky
Okay now I'm 10 weeks and 4 days along... things are starting to pick up.... I haven't had more than one episode of morning sickness but i tend to get naucious often, I don't know which is worse. I seemd to have felt better after I threw up... I have been so tired lately though, If i don't get atleast 10 hours of sleep then i nearly crash before 7 and if I'm at work it's worse. For some reason they don't allow naps while your on the clock... Dumb!!! I have my next Dr.'s appointment on Monday and Hopefully will be able to hear the heartbeat. Last time i was in I was just 8 1/2 weeks and we saw the heartbeat but she didn't use the dopler to listen for it.
John's back has been killing him lately and does he go to the dr??? no. he just complains about it and has me rub it.... I would kill for a massage, back pain... he has no idea. Why the heck am I paying $300 a month for insurance for the both of us if he hasn't gone to the dr.s once since we've been married??? It's less than $100 for just me...that's $2,400 we could have saved. Hmm
The assistant manager to the restaurant and lounge either got fired or he quit, no one seems to want to talk about it. Amber had me "fill in" for two days.... I have a horrible feeling she'll want me to do it full time, until i leave permanately in Feb. and if that's the case, i'm ready for her.... I already have my demands as far as salary and hours worked.... just incase. I did that job for over three years and under terrible terms, I was just anxcious to learn anything and was naive to ask for why i actually earned and deserved. After three and a half years, I went from $8.00 an hour to $8.75. Infact, my first raise was for $.03. that's right, I made not even a nickle more... that should have been a sign there. I had to wear a uniform which was terrible, they never gave me what i needed to do my job properly, and my hours were terrible. After John and I got engaged I quit so I could pay for the wedding and began serving, I made almost double in that year than the previous as an assistant!!! makes sense right!!!
Well ladies... (I'm assuming no man is going to read about my pregnancy) I have to get going. I have B.O. and need to shower... Talk to you soon, Love Andrea

Well since everyone else is coming over here and creating their own blog I feel I must join you. I don't want to get left out like when I refused to join Alyssa and Aaron in their "clapping club".... Yea, that one was stupid anyway and it wasn't even a club, just another way for them to torture me cause I'm so much cuter than they are and they're jealous . Okay so now is the part where I tell everyone what I have been up to and what is going to be happening Right??? I am nearing the end of my first trimester with our first baby. And it seems to be going fabulously. I'm currently just under 11 weeks and I seem to be having all the symptoms, peeing three times a night, 3-6-9 almost like clockwork, I can tell what time it is just by remembering which pee of the night it is. Amazing. Morning sickness is just great. I love hovering over the toilet in hopes that something will produce but alas I am just left with a sore throat and lots of spit in the toilet!!! I haven't had any weird cravings, lots of carbs... Honeynut cherrios are Heaven sent. I have an aversion to fruit. I buy it at the store so it's available but John usually eats it because I just can't bring myself to... So I eat sugar free apple sauce so I don't feel so guilty about it. I feel if I don't get at least 10 hours of sleep I am a zombie after 7pm and when your at work and don't get off until 11:30 and home just before midnight it can be really difficult. I get hungry every 3-4 hours and I get cranky if I am and don't have a chance to get anything in me. I usually have a bowl of "Heaven" at night around 6 or 7 whenever I'm done peein' but just like many of you who have gone through this, until I actually feel this miracle move inside me I scarcely believe it's true.
I have one pair of jeans that still fit and my work pants (not to be worn outside of work for lack of attractiveness), Thank goodness it's still warm enough and I don't need to wear pants too often, and some drawstring shorts from last summer that still fit. If it's not stretchy or too big for me in the first place, all my shirts no longer fit. I had a wedding to go to last Saturday and the only nicer top that fit was a sweater tank.... And it was not in the greatest condition, I even attempted to wear some of the nicer maternity blouses Alyssa lent to me and my boobs just don't want to cooperate. I'm not even half way there yet and already I am having clothing issues. NO BUENO!!! I am tempet to go to Motherhood Maternity and look at their sales racks but it's weird being in there when I really don't have much of a belly yet, bloating yes and that pooch thing that I got after puberty....What's that about???
So besides this pregnancy there isn't that much else soo exciting to report. John and I are trying to decide where we should spend our vacation this year. Sometime in October, and cheap.... Dad suggested Victoria, B.C. I have never been to Canada and would love to go. Never thought I would go there, I was more thinking about P.E.I. on the East Coast where L.M. Montgomery was inspired to write her Anne of Green Gables books. I have always been a fan and hope to one day make it up there to see it. But anywhere but here would be nice. A week at the coast would be great too. Something different. But not too far away.
I get to go grocery shopping today and make banana bread... I love that smell... I might go to Michael's craftstore to see if any of their Holiday decor is finally on sale. They do that on purpose you know, all of us crafters and decorators who drool in the ribbon and paint aisle; can't wait to start this years decorating projects and it seems forever for the store to put them on sale. I know that they will, but it's like Christmas presents, You see one with your name on it and want to open it. You know you'll be able to on Christmas morning but you are still tempted to shake it right.
Romans 15:5 May God, who gives this patience and encouragement, help you live in complete harmony with each other - each with the attitude of Christ Jesus toward the other.
Well I think I have rambled on long enough. This was fun and I hope to have something to write everyday... I hope everyone is doing wonderful and is staying healthy and out of trouble. I hope you enjoyed reading about me and my life right now. Maybe I can convince John to get into this too and you'll have two contributors to the Cimino Home. Take care and GodBlesss, Love Andrea