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A wet weekend, and things I crave

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Oh my gosh! I have a blog! I bet my 2 readers out there thought I had forgotten it completely. Well, you’re wrong! Haha!

Friday night kicked off the weekend with a pipe busting in our hall bath around 7 p.m. Whee! After calling about three plumbers and pulling the “I’m nine months pregnant!” card we got a sweet, sweet plumber out to the house around 10 p.m. The good news: he could fix it, the bad news: not until Saturday morning. It was a little drywall screw in a pipe that took two years to come loose. Lovely. So, we had to leave our water turned off over night. He was there bright and early Saturday and fixed us up, though, and even charged us his regular rate and not his weekend/night rate. We have officially found Our Plumber. Our builder came by this morning and is planning to send his sheetrock guy and carpet guy over to fix up the damages for us gratis. Hopefully, soon, because we’re a short 14 DAYS FROM THE DUE DATE! WE’RE HAVING A BABY! (Side note: the baby is breech and we may be meeting her sooner, like next week. More details to come after we see the doc this afternoon.)

Also, I wanted to get this recorded because someone asked me last week and I don’t want to forget…

Things I have craved at one time or another while pregnant:
peanut butter (PB shake from Sonic, but especially Baskin Robbins Peanut Butter n’ Chocolate iced cream)
strawberries (iced cream, milk shakes, fresh ones, all things strawberry)
sweet tea
lemonade
fruit punch (Crystal Light, or Kool-Aid… Oh YEAH!)
olives
canned peaches (yes, just canned ones)
COLD fresh apple
Sonic steak sandwich (which no longer exists, darn it, and I can find no reasonable substitute)

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89 days

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

We are now solidly into the third trimester, and there are less than 90 days until my due date. It’s pretty wild. That’s just under 13 weeks! There is still so much I feel like we need to do in the house to get it ready. Mainly, we means Errol. He has a long list of places that I want him to put up some shelves. I have this overwhelming desire to have things organized.

This past Friday, (I have to preface this with: the baby and I are fine, everything is fine) we were rear-ended by a pickup truck in my Corolla while sitting in traffic. Oh, it is such a good thing Errol was driving, because I am pretty sure I was immediately hysterical. I couldn’t breathe, I was so terrified. I know this guy couldn’t have been going more than maybe 15-20 mph, but it felt and sounded like the end of the world. And because it was big pickup versus small compact, you should see the back of our car. I thought I was going to be sick when I got out and looked at it. The truck won’t close, the bumper is bowed out on the sides, the lights smashed out… I really need to take a picture. It’s stayed in the driveway at home since Friday, waiting for our insurance to work it out with his so we can get it fixed. The icing on the cake… we discovered Sunday night that since the trunk was open, the trunk light was staying on. Errol disconnected the fuse, but I’m pretty sure the battery has died. I couldn’t get the car to unlock with the remote this morning. I’m hoping this just means the fuse for the trunk light also operates the automatic locks. More to come.

So, one of the things on my list of what I want fixed up before the baby comes is getting done today… our builder is coming to the house to replace some cracked kitchen tile! Woo! It’s just cracked from natural settling, but in a lovely diagonal line right across the kitchen. I feel like we’re getting a whole new floor!

That’s all the news that’s news for now, I guess. The cats have their annual vet appointments on Saturday, and I have my June doctor appointment next week. At this one, I get to drink the fruity beverage and get my blood sugar tested for gestational diabetes. Super fun!

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Light dusting of snow!

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

What a joy and surprise to wake up to this morning!

It’s just enough snow to make the trees pretty and to make me smile, but not enough to make the roads bad and close the schools. There are a lot of closings to the north and west of us, though.

Of course, I want more. :-)

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Happy Memorial Day!

Monday, May 29th, 2006

We have had some pretty nasty erosion problems in the back yard, and thanks to our neighbor and her lawyer, our builder, and the subdivision developer, we’ve got a backyard again. There are pipes buried, drains added, and as of Saturday, we got more sod! Errol put down grass seed over the naked areas not covered by sod yesterday. Here’s a couple pics for just a taste of what it was like out there, and what we have now.

Before After!

None of my before pictures really do it justice. We had some crevasses out there that were at least a foot deep in some places.

Now our neightbor is planning to put up a chain link fence. Oh, joy of all joys. We’re thinking of making fence plans of our own, but ours I think will not be chain link. We’d also like to put a gazebo out there… and maybe a pool. (!)

We had a long talk about what our prirorities are yesterday. We’re both homebodies, really. There’s a lot of places we’d like to travel and whatnot, but all in all we like being at home. So, we made a deal: the house is where our money goes. There are so many things we would like to do: the gazebo and pool, screen in the back porch and add a large patio around it, take up the carpet and put down hardwood… it’s a long, expensive list.

We might start setting aside a little at a time for a big vacay maybe every other year, but for now our vacations will be the camping trips Errol’s family plans each summer. I love going on these trips with the kids. Lasy year we joied up with them in St. Louis. This summer, we are spending a whole week with them and going to Cherokee, NC then over to Pigeon Forge to go to Dollywood! Being there with our nieces and nephews beats Disney World for me any day.

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