Well, excuse me!

Apparently, someone has an opinion about the amount of spice that I consume with my meals.

This said someone also has no trouble expressing this opinion by pointedly shoving body parts into my rib cage and decidedly moving about entirely off of her normal schedule.

Where is this kid's mother!? MY kid would never do this.
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24 Weeks and Counting

Yep. 24 weeks...and my photog still can't get the photo centered. :)



This second photo, it generally what our "photo shoots" deteriorate to, as DH makes some goofy comment or starts taking pictures of my chest.


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Cake Wrecks

It's one of those blogs that I am addicted to, and incidently where I found the photo from my previous post.

My S-I-L mentioned it in her blog and I've been hooked ever since.

It's almost as good as failblog and that blog's associated sites. HE-larious. :)
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What NOT to give me at a baby shower...

If you are my friend, and you wish to stay as such, please don't do this...



Seriously. How about a flower cake or cute little cupcakes with decorative paper wrappers? I'd even be okay with baby shaped cookies or candy pacifiers. But please, no horrific, pre-pacifiered alien babies coming out of my stomach (or what I assume to be my stomach). Also - nothing anatomical either. It's really unnerving.

I'm not even considering how this baby will get from my uterus to the outside world, and until I actually HAVE to think about it, I intend to enjoy my naivete.

?More hilariously inappropriate cake-ness? - Go here


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Holy Buckets, 71!

So, it's supposed to be 71 degrees today. That's crazy. Because just this last week, it looked like this.



Yep. It's snowing and there are 3, count 'em 3, of the same buses just waiting. It's the middle of the morning rush hour and there are about 40 people waiting to get on at least one of those buses. It takes a SOLID 10 minutes for one of the drivers to even come back to her bus, but she just went in to get a cigarette and then come out and smoke it. I seriously have not seen someone take so long on a single smoke. She took it to a whole new level

Anyhoo, she finally strolls back into her bus and then pulls up the remaining 10 feet to the bus stop and then glares at the passengers as we get on the bus altogether much to quickly for her liking. After all, she can't be expected to look at every one's transit pass when they're getting on! We need to wait for her to give her approval before we even think about moving to the back of the bus



*I just re-read this. It sounds rather bitter. The funny thing is, that I'm not that upset. I actually find the entire CTA debacle to be hilariously inconvenient, yet necessary. Should we ever move away from Chicago, I don't know that I'll miss CTA. ever.

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Phunny Photo Phriday

Apparently you don't need to work out to get a 6-pack.



I bet it helps to be a Dale Jr. fan as well...

...classy.
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Spring Must be Coming

Spring MUST be coming. I can't really tell from looking at it outside, but it's coming. How do I know?

Well, I've started taking blog photos again. I took three separate pictures today, and I'm going to start posting them tomorrow. I have also stopped hating life. I still have pregnancy "whatever" going on, but I no longer want to curl up in my bed, watch a chic movie and cry for like 3 weeks straight. I've been able to keep the house straight for an entire week and I even pulled the vacuum out on my non-vacuuming day.

The world is right again. I can feel it!
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I Need Your Help...Yes, You!

Ok, to take my mind off other unsavory happenings in my life, I need everyone's opinions about some things...

As you may have seen from the below, I am trying to pick out baby bedding. My original thought was to do ladybugs, and while I still like the idea, I'm not sold on the all over, repressively pale pink.

In an ideal world, I would just make my own, but this world is far from ideal and I think with my current time constraints, my baby would be 2 before I finished it...SO! I have sort of narrowed down my store-bought choices to about 5 that I think are pretty good. Let me know what you think and any reasoning you might have beind your choice.

Seriously, this is a matter of GRAVE importance...take.this.seriously.

:)

1.)

This was initially my first choice. I like that there are a million accessories that I can buy that match, but again, there is a LOT of repressive pink. I think I may want some bolder colors - not ADD inducing, but bolder.

2.)

I love the femininity of the the flowers plus the vibrant punch of orange is a nice complement to the pink and light blue. It's a good mix of colors and active enough to incite interest after the initial cuteness wears off.

3.)

This one's red. It's my signature color and my go-to favorite. I'm concerned about the stark contrast between the red and white with nothing but grey to soften it. I'm afraid that after a while the sharp contrast will tire out my eyes/the baby's eyes.

4.) \

I just really like this green. I think it would look really great with my crib set. It's sort of a natural fruitwood color in a sleigh bed format. Do you think it's too much of one color? It's not pink, but there is still a lot of green.

5.)

And finally, the pink and green combo. I still get the girly pink, but with the bright punch of green it's a bit more interesting and versatile.

OK. So let me know what you think!!
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Things That Don't Taste Good The Second Time

In honor of my impending move to the third trimester my body has decided to mutiny...and I think the she-baby has joined the fight.

To finish the though presented in my blog title, here is a list of things that I apparently can not keep down...

- Chili and Cornbread (I know, bad choice)
- Oatmeal, plain with 1% milk
- Chicken Broth
- Water

This is just the 'piece de resistance' of the last two weeks that started with a full blow sinus cold, and transformed, mid-cold into all-over-my-body hives (thus resulting in blood work to check out my liver) and finally, because my sinus cold was over and hives apparently get lonely, I have yet to successfully keep anything down since about noon yesterday.

I talked to a friend of mine, wo-ing about my luck getting the stomach flu for the second time, like, EVER - and she looked at me, smiled and said, "honey, you're six months pregnant. You can think you have the stomach flu if you want, but you have skyrocketing hormone levels and a finicky baby pushing all your organs into your throat. Are you sure its not that?"

I have to laugh because she just had a baby and distinctly remembers all of this. I'm glad she's here to keep me grounded.


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