Have yourself a Merry Fucking Christmas
God, please let it be over with already.

my favorite quote of the day
"Is there a problem?"

"Oh, nothing Shakespeare couldn't turn into a really great play!"

Artist friends rule!
Now Playing: Seasons of Love from RENT
Robyn is so great! She finished the bear in a sailboat picture on Tori's wall today and its perfect! Hopefull I'll get some pics up soon. Yesterday, Tori's Aunt Connie bought her an extremelly nice stroller/carrier/car seat thing and her Mimi bought her the very best Pack N Play (the Laura Ashley edition) that there is on the market. Its exciting (and a little terrifying) to start seeing this stuff. Even though there's been baby stuff in the living room for months, it was different being with people who were actually buying baby stuff for my little girl.

Quote for the day
I don't suffer from insanity- I enjoy every minute of it.

I'll be sure to tell this to my therapist today.

Tori pics

My Daddy Loves Me!!!
I've always known I was spoiled, but tonight that was emphasized when my sweet Daddy went to Petsmart for me. When I realized the dogs were out of food about about 7:20 p.m. this evening, I just about cried. I'm so tired and the last thing I felt like doing was jumping in the car and driving all the way to Petsmart. Luckiy, I was on the phone with my mother, who told me Dad was still heading home, and I should call and ask him. When he answered his cell phone I almost didn't ask him because he sounded so utterly exhausted. You have to understand that my dad leaves for work at 5 in the morning, so for him to still be driving home at almost 7:30 is a really, really long day. Feeling like a horrible daughter, I asked him anyway, and of course, being the saint he is, he stopped for me. Lukily, Jessica was over today and we had been baking all day, so I was able to reward him with a bag full of cookies and a bag of haystacks.

In other news, I've had cramps all day which were a little disconcerting. I finally called my Dr. and she said they were probably braxton hicks and nothing to worry about. I am so much more paranoid now that I'm in the second half (about to the be the last trimester) of my pregnancy. Of course, I would have been devastated if something had happened at any point, but now I'm so invested. This isn't just an abstract anymore; this is a little girl I read to, I sing to, I've felt kicking, I've painted a room for and I've made plans for. At one point, I couldn't imagine a life with children, now I can't imagine my life without her.

Stupid Fishbowl
I finally finished painting the walls in Victoria's room! I finished stenciling in all the waves, and I think it came out pretty nice if I do say so myself. I still plan on adding little details here and there, like a sun in one corner and some fish along the wall, and maybe if I'm feeling really motivated, a little sailboat. Trey helped me put the big bed back in the room today and I realized just how much of the space it swallows. Unfortunately, not much can be done about that. We have to have a guest bed, and that is the only place one will fit. Poor Tori will just be pretty cramped for awhile. I also realized that the existing bedspread doesn't really go with the walls. It's a two-tone blue that is just close enought that it clashes with the walls. It will be awhile before we replace it, though. While moving the end table back into the room tonight, I dropped my fishbowl filled with marbles and a glass dolphin statue. That was so not what I needed. The bowl didn't just break, it SHATTERED. I'm guessing it had something to do with all the marbles, but shards of glass were everywhere in my dining room and hallway. That was fun. Luckily I only stuck myself once with a shard (which considering my past track record of cleaning up glass- that was impressive; usually I end up looking like I just butchered something.)

Other than that, the day has been ok. I worked high school today (physics class). I didn't have to teach anything, just give out assignments, which is easy, but incredibly boring to watch class after class do bookwork. After today, I think I have to accept the fact that I'm a pitiful pregnant lady and start bringing a pillow to sit with. The teachers' chairs are all incredibily uncomfortable, and by the end of the day I was ready to cry because my back hurt so much.

Brian and Robyn came over to watch LOST and America's Next Top Model. It was nice to finally see LOST. I had already seen the two ANTM episodes, but it was worth it to sit and watch Brian and Trey totally enraptured with the show. Not just for the hot chicks, either, they were debating who was going to get eliminated with the seriousness of fashion critics (even referring to photo shoots from 4 EPISODES AGO!! :P) When Robyn went home she took a lot of her stuff and her fish (which I keep forgetting to feed), which really helped cut back on the clutter. One day, if we ever get the boards from the hurricane and the boxes from the baby's room moved out, this house might possibly be liveable again!

Trey made an appointment for next week for us to get a second ultrasound. This is the brand new, GE 4-D ultrasound which is supposed to give you a much clearer picture of what the baby actually looks like (as opposed to the old ultrasound pictures, or "ink blots" as my Daddy calls them). We also get a DVD movie to take home. I'm really excited about this, and I pray that Tori is more cooperative for this one than she was for the last one. We invited the grandmothers to join us and they are ecstatic. Hopefully I'll be able to post some of the pictures afterwards.

Stage Two
I just finished painting the bottom half of the room. That was so much more exhuasting than the top half. Between bending over and squatting down, my back is killing me. I'm glad I'm doing this now, because I'm certain that if I had waited another couple of weeks I wouldn't have been capable of it. Trey moved the heavy stuff out of the room and that was a big help. Now I just need to go make a wave stencil and once the walls have dried a bit more, start painting in my waves.

Stage One Complete
Now Playing: Northgate Noise
I just finished painting the top half of Victoria's room. I've decided to paint it in two shades of blue (I know- big shock!) with light blue on top (Slumber to be exact) and dark blue (Star Gazer) on the bottom with stenciled waves along the middle. This matches with the crib bedding that I picked out(and Tori's sweet Mimi, otherwise known as my mother, bought me). It's called Sailor Baby and it has an adorable plush teddy bear dressed as a sailor riding a whale. It feels nice to have made progress on the room, but I'm exhausted. Most of the stuff in the room was too heavy for me to move, so I finally got tired of waiting for Trey and I just shoved everything in the middle and painted anyway. I did take the mattresses out myself, but in retrospect, that probably wasn't the best thing for me to do, and it was kind of a waste of time since I coudn't get the frame apart (and I just tripped over it all night). I should have waited, because I know I was lifting/shoving stuff that's much, much heavier than I should be dealing with while I'm 6 months pregnant, but I was impatient. I have this need to get that room finished RIGHT NOW. The books refer to it as "nesting instict". I'm just worried that if I wait much longer, I won't be capable of doing stupid stuff like wrestling with a heavy mattress and shoving a t.v. and a dresser around. I will definitely have to get Trey to help me get stuff out before I paint the bottom. I stubbed my toes and wacked my shins more times than I would like to count tonight (you would think I would have stopped after the first couple of bruises, but noooooo.) Oh well, the important thing is that I did something. The top half is painted, I love the color, and now I'm kicking back with a near beer and I've earned a hot (oh wait, no- warm) bath.

Something's wrong when...
...Kroger replaces the Halloween candy display with a Christmas candy display on October 24th.