A Sudden Turn for the Worse

I am only referring to my day and not to anything baby related so no need to get nervous! After having a totally productive day, which I will get to in a minute, I just start making dinner and things are not going according to plan. Deaner and I have been planning on making enchilades for dinner recently but they are such a giant pain in the you know what that I have been putting it off. I decided to suck it up today and make them. Well, when I make enchilades I always grill the chicken because I just think that it tastes better. I am normally not the grill lighter but seeing as I was home alone and I have done it before I was sure I would be fine. No such luck. Our gas grill literally just exploded on me. Apparently you are not supposed to turn on ALL the burners before pressing the ignite button. Lesson learned the hard way. I now have no hair on my right arm but I am thanking god for my eyelashes. Here is how my normal left arm looks.....and here is how my jacked up singed right arm looks now.....I am totally going to have to shave it since it looks like I stuck my finger in a socket not to mention the smell of burned hair! Gross me out. Needless to say my mood has gone from good to bad and the chicken needed for the enchilades is currently baking in the oven. I did give the grill two more trys but I was just too skittish after my near death experience. Moving on!

Up until the point of the Great Arm Hair Fire of 2010 things were really going my way! I went and met Deaner at the base for lunch (as he is becoming accustomed to me doing) and afterwards I decided to stop by the furniture store on the off chance that the glider had arrived for the nursery. I cannot even tell you how painfully dumb (but super nice) the lady who works there is and it always takes her like 25 minutes to tell me that something hasn't arrived yet. About minute 13 into her computer search I happened to glance over at the elevator and low and behold my chair is sitting RIGHT THERE! Of course it took some convincing that this was actually my chair but finally she believed me. Unfortunately it said on the the outside of the box that the cushions inside were yellow. This almost caused a mental breakdown since I have been waiting for this chair for 13 weeks and obviously can't afford to wait for it again. Thankfully I think that it was just mislabeled because while the cushions look a bit more yellow than I would like, they are close enough to khaki and I'm over it. I got the glider home and brought upstairs to the baby's room in three different trips. And I got it all put together! I am really becoming quite handy. It was just the project that I needed today! Here is the finished product!The real question at hand is to do we like the lamb bench next to the glider or on the other side of the armiour like this?I know that this is a critical decision that has got to be made and I probably won't be able to sleep until it is!! I am also quite certain that my mom will chime in here and suggest something totally different and then arrive in Germany and just change it anyway. As it stands now I put the baby pillow and quilt on the glider and made myself leave the room (after a quick vacuum)!I know if I ask Deaner which way he likes it best I will probably get an answer like "yes" or "alright". MEN!

I am finally back on the couch after the enchilada fandango and I am ready for Deaner to get home from the gym. Last night I prepared this feast....Grilled steaks, roasted onion and garlic potatos and grilled corn on the cob. I hope to live up to last nights meal tonigh! Guess we will see! Happy Hump Day to everyone! Exactly 2 weeks until the baby is due! God I hope I don't make it til then!!

My Favorite Sign

I love how I didn't post for one day and everyone thought that I had the baby! No such luck! I don't think this baby is ever coming, just for the record. I bet that I have two more weeks or so. I wish that my doctor NEVER mentioned to me that she thought I might be early. We might have to have a chat about that if I decide to ever have another child while living here in Germany. It is really cruel to play tricks like that. She should have told me that my due date was sometime in mid-September and then I'd be surprised to have an early baby! Anyways, I have posted a picture of a sign that I keep coming across in Germany. There are lots of pretty funny road signs here but this one is one of my favorites. It is posted on school buses and at crosswalks where school buses stop so I am assuming that it is the German equivalent to this American sign.I just get such a kick out of the German sign because it really reminds me of an angry sister dragging her brother along behind her! At least in the American sign it appears that the people are being polite to each other (even though it does look like they are both carrying purses though one is obviously a man?). The lady in the German sign is a no nonsense kinda person and I am glad that I am not the child she is dragging along with her! Ha ha!

In other news............our house smells like we are currently hosting a circus inside of it. We cannot figure it out but our best guess is that the vineyards were fertilized with some sort of manure sometime in the past few days and it is causing our house to REEK. It is too warm to close up the windows so we are suffering through it and know now what it would be like to have pet donkey's living inside our house with us. I think we will pass! I had lunch with Deaner this afternoon and then headed over to our cell phone store to see about adding unlimited calling to the States on one of our cell phones for the next month or so. Fortunately it can be done for only 25 euro a month but unfortunately you have to add it for a minimum of 3 months. I'm just not sure it is worth it. While I know I really am going to want to talk to my mom while I am in the hospital and I know that Deaner is going to want to call his parents with news and updates etc, I just don't know if it is worth it. We have unlimited free calling to the States on our home phone and the reasonable part of me says that we should just email from the hospital and call when it is convienant for us at home. I'm torn. Of course if Evans doesn't pick up the pace, there is a solid chance that my parents will actually be here for his birth since they arrive on the 28th. Got to talk to Deaner about that one.

Now I think I will go do some vacuuming and probably suffer from heat exhaustion. I think I have an obsessive fear that I am going to go into labor and my house is going to be messy and I won't have time to clean it. I know people keep telling me to enjoy this time while I can but folks, I'm bored. Please don't respond and say that this is the last time I will ever be bored, because I sort of get that. I just hate sitting around and doing nothing! Off to find a project!

Doctor's Report

After 25 looooooong torturous days I finally saw my doctor this morning. I was really hoping (in vain) that she would send me directly to the hospital to give birth! Wishful thinking on my part even though I didn't really think this would happen. Anyways, all with Mr. Evans looks great and he is weighing in at around 7.5 pounds now. I'm also already 1cm dilated which my doctor seemed to think was great at 37w5d especially since this was my first baby. She laughed when I wasn't more excited because I told her I was hoping to be much more than that! She said that it wasn't outside the rehlm of possibility that it could take another week or two for Evans to come. I'm okay with a week longer but two weeks I might be a little bit annoyed! Pray for some more progression this week! My next appointment is a week from tomorrow!

I went to the grocery store on my way home and did the shopping for the week. I really didn't think we needed anything much but still managed to spend $75. Now I'm home and chilling on the couch. I actually asked Deaner if he wanted to come home and go walking with me in the vineyards instead of him going to the gym and he totally turned me down! Fine with me! I probably wouldn't have wanted to go anyways by the time he got home! Ha!

Anyways, hope I can find ways to fill up my week with things to do to keep me occupied! I wish I had just one more project!! Any ideas??

Thursday? Seriously?

Does anyone else feel like this week has been draaaaaaging along at the pace of a snail? I sure do. Maybe it is because I FINALLY have a doctor's appointment on Monday after THREE LONG weeks of waiting in anticipation to find out if something is going on down there! It's just my luck that my doctor's office closed for weeks 34, 35, 36 and most of 37 of my pregnancy. That is something that would NEVER happen in the States but is quite common here in Germany. I got a pat on the knee and was told to keep swimming in my Country Club by my doctor while in the States I could have seen any number of partner's in the practice during these last few weeks. My only hope is that when I go on Monday my doctor will tell me just how much I have progressed in the last three weeks and then it will make the wait worth it! Fingers crossed!

Today has been a semi productive day. At least I didn't sit around the house all day. It is already 4:45 and I JUST sat down at my computer for the first time all day. I went and met Deaner for lunch this afternoon because both of us were feeling a bit anxious over the imminent arrival of our baby. The whole not knowing thing really puts me on edge. Deaner admitted this morning that he couldn't even sleep last night because he is feeling so anxious. I think we will both feel better once we see the doc on Monday. After lunch I ran by Steph's house to borrow book #4 in the Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris.Harris is the author of the popular Sookie Stackhouse series, which the HBO show True Blood is based on, and since I am done with the Stackhouse series it was time to try another one. I am really enjoying the Connelly series! They are not about vampires and while I know that they hold no literary value whatsoever, they are quite enjoyable and I am almost on the last book already. I really hate series that only have 4 books in them! Guess I'll just have to wait for more. Fortunately for me, Harris writes two other series (Lily Bard and Aurora Teagarten) that I am interested in reading but I just have to wait until I can justify buying them all at once off Barnes and Noble. These books are quick reads and highly entertaining. I would recommend them to anyone seeking mindless beach reads!

On my way home from Steph's I had a bit of an experience. In Germany you really should never be driving in the left hand lane on the Autobahn unless you are traveling at the speed of light. This mainly applies when you are on the open road and I don't pay AS MUCH attention to it when I am inside the city limits because there actually is a speed limit. Well today I was on my way home (driving in the left hand lane) when I noticed a silver Mercedes bearing down on me quickly. I barely managed to get over into the right lane before this car drove straight up my tailpipe. As the car flew past me I was shocked to see that the person driving it was a little old lady, who could not have been a day under 85, and who could BARELY see over the dash of the car. A little scary if you ask me. I continued to watch her as she nearly rammed about 3 other drivers in her quest to get somewhere VERY quickly! After I got home (in one piece)I worked on Evans' baby book for a little bit since my shutterfly pictures arrived. It is going to be the cutest baby book ever. I hope I have as much devotion to a second child's book as I have to this one. Otherwise it is going to be VERY unfair! :)

Now I'm on the couch and about to start reading again. The veggies and meat are chopped for our stir fry dinner and in the fridge. I have about an hour to chill before Deaner gets home from the gym and I'm ready to relax! I hope that everyone is having a great Thursday and that next week goes by a little faster!!!

Finally Full Term

37 weeks and ready to pop! Well maybe not exactly ready to pop but I do feel like I am. I am getting really tired of hearing my hips pop and think that pretty soon it might just make me physically sick if it doesn't stop! Today I was sitting at my kitchen table minding my own business when my Germany neighbor stopped by. When I stood up to open the window to speak to her she exclaimed "Are you sure you aren't having twins"?? Ha ha ha. Very funny. Seriously, do I look that big? I didn't think so but maybe I am wrong. I'm really annoyed that those wires are all over the floor in my belly shot but not annoyed enough to move them and retake the picture! Anyways, today was not much more eventful than yesterday! I went and had lunch with Deaner today and then went to the commissary after assigning myself a project. Deaner works with someone who's daughter's birthday is this weekend and I decided to make her a little birthday present. I'm not going to lie, I don't think I was a baker in my former life nor will I ever be good at it! Here's how my cupcakes turned out!I hope she likes them. I'll have Deaner bring them with him to work tomorrow. Just ate a big dinner of spaghetti and it is time to veg out on the couch! Is it Friday yet?

Officially Ready

I know I keep saying how ready I am for Evans to arrive but today I am officially ready. Steph highlighted my hair so there is officially nothing left to do. I'd appreciate it if he didn't wait too long because I'd prefer not to have any roots in any of his homecoming pictures. I'm just sayin, I know this is about him and all but his Mom does play a pretty big role in it!

The Crossfire made it to work this morning and Deaner is currently on his way home. Praying hard right now! It is raining outside and also sunny at the same time. That does not happen a lot here! The raining part maybe!

Not much else to report today. I wish I had something better to share with y'all! We have having steaks for dinner and then I want to settle in with my book in my pjs! Talk to y'all tomorrow!

This and That!

I feel like it has been awhile since I have updated here. I hope that everyone had a really great weekend! We did although it got off to a rocky start. Friday I was stuck at home with no car again. Deaner decided it would be best for me to take a train into town for a late lunch and then I could have the car until it was time for Deaner to leave work. Well come Friday morning we realized that for some reason, unknown to us, there were no trains running into town! Just my luck! So Deaner convinced me to take a bus, against my better judgement! I went to the bus stop about 10 minutes early, bought a ticket and started waiting. And I waited. And I waited. When the bus was 20 minutes late I went to inquire if it was ever coming and actually understood the guy when he was telling me that I was standing at the WRONG BUS STOP!!! Grrrrrrr. At that point I was over it and came home. I spent a long boring afternoon by myself (Again!). We had dinner down at the river on Friday night since the weather was nice and it was nice and relaxing.

Saturday we ran errands and then attended the First Annual White Trash Bash at Steph and Jon's house on Saturday night! It was a lot of fun and only would have been better if I could have actually partaken in some adult beverages! Everyone looked nice and trashy! I said that the only thing that would have made the party trashier is if I had actually gone into labor there! Here is Steph and me before the party started.Me and my baby daddy!I just love how that Dodge emblem is so pronounced by my belly!! There were several other girls there dressed up with pregnant bellies and at one point I was walking through the den and I heard someone say "that one really is pregnant"! Ha ha!! Hopefully not for much longer! We didn't get to stay too long at the party but I know that we both had a good time (especially Deaner)!

Sunday we would have loved to have a lazy day but unfortunately we had things to do. The part for the Crossfire came from the U.S. last week and it was time for Deaner to prove his auto mechanic skills. We went to lunch and then headed to Deaner's office for him to work on it. While Deaner was busy I cleaned out my Jeep until it was sparkling. I vacuumed it out, washed it, armouralled the dash and doors, treated the leather and rain Xed all the windows! Now I am ready for a baby to come mess it up! I was exhausted afterwards. Surprisingly, the Crossfire made it home! It also made it to work this morning with Deaner driving it. We will see if it makes it to the gym and then home again. I don't want to be a skeptic but I don't want to jinx it either!!

Today has been a typical Monday. I met Deaner for lunch and then I hit up the Commissary and stocked up just in case Evans decides to come anytime soon. I have changed our sheets, cleaned our room, and done all the laundry. Whew. I have also uncovered the Country Club, run the pump and put in chemicals. Having a pool is hard work! Especially when the weather has stunk lately and you can't even use it! Also my friend Emory at Emma's Closet sent me a picture of the burp clothes that she did for Evans. I am SO excited to get these!!
Evans is going to be able to spit up in style! I just think that these are so cute and would make the BEST gift if anyone ever needs baby gifts! Also Emory monogrammed this outfit for Evans for next summer.Another box for me to look forward to in the mail! Anyways, I have to go turn off the pump at my Club and get it covered back up! Happy Monday to all!