Big Stuff in the works!

I keep going to Blogger and staring at my dashboard thinking, I want to write but don't have anything to write about. Maybe it's a combination of not feeling overly creative and a lack of big things going on. Although I haven't been bored, so I don't know what's wrong with me!

However, in the past two days I've been extremely productive and gotten a lot done. Most especially, I think it's safe to say that we found an apartment. Hizzah! Truthfully we found this apartment a few weeks (months??) ago, but we kept sitting on it thinking, is this going to work for us? I've been obsessed with the apartment because I love the layout and size, plus my cousin used to live in the building so I know the building management is dependable. And it is a very sturdy building (i.e. no one can hear the baby cry, let alone the next door neighbor breathe). Rob felt it was a little overpriced and was a little hesitant just because of my current uncertain employment situation. However, I convinced him -- as I always do. Because he loves me. Oh, I forgot he doesn't read this blog, so I don't have to say that. Because he knew I was right.

I called the development company yesterday to see if they still had availability and they told me they had 1 two bedroom apartment available for May 1, and it was first come first serve. So today we dropped off our application and saw the apartment again. The building manager told us that there were 2 other couples interested in the same apartment who had been calling that morning, but unless one of them got their application into the main office before us, we got the place!

I'll find out tomorrow for sure, but the best part of all is that the apartment is ready as of right now, so we can move in during the last week in April. I'm already planning an unpacking party -- i.e. by that point, I may need some help:)

If everyone else jumped off a bridge...

Fine, everyone else has been blogging today so I might as well do it too. But sadly for you this blog won't be too interesting because I really don't have that much going on! I feel better and have been feeling better for a good week and a half or so. I'm a little hesitant to say that I'm better in the sense of being cured but I'm enjoying each day as it comes. Positive thoughts sent my way have clearly worked, so thank you all!

I went with my mom, grandmother and aunt to Babies R Us the other day. I would like to say that it is now clear to me that my baby will want for nothing. My mom and aunt both spent at least an hour just on the clothing section, while my grandmother stared in awe at sheer wealth of stuff. The purpose of the trip was that Grandma had wanted to buy our baby's crib. Apparently my grandparents had also bought my crib so it was a little bit of an ongoing tradition and I am so incredibly thankful!

Um... other news.... oh, I picked the wrong withholding thing on my taxes (stupid human resources person at work...) so now I actually owe the government money. Bastards! The timing is truly amazing too.

And that's all I got.

Naps

Some people are nap people and some people just plain old aren't. This would probably be the biggest difference between Rob and I. Even when I was little, I couldn't nap -- that's why my mom let me watch Days of Our Lives. But Rob. Well Rob could get a full 8 hours of sleep and still drift off for a good 4 hour nap in the middle of the day. And then still fall asleep at a normal time of night for another 8 hours of sleep.

Since I've known Rob he's gotten much better at restraining from naps. Now he really has a crappy sleep schedule where he often gets only 6 or 7 hours of sleep before getting up for work at 3 am. I don't begrudge him naps, but he doesn't really take them either because he wants to be able to fall asleep early. Of course his ability to function on very little sleep is precisely the reason that Rob will be doing a lot of the nightly feedings once our bundle of joy arrives.

Meanwhile, I have realized that I really need to embrace naps. Last night I woke up no less than 4 times during the night and for a period of an hour and a half somewhere in the darkness could not fall back asleep because of a) baby activity and b) complete discomfort. Part of the discomfort is the whole kidney stone thing, but mostly it's just, well, being uncomfortable. Yet somehow when I take naps, I sleep perfectly comfortably. SO from now on, I'm a napper. Newly converted. Just took a nap as a matter of fact. Highly recommend it.

Lost and Found

I have to write this blog today just as a means of rejoicing. Throughout the past few weeks I have most definitely had a little case of pregnancy brain. Actually more than the past few weeks. More like the past few months. Truthfully it's probably less pregnancy brain than just what happens when you don't work every day. But when you add in the fairly frequent pain induced dazes of kidney stones, the past few weeks have been worse. Like I freaked out because I lost the car key on Tuesday and then I realized it was in my pocket.

Since Monday or Tuesday I have had sudden flashes of "I'm not wearing my wedding rings. Why is that?" Or I will randomly think about them, getting a visual flash of what they look like. I stopped wearing my rings in about November or so because I had lost finger weight (go figure!) due to morning sickness. With the Buffalo cold weather coming on, I was afraid I would one day take off my glove and the ring would just slip off into the snow without me noticing (like my Dad did!) My rings are platinum so I had decided not to wear them again until after the baby was born in case my fingers swelled. So for Christmas, Rob bought me a chain to wear the rings on.

Thursday, I realized that the reason I was getting ring flashes was that I hadn't actually seen my rings for a while. Normally I leave them on the dresser and they had mysteriously disappeared. I'm going to blame this one:


(He looks unassuming, but beware!)


So hooray! I found them today in Rob's sock drawer. So maybe there are two culprits:


They both look pretty guilty.