40 weeks

Dropped….

March 31

Happy Birthday Dad!!!
 *since this completes my posting for March daily post/list challange I will list thing I like about my Dad*
1. He is a perfectionist in many things but never minds if you are not a perfectionist
2. He cooks well – especially pancakes
3. He is a great example of what a dad should be, doing what [...]

Sunday

(still no baby)
 This weekend was busy busy, I dragged mom all over the place and got alot of stuff done.  Saturday we went to Costco and stocked up  on lots of stuff, then we went to DSW warehouse and we got great deals on shoes.  I got a great pair of work shoes almost exactly [...]

Saturday List

I’m getting to the end of March and really did not do much toward the list theme challenge, but, I so far have posted daily.  The April challenge is to again post daily but the theme is ‘letters’ they say that could mean a letter to the editor or the idiot who designed the roads [...]

the mother has landed

flight was early but easy to collect so mom is now here and after lunch I have to go back to work.  More tonight.
 ps. no baby yet

Maybe the last Baby Dr visit

Sorry about the late post today, have you been noticing I have been trying to post something early so everyone has something to read at their coffee breaks?  Today was one of those non-stop scheduled days that practically nothing of usefulness resulted other then lots of talking about ongoing situations.
 At 2:15 I headed out the [...]

39 weeks

6 days to my due date and the shirt is still hanging in there.

I took an un-nap

I think we are all familiar with a nap - during the day you close your eyes and sleep for an hour or so and wake up and continue the day.  Napping is something I do pretty well but last night I took an un-nap…  In the middle of the night I woke up and was [...]

65 hits so far

Since an average day for me is about 30 hits, the 35 others must be here for the regalia post  below this one linked by my nice LJ friends (who apparently are quite popular!).  I’m happy to elaborate on anything just leave a comment or write me an e-mail.

My blog – my soap box

This is more or less a public (SCA) service announcement…  Non SCA people, here is a cute picture of my cat on the belly and you can basically skip the rest. 
 
For the SCA folks; I have heard from a few kind people who keep me up on the rumors about myself that I was planning on [...]

Easter

I should start with
‘Snow snow go away
come back on some winter day…’
It has been snowing off an on for days, not really accumulating on the roads but just annoying enough to make life difficult.  We are very lucky to have two cars that handle very nicely in the snow and very short commutes but this [...]

Showered Again

Not that I don’t regularly shower, but, today was my MN friends baby shower and I think it went very very well.
 Lars and I cleaned last night and this morning I did the little things that we left plus get out some party stuff.  There were two major disruptions to my party prep – first [...]

check in

I’ve been doing well not copping out and doing tiny posts but today I just do not have the time to do much writing.  More tomorrow!

Spring

I knew I jinxed myself saying it was spring like because Tuesday morning there was 5 inches of snow on the ground!  By Tuesday afternoon it was all melted except for the big plow piles in the corners of parking lots and very shady areas.  I know MN just does this sort of thing all [...]

update

I can’t believe it is Wed already, the week is flying by!  Today I had another baby dr apt and I’m still not dilated at all (good!) and they said my stomach should not itch so much and told me to use a cortisone cream so my picky skin decided to get rushy for some [...]

My Fav Store

In baby free Sunday we went to the Mall and did the leisurely wander and went to my favorite store ever The Afternoon.  I would like to own about 99% of what is in this store and that is an extremely rare thing for me.  I looked and they have a website too, I can’t [...]

Pregnancy list

I have been very lucky and also trying hard to not complain about any pregnancy related things but it is getting a bit harder to ignore them all at this point.  Keeping with the theme here is a list of the positives and negatives of this experience
#1 Negative; The absolute worst itchy stretch marks, they [...]

Wow, someone just read my entire blog

Hi person from or near Bismark ND, you had alot of time on your hands   I can not believe that from March 13th – 15th you read over 600 entries from my blog.  I know this from my fairly primitive stat counter that counts every page load and all of a sudden my [...]

3.15

The ides of March… 
 We watched the HBO series Rome a few months ago and it was an impressive series.  I know exactly what was supposed to happen based on history and Shakespeare but you can not help getting wrapped into the story.  I recommend the series to anyone but just be aware it is definitely [...]

3.14

First a quick nod to Pi day since it is 3.14.  I’m not the first to bring it up and I even remembered on my own but it was nice to start the day with a happy Pi day note from my Math teacher friend
 I had a fairly long post composed but it [...]

Maybe maybe spring?

We have had two whole days with temperatures significantly above 32 degree.  I hate to jinx us but there is a possibility that there may be a spring after all.  This fairly sudden thaw has made huge lakes of melted snow and mushy mud everywhere but since I have gotten really used to only walking [...]

Poll

Ok, I was thinking that I should take advantage of the fact that the baby is still on the inside and that Lars and I are still a family of two for the next few weeks at least.  This weekend we have no plans and Lars is not on duty so I was thinking we [...]

Post of the day

To answer a question from the comment gallery from my pretend friend  http://gullybogan.wordpress.com; He asks why I seem to always have a black rubberband on my fingers and are they significant?
 First, nice odd object identification! They are in fact black hair elastics that I’m very specific about using because they are cloth covered and have [...]

37 weeks

I had plans for the afternoon, plans that did not involve sleeping until 8pm.  I suppose the bump is becoming a bigger drain on resources (and strain on poor shirt).

Sunday

I am not sure how loosing an hour made me loose most of the day but other then mostly finishing curtains I really did just about nothing… 

Saturday

I went to SR Harris and got a whole bunch of awesome silk for $3 a yard…  I’m looking forward to whatever shape I end up with because I’m going to have pretty silk Cotes and I even plan on using a pattern that I might even ask someone good to fit me for. (will [...]

Showered

Today was my at work baby shower.  Usually I’m all for a nice distraction in the middle of the day but for some reason today I was doing really well at getting things done.  In a way I’m nesting at work because I’m adding extra note, making folders, adding post-its to stuff and generally making [...]

attack of the clones

I don’t know if it is because the building is full of engineers or the Company gives away too many free shirts, but, today I have seen 5 guys in identical light blue denum button down shirts with the company logo.  I have also seen 3 wearing the newest give away of a very bright [...]

Possibly the most dumb piece of junk mail ever

I mean really…. I suppose they don’t know but when people think the SCA is ‘wierd’ I usually talk about the great American hobby where people get up pre dawn to drive to a lake to spend a bunch (like THOUSANDS) of money on various fees and pieces of equipment in order to catch a fish that [...]

baby names

This is a tribute to one of my favorite blogs, one you should all be reading for the genius of what he comes up with to say; Renial Failure

The team over there gave some very good suggestions for names, some are even names we were thinking about! 
Here is our final list: 
Girls;
Niamh ( pronounced Neeve)
Emily
Sophia
Fiona   
Boys;
Apollo
Orion
Eric  
We did [...]

Weekend review list style

Since there are supposed to be lists I present;  stuff that actually got done this weekend
 All adult laundry
4 loads of baby laundry
Assembled the crib
all baby furniture is in place
all not baby furniture from baby room is in random other places in the house
We watched 5 episodes of Lost (all still awesome)
We watched the first 2 episodes [...]

March

Hello March!
I know that not all months are equal and that pregnancy is officially counted in weeks, but, there is something more definite about March on the top of a calender that says ‘I only have one month left’.  I distinctly remember counting weeks in July as to when I could tell anyone and all [...]

Thats my Mom in the bottom left hand corner in the blue.  She is charging a really big group of big people.