It wasn't meant to be...

Yesterday was my dentist appointment. The real one, not the one I concocted in my head. I was ready for it. I’m doing better with the morning sickness, so I wasn’t worried about throwing up on my hygienist. I was prepared to refuse any x-rays because I am pregnant. I was even ready to deal with the mean hygienist that I am usually stuck with and prepared to tell them I want a new one if she kept up the attitude. I arrived at 9:30 for my 9:40 appointment only to find out that they changed my appointment to 8:50 and never bothered to tell me. I was mildly annoyed especially when the receptionist offered me a 2pm appointment later that day. Don’t those people realize that I live 15 miles away and I’m not going to drive back and forth all day or hang out in town until my appointment? We’re going to try this again in December since apparently November isn’t my month. At least I’ll be in my second trimester by then.

Tonight I start working the midnight shift for two weeks. I am not looking forward to staying awake all night long! Last night I stayed up as late as I could. I only made it to 3am before I had to go to bed. I should’ve gone to bed on time, because I only ended up sleeping for six hours. Today I’ve pretty much cat napped all day and laid around in bed. Hopefully it won’t kill me tonight. I did put blankets over the bedroom windows in an attempt to make the room dark. I’m hoping that it will work for tomorrow and I’ll be able to sleep during the day.

Projects

I moved on to safer cravings after the queso explosion. I now have an insatiable appetite for Arby’s melts. My husband commented tonight that he hopes this passes soon, because he’s getting tired of Arby’s. I’d agree but I could really eat another one right now. Of course I should probably stop since my stomach is already getting round.

We spent our Thanksgiving weekend working on our bathroom floor. Currently we are living in my grandmother-in-law’s 50 year old farmhouse. The farmhouse has been in a sadly neglected state for quite awhile, so when we moved back in this summer we started doing some work to help make the place more livable. Downstairs in the living room we tore down paneling and put up new sheet rock. Add some new paint in other areas and the place looks so much better. After working most of the summer on the downstairs I was a little burnt out. This fall, though, I’ve had a new surge of ambition to start working on the upstairs. The gold glitter bathroom was top on my list, as was our dark bedroom. Before I quit at the carpet store, the manager gave me four boxes of a designer vinyl tile. We decided that our bathroom upstairs could really use a new floor and we had the right amount of tile and grout to get the job done. It’s amazing what new paint and tile can do for a room. In the next couple of days I plan on painting the countertop and banishing the gold glitter forever. I’m excited about the potential. I’ll be sure to post more photos when it’s finished.

Queso Explosion

I am having definite cravings. Recently, it has been tortilla chips and queso. I brought some with me to work today and warmed it up this afternoon. I set the Tupperware container on my desk at work with the lid resting on top of it and hooked myself back up to my headset since things got crazy on my brief trip to the microwave. In the middle of a 911 call my queso exploded. My only guess is that a bubble trapped in the middle was finally released. The lid went flying and queso came raining down on me and my desk. What a disaster! All I could do was clean up cheese while finishing the call and take a shower when I got home to wash the queso out of my hair.

Things Are Looking Up

The past fifteen months have been extremely difficult. My family has gone through many hard times, and finally things seem to be looking up. My mother is doing really well and has beaten her cancer. My brother is healing, and while he still has a long road ahead and some major decisions, he is remarkably upbeat and his faith in God has deepened. My husband should be graduating from college in May, a full semester earlier than expected. I have a job, which is trying at times, but it’s good, stable and provides the security that we were so desperately lacking earlier this year.

…But the most exciting news of all… after the heartbreak of two miscarriages I am expecting a baby in June. The baby is doing really well. I have already had two ultrasounds and the baby’s heart was visibly beating at six weeks. By eight weeks the baby was growing as scheduled and we were able to hear its heartbeat as well as see it again. This baby really is a gift from God.

Bursting My Bubble

I had my final cumulative exam on Thursday at work. The exam took me four hours to take and I am a fast test taker. I was glad to be done with it, though. My trainer finished grading it Thursday night and my score was a 98. I needed an 80 to pass. She said that she's never seen a better score on the final. I was pretty excited because of my grade and because I was done with the tests. Last night my trainer looked at my exam again and apparently she forgot to add in a missed question. My grade is actually a 96. Which is still high and completely respectable but just not the same as getting a 98. Does that mean I have to go back and tell people that I really didn't get a 98, I actually got a 96?

Cold

Yesterday I thought I had a dentist appointment. I started my car to warm it up and went back into the house to grab a few things. I decided that maybe I should grab my appointment card since they never did call to confirm the appointment. When I moved the magnet holding the card in place I discovered that the card said 26 Nov not 6 Nov. Good thing I figured that out before I left the house. I felt so dumb!
I am freezing. We currently live in a house with no central heat (or air for that matter). Some of the rooms have little wall heater units and downstairs we have a fireplace and a small propane heater. We’re not quite ready to start up the fireplace, but my husband was nice enough to get the propane heater started. Our bedroom is downright frigid. I think I’m going to have to pull out the flannel pajamas because a t-shirt and shorts aren’t cutting it anymore! I don’t want to get out of bed in the morning just because it’s so cold in the room. I have to pysch myself up just to get out of bed and throw some warmer clothes on. I’m not sure that I’m quite ready for winter yet!
We finally got Office 2007. Now I can spell check my blog and spell words like dilemma correctly. Thanks Cristen for being my substitute spell checker!

I Want Spell Check Back

We are in the midst of more home improvement projects. We did a bunch of things downstairs this summer and I took a break off from that before attacking the upstairs. I wish I hadn't waited so long, though, because it's pretty cold upstairs! This weekend I painted our bathroom. It was a lovely shade of pale yellow with gold glitter flecks in it and a glossy finish. Very beautiful! I wanted something completely different so I painted it a green. At first I thought it looked a little too dark in there, but I really like the color of green and it's really growing on me. Hopefully this month we can get some new tile down on the floor and I can get the countertop and trim painted. Then the bathroom will be complete. I'm really looking forward to that. It was pretty hideous looking when we started. I'll have to post some pictures when I finish.

We almost have our Microsoft Office dilema solved. I need to call our computer guy and see how much it would cost us if we bought it through him. I had my husband look through the university at any student discount prices that they might have. He looked last night and they sell it at a substantial discount. So if we can't get it cheaper with our computer guy we will buy it through the university. I'll be glad to have it. I use Word to type up my blogs and check for spelling mistakes. My husband was laughing about my reasoning for wanting Word again.

I have my last exam this week at work. It is a comprehensive exam covering everything we learned in class. I just mainly need to review everything. I'm not too concerned since I passed the other two exams with above a 94 on each of them. The downside is that apparently this exam is really long and tedious. I'll just be happy to have it behind me!

Well, I'm off to the dentist. Lucky me!!