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Project 365 – Day One! For those who aren’t familiar with Project 365, check out this URL and jump in!
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Day 1 – June 30th, 2008
Got my new camera today, and went out with the family for dinner…I chose a picture from dinner for today because this was more than likely our last dinner out as a family of three. Crazy.
So the ultrasound went well I guess. I was going to scan the photos but I couldn’t make heads or tails of them so I doubt anyone else will be able to either! They wouldn’t tell me whether he was big or not, I have to wait until Wednesday at my next appointment.
The good news is my paranoia about a misdiagnosed gender prediction were put to rest, we were treated to a head-on view of Baby A’s meat and potatoes…so uh...he’s still a boy!
With my mom’s baby shower for us this weekend I’m trying to sit cross legged until Sunday. It’d be a real shame to not be at my own baby shower! Fortunately if he DOES decide to crash the party this weekend, we’ve already had a baby shower with Daddy’s side of the family so we’re prepared!
I haven’t packed my hospital bag yet. That seems so…final. I don’t know why I’m putting it off but I am.
We’ve had some lovely weather around here this week. Thank fuck I have air conditioning because I would be miserable right now otherwise. The air outside is best compared to the air swirling about inside a dog’s mouth. However it’s not all bad, we had some great thunder and lighting the other day!
So with all this waiting and lousy weather, I’ve just been camping out in my fabulous new bedroom, watching UFC unleashed episodes from the DVR and working on my Central Park Hoodie-which I am actually making some progress on! Look at this…it’s not just a sleeve…it’s the SECOND sleeve. (oooooh)
I’m hoping to finish the sleeve by tonight, then it’s just the hood and button band!! Woohoo! Can I tell you just how much I am dreading the button band? Picking up 300+ stitches? Shoot me in the face. But it must get done!! Why?
Besides the fact that I started this hoodie back in July of 2007 (making this a ONE YEAR knit), I’m clearing out the WIPs for the Knitting Olympic Trials going on on Ravelry. I’ll be knitting for Team MINE (for the Selfish Knitters) and Team LSG (for Lazy, Stupid and Godless). Yeah that’s right…I’m playing for two teams. I am an Olympic whore.
My olympic goals are especially ridiculous considering I will have a newborn and be deliriously exhausted, but I’m thinking that not only will that make an Olympic win more satisfying, it will probably give me something to focus on and keep me sane. Can you sleep-knit? I will find out!
Thank you to everyone who commented on the bedroom re-do!! I often feel like a total decorating failure, so all your awesome comments (and the ones on Flickr) really made my day. I also made sure to tell Zoe how awesome everyone thinks she is for her good grades and dancing accolades. You guys rock!
Well, I better get back to this sleeve. If I don’t get this bad boy done quick, I fear it may never get done! I’ll leave you with an image that never fails to make me smile…my child reading. Not because I told her to, because she likes to:
I’ll bet some of you thought “hmmm, no blogging…Pam must have had that baby!”. Nope. Wrong.
I’m due in 3 weeks, which makes me 37 weeks…the magic number for expectant moms. 37 weeks is considered full term, which means Baby A could show up any day now and have no complications. I’m taking a much-need sigh of relief for this, but now the “holy shit, labor hurt” anxiety is setting in.
So what have I been doing to pass time during the waiting game? NESTING! And not just nesting, crazy nesting. I have purged the contents of all my bathroom cabinets. I threw out every hair cream, bath bead, bubble bath, old cold medicines, junky body wash, unwanted make up, stretched out hair elastic…you get the idea.
Then I did the same thing in Zoe’s room. Her room is still a work in progress however. Her closet needs cleaning out and her clothes need another round of goodwill sorting. More on this later.
However, most of the work has been in my bedroom. When I moved into this apartment, I set my sights on the living room. Jon and I spent some quality time at IKEA buying a new desk, coffee table, couch, file cabinet and TV stand. I posted some pictures of it before I believe. While we did all of this, our bedroom went woefully neglected. I hated being in it…perhaps you can see why:
Our old hand-me-down dressers SUCKED. They were ugly, old, and didn’t have near enough room for our clothes (hence the laundry you see strewn about). The built-in hutch was a clutter catcher and an eye sore. Our bedding was beat up and too busy (the red and white quilt cover is new, the actual quilt looked like that beat up dust ruffle). Our bedside tables (more hand me down mismatched furniture) we covered in clutter. The whole room was cramped, I stubbed toes, banged elbows and tripped over cords constantly. It was a room of misery.
I took the quilt cover, IKEA of course, and my “thing” for trees and starting dog-earing pages in my IKEA catalog. When we finally saved up the cash, we went to IKEA and came home with tons of stuff.
We cleared out the room, shampoo’d the carpet, and Zoe even kicked in and spared me the base-board washing.
And in the end, we came out with this:
I LOVE my new room. We still need a real bedframe and some matching bedside tables, but it’s organized and modern and I just love it. That skinnier dresser on the end is a jewelry/lingerie dresser with a pop-up mirror and I love it so much I can barely stand it. Baby A’s clothes are in the red bins in my hutch for now and there’s plenty of room to move around and room for A’s bassinet!
And the best feeling is that Jon loves it too. I designed the whole room and while it’s not going to make any interior design magazines, I think it’s pretty sweet for a beat up apartment occupied by a couple of broke ass 20 somethings.
We are doing the same total re-do in Zoe’s room, cleaning out my FORMER craft room (sigh) for Baby A, and Jon even cleaned out the kitchen cabinets yesterday. Stay tuned for more before and afters since I’m giddy about decor.
As for KNITTING, as this is a knitting blog right? I lost it for a few weeks due to fatigue and stressing over prepping for the baby, but for the last couple of nights I’ve been knitting away on my Central Park Hoodie. I’m just about done with a sleeve, one more sleeve, a hood and a button band to go! I WILL finish this damn sweater this summer. It’s been a UFO for way, way, way too long.
I’m planning to do the Olympic Trials going on over on Ravelry. We’ll see how that goes. I’ll be representing Team LSG and Team MINE. What am I knitting? No idea.
The Slow Bee Mystery Shawl was misleading! It wasn’t slow. Not slow enough for this bee anyway! I’m still on Clue One. How sad is that. I think the KAL is on Clue Seven. I fail at mystery lace I guess. To be fair, I did have to frog the whole thing and start over…
I have not knit either of A’s sweaters. Again with the fail.
Other news on the homefront is all about Zoe. She officially passed the 3rd grade, and made Honor Roll again! Unfortunately this shitty city is closing down her school and moving her AGAIN. Poor kid. Hopefully her friends will end up at the new school, too.
Zoe also just snagged herself a FIVE YEAR trophy at her Dance Academy. I’m very proud of her, five years is a long commitment for a scatterbrain like her. She was GREAT at her recital this year.
Good job, kiddo!
Now it’s time to get off my butt and do some things around here. I’ve got an ultrasound tomorrow because they think A is “big” (great.) so I’ll post those pics up tomorrow! I’ve got a couple meme’s to do too, so I will get to them as well!
