Monday, December 23, 2013

Photo of the Day: Snow (3.2.05)

So moving to California, I thought one thing I don't miss is snow. I was thinking back to living in PA. But I just came across some old pictures from college and there the snow was worse and more often. I definitely don't miss that.
This was March 2, 2005. I remember when I'd be home for spring break which was usually the second week of March, I would be running outside in s hots.

We were just digging out the car to move it to an area of the parking lot that was plowed so that this area could be plowed. Notice the sweater Dave was wearing. That was his only winter coat!

This snow wasn't the worst at all, it's just what I have pictures of. It's sad times to lose old pictures.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Christmas Decorations (12.7.13)

This year we bought a new Christmas tree. We gave our old one to my parents. It was really  nice but also really big. Last year we didn't have a tree or any Christmas decorations at all.

We put up the tree but I decided to quit decorating it because the more ornaments I put on it, the more I have to take off after just having a baby.  There are also a few Christmas decorations on the shelf behind the tree. I'm not sure where they should really go so I put them there. My grandma's snowman, a penguin, and 2 reindeer stuffed animals are there.
I have bells on the front door. Now I can hear when Dave leaves. I have another bell doorknob thing but no good doors to put it on.
I put a wreath on our front door.
I also put a fabric wreath on a wall. It's quite smashed from being packaged poorly for over a year. I didn't know where to hang it so I took down one of Dave's clock/thermometers. He's not happy about that.
Here's a tree from another angle. It's the angle that was in the pictures I posted the other day.
The tree looks better lit up. You can' tell it's missing half the ornaments. I probably put even less than half that we own.  I at least put all the homemade ornaments on there. I really enjoy all the ornaments I cross stitched back in 2006 and 2007. I wish I had made more.    You can see Poly wanted in my pictures.

How do you decorate?  We have outside lights we could have put up. We have candycanes that could line the front walk. We have garland that we used to use inside on our railing and garland we used outside on the porch. We have other random center pieces and such. There was more we could have done but this year is probably not a good year for it.  Any guesses when I'll actually get these decorations taken down and put away?

Saturday, December 21, 2013

39 Weeks (12.21)

This is a little odder update than it should be. There is no weekly photo. There is a baby but since this is for the week not just birth that will be a separate post. 

I spent more time making more onesies. It's fun. Well fun until you realize if you make something level based on where the arms end then it's crooked because the arms are crooked. I guess that's what I get for buying cheap onesies/t-shirts.

I had my doctor appointment on Wednesday. Dave couldn't go because he had to give training. When I scheduled it, I knew he couldn't go. The doctor was booked on Thursday and he was booked Wednesday. I forget about Friday but think Dave had a conflict for her opening too.  

I thought I noticed my first stretch mark this week but then looked later and couldn't find it. Granted I can't see the lower half of my belly so I might have stretch marks down there that I don't know about.

Last week Dave and I did some research on c-section surgeries and then I was curious what an incision might look like after. Dave found this vlog showing 1 week after surgery. It was interesting so I started looking at more of her videos. The one where she ends up with a c-section is rather interesting too. At one point the dad is face-timing and asks his mom if she wants to see the baby which of course she does so she shows the baby but the baby is breastfeeding at the time. I told Dave I'd kill him if he did that (to anyone). I guess this lady didn't care because it's also on her vlog, but I don't even lift up my shirt to show you my belly.

Size of baby: Mini Watermelon, 20 inches long from head to heel. My app on my phone says the baby weighs about 7.25 pounds.  The baby gains a half a lb a week. 

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Based on my last available weight 40.9 lb weight gain

Maternity Clothes:  Same as previous weeks: Mostly. Some t-shirts and hoodies aren't maternity. I also sleep in my yoga pants that aren't maternity. I actually barely get dressed and my pajamas aren't maternity.  Some maternity shirts are too short and expose my belly because the pants aren't full panel pants that I wear.

Movement: Same ol' same ol'. She moves around. I enjoy all the movement because then I know she's still alive in there.

Sleep:  My back has been less sore because Dave sleeps in a way to prop me up. Granted then he wakes up and says his back is sore from holding me up.  Sometimes he turns over and isn't holding me up in the same way so I move closer to lean on him over there. Then later I notice Poly has so much room on the bed. She seems to enjoy it but still cuddles up against me.

What I miss: I miss running. I miss hoagies from Jersey Mike's. I miss being able to turn over in bed without breathing heavy or without it being a big ordeal.

Symptoms: I'm pretty swollen. Also I'm really warm. Sometimes I sleep with no covers, pull my pants legs up to my knees and lift up my shirt to expose my belly. And I'm still too hot.


Looking forward to: Can the baby get here already? (kind of ironic)

Friday, December 20, 2013

More Onesies (DIY)

I'm addicted to making them. I wrote a post before about how I made onesies.

Created Dec 11-12 (except future nerd, rebel, and superman which were created earlier but were not in photos)

The photos are taken by size but sometimes 2 sizes are in one photo. I like knowing what size is what so when I have to pull out a new size in the future. I tend to group them together after washing them too.

Created Dec 15-17

some close-ups of some from above
how I created it
I have washed half of these so far and have a few more updates.

Some of the sharpie onesies bled all over the onesie but others did not. The ones that bled a lot were iBaby and #baby. The google one only bled for the yellow. The pocket tee, elephant, jail, and abcd were also done in sharpie and I don't remember them bleeding at all.   I did create the "My mom is a nerd" and did not wash it yet and now I'm worried it will get ruined. I tried to set it with the iron so maybe that will help.

I also did a few of these with iron-on transfers. It took me forever to break down and order the transfers and then my ink was dried up. I didn't even realize we had an inkjet printer. Then it took a few more days for the ink to arrive since I ordered it online. For the most part, iron-on transfers are really easy but if you peel off the backing too early you ruin the shirt. Make sure you pay attention to which side to print on. I read a lot of people saying they would print on the wrong side and ruin the iron. I only bought iron-on transfers that work on white shirts. They also sell them for light colored fabrics or dark fabrics but it was too hard to decide and they got more expensive.  I tended to print in black but only because that is what the fonts should have been. I only washed 1 iron-on shirt so far and it did crack a little bit with the ribbing but not much. The paint tends to crack a little too.

I actually have a few onesies started but not finished. For example I have a lightening bolt painted but have not painted on the words "Muggle Born" yet. I should probably at least finish ones I started but this is really hogging up my life.

Some of these I like more than others. Some I just like the idea of them better. I tend to realize I like ones that I created versus ones that I copied something a lot more. The Run Mom Run ones use my own silhouette and I also came up with the words. I saw one that had the words "Run like a girl" over a silhouette but I didn't like that.  "Nerd in training" using the Nintendo font and their idea of an oval. I created that but did see something else use the Nintendo oval and font so it wasn't 100% me. It just wasn't for a onesie like that. "My mom is a nerd" uses the google font or one very similar and the google colors. I came up with doing that on my own. I thought it was a little nerdy. Granted I did it on a white shirt thinking I could see through the onesie but once I started the M, I could not. So I pulled up the font on my computer and went from there.  I feel like you can see through until you start pushing in one area and then it doesn't work. Brenna didn't seem to have trouble so maybe I'm just blind or did it in poor lighting.  Dave helped pick out the points for the "Level 1 Human" onesie when Brenna was working on that.  Dave came up with the wording for "My dad has root at Google" but then after I made it he said the Google line is too close to the line above it. I used what he had when I made him work on a google doc to edit some stuff. Like he changed the font of the word "root" and he wanted the word Google in black not in their google colors. I would have preferred the google colors myself.  The shirt might be less boring with some color.
Ok I finished some of the designs I had so I made some more.  The to-do list is green but it's hard to tell in this picture. Nerd in training was made above but it was still wet so I forgot and included it  in my photo.  I really should count all the onesies I have. I should count per size and brand too.  The 3-6 month yellow onesies is the exact same size as the 6-9 month black and gray onesies. Disney is weird like that. Sometimes I think the 0-3 month ones are bigger than some of the 3-6 month ones.  The Gerber onesies are a lot narrower and longer than Disney. Leveret (light pink ones and some white ones) are very wide and not nearly as long.  I wonder which ones will end up being the style we like the best.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Nursery Reveal

I've been asked what our nursery looks like. And I always say it's not done. I doubt it will be done so I might as well post some information.
When you first walk in you see this big ugly chair and a crib behind it. That's an extra desk chair. We decided to leave it in there so 2 people can actually sit. Between the crib and the closet entry way, we'd like a small accent table. We just haven't found one we like.  The video camera is plugged in to an outlet there and a clock that is currently sitting on the floor is also plugged in there.

Above the crib we have wood letters with the baby's name. I figured I didn't want this post to be the reveal so I used photoshop to remove them.

Behind the door when you enter is a closet. There are some clothes in there but not many. There are a lot of diapers in there. Then there's scrapbooks and scrapbooking supplies that I guess should be moved at some point.  I don't have a picture of the closet since I cleaned half the junk out.
I do have this picture of Poly that shows the closet doors closed.  I closed them after I cleaned up in there.
Now if you want to see the entire back wall you can see that the glider and ottoman take up a lot of room. There is another closet back there. It's a huge closet. It's full of my clothes, our winter coats from PA, sewing stuff, craft stuff, a vacuum, a 42" TV in a box, some computer in a box, a huge container of cords and wires, and some other boxes.  Clearly we haven't touched in there.

Oh you see that ceiling fan and light. The light sort of works if you are super tall and can pull the string out horizontally (which means I can't do it but Dave can).  The landlord was going to come back to fix it after he fixed our sink but he got shingles so he's stayed away. The fan part is very dangerous. I can turn it on but it is not secure and wobbles like crazy. It is too dangerous to use as is. The landlord was going to fix that too  I think but with shingles he's not supposed to be around someone pregnant.  The light switch in the room doesn't work the ceiling fan/light anyway. They work another lamp.
Then we have the wall with the window. We need other curtains. I want black out curtains but we're lazy bums and never buy anything. We'll need a new rod with whatever we put up because this doesn't work so well as it is.

Those built in shelves were already there when we moved in.  We did paint them when we painted the room. Right behind the arm of the glider is a toy box. In the toy box I have a bunch of the bags and stuff that all the baby stuff came in. I also have a shoe box with paperwork. The rest is empty.
The right portion of the shelves has a bunch of stuff that I might move later.  The top shelf has Poly's afghan my mom made since she loves sleeping on it. I opened the window for her before I took these pictures so she's in the window versus on her blanket. Beside the blanket are all our books. I put 2 stuffed animals there as book ends. The bear on the right Dave actually bought for me when I had knee surgery back in 2009.

Then the shelf below it has the scale that we will pull out to use or put somewhere else. Too bad this baby scale doesn't automatically go to the internet like the scale I use. (Poly weighs 8 lbs 14 oz if you were curious.) Then there's a picture of Poly that will go on the wall but we haven't put it up yet.  Then the bin to the right of that has some stuffed animals and rattles in it.  The green bin to the right of that has our baby carrier, these other things that you can use to make a stroller or car seat fit a smaller kid. I forget what they are called. And then it has a blanket sort of on top.

The plastic drawer set has extra sheets in the top drawer and then nothing. Our diaper bag is currently leaning against it but that is also empty. The brown basket is actually a laundry basket. Then we have a garbage can and the diaper genie. Everything else in the corner is more for an older kid or we didn't unpack it yet.
 Then the wall that shares the entrance door. I hung up some onesies. The top row is 18 months and 12 months I think. I hung them up by size. They were all made at the shower.  The bottom row is 3-6 months. I decided to hang up some colorful ones so that's why there's the jump. There are many more I wanted to hang and put them over the closet door or something but Dave said no that it was too many. He said I can rotate out different onesies in these strings.

That lamp is just an old lamp we were going to throw away a couple times then ended up moving with it. We want to buy a new lamp but have not yet.  This is the lamp that the light switch works.  You can also see the changing table and diaper stuff on top of the dresser.
Here you can sort of see that we are missing an outlet cover. We bought some childproof kind that are fancy and then nothing stays in the outlet so we have to return those. So now everything is exposed. (Yes this was a picture of Poly that I'm using to show you other stuff. But that orange shoe box is now in the toy box.)

We have a bouncer, a swing, and a play mat that are currently in random rooms. We aren't sure where we'll want them.

The dresser has 8 drawers. I'd say 4 are organized. I'm not sure how I'm going to want things. I know when I moved into my dorm room each year, I'd organize my drawers then a few weeks later reorganize them to a way I'd like them better. I have a feeling this will happen. Currently the middle drawer on the left  is full of 0-3 month clothes.  The top left has 0-3 month clothes, newborn clothes, and socks. There's a little drawer of blankets and burp clothes. Plus more blankets and some bigger clothes in another drawer. Some much larger clothes and different random things are in the bottom 2 drawers.  Maybe sometime I'll open the drawers to take pictures but I have a feeling things will get moved around.
Oh the walls were some sort of off-white/yellow and Dave and his coworkers painted them back in September. It's supposed to be peach but in person it looks like light pink. At least light pink works so then we picked sheet colors and stuff that would go with light pink (well and peach).

We want to hang up more on the walls and haven't. It took us a few years to hang up artwork on our walls when we built our house in 2008. We aren't good at this game.


So there you have it. Things will probably change. I may or may not remember to update about it.  What do you think?
I wrote this up then went out to dinner and since we got to the plaza about 10 minutes early Dave decided to go into TJ Max to see if they had an accent table. He sent me pictures of 2. I told him I didn't like either. He bought one of them and here it is.  In the picture he sent me it looked brown not green.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Random Updates

A few years ago Dave bought me a watch. It was nice. Too nice. I criticized him for spending so much. Then just last week he mentioned the diamonds in my watch. I had no idea. I got my watch and sure enough there are diamonds. I've been wearing this watch daily for years.  I was trying to find and old post where I wrote about it but failed. Here's a picture I just took to show the watch. I only learned about this because of that song that talks about diamonds in your timepiece (Royals or something).

12/4  I went to a meetup at Google. The room was so hot that after 2.5 hours my hands were so swollen. My feet were also so swollen that my shoes hurt. I didn't appreciate it.

12/5  While getting dressed in the morning I couldn't find the one bra I thought of wearing. Hours later I notice it's been sitting on my computer desk. I remember taking it off about a week ago because I couldn't handle being a bra so many hours. Guess I never moved it.

OK this has been sitting in my draft folder. Guess I should post it.

Last night Dave said our gas/electric bill was $240 last month. It has been about $60 each month. I guess needing heat sure costs a lot.

Photo of the Day: 5.22.10

My family was visiting to watch the 5k run by our house. My brother was there to take pictures of the race for me. He didn't stop at the race and took many pictures of me while I was eating. He got a few while I was telling a story about talking on the phone. I wish I remembered what story but man is it funny.
Here's another "good" one.

I posted about May 22, 2010 before but only mentioned dinner with my family not all the fun pictures.  I also posted about the 5k that was that morning.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Maternity Clothes Length

I always thought I was short waisted but it seems with maternity clothes that are older, they are way too short. I've complained about them before to different people, on facebook, and probably on my blog. I decided to take a picture to show some lengths.

The white shirt and the turquoise shirt are 2 I have complained about in the past. I also have 2 other shirts that are shorter than that. The black and gray striped shirt is one that I have and really enjoy the length. It could be 2 inches shorter and still work. Granted it's a "tunic" but it's not quite long enough for me to be comfortable wearing leggings with it.

My belly is a lot bigger now but 2-3 months ago the white shirt was already too short.  I bought 5 shirts without seeing them from someone on facebook. They were only $2 or $3 but in the end ended up not being worth it because they were too short. I wore them to sleep in for awhile but didn't really like moving or turning over and having skin exposed.   Back in August when they were entirely too big around, they were almost long enough but looked silly because they were too loose.   Actually based on going through my pictures, I haven't even slept in these shirts since early August and I was barely showing then.  At that time half the clothes I was wearing weren't even maternity.

I know I've heard a lot of people over the years complain that maternity shirts are so long at first and then later they realize they need that length. I never even thought they were too long early on. Maybe only 1 shirt that I bought on clearance and bought it too big did I think it was too long for a bit. (Shirt on August 17 if you are curious.)

Did you have issues with shirts being too long or too short? Where was your favorite place to buy maternity clothes?

Monday, December 16, 2013

Photo of the Day - Parking (4.21.10)

Back in the day I had a car that I could park in a garage. Oh the good times! Anyway sometimes I pulled my car up a little too far. Here is an example of one of those days. I never actually ran into things but just got extremely close. Some days I'd park and walk around the front of the car but most days I walked around the back since I had bags to get out and such.

I miss that red car. I miss parking in a garage.
I did blog about April 21 when it happened but had no mention of this.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

12.12.13


I was trying to do some work on my computer but Poly was on me. She was comfortable and then got even more comfortable.  I walked over to Dave and put her down. I cannot believe she stayed. She eventually got comfortable there and then I could go about my business. It was hard to get a good picture when she was on me. She got even cuter but I didn't want to disturb her so I didn't try to move my arms to get a picture.



Saturday, December 14, 2013

38 Weeks (12.14)

On Sunday night we spent 2 hours trying to finish up the nursery. We aren't done. We still have things to hang up and the one shelf of crap to put away properly. I did move my non-maternity clothes out of the closet. I made room on the closet floor by taking out all the empty tote bags. I guess we'll put those in the garage. I have a lot of tote bags but don't like a lot of them. I use some for Stampin' Up stuff and others just sit around doing nothing.   We rehung some onesies. They look nicer than last week but there aren't as many up. Granted I didn't even display a picture last week of the 2nd row that was up on the wall. 

At my doctor appointment this week, I got asked if I have a lot of swelling since I gained 4 lbs since last week's appointment.  I got the results of my Step Group B test (negative).  I was asking some questions about the c-section and she said next week she'd print out instructions but then added she could print them this week. I asked her to do that. So now I have them. No eating 8 hours prior to the surgery and no water either. I'm going to be weak by the time I get to the hospital. I have a date/time picked but if anyone goes into labor earlier and thus has a c-section earlier, appointments may open up. I would rather earlier in the day even on a different day than a 5 PM surgery.  That late in the day leaves me to be super stressed all day and also fasting!

Brenna came over on Wednesday and we spent all day  making more onesies. Cutting out letters with an exacto knife take way way too long but then the finished product is nice.  She also came over on Friday but for a much shorter time period.

I'm way more mobile this week. Yet I didn't go for as many walks as I would have liked. I'm too busy trying to do little things that I want to get done prior to the baby's arrival.
Size of baby: Celery Bunch, 19.6 inches long from head to heel. My app on my phone says the baby weighs about 6.5-7 pounds.  The baby gains a half a lb a week. At the ultrasound this week, the weight is predicted at 6 lb 7 oz ± 15 oz. 

Total Weight Gain/Loss: 40.1 lb gain overall. I gained 2.1  in the past week. It is funny because I feel a lot more mobile this week than last week.  I'm so swollen right now it's crazy.  I was a little swollen at the end of last week but I'm not sure if I was on Saturday.  I had to loosen my laces again so I know I'm more swollen than I have been.  See collage at the bottom of the post for a closeup of the ankles.


Maternity Clothes:  Same as previous weeks: Mostly. Some t-shirts and hoodies aren't maternity. I also sleep in my yoga pants that aren't maternity. I actually barely get dressed and my pajamas aren't maternity.  Some maternity shirts are too short and expose my belly because the pants aren't full panel pants that I wear.

Movement: Same ol' same ol'. She moves around. Her head will bob around but I try to get video of it and she stops. So I stop recording and put down my phone and then she's moving my entire belly again. Her back is to the left going around.  I did manage to get a video. I might have gotten more. (Ignore the sound in the background. I was watching lecture.)

Sleep:  My dreams are so crazy anymore. I breathe heavy when I sleep that Dave even recorded it one morning.  I woke up early today because my back hurt so bad. I feel like my bed is at an angle. When I sleep on my left side, I feel like I need pillows or something under my butt/back  and I feel like I'm about to topple over backwards. 

What I miss: somewhat the same: Exercising and running. Being able to stand for a long period of time without having to interrupt what I'm doing to go sit. Going many many hours in a row without going to the bathroom. 

Symptoms: My back gets sore. I go to the bathroom a lot.  I am swollen. I had to loosen the laces on my sneakers. My skin is redder. It's almost like it is sunburned and if you touch the skin you get little white marks from where you touched. I read about hands and feet being redder but this is also on my belly and face. I didn't actually analyze other parts of me. My back was so sore last night that I just got up for the day at 7:30 am.

Best moment this week: making more onesies especially some related to running.

Looking forward to: Getting everything set up so we are READY but I doubt we will actually be ready because the more I do the more other stuff I think of to do. 
Exercise:  I went for 1 walk. I did some shopping. I cleaned. I basically feel like I didn't do any exercise though.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Shopping (12.3.13 and 12.7.13)

I did a little shopping at Target.  I texted Dave asking if I should buy the red maternity dress for $4.24. At first I was just trying it on for the price but then thought about his Christmas party and how it'd be nice to wear something besides the only other maternity dress I own. Dave said I looked ginormous.
I bought 2 dresses and a shirt on December 3. Then I went to a different Target and bought boots in a bigger size on December 7.  The red dress was 4.24.  It was on clearance.  The other dress was 6.04. I couldn't try it on since it is not maternity but I really liked it so figured I'd hope for the best. It might be too small. It's hard to remember what size I used to be.  I bought a tank top that is a nursing tank because it was on clearance for 5.08. The picture I took of it was blurry but it's not really anything to write home about.  I think the clearance deals were quite nice.
Everything I bought on 12/3 was on clearance. The boots were full price. They are better than my current boots but still aren't 100% what I wanted. They were $39.99 and I got a size 10. In the photos above I was trying on a size 9 and they were slightly tight.  Too bad the 10 is slightly bigger in the calves and ankles. Yay I finally have some black boots that won't kill the ball of my foot.  I was looking at some booties but the largest size was 8 or 9 in all of them and then when I went to the other Target I was with Dave and he was impatient so I didn't mess around looking.

The boots probably won't last that long but $40 isn't that bad of a price. But the rest of my deals are so awesome, I'm excited. I hope the non-maternity dress fits.

Have you gotten any good deals lately? Where were they from?

Thursday, December 12, 2013

12.5

I started the day off with a doctor appointment. Now I go weekly. I already wrote about that in my weekly post.
I ate lunch at google. Not only did we eat at a place that was more than a 10 minute walk away from Dave's building, the lunch wasn't good.  I did eat the hot dogs after scraping all that junk off of them.  The salad was OK but I needed more food so I snacked as soon as I got home.
Poly finally is not scared of the bean bag chair. Granted it doesn't go there so now she'll probably miss it it when I move it.
A few weeks ago we moved Poly's bed to the mud room and she actually uses it now. I tried 4 other locations in this house and she never used it in any of those locations. I'm glad I found a spot. Dave put that bookshelf there recently. I don't know why. There is nothing on it and I don't know what we'll put on it. And now with the bed in that corner and the bookshelf where it is, the door to the outside is even less likely to be used.
Poly still likes to hang out on me. I'm going to miss it when I'm no longer pregnant but my back won't miss it.  My arm gets sore now because I make an effort to hold her up so she's not sitting on this baby.
We met Fabian* for a late dinner. Dave almost ate all the tortilla chips before Fabian arrived. Luckily a waiter walking by offered to refill the bowl since we were still waiting for someone. Fabian bought us some desserts from Mexico. Dave and I were eating them on the way home. We would have eaten more but I wasted too much time trying to get one of the packages open. (*There should be an accent on the second a but I can't quickly figure out how to do it in blogger. sorry)

I spent a lot of time on my computer doing things on my to-do list. Going through old pictures for fun. Mainly wasting time though.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Photo Booth (10.9.13)

A few months ago I was at google and we walked by the photobooth. I love photobooths but Dave apparently forgot. He wasn't even going to stop.  We took some photos but he hated it because the camera is too low. I took 2 sets and emailed them to myself. My downfall was using my junk email address because it is much shorter to type. Then I never looked at the emails in there until now to find them. I have skimmed the email but never went back far enough to find these.
I'm impressed with the clarity of the pictures. Also I didn't know what to do so in both I took drinks of my water. I hope I get to take more pictures at this or other google photo booths in the future.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Pregnancy Collages: November

I posted JulyAugust, September, and October. (Well and prior to July)

I'm always shocked how pregnant I look each day compared to before but all these look so similar. Comparing 1 day to the next looks too similar. Depending on the outfit or the day sometimes I look bigger or smaller.  
Just like I did in September, I went back and made a collage of the first of the month. That difference is shocking to me. It's easier to tell than daily collages. I kind of miss how cute I looked in that skirt on September 1.  I'm not stretching out non-maternity skirts anymore since my hips are expanding. I don't want to not be able to wear them after I give birth. This all means that I'm stuck wearing the jeans I hate, leggings, I sort or hate, or athletic pants.

The bigger I get the more I think about how collages will be fun to compare in the next year to see if and when I get back to looking like I used to. 

The weight graph on my nav bar is updated as of a week or so ago so you can just check that out since I'm too lazy to go through to find weights to add to the list like I had been doing.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Photo of the Day - April 3, 2010

While digging through some old photos trying to find one, I came across this little gem.  Dave's quote after he took it was "Polytechnician."  For those unfamiliar that's what we called people at RPI well mainly the nerdiest at RPI. Too bad I don't know what I was thinking about at the time.