Back in the Blogginghood: Part II

SECOND PART:

Things that HAVE changed:

* FLASH NEWS! Did I mention that I’m pregnant? WELL I AM!! I will be 4 months preggo next week… yay! I still don’t feel completely comfortable telling the world – no facebook/twitter/similars for sure! – I think it’s because it’s hard to believe right now when I’m not showing yet, I’m still in that ‘fat girl’ state where people see me as a little chubbier and not all of them know I’m pregnant. It sucks, because nothing fits me right, but I’m not ‘fat’ enough to wear maternity clothes. I’m stuck in between. Oh well, it will come soon enough I hope. And no, I still don’t know what I’m having – but YES, I will definitely find out. I don’t understand why people don’t want to find out, I still respect it but I don’t get it. I have some shopping to do and only 4 months after that! That’s so little time.

* I’m going to San Francisco next week! Wheee!!! Way excited about that, every time I leave town I get excited, even if it’s just to Salt Lake City (no, that was a lie, I do not like Salt Lake, ew). Correcting: I love every time I get out of town ON A PLANE. We’ll be there from the 9th thru the 14th and I’m hoping to do a lot of walking and a lot of photographing. Finally I’m going to start using my SLR camera!

* I have to renew my green card this year. And paperwork needs to be sent in two weeks. I’m excited about that too, because a year after that I could apply for citizenship and my mom will finally be able to come and visit me. Even more now with a grandkid on the way!

* I have more aches and pains. Not very often, but they exist. My back hurts, my uterus hurts (from growing and hanging – it cramps when I stand up too fast! It’s the ligaments holding the uterus, I guess it bounces/stretches faster if I stand up too fast… it’s kind of a funny feeling!).

* Days go by so slow if you look at it day by day but so fast if you look at it month by month! Soon enough, my little baby will be here… like for Thanksgiving, it will probably be born by then! (I hope so anyway, even though my due date is Nov 26, I hope it’s born before so I don’t miss Thanksgiving dinner! Yum!)

* I’m going to celebrate Mother’s/Father’s day next year! J did give me a little something for mother’s day and I’m planning on doing the same for him on that Sunday. I think we have begun on the parenthood thing already, I mean, I had to change my eating/drinking habits, my sleeping time, my sleeping positions, read a whole lot more and give up my beloved sushi and wine. And J, well, he has to put up with me and at the same time encourage me to be good. Plus we’ve been doing SO much reading… we have like 4 books about pregnancy (and counting) and he’s so good to me. He cooks healthy food for me and massages my back when it hurts. Maybe I should do another post about that, of all the things he does for me and why he’s already a good daddy. Oooooh! I’ll do it for Father’s day! Gosh, I’m so creative, I can’t get over myself.

* One of my very best friends is pregnant too! And she’s two weeks behind me… I think I’m having a girl and she thinks she’s having a boy. We have already decided they will be together, get married and have little kids. It’s going to be so perfect! She lives in California, so I hope we get together when our tummies start getting bigger and take some cute pics. It’s so exciting, we can talk about it all day and that way, we don’t make our other friends bored. It works perfectly!

I just realized pretty much everything on this list is pregnancy/baby-related. I hope I don’t become one of those moms-to-be that only talks about babies 24/7.  Please spank me if I do! Even if I’m pregnant I still have a life (or should have one anyways) So I should start thinking about other things to blog about. I know I have some topics but I can’t think of them right now, I’m in baby mode, geez.

I have tried to keep up with my favorite blogs, but if I miss something big, would you remind me? I think everybody is ok and with the normal ups and downs of life, right? I hope everyone is healthy, with a job, and happy.

Will be blogging again after my trip to San Fran! (hopefully sooner )

Happy Wednesday!

Catching up!

So my jeep broke down and is now at the shop. The transmission was bad and needed to be replaced / rebuilt and that’s 2400 freaking dollars coming right out of our vacation savings.

I guess what I’m saying is that we’re not going on a cruise trip anymore   I’m so fucking pissed! J -jokingly – said I jinxed it by telling you guys about it and of course, after I said it to whole the world (a.k.a. my 10 readers) it just won’t happen.

First thing we did was have our taxes done and see if we can afford a newer car. Well, we just got enough to have the jeep fixed and I know some of you are wondering why in hell didn’t I just get a new car! We thought about it but we know our jeep and it’s pretty reliable. If you get a ‘new’ car for $3000, you just don’t know what you’re getting into. It could be just fine or it could break in two months, you just won’t know. With the jeep, we think we could get a couple of years out of it, or we can sell it, or we can give it as a down payment  for a nicer car. Haha it just seems like I’m still trying to convince myself that we’re doing the right thing… can you tell? I was not keen of the idea of fixing it (I want a new car!) but J convinced me. Oh well, let’s hope it all works out.

(For the record, if it doesn’t it’s all J’s fault and he will be getting shit from me for a long looong time…)

On a different note… I got my new skis! They arrived on Monday and we put the bindings and everything else on (is there anything else besides the bindings that go on the ski?? IDK.) I haven’t used them yet – I’m really nervous because they’re longer than my other kiddie skis… I’m going to fall! And since the snow is not so great now I might wait for the weekend, I think we’re getting some snow on Friday, yay! I might also try snowboarding this weekend (any tips, Ria?)… really exciting!

I also realized my (not so) little Penny is celebrating her second birthday this month! I can’t believe she’s almost two years old, she still looks like a pup to me. Her real birthday (which I got from the place we adopted her from) is February 26, so for that celebration I’m going to post pictures of her since she was little until now. I know, I know – I already post way too many pictures of her, but what can I do, I such a proud mama

It feels good to be back girls! I still need to catch up on my comments and GReader, I’ve been reading a little from work but not a whole lot so I have A LOT to catch up on!

Again, it feels good to be back! I’ve missed you guys

Cruise time!

J and I finally decided we’re going on a cruise trip! I’m super excited. We will go the first week of March for our second anniversary (March 3). After all, we celebrated our first anniversary by buying our condo so the second one had to be on the same level

We will probably use our tax refund money to book it and that will be the first week of February (hopefully) Now, I’m going to need some suggestions from you guys: What cruise line should we use? We’re looking into a 7-day cruise on the Mexican Riviera and there’s a few cruise lines that go there.

Option 1: Carnival

Option 2: Princess line

Option 3: Royal Caribbean

Option 4: Norwegian lines

Which one should I book it with?

Which one should I NOT book it with?

We would like to go where there’s not going to be tons of kids around (not sharing pools), where food will be good, and where rooms are nice and at least medium size.

Any suggestions? Anybody wants to come with?

And it’s over!

yay!

OMG it really is over!

And after we all voted, majority has spoken.

And like Obama said – even if you didn’t vote for him – he’s still your president, and your voices are still heard.

God Bless America!

Psychic Part II

So I went.

OMG.

I think I should even spell it out because it was THAT good.

There’s something I’ve been wondering about and right as she laid out her cards she asked me if I was wondering about THAT. And I hadn’t told ANYBODY about it!

I believe there’s people out there who just bullshit you all the time, and I also believe that there’s people who are not phony. I’ve never talked to a psychic or anything before because I didn’t want to pay money so people can lie to me – I can get that for free – I wanted to make sure the first time I go, it would be to a recommended one. One of my friends at work recommended her a couple of weeks ago and I decided to give it a try.

I’m so glad I did!

She totally picked up on my stress and what’s been going on in my head. She said no to stress and that I stress WAY too much. She said that I’m frustrated at work because I’m not being used to my full potential and that I want to learn more. (totally right) She said I might have a big decision to make soon, job-related. She also mentioned there will be someone around me that would try to hurt me (not physically) and that she’s not a bad person, it’s just part of her journey and that there’s nothing I could do to avoid it and nothing I do wrong. It’s just something on her and that I shouldn’t blame myself for it.

She said J will get his promotion soon (yay! well, we’ll see) and as soon as he saw his cards he said that I was lucky to have found him in this life because we have been together before and we lived our happiest life in Ireland and that’s why J wants to go there so bad. She said we’re really good together and that we have a deep connection and a very reciprocal relationship, we both give and we both take, we both share our worries and fears. At this point I could feel a tear rolling down my cheek. It was so emotional because this person doesn’t know me and she knows how awesome my relationship is with J. And not that she said something new about it – I know how awesome he is and how awesome we’re together – it was really inspiring and fascinating to be reaffirmed on it. I felt so grateful.

She also said we will have two kids and that my first kid is going to make me wait until he/she decides to finally come and join us and that he/she has chosen me (ME!) to be his/her mom and it’s waiting around until he/she is ready. She said there’s a chance I have four kids and that we haven’t decided yet (that was when she was reading my palm) but if I ever decide to go for a third that it’s likely I get twins (I hope that’s not true!)

She also mentioned my fear of water. She said I had drowned on my previous life and died and that’s why it scares the shit out of me.

I’m sorry I have used a lot the phrase ’she said’ but if I stopped typing to think of a different way to say it, I might just forget about other details.

In general, she said I have good energy and that my hubby and I are a perfect match and that we’re surrounded by people we love and that love us back. We have no negative karma and we’re good people. I believe she helped me realize how much I stressed over nothing and how lucky I am to have everything I have and that I ignore because I’m stressing 24/7.

If you guys were here I would totally take you to talk to her and you will be convinced this is not bullshit. I believe in it and it feels like a big weight has been lifted from me.

I’m really really glad I went.

Psychic

I’m going to see a psychic tomorrow… I’m so excited! And I’ve heard she believes in past lives and can tell you something about it and/or help you deal with problems you have now and that you carried over from a past life.

I’m not going to go into it right now because I can’t even concentrate. I’m just soooo looking forward to it!

I got so many questions…