new house!

We're moved into the new house! We moved in on Saturday after all. So we've been here for a few days and slowly but surely, things are coming together. I will say that if I were not pregnant, things would come together a lot faster. There's a lot of stuff I COULD do, since I am home all day, but cannot do because I am not allowed to lift anything vaguely heavy. So there's furniture and a TV and boxes of stuff that need to go places, but I can't move them, so they just sit there in the middle of the floor.

However, I have been pleasantly surprised at how many boxes turned out to be light. Today, our internet guy came (hence my being able to blog again), and while he was in the dining room setting everything up, I committed to staying busy the whole time. Several boxes of cooking items (like our three crock pots) turned out to be very light, so I was able to just move them to where they needed to be. Now I'm just sad I let them stay there for so long when they were so easy to move. Who know they would be so light?

Admission: I have never used a crock pot before. Even though we have 3 of them from our wedding, so if I wanted to I could be an Ultimate Crock Pot Master and make three times the amount of crock pot food.

I do plan to figure it out soon, though.

So, the house is getting there. Yesterday Nana and I went to Pier One and got fantastic darling dining room chairs (we got 4 of the first kind and 2 of the second kind and they look wonderful).

Ha, Baby Doozit (who remains nameless at this time) just knocked on my womb. You could watch it. It was like he was knocking on a door or something. So weird. He's been a busy beaver this morning, doing who even knows what. Practicing his ninja ways, I suppose.

It's been very weird to have people ask me when I'm due, and then have to say "THIS WEEK!!" Everywhere I go I wonder--will my water break while I am buying dining room furniture at Pier 1/eating lunch at this fine restaurant/making small talk with my neighbors/having the internet installed? I can envision a whole host of awkward times for that to happen.

BUT this is a blog entry about the house! The house is good. Soon it will be done and you'll all have to come over for a house party.

awesome day

Guys, today has been SO AWESOME.

I didn't really sleep last night, due to my hurt back. My whole spine all the way up to my head was affected, and then my sciatic nerve was also affected, so pretty much it just hurt from my neck on down to the heels of my feet. But the good news is my arms were fine.

Also, I am happy! So who even cares about not sleeping.

I went over to the house again today and did a few loads of laundry (including a few loads for Baby D--it takes SO many baby clothes to fill up a load of laundry! Whoa!), and tried to figure out a system for organizing all my books. Our zillions of bazillions of books.

I figured it out. One of these times I will post a picture of the bookshelves I organized today. They look FREAKING FANTASTIC.

I was inspired while I was putting away my vast Idiot's Guide collection. All that orange looked so nice, I went out and grabbed my 10 other random orange-spined books (like "The Art of Woo" and "Freakonomics," and stuck them next to it. Then there was a blue-spined book with a bright orange stripe across it, so I added that, and then piled blue books next to it, so the stripey book was like a transition.

The next shelf down was for my books on finance and economics. Turns out people who write about money like their books to be green. So I had a green section and a white section and a purple section (?) for my money shelf.

So then I had those fun colors on those shelves, so I went back into the front room and organized my other bookshelf the same way. The top row is for purples and burgundies that fade to blue; the next one is for blues fading into greens; then comes the beige row, the red row, and a black row. I found some pictures of me and Carl and our families that matched the colors and put them up, and now the bookshelf looks so aesthetically pleasing I can barely stand it. I just like to stand back at look at it.

Then my BFF from my old work called, and we caught up and she told me awesome stories, and then later my mom offered HER a job, and it was like all my dreams came true. And right now I'm watching So You Think You Can Dance. Is it possible for today to get better?

And then tomorrow I have my midwife appointment, and Friday is the chiropractor--I don't even care if I don't sleep again tonight, and I don't care that my body hurts. I am just one happy girl. Even in spite of my foul Bieber mullet. Life is so awesome I can barely stand it.

JUNE!!!

It's Baby Doozit's last month in utero! Whoohoo! With any luck, come July, he will be out!

Technically he could come as late as July 14, and that would be within the realm of normal, but at the same time, he could come next week and that would also be in the realm of normal.

My greatest hope is that no one bothers to call my cell phone or my house to ask if Baby D has come yet. If you have not seen a picture of him or an announcement on here or on Facebook, it's because he's not born. So don't waste time calling because I will probably be too tired and annoyed to talk to you (sorry!).

Anyway, so excited. Carl and I have finally gotten on track with our hypnobirthing practice. I have to give a shout-out to my aunt Angie, whose amazing tutelage in the art of self-hypnosis has been SO helpful in preparation for this birth. At first I was worried that five weeks of home study prep would not be enough, but I think that because of her help, everything will be fine. Last night I was able to suggest myself into a hypnotic state in probably under two minutes. Obviously I haven't done it yet during contractions (or "uterine surges," as my hypnobirthing book calls them), but it is heartening that so far the techniques come easily.

The house is coming along fantastically. Today I get to go over there and supervise some carpet installation. Last night the YW from church came over and weeded the yard and cleaned out the cupboards in the kitchen, so now the kitchen is almost ready to have stuff moved into it (the only thing left to scrub down is the freezer, which I've been putting off).

It looks like we could actually be all moved in this month. And have a baby this month.

New house, new baby--hooray!