Weaker

I am gearing up for my Ugly Betty premiere tonight. I have been so busy at work today I haven't had anytime to sit down and really relax so now my ankles are all swollen and I have almost no energy. We are quickly approaching my hell week here at work. All of my meetings happen to fall in the same week which is great in the sense that I am going to be all done after that but bad because I know I am going to be exausted. Like I said I am moving offices and that will prob. be around the 14th or 15th. I will be happy to have some extra space and I really want to have an office partner again its so sad being in here all by myself during the day. I know that moving this stuff is going to quite a feet.
Last night, I kept seeing this crazy flash of light that like blinded everything so I went into the kitchen and filled a towel with warm water and put it on my face. The light stopped after an hour but I had a horrible migrane after that. To top it all off we ended up getting a pizza since I wasn't feeling up to cooking and we ended up eating late which made me really really sick last night. I think I just need to get more rest and stop pushing myself so much. We watched Project Runway last night and it was a pretty neat challenge so I was happy with the episode. Other than that no news is good news!

Can't Stop 'til You Get Enough

I just saw what could be the coolest thing in the universe...a cabbage patch Jessica Simpson doll. Oh yes, my life has now reached its complete stage. There are some really cute ones like a cabbage patch George Bush which looks a lot like him actually.
Things are pretty slow here today most people are out of the office for one reason or another and

I am stuck in my lonely little office. Yesterday one of the other girls announced she too will be leaving which now puts Sonya and I at the #2 spot for Seniority. Sweeeet. Plus I am going to move into her old office spot after she moves which means I will have a lot of privacy and I will get to have Tanya as an office partner. I am pretty excited!

Tonight is Project Runway and tomorrow is Ugly Betty so I am getting all geared up for my stories!

Happy Fall!!!

High Maintainence

So I have this whole new theory on how clean people are able to be busy but still maintain a clean house: everyday chores. I know everyone prob. knows all about how you have to do some chores everyday but to me this is like colassal information. Here comes my new experiment, since Stan already has maintainence chores that he always does I have decided to get on board and start doing certain things everyday to make sure that our house doesn't fall back into complete disarray (or at least until after the baby is here). It isn't much to do (since we all know if it was I wouldn't keep doing it) but I am trying to get myself into a rhythm. This way I can hopefully preserve some of our weekends for fun and sleep and whatever else we can't have during the week.

In My Own Little Corner...

This weekend was crazy trying to do things to get ready for the baby but I am feeling much better now that everything is really moving along. Its really weird to think that in only a few months I will be a mommy. Its crazy how fast things in your life can change.

My office is about to get really lonely since Sonya is moving out today. For the projects she is assigned to she needs more space so I will be in here alone for a little while. I am thinking about moving over to her area so I will have more space since I am in a little corner over here--cozy but cramped. Everything is going really well at work. This week I am going to meet with my supervisor to get everything straight for my maternity leave, and I have been frantically working to put all the elements of my meeting together (since it is just two weeks away) . I know though that after the week of the 6th my work gets really cut down basically to nothing! I have no more meetings or anything so I will just have to make it through scores and summary statements and I will be juuust fine. I think it will be nice to have no assignments until I am out on leave so I can get my mind in gear for what is about to happen. I have roughly 10 weeks left of work and that doesn't include all the holidays that are in between. I wonder if I will miss everything here while I am out with the baby or if I will be so engrossed with that that everything just flys by.

My Weekend Recap: Like I said before I spent a lot of time getting ready for the baby. Ihad tons of laundry to do in order to clear out the nursery and get us back on a good schedule so I spent all of Saturday doing that while Stan ran around getting baby stuff. Then on Saturday night we had dinner with Stan's parents, John, Maggie, and Baby William. Poor William got hurt on a slide at this really neat petting zoo near our place and ended up spraining his ankle. He is doing ok but I think he is going to let it heal before he does more walking on it. He was a real trooper though and we got to see a neat X-ray of his little leg.
On Sunday Stan and his mom painted the nursery while I put the bassinet that I got from Beth back together again. John and Maggie stopped by to say hello and show us William's very first haircut. He looks very cute all trimmed up. Then I went shopping to get Mer something nice for the new baby (who will be here right around the corner). Of course I looked at all this cute on sale baby stuff and couldn't resist so I bought a little for myself too.

Laughed Until I Pee'd

Sonya, Tonya, and I got special permission from Margot to go to the Cheesecake Factory and celebrate our new awards. We had a feast! We each ordered an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert. So Tanya and I decided that it would be cool if we could say it was her birthday and get a free dessert so I told the waiter we are treating her to her birthday lunch and she acted like she didn't want me to tell him it was her birthday. Somewhere between he got confused and brought out a sundae with a candle in it and started singing to Sonya. Poor Sonya had been in the bathroom when Tanya and I thought up this whole plan and the look on her face was priceless. We tried so hard to sing to play the whole thing off but we were laughing way too hard. I started bursting into tears because it was way too funny and then peed a little (ahh Beth gets her Karma from when I made her pee long ago) anyway so I was sitting there cracking up and crying when Tanya blew out the candle. It was awesome!!!!

I Got The Chair!

Ever since I have been working here I have had the worst chair ever with like no back support but I got a new chair with a head rest and it has posture support and is high backed. Life is good!!! I am so into the new headrest. Let us celebrate with some Taco Bell!!!!

Award Winning

I got an award!!! I am so excited and happy right now. Plus I am all in sugar overload! Yeah an award and its called and OSCAR!!!

Pharos Lighthouse

I am in such a great mood now!! I have been assured that everything is alright with the baby, I got a lot of rest last night and this morning, and I am getting a lot of my baby stuff completed. I already wrote in my pregnancy blog about the strides we are making with the baby stuff so I won't repeat too much of that now...except I found a super cool lamp. I haven't ordered it yet but once I do I will post a pic on the other blog so everyone can see. I just love it and it will make the perfect addition to our "Dreamland". Today we are going to find curtain fabric and run some small chores before Stan goes into finish some work at GVA. We still have a lot of home chores but we vowed that we would take it easy this weekend since we were so crazy last weekend. Another huge shocker is next week I will offically be in my third trimester! It is so crazy that everything is going so fast and now things seem to be coming together. I just can't wait until everything really starts showing.

Hard Hat Area

Yesterday and Today have been nuts at work. I think it might be that childhood need to volunteer for everything all the time. I am training people now and I am overloaded with assignments so I decided to temporarily resign from my committees. I know this may reflect poorly on me but at this point I have to think about what I have energy for and the quality I want to put out there. I want to make sure that I still give everything I do high priority so I can't have things distracting me plus I was noticing myself canceling out on committee committments which just made me look flaky. Anyway I will miss those extra things but I only put them on hold not quit.
Despite all the work I am still happy with what I am doing and I am enjoying my work. I am loving the people I work with and that always makes it sweeter.

Happy Birthday Mister Bear!

To celebrate Stan and John's birthday we all met at Nichi Bai Chai (totally not how you spell that) for dinner. Everyone say cheese! Stan's momma brought a cake and we all sang "Happy Birthday"

"Good Pipes"
This is our nephew, William, with his Grandpa John. Hugs William!
Grandma Betty and Baby William check out the koi pond in the resterant. William really liked watching the fish swimming around and I think the fish liked watching William watching them.

Under Pressure

God I love that song. Anyway today I am having full blown stress like I have never had before. I know it is mainly my reaction to the things that are going on around me that is shaping the stress but still I am in good need of a brownie about now. I got myself all cooked up on my ride to work about everything that we still need to do to get ready for the baby. Then when I get here I happen to overhear my Task Leader gossiping about people in the office in an incredibly unprofessional way and it got me fuming mad. So then it occurs to me that I haven't see my shipping e mail from the wallpaper place. I called to see what was going on and surprise the item is on back order--I recieved no notification about this at all. I canceled the order and actually went with the least expensive place (for the same product) and they are full in stock and will ship it within the hour. Now that was service and she said the wallpaper will be here by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. I am just anxious to get everything on the way. I keep feeling so behind. Well at least I e mailed my supervisor to meet about maternity leave and I have a nice halfday today on account of a nice hotel visit.

Just Like Leatha

Last night we sad goodbye to Stella and to be honest I am so happy she is gone. I was impressed she made it that far. Her style really didn't seem to match what Project Runway was looking for. I did have hopes for her early on to start a neat sophistaticated biker revolution. It would be cool to see the "Harley" style revolutionized but I guess Stella was not the one--or at least not the one to do it on TV. Perhaps her and Ratbones line will prove to be even more inspired since her PR5 experience.
To be honest the challenge that off'd Stella really wasn't befitting to her asthetic. I mean glamour girl, 1940(s), spy not really something that lends itself to the modern biker chic style. Although I was shocked that Miss Pin-Up herself, Kenley, didn't create something uber fabulous for this challenge. Her dress was nice but c'mon could you have a ball more in your court? I have to admit though I loved the piece that won. It was so old Hollywood glamour, and I love old Hollywood glamour!! The dress had such a nice fit and came with a great surprise in the back. I am very impressed with Lee-Ann's style so far once she got that editing eye she was all set. I am still unsure as to who I would bet on with the final three but I am def. going to stay tuned!!!


* Just as a little happy moment for me. I was so glad to see Chris March dressed as a Drag Queen a couple of episodes back. He has such a cute laugh and you can just tell he is lovin life and who he is. Way to go Chris March!

My Bambbles

So our living room is a total disaster again, and on top of that there is crap everywhere. Stan and I are in the middle of the nursery transistion. We bought baby hangers the other day so I hung all of his new clothes up in the closet (I know I am just going to have to take them down and wash them in a nice gentle detergent but I felt so accomplished). Stan and I are looking at what space we have (or lack thereof) and trying to figure out just how we are going to store everything we need to store. I am going to go through all of our blankets tonight and make a stack of the ones that we can give away. Since winter is just around the corner I think it should be the perfect thing to scale back on. I am planning on Goodwill but Angie let me know if Reed and Anita may want to take them back to the res. or something. I have a plan on how to get everything organized but unfortunatly my plan revolves heavily on Stan doing most of the work. We are working on our house but all of the stages of chaos have made me go a little crazy and on top of everything my brain goes into a "nesting" mode and I just go nuts over everything being everywhere. I know it is all a process and that we have such a limited amount of time since all of our weekends are always booked and by the time we get home from work it is too late to really get into anything. I am going to rely on the fact that it will get done and keep reminding myself that Saturday and whatever I have left of Friday will be my days to get a lot of things in order. Its just frustrating and tiring and there is a huge part of me that just wants to take the day buy the organizer and get started. Given that nothing I ever put together stays together I am going to opt not to do that...whew laziness saves me again (well until I get home and have to see our chaos.)
My Grandfather is going to be staying at our house on Sunday which is def. fueling my need to get everything done now. I am excited to see him though since I haven't seen him since Father's Day and I won't get to see him for a while (he is flying on really early Monday morning to Colorado to stay for like a month).