Saturday, October 31, 2009

Giants Game Videos

Here are some videos, if you are really that bored, that Seth shot at the Giants game.


Looking around the stadium when we first got there (I'm a HUGE dork)




Entrance Video for the Giants-I love their song!



Kick off!



This is the last drive we saw, you can hear the fans getting angry at Eli

Some NYC Pictures


It's a cold night in Giants Stadium!

The best picture we could get of both of us

Seth at Giants Stadium

Mom's birthday surprise dinner

Mom and Dad at Rockefeller Center

A Chihuly piece for sale in Times Square

My other hat from the game

Me at Giants Stadium

Seth in front of Giants Stadium

Wringing ourselves out at a Scottish Bar

Seth and I in the pouring rain at Rockefeller Center

Thursday, October 29, 2009

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Happy Muthertrucking Thursday all.

Mornings blow
Pregnancy insomnia is about to take me out at the knees. I’m not sure how many more days I can survive on little to no sleep. So I’m doing that thing this morning where I tell myself to just make it until noon and then I can go home. Then when noon comes I tell myself one more hour, I’m not sure if I’m going to fall for that today. Especially since Seth is at home sleeping because he was at work/class until 10 and then he came home and worked until midnight before he came to bed. His bosses are telling him after this project is over he and I need to take a week vacation. I think they feel bad for ruining our last vacation by making him work. I told him to tell them they have to pay my salary too for that to work, but secretly I hope he agrees to it because we both could use a week in a love cocoon. What I mean is, I don’t want to go anywhere, I just want to bum around the house and stay in bed and watch movies and work on the baby’s room. That would be divine.
But anyway, driving in was hard this morning, and on the radio (my XM finally ran out-SOB) all they talked about was how bad the snow is going to be this winter and how the city is trying a new plowing plan and all I could think was, I don’t want to make this drive in the snow, it’s bad enough in the dark with all the deer. I literally spend all of the 15 minutes I have in “farmland” highway driving with my butt clenched because I’m terrified of hitting a deer.
I’m kind of crabby this morning, I just want to give up and go back to bed, wake me when this week is over.

Cold November rain
Dude seriously this song came on the radio this morning and it started down pouring right at the Slash guitar solo. I almost turned around and went home, because I’m pretty sure that’s the signal that the world is ending. For sure.

TV
Last night I watched Law and Order SVU which was really good, they even brought back a character and storyline and they usually don’t do that. In between I watched that movie “Milk” on HBO, I didn’t watch much, but now I’m thinking I should, it seemed like an okay movie. Although Sean Penn bugs me. I’m not sure why. Ever since this movie I saw with him and Kevin Bacon where they are trying to find out who killed this girl in a Boston town, he’s always bugged me.

My poor, poor DVR
Seth has conceded that he won’t have the time to watch everything on our DVR, so I’m going to start watching our backlog of Top Chef without him. I’m already watching SYTYCD without him which makes me sad because this season is shaping up to be amazing. Occasionally I’ll call him downstairs to watch certain routines. So hopefully I’ll catch up on Top Chef tonite while I wait for the new Grey’s. And when we have dinner we will watch an hour show so that might get a couple hours off the DVR for sure. Of course, tomorrow I put back on like 4 with everything that comes on Friday’s.

Weekend
I can’t tell you what we are doing this weekend because everything is up in the air with my Grandpa. We are going to try (if Seth can get off work at a decent time) and get over to Target to pick up my prescription and to get some candy for the kids for Halloween. We were supposed to do something with Cheeto and Whitney but that might have to wait until we are better people to be around. At the moment Seth is working himself to death and I’m worrying about my Grandpa and all the stuff that needs to be done around the house. But who knows, we might actually get it together and give them a call tomorrow to see if they want to stop by and watch a movie.

Dear Amazon Gold Box,
Get it together, lately you’ve blown chunks. It’s getting annoying.
Thanks,
Carrie

Bah!
I totally have crap busy work to catch up on today and I’m not looking forward to it. I’m totally avoiding it right now by catching up on all the blog update action I missed on vacation. It’s not making my will to stay here all day any stronger either.
Alright I’d better look like I’m making progress on my stacks of busy work. Talk to you tomorrow!

Love (cold November rain),
Carrie

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Phew….what a long couple of days it has been. It doesn’t even really feel like we went on vacation! Here’s the catch-up…

Thursday
Thursday night I came home and started washing clothes and packing like a mad person. Seth was supposed to get off work at 3 but we all know that didn’t happen, he didn’t make it home until almost 5. We had to swing by Walmart and pick up something, so we caught dinner on our way home too. Seth came home and told me that it was suggested that he not go on vacation because of the impending deadline at work and when he said that wasn’t an option it was strongly suggested he take his laptop with him and work on vacation. Great. On top of that, earlier in the week he got overwhelmed by his masters class that he thought was going to be cake and talked of quitting the masters program. He has thankfully talked himself back into it. Anyway of course, when we get there, Seth’s brother Chet, who is watching our house and kidtens while we are gone is there having a meltdown about homework of some sort. So instead of packing and getting to bed early and watching stuff on the DVR, Seth worked and tutored Chet, I packed and basically moped about plans going array.

Friday
OH IT WAS SO EARLY, I started to curse whoever booked this stupid flight and then I remembered it was me. At THREE THIRTY! we woke up and loaded up the truck and tried to make it to the airport by 4. We were of course late and practically had to run to our flight. When we got there they had already boarded (even though the worlds slowest agent told us we had time) and we sat down at the gate and waited for the call to start boarding. All of the sudden they are like, final boarding call for Milwaukee and we were like SHIT! So we hustled onto the plane and had to endure the stink eye from everyone. Seth made me wear a mask on the planes because I haven’t gotten my H1N1 shot yet and I was REALLY embarrassed. I basically slept thru the first flight, even missing the beverage cart which I NEVER do. We got to Milwaukee and made a clean transfer there. We arrived in Newark at about 11 and waited for Natalia to pick us up.
We went to lunch in New Brunswick at a really cute little restaurant I wish I could remember the name of. When we got to Natalia’s I was WIPED. I ended up taking a big long fantastic nap while Seth worked. We went into New Brunswick and went to “The Stress Factory” where we took in a comedy show for headliner Joe DeRosa who was recording his Comedy Central Special-so it was REALLY HILARIOUS. A buffet was included in our ticket price and it went to benefit the United Way, so that was really neat. Seth really loved seeing comedy live.
When we got home Mom was there and I was still a little hungry so Natalia made me a cheese platter and we talked to Mom (I hadn’t seen her in a week or so) and watched Wanda Sykes comedy special on HBO which was hilarious. I crapped out about 1.

Saturday
Saturday my parents and Natalia and Steve went golfing and left Seth and I to sleep in (bless them). Seth and I woke up and decided to get real New York style pizza for lunch, we were directed to this little hole in the wall deli and it was FANTASTIC. I had a salad and made to order pizza. The salad was HUGE and had roasted red peppers. The pizza had ricotta cheese on it and I may never eat pizza without ricotta again. YUM. I’m getting all hungry and drooly about it.
After the world’s best lunch we went back to the house to wait for the adults to come back from golfing so we could head into the city. I took a nap and Seth watched football in the loft and worked. Everyone came back but needed a little time to shower and rest. We left for NYC at about 5. At this point it was a torrential downpour and it never let up all night. We parked and walked to Rockefeller Center and to Times Square. We stopped in a little Scottish pub for drinks and to wring ourselves out. Then we headed to the restaurant and had some of the best food I’ve had EVER. I had artichoke gnocchi and I can’t even tell you how amazing it was. Everyone loved their food. We enjoyed each other’s company and then headed home late, full and sleepy.

Sunday
Sunday was game day! Seth and I of course left too early and then got lost (in the ghetto!) going to the mall we were trying to find (and almost hit a deer!) and ended up 5 hours early for the game. I napped in the car and Seth walked around and tried to figure out what gate we were supposed to go into and he took in the whole world of tailgating at Giants stadium. They opened the gates at 6 and we filed in and watched warm up-which to me was the best part. The game started at about 8:20 and it was a packed out. Seth and I had a lot of fun, even though it was cold and I had to buy a 20 dollar hat in the gift store! We took lots of pictures and decided to go home in the third when the Giants were losing pretty bad. We had a lot of fun though. We got back about 1 and knew we still had to pack things up because we were leaving Natalia’s at 7 in the morning.

Monday
7 came way too early. Of course, it was even too early for the ticket counter and we had to wait for them to open, and then wait for them to check our bags, and wait for them to see if there was a earlier flight out of Milwaukee, and then wait for them to tell us that there was but it would cost us more money (ugh) and then wait for them to figure out the boarding pass printer was broken before they sent us to the kiosk to check ourselves in. We waited forever (again) in the terminal for our flight which left at 11. Then we waited forever again in Milwaukee for our next flight which left at 4:05. Both of these flights were an hour long. We got home, got our bags, got on the shuttle, drove home, and collapsed. The kitties were so glad to see us. They would not leave us alone. I unpacked and Seth worked some more and Chet stayed to get homework help (and to be berated by me for a messy house and unfed cats) and then we went to bed.

Grandpa
While we were on the East Coast, Sunday, my Dad called my grandpa and he sounded disoriented and said he couldn’t get out of bed. Long story short by the time we got off the plane in Milwaukee, my grandfather was transferred to a major hospital, was aspirating into his lungs, and had an infection. The doctors suggested he get a feeding tube and that would give him an extra six months to a year to live. We tried once again to get my Dad on an earlier flight (still costing extra money) and failed. The wait in the Milwaukee airport was unbearable. My Dad was understandably upset, every phone call we got seemed to be worse news. My Mom was on a different (direct) flight and unreachable. When we got back to Omaha we let my Dad take off and we got their golf clubs so he wouldn’t have to wait for baggage or deal with them on the shuttle. (thank goodness we did because it was almost a 30 minute wait) Dad and Mom went to Lincoln to see Grandpa and talk with the other brothers about options. I ended up taking Tuesday off because I was so stressed and my house was a mess, making me even more stressed. Plus Seth is under a lot of stress at work with the deadline, and I just wanted to take a day and get our lives back in order without bothering him. So I took yesterday off to relax and deal with my grandpa and my house of horrors. Late in the day we got the news that he would do the feeding tube and move into a nursing home when he was released from the hospital. I guess though last night we got the news that he was really combative and confused again so my parents had to go back up there and will probably have to spend the night tonite.

My DVR is going to quit the team
Yesterday I watched Law and Order, Ugly Betty, Ghost Whisperer, and both episodes of SYTYCD. That’s pretty much all I can watch on my own, Seth only had time for Destination Truth. Hopefully we will be able to get to everything else this weekend…hopefully. I will say though, this season on SYTYCD is SOOOO much better than last season, I’m loving already-although-DON’T EVEN THINK OF CUTTING MY KRUMPER JUDGES!!

Bean’s blog
Bean did really well with flying and has really taken up a dance studio mentality in the womb. Usually if I eat something, especially something sweet, it starts a dance party. It’s been really fun to feel. Next Monday at 8 am, we will hopefully find out what Bean is and can start calling it by its real name!

Back to the grind
Okay everyone, I still have tons of catch up to do. I’ll try to get back tomorrow! Hopefully with photos!

Love (being home, but not being behind),Carrie

Promise, Promise, Promise

Hi All,
You know the worst thing about going on vacation? Trying to get your life back together afterwards. I made it back into work today, but I can't even seen the color of my desk, unless it's white with black ink and they changed it while I was gone.
Anywhoo-I promise I will fill you in on all I missed (with pictures!) as soon as get everything back in order. Even if I have to write it tomorrow night from home.
Hope you all are having a great week-thanks for your patience and sticking with me.
Love (to have taken the whole rest of my job off),
Carrie

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Back safe, but with a twist

Hi Blog World,
I will try to catch up with you as soon as I can, but my Grandpa got put in the hospital while we were on vacation so I'm trying to help out as best I can with that. Please keep in in your thoughts and prayers and as soon as I get back on track I'll tell you more and all about NYC.
Love (for vacations to end better),
Carrie

Saturday, October 24, 2009

In a New York State of Mind

Hi everyone! We made it safe-I can't wait to give you all a recap!
Seth and I just ate at a lovely little deli and had real New York Style pizza and mine had ricotta on it and it's seriously the only way I will eat pizza from now on. :-)
Tonite we are going into the city for Mom's birthday and I'm not sure what else. Last night we saw a comedy show and it was hilarious.
Talk to you all soon!
Love (pizza with ricotta),
Carrie

Thursday, October 22, 2009

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Last day people! LAST DAY OF WORK THIS WEEK!
Can you tell I’m excited? I didn’t think I would get here-thanks for sticking with me.

Whoops
I forgot the new Howie Day CD came out like a month ago. I’m a bad fan. On the plus side when I go home and download it and make my husband put it on my phone, I will have something to listen to on the plane.

Woman or machine?
Last night I got home and had more energy than usual. I decided to start the laundry-which meant I had to go thru the house and pick up the random laundry left here and there. That lead to picking up the bathroom and cleaning it up. Then the machine kicked in. Somewhere in there I decided I could put the house back together and make it presentable for Chet who is house sitting for us. That meant putting the living room-full of spare room junk, back in the new baby’s room. And picking up all the random tools all over the house (luckily I had thought of the tool thing ahead of time because it was driving me bananas, if I stepped on one more paintbrush or banged my shin on one more power tool I was going to scream, so I brought home boxes from work to put them in). I also knew that I had only watched the first hour of Ugly Betty ondemand, and since they disabled the fast forward function, I knew I would just have to let the first hour play out. Somehow in that hour I GOT IT ALL DONE. I even cleaned the kitchen and I have all but one load of laundry done. I amazed myself. All of the heavy lifting I just slid across the carpet and pushed into the baby’s room. I even did it all organized and manly. My brother still has space to work on the closet (being painted) this weekend if he gets to. Not going to lie, I patted myself on the back a few times. I also took out the garbage, got out the suitcases, almost TOTALLY PACKED, and managed to watch Ugly Betty, Law and Order SVU, and SYTYCD (SQUEEEEE RUSSELL!!!). Whoever that woman was that took over for tired, uncomfortable pregnant Carrie-I hope you come back soon. I’ll tell you what though; I passed out quickly last night and probably could have used a few more hours of sleep today. I’m hoping the day zips by so that I can get home and take a nap and then get everything done I need to before we leave for the airport at 4 am…

SYTYCD
I actually think it’s going to be a good season! Here are some spoilers about the performance show next Monday:
Group performances:
Opening Group Dance - Wade Robson

Russell, Legacy, Kevin - Hip Hop - Nappy Tabs
Jakob, Nathan, Channing, Ariana - Contemporary - Tyce Diorio
Phillip, Bianca, Peter - Tap - ?
Mollee, Pauline, Ellenore - Jazz - Sonya Tayeh
Billy, Victor, Noelle, Kathryn - Contemporary - Mandy Moore
Ryan, Ashleigh, Karen - Ballroom - Jason Gilkinson

Couples:
Phillip (25) & Channing (18) – Jive
Nathan (18) & Mollee (18) – Disco
Billy (19) & Pauline (19) - Smooth Waltz
Jakob (19) & Ashleigh (26) – Broadway
Russell (19) & Noelle (18) – Foxtrot
Kevin (23) & Karen (27) - Cha Cha
Legacy (27) & Kathryn (18) - Hip Hop
Ryan (28) & Ellenore (19): ?
Peter (22) & Ariana (18): ?
Victor (21) & Bianca (20) - Contemporary?

Who are your favorites? I’m not sure how I feel about Russell getting paired with Noelle…

Bean’s blog
Last night I had a way better name for Bean’s blog-but of course I can’t remember it in the cleaning haze I was in. I think it was Bean’s Blurb, but I’m not sure. Anyway, Bean is fine, did some dancing last night while I was eating pasta a la Carrie (Okay it’s elbow macaroni with tomato sauce, cheese, and sour cream-hardly gourmet but delicious!). But anyway, besides bopping around and growing like a weed, Bean’s just been hanging out. Which is fine by me. Apparently for the airplane rides I have to get up and walk around a little so I don’t throw a clot and die or something-so that will be weird, I’m sure I’ll have to go the bathroom 100 times so it shouldn’t be too big of a problem. I’ve packed plenty of different sized clothes for the trip, just because you can’t judge some days how much room Bean is going to need. My mom found like the maternity outlet mall Mecca and might be picking me up a couple of things to wear too.

Random
Lindsay Lohan scares the bejesus out of me. The lady at work gave me her old Star magazine and I had it in the bathroom and she was on the cover looking like a hot mess. Every time I see her I visibly cringe. Blech.

Winding down
Holy mac and cheese I need a nap. I’m struggling here. I wish companies would let you take naps. I can sleep in the back of my car. I did it at Cheeto and Whitney’s wedding. I think this is all the energy I spent moving stuff around coming to a head. Zzzzzz

Halloween Candy
Did I tell you I must have made up white chocolate reeses in my head? Dear Reeses, please make a white chocolate peanut butter cup. Thanks, Carrie
Seriously though-I’ve looked high and low for it and can’t find it. I’ve resorted back to white chocolate kit kats, which are good, but not peanut buttery.

Alright
Okay I’m rambling-I’ll let you get on with your day, but as mine looks to be a little slower than usual, I may be back-I’m not sure, I may just sneak out and nap in my car. Wouldn’t that be lovely? I wonder if anyone would notice…
Oh and Grey's tonite!

Love (for this day to fly by),
Carrie

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Happy Hump Day all! I just realized it was Wednesday which means I have to make it thru this day and the next day and then I’m off to NYC! Man I wish it was Thursday…

Best news ever-
First off YAY and YAY. That is the best TV news I’ve heard all day. Actually I heard that second one yesterday but forgot to link it for you. Sorry-but still HOORAY! That first one just makes my friggin day. Don’t forget next week’s episode with the Firefly shout out!

Another lameo night with the Hellbusch’s
Last night I literally came home and went to bed. I was woken up by my brother who showed up to paint. I decided not to sleep thru the rest of the day and I woke up with an intense Pepperjax craving. After nagging Seth and giving him puppy dog eyes he said I could go get it but he didn’t want to get it. I had Jesse go with me. It was delicious, but left me uncomfortable and bloated the rest of the night.
Seth wasn’t feeling very well so we didn’t do much. Around 10 he decided to call the Math Nerd Club to get help on his homework and around 10:30 when he was pacing the halls talking about network collisions I almost killed him. So after he wrapped that up we went to bed, which was late, so now I’m sleepy in the pants.

Bean’s Blog
When I was laying watching Grey’s on Lifetime (the pantyhose network) Bean was having a dance party. It has also taken to revolting when I sit on the toilet to pee. It doesn’t like being squished I think, so it moves around and blocks my bladder so I get up and then moves back and I have to pee again-it’s an endless cycle really. This kid is already wearing me out.
Also I went to bed last night full and happy and woke up as big as a house. I don’t know how that happened but apparently those beans in my burrito were magic beans and the kid grew 8 sizes overnight. The pants I’m wearing are already unbuttoned and it’s only 7:30, it’s going to be a long, long day.
When Seth and I first started dating I would go to Old Navy and buy him lovely sweaters, which to this day he hasn’t worn. This morning, due to my new found girth, I went to look at them and pick one to wear. I found one that he calls the “Charlie Brown Sweater” (I’m not sure why, it’s brown and white striped.) I’ve always secretly been mad at him for never wearing it, because it’s soft and handsome and looks comfy. So I picked that one, this morning I know why he never wears it. Its super stretched out and is all baggy in weird places. I thought the thin strips would hide my belly well, instead the weird shape of this sweater is just being pulled out by my belly and now when I walk I look like I’m wearing a shirt that belonged to a XXXL person and I almost fit. It is ridiculous.
I should really go suck it up and find some maternity clothes, I thought about doing it for NYC, but then I decided I liked cribs and Pepperjax more. 24 dollars for a shirt I will wear four more months, maybe? Pass.
And ew-some guy just came up to me and told me pregnant woman always look hot. And he’s like 60. Gross.
Anyway Bean is chugging along, and so am I. I still hate being pregnant-no lie. I hear it doesn’t end well either. But what you get out of it makes it worth it. So I’ll suck it up and whine about it on my blog.

Commercials
I don’t watch very many commercials anymore, thanks to DVR, and I’m totally okay with product placement and plugs during my show. Like Destination Truth always talks about how they found cheap flights to Russia on Orbitz to hunt paranormal stuff. I’m okay with that, just don’t stop my show. Anyway because I’ve been lazy and have been watching TV upstairs, I’ve been subject to more commercials than I usually am. The WORST of them, down right WORST are those Charmin commercials with the Bears that act like people and shit behind trees. Seriously. They creep me out every time they come on. Bah! Normally I just mute the TV and read during a commercial but yesterday I lucked out because one of my five duvets on my bed ate the remote when I shifted around because Bean was bopping away. I wanted to scratch my eyes out I hate those commercial so much. In the newest edition, the Pooping Bears are drinking coffee. *shudders*

Strange Dreams
I know everyone knows you have weird strange dreams when you are pregnant. I am no exception. The worst ones are the ones where your baby is in danger, I have a lot of those, two nights ago I had a dream that I was bleeding down there again and I woke up in a panic and all day I was checking for blood. Last night though I had a dream my parents were renewing their wedding vows and my brother showed up dressed like Lady GaGa and there was a delay while my parents had a meltdown and made him go change in the middle of the ceremony-so it fell on me to sing Jesus songs. And this was a church with a back up Gospel Choir and the only Jesus songs I could think of was ones from Sister Act. It was weird. And I was wearing really high heels and I kept falling over. And then my parents started their renewal vows and just gave up and made out in front of everyone. The end. If I didn’t need it so much, I’d be afraid to go to sleep anymore.

Lots to do, long day to do it
Well I’d better get started on this day. Hope you all have a quick moving day and enjoy the things you love the most.

Love (thunderstorms and snuggling),
Carrie

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Good Morning. I’m rambly and unfocused today-you have been warned.

Bean’s Blog
Bean and I aren’t feeling so hot this morning. We woke up congestioned, coughy and sneezy, the humidifier we had been using was making weird noises so I unplugged it and now am seriously regretting it. We also have an upset stomach and my jaw hurts like an SOB. And I’m exhausted. Hopefully I get out of here at a decent time tonite so that I can catch a nap before Seth gets home from work and starts working on the house. It figures I can’t go a day during a week without feeling like sludge.
I also feel more pregnant and uncomfortable today than usual. I noticed my belly this morning. It’s starting to come out a little. Maybe I’ll let Seth take a picture of it in NYC. If I can find my camera, which at this moment, I have no idea where it is…
Wait what was I talking about? Oh this is the Bean portion, not the rambling portion. Um…I can’t believe how far along we are, in all honesty it’s been going really slow and I’ve hated almost every second of it, but I feel like I’m on an upswing-so here’s hoping.

Last night
Last night I was a total loser. The most exciting part of my night was when I FINALLY got to take a bath after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. I even used my fancy favorite bubble bath that my mom got me, it’s like Black Current Vanilla or something like that from Bed Bath and Beyond. I love it and it sticks in my hair and on my skin even into the next day. I just did a smell check of my hair and it’s still there. Mmmmm. Maybe that’s what is making me all relaxed and sleepy. Anyway I basically came home (late because I stayed late at work to make a little extra money for NYC) and ate some dinner, watched Ugly Betty ondemand (ugh I hate that you can’t fast forward!), did the dishes, cleaned the bathtub, tried to illegally watch House without Seth but was thwarted by the Angels/Yankee’s game so I watched True Life on MTV instead (did I mention, in bed?), went and took my long luxurious bath, Seth came home and I dished him out some soup and put away the leftovers, finished the kitchen, then went to bed and read my book until I fell asleep. Lame-but lovely.

Oh my book!
I forgot to tell you about this random book from one of my stacks in the living room (yes I have multiple book stacks in various places, usually congregated near a bookshelf) that I picked up because I didn’t want to watch Nebraska piss it away anymore and I didn’t have access to my bedroom or bathroom because they were blocked by the remodel. So I picked up this book: Crowned in a Far Country: Portraits of Eight Royal Brides - by Princess Michael of Kent and it is so good I can hardly finish it because it isn’t very long and I don’t want it to end. It is about eight royal brides in the nineteenth century (like Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, ect) and instead of discussing the politics and the usual things you learn about in history classes, this book talks about what clothes they liked to wear, what their favorite food was, where they got their jewelry, what their hobbies were, what they excelled at, if they really loved their husband or if they loved another. It is SO GOOD. I want to stop reading and save it for my trip but I can hardly put it down, and I’m learning so much. I won’t bore you with it, but there are a lot of fun facts interlaced with the stories and I’ve really been enjoying it, even reading it aloud to Seth at times.

On my way to the big city
But not quite, I had strong plans to get the suitcases out myself (they are in the creepiest part of the house, under the stairs) and start packing, but they kind of pissed away when I got home late. I guess its better that I don’t start packing until Thursday night anyway, that way everything is clean and ready to go. I have some ideas though of what I want to take, mostly some clothes that were given to me by my mom’s friend who works at a bank so the tops are really cute and look nice when paired with jeans, so I can still wear my tennis shoes-which I learned on my last trip to NYC are essential, since I almost lost both my feet to my adorable pink heels. My Mom and Aunt never let me live that down. Only I would go sightseeing in NYC in pink heels. Anyway, because of my Bean related back pain, I have to wear tennis shoes everywhere-lame, but practical.
I wonder if I can pack a heating pad and take it on the plane, I’m sure I can in checked baggage. Right?

Grey’s
So for those of you like me, who don’t watch Private Practice, there was a Grey’s cross over episode where Bailey took the kidney patient that Izzie almost killed last week to Addison’s clinic in California because Bailey’s sister was a match and they were going to do a little kidney gifting. (I stumbled across a recap of the episode on TWOP and read because I was bored) In the episode you find out Bailey’s sister has HIV and that Bailey’s husband was emotionally cheating on her so that’s why they divorced. Since they haven’t really talked about what was going on with Bailey after focusing on it for a large portion of the season last year-I thought I would feel most of you in who may of missed it because you may be like me and think Private Practice needs to be cancelled or combined with Grey’s because I miss Addison and want her back and the few times I tried to watch Private Practice the only characters I liked were Sam and since him and Bailey (apparently) have a little something something going on (also reveled in this episode of Private Practice) she can bring him too. And maybe Naomi. But really, they just need to come back to Grey’s. But that’s my opinion.

SYTYCD
Even though the big Vegas reveal is this week, I have spoilers on who makes it into the top 20 and who the couple parings are. Also apparently, they are going to start doing groups of three dances. Which is kind of fun and new, I hope I like it. If you want to see the spoilers go here. Oh and if you need a reminder of who those people are based on their styles from the Top Twenty reveal, go here. Also you should probably know that Mia Michaels quit last week. No one really knows why, but apparently it’s in her contract that she is coming back to judge the final episode of the season. Apparently. She resigned on her twitter account.

Ugh
Well I’d better get to work. They gave me two interns or “supplemental personnel” to help me with my cart book updating yesterday until Wednesday when they can start training. So of course they are two of the world’s OLDEST people who don’t understand anything and it takes me longer to explain things than to actually do it myself. Of course they only sent one back today and it was the one that had the hardest time and threw away all the indexes instead of updating them-thus creating more work for me. So yay. I better go babysit.

Love (my new revamped bathtub),
Carrie

Monday, October 19, 2009

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Hello world. Welcome to Monday. I only have a four day work week and then it’s off to NYC!! Hooray!

Weekend Review
We worked hard this weekend. Even me! Friday Seth came home and got right to work on the baby’s room. He worked on the painting. That’s saying a lot considering a couple hours earlier he was in the hospital because his elbow hurt so bad he couldn’t sleep and it had swollen to the size of a grapefruit. Turns out that huge remodel we had to do in the bathroom? The chipping and the glue? Well one of the staple from the floor got him and gave him a lovely infection in his elbow. He had to get a tetanus shot and he’s on a strong antibiotic, which of course is super expensive because he is deathly allergic to penicillin. So I expected all work this weekend to come to a halt. But it didn’t. The antibiotic made him feel loads better and the doctor told him to be sure to move his arms so that the medicine got around. We had to run back to Target to get some shirts for Seth and we tried the new Smashburger on L. It wasn’t that great. They had weenie French fries, which always torques me off.
Saturday we woke up early-ish and ran some errands. One of the biggest errands was going and getting the crib!! I was so excited!! Here is the crib we got. It was pretty painless considering Burlington Coat Factory is more ghetto than Walmart. I was just sure they weren’t going to have any in stock or they weren’t going to let us use my sweet coupon or SOMETHING. But bar having to wait forever until they got it out of stock and how they wouldn’t let Seth load it into the truck while I paid-it went off beautifully. Now fingers crossed the damn thing isn’t damaged or missing parts. The box looks okay, but you never know. We probably won’t get around to putting it up until after we get back from NYC.
So the rest of Saturday I spent doing “helper” work for Seth. Washing paint brushes, moving drop clothes, mainly standing around waiting for something to do. It was pretty boring. But Seth got the carpet steam cleaned and the painting done and even got the bathroom done so that Sunday I could get my bathroom back. I quit helping around 7 to cook Seth a nice dinner. I made him a pan glazed steak, glazed with garlic, red wine, and butter. He said it was awesome. I also made garlic cheddar mashed potatoes to complement it. And a gravy, which didn’t turn out so magical. Mostly runny. I pan glazed it and then because Seth likes his steak well done, I put it in the cast iron skillet in the toaster oven under broil with the butter sauce for about 20 minutes, taking out frequently to turn it and butter the edges. I had salad, potatoes, and green beans. Yummy.
Sunday we woke up again and went out to find Seth a suit. He has an important meeting coming up and his four year old sports jacket wasn’t going to cut it. We went a couple different places but ended up at JC Penny were the service was great and the price was better. I don’t know why we didn’t start there in the first place since everyone told us to go there and that’s where we got Seth’s sports jacket.
We came home and Dad had come over and almost finished with the toilet. Then he recaulked my bathtub, while he had the caulking out, which I was happy about, but sad too since that meant that I couldn’t take a bath last night. (It needs 24 hours to dry) We spent the rest of Sunday putting on the trim in the baby’s room (I filled nail holes) and Seth and Dad moved the furniture back into the baby’s room and got the crib out of the back of Seth’s truck. Then I made Seth hamburger veggie soup from his Mom’s recipe in the crockpot and we watched some TV and went to bed.
Phew!

Weekend TV
We got a lot off the DVR this weekend since we would crap out exhausted about 8 and sit down to eat and not get back up. We caught up on Heroes (WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON, WE ARE SO LOST!), Dollhouse (snooze, I only watch this because Seth wants to), Num3ers (Larry leave already, you are annoying), Criminal Minds (great episode this week), Castle (LOVE LOVE LOVE), and a couple other odds and ends I can’t remember. I watched Law and Order SVU and regular (good episodes), and Ghost Whisperer (meh), I found out Ugly Betty is onDemand so I might catch up with that tonite if Jesse doesn’t come over to work. We also watched Mad Men which-UGH-disgusted me. Although I’m glad Betty knows about “Don” now.

Bean’s blog
On Saturday been turned 19 weeks old! Way to go Bean! It is the size of a mango these days and has some kind of cheese like waxy crap on it to keep it from getting wrinkly. I think Bean is jamming out more, although Seth can’t feel it and he’s very sad. He sat with his hand on my belly for about an hour waiting to feel something, even though I was feeling the kicks, he couldn’t. Bean loves food, anytime I eat it has a dance party. It’s been pushing up against my back more, which sucks having to sit here all day, but it’s alright, as long as Bean stays healthy.
My mom made a comment about how much happier and better I had sounded last night on the phone (she’s in Baltimore this week) and just how she can tell the meds are working and what a difference they have made just in a couple of days. She said she wasn’t sure about it first, but the immediate difference in my attitude and demeanor has reassured her. I feel a lot better too. Not so overwhelmed or anxious. That could be because we are getting stuff done though.
The room looks so much better with the white trim accents, once the closet gets done and the crib gets put up I will take some pictures for you all.
Bean you are taking your first plane ride on Friday! Yay! And you will go to your first football game and you eat fantastic food.
You had your first Diet Cherry Limeade on Sunday and you thought that was pretty darn awesome. You already have great taste, you must get that from me. Ha.

This week
This week will be busy. Work is picking up and we have a couple people out. And of course I have my vacation starting Friday which I have to wash and pack for. Seth has class and he will be trying to get the house stable enough for Chet to come and stay and not have something fall on him and kill him. Fingers crossed!!

That’s all folks!
Alright friends, unless a magic fairy comes and does my work for me, I’ll have to leave you all. I’ve been waiting for the magic food fairy to come make me lunch and dinner for years now, so I’m thinking the magic work fairy isn’t far behind.
Hope you all have a great day!

Love (taking care of business),
Carrie

Friday, October 16, 2009

Your somewhat usual random afternoon blog post

An update on Seth
Boy it has been a week for the Hellbusch’s, huh?
So Seth went to the doctor and apparently there is a sack of fluid surrounding your elbow to protect the bone. His is horribly infected. He had to get a tetanus shot and got put on really strong antibiotics. Seth’s is horribly allergic to penicillin so of course he got put on the expensive antibiotics. He also swears that he got H1N1 from someone in the waiting room. He’s pretty sure he’s going to be in misery the next couple of days.
I will be too, since the outlook on getting my bathroom back is grim.
The doctor drew on his elbow with a permanent marker and if the swelling goes above that we have to go to the emergency room. And if it doesn’t go down by Wednesday we have to “explore other options”, which I seriously hope doesn’t mean Seth losing an elbow, because I’m sure they don’t have prosthetic elbows yet. And holding baby is going to be hard with one arm.

Speaking of the baby
I’ve had three really weird conversations at work the past two days in regards to my baby.

Convo one
Carrie is going to fill up her tea mug with hot water. The cafeteria is full of “contractors” incoming for the outage. A contractor she recognizes as a “regular” but doesn’t know approaches her.
Carrie: Hey how is it going?
Contractor: Good, but not as good as you I hear, I hear you are having a baby!
Carrie: *nervous laugh* yep
Contractor: Have you considered that there are many people in the world who long for a baby and can give it a good life and raise it in a good Christian household?
Carrie:….
Contractor: Yes you see, you don’t have to let your mistakes not benefit a loving couple who just wants to give your unborn child all the love in the world. They would even be willing to pay all your medical expenses! And even compensate you for your troubles! Imagine-your child in a home of love and full of the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Carrie:..uh…I’m pretty sure my husband would be mad if I gave you our baby. But thanks. *Carrie runs away screaming*
Contractor: *shouts as she runs* Oh! Sorry! Last time I was here you weren’t married! I thought you created that child in sin!

Yeah asshole, like that makes it better. Sorry! Thought you were a whore and wanted to take your whore baby and raise it in a none whore environment! I thought about hitting him, but I was worn out from walking down to the cafeteria.

Convo Two
Carrie is updating the simulator with new procedures. There is a operator in there who is usually very nice.
Carrie: Hi Operator! I’m just here to update.
Operator: Oh hey Carrie! Congrats are in order for you-I hear you are WITH CHILD.
Carrie: Oh thanks! Yeah, we are pretty excited.
Operator: You should be, there is nothing in this world like being WITH CHILD.
Carrie: I suppose, it’s not very fun right now though…
Operator:* interrupts* although my wife wouldn’t know, she can’t be WITH CHILD…
(Operator proceeds to tell Carrie a half an hour story about why his wife can’t be WITH CHILD and how they adopted their son 27 years ago, but things were different then with adoption, you just got the kid and went on your way, there was no social services to check and make sure you weren’t beating the crap out of them or molesting them)
Carrie: Well, it sounds like you are a lucky man then.
Operator: But not as lucky as you-being WITH CHILD.
*Carrie runs away because she’s afraid Operators’ next move is to cut her baby out with a spoon*

He really did say with child like that, with a huge emphasis and all slow like it was the most important series of words ever said. Like you would say “our Lord Jesus Christ” or something.

Convo Three
Carrie is trying to find someone’s desk in the maze of cubicles that are in her office. A random childless old woman stops her.

Carrie: Hi Random Childless Old Woman (RCOW) do you know where Jim’s desk is?
RCOW: Why would you go and get yourself knocked up? Worst idea ever.
Carrie: So Jim’s desk?
RCOW: Do you know what birthing method you are going to use? I hear they are all bad. Don’t do natural, if you get a midwife they will kill you in your home. Are you going to give birth in your home?
Carrie: Uh no-I really don’t have a birthing plan yet, but I won’t be doing it at home. Actually my clinic is one of the only ones in the state fully licensed to practice midwifery, so I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t kill me if that’s what I decide to do.
RCOW: So you believe in that hippie crap? Is your doctor even a doctor?
Carrie: Um yeah, she’s a professor of neonatal surgery at UNMC.
RCOW: Whatever, I don’t even know why you got pregnant in the first place…
Carrie: I’m going to find Jim’s desk now. Before I punch you.

I work at the weirdest place in the whole world.

Have a nice weekend all! I’ll be nursing the infected one. Wait can I catch an elbow infection? Should I go stay at a hotel?

Love (to work somewhere saner than me),
Carrie

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

Morning blog world! Happy Friday! Or at least that’s what I’m trying to make it for you…

Grey’s
I actually watched Grey’s on time this week! So we can discuss it today! Yay! See I’m already making your day.
First off the stuff with Callie and Arizona and Callie’s Dad? Love. Ridiculously Love. Also in the love category-Christina’s breakdown, the new competitive edge to the show’s story, the firing of Izzie, and the two new pretty Mercy West Residents, who I know from other shows but can’t place and it’s driving me bananas (The girl with the giant eyes who looks like a Bratz Doll and the dude with the shockingly blue eyes).
Things I did not like: Lexie and her compeative residents storyline, Alex puts it all on the line to get stomped on by Izzie again (especially after the last two weeks of the lovey dovey stuff that made me squishy), fake George, Meredith’s weird position of team leader rally cry, not enough Bailey (all though what there was I enjoyed), and the rumor I heard that someone gets fired again next week too. I don’t like them breaking up the Fab Five (as they were originally called by Grey’s junkie’s until George died and now they are the Fab Four) and shifting things around. I want to go back to see them growing in their skills as a surgeon. I also fear they will bring back Burke and mess with Christina and Hunt.
What did you all think?

In other TV watching
We watched Big Bang Theory (hilarious, as always) and I watched Law and Order: SVU. It was a pretty decent episode and I’m glad they finally got rid of that evil DA who grated my nerves (and Stabler’s too). I thought the storyline with the “I was drunk” defense was a good one, I didn’t know that it really wasn’t a defense if you commit a crime and black out and don’t remember doing it. That’s one for the memory banks.

TV to be watched
We are still a week behind in Dollhouse and Numbers. We also have a Castle and a Criminal Minds that I’m dying to watch. Top Chef and Destination Truth both are on there too. Ugly Betty starts tonite but I’m kind of over that show and it’s a 2 hour premiere and I’m hoping they have it on MyPrimeTime because I don’t have the space for it. Friday is a super busy recording night for us.
Do you ever miss days of combo’s you like, like remember ages ago when NBC dominated Thursday nights with Friends, Will and Grace, and like two other comedy shows and then ER? Those were the days. There used to be a combo with Grey’s I liked, it was like Ugly Betty, something, Grey’s, but they dumped that a while ago and I can’t even remember what it was. And NBC used to do a Chuck, something, Heroes combo that was really good but they messed that all up.

This weekend
So I did some “Carrie Math” and decided that coming in Saturday wouldn’t outweigh the gas money I would spend getting out here and back. Just to make up some hours. I will see how I feel Saturday and might try to sleep in and come in, but right now I’m not feeling it. Somehow, I convinced Seth that my math was correct and he agrees that if I work overtime next week, when I’m already here for an 8 hour day, then it is smarter to not come in on Saturday. In his defense though-he did have a math fried brain from two days of math straight and he also did something weird to his elbow that he’s going to try and go to the doctor for today-but he’s in a lot of pain. So I got him at a weak moment when he didn’t really want to argue.
So tonite Jesse is coming back over to finish up the windows and the closet in the baby’s room and the cabinet in the bathroom so hopefully I can have my toilet put back on and reclaim my bathtub. I told Jesse that I would make steaks and mashed potatoes (his favorite) and he said he would bring the beer for Seth and himself. If we get that done we can clear out the baby’s room and steam clean it overnight and then go get the crib tomorrow afternoon. Fingers crossed!
That’s about all I have planned, I know the remodel is going to take up most of the weekend and I’ll just be trying to stay out of the way.
Seth had asked me what I was going to do INSTEAD of going to work on Saturday. And I was all, I have lots to do! “Sleep…um…” and then he laughed at me and told me he thought so. I don’t like to think I’m THAT predictable.

Books
We haven’t talked about books in a while, that’s because I was all wrapped up in two books when my Dan Brown book came and then I dumped them like leftovers at a restaurant and gobbled up my Dan Brown book instead. I read a book called Matters of Chance which I thought was a lovely little life story of a family, I must have been in a mood because I passed it on to my mom with high praises and she was all like, why did you like this book? I finally finished The Saffron Kitchen, which was really good. Then I read this one called The Time it Takes to Fall, which was AMAZING because it was all about a girl growing up in Florida during the height of NASA’s space exploration (it starts with the beginning of the shuttle missions and ends with the Challenger mission) and her Dad works for NASA and it was just this really neat introspective into a lifestyle that I never knew existed, I mean sometimes I forget real people work at NASA. Real people build the rockets and have families and live lives. It’s kind of like nuclear power, most people just think Homer Simpsons sits up here (we do have a guy who looks scarily like Homer, and he’s about as dumb as him too) and pushes buttons, but there is an entire culture of people who go from plant to plant to work and do maintenance. Basically working at the nuclear power plant is like working on a bunch of repair or maintenance projects. And there is like this group of nomad people who live from traveling from plant to plant to work on these scheduled projects. Companies like NPP count on them to come around and help when certain projects are being done, usually we have to power down the reactor to do this repair work-hence why most nuclear power plants have a outage at least once a year. Then tons of “contractors” who specialize in whatever we are doing come on site for like a month, do the work, get paid an obscene amount of money and go away to the next plant. The people, like me who work here are just a basic almost skeleton crew who run the day to day operations of the plant.
Whoa I just went into a way off course tangent. There is more there then you every wanted to know about Nuclear Power. Are you still awake?
Anyway that book was good and now I’m reading The Other Queen, Blue Afternoon, and Peel my Love like an Onion. All I’m having a little trouble starting, which tends to happen after I read a really good book, other books don’t compare.

Bean Blog (or whine)
My back hurts. Already, and I’ve only been sitting in this chair for an hour and a half. Also, I’m peeing more than I care to. The bathroom’s kind of a hike and I don’t want to be in there all day. Other than that, on Saturday Bean will be 19 weeks old and I’m pretty darn proud of it. Way to go Bean! Even with a loony mama you hung around, I promise things will get better. Minus that whole part where you have to come out of your little hiding place out of my very little hidey hole (or if you want, just hang out and we will see about having someone cut you out) either way, it won’t be pleasant for either of us. But other than that, you have some pretty great people out here who are dying to meet you, so they are worth the trip.

Umm…
Auschwitz is on facebook? Something about that feels very, very wrong.

Carrie Cube
It is FREEZING in my office today. How do they expect me to work? First of all, I can hardly move I’m so cold. Second, the shivering is making me have to pee every five minutes-which I can do because the only thing keeping me warm is my hot tea. I wish I had my little heating pad right now, even though they say you can’t have them here. It’s so cold here a couple years ago people started bringing those mini heaters in and putting them under their desks, then the circuit breakers exploded with all the little heaters so they banned all form of heaters. Now I just sit here under blankets and pout. How ironic, a place built to provide energy can’t handle heaters on their power grid…
But really I’m too cold to work, I’m almost too cold to type this or cruise the net. Almost.

Fine.
The guy next to me says working will warm me up. I’ll give it a try. You all have a good week and maybe I’ll be back later today!

Love (for this day to fly by),
Carrie

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Hey world, I’m back. I had some random day thoughts to share with you.

Garth Brooks is coming out of retirement. Huh. Part of me wants to be excited, but the other part of me is still confused and dazed from that whole Chris Gaines thing. I’ll admit it, I went thru a big country music phase a couple years ago. One time on a car trip from Sioux Falls to Columbus I made Seth listen to the hours of mix CD’s of country music I had made years ago. It’s his fault though, he decided working was more important that chauffeuring me thru two states.

Speaking of those drives, which we made a lot for house shopping, wedding planning, and general missing of “home”-my main role in the driving was music master and when that grew tiresome, sitting up straight in my chair behind the biggest pair of sunglasses I could find and not letting on to Seth that I was sleeping while he talked about math. I also did a lot of crocheting. And posing in the passenger side mirror pretending the people driving by wondered who that smoking hot babe was who looked asleep but not really.

I totally forgot to tell you about this conversation at the doctor’s office yesterday, which was had during that part of the office visit after the nurse comes in and takes your vitals and then you wait for WHAT SEEMS LIKE AN ETERNITY for the doctor.

Me: Seth-put that fetal Doppler in your pants.
Seth: No.
Me: Come ON, you know if we had one of those I would feel a lot better, my anxiety would go way down.
Seth: No.
Me: Do you like me being crazy all the time? Do you like coming home to the nutbag woman who ate your wife?
Seth: If you want it so bad, put it in your purse.
Me: *gasps in horror* I can’t do that. That would be stealing-and I’m PREGNANT that would be bad baby karma. You really want me to put that on our UNBORN CHILD?
Seth: *sighs*
Me: Just put it down your pants, no one will notice-they have empty rooms around here with these things just sitting on the counter-they will just think someone misplaced it.
Seth: If I put that down my pants people will notice.
Me: Your pants ain’t that tight buddy. You should put it around the left cheek of your butt, it’s a little less fuller than the right, then you will be evened out. Oh! Or people will think it’s your wallet-put your wallet in my purse so people think it’s your wallet! You might have to put that microphone piece somewhere else though-like a tuck job between your crack or something…
Seth: Stop talking now.
Me: What?
Seth: Just stop, I’m not putting the Doppler down my pants…what are you doing?
Me: Telling everyone on facebook what a jerk you are because you won’t put the fetal Doppler down your pants.
Seth: *sighs*

My husband did math for almost two days straight yesterday. He finally quit at 8 o’clock. I would have quit 47 hours and 59 minutes earlier. How can someone do math for that long?? I was bored just watching him.

Someone from my husband’s hometown of Columbus Nebraska logs in every day, sometimes twice a day. Hey there! I wondered if it was my Mother in Law, but then I remembered she hates her computer and is always at work that time of day. She works in a pharmacy so it’s not her. But whatever, more mysteries from the puzzle that is the real time feed.

My boss left on vacation to some South American country today and left this totally tool bag in charge. I swear he is walking around like his penis doesn’t fit in his pants. Like he is leading with his man bits. He keeps walking thru the library where I sit and looking around for someone to be important too. He just tried to guess the scent of my scentsy pot. He was wrong. I let him believe he was right so he would go away.

My back is killing me. I don’t want to sit in my chair anymore. I have a stack of papers I’m supposed to be stamping and I can’t sit up straight. I’m pretty sure the guy next to me thinks I’m trying to sneak farts because I’m leaned over onto one cheek. I wish it was just sneaking farts, because at least that way eventually I’d feel better. At the moment I’m pretty sure I’m going to quit any sitting position what so ever.

Did I tell you Bean (who is 18 weeks and 4 days old today) is as big as a sweet potato? I find that strangely comforting.

My aunt and my mom’s best friend have H1N1. They seem to be living thru it. I thought H1N1 was supposed to kill you. Seth is terrified I’ll get it. He says I can’t see my mom until we know she doesn’t have it. Not like I’m not going to get on a flying can of disease and to the most populated city in the country in a week and a day-but whatever, I’m irrational too, I understand it.

Dude-is hand sanitizer allowed in your carry-on? I should find this out…

Some guy just gave me a huge update to a document to do. He very nicely typed up all 6 pages of the update for me to insert. He’s adding 254 bullets to a document. He told me it was a “rush” job. He acted all panicked. You think, if it was such a huge deal for me to get this done quickly and accurately, he would have given me the soft copy of the bulleted insert so I could just cut and paste it. No. He expects me to type each bullet. We need a new campaign around here, instead of safety, we need a USE YOUR EFFING COMMON SENSE JACKASS campaign. We could use a picture of a cute donkey kicking someone in the head. Why am I not in marketing?

Alright well I’d better start typing lover-lies.
Talk to you later!

Love (this new middle day randomness blog posting),
Carrie

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Hello my lovely blog readers! I’m back today, albeit not willingly, I mean, I’d rather be writing you this from bed, snuggled with the kidtens, in sweatpants. Not here at work where I sit miserable in too tight pants and a shirt that hugs my fat belly.

Yes I can call it fat
Yesterday at the doctor my lovely doctor who I love so much pointed out I had gained SEVEN POUNDS since my last visit. For those of you in the know, you are only supposed to gain a pound a week. My doctor said it all judgey too. I would have cried, but I secretly blame her since I have to force myself to eat every two hours-which she makes me do. Other exciting news from the doctor’s appointment: our ultrasound is set for Nov. 2nd, and you better believe I’m ESTATIC and ready to find out what we are having and give Bean an official name; I got put on a super low dosage of Zoloft, apparently there is something you can take if you are pregnant and sad, but only in the second trimester-I’ll let you know how it works out, it is supposed to take about a week to take effect; Bean’s heart was beating very fast and Bean does not liked to be pushed or poked on, so it moved out of the way of the microphone; while Bean was moving away I felt the pop and my doctor confirmed I could feel movements, of course though-weird ones she had never heard described like that; we took the blood test for the downs and spina bifida, we find out our results in 1 or 2 weeks; I am 1000 billion percent correct in saying that if I don’t want to do something or I don’t feel up to something (like work) to just rest and not stress out the baby, that’s the most important thing.
Oh and on the card they gave me for the ultrasound appointment, it says drink 32oz of water and HOLD IT. Which is like the most sadistic thing ever. Especially since my appointment is at 8 am. My mommy is coming too. We are all very excited.

TV catch up
So yesterday Seth skipped class because he’s a rebel like that (or he didn’t get his homework put together in time because he put ME in charge of setting up the scanner which is like putting a train conductor in charge of flying airplanes) so we caught up on a little TV. We are so far behind its unreal. We watched Dollhouse and Numb3ers from two weeks ago. Both weren’t remarkable in anyway. I tried to get Seth on board with dumping Dollhouse, but he misses Sarah Conner Chronicles, and besides Destination Truth, this is the only real sci-fi show we watch anymore. And Destination Truth isn’t even really sci-fi. I also watched SYTYCD and I cried with Adam Shankman when he cried at Billy Bell’s performance, but I don’t think I was crying at the performance, just the way Adam was overcome with it. Also if they cut my krumper, Russell, SYTYCD and I may be done for this season. You are on notice SYTYCD!

Randoms
My clothes feel itchy today, I’m wearing things that have been tucked away in closets for a while. Not comfy.

I had microwave pretzels and apple juice for breakfast. One of them is killing my stomach.

Bah! Of course when I cancel my HBO they announce that the lady who created, produced and wrote Gilmore Girls has just been given the green light to start a series on HBO. DAMN YOU HBO! *shakes fist*

Is it wrong I wish the guy next to me was home sick? I just don’t want to listen to him clear his throat all day. Or talk. Really I just want to be able to take a nap under my desk with no one knowing.

Speaking of being sick, I know two people who have swine flu. My mom’s friend and my aunt. They seem to be living. Seth is worried. They couldn’t give me the shot at the clinic yesterday, I’ll have to wait until Nov. 2nd when I go to the big hospital for the ultrasound. Seth’s mom is freaking out because I have to get on a plane and go to NYC and she’s sure I will catch it. I could catch it at work-do you know how many people work here? I think this is an even bigger argument for me to stay home from work.

How do I already have indigestion this morning? All I’ve had is juice and pretzels!

I had a bunch of random stories to tell all of you yesterday-but then my husband hogged the only working computer in our house all day, and I forgot them all. At the moment I’m very sad about it and am sitting here waiting for the stories to come back.

NYC
I can’t believe we will be in NYC in a little under a week and a half! I’m excited to just get away for a couple days. I hope to take a lot of good pictures. I took some good ones the last time I was in NYC. I have no idea what to pack though since I’m sorta wearing a mix of my clothes and Seth’s clothes. I also looked it up and of course the airline charges for checked baggage so I’m going to try not to check baggage, but take a bunch large “purses”.

This weekend
As the weekend is fast approaching, I should probably get a plan in place. I know that I will probably have to work some Saturday (BOOOOOO) . Hopefully Seth will get some of the remodeling done while I am gone. I have a sneaking suspicion he might sleep in and watch football though. I would if I was him! I’m PRAYING that we get my toilet put back on and my bathtub cleaned so I can reclaim my bathroom. Sunday I plan on sleeping all day-no lie. I know I will be tired because I will probably stay home late to get some stuff off the DVR. The nice thing though is next week there are a couple of shows rerunning so I’m not TOO worried about the DVR exploding. Also worse comes to worse I can delete some of the things that are on MyPrimeTime and suffer thru the 30 second commercials. I’ve been trying to think up something to make, but I don’t think I’ll have the time. Plus I have enchi’s that I unthawed. We will see where that leads us.

Worker bee
Alright I’d better knock some of this work out-you never know, I could be back later today!!

Love (to find a job that I can do in my bed-and no prostitution isn’t an option…),
Carrie

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Baby Doctor Update

Hi world!
Everything went great at the baby doctor! Except the part where Seth wouldn't steal the fetal doppler for me, which I think would have made his life a lot easier when I started having panic attacks about the baby being dead, but whatever, I don't think anyone would have noticed if he had put it down his pants.
Any hoo I'll fill in more tomorrow, but they did end up putting me on a tiny dosage of Zoloft for the anxiety and depression.
I'm working Saturday now too, so look forward to a rare weekend blog!
Alright I'm going to find some food and help Jesse paint!
Love (reassurances),
Carrie

Waiting for the baby doctor

Hey All,
The nerves of baby doctor visit got to me about 4:30 this morning.
I'll write when I get back-in the mean time enjoy the three blogs of random I posted yesterday.
Love (for this appointment to have been in the morning),
Carrie

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

No I won't go away today-I like to see you on my Real Time Feed

Head explodes with awesome-On the Halloween episode of Castle-Nathan Fillion will be dressing up as Mal from Firefly. If you guys can’t comprehend that sentence, KILL YOURSELF.
Or just read some of my old blogs where I talk about how much I loved Nathan Fillion and the love affair started with Firefly and Serenity where he played Mal. It also begin my slow descent into the wonderful world of Joss Whedon.
The only way this could have been better is if he would have dressed up as Captain Hammer, but since he just did that on the Emmy’s, I can see why Mal is a much better choice. Seriously people, watch Castle.

Half of this stuff I wrote yesterday after I posted my 10:30 blog-I was so bored yesterday I could have built a card castle and taken a nap in it. (this is a lie-I totally thought you all deserved to see my continuing thoughts today so I posted it today)

I apparently can’t comment on my comments at work anymore, this makes me very very angry. So suffice to say I am reading and publishing your comments and dying inside to comment back. I will try to remember when I get home or I will try to address them in the blog the next day.
From yesterday-
Laura-thank you so much for the baby blog and freebie blog suggestions! Nigel’s clip is available by putting his name in YouTube-I think, if you can’t get it let me know and I’ll pass on the clip thru Facebook. I just imagined telling the ultrasound lady to hold on while I jiggled a bit. I think I’ll go ahead and choreograph a dance routine just in case. Working out is the pits. I highly recommend you do something way better, like watch TV. Also at Taco Bell I get two Cheesy Gordita Crunches with beans instead of meat and sometimes a bean burrito without onions. And lots of sour cream. I’m a sour cream whore. Speaking of whores-Sally is destined to be one. PS please start a blog, I imagine you have the best Vet office stories.
Monica-Verizon in Nebraska (or anywhere I think…) doesn’t have the Iphone and isn’t getting it anytime soon if AT&T has anything to do with it. Plus Verizon just pissed of Apple by selling out to Palm to get the Palm Pre this year. Also, it just took me a week and four days to get out of Alltel’s death grip, I can’t imagine what getting out of Verizon’s is like. They counter people didn’t think it was very funny when I joked about giving my CarrieBerry back and getting a crap phone-apparently you can’t downgrade either. I sincerely wish I was you because I totally would have done that, had I had the option. However my husband is in love with his Blackberry and in his spare time he plans on getting by cloning himself, he plans on developing Blackberry apps for extra money-here’s hoping the work better than the Google Talk app.
Darling Friend Jenifriend-thank you for your loving encouraging emails yesterday to pull me out of my mental hell. They truly helped and if I had a billion dollars I hire Jesse McCartney to show up at your house with coffee and sing that song he sings about having a “Beautiful Soul” and then maybe tell you we were all going on vacation somewhere tropical. Or maybe I’ll just leave my kid with you for a couple weeks to thank you for encouraging it. Ha. But seriously, thanks.

Criminal Minds is a great freaking show. I’m not sure why I love it so much. I even watch reruns I’ve seen, which I usually can only do with Law and Order, and sometimes I can only do that if I haven’t seen the episode in a while and can’t remember who the killer is. A&E has been running reruns of Criminal Minds like crazy on Friday’s and Saturday’s so if you missed out-catch up. Also, be aware you will mourn the loss of Jason Gideon, even though the whole reason they had to write his character out is because Mandy Patinkin is an epic dick and walked off the set of the show two seasons ago-breaking his lucrative contract. It will probably freak you out even more when I tell you that he is the same guy who played Inigo Montoya in the Princess Bride.

Does that only happen to me? I love a character on a TV show but hate their entire existence in real life? Sometimes it helps to just pretend they are who they are on TV and then you hate them less. Like Burke on Grey’s or Gideon on Criminal Minds-but then the writers get mad at how much they suck at life and write them off in ways that make you end up hating them. I need better examples…if you can think up some, hit the comments.

The news today is all about Paul Anka claiming to have co written Michael Jackson’s new song (by the way, I think songs released after you die are uber creepy, but that’s just me). Does anyone remember when Paul Anka was a running gag on Gilmore Girls? No? Just me? I seriously couldn’t have been the only person watching that show…Lorelei named her dog after him...still nothing?

This weekend I was channel surfing at 1 am and stumbled upon Iron Chef America with that creep Alton Brown guy and my favorite Top Chef contestant ever-Richard Blaise! I was pretty freaking excited. I noticed one of his sous chefs was Eli from this season of Top Chef (you might know him as the guy who hasn’t won anything and constantly bitches about how everyone else sucks, he mostly picks on the lady with cancer, who I agree sucks, but dude, reality show rules 101, don’t go after the cancer people) Blaise lost and I promptly decided the show was rigged and I hated it forever. But still-Blaise!

OMG! OMG! Monica linked me at the top of her list on her blog and I’m getting all sorts of hits from it! BLESS YOU MONICA! http://thebenicas.blogspot.com/ You just made my obsessive real time blog feed that much more exciting today. I would totally comment on your blog, but as previously discussed, apparently NPP doesn’t want me to have contact with the outside world, just to blogstalk it.

I just got an email from my alma matter Dana College informing me of who won the “Alumni” awards this year. How come I’m never nominated for any of those? Seriously quitting my RA job tainted all of my hopes of being an “Outstanding Young Alumni” that and the incident during homelessness awareness week which I will NOT tell you about because my parents read this blog. And sometimes my grandma. Let’s just say I did the most accurate representation of homeless over anyone that night.

Wow…I’m bored, I just regaled you with another 1200 words on my head thoughts. You are welcome.
Love (to really do this all day long-seriously, does someone want to pay me for it?),
Carrie

Really? Only 10:30?

Randomness
I’m bored and am trying to look busy typing in a word document at work. Did I mention we were getting “reorganized”? I’m not sure what that means, but I hope it means that when the “reorganizers” walk by and see me typing away hurriedly and then they check with IT and IT says, well she was writing in a Word document so she must have been doing work (Oh and also, she keeps this Real Time feed of her blog up all day so she can squeal every time someone visits her blog up) so you should probably just “reorganize” her to being a typer in word all day. And maybe let her take naps, because she types a lot. It probably doesn’t mean that, but in my head it makes total sense (Disregard my previous post about my head being crazy today).

So in an effort to enthrall you so you stick around and read the rest of the post-here is some randomness I’ve thought up or come across:

This blog is hilarious, I’ve just started reading it, you should too and then we should talk about it http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ I found it on this blog: Jenny The Bloggess which is also but gusting (I totally left that last statement wrong on purpose because it literally took me 12 minutes to figure out why that looked wrong…it’s supposed to be gut busting…but gusting is way better) funny-even my mom reads it and thinks so .

Everyone’s facebook statuses are so insightful or humorous today that it has intimidated me and I haven’t updated my status yet. I was going to write something about not wanting to go to work-but I write something like that every day.

Speaking of facebook, my friend Nigel Campbell put up his acting reel on facebook and youtube, and I feel all warm and squishy knowing someone who has an acting reel and is in SAG. If you are a producer or casting director or someone important in acting related things and you are reading this because you were trying to get out of casting that super hard part you just couldn’t find the perfect person for, I think you should google his name and watch the reel. He’s pretty talented and hilarious.

The guy next to me just took his shoes off, I’m not sure why and I don’t want to ask because I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a 45 minute explanation complete with uncomfortable pauses where I’m not really sure if the explanation is over or not.

The lady that sits next to me started her outage job and is down in a different part of the building and I miss her. She laughs at my jokes and lets me lay on the couch in her cube and tells people it’s because I’m pregnant and to leave me alone.

I’m blatantly picking my nose today. The air is so dry in here I’ve given up being discreet about it. The guy next to me can’t judge me, he’s not wearing shoes.

This is my suggested “must read” story today on Google News Scientists Discover Rare Vegetarian Spider. Wow, even Google is trying to shit on my day. Spiders *shudders*

I find myself missing a lot of things today. College life, College food, Good friends I used to talk to regularly but don’t anymore, the days when Jon and Kate liked each other or were at least faking it, when my brother’s migraines didn’t ruin his life, Sammy the cat, my old cellphone, when I liked my job, the people in my life who made me laugh and smile everyday who were eaten by some sort of monster, blogs I loved to follow posting regularly, when I won contests on blogs…

I should probably explain that, I’ve been trying to win kitchen contests from Pioneer Woman for weeks now. The last couple weeks she gave away a couple Kitchen Aid mixers (DREAM) and fancy knives and I wrote eloquent comments to try and win (ON MY CARRIEBERRY EVEN! I wasn’t sure work was letting me post them, sometimes they are crappy like that, like when I want to post on Joshilyn Jackson’s blog) and I haven’t. I mean, I would have rather used all my good winning luck to win that signed Joshilyn book, but man…can a girl get a free Kitchen Aid Mixer??

There are a lot of Mormon women who write blogs about their families. And Jesus. But mostly their families, and they are great writers and they have adorable kids. True Story.

I’m afraid my husband’s job is taking gross advantage of him and he is so loyal and so focused he doesn’t realize it and won’t stand up for himself and we will be doomed to live in this tax bracket forever when he is clearly worth his weight in gold.

I’m still mad at my work for blocking People of Walmart. Nazi’s.

I find it shocking that the girl who wrote “I kissed a girl and I liked it” has strict scary Jesus parents. Evidence here.

My brother is going to be Lady GaGa for Halloween, no lie. It’s going to be great, he’d better take pictures. Should I be offended that he borrowed some of my clothes for his costume?

The guy, Bryan Singer who did Pushing Daises and some Heroes episodes is doing the next X-men movie http://perezhilton.com/2009-10-12-more-x-men-to-come I’m kind of jazzed about that. Here’s hoping his casts Kristin Chenoweth because she’s freaking rockstar awesome.

Here is a list of stuff I’m going to look up on Wikipedia today, Kennedy assassinations, Taliban, Chernobyl, and Augsburg.

My husband used to call me at least at lunch every day to see how my day was going, now I can’t get him on the phone at all. That makes me sad.

There is a guy at work who is such an asshole, I would love to punch him in the face. But I’m really nice to him and laugh at his stupid jokes because I don’t want him to pick on me. He still does. This morning he told me it was nice to see me wearing girl clothes again and he always tries to give me commands on what I should be doing when I’m pregnant, you know, because he’s been pregnant before so he knows. Yesterday he told me I was getting my own gravitational pull. Oh and he’s an insufferable know it all.

I am wearing my own clothes today-and I’m very proud of myself. Really it’s just a sweater coat and t-shirt, whatever, it’s the first time in like a week I’ve looked in my own drawers.

We will eat at home tonite and I have no idea what to have for dinner. I snuck out and got Taco Bell last night so I have to be good and not whine about eating out this weekend. It’s hard to transition from grill season to cooking on the stove season so rapidly. My mindset isn’t ready for that. I’m still like, Seth you could have a steak…oh wait, it’s snowing.

I miss DisneyWorld. I think they put crack in the water and meth in the air. I want to go back like yesterday. I’m thinking of giving birth and when the kid is old enough giving my parents doe eyes and seeing if they will take us back and watch my kid the whole time while I run around screaming about how much I love DisneyWorld.

No really, I’m probably going to go to Cancun with my husband for our long delayed honeymoon next year for our anniversary. That is if I can fathom leaving my six month old with my parents. I may not be able to do it. Then again, I did visibly cringe at the crying child in Babies R Us Sunday…

Here are some things people don’t tell you about pregnancy: Your lady parts turn into Niagara Falls. You will be excited you don’t have to do the whole time of the month thing, but you won’t be excited when you have to start wearing pads because when you sneeze or laugh too hard you pee your pants a little. There is a strict ban on medication unless you are dying or will die without it. Your doctor will give you a concerned look whenever you talk about flying somewhere and then says scary things about blood clots and walking around the flight like a crazy person. There is an awkward in between stage where you just feel and look fat, and everyone who tells you different is lying-the length of this stage is based on your body type. You alternate between exhaustion and insomnia, but never do you actually have the full bore energy you once did. It’s hard not to think, at least once during sex, that you are letting your baby get poked in the head.

At what point do I get to stop shaving my legs and lady bits and blame it on the baby? I’m thinking yesterday.

I’ve rearranged our storage so many times I don’t even know where things are anymore, I tried to find my snowboots and failed.

I’m shocked that my NYC vacation is coming up so quickly. It surprises me. I almost want it to come and go so that we can know the sex of the baby.

I’m worried the baby will turn and we won’t get to find out. Then my head will explode because I can’t make a decision on decorations without knowing the sex.
Okay I’ve randomized you enough for the day. I might be back later with some more thoughts. Until then-comment away!

Love (well…nothing at the moment),
Carrie

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Hello blog world. I’m having a tough mental day today. I think it’s because I had bad dreams last night-so I woke up tired and feeling like something was going to go wrong. At this point I’m taking things hour by hour, trying not to talk myself off the ledge. I also think I am starting to work up anxiety about Bean’s doctor’s appointment. I’m trying not to, but hey, you try to work with the crazy in my head.

Last night
Jesse came over and started his projects for us last night. I was really sure he wasn’t going to make it and started laying out the trim painting to do myself, but then he showed up and he did it and I was super glad because he did a WAY better job than I would have. He taped things off and laid out extra drop clothes and used all the right tools. So it was probably better that he did it and not me. I made him macaroni and cheese and then I wasn’t feeling so hot so I had him drive me to pick up something at Taco Bell. Then I went and laid in bed. He went home about 8:30. Seth came home around 9 and promptly started studying/freaking out about his homework and proposal that is due for the class. He stayed up until midnight trying to teach himself what his teacher hadn’t. I hate when this happens to him. What is it with half-assed teachers who expect you to learn things they refuse to teach you? Things that aren’t even in the book? This teacher, for his network engineering class is particularly stupid and has 6 books for the class. He also told the distance learning students (what Seth is, the college is in California) that unless they had access to special records on campus, he didn’t know how they were going to do the proposal. So that’s nice. Seth is having a minor meltdown about it. I tried to go to sleep without him, but that is practically impossible. When I got to sleep, I need to be able to be down for 8 hours straight, otherwise, I wake up tired (like I am today) and unrested. Of course it doesn’t help that Seth will come in and chatterbox you to death even though you are trying to sleep and it’s midnight. He is still getting up with me at 6:15am so I’m hoping it starts to wear on him and he starts wanting to come to bed earlier.

TV
I didn’t watch anything monumental last night. I flipped thru some stuff. History Channel is doing a special this week on the Kennedy family or the assassinations or something. So I watched that for a bit. Then I watched that DJ AM Intervention knockoff. That was about it.
I forgot to tell you all what I thought of Grey’s. First off, the penis storyline made me cringe. I thought the storyline with Meredith and Lexie could have been so much more and it got shoved under the rug. I liked the stuff with Izzie and Alex. I was meh on the Callie and Arizona stuff. I liked the Chief and Callie. I’m pretty sure Izzie is going to lose her job for a while. It’s nice to see the old Bailey creeping back. Derek does stoic watcher very well. And as always, I love Owen and Christina-I hope they don’t screw this couple up too bad.

Comments
I had trouble commenting back to your comments yesterday-but I finally got something up at home since my computer is down and I’m using Seth’s. Also it was super fun to watch where everyone is coming from on the real time ticker-some of you I recognize and some of you stump me! Shoot me a comment or email, I’d love to know how you found me!

Bean’s Blog
The Bean is hanging out today. Yesterday it gave me THE WORST INDIGESTION EVER. Like I could hardly sit up. I kept going over to the couches (I work in the library now and there are couches) and laying down on them because it was the only position that didn’t feel like my chest was going to explode. I'm testing a theory today that it might be the soda I've been drinking. I'll let you know how it turns out. I hope I'm wrong because I just bought a case of Diet Dr. Pepper (Caffeine free of course) and I don't want to stare at it longingly.
I didn’t feel the Bean pop much yesterday, but the web says that is normal. I thought I felt it when I was lying down once or twice, but I really didn’t focus on it too much. I’m ready to go see the doctor and talk to her about lots of things. Hopefully it will help me be at least a little more relaxed about all of this. Sanity check if you will.

One Step at a time
I’m trying to take this day one hour at a time. I tell myself to just try to make it to the next hour and then the next and then the next. You think I would be smart enough to not fall for that, but I mean, come on, sometimes taking things down into childish terms comforts your mind better. Like when your Mom shows up with soup randomly when you are sick.

CarrieBerry
My CarrieBerry is driving me crazy. Of course the day after I order the fancy hardcase to protect it I freaking drop it and put a huge scratch/dent on the top corner. The “silicone case” didn’t even help it at all. It’s infuriating. Also for some reason, my dial pad isn’t working. I know I probably just need to restart it but that activates a bunch of apps I turned off for memory space and I’d have to go thru and turn them off again. Like Google Talk-do you know what that does to my phone? It basically turns it into a giant hourglass. Anytime I try to do something the clock symbol comes up and is like, not today buddy. I can safely say, I’m not attached to my CarrieBerry, sure it’s handy at work when I can’t check facebook or if someone sends me an email, or to send pictures to my family and friends I just took, but the amount of time I spend trying to figure it out or trying to figure out what’s wrong makes me long for a simple phone.

Fur Babies
So last night Bagheera turned into a baby. He literally climbed up into bed and laid in my arms like you would a baby. Then when I got up to pee he situated himself under the covers and with his head on the pillow. He stayed that way, in the curve of my arm/chest until about 3 when I turned to the other side. I gave him my back and he stretched out under the covers and made a giant heating pad on my back. Seth thought it was the cutest thing ever. I did too until I realized I had even less of the bed than before and seriously had one foot on the floor. Then I got crabby and made him go cuddle with Willow. He was pissed and probably won’t ever do it again, but it was pretty darn cute. They also helped Jesse paint, which was hilarious until Bagheera got paint on his ear, then it turned into World War Three trying to get it off. Ahh cats. By the way, Seth thinks it’s totally funny when I do the Bengals “Who Dey?” chant at the cats. I’m finally working football humor into my everyday life-go me.

She works hard for the money
Except today. But I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to try it. Hope you all have a super fantastic day-and the week is going by quickly for you!

Love (kittens who cuddle),
Carrie