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Hi blog world!
Sorry I missed you yesterday. My mom’s surgery was a little more than I could mentally handle so I stayed home from work and went and saw her in the hospital.

Momma
She is doing okay. In a lot of pain, but handling it like a trooper. She was totally out of it when she was on the pain meds so that was kind of fun. She may never live down some of the things she said in my family. I still haven’t lived down the fact that I wanted Mac and Cheese after my nose job apparently because my brother brought it up yesterday.
I brought her some cute little plants and put them in a basket and some comfy jammies. Listen if you are going to visit someone who isn’t well, bring them comfy pajamas. It’s the best gift you can give. They will be so happy because they have new pajamas and estatic that they are comfortable because they are in awful hospital gowns. I know when I’m sick I just want to lounge in pj’s (okay that’s all the time) and having soft new ones that are nice and roomy make a huge difference. That’s my advice to you all.
My mom is staying at a hospital in town, I won’t name it because, well, I don’t have a very good opinion of it. I thought it would be the nicest hospital in town and it is so run down and gross. It’s super ghetto, there are more cops there with patients than visitors. It blew my mind how much nicer my hospital was compared to it. I thought my hospital was the ghetto one but I was totally wrong. Compared to this hospital, UNMC is state of the art. Anyway, sorry I can’t name the hospital, but maybe if you email me I will tell you. Ha.

I’m bringing 80’s back
Yesterday I officially gave up on pants. I was down to one pair of pants that fit and I REFUSE to go buy more. I have like 59 days left, there is no way I’m buying more pants. Or underwear for that matter. Yesterday, at the suggestion of a coworker, I tried wearing leggings instead. It was so much better. Nothing was too constricting, I didn’t feel like I had to pee constantly, they were easy to get up and down and I felt kind of cool and in style. I went to Walmart yesterday and bought a few more colors and some longer shirts and dresses. All for under 20 bucks. Now that is maternity wear I can approve of. Although I found the perfect dress to wear in my maternity pictures at Target. You can peek at it here. I’m secretly hoping it drops in price in three weeks.
Also I had to learn how to put on boots with the fur yesterday while hugely pregnant. I had no idea when I dug them out of the closet they were going to be a problem. I about fell over twice, tried sitting down to put them on, and ended up pressing my forehead against the wall to balance while I put them on. I’m sure if anyone had seen me they would have laughed, but I was just relieved, I was about 20 minutes into the endeavor.

Evelynn’s blog
We had a great appointment at the doctor yesterday. I have to go see ANOTHER specialist for my leg and feet and back problems. They think I have a compressed nerve, which apparently means Physical Therapy. So they got me in first thing tomorrow morning at 8 am. I don’t know how long it’s going to take or how I will feel afterwards, but hopefully I can make it into work. I don’t really mean that. I should say, hopefully I’m exhausted and get to go change into pj’s and visit my Mom (she is supposed to come home from the hospital today or tomorrow) and enjoy a long weekend.
Anyway I only gained like a pound and a half at the doctors thanks to my new sadistic diabetes diet. They seemed to be okay with that, they said as long as I keep gaining I should be okay, the amount doesn’t matter. It brings my grand total of weight gained up to 23 pounds. Everyone (especially in the diabetes office) is always really careful when they talk to me about weight, like I’m going to be super sensitive about it, but it doesn’t bother me one bit. I knew getting in to this that I was going to gain weight. I actually panicked more yesterday when I hadn’t gained the requisite four pounds a month that the book says you should gain. If anything, having all this extra weight on my frame has taught me that I probably wouldn’t be able to handle it unless I was pregnant. My body just hasn’t taken well to lugging around an extra 23 pounds.
But anyway everything measured and sounded good. I talked to my doctor about some of our questions from Child Birthing Class. And I told her about my mucus plug theory and she agreed and then told me to keep an eye out in case contractions start, then we should be concerned. I did learn we don’t get another ultrasound unless there is a problem which makes me sad, but she said you can’t really see anything anyway because everything is so cramped in there.
So my daughter either loves or hates the One Republic song “All the Right Moves”. This morning the radio dj’s were all on commercial or obnoxious so I turned on my new One Republic CD to that song and she started jamming, kicking my ribs, turning around, just going to town. Then it rolled to the next song and she stopped, I went back to “All the Right Moves” and she started again. I’m going to go with that she likes it; my child has good taste already.

Jerks
Someone stole the box from under my desk yesterday that I was using to prop up my feet. I’m so angry about it I want to send out a building wide email and make someone feel like crap, but that would require effort. I’ll just pout about it.

Mr. Hellbusch
Seth had his first business trip with his new group yesterday. He had to fly down to Dallas Texas. Most of his group stayed overnight, but my wonderful husband came home because he knew it would make me happier to have him there. Even if he did come home worn out and grumbly. It worked out really well because I dropped him off in the morning (super early) and then picked him up that night and I was already downtown visiting my mom so it wasn’t a super long drive or that out of the way for me to pick him up.
He seemed like the trip was worthwhile and productive, but now they are talking about sending him on two more trips before the month is out and those ones would probably have to be overnight. They are trying to get all his trips in before the baby comes. While I appreciate the effort on his new bosses part to keep him around when the baby is here, but I still don’t see why they have to send him everywhere. It’s like they are showing him off or something. They say they want to bring him “up to speed” on all the different parts of the operation. I think they just want to parade their new savior of the program.

Waiting
I’m waiting for the guy I’m supposed to be training (the only reason I showed up to work today) to show up. He was supposed to be here, but he hasn’t. This is the second training day he missed. Oh well, I really don’t have anything super pressing for him to do anyway, just busy work. I’m still trying to write the training guide, but it’s hard to write down in order all the simple tasks I do. The other day I literally wrote, “get a pen and a staple remover”. Seriously.

Better catch up
Alright friends, I’m going to catch up on my blogs and gossip. Hope you all are having a good week. Hang in there! We are almost done!

Love (my new leggings),
Carrie