5 weeks!

I am jumping the gun a little since in about 5 weeks I will be 37 weeks, and Claire will be fully cooked.  But I wanted to express my joy.   Five weeks and I could be meeting her.  I could be wearing regular pants again, I could wake up and not feel nauseous.  I can take nyquil again!  I know it is the little things in life right?

I think I am most excited to do real workouts again.  Not that I mind walking, it is nice, but I am ready to get back to Bob, and be challenged in a way that I haven't been in months!   I am also on a mission to convince the ladies in my life to workout with me again.   (yes, if you are reading this thinking is this me?  It is you.  It is time.)  

Happiness all around.

Morning coffee gets my nerves in a twitter

I have been up for two hours, and I am not that far ahead.  I am procrastinating from real life by blogging.   At least for some of you that means you get to read something.  :)

I am currently downloading pictures from Phebe's birthday party on to the computer and eventually on to facebook if I am lucky.  AND DONE!!

I have no real coherent thoughts today and I am going to bore you with a list of things that I have thought in the past few hours.

1. There is no such thing as a peaceful protest.  Not when there are crazy people out there.   (Note to you all:  I am in no way saying I am for or against protests, or giving my opinion in anyway on the protests going on right now.)   I am just saying, that there are two sides, protesters and the cops....both have at least one person that is willing to take things too far.  Sad.  Can't we be peaceful?

2.  When you are grocery shopping there are two things that you should do, if not for yourself, for the sanity of those around you.  First, don't leave your cart perpendicular in the middle of the lane, thus making it impossible for other people to pass you, and then get mad when they move your cart out of the way.  (Honestly, I saw a few people fighting about this today.)  Second, if it is a pain for you to walk to the cart return, to properly put your cart back then park right next to it and viola problem solved!!  Note:  the trunk of my car is NOT a cart return.

3.  Being in my third trimester not only makes me not want to be pregnant anymore because I want my body back, but I find myself standing in the nursery dreaming about what the baby will look like.  I cannot wait to kiss her face and hold her.  I am so excited!

4.  Nesting for me is basically amazing.  I love when things are clean and organized.  Nesting just gives me the excuse to be overly organized and overly clean.   :)

5.  If you honestly don't have the time or the mental capacity to listen to me when I tell you I need to vent, or talk or share about my life.  Please don't pretend that you do.  It is ok for you to say no.  I would rather you say no than have you not listen.  That tends to let me down.

6.  Tv is bad.   I need some good tv in my life for when I am up late at night nursing....any suggestions?!

7.  Is it crazy to crave Frank's red hot on everything you eat?  If not, then please explain to me why my weirdest craving this pregnancy has been bananas with maple syrup.  

Ok, off to clean some more.  :)

Nano is over and I have to take it easy

Nothing like forced sitting to make you finally update your blog.  I just finished the adventure that is Nano.  50k words completed, saved and submitted.  That is right Nano, you have yet to defeat me.  I am actually relieved to have it done this year with so much else that is going on in my life!!  For those of you who still don't know what Nano is, here is the brief explanation.  National Novel Writing Month is the name, and the challenge is to write 50,000 words in the month of November.  You will then have your basic premise for a novel, and you can add/edit later.  I must confess before starting Nano the idea of writing 50k in only 30 days seemed a task that I would never ever be able to do.  But now, I am wiser.  I know that the real work is in the editing.  A task that can overtake your life.

On other news:

We are officially at 31 weeks, and I am hoping only six more to go!  I am enjoying the little moments of her kicking, and having both Phebe and Samantha come over and want to feel the baby kick.  Today I am having forced rest from the doctor (also from my husband.).   The specific instructions were to take it "slightly" more usual than normal and drink lots of fluids.   This is partially good because I have caught the cold that my friends kids have, and I am tired today, and partially bad because I hate to sit.     Seriously, hate to sit.  I look around me and think about all the thing I want to be doing, and making doing them forbidden for the day makes me want to do them more.  :)  I know it is a sickness.

I just read an article title "does a good hair day stop you from working out?"  I am not even going to read that.  I cannot even begin to describe what a ridiculous thought that is.   Are you really that high maintenance??

I don't have anything else interesting to say, but here I sit watching the New Girl, which I love, and waiting for the laundry to finish...