It's finally Friday...

...unfortunately, I'm working tomorrow so it doesn't feel very Friday-ish to me. I spent my day off yesterday getting nothing accomplished. Actually I spent the afternoon with Becky & Kaden. She was working on Eric's birthday present so I kept the baby occupied. Not much to occupy a 3 week old, so mostly I held him. For three hours! My arms still hurt. Next week is their shower and we still need to get them something and I am attempting to make something. What do you think of this?

Haircut

My New Haircut
I got my haircut over the weekend and I hate it, but everyone else loves it, so maybe I'm missing something. I keep thinking I'm going to get used to it. So far, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I can't help but think, "What have I done???"

Terrified...Petrified...Overwhelmed!

And did I mention, nervous? I swear, this house thing has me all kinds of upset. And we haven't really done anything very proactive about it. I have just been reading stuff on the internet and in the books I checked out. I don't know how there is any way that we are going to qualify for a loan. My credit isn't great. It's better than it was 2 years ago, but still not great and Doug has no credit. That's right, none. We checked his report last night and there is nothing on it, not a job history, not anything. How he has managed to make it to 25 with no credit history is beyond me. And to top it off, Desire called today to see where we were at on the house thing because they found some land and they want it, now. We have no down payment saved, very little in the bank period and now our credit scores! What are we going to do???

I'm not feeling so hot tonight. Let me rephrase that, I'm not sick. I just don't feel like I look all that great. Plus, I totally have PMS. And why is it that when I have PMS, I decide to go shopping? When there is no way in hell that anything is going to fit and I leave more depressed than when I came into the store, even though I spent $100. Yes, I said $100. I bought a spring outfit for work...khaki pants, stripey 3/4 sleeve button up, white tank to go underneath. And then some basics. Black tank, Black & White V-neck top. 3 pairs underwear and 1 bra. Seriously though, I haven't been to the gym in 2 weeks. Not that I was going all that consistently before. I was lucky to make it twice a week. I just can't get motivated. You'd think my clothes not fitting would be a huge motivator, but it just isn't working for me. And I know my eating habits suck. I eat way too much food and I know I only have myself to blame, but there are seriously days when I eat as much as Doug does. Something is seriously going to have to change. This sucks.

I just finished reading The Da Vinci Code...I should have read that ages ago. It was so good, I actually stayed up until 2 in the morning last night and I would have finished it if I thought I'd be able to function at all at work today. I so did not see that ending coming.

Home Ownership

Doug and I may be on the road to home ownership very shortly. Desire emailed me today and said that they were definitely not moving back here and wanted to sell the house and give us the opportunity to buy it first. Yay! So I talked to Doug about it and he was very much into the idea and I talked to Desire tonight and that went well. She's thinking somewhere around $70,000. Which is less than what the house appraised for 7 years ago, but she wants us to have some equity. Anyway, it would be an ideal situation for us, I think. We really do love it here and would love it if the house were really ours. Now we really just need to do the whole mortgage thing and that is the part that scares me the most!

Pictures That I Promised...

Here are the pictures I mentioned in my last post. Kaden was only about 8 hours old at the time. I think we took 15 or 16 pictures just at the hospital. Everytime we put the camera away, he'd start doing all that sweet baby stuff again! :-)

Here is Doug, the pround uncle, holding new baby Kaden.

Here I am holding Kaden...I promise, he wasn't crying in this picture.

He might have needed a diaper change though.

Kaden Eric

The Sweetest Baby in the Whole World!

Doug's brother took an esepecially sweet picture of me holding Kaden and Doug standing beside me, but it is on their camera and I will post as soon as Becky emails it to me.

New Baby

Doug's newest nephew, Kaden Eric, was born yesterday at 12:15 p.m. He weighed 8 lbs. 2oz. and was 21 inches long. His other nephew, Nate was almost the exact same measurements at birth. Is that what I have to look forward to? I don't think I could find a way to carry all that inside me. Although, Becky is only a couple inches taller than I am, so I guess it is possible. Anyhow, I have pictures, but they are on my computer at home, so I'll have to post them later. I'm sure you'll take my word for it when I tell you that he is absolutely adorable!!!

Daydreaming...

IF, and it's a big if, If Doug and I ever do get married I have a couple of ideas for reception music that I want to run past you. For our entrance to the reception, I want something fun. I know alot of times they play "Celebrate" or something generic like that, but I was kind of thinking that if we played Limp Bizkit's "The One" (well, maybe just part of it, it's a little depressing) that would be cool. Plus, it would be something that was a part of Doug. And then for our first dance, I would play "I Could Not Ask For More." I love the Sara Evans version, but it's country, so I don't know that I could get Doug to dance to it, so we'd probably go with the Edwin McCain version, which is the first version I heard anyway. I knew the minute I heard that song I would play it at my wedding, it didn't matter that I had no marriage prospects when I heard it. How does that sound to you? I want something different, so if you have heard of a dozen people doing this already, don't tell me. I'll pretend in my own happy little world that it is.

Icky-ness

I don't feel good tonight. I was feeling fine and then all of a sudden my head and nose got really stuffy and now I feel like crap. I don't know if I'm coming down with something or if it is because we cleaned the ceiling fans earlier and stirred up too many months worth of dust. I hope I feel better in the morning. Plus, I'm working this weekend. Yuck.

In other news, we got our computer at home and are online now. Yea!

Anti-Climatic Anniversary

Needless to say, I am not wearing a diamond on my left hand today. I'm sure you know how I feel about that.

What's in a name?

Two days ago I was at work and received a call from a patron wanting to sign her daughter up for storytime. It's a family we know and have served for the last several years, so even though they always struck as a little bit unconventional, nothing prepared me for what the conversation would hold. I was almost finished with the sign up when I checked to make sure I had the correct spelling of the little girl's name. I usually put up name tags for all the kids each session. It helps them to practice name recognition. Anyhow, as I was confirming the spelling, the mother informed that her daughter only answered to "Big Sister" at the present time and that she thought I should put "Big Sister" on the nametag. So that's what I did. I wasn't going to argue with her, though I have my own thoughts on the subject. Mostly, what's going to happen to this little girl when she is 40? Is she still going to want to be called "Big Sister?" I thought it was funny. Definitely gave me a giggle. Seriously though, what is wrong with people? A nickname is one thing...poor Sarah has been "Sarah-Beara" for as long as I can remember and my brother calls me "Nosey-Rosey" when he wants to irritate me. I know we all have little nicknames like that, but I wouldn't go around telling people that was my given name, would you?