I had another OB appointment on Wednesday.  Baby is doing fine.  Heartbeat was 142 bpm.  Still not showing or feeling it move just yet, but she told me I should pretty soon!  I have another big ultrasound on June 6th, so that should be interesting. 

Other than that, I am working “oodles” of overtime right now so it will be on the check I get just before I leave for Michigan on the 8th.  Need gas money for my “beast” (Envoy), that is what the shuttle bus driver calls my car!  He’s like, “here’s short little you, getting into this HUGE SUV!”  It is pretty big I guess.   I know, every one else is going “green” and I buy an SUV.  Well, here is my thought process.  I bought it on Halloween (I hope that isn’t a bad omen or anything!), and I was thinking, I want to have kids sometime in the near future, so I am going to have to get something bigger to haul them around in!  Also, with us going back and forth to Michigan a couple of times a year we are always either bringing home a ton of crap or taking a ton of crap with us.  So hence the need for a larger vehicle, and now add a baby to that equation and all of the things you need to travel with them.  Also, when we have people come and visit, now they can just climb in and I’ll drive.  I know where I am going most of the time  No more cramming 5 adults into my Grand Prix, now there is room for everyone!!  Hmmm, what’s next a bus?!

 Happy Memorial Day to anyone who is reading!

Okay, let’s see Vicky told me I am “tagged” and need to write 10 things about myself.  They have to be interesting?

1. Some people know this about me, and some don’t I have weird tastes!  I hate Mushrooms.  I actually remembered a suppressed memory last week.  I was talking with a few of my friends on e-mail,  and I was remembering how my parents used to make me eat mushrooms.  I’ve always hated them.  I’m not too crazy about onions, green peppers, or tomatoes either, but I will eat brussel sprouts and spinach!     And I love fried green tomatoes! 

2.  I used to be known as kind of a rowdy person at times, but I lead quite a quiet existence now.  I’m somewhat more introverted than I used to be in my teens and twenties.

3. My husband is seven years younger than me!  Which means he was a 5th grader when I graduated!  Sick hunh?

4. Wal-Mart can turn me into a homicidal maniac in about 5 minutes!  Here’s hoping I took the Zoloft today because I start fantisizing about running most of them over with my cart!  Why do they put the milk in the BACK of the store?

5. Cell phones are another thing that drive me crazy.  Look lady, I don’t give a hoot how many “whenever minutes” you have, do I have to listen to you use them all right NOW?!  (as I am on a shuttle bus listening to someone who might as well be talking to the family dog on the phone!)

6. My favorite comedian is Dennis Leary!  Not for kids, but if I’m bummed out about something, I will put in the ‘Lock n’ Load’ tape I have.  He can always make me laugh!  Warning the language is not for everyone!

7. I love to stay up and watch Nick at Nite!  (My husband hates this!)  I love to watch TV as I am going off to sleep and he wants the TV off.  But he snores and he drives me crazy!  My favorites are the Cosby Show and Roseanne.   If I don’t have the TV on, usually I start thinking of something hideous like a mass murderer trying to break in our house or something. 

8. Okay, I may be 35, but I am still deathly afraid of thunderstorms!  I hate lightning and thunder is just the kicker. 

9. I am also scared to death of tornadoes!  But I am fascinated by them!  I wanted to be a meteorologist when I was a kid.  (too much math for me though)  I love to watch Storm Stories on the Weather Channel about the tornado stories people have.  I also like to read actual accounts from people who have been through them. 

10.  I don’t like horror movies.  If I watch it, I will have nightmares and not be able to go to sleep after I watch it!  (This also drives my husband nuts!  Hence the reason for watching Nick at Nite!)  I have seen Silence of the Lambs (the edited version) and I am still scared of Anthony Hopkins’ picture!  Ooooh when he is telling her how he eats someone’s liver and then makes that slurping noise with that whacked out face!  Scares the bejesis out of me! 

11. I love music, I always have.  (Sorry, I don’t like country music, that and rap are about the only music, I really don’t like.  I do like “some” country, but not a lot.)  I still have live concerts in my car!  Unfortunately,  something damaged my self-confidence deeply in high school, and I have never quite recovered from that.  I have severe anxiety disorder when it comes to public speaking and/or performances in public.  So, unfortunately, the only way people can get me to sing in front of people anymore is to go to karoke night at the bar, where I can kind of drink my anxiety away.   Maybe this child will help me get over that a little at a time eventually.  I am sure I will want to sing to him or her.   Don’t worry, it has been quite a long time since I have been to karoke.  Don’t worry all, I have not had anything to drink during my pregnancy!

So there are 11 things, interesting?  Well, maybe, it’s all I could think of for now.  Anyway, hope you learned something, if not, you know me too well! 

We had another appointment on Friday with the OB (the 27th).  Everything looks good.  They wanted me to show up with a “full bladder”, so we stopped at McD’s for breakfast and I got a 16 oz. Coke, if that didn’t work nothing was going to.  So anyway, we met with the Genetics Counselor whose job it must be to scare us to death about everything that could go wrong with baby!  Then we had the ultrasound, baby was pretty active in there for the first couple minutes.  The ultrasonographer was trying to take measurements and it wasn’t holding very still.  I guess I should get used to this idea hunh?  Then baby seemed to lie down, suck it’s thumb and go to sleep! 

After that is was off to Discount Tire to get my tire with the nail in it taken care of!  Little did I know I would end up replacing all 4 tires that day!  I know, I am a wuss.  The tires were four years old though, and did need to be replaced.  Plus with baby on the way, might as well be safe.  Wouldn’t want to blow an old tire with precious cargo riding in the car!

I got a call from the OB doc today at work and everything looks just fine she said.  All of our tests have come back very favorably. 

Saturday was a gorgeous day!  Since I have been having a craving for a Mancino’s grinder and we don’t seem to have any Mancino’s here in Minnesota, I decided to scope out the internet a couple weeks ago, and I found out there is one in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (about 2 hrs away).  So, we decided to load Jamie into the car and set out for Eau Claire.   It was a gorgeous day for a drive, we drove along the Mississippi River for almost half the way.  We finally found the Mancino’s and it was SO worth the drive!  It’s been like a year since I had one, and it was SO good!  Watch someone contact me now and tell me they are all over Minnesota, they just aren’t in Rochester!  Oh well, it was worth the beautiful drive, and Jamie loved the long car ride!

What is it with dogs and cars?  Why do they love riding in the car so much?  Right now he is sound to sleep next to me.  We call him “Cartoon dog” when he is sleeping because his eyes are just little slits and and he looks like a cartoon drawing.  So cute!  For now, he is our baby.  He met Landon (Nick and Sarah’s baby) last week and he walked right up to him wagging his tail, and eventually giving kisses to him on his legs.  I am hoping he will feel that way when we bring one home!  He is part Chihuahua, so I am a little worried.

Okay, back to the weekend….Sunday, we went to see Landon get baptized at their church.  He slept through the whole thing, the little bug!   We went to Nick and Sarah’s after church to have lunch with them and their families.  It was another very nice day. 

Yesterday, (Monday), was my last day of my Code Sets class.  I took the day off, (long story), but it had to do with using a day up in the calendar at work, so I stayed home and worked on my last two assignments.  Hung out with the animals, and cleaned the house (somewhat).  I vacuumed and did some laundry.  Today starts another class on Reimbursement Methods (oh yippee, I can hardly contain myself).   Seven more classes to go…

Well, I suppose I have written enough for a little while.   I tried to upload the ultrasound pictures, but our scanner either made them too dark or too light and you couldn’t even tell what they were.  So sorry…..