Lunch is so yummy today...I decided to indulge and go all out. I spent a little bit to get the yummy Noodles N' Company house marinara (penne pasta, marinara sauce) and then I splurged and got shrimp on there. It is SOOOO delicious. If you guys don't have a Noodles N' Company, you are seriously missing out. Yes, their stuff is pricey...but it's not like I eat there all the time. I know they didn't have these out in Washington, but they had Cucina Presto (which is basically the same thing)...or if you're familiar with Cucina Cucina...it's like the fast version of that.

I called Brian at lunch and he was "sleeping" sort of...but not (he says he wasn't sleeping)...he had to reschedule his interview that he had this morning, but that's okay. At least I know he'll be there when I leave work to go over there. I told him I didn't know if I wanted to wear my work clothes to the movie tonight and he said I could wear some of his pants...and I'm thinking to myself...my clothes don't fit, I really wonder if Brian's pants are gonna fit...lol...I'm no skinny minnie, so Brian and I were about the same size...so if mine don't fit, I highly doubt his are going to fit. I can see me wearing sweat pants to the movie...NOT. I'll just wear my work clothes if it comes down to that.

I'm so excited about the holiday season around here! I don't want to share anything quite yet, but there's lots of FUN, EXCITING things that are planned (at work...my home holidays are gonna suck...) and I will hopefully have lots of fun pictures and stuff. I'm determined to make up for my Halloween laziness by going all out for December and stuff before I won't be here (baby coming and all)...yay!

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Wow...it was one cold morning this morning! Since I got home so late last night (lol...8:30 or so), there wasn't as much frost on my car as there could have been, so I wasn't out there scraping for as long as I thought I would be. I would rather brush 6 inches of snow off my car than scrape frost of my windows. Ugh...FROST! I hate it!

Brian got a bunch of e-mails about people that are interested in talking to him about jobs, so I'm excited for him :) I guess he got some 4 different e-mails asking to set up job interviews. They're all for networking, but even so...it's probably better than what he's doing...and, of course, he'd be getting paid more (as it is what his degree is in). I know he wants to do programming and do something with that, but if he can get a good job that he keeps in networking, I'm all for it. If only I was in the position to find a job in my field...lol. Eventually...eventually. My friend Melissa was saying there's this firm up in Longmont that specializes in historical stuff (oooh! this excites me just hearing about it) and she was going to see what exactly was up with that. I'm thinking that even if I can get a paid internship or something after the baby is here, I can at least get my foot in the door somewhere. Brian did say that if he got a good job, I could work part time that way someone would be at home with the baby all the time. Ideally, I would like to be able to be at home during the day when Brian, theoretically, would be working...and then I could work part time at night when he gets home from work. That way, we wouldn't have to hire a baby sitter and it'd be cheaper all around (in my opinion). I don't know if any of that would work, but it's always worth a shot. The only shitty thing about working part time...you usually don't get insurance :( and I really need medical insurance...I think the whole family will need medical insurance after the baby is here, especially the baby. You never know when the baby's going to need it, and he's always going to be going to the doctor for his little check-ups and whatnot.

But yeah...the plan tonight is to actually go to that movie :) yay! How long has it taken me to actually go to it from when I first talked about it? About 5 days...lol, oh well. I think I'm gonna leave work and just go to Brian's (if he's there...hopefully if he did do interviews today, they'll be through by then) and then we can go to the movies a bit later (like 7:30ish...Melissa's going to come with us if she can...but she's not sure). Tomorrow, since I'm not doing anything, will be the heavy-duty cleaning day. I'm going to start to thoroughly clean my stuff so Brian will have room to move his stuff there. I figure, if I can clean one room each night when I get home from work, it'll eventually get done in a week or so (crossing my fingers)...I'll leave the big things (i.e. the closet and my bedroom) to do on the weekend when I have all day to do it because it would take me all day...I have a lot of stuff to go through). I start with the bathroom tomorrow! Gonna scour the floor and the bathtub, bleach the toilet and the counters, organize and get rid of all my bathroom stuff that I don't need...and then pray that it stays that way! You get so lazy by yourself that some things just go to hell (i.e. organizing and putting away things)...unfortunately, I can't be unorganized and lazy and leave stuff out when the baby is here, so I have to make it a habit to clean it up for him...or else he'll be choking on things that he shouldn't have even found in the first place.

Haha...oh crap, I better go...

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I haven't posted a picture of Colorado for a long time, so might as well post one of the actual Denver, Colorado that I live so close to...rather than the Rocky Mountains or anything. It most likely looked something like this tonight...the sunset was beautiful.



This one you get downtown and the Rockies at the same time...lol, so I hit two birds with one stone.

Other than that...today was uneventful. Worked...and about lunch time, I couldn't stand that my pants did not fit anymore (damn baby growing) so I went and bought pants and felt so much more comfortable the rest of the day. You don't even know how much more relieved I felt after I actually got some pants with elastic! I know, it doesn't seem like much...but damn, it was like I could breathe again!

Didn't have to work too late tonight...drove home as usual, same usual way, different music tonight (I was in the mood for The Cure).

Now I'm just waiting for my friend Melissa to get home and call me. She has to feed her kitties and then we're going to go down to Best Buy and bother Brian at work (he's a Geek Squad member) and then we're gonna go eat wings (well, she is...I'm not in a food mood tonight...I think I'm gonna get something to drink and maybe nibble on other people's wings...I am not very hungry).

You know...this seems like almost every Tuesday of mine...lol...I think maybe I need to get a life of some sort that does not involve doing the same things every single day. I suppose the baby will change that because, well, babies tend to bring different things into your life that you weren't expecting.

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I wish I could say I was happy, but that creeping back pain is back again. Not as bad as it was on Sunday, but believe me...it started out like that on Sunday too where it was bearable and I could tolerate it. I hope it does not get any worse. I think this morning it had to do with my posture in my seat with my heavy winter jacket on. I was sitting in a somewhat akward position and all that driving into work. Now that I'm sitting in the building at my desk (without my jacket), we'll see if it gets any better. At least it's during the week and I can call my doctor's office and they will actually be there.

I am not doing anything fun for Halloween. I am going to work today (most likely late again) and then I am going to go home and rest in my bed again. This has to be the most boring, uneventful thing EVER. I highly doubt there will be any trick-or-treaters in my apartment complex. It just doesn't seem right to be trick-or-treating in apartments when they can just go to the housing development that I live in (I sort of live in a village type setting...it's a housing development with many named sections and my apartments are one of the named sections).

Today is my one year anniversary of being hired at my job even though I've worked here since September of 2004. I was a temp for over a year before I was hired and then here I am today. Exciting, eh? I totally forgot I was hired on Halloween until I remembered that I went into my HR new-hire meeting that day wearing my Halloween costume from last year. Our whole department did an army theme, so I was dressed up in fatigues and all that. We went all out too...we had a whole cadence and we marched for our office. It was somewhat embarassing...lol...we're having a pot luck today though. I do not know if I am going to participate though since I did not bring any food or anything. I don't want to eat the food if I didn't even bring food to give to someone else. Hell, I can barely afford to buy food for myself (but that's another story)...

Well...better do something because I'm moving slower than usual...lol...takes me a tad bit longer to get a few things done.

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I KNOW you all wanted to see pets in Halloween costumes, so here's the Petsmart website and their big Halloween Costume Contest for pets :)

I warn you...cuteness will ensue!

PET COSTUMES!!!

EDIT: I was looking around the Internet and stumbled across this video and about peed my pants. I'm not going to imbed it into my entry because it is somewhat inappropriate (as it shows some explicit items)...but, if you want to watch it, click here.

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It's almost 8pm :( It seems like my whole evening is already a waste. I basically just got home from work not too long ago and it's almost bed time!! How depressing...

I accidentally (okay, I did it on purpose) left my window open when I left for work this morning. The weather was so fantastic, I figured it would be okay...haha, yeah right. I left work at 6:30 and it was so frigid outside! I for sure thought my house would be like an igloo when I got home, but it was still relatively cool in here. It must have been really nice while I was slaving away inside as it took that long to cool down.

Stopped by McDonald's on the way home to get my dinner...I should really quit eating there. All the places are pretty much out the Monopoly pieces (the only reason I went) and there's really no point to eating the shit food anymore.

One good thing though...went to get my mail and my Reader's Digest subscription finally kicked in! YAY! I got two back issues, I've got some reading to catch up on. I have a 2 year subscription, so I'll be enjoying it. I used to have a subscription to Reader's Digest a while back and I really enjoyed it, so now I have it again.

But anyway...other than that, my evening has not been that exciting and it probably will not get any more exciting unless something decided to drop through the roof of my apartment (not bloody likely) or fly through my window (once again, not bloody likely)...it'll mostly be me relaxing and taking it easy (as the doctor has ordered)...oof...taking it easy is so boring. I am so happy I never got put on bed rest for this pregnancy...it would have been HELLA boring

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It's definitely Monday...I can feel it in my body. You know, that feeling when you wake up and you automatically feel like shit, but you have to get up anyway...that's what I feel like this morning.

Not to mention, I'm fatigued and exhausted already and I barely just woke up an hour ago. I'm sure this is due to my anemia or something. You don't realize just how tired you feel until you really think about it. I thought it was just regular wear-and-tear on the body, but I seriously feel like shit. Sad thing, all I can think about is what happened to me yesterday and I don't want it to happen again either. I guess I am over analyzing things a bit too much. AND THEN, I had a horrible dream last night that I went into labor (now...at 29 weeks) and all I could think about was my baby not surviving and I was sitting in a hospital bed and people were walking by me, staring at me...criticizing me. I was so scared...

GRANTED, it was just a dream, but to many women, it's a reality. People do have their babies at 29 weeks...and people's babies do and don't survive. Call me selfish, I just don't want to be one of those women. I can truly see myself being one of those women who goes into premature labor due to stress and high blood pressure.

So far, my blood pressure has been normal (the last time it was checked as at the hospital and I was 121 over 80 which is practically perfect) but my family sort of has a history of high blood pressure and I could have it to, eventually. Case in point...I get my anger problems from my dad. We both have very short fuses. It gets to the point that (I'm sure some of you have felt this, at least once) you can actually feel the blood pulsing through your veins (i.e. I suppose where that saying comes from...makes your blood boil). That's how frustrated I get sometimes...and I know that's not healthy. I've gotten so mad (at myself, mind you...I never really get this mad at other people) that I start to hyperventilate. Now, that's pretty bad...I want to change.

But, enough about my medical fears and personality problems. No one wants to hear about that...lol...Most of the time I'm a happy-go-lucky person, easy going, easy to deal with...so you probably won't see my alter-ego at any point.

Anyway, I best get to doing something productive. Month end...lots of things to do that need to be done in the next 2 days.

EDIT - I talked to my doctor's office and the whole thing sounds strange. She asked if I wanted to come in earlier than next Thursday just to check everything out, and I decided not to. If it happens again, I'm going to go to the doctor's office and we'll figure it out there.

I also called the hospital on my lunch and registered for some classes. They start next Tuesday, so hopefully I can learn about stuff that I don't know a darn thing about (which is most of this baby thing...)...my evenings are going to be busy here coming up soon. Classes every Tuesday for the next month, hospital tour on the 6th of December, another class on some other random night...maybe one more class. It's going to be like going to school all over again...where will I find time to do anything!

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If you use Firefox and you have not upgraded to Firefox 2.0, you should do so now. Hell, if you don't even use Firefox, you should download Firefox 2.0. I was using the old version and I had heard some nice things about the new version, but I figured...ugh, it's just a webbrowser, I can do without the upgrade...OH HOLY CRAP was I wrong. I LOVE this new version.

I liked the new streamlined design and all that. It was wonderful...reminds me of Mac OS X for some reason, but not quite. It seems like a lot of things are progressing to the way of OS X as they are looking more "bubbly" if that is even a term.

BUT, I think my all time favorite feature is this...Firefox crashed on my tonight (oh yeah...boo), but when I went to open it again, it asked me if I wanted to restore my settings and I said yes...and low and behold, it opened up every single website that I was on prior to it crashing. It was SO FREAKIN' SWEET!

That sold me right there...lol

Once again, check it out if you must...I think it's a great upgrade and everyone should have Firefox 2.0 (in my opinion...which doesn't mean a damn thing...but lol)...

In other news...I am freaking HOT in my house tonight. I ended up turning the heat off all together and I even opened the window in my bedroom because it feels like a blazing inferno in here. According to the weather.com page for my area, it is 48 degrees outside, currently feeling 43 degrees (but personally, it feels like 80 degrees and we're in the middle of a heatwave...) I am not enjoying this sudden feeling of hot/cold everything...is this what older women go through and call menopause? I am not enjoying it now!

Wow...only 10:30 and I'm wired. Everyone I know is either sleeping or not at their computer. This seemed to be a common theme today. Brian was working, so no one to talk to...Melissa was at her grandma's house...no one to talk to...all my other friends were away...no one to talk to. What does one do whilst sitting alone in their house "resting?" You know...I'm not sure...I didn't do a whole lot of anything today.

As you can see, I downloaded Firefox 2.0...but I was attemping to write in my baby book for my son and I cannot believe I mispelled my own name. It's so disappointing...forever in his baby book my damn middle name is going to be spelled wrong and then showing me trying to correct it. I would use white-out but that would look STUPID. The page is yellow! A big white strip of correction tape would look worse than me trying to draw an "a" over the letter "e" that I mistakenly put. Ugh...I mispelled something on the two pages I filled out. I'm a perfectionist and it really pissed me off. It almost makes me want to go buy another baby book and just start over again, but this one was a gift from my mom. I thought writing in pen was supposed to make you make less mistakes...I just made more!! I ate a few bowls of cheerios and scarfed down some sugar free butterscotch pudding...I've been parched all day (I bet I'm just a tad dehydrated)...I surfed Blog Mad pretty much all day after I got back from the hospital. Damn...my life sounds like so much excitement! Ugh...it actually sounds like one big depressing time...maybe it will change soon. Who knows...

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