Well, there was no baby shower yesterday. Stacey called me on Friday and said she hadn't been able to get a building reserved. She was going to keep trying to get ahold of the park manager and schedule it for August 1. We'll see though, I guess, Stacey is notoriously slow. I'm going ahead and buying things I need, I'm not counting on being given anything at a shower. Just in case. :)

I had a Dr. appointment today. I am 32 weeks pregnant now, in 50 days I'll be having a baby! I gained two pounds at this visit, and found out I failed the one hour glucose test. So I have to go take the three hour test at some point this week or next. Blech. I hope this one comes back okay and I do not have gestational diabetes. That would surely suck. But I'd deal with it, of course.

There was another preliminary hearing today. I don't know what all happened, but Danny said that they set bail at $250,000. WTF is that? I thought, in general, murder suspects don't get bail. So we don't know if he's out now or what. What kind of scary thought is that? I was scared enough with him being IN jail. Geez. I think you have to come up with 10% or something like that to be bonded out. I don't think his family has that kind of money, but still, why did they set bail at all? They haven't reported anything about it on the news, heck, they haven't reported on any of it since the actual murders. There was another case recently in a neighboring town where a guy broke in and shot his wife, daughter and son. The wife and daughter died. They reported on finding the guy, all his hearings, the funerals for the women, the son testifying against his father, etc. I don't know how they choose what to report on, but I would think this case was newsworthy. Of course it may all be in how open the family is to keeping the media informed. But anyway. That was a pretty pointless ramble. Heh.

I guess that's it for tonight. I'm waiting for an auction to end, it's a diaper bag with a matching small bag for a child. It is such a cute set, and it can be used as a purse after the baby doesn't need a diaper bag anymore. So cute! Here's the auction: Link It's at $20.50 right now though, and I'm not giving an outrageous amount for a bag, so I may not win it. But one can hope. :)

I am starting to feel so uncomfortable. The baby is mostly all up in the top part of my belly, or it feels that way anyway. My stomach is mostly popped out at the top too, not at the bottom at all. I'm sure I look odd. Heh. Last night I felt so bloated, all the pizza I ate probably didn't help, but still. I've recently started waking up a lot at night too. I can't stay comfortable. I probably wake up 5-6 times a night anymore. Our air conditioner is still fucked up and we're lucky if we can keep it at 80* in the daytime in here -- which is nowhere near as cool as I like it to be. I'll be glad for this baby to be born, and then for winter to get here. This summer baby shit is for the birds.

I had to go do my glucose testing yesterday. Luckily my OB arranged for me to do it at a local clinic, so I wouldn't have to drive up there and then hang out for an hour after drinking that stuff. So I got up early and went and did it. I was so hungry and so thirsty by the time they finally drew the blood and I could eat. I hope the results are good, I do not want to experience the three hour test.

Mackenzie and I went and did some school shopping yesterday, too. We got her two pair of jeans (one khaki and one blue), a pair of capri pants, four shirts and some socks. She also got a new backpack, her's from last year broke midway through the year and she had to use her one from Kindergarten (which was one of the clear-types) to finish the year. Hunter still has his from 2nd grade that he can reuse. I told her I want her to use this one for two years also. Heh. I went ahead and picked up some glue and crayons too, since I know some of the basics of what she'll need. I have no clue what Hunter will need.

I found some good deals on shorts for Hunter, too. They are clearancing a lot of summer stuff, so I got him two pairs of shorts for $5 each (the capri pants for Kenzie were also clearanced at $11). Unfortunately one pair is too small, so I have to take them back and exchange them today. Then I also got him four shirts and socks. He doesn't like one of the shirts, so it has to go back today too. It was a clearance shirt at $3, so I don't know if I'll be able to find something to replace it. I considered keeping it and putting it up on Ebay, but it's only a $6 shirt to begin with, so I don't know what I'd get out of it. It is so hard to get Hunter's sizing right. He wears different sizes in different brands. In Faded Glory shorts/pants, he wears an 8 Husky. But in Bugle Boy, he wears a 12 Husky! Can you believe the difference? Crazy. The shorts that are too small are a BB 12, which according to the tag is for boys 73-85 pounds or something like that. The Husky size is for 73-95 pounds, and Hunter is 94 pounds. I don't know why I didn't realize when I was buying that I was picking a 12H and a regular 12 and that one of them would either be too small or too big. Duh me. Heh.

So anyway, that'll get them started. They do have a few things left from the summer that are still in good school shape. They'll both need new shoes and underwear before their first day, though. I wish they'd put the supply lists out a few weeks early so I could go ahead and be buying that stuff, but they wait until a couple of days before school starts.

We've been here a week now. It's okay, I don't miss the other place as much as I thought I would. I was just so used to it, and it was our first place together. :) This place is smaller, but it has more room. Well, in spots anyway. Heh. The living room is considerably bigger, and so is the master bedroom. The kitchen, on the other hand, is teeny, and the bathroom would make a nice closet. One thing that sucks is when we remodel I can't make the kitchen any bigger, because the bar that separates the living room and kitchen is load bearing. But, since I won't need the space on the other side of the room for a table, we can add cabinets and counterspace around two more walls. It ought to all work out in the end. :)

I got Mackenzie's softball pictures back today. They are so good! I hate buying pictures ahead of time like that, cause then you're stuck with them even if they stink. Heh. I let her hang the group pic in her room and I kept the one of her alone in the living room. If and when we hook the printer back up, I'll scan it in. It'd make a good sig on the forums. :)

I need to call my sister about my baby shower. When she found out I was pregnant in January, she immediately said 'good, now we can have another baby shower'. I did not mention it or even bring it up, it was purely her idea. She set the date for July 18 and was telling me all this stuff she had done for it, favors and gifts she'd bought, and game ideas, etc. She was bugging me for the guest list in MAY! I didn't even get a registry set up until the first part of June. I put her off on that because I didn't want people to get the invitation two months ahead of time and then forget about the shower. So now it's supposed to be on Sunday. I ran into my grandmother at Wal-Mart on Friday evening and guess what? She hasn't gotten an invitation yet! Now come on! I was purposely putting buying some stuff off because I wanted to see what I'd have after the shower. I could have been buying those things! This is highly irritating. If she didn't want to or couldn't have me a shower, that is absolutely fine. I never expected one anyway, this IS my fourth child afterall. But if you're going to make a big fuss about it, then follow through dammit! I know she's busy with her husband's lawnmower racing, and they travel out of town many a weekend to go to races. Heck, I would have filled out the invites and mailed them if she'd let me know she couldn't do it. I assumed they'd been mailed out weeks ago. Now I'm wondering if she even reserved a building at the park to have the shower in. I need to call her, I'm not going to be rude or accuse, I'm just going to ask her which building she reserved and we'll go from there. I guess I should have went ahead and gave her the guest list in May, she may have got the invitations mailed by mid-June!

My kids go back to school if 4 - count 'em: one, two, three, four - weeks. I have to say that I am ready. It has been so boring this summer, I am hot and irritable and my patience is very thin lately. And all they can seem to do is pick, pick, pick, pick, fucking pick. I want to ring their necks sometimes. I made them sit in the living room floor the other day and hold hands for a while. LOL I was just at my wits' end with what to do with them. It is just constantly something, and it's usually over nothing. It is just so stupid - if one of them does something, the other has to criticize it. If one of them is whistling, or singing, or sitting the wrong damn way, well you know it just irritates the other one and it must.stop.NOW. They eye each other at every meal so they can tell the other one to stop chewing with their mouth open or whatnot. They remind me of the kids on the Sunny Delight commercial with the 'I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you' crap. Except in my house, the girl wouldn't be sitting there ignoring the boy, she'd be loudly protesting and then shoving or smacking him.

The hubby is home. More later.

How do people get big titles? I've seen blogs with each entry titled. Oh well, I probably couldn't come up with a good title for every entry anyway. :)

You know what I hate? Blobs of toothpaste left in the sink. God, my mind is all over the place. Haha.

My mom came and moved her own stuff, woohoo! I'm so glad I didn't have to do that and try to stuff it all in the shed. I hope she has her own place by Christmas though, because all of my Christmas decorations are in the shed, probably covered up by her stuff. That'll be fun to try to get to, I'm sure.

We've moved some stuff over there already. Stuff that we don't use, like all the baby's stuff is over there, some of the kids' toys, all my living room decorations. My living room looks so bare now. It's nice though, that I can do it a piece at a time, instead of boxing everything, then having to unpack and organize everything all at once. But of course all the biggest stuff has to come at the same time, like all the beds, furniture, tv, washer/dryer, computer. I'm dreading how crowded it's going to be, I hope it doesn't take us too long to get the addition built on.

I took a bunch of pictures of the whole thing empty the other day. Man, you can tell this thing was built right out of the '70s. The walls are all paneled, except in the bathroom where they have these horrid brown and blue flowers all over them. Then the kitchen has this ugly farm scene paneling. Nasty. The cabinets look like paneling, the linoleum in the kitchen is brick red, and the carpet is a orange/rust/red shag stuff. And I think appliances were smaller and people were shorter in the '70s. LOL We have to remove one of the cabinets to fit in our refrigerator, and I'm taller than the stove exhaust hood! Crazy. I'll be so, so very happy to remodel that section. I'm going to put up a website sometime with all the before pictures, then progress pictures, and finally the after shots. I'm anxious to get started and for it to be finished!