Exhaustion

I am extremely tired. The nights of storms have kept our house awake. Sunday nights storm was loud enough to wake Jake. He has never woken up due to a storm before. The thunder was just so loud and it sounded like bombs were literally going off. Jake woke up crying and ran into our room. Michael let him sleep with us. This was the first time for that too. Of course 5 minutes later, Zoey started her conversation with the thunder and then they ended up in bed with us. I got about an hour and a half of sleep. Not all at once either. Monday, repeat of Sunday night. Except I got 3 hours of sleep with all the animals and a 3 year old in our bed. Tuesday night, storms blew through yet again. Jake slept through the night! Thank goodness. I have just been catching back up the rest of the week. Naps have been necessary after work. We have had a few nights off so that is also a major plus.

Heat. The heat is horrible. Oh my word. If I was even 9+ months pregnant, it would be unbearable. It keeps reminding me how much I love Fall. I'd rather be cold then hot. I'm not a fan of summer. Sadly, it is my least favorite season. The fair started today. That is one event I don't think I will be attending this year. Michael has plans to go with some friends so we will see. I am not a huge fan of the fair. I can find better ways to spend my money! =)

Wednesday marked my dad's 60th birthday!!! I don't believe he is that age and to me, he isn't old. I always thought 60 was old until my dad turned 60. He is just the same Fabio to me! I am very lucky to have had him as my daddy for 27 years!! He is the greatest and anytime I can spend with him is the greatest!! I love that we can just joke around and laugh all the time. We went to dinner at Uncle Buck's. It's the restaurant attached to the Bass Pro Shop. It was amazing. The food was good and reasonable. We then spent a while walking around the store and looking at the fish and boats. My dad, as we know, is a huge fishing man. Spending the evening at the Bass Pro Shop was perfection to him! I was just glad we got to celebrate!

Tomorrow is Friday! Which means the weekend!!! I am ready for the weekend! It needs to happen more often then it does!!

I could sleep for weeks

This past weekend we celebrated my Momma's birthday! We had a fantastic lunch at Bravo! and my mom even got a complimentary dessert. Their cheesecake is to die for! After stuffing our faces we headed over to get a pedicure. We splurged and went with the "deluxe" package. So worth it. When us ladies get pedicures we just usually get the basic. The hot towels and the extended massage was amazing. I could have taken a long nap after that. We then headed over to JC and spent a few hours spoiling mom. She loved a few necklaces from Francesca's so I let her pick a necklace and a pair of earrings. Kelly gave her some money to get whatever she wanted. She got a sweet deal on 2 capri pants. I can't believe I said "sweet" and "capri" in the same sentence. We spent some time at my parents house for a while and then headed home. I was spent. The past 2 weeks the pregnancy has hit me hard with tiredness. I feel like it's the first 8 weeks all over again. After a nap we headed to "Salt". David ended up coming home today (Sunday) and it was nice to see the guy after 3 weeks of hiking in the mountains. He has a goatee. Doesn't look to shabby on him! We spent the just talking and having a good time as usual. The rest of the weekend was spent waxing and washing the car, laundry, cleaning and just spending time with the squirt. 

On a downer note, my Jana has to return to Iowa sooner then she had planned. Her grandma passed away today. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of them. I heart them all!!

Does not surprise me at all!!

Still gracing us with his presence on Dec. 6th!

How do I sign up to participate?

This is something that I might have to watch. It might top the roast of Michael Scott. I have to mark my calendar for Aug 15 and I am sure I will get a laugh of two out of this. Let us hope they do Brandon Frasier next. Please? I would make a date with Jana to watch this together if she was here.

Early nesting or just adult on-set OCD

I may have my lists, have to have CD's/DVD's/VHS's in alphabetical order, eat Skittles in order of yellow, green, orange, red, purple (same with Starbursts but eat yellow, orange, and mash pink/red together), and may have to have all pop cans/bottles face forward in the fridge, but recently it has gone to new heights. If anyone leaves a dish out, I have to robotically pick it up, rinse it off, and put it in the dishwasher. I have been very anal with clothing. Color coded and in order from tanks, t-shirts, long sleeves and so on. I have also had this itch to start knitting. Michael won't let me until we find out the sex which I totally understand. I am not not on for green if I know what I am having. I have no idea if I am turning into an OCD extremist or if I'm nesting 19 weeks early! I am not quite sure. Maybe I have just lost my mind. Speaking of losing minds....

We watched "Shutter Island" tonight. It was scary like I thought it was. I was told it was very intense and suspenseful. I will say the music at the beginning felt like it would be, but didn't turn out to be. Within the first 30 minutes, I figured the movie out. I will not spoil it because it's a good twist, if you don't see it coming. I think what was hard for me was the flashbacks to WWII and the concentration camps. It's a good flick. I still want to see "Inception" but I have heard many mixed reviews on it. It might be a renter. I have a fear the next flick I see in a theater will be "Happy Potter and the Deathly Hallows". I guess we will have to wait and see!

Is it Thursday yet?

Safety extreme?

I received a photo from JaZubimble (deal with it Jana!) down in TX this morning. It made me laugh. Really laugh. Why? No reason. I find things that the Darcinator does just humerous. Her and Jeffy-Pooh made it safely down to TX with 2 dogs and a cat in tow. Upon arriving, they got to see all the "safety" measures the Darcinator took with "safety proofing" the house while retreating in retirementville of MN for 5 months. I have no idea if this is just OCD, way extreme or something normal. I have left on vaca many of times and had never done this. I even have a cat, who would be one to knock it off.  He unplugged not the phone chord or the phone line, but the recevier! I'm still trying to figure this out. Hopefully JaZubimble doesn't have to call 911!

The "Conan" experience

After many years of Josie talking about "Conan", I agreed to watch these "epic" movies. Matt was kind enough to let me borrow his dual DVD edition. I agreed to watch them and I did. I will not criticize them as I was not raised watching these movies and I really watched them to say I did. Same thing as when I watched "The Best of the Best". A few little things. In "The Barbarian" there was no dialogue for 14 minutes. All the typical "Arnold" noises really got to me. All I wanted to do was close his mouth 90% of the time. I don't think his English has improved all that much. "The Destroyer" was better. I don't think I will repeat this two night event. I put my time in! One thing that got to me was Valeria and how much she looked like Vienna from "The Bachelor". I wasn't a fan of either but it made me laugh throughout the entire movie. Today I told Jos and Matt how I felt about the movie. They then proceeded to call me a sucka and a chump. Fine. I'd rather sit here and watch "Willow".