Date night on a budget

Great inexpensive date night…..Chinese “take-in”. I cooked up some Chinese chicken lettuce wraps, and white rice for date night in last night. (take that PF Chang’s!) It was actually alot of fun. Goes great with a good movie rental, some romance, and maybe a game thrown in there too.

You can get really creative with this date night idea too. Try eating dinner at the coffee table, while sitting on pillows. Also try eating dinner with chopsticks, and maybe throw in some sake! It was a fun way to have a nice Chinese date night dinner, without paying top $.

Some things you should never say to a pregnant lady…

Something I’ve come to realize while pregnant, your stomach is no longer your own. For some weird reason, even strangers feel like they have the right to rub your belly. At times I feel like an animal, kind of like a dog being pet. I do not understand this principle. It’s still part of my body right? After all it is my stomach, regardless of what’s in it.

Not only that but for some people (quit a few people), there is no connection between there mouth and brain when speaking to a pregnant woman. I have heard some of the rudest comments, some that I would never say to anyone regardless of how I felt they looked. I mean really, what makes people think they can say things like, “wow your huge….already!” or “sheesh you’re really popping out today” while they smile, laugh, and go on there merry way expecting you to do the same. That’s the part that boggles my mind. Were you really trying to make me feel good or laugh? Hmm, it makes me wonder if that little voice in someone’s head telling them not to say something rude, magically cancels out when in close proximity to pregnancy hormones they become socially inept….yeah that’s it!!!! I knew I would figure that one out!

While searching the internet I found a lot on this subject, here are 10 things your should never say to a preggo :

1) Any and all comments about how big she is. 
       

• “Oh my Gosh, are you having twins?”
• “You’re only seven months along? Geez!”
• “Wow, that baby’s going to pop out at any minute!”
• “You know, my sister only gained 20 pounds when she was pregnant.”
• “Oooo, your booty’s getting big!”
• I would like to add to this one….any comment on your boobs and how big they are getting. Is it just me, or is that a personal thing?

2) “Can I touch your belly?”

3) ‘Oh my Gosh, you’re having another baby?”

4) Any and all unsolicited advice about baby names. Oh yeah isn’t that the truth. I’ve heard everything from, “Josiah, hmmm…well hopefully he will turn out being a girl instead” to…. “Josiah?! Are you guys Middle Eastern or something” What the…………?!?!

5) “Are you going to get him circumcised?”

6) “You’re not going to eat that, are you?”  Do people really say this? Oh Lord, help the person now that ever has the courage to say that to me!

7) “Did you use fertility drugs?”

“Was this an oops?”  You’ve got to be kidding me…

9) “So do you have hemorrhoids? Mine were just awful.”

10) “So this is your first? Oh my God, with my first, I had horrible back labor for THIRTY hours, and then I needed a C-section and was in pain for WEEKS and the baby didn’t sleep through the night until she was two years old…” I’ve got to say I agree with this one. I am getting tired of all the horror stories. Maybe it should be a don’t ask don’t tell basis.

Thankfully I have not heard all of these comments. But really, the ones I have are bad enough. Anyway, I’m done venting. Now you can feel sorry for me and all the other pregnant people in your life! Don’t get me wrong I love being pregnant, I have had a great pregnancy, and it is so much fun. But nevertheless, people still fascinate me with their rudeness. I could go on and on about it, but I will stop for now

Shankapotomus

My favorite new word….

Shankapotomus! It seriously cracks me up everytime I hear it! Ha!

Cold Stone Ice Cream

All I can think about right now is this yummy Cold Stone creation that Kenny and I discovered a couple weeks ago called Birthday Cake Remix. Oh my goodness…it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good. it has cake batter ice cream, rainbow sprinkles, brownie, and fudge. It’s all I can think about right now….

How am I ever going to make it through the work day?

Spring Ahead?

Umm, no thank you? I’d rather not, boy do I wish I had a choice. Waking up at 5:00, what would have been 4:00am is so unholy. Today was disgusting! I was so tired I could have fallen asleep walking around. This just isn’t any fun

When you just need to laugh…….really HARD!

Night-time carwash

Funny thing happened tonight…. I had this strong desire to clean my car earlier this evening after I got home from dinner with Aim. Mainly because I saw how dirty my car was next to her excessively shiny clean Pilot. So when I got home I asked Kenny if he would come with me. My main plan was to vacuum out the inside at least and clean out all the trash (after-all it was dark out) but since we had pocket change leftover it was just enough to use the self-serve car wash. So Kenny told me he would do it and just to wait in the car while he did. He seemed so sure of what he was doing but needless to say he wasn’t too sure because he spent all the time he had soaping up the entire car, and there was absolutely NO time left to rinse, and we were out of change! Consequently, it left us driving all the way home with a super soaped up car. I was SO embarrassed and tried to hide behind the soap studs while we were on the main road. I cant imagine how much funnier it would have been to actually see this soaped up Honda cruising down Main. LOL. Well when we got home, we had to rinse, dry and clean the windows……all in the dark. Our neighbors must think were crazy (or crazier….whichever). Talk about FUNNY. I could hardly do anything besides laugh!

Brr, It’s so not warm today!

They said that it should be in the 80’s today, but I am freeezing! The only time I was warm was during and after run, that was it. Other than that Ii have been soooo cold. I looked over at Scout today, and he had the right idea. I found him laying in the only spot of sun in the house….

At one point today, I was dressed and presentable. But after feezing all day, I changed back into the sweats and Uggs, haha!

Where are you 80 degree santa anas?

Finding optimism

So instead of being negative right now and thinking about all the reasons I might not like my job at the moment, or how rough it is going in the economy (including my own finances) I decided to think about all the little things throughout my regular work day that I like.

Here they are:

• The Jeff and Jer show in the morning on the way to work
• Dead quiet mornings in the office (for about the first 2 hours of arriving)
• Being able to get things done in this time including craisglist, and face-book school crap when the semester rolls back around, and of course work! ;p
• Being tight with all the delivery people at work; this includes the mail lady, FedEx, UPS, DHL, The Grove Office guy, and the paychecks dude (who always comments on my “pretty hair”, lol).
• Being the “hero” and passing out paychecks to my fellow co-workers
• Being scared by John from Customer Service throughout the week. (yeeeah he likes to sneak up on me and scare me half to death!) It’s normally not funny until later, like now LOL
• Having the ability to walk to Starbucks at any given moment of the day with Erin (chai tea, yum, yum).
• The pretty colors all over my excel spreadsheets.
• Sending and receiving emails from my sister and grandfather throughout the day… oh yeah throughout the entire day!
• My boss’s English accent, even though he is from Africa
• The floor to ceiling windows in my office overlooking the courtyard
• My little tiny floor heater, it is my best-est friend in the whole wide world!
• Bank reconciliations that actually reconcile
• Bank deposits that balance up
• Accounts that still pay there bills, and not only pay but pay on time!
• Being on a first name basis with everyone at Union Bank
• The sound the postage machine makes when I turn it on.
• The fact that the copier always seems to work for me, nice konica, pretty konica
• My stamps, they may all be red or black and read Union Bank, cancelled, posted, or past due, but still…… I get to stamp at work, and I am all growed up!!!! (or so they say)
• Having a day left at the end of work, seeing as how it’s only about 3:00pm!

Some things just NEVER get old…

I seriously cannot get enough of these e-trade commercials. They have been on for awhile now, and still they NEVER get old. It’s like they have this magical way of getting funnier everytime i see them. Everytime they come on Kenny knows the “rewind it please” look that comes on my face. Well today, I watched one of the commercials 5 times in a row….funny shiznit!

Somethings just never get old……