So close to reaching that famous happy end

I woke up a little earlier than usual today because Pam wanted to come over to visit and to see Vincent's room. It's amazing how you can think your house is completely spotless until you know someone's like 30 minutes from coming over. So it was fun visiting with her. I gave her a tour of the house, and she got to see Matt when he came home for lunch.

When she left all of a sudden I had no idea what to do with the rest of my day. I'm really not used to having company! So then I realized that I was feeling pretty good so I went to the gym! Woo! I thought about going to the grocery store after since the gym is like halfway between our house and the store, but I really am sick of going there every day, and I'm just sick of spending money every day. It's really hard to do mentally when I'm not working. All I see is the money going out, and it freaks me out a little. So I went back and forth like a million times, agonized really, but finally decided I did not need to go to the store, and drove home instead.

Even once at home I still thought about going to the store and just getting one or two things,  but it's such a slippery slope. I knew, mentally I had to just not spend any money today or else I would beat myself up with thoughts like, "I'm out of control." and "All I do is spend, spend, spend." And there'd be even more added pressure not to spend money the next day. Anyways, success! I am going to bed after I blog this and I did not spend a dime.

Also, I called the pediatrician's office to explain what happened yesterday, and they didn't seem to care at all. They barely seemed to remember me or my appointment, so I felt much better. They even said, "You know, you don't need to come in and tour the office and meet the doctors here in order to be seen." So I decided to make it easier on myself and just not go in. I was really expecting them to be more peeved at me for not showing up. I think I need to chill out.

I'm 38 weeks and 4 days pregnant with 10 days left til due date!!

 

I'm standing on the bridge. I'm waiting in the dark. I thought that you'd be here by now.

Sad Illini loss going on right now. We all gave up on the game over here. It wasn't pretty.

I did not have much energy all day because Vincent kept me up all night punching, kicking, rolling, and who knows what else he was doing in there. He's not even here yet and he's keeping me up all night. Today was really the first day I think all pregnancy that I felt really uncomfortable. It's like Vincent went thru a growth spurt and my uterus didn't. Come on, Vincent!

I forgot to mention yesterday that somehow I burned 6 pieces of toast. Amazingly ridiculous, I know. It was like a toast horror movie. I kept forgetting about them in there and then would pop them up manually in panic and they kept coming up charred black. Today showed some improvement. I only burned 2, but really is that that much better since I had such a horrendous experience yesterday? You would think none would come even close to burned. That just goes to show pregnancy brain is a very real thing. The most dangerous thing I think I've done because of pregnancy brain is cook a pizza with the cardboard underneath it the whole time. Oops! At least it only happened once!


So today I ran some errands. Babies R Us for Vincent, Kroger for groceries....I hate how I feel like I'm grocery shopping every day! I'm so inefficient! I would blame pregnancy brain again, but I think I've always been that way. Today I really did need to go. We were out of toilet paper. But do you think that's all I got? Of course not!

The main thing I was looking forward to today was meeting Vincent's pediatrician. I had googled them, called, and made an appointment to meet her and get a tour of the office. I left for my 5 o'clock appointment at 4:30 even though I knew the office was really close to our house, or at least that's what I THOUGHT! Turns out the address listed online (the same place I got their phone number) was wrong and the building I showed up to was empty and for sale.......I was not pleased. I HATE being late for appointments. But then I remembered I had seen a place called Northside something or another on the same road and I thought maybe THAT was it so I drove to that, and would have been right on time IF that would have been the right place. Boo! 0 for 2. So then I went home and tried to call the office to apologize and explain, but I got a recording because it was after business hours. I felt better when I saw that yes indeed the wrong address came up when you google searched it, but then I clicked on a link that said "Contact," and there was a DIFFERENT address listed. So I went to that address even though I was now 40 minutes late. Aaaand the office was closed with no one there. The only thing more frustrating than being late for an appointment is not making it at all. VERY frustrating!
 
At least I'm 38 weeks and 3 days pregnant with only 11 days to go!! You hear that, Vincent? It's time to come out!!