Cabin Fever?

      This week was pretty slow, boring, uneventful.  Nothing really to write about but since I have nothing to do I am going to write about it.  My days off consisted of laundry, eating, cleaning, and walking. 

Monday:  I worked and got off early to go to my friends re-marriage ceremony.  They had gotten divorced, and decided to make it work and got re-married.  What happened during the middle of their vows I wouldn't wish upon anyone, but was very disturbing, and very hard to recover from.  The ceremony was supposed to start at 7pm, since weddings almost never start on time the gig started at about 7:30ish.  Right as the couple exhanged rings, a girl who wasn't invited, but got invited out of guilt HAD A SIEZURE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEDDING!!!!!!!  The episode had postponed the entire event.  EMT arrived on the scene along with the fire department, and they took her to the ER.  She told EMT that it was the year 2007, she was 25 (she's 26), and that some other guy was the president, she knew she was in Napa though.   How do you recover such an intimate event after that?  I know she didn't mean to do it, or plan on having a siezure, however I feel what happened took all of the attention off of their happy monumental moment they wanted to share with everyone.  Now their re-marriage ceremony is remembered by the girl who had a siezure.  In the end the girl is ok.  She thought she just fell asleep.  But Im telling you it was the craziest thing I had ever seen in my life.  To see someone convulsing, and foaming at the mouth made me feel disgusting.  I've known this girl since 3rd grade and shes always had problems, invthe past few years she has heavily gotten into perscription pills.  It's sad.  Recently a friend passed away from overdosing on pills leaving behind 3 children.  Rumor has it she siezed up and went into a coma, and passed away.  Her boyfriend at the time is now hanging out with the girl who just siezed.  Later that night I called her mom, and talked to her for a while.  I thought it was best to pull the skeletons out of the closet even though it may have not been my place too.  I told her she has been abusing pills, I mentioned the guy shes been spending time with.  She thanked me for telling her.  It's not like I was trying to tell on her but I am honestly concerned that if it gets too bad she could too leave behind a child.

Now for the rest of my week...

Tuesday:  I basically just cleaned the house, did laundry, and went out to pizza with my Dad, bro and Brett.  Brett got off early so we waited for him to be off and then went out.  The pizza was sooo good, not to mention I could drink the ranch dressing Fazeratti's makes.  MMM MMM.  then we walkedto Rite Aid and some of us got an ice cream.

Wednesday:  Brett and I were both off together.  We went to the doctor to make sure that Aubrey is positioned correctly and thank God she is!  After we went to breakfast to Buttercream Bakery, it was delish.  Brett got some new shoes that he ended up wearing all day to break in.  We took a nap and believe it or not he cooked dinner. mmm.  We went on a walk, and went to Target. Then cabin fever set in, I got so bored out of no where.  I feel like there's so much to do but nothing to do at the same time.  I don't want to finish all the baby stuff yet because what am I going to do during maternity leave before she gets here?

Thursday:  Here I am writing this blog post listening to a show about people killing people.  I feel like this post is getting really long so I am going to end it now.

Predictions?

I feel like I might go stir crazy. When I start maternity leave it will be just me, the cats, and the baby most of the time. I feel like I may lose means of communication with adults and I hope I don't lose touch. I can't have conversations with the baby or the cats and with Brett working till almost midnight every night is going to be tough. I have this horrible feeling that I will most likely be passed out by the time he comes home leaving us no time for adult convo. Sigghh.

Dinner for Three

      When I say three I'm talking about me, Aubrey, and Brett.  Soon it will just be dinner for two because she will only be drinking milk.  haha.  Anyway, lately I've been keen to the cooking channels, and today I saw Giada De Laurentes making a delicious penne pasta with creamy almond sauce.  I saw her making it and thought, ummm that looks easy and delicous.  I went to Trader Joes after my doctor appoint which by the way went swell.  I picked up a few ingredients and came home.  I blended the chicken stock, slivered almonds, and garlic, and combined everything in the end.  It was sooooo good, and I hope Brett likes it.  Well he basically likes anyhting at midnight after a long day of cooking and not eating.  These days it's more of a guessing game for him to guess which ingredients I use, this one should be fun, I wonder if he'll guess almonds.  The only changes I made to the recipe was instead of 1 cup of peas, I used the whole bag, and instead of penne I used farfalle noodles.  Accompanying the pasta, I made a salad with a made up honey mustard vinaigrette dressing.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/penne-in-almond-sauce-recipe/index.html

Another Year of Life

      Yesterday June 12th, I turned 26 years old.  Usually I have every detail of my birthday planned, but for some reason this year I didn't.  The only thing I had planned was to have dinner at Brett's work which by the way was amazing as usual.  I got the best present from Brett ever, a pair of my very own Tiffany & co. Pearl earrings.  My favorite part about the day was when I was presented wiith my own personalized cake from Jenn one of the pastry girls at Redd.  Mmmm Mmmm.  I got few texts messages, phone calls, videos, and virtual shout outs.  My birthday was awesome, I had a smile on my face the entire day.  I always have a surreal feeling when I wake up on my birthday.  Aubrey I'm sure had a good time because I ate such good food and desserts.  Hopefully she has Mommy's taste buds for good cuisine.  Here are a few pics shot through out the day.

Refelections:  I am now 26, four years away from 30.  I am pregnant on my birthday.  No celebratory toasts.  I think 26 will be the most life changing year for me yet.

19 Days and Counting

My last day of work is july 9th, therefore, I start my maternity leave July 10th!!!!! I can't wait!!!

Baby Shower Bliss

      Our baby shower was quite the sucess I must say.  The food came out wonderful, we looked great, and we got to see so many people.  At times I felt like a caged animal let loose for the first time experiencing sensory over load there was so much going on the entire time.  We went home at about 10:30pm and on the drive home everything hit me.  Brett looked over at me and said "so, are you happy your not going to summer school?" with relief I said "YES".  At that moment I was so exhausted from the entire day that it all just hit me at once that we're going to have a baby.  Our apartment looks like a baby shower bomb went off and destroyed everything in its path.  I feel so bad that everything is just kind of there and not set up. I will be cleaning everything this week and getting things ready for our little girl.  The shower however, was amazing.  The weather cooperated, but it was windy at first.  We had the best food I've ever seen at a shower, and delicious desserts that I could probably eat all day, I did infact eat 3 pieces of cake.  Even my Grandma enjoyed the cake, she's diabetic and 2 pieces only put her sugar up 20 points which is impressive.  We got almost everything we had on the registry, a stroller, car seat, and the biggest item of all that I needed the most, a glider.  I will be using that chair everyday once she is born I was soooo happy to see that when I opened it.  We also got TONS of clothes, I mean TONS.  We also got gift cards galore.  The one thing I didn't get that I didn't realize till my mom brought it up was a diaper bag.  But with all of our gift cards I see us getting one in the near future

 As I sit here writing thing, my feet are swoolen, and the joints in the fingers are aching with pain.  It'd getting harder to grasp things because apparently I am at the stage of where all of the ligaments and joints are relaxing in preperation for labor. 

Our Baby Shower T-22 hours

      Our baby shower is finally tomorrow!!!!  22 hours away!!  After hardly being able to get the day off, food planning, shopping, party favors, people not sending RSVP's, we both are curius how this will all turn out.  This is our first big event we've ever done together and we both are really excited, and ready to get it over with.  Some people still haven't received invites, which is frustrating, and those who did get the invites on time can't go...even more frustrating because I feel like I wasted an invite on them.  Oh well, at least the important people will be there and that's all that matters to us.  We're going to have TONS of food, beer, refreshments, desserts, prizes, games, a slideshow, and a display board of us when we were young.  This event holds dear to our hearts because this is only happening once for us, so we wanted to make it special and extra memorable for us, friends, and family to enjoy and welcome baby Aubrey. 
     I had a doctor appointment this week and found out that I can go on leave 4 weeks before my due date, and 6 weeks after she's born.  Since her due date is 7/22, I am thinking my last day of work will be 7/13, from that moment on I will go on disability.  I just hope it all works out and isn't a nightmare. 
     Next post will have baby shower photo's and will be ALL baby. 

Welcome Aubrey Carson Schaublin