Thanksgiving

My week of thanks! With Thanksgiving a week away I am dedicating my blog for the next seven days to giving thanks. Maybe not the most conventional list but things I am thankful for nonetheless.

I am thankful for my free education. For as much as I bitch that the classes are annoying and I hate going, I am pretty lucky and I know it. Now trying to get it done in the 7 years that they allow is going to be the challenge. Don't laugh. You might think that is an easy feat I tell you, at the rate I am going, this person growing inside me might join me as I graduate.

Ciao
xo
S

Thanksgiving

My week of thanks! With Thanksgiving a week away I am dedicating my blog for the next seven days to giving thanks. Maybe not the most conventional list but things I am thankful for nonetheless.

I am super grateful for my DVR. Almost as much as my husband. That is kind of a joke but almost not really. Seriously. TV kinda stinks unless you can find the show you want when you want... bam ... DVR. I don't know where I will be when the thing decides to stop working.

Ciao
xo
S

Thanksgiving

My week of thanks! With Thanksgiving a week away I am dedicating my blog for the next seven days to giving thanks. Maybe not the most conventional list but things I am thankful for nonetheless.

ODE to TUMS
I wish I was witty enough to come up with an actual ode to tums but alas I am not.
I can say that they save my life the regular and I appreciate. Probably more than you know.

Ciao
xo
S

Anxiety

I am an anxious person in my regular non-pregnant life. In my pregnant life I am uber anxious. I can't help it. I went into the Dr. today and heard the heartbeat (again) and found out, again, that everything is OK. I am trying really hard to ease the anxiety and enjoy myself but it ain't easy blogoshpere. I am constantly convinced that something is wrong and that I am on the verge of loss, again. Hubby tries to help but I know that he gets nervous and anxious too and that isn't good for either of us.
I also know that there is nothing I can do either way. It is what it is! Today the Dr. talked to me a lot about finding something I can do to try to ease this anxiety and fear. I will try just about anything. Any advice out there?
I know that I need to slow down. I won't take a class next semester and I will try to say no more often to invitations and whatnot. But honestly I am not convinced that sitting at home will make this better. I am a busy person by nature and like to go out and visit and be around friends and family.
The dr. wants me to try yoga. I've tried it before and didn't love it. I think if anything I became more anxious because I wasn't sure I was doing it right. Meditation was also another one of her recommendations. Again, just the thought of trying to quiet my mind makes me cuh-razy!!!
I do know that working out and walking have always helped me with anxiety. I just have to make it a priority and not skimp on that time.
Would love to hear if you have any other advice.
Ciao
xo
S

Bucket List

I have toyed with the idea of a bucket list for a long time. What would I put on it? Generally the answer always tended toward the " what are you doing coming up with a bucket list. Do your homework!!!" But today my homework is done, most of it anyway, and I am ready to put some ideas down.
Here goes:
- travel to South America. This is something that I have always wanted to do. Especially see Peru and Machu Pichu and the Mayan ruins. All of it. I don't care much for the rain forest or the beach it's more the cities and little villages that I want to visit.
- Get a tattoo. I'm kinda scared. Ok I'm really scared of this one. I have wanted one for a really long time and even more so since losing my daughter. I think it is a beautiful way to commemorate someone. Hubby and I have talked about it a lot. It's easy for him he already has two huge tattoos on his arms. I'm afraid of the pain and passing out or puking.
- Finally learn to drive stick shift.  Hubby tried to teach me and I didn't do very well. That was a long time ago and I think it's time to try again.
- Change the oil in my car by myself. I tried to talk our old mechanic into letting me do it. He wasn't too keen on the idea. Lets just say he had some stipulations that I wouldn't agree to.
- Listen to all the podcasts that I have on iTunes. I listened to one last week while cleaning and that worked well. I got a lot more to get through.
- Clean out the closet honestly. I have a LOT of clothes that I don't wear just hanging out there for no reason, other than I remembered who gave it to me or where I wore it once. It is becoming a real problem. Same goes for the jewelry box and the purses. ( ok. This is more a to do thing than a bucket list thing)
- Read the 'greats'. I never read Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick... You get my drift.
- Visit the Grand Canyon.
- Fly on a private jet.

Good start! If I do say so myself.
Ciao
Xo
s

Daylight Savings Drag

And this is why I hate when daylight savings ends and you have pregnancy brain at the same time.
Because I forgot to reset my alarm clock I woke up at 5:30 and started getting ready for work. Not until my hubby came into the bathroom and asked what the heck I was doing did I realize my error. I didn't believe the bathroom clock. I remember setting my alarm clock, apparently only to reset the alarm not the time.
FAIL
UGH. Now what? I already checked Facebook and email and on all my bloggie friends.... what to do with this extra hour... Not really worth heading back to bed, it will only tempt me to stay.
Ugh.
Hope this day gets better.
Ciao
xo
S

November is here!

Whoa. That last month was nutso. So many crazy things going on. It just disappeared.
Here's what I'm looking forward to in November:

• Tonight I am getting tea with a friend. Yay.
• Tomorrow lunch with another great friend!! 
• Saturday I am getting coffee with another dear friend. Lucky me!!!!
• Sunday I am making plans to visit with my sister and her family. Wahoo. Hubby is at a football game all day.
• Next week is election day so the incessant ads slandering each politician will be over.
• Next Friday I will be 4 months preggo! Wahoo. 
• Saturday; baby shower for a friend and then dinner with other friends.
• The week after that is bookclub. Love those gals.
• A few U events sprinkled in there.
• Thanksgiving. So excited. I am ready to hang with the fam and truly be thankful for all that I am blessed with this year.
• The real beginning of the holiday season. Yay. Bring on the Christmas carols.

What am I not looking forward to this month:

• You guessed it! Daylight Savings is over this weekend. Ugh. Hubby tried to lighten the mood by reminding me that we get another hour of sleep. To which I answered just go to bed earlier!
• They are already talking about a wintery mix of precipitation for next week. C'mon!!!
• Holiday shopping, commercialism, too much bustling... AHHHHH!!!!!
• All the holiday baking. I am getting bigger as we speak.
• The leaves are all pretty much down and the dead bare branches are left. Ugh.  So dreary!

I guess it's good that there are more things on the looking forward to list than the other!
Happy All Saints Day!
Ciao
S