Archive for September, 2006

Not much going on

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

But I thought I would blog anyways. The house is a mess I should really start cleaning it some so that it will be clean by April. We had the contractors out last week, the hole in the ceiling is gone, the fixtures on the bathtub are changed and we have shutoff valves now, plus the toliet flange was fixed so all is well there. We still aren’t using the upstairs bathroom because they didn’t recaulk so Dan is doing it, or he may just call them back since it was on the contract, I don’t know if he is going to bother or not.

This past weekend Dan repainted over the squares in the baby’s room since we found the border we want to use, and he’ll probably repaint again the weekend of the 7th and then put up the border. We still need to call landscapers about the yard so we can get something done to the front and back, we have Claire’s (Noah’s (my brother) girlfriend) brother’s info we just haven’t called yet. We also need to redo the upstairs bathroom with next sink and toliet and put new closet stuff in our and baby’s closet (we’re doing K’s room too but that can wait a bit).

Other then that there isn’t much else going on, Dan is down to 3 days of work left at his current job, he starts the new one on Monday, it should work out well. He has meetings for about 4 hours on Monday to learn company policies and such. The Cobra payment is going to suck, we were hoping for around $650 a month, it is going to be $850 a month. Fortunately it looks like it should only be for three months, since the new health insurance should cover the pregnancy as long as we are covered the whole time before we swap.

This weekend we’re heading down to Richmond for my newest cousin Owen’s Christening, I’ll find get to see him. He is almost 6 months old. We got him a cool sketch at Disney which my uncle should like, it is of Eyore. In fact it was so cool we had a second one done for our baby’s room. I’ll see my Mom again and my sister, which will be nice since I didn’t see her when we stopped at the lake house on the way to Disney because she was working. Saw my other two sibs then.

Okay so apparently I can rattle on about not much. Anyways think that is all for tonight it is getting late so I’ll probably head to bed soon. I’m debating a third cupcake, but that might be a bit excessive.

Mom was visiting

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

So my mom was here this weekend. I just saw her last weekend at my Aunt’s birthday party, but this time she was up to visit Dan and me. We picked her up Friday at the airport, well rental car return area at the airport but still, since she had driven down from her meeting in Delaware. We went to the outlet mall. Grabbed lunch and then went shopping. We bought Dan some new shoes, and new outfits for his business casual work place. It was nice and we found stuff on sale. We got him some slacks and shirts, though he will probably need a few more shirts eventually. We looked for a trench coat for Dan because he is going to be taking the subway and walking to work as part of his commute so a trench coat will come in handy on nasty days. We couldn’t find one though.

We bought me a few maternity clothes, one of the reasons she was visiting, and we bought the blob a bunch of neutral clothes since we don’t know if it is a boy or girl yet, I’m betting girl, my mom is betting boy, Dan is trying not to get involved in the arguement. We then stopped at Target and picked up more maternity clothes so I now have a decent sized maternity wardrobe for when I need it, and stopped and picked up dinner. Lots of shopping, but we did get a bunch of stuff which is nice.

Saturday we stopped by Home Depot to see what they had for closet organizers because we are planning to redo the baby’s, K-line’s and our closets. We also looked at bathroom pieces since we are planning to redo the upstairs bathroom as well. We priced a few things and continued on our journey. We stopped for lunch and then headed to Baby’s R Us. We looked at all the stuff they had, decided we liked the feel of one of the Graco stroller/travel systems better then one of the other ones. Looked at cribs. Bought more baby clothes (shocking as that may be), and bought the comforter/baby set for bedding. We couldn’t find 3 packages of the border we want for the baby’s room though. We found one, but not 3. So we figured we would order it online, silly thought, you can only get the border in the store. We also went to Ikea to check out the various things they have because we are changing around our entertainment centers, planning to get rid of both of them and get a simpler style for them, plus we need display somethings for all the collectables. We saw a few decent things that we may pick up later.

We then headed to Target to check out if they had any closet organizers (they didn’t) and home for a bit. After relaxing for awhile we went out to Melting Pot, which was as good as always though our waiter was really really slow. Overall a nice night though.

We then dropped my Mom off at the airport this morning and headed over to the Mall. We found a trenchcoat at Macy’s that we liked so we put a hold on it and checked a few other stores. We didn’t see anything else we liked as much so we headed back to Macy’s, we picked up a casual sportsjacket as well for Dan to wear over his stuff in the office. We then bought both pieces and had lunch.

After lunch was more Home Depot, but we forgot to measure so we weren’t sure what sizes we needed for the dryer vent or the closet top things. So we just headed home and relaxed. Overall a nice, busy weekend with my Mom.

And to think I get to see her again in two weekends for my cousin’s Christening.

New Job for Dan

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

So Dan has been on and off looking for a new job for the past 2 months or so. He hasn’t been extremely active, but he has been semi-looking because he is ready for a change. His current job isn’t challenging him anymore and he isn’t really enjoying it all that much. So yesterday he had an interview. He came home and said it had gone well, he liked the guy interviewing him (who would be his boss) and the interviewer said he would have a decission by Monday. The one major downside is it is in downtown DC, which means an hour and a half commute both ways more or less, which sucks.

So today Dan gets a call seems they liked him a lot. In fact it seems they have made a verbal offer and want to have a written offer to him by Friday and him starting work there by the 2nd of October. Okay now that is a wee bit faster then we were really expecting an answer. We were figuring we would discuss it a few days and then make a decission. Especially because the commute is nasty. Instead we have about 3 hours to decide. So he has decided yes, it was what we were likely to decide anyways. The raise he is getting will be really nice, he likes his new boss and the group he will be in, and it is new and interesting work for him. So it looks like next month Dan will be going into a new office to work and enjoying his new job and commute.

Baby Pictures

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Well I had my sonogram/ultrasound on Friday. It went well. The tech wasn’t able to check my whole uterus, because I apparently have a tilted uterus and it would hurt a lot if she did, so she didn’t. Which means there could be another one hiding in there somewhere. At the moment we only have one blob though. And we got pictures!

It mainly looks like a blob, so at the moment I am calling it baby blob. Or just the Blob! The first one is the best defined and you can see arms legs and the head, the rest are more blob like. Anyways if you can’t see the whole thing try the link, but here are the pictures in all their glory (fyi, there is a bit of lint and such on them because I forgot to clean off the screen of the scanner first).

General and Baby Stuff

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Well not really that much new babywise. I mean, I have my first ultrasound/sonogram on Friday which will be neat, will get to see the baby, though it is too early for learning the sex etc. Other then that not really much else happening babywise.

We did go see my inlaws this weekend on Sunday, which was nice, we had their traditional labor day cookout, lots of food a couple of extra people, nice time talking with them.

Other then that we have had lots of rain, but apparently it is localized heavy rain, since everyone else is having rain but the really light kind, not the nasty heavy kind, so we are apparently the only ones getting the nasty heavy rain. On the plus side we were in drought again so the rain is nice for helping push us out of drought conditions.

We have the contractor coming on either the 21st or 28th to fix the random small stuff in the house that needs doing. Once we actually sign on the home loan we’ll be calling a landscaper to fix our yard. Dan still needs to finish the baby’s bedroom, but because of the rain didn’t do it this weekend. We did however go through bunches of clothes and get rid of about half of them which is good since we weren’t wearing them anyways.

Nothing much else going on here, I’m heading to Hartford Ct on Saturday for my aunt’s birthday party, she is turning 50 (I’m sure she wants my huge readership of like 3 to know that too). It will be nice, we’re using the credits we got from not flying to Disney to fly up there so they aren’t being wasted which is always nice. We’ll fly back Sunday. Nothing new on the job front for Dan though he is planning on sending his resume into the NSA and possibly FBI cybercrime labs, since both do the type of things he is hoping to do.