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obviously i haven’t posted in a while. to be honest, noting funny has happened, or anything i would consider interesting enough to share with you guys. the only thing going on currently is that i have no appetite. so i have decided that this pregnancy is really the opposite of everything i know and am.
meaning? well…i loved chicken. chick-fila was my favorite fast food restaurant. but now, the site of chicken or chick-fila logo (seriously, had to get off their emailing list and un-friend them on facebook!) makes me queasy. also, salads. not enjoying them as much as i once did. and if you know me at all, i love salads (freakin registered for a salad “cook”book for our wedding).
macaroni and cheese. that too makes me queasy. could be the fact that i spent the months leading up to my pregnancy making homemade mac-and-cheese (the leimbach’s special recipe no less!), and now i am sick of it. but the thought of melting all that cheese together…gag.
and lately, well most of my pregnancy so far, i have had no real appetite. i will force myself to eat, i try to satisfy cravings. but seriously, i do not enjoy food like i use too. heck , i love food so much i majored in it in college! but now, have to force me to eat.
see, this crap isn’t interesting. it is boring as hell! i am falling asleep even writing this!
other than that, things are pretty normal. i have figured out how to curb my snoring at night (so dave will sleep in the same room as me). i love maternity pants (might continue to wear them after peanut arrives…they are so comfy). and we are starting to get to all the things that we still need to do around the house…so we eventually get to organizing the nursery (aka. my closet) before peanut arrives.and i lost the battle of decorating the nursery in uk blue and white...sniff sniff.
also, in two weeks we will be getting another sonogram, and hope to learn if it is a boy peanut or a girl peanut. we both just want a healthy baby and will be happy with a boy or a girl. but knowing will help us not lose our minds choosing a name. right now, the best solution that dave has come up with is creating a bracket system of 64 names – a girl bracket and a boy bracket on each side, favorite names get byes. not going to happen.
ok. i promise to update if something awesome happens, but seriously…yawn.
hugs, doreen & peanut
p.s. shout out to my two girls who are also pregnant, and due this september - tina and teri!!
Monday, April 5, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
13 weeks, 1 day
i caved. baby blogging will start this week, and lets see if it can hold my attention (unlike the househunting blog).
some basics for you to know:
hugs - doreen & peanut
some basics for you to know:
- due date is september 19th. i don't understand pregnancy math or the stupid calendar. it makes no sense to me but whatever. i don't make the rules.
- yes, we will be finding out the sex. not sure if we will tell people yet, but i have to know (i hate surprises).
- for the next 7 months (or 27 weeks...right?), our little miracle will be known as peanut or lpl (little peanut lucadamo). peanut rules.
- no, i haven't read any of the books. and i probably won't. tried when we first found out and discovered they are all extremely depressing and scary. i have decided if people want to stop teenage pregnancy, have them read "what to expect when expecting" or any of the other long list of books. dave is on book duty, and has become my encyclopedia of all things pregnancy. he rules.
hugs - doreen & peanut
Saturday, March 28, 2009
still renting but own
as i sit her on saturday morning in our apartment -- yes, the apartment with the loud neighbors -- i realize how much is sucks that we didn't start packing earlier. but, out of fear that we would be all ready to move and then something would happen to our new home, we didn't pack a thing. extremely stupid of us.
however, we do have a ton of boxes.
we had planned on spending last night new house, but that was changed. we are both working extremely hard at work and have found that our work/life balance is suffering a bit. me more so than dave. dave works late a lot because i work late. us missing one day of work this week for the closing, threw me into a tailspin at the office.
but i said i am not going to talk about work here...
so last night our plans were changed and we spent the night here at the apartment. when i woke up i was like "damn! i don't want to be here anymore!" really. who would want to be in a cramped one bedroom first floor apartment when they own a beautiful townhome a couple miles away? the only good thing about this morning was our neighbors must have slept in, moved or gotten notice from the apartment complex that people had complained about them. but seriously. i am ready to move.
but before we move in we have to get some things done in the home. the first on the list being new carpet upstairs (2nd floor) where the bedrooms are. we think that the carpet there now could be the original carpet that they put in when they built the town home 20 years ago. so today dave and i have appointment with two carpet places to look at and price out the project.
before moving in we have to get the air ducts cleaned too. the previous owners had buff the cat. dave is allergic to buff. so we have the air duct cleaning people coming out to the house in a week. after the air ducts are cleaned, we then have to coordinate the carpet cleaners to come in and professionally clean the finished basement where there is carpet that we are not replacing.
so my goal is that after all these primary steps are completed, we will move. heck, as soon as the air ducts are cleaned i am ready to move. even if that means we live on the main level for a couple of weeks (which is all wood floor) until the bedrooms are re-carpeted! it isn't like we own any furniture for the main level yet (living room, dining room, kitchen).
then we have a ton of painting to do. initially we were going to do all the painting and other minor things while we were still living here in the apartment. i don't know about dave, but i am ready to go and don't care if we are painting around the minimal furniture that we currently own.
then comes dave's favorite part - buying new furniture. we are going to do this slowly and over the course of some time, but i have to tell you dave and i have visited every furniture store in a 10 mile radius of where we live. dave has sat on every sectional sofa. multiple times. and we still haven't made a decision yet.
well, i better go get ready for the day of carpet shopping. wow. i just felt really old. i mean i went to bed early so i could get a good nights sleep to be ready for carpet shopping. ugh.
happy home improving,
doreen
however, we do have a ton of boxes.
we had planned on spending last night new house, but that was changed. we are both working extremely hard at work and have found that our work/life balance is suffering a bit. me more so than dave. dave works late a lot because i work late. us missing one day of work this week for the closing, threw me into a tailspin at the office.
but i said i am not going to talk about work here...
so last night our plans were changed and we spent the night here at the apartment. when i woke up i was like "damn! i don't want to be here anymore!" really. who would want to be in a cramped one bedroom first floor apartment when they own a beautiful townhome a couple miles away? the only good thing about this morning was our neighbors must have slept in, moved or gotten notice from the apartment complex that people had complained about them. but seriously. i am ready to move.
but before we move in we have to get some things done in the home. the first on the list being new carpet upstairs (2nd floor) where the bedrooms are. we think that the carpet there now could be the original carpet that they put in when they built the town home 20 years ago. so today dave and i have appointment with two carpet places to look at and price out the project.
before moving in we have to get the air ducts cleaned too. the previous owners had buff the cat. dave is allergic to buff. so we have the air duct cleaning people coming out to the house in a week. after the air ducts are cleaned, we then have to coordinate the carpet cleaners to come in and professionally clean the finished basement where there is carpet that we are not replacing.
so my goal is that after all these primary steps are completed, we will move. heck, as soon as the air ducts are cleaned i am ready to move. even if that means we live on the main level for a couple of weeks (which is all wood floor) until the bedrooms are re-carpeted! it isn't like we own any furniture for the main level yet (living room, dining room, kitchen).
then we have a ton of painting to do. initially we were going to do all the painting and other minor things while we were still living here in the apartment. i don't know about dave, but i am ready to go and don't care if we are painting around the minimal furniture that we currently own.
then comes dave's favorite part - buying new furniture. we are going to do this slowly and over the course of some time, but i have to tell you dave and i have visited every furniture store in a 10 mile radius of where we live. dave has sat on every sectional sofa. multiple times. and we still haven't made a decision yet.
well, i better go get ready for the day of carpet shopping. wow. i just felt really old. i mean i went to bed early so i could get a good nights sleep to be ready for carpet shopping. ugh.
happy home improving,
doreen
Thursday, March 26, 2009
march 26 - closing day
well, i have to say first that i am sorry for the length of time between posts. if you knew (1) how nuts it has been for both of us at work and (2) how stressful this whole situation has been you would understand. also dave asked that i not "speak of the house" because, well, we could jinx things.
i promise to go back and write some posts that explain the last two months with more detail. but the end has come. today, dave and i went to closing on our first home. the home that was once known as buff's place is now OUR place. and it feels soooo good!
of course today wasn't without its adventures. it all started at 3:45am when our obnoxious neighbors upstairs alarm went off and woke us up. the alarm is new -- it both beeps loudly and bangs against whatever the heck they have up there. you have to understand that since these neighbors have moved in, we have not had a good nights sleep...it is either the alarm (before the banging alarm, they had one that would buzz for 15 minutes before someone would turn it off!!), or them playing guitar hero full blast on their surround sound until 2am, or them vacuuming at 2am, or them walking loudly -- which we can't figure out because combined, the two people upstairs probably weigh all of 100lbs!!!! we hate them....so our morning started off with us realizing again how great things are going to be once we close on our first home.
we hit dunkin donuts...and then headed over to office depot to get pens. we wanted to have special pens for the closing. seriously. dave's idea. we purchased pens (after looking for 10 minutes and debating the different options) and then started driving to buff's place for our final walk through. as we were making the turn, coffee in hand, some idiot driver rear-ended us. coffee went all over (me and the car). i got out of the car ready to fight, when this lady gets out of her mini-van and says she slipped on the wet roads and didn't realize how slippery it was. no damage to our car, more damage to her car, coffee spilled. we continued on our way.
i can't make this stuff up.
we arrived at the townhome, all excited and just wanting to make sure that all appliances were still there (we had done a longer walk through a couple of days earlier). everything was there. and we headed off to breakfast with marge.
at 12:45pm we were at the title office ready to close on our first home. it was crazy. i couldn't believe that we had made it to this point. i mean, we started really looking in january and we had seen some interesting places and already had our hearts broken with area 51, and the other day the settlement processor (??) told dave that "sometimes when people come to the table, something happens and everyone takes their barbie's back and goes home"...meaning, we could still lose the house at the table.
but we were excited. and ready. and when the seller's walked in, we started to realize this was really going to happen. and they were nice. we spoke to them about the community, the orioles, and neighbors...and how much we enjoyed visiting with their cat - buff - when we would come to the house. they told us buff was happy in his new home, but seriously the cat ruled!
so the paperwork started...signatures, explanations, more signatures -- oh, by the way we didn't use the pens that we purchase earlier that morning..lol... -- more signatures, and conversation. when it was all said and done, it was 1:55pm when closing was over and we were the proud owners of our first home!!!
first thing we did was stop at a the wine store to buy a bottle of sparkling wine. then we stopped a the local store that sold t-shirts with our new town's name on it (yay!!). then we headed up to our new home.
check out pictures here
when we arrived, i got on the phone and lined up air duct cleaners, appointments with people to replace the carpet upstairs, and then dave and i just stretched out on the wood floors and listened to the quiet. there was no one stomping around above us. there was no vacuuming. there was no noise. it was just silence. and it was our new home.
now the fun begins.
unfortunately we are in the apartment tonight. we have a lot of things that we want to get done on the house before we officially move in, but we plan on staying at the house this weekend (air mattress, tv, folding chairs) to just experience the feeling of being in our new home. but i wanted to update this quickly, even though i am exhausted (remember we have been up since 3:45am). there will be more posts in the coming weeks. there is a lot to be done on the house (carpet, painting, buying furniture, oh and moving!!) so more stories to tell. and i promise that i will give you some of the back-story on how we got to purchasing our first home.
committed for 30 years,
doreen
i promise to go back and write some posts that explain the last two months with more detail. but the end has come. today, dave and i went to closing on our first home. the home that was once known as buff's place is now OUR place. and it feels soooo good!
of course today wasn't without its adventures. it all started at 3:45am when our obnoxious neighbors upstairs alarm went off and woke us up. the alarm is new -- it both beeps loudly and bangs against whatever the heck they have up there. you have to understand that since these neighbors have moved in, we have not had a good nights sleep...it is either the alarm (before the banging alarm, they had one that would buzz for 15 minutes before someone would turn it off!!), or them playing guitar hero full blast on their surround sound until 2am, or them vacuuming at 2am, or them walking loudly -- which we can't figure out because combined, the two people upstairs probably weigh all of 100lbs!!!! we hate them....so our morning started off with us realizing again how great things are going to be once we close on our first home.
we hit dunkin donuts...and then headed over to office depot to get pens. we wanted to have special pens for the closing. seriously. dave's idea. we purchased pens (after looking for 10 minutes and debating the different options) and then started driving to buff's place for our final walk through. as we were making the turn, coffee in hand, some idiot driver rear-ended us. coffee went all over (me and the car). i got out of the car ready to fight, when this lady gets out of her mini-van and says she slipped on the wet roads and didn't realize how slippery it was. no damage to our car, more damage to her car, coffee spilled. we continued on our way.
i can't make this stuff up.
we arrived at the townhome, all excited and just wanting to make sure that all appliances were still there (we had done a longer walk through a couple of days earlier). everything was there. and we headed off to breakfast with marge.
at 12:45pm we were at the title office ready to close on our first home. it was crazy. i couldn't believe that we had made it to this point. i mean, we started really looking in january and we had seen some interesting places and already had our hearts broken with area 51, and the other day the settlement processor (??) told dave that "sometimes when people come to the table, something happens and everyone takes their barbie's back and goes home"...meaning, we could still lose the house at the table.
but we were excited. and ready. and when the seller's walked in, we started to realize this was really going to happen. and they were nice. we spoke to them about the community, the orioles, and neighbors...and how much we enjoyed visiting with their cat - buff - when we would come to the house. they told us buff was happy in his new home, but seriously the cat ruled!
so the paperwork started...signatures, explanations, more signatures -- oh, by the way we didn't use the pens that we purchase earlier that morning..lol... -- more signatures, and conversation. when it was all said and done, it was 1:55pm when closing was over and we were the proud owners of our first home!!!
first thing we did was stop at a the wine store to buy a bottle of sparkling wine. then we stopped a the local store that sold t-shirts with our new town's name on it (yay!!). then we headed up to our new home.
check out pictures here
when we arrived, i got on the phone and lined up air duct cleaners, appointments with people to replace the carpet upstairs, and then dave and i just stretched out on the wood floors and listened to the quiet. there was no one stomping around above us. there was no vacuuming. there was no noise. it was just silence. and it was our new home.
now the fun begins.
unfortunately we are in the apartment tonight. we have a lot of things that we want to get done on the house before we officially move in, but we plan on staying at the house this weekend (air mattress, tv, folding chairs) to just experience the feeling of being in our new home. but i wanted to update this quickly, even though i am exhausted (remember we have been up since 3:45am). there will be more posts in the coming weeks. there is a lot to be done on the house (carpet, painting, buying furniture, oh and moving!!) so more stories to tell. and i promise that i will give you some of the back-story on how we got to purchasing our first home.
committed for 30 years,
doreen
Thursday, February 26, 2009
st.david's day
good morning everyone.
i am oot for work but didn't want to miss reposting one of my favorite stories. for those of you who have already forgotten, this sunday is march 1st....which is st. david's day.
so happy st. david's day to everyone!
in case you missed the story about 2007’s st. david’s day celebration, here is a recap…this story will never get old!:
thursday, monday, march 1, 2007: not sure how many of you are aware that march 1st is st. david's day. the history of the day is not that important (if you really want to know, wikipedia it!)...it is just another day for dave to celebrate being dave!
this year, we decided to celebrate st. david's day by having our three neighbors over for dinner. dave planned it -- he sent out invites (yes, really), put the menu together and handled all prep for the evening. my only marching orders were to get something for dessert. dave had mentioned that he was craving a cookie cake (you remember the ones you use to get at the mall for your birthday parties when you were a kid!?). so i found a place at the local mall that made them. i thought this is going to be the best st. david's day surprise ever!! little did i know.....
so i called mrs. field's cookie shop to place my order during lunch -- and the guy that answered did not speak very good english. so he suggested that i fax my order to him so he would have the correct information. being the crazy person that i am, drew a diagram and typed up the text for the cake -- i wanted it to read "happy st. david's day!" in blue and white....pretty simple.
about 10 minutes after i faxed the order to the shop, i got a call back from them saying that the fax machine was not working...and that i would have to place the order over the phone. he asked me to go slow and he would make sure that "he make the cake pretty for me". so i proceeded to spell out the order:
"h as in 'hat'....a as in 'apple'...p as in 'paul'....p as in 'paul'....y as in 'yellow'....s as in 'sam'...t as in 'tom'....period....d as in 'dog'...a as in 'apple'...v as in 'victor'....." you get the picture.
after spelling out the entire cake "happy st. david's day!" like that, he read it back to me the same way i spelled it out. he told me the cake would be ready by 6 and we hung up.
(i know this story is long....but trust me, it is worth it!!)
after work, i went to the mall to pick up the cake. when i walked in, my new friend (the gentleman i spoke to on the phone earlier) was there, all excited to give me my cake. he opens the cookie cake box and asks "did i do good? did i make pretty for you?"....now remember, i spelled out exactly what i wanted on the cake...and i guess that is what he gave me!!!!!
i am oot for work but didn't want to miss reposting one of my favorite stories. for those of you who have already forgotten, this sunday is march 1st....which is st. david's day.
so happy st. david's day to everyone!
in case you missed the story about 2007’s st. david’s day celebration, here is a recap…this story will never get old!:
thursday, monday, march 1, 2007: not sure how many of you are aware that march 1st is st. david's day. the history of the day is not that important (if you really want to know, wikipedia it!)...it is just another day for dave to celebrate being dave!
this year, we decided to celebrate st. david's day by having our three neighbors over for dinner. dave planned it -- he sent out invites (yes, really), put the menu together and handled all prep for the evening. my only marching orders were to get something for dessert. dave had mentioned that he was craving a cookie cake (you remember the ones you use to get at the mall for your birthday parties when you were a kid!?). so i found a place at the local mall that made them. i thought this is going to be the best st. david's day surprise ever!! little did i know.....
so i called mrs. field's cookie shop to place my order during lunch -- and the guy that answered did not speak very good english. so he suggested that i fax my order to him so he would have the correct information. being the crazy person that i am, drew a diagram and typed up the text for the cake -- i wanted it to read "happy st. david's day!" in blue and white....pretty simple.
about 10 minutes after i faxed the order to the shop, i got a call back from them saying that the fax machine was not working...and that i would have to place the order over the phone. he asked me to go slow and he would make sure that "he make the cake pretty for me". so i proceeded to spell out the order:
"h as in 'hat'....a as in 'apple'...p as in 'paul'....p as in 'paul'....y as in 'yellow'....s as in 'sam'...t as in 'tom'....period....d as in 'dog'...a as in 'apple'...v as in 'victor'....." you get the picture.
after spelling out the entire cake "happy st. david's day!" like that, he read it back to me the same way i spelled it out. he told me the cake would be ready by 6 and we hung up.
(i know this story is long....but trust me, it is worth it!!)
after work, i went to the mall to pick up the cake. when i walked in, my new friend (the gentleman i spoke to on the phone earlier) was there, all excited to give me my cake. he opens the cookie cake box and asks "did i do good? did i make pretty for you?"....now remember, i spelled out exactly what i wanted on the cake...and i guess that is what he gave me!!!!!
best, doreen :)
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