we went to see metallica last night, my husband has been SO excited for this concert, me a little excited, but i’m not a fan of anything after and justice for all, master of puppets and garage days revisited (gotta love the misfits covers) are my favorite metallica albums, so i wasn’t QUITE as excited as the husband as i knew their would be lots of post and justice for all stuff. it was a good mix of new and old, quite a bit different from when i saw them 18 years ago, there was a lot of long hair, head banging and a huge mosh pit at that show, this concert was an interesting display of the ridiculously broad spectrum of fans that metallica has now, from five-year old kids to people older than me, must be cool to have such a diverse fan base. we were very close to the stage and there were pyrotechnics and everything you would expect at a metallica concert, that being said… going to a concert when you are 6.5 months pregnant, sick and have been on your feet working all day may not be the SMARTEST decision, my feet hurt soooooooo bad, i cannot even find an adjective to express the pain. but i made it through the whole concert, if my husband had it to do over again i think he would probably say, hey, my wife’s pregnant, maybe floor tickets aren’t such a good idea, perhaps i should get tickets that have a seat! anyways, baby a has been to three concerts now, the silversun pickups, pinback and metallica, and we’ve got one more coming up in a couple of weeks, hank III, we will be arriving at that show nice and early in order to get a seat!!
p.s. it’s becoming increasingly difficult to put socks on.
i took the next day off so we spent the night in ann arbor and slept in the next day, then we went out to lunch and stopped at an outlet mall on the way home. i have been throughly unimpressed with outlet malls lately, this one had a motherhood maternity store so i went in to see what the price difference was, the clerk told me there is no difference from their regular stores, they have the same clothes at the same prices, they just have more as is and clearance stuff. this seemed to be the case at most of the stores, no real good deals to be had. the nike store had some pretty cheap shoes though, that would be a good place to buy kids shoes, i had to resist the urge to buy the cutest baby shoes ever, baby a is not even born yet, she DOES NOT need tennis shoes (they really were cute though)!!!
i also got this costume for annabel for next year, it is so cute i can hardly stand it!
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the best news that i have today is that my husband was able to feel the baby kick for the first time last night. he has been dying to feel it himself and last night she was going crazy, he put his hand on my belly for about five minutes and she stopped moving, as soon as he took his hand off she kicked twice pretty hard so he put his hand back and she gave one more good kick, he yelled “i felt that!!!!!” he was so excited, he got a little teary eyed… i may have too for a second. speaking of teary eyed we took riley to see where the wild things are yesterday, the end seemed a little abrupt and it was so sad i was fighting the tears! what a great story, i can’t wait to read it to baby a.



