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 am sick… again, blahhhh.

on monday i got out of work early and my husband and i drove to ann arbor to see one of my favorite bands (pinback) play, it was awesome, the bar was tiny and there was only about 150 people there tops…

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 am still feeling pretty good but working full-time is getting hard.  it would be fine except that right around 2:00 every day i get hit with a wave of tiredness like no other, i feel like someone has drugged me until about 4:00, it totally sucks, so i told my husband today that we might need to think about me cutting back a little.  i have of course been worried about how much weight i am going to gain, so far i have gained seven pounds, i don’t think that’s too bad, i was hoping to stay under twenty but now i’m hoping to stay under fifteen, that would be awesome.

i stayed home and passed out candy while my husband took his daughter trick or treating, i love seeing all the kids dressed up.  originally riley wanted to be marilyn monroe for halloween… she’s twelve.  barely.  she JUST turned twelve.  twelve is too young to be marilyn monroe, we steered her in a different direction and she decided to be a witch, much more age appropriate, but even when we were picking out that costume we had to steer her away from the whore-ish costumes, why do they make children’s costumes with short skirts and thigh high stockings??? anyways, she looked cute in her witch costume and she stayed out for over an hour trick or treating even though it was FREEZING and she doesn’t really like candy that much.  annabel’s costume was just a little too small for her fat belly this year…

annabel's "bat princess" costume

this is the display my husband threw together in about an hour last night, next year is going to be epic, he purchased a fog machine and some other halloween display stuff in the target clearance today (i got some pretty effing cute baby stuff for next year too)…

i also got this costume for annabel for next year, it is so cute i can hardly stand it!

so i’ve gotten a couple of awards in the past few weeks that i haven’t had time to address yet and it looks like today’s the day.  i’m going to try not to cheat too bad, but i probably will a little, i’m not very good at the whole award thing but here we go…

the first one is from amber, thank-you for the award, it was very nice of you…

Here are the rules:
1. You can only use one word!
2. Pass this along to 6 of your favorite bloggers.
3. Alert them that you have given them this award!
4. Have Fun!

The Survey
1. Where is your cell phone? desk
2. Your hair? brown
3. Your mother? miss
4. Your father? love
5. Your favorite food? cheese
6. Your dream last night? gone
7. Your favorite drink? coke
8. Your dream/goal? baby
9. What room are you in? office
10. Your hobby? snowboarding
11. Your fear? loss
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? comfortable
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something that you aren’t? weak
15. Muffins? blueberry
16. Wish list item? house
17. Where did you grow up? michigan
18. Last thing you did? shop
19. What are you wearing? clothes
20. Your TV? old
21. Your pets? dogs
22. Friends? missed
23. Your life? busy
24. Your mood? content
25. Missing someone? yes
26. Vehicle? corolla
27. Something you’re not wearing? hat
28. Your favorite store? costco!
29. Your favorite color? green
30. When was the last time you laughed? earlier
31. Last time you cried? september?
32. Your best friend? far
33. One place that I go to over and over? tj max
34. One person who e-mails me regularly? mom
35. Favorite place to eat? san chez

nominating these bloggers for both awards…

celia (clever)

elisabeth (funny)

dawn (due (i love it that out due dates are so close!))

allison (strong)

riceroni (honest)

beat-up & stitched (cute (new baby!))

hope (positive)

stacey (enduring)

katie (tough)

kat (happy)

egghunt (hopeful)

athena (perseverance)

myndi (genuine)

meggomae (entertaining)

wiseguy(engaging)

i nominated everyone on my blogroll (except those who nominated me and those who haven’t posted in months) because i love you all, you are all fantastic.

award number two, thank-you astrid, you’re so sweet…

i think this pretty much sums it up, the media has completely confused the general public as far as the h1n1 vaccine goes.

well, i FINALLY got my h1n1 vaccine at work on monday.  my husband hasn’t been able to get one yet and i really don’t know when he will, but i’m sure that over the next couple of months he will be able to at some point.  i had a doctor’s appt today and they just got there’s in, we asked if he could have one, they said that originally they had planned to give them to family members as well as patients but ended up only getting enough to give to patients.  i should have said, “well that’ s perfect, i all ready got mine at work so he can have mine!”

i accidentally got myself into the most ridiculous debates about the h1n1 vaccine on facebook with people i used to be friends with many moons ago, like in high school many moons ago.  these people are convinced that h1n1 is a government conspiracy, that it’s not real, that there are “tracking devices” in the vaccine, i mean, REALLY ridiculous stuff.  normally i ignore their crazy posts, but when you work in a hospital and you are faced with people who HAVE h1n1 everyday, it gets a little hard to ignore after a while.  one person, who i actually used to DATE when i was about 17 has three “beautiful healthy” kids, none of which have had any sort of vaccinations.  i wanted to say, yes, your kids are healthy because the majority of the population DOES vaccinate their children, and therefore illnesses like polio are not spreading around the country anymore, perhaps you would like to take your unvaccinated children to india or nigeria and see how well they fare there.  i know that more and more people are jumping on the “it’s unhealthy to vaccinate your kids” bandwagon, and that is a scary thought.  for one thing the less people who are vaccinated the higher chance there is that we will see a recurrence of children dying from childhood diseases that have been eradicated or at least nearly eradicated here in the states.  secondly, it is not clear how long some of these vaccinations last for, so even though most of us were vaccinated as children, it is possible that we could be susceptible to these diseases again.  in any case, i don’t want to get into a debate about it here too so i will end this rambling now.

i had my monthly checkup today, everything seems to be progressing normally.  i am scheduled for my glucose test at the end of november and will be having my rhogam injection at that time as well.  i have to go to the hospital to get it which i thought was strange, one of the pharmacists at work says she has never seen a rhogam injection at an inpatient pharmacy, so she thinks that they may keep them in the lab which is why you have to go to the hospital *shrug* beats me.  anyone else had a rhogam injection? did you have to go to a hospital to get it?

i did some bikini line trimming today and i think it’s pretty safe to say that it will be the last time i am able to do it for a while because it was NOT easy to maneuver around my stomach.  also, and this may be tmi, i seem to have grown a rather large mole in my lady parts area, and i swear it has cropped up in the past couple of weeks.  i wanted to ask my doctor about it today but she had a resident who i had never met before with her and i was embarrassed! i know, stupid, right? i guess i’ll have to ask next time, i’ll be seeing someone else at my next appt because my doctor is going on maternity leave, i think i’ll be seeing the midwife actually, so i guess i’ll ask her about it!

well, we did it today, we registered.  i was having a hard time deciding between babies r us and target, i thought maybe we’d do both, but ultimately we just ended up doing target.  you sure need a lot of shit for a baby.  when we got to the bottles i was like, ummmmmmm… i’m lost, but we decided to try the avent bottles.  i felt the same way in the diaper aisle and ended up choosing huggies pure and natural since they’re made with organic cotton.  i know the cloth diapers would be best but i’m not going to lie, i can’t handle all the shit that goes along with cloth diapers… literally.

i know i’ve gotten a couple of awards that i need to recognize, i’m not neglecting them, i’ve just been really sick for the past few days, i had to call in sick to work on thursday and friday.  my husband was on a business trip in toronto and when he got home friday afternoon he went to the grocery store, came back and promptly made me chicken noodle soup from scratch, cause that’s just the kind of guy he is.  he started coming down with something yesterday so now he’ll be the sick one for the next few days.  since i was too sick to work on friday i was also too sick to get my h1n1 vaccine, i hope they still have some left tomorrow! if not i can always get it from my ob, but they’re not getting their’s in for another few weeks.  actually i’ve been wondering if i should wait until they get their’s because they will have the preservative free ones whereas the hospital probably has the ones with preservatives, which would also be the ones that contain trace amounts of mercury.  decisions decisions.  i think i’m going to call my doctor tomorrow and see what she thinks.

23 weeks!!

i am so annoyed with my work!! as hospital employees we are provided with things like flu shots, which i all ready got.  we are also being provided with h1n1 vaccines on a first come first serve basis.  the first one we got in was the nasal spray, which of course i can’t take because i’m pregnant, us preggos are not supposed to use the nasal spray because it is made with a live virus as opposed to the injection, which is made with a deactivated (dead) virus.  the injection will be available tomorrow, but they have put us on a tier system as to what departments can get what vaccine and when.  if i could take the nasal spray i could get it tomorrow, but for the injection i have to wait until friday because i am tier three, meaning there are other people in the hospital who they feel are more important that they get the injection before us.  ummmmmmm… yeah, if they run out of the injection i won’t get shit because that’s my only choice.  i called infection control to explain to them that i am pregnant but that did not seem to matter one bit to them, i still have to wait until friday.  my manager has filed a complaint, because pregnancy stuff aside, we in the pharmacy should all be getting the vaccine asap as we come into direct contact with patients who are filling scripts, and i cannot even tell you how many people have come in to get tamiflu scripts filled.  so yeah, i’m really annoyed that a. they don’t think we are a high enough priority and b. they don’t give a shit that i’m pregnant and need to have the injection before they run out.  i called my doctor’s office to see when they would be getting the vaccine thinking maybe i’d just get it there instaed, but they won’t be getting it until mid novemeber, so i hope the hosptial still has one for me on friday!!!

the inevitable has happened, i am coming down with a cold   not sure if i caught it from my step-daughter riley or one of the many coughing people who have come into the pharmacy.  we have sold so much tamiflu in the last few days alone it’s ridiculous.

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.