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And I can see my entryway fairy looks obscene, it's not! It's just a fairy sitting on the ground, and from this angle it looks bad.

Hope you're feeling better Tracy & Pam! I finished the nursery, and my back was killing me (not sure why though). Took a nap, and it feels better but still sore. Went to some fancy mexican restaurant in the new hoighty toighty mall with my parents-- wasn't very good, and the manager kept bugging me about not eating my food. I can't say "This sucks" so I just kept having to find new ways to politely say I'm full, I don't need a doggy bag, etc. So here's the nursery, sorry for all the pics, wasn't sure if ya'll wanted to see the progress (I wanted to keep it to look back on one day!) Before: Progress: Finished: And Home Depot didn't have the golden paste, so I got the only universal paste they had--still didn't work, so I spent an hour tacking down every inch of the 2nd border with the seam sealer stuff. Never again in my life will I do borders!

Pipes are good I think! It's warmed up today, even though I left it dripping last night. I don't think it's freezing anymore. I was up late last night because I took a nap during the day, so I spent last night cleaning... our team won at hockey! They were 1st place team when we were going, then we stopped going over the holidays.. they've been on a losing streak Last night they won 6 to 1! It was jersey auction night for a child disease, so their jerseys were these pastel blues & pinks.. I think maybe they played extra hard to compensate for how frilly they looked. The owners said we can't miss anymore games, because we seem to be the good luck charm lol. I know I complain about my sis and how she runs through my parent's money like water.. I never have heard them say no.. well for Xmas they got her a truck bed cover so she can install a sound system in her truck ($800). She goes Monday to get it put in, so she asks my dad when he's going to schedule to get a sound system put in.. he said it depends on how much it costs, and she HUFFS and says "Well what does it matter? It's suppose to be my Xmas present!" No, the cover was.. but anyway, he says "We'll see, you realize we're in a recession right now and money is tight?" and she heavy sighs and gets all pissy. It's amazing, she's like a spoiled little kid.. but I was glad to see him give her some sort of resistance since I've never even seen that. Though I know she'll win, and he'll get her the system this week. She brought her gf, who was CLEARLY messed up on something. Russ said my sis was too, but I couldn't tell.. I know her gf was though.. and her gf was trying to eat popcorn at the game and couldn't coordinate hand to mouth 80% of the time so it made a huge mess. Then after only 1 period, they decide they wanted to go hang out in the car? I am going to Home Depot soon, it's 8:13am, I called 5m ago and it said they're closed but their hours today are 8am.. so I'm going to run get paint and the golden paste and get this knocked out.. I'll take pics! The prettiest/most subtle color in the border and entire nursery set is purple stars (that I love of course), but I bet if I painted that 1 wall purple Russ would have a fit.. especially after painting our living room purple hehehe. Normally I'm not here on weekends, but 2 weekends in a row I popped in and it's so quiet!!!

I thought about it and this is what I came up with for the nursery... the base wall color in our house is this pale yellowish cream color (which I normally hate, which is why I've been slowly painting the house).. Anyway, the nursery is square, when you walk in, the right side top is where I put the border I finished.. going to put border on the opposite wall (left side) and call it a day with the border.. the wall you see when you walk in also has a window, going to paint just that one wall, some pastel color... probably a blue, but going to take a piece of the border to home depot tomorrow to see what color would pop with it. That's that! Would be easier to paint 1 wall and call it artsy than to border 2 more walls. LOL

Yup yup, I was extremely paranoid. I'm better these days, but it wasn't till my 20 week ultrasound that I finally started to let my guard down and let myself be excited. I wasn't expecting to be pregnant, but one week I was SO tight, I had such a hard time eating and I was out of town on vacation, so I figured.. if it's still like this when we get back, I'll go to doc. We got back on a Sunday, that Monday I was still very tight, so I called to make an appt. for an unfill. A few hours later I realized my period was late, and took a test. It was distinct. I was only 2-4 weeks pregnant at that point. So my tightness was early on, I did get an unfill. My breasts were so tender that next couple of weeks, then that too went away and has not come back. The band loosened up, until about 2 weeks ago (24 weeks), I've started to get tight again.. so I'm glad I didn't refill. He only took .5cc out, but very little saline makes a lot of difference for me. I have 2cc left. You both drank the LBT water, eh.. hope it works out for you both

Thanks for all the tips, Judy I'm going to have to go get that paste.. can you apply it over the pre-pasted, before even using the pre-pasted? I got one wall done, after using prepasted 3x attempts, then used a border adhesive I bought at walmart (useless), and finally just tacked it while it was still wet with thumb tacks, then used a 'seam sealer' on the edges (LOT of work and messy).. it did finally stay, but edges are curled and it does not look very pretty. Debating if I want to just have 1 wall done, thinking of how to be creative with it. I'll try the golden stuff, if it doesn't work I'm done with it.. not going to do the seam sealer on 4 walls, took the whole bottle for just 12'. Pipes finally started dripping around 2pm (I opened the cabinets, but we don't have a space heater, so I turned our heat up to 72 for a while). After it started dripping I heard the cracking in the wall, fingers crossed it was just the ice, cracking and then the water came full force with a little more cracking then it stopped. So I have water constantly going on the cold side in there now. No leaks anywhere, so.. hopefully it was just the ice cracking :/ I fell asleep around 3pm and just woke up..we're going to hockey game tonight..wee. Hope you're all having a fun Saturday!

Today is turning out to be rotten. Up extra early due to Russ' snoring, so decided to hang up the pre-pasted wall border in the nursery. It will not stick!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went to Walmart, and bought different adhesives, none of them work.. the whole thing is like it's 'pasted' with water, which won't stick for nothing. I am very pissy right now. What a waste... And it seems our kitchen pipes are frozen. I leave it dripping as not to freeze up, but apparently there's 2 different places the water comes from (I'm not very handy). The hot water is fine, but when I push it over to cold, it turns off. I've been messing with it all day and it's not budging, and it's not warming up outside, so not sure what to do. Can't afford busted pipes right now..

I can only go off of like the handful of births I've known about.. my friend had a (first) baby last year, they induced her with the pitocin and 24 hours later, she was regressing (she also had pre-eclampsia) so they ended up doing a c-section, she never even got around to pushing. My bro's ex was in labor for 24 hours (first/only baby), and wow she was cranky lol. I hate hospitals to begin with, the bed rest thing sounds miserable to me, so I think those of you who mention it don't totally complain about it so you're already tougher than me. I was born in the lobby (2nd baby), my mom had the flu and thought I was diarhea. I was crowning before she realized she was actually in labor, and they didn't have time to prep her for anything. She said she was in labor for 2 days with my brother, and it was the time when any drugs were frowned upon so she didn't even have an epidural. By time she had my sister (3rd) epidurals were in style, so that was her first with any kind of pain relief and she said it made it so much nicer, she actually got to enjoy the experience. I'm terrified when I think about the actual birthing process, plus the fact my doc does not want to have to do c-section due to my kidney..so I keep thinking, boys are big.. he's gonna be big, he's gonna totally rip me open and kill my pelvis because my doc won't do a c-section just cause he's very big, etc.. All those kinds of worries AND I think about breech, I saw some videos online of breech deliveries.. holy hell. Ow..Normally they do a c-section if they're breech and won't move, but some people just don't do c-sections, so they end up getting torn all to pieces down there. Yeah, I'm not tryin to be scary, just sharing my worries.. not like I'm not in the same boat anyway!

I think someone else mentioned this, but don't remember the solution.. made the ham & cheese soup, mine was very watery and the cheese curdled into globs (I used all shredded cheddar). Taste was good, but texture was yuck. Russ didn't like it (I think probably just because of the texture). More for me! But is there a solution for the curdling? I have a feeling when I reheat it throughout this weekend it'll only get worse. I think I'm going to put some guacamole in it tomorrow too. Dunno why, just sounds yum.

Mmmm Jammie pants, I still got over an hour plus the 30-45m drive home.. ugh. I so can't wear my non-maternity pants anymore.. I have been wearing my stretch jeans, but they don't work anymore, I am miserable today with them. Cutting circulation off to my hips.

Wii Fail.

Thanks for the reminder of the soup Suzie! I bought the stuff to make it, but it must be pushed to the back of the fridge, out of sight out of mind! I am going to make that tonight too, give me something to eat throughout the weekend. Heather, if you like tofu, you could just use the tofu. Or beans.. beans are high protein.

Just curious, what's your reaction to being told you may be in labor for a couple of days? I mean I know it's always a real possibility, but to actually be told near time they think it will go down that way? Woohoo though, seems like right around the corner!

I love having 2 tivos! I've been watching it, I fast forward through everything except the actual auditions. this year, nothing too exciting this far. I didn't think the girl in the bikini was any good, and I resent the fact she's making it all over the internet right now because she showed up in a bikini.. so what??? She wasn't naked, it's not like every single person who saw her in a bikini can't go right down the road and see someone in a g-string bikini if they wanted to.

OH! We got the wiifit in yesterday, set it up. I was getting ready for the movie, so I watched Russell set up an account first.. his wii-fit age was TWENTY! Feh. But it said he was obese, and he's gained more weight than I thought he has. I was shocked, he's not far off from me, but I look a lot bigger--and I'm taller.. how is that fair?! Then I did my profile, my center of balance was way off and after something it says "Do you find yourself tripping when you walk?" and we both laughed and he said "Why yes Wii, she does." LOL. So maybe I'll learn some balance with this thing. I think we both had the same BMI- 33. But my wiifit age was 34.. so it said negative stuff about me, where as it told HIM despite being out of shape, he's in relatively good condition-something to that affect. Then I watched him run, where you follow a guy.. I got a kick out of that, I hear Russ panting and can't breathe and this little bobble head guy in a purple outfit keeps gesturing at him to hurry up LOL. He did hula hoops too.. and then a little yoga with what he said was a 'hot trainer'. I said 'hot??' and he goes 'it was her or the dude' and I said 'yeah but HOT to describe a flat chested cartoon??'. I can't wait to play with it this evening, and have my HOT guy trainer. Hehe.

Tracy- What do you think of the Twilight series? I kept hearing about it (I saw the movie, was eh I thought), so I went to amazon to order the set.. then I read reviews and people were saying it was overrated basically, so I backed out. Benjamin Button WAS a good movie, I really did like it, it was very much like Forrest Gump-- but it WAS wayyyy tooo looong to be sitting in the theater in a bra & maternity pants. I checked my phone clock several times, my ass was hurting and I kept shifting and fidgeting. The fancy seats actually tilt down, so you have to use your legs to push yourself up and doing that for 3 hours really takes a toll. During a war scene in the water, lots of blowing up and rumbling and it set Carson off. He was going crazy, so I was trying to layer my coats on top of me to cushion the noise lol. It is 12 degrees today.. waaah?! Good luck with the goal Haydee, you weren't in 18 last time we saw you were you? (Bottoms I mean). Tracy with scary neighborhood- Uhm.. yeah MOVE. That would have be panic-attacking every single night. I worry about break ins and I've never lived somewhere that had a single one. Everytime I hear a noise I go over a game plan.. what I'll do, how do I get Russ up without him making noises (impossible), where is my bat, what about the dog--is she leashed tonight? Etc. I'm a mess!

Same here, when docs wouldn't give me meds and I was seeing chiros and PT's (way back when, before I got cortisone epidurals), my PT said it was counter productive for him to try to work with me in as much pain as I was in because I wasn't able to do much.. so he called my doc and had them call me in an Rx for muscle relaxers.

Uhmm.. attractive as an old man? NO THANKS. Sean Connery is 'attractive as an old man' ;P Clint Eastwood is NOT. Movie was still fantastic. Ordered the nursery furniture today, weeee. Can't wait till it comes in and Russell puts it together so I can take pics for ya'll. Glad to hear you liked it Pam, that is encouraging. The medium popcorn is no better, $1 more for .5cup more. I got my asian salad to-go from Tokyo today. I also got 3 more to-go. Going to smuggle one into the movie tonight. I love these salads.. their dressing is soooo good.

Take it with a grain of salt, your friend is not intentionally trying to sound rude, but it's probably hard for her to simply be happy for you without some jealousy. It probably also makes her feel like a bad friend when she is jealous, so she probably does not want to be reminded about it.

I'm going to see the Benjamin Button movie tonight. Me & friends were trying to pick a movie, he said this one.. Russ said it had bad reviews, but nothing else out that neither of us have seen so we're going. I'm looking online and I see good reviews.. any of you seen it yet? Only thing that stands out as a CON to me, is it is 3 hours long! UGH. I am too ADD for a 3 hour long movie. We'll see if it can keep me attentive. It's from the writer of Forrest Gump--which I like, albeit another long movie. Long movies are best at home. Oh well. Haven't been out with my movie buddy since before holidays started, so I'll tough it out.. plus I get popcorn. Unlike Pam, I make no excuses against the popcorn lol. I am getting a small, which is 5 bucks and literally only 1.5 cups..everytime I order small they hold up the teeny tiny bag and go 'still want a small?'. MMHM. But I will pass on candy, I am trying really really hard to get this candy thing under control.

Wow it sure is quiet in here lately! Denise, I didn't even read others' emails, might be what I do today when work gets slow. I had roast beef at Cracker Barrell last night (mmm). Had a mini blueberry muffin and 1/2c of orange juice for b'fast today, working on water right now. This perma-allergy crap I got going on is so annoying!!!! My nose has been raw & chapped for months now, every morning I wake up sneezing my head off and snot all over the place. I go through a box of tissue every other day. Claritin and Zyrtec haven't helped, and I split the tip of my nose from being chapped, which really hurts, and it's splitting more Also have blisters inside my nose, mom gave me a cold sore med which isn't doing anything.. pharmacist said to try neosporin, so I'm doing that too.. still no help. And my hands have flared up really bad with whatever that is. We're suppose to get -12 with windchill tomorrow--coldest it's been here in 15 years. News was talking about covering up water heaters in the garage?? Our kitchen sink goes to an outside wall and yesterday morning when it was 20 degrees it froze up (eek), so last night I made sure to drip faucets and left the cabinets open. Carson has been kicking quite a bit this morning while I'm at work, a repetitive kick which feels like muscle spasms (which get really old when it happens for long periods of time!!) Guess I'll just be happy he's alive & kickin'! You guys mentioned feeling them roll over is cool, I haven't felt that yet.. I just feel kicks. 3-d ultrasound is scheduled for Feb. 4. Russell is starting to get excited about building robots and doing science experiments with Carson. I sure hope he likes science LOL. My mom told him it'll be a while before he can do that stuff, and Russell said "just a few years". I guess we're going to have a child prodigy who builds robots at 3? I won't burst his bubble.. he can do science experiments and Carson can watch and eat the glue.

I did good today (except for the Snickers). Had a turkey Sammie from Quiznos (those things are GOOD). Lots of Water. Russ sent me this, kinda cute.. sends you your e-mail in the future. I'm deciding what to write! FutureMe.org Oh and I got my end of the year sales report, I did $200k more in sales than boss projected he wanted me to do. Woot woot, but this year he wants me to do even more, so I set the bar too high?! With the economy, and companies merging, it's going to be harder to get numbers to climb right now. Hopefully by our rush season this year the economy will be looking better? Heh.

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There's a thread just a ways down from this one about the same thing... http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f131/breastfeeding-pre-post-op-diets-help-70386/ Beyond that, I think it's better to ask your doc about it..

Uhm.. that's what I had for lunch yesterday. :sneaky: