Love, love, love

Wow! It really feels like forever since I have been on the computer. After 4 calls to Qwest and a total of 2 hours on the phone with them I was finally able to do a simple change on our modem for it to connect to the internet at our new house. The main problem is that our newer computer (which is still 5 yrs old) is trashed. Doesn't even want to turn on and my laptop (7 yrs old) is too damn old to even connect to the internet without a previous connection. It is very difficult not having a computer that is up to speed when I had a GREAT one not too long ago, but its one of the many things I gave up to be done with a bad situation. Anyway..... I called my brother and asked his advice. I went to Circuit City and Best Buy to check out what kind of deals are out there. We decided that we would rather have more capability than convenience, so we chose a desktop. Honestly, our laptops never leave the computer desk anyway. Turns out that he was able to get us a MUCH better deal through his work than we could find. So, our new wonderful computer will be here in 5 days! Woo hoo, we can't wait!

Our move went very smoothly. My Dad came over around 10 on Sat and we had most of the moving truck loaded by the time Justin, Becker and Lisa came at 11. It was so nice to have help. We loaded up Jacobs truck and Lisa and I drove over to the new house. I just love her, she is the sweetest person and was such a big help! She basically cleaned out all the cabinets for me, helped unpack and put things away. I am claiming her as my new best friend out here. We have always got along great. While we were busy doing that the men unloaded the truck and headed back to the house to get everything else. By about 330 everyone was back to our house eating pizza and drinking beer. We were SO grateful for the help, it really went pretty fast, and with Lisa helping me so much we got all of the kitchen stuff put away. Poor Jacob was on call and had to go out after everyone left. He had locked his keys in his work truck earlier that day so had to call his boss to come unlock it. He was home by about 9, but exhausted!

The next morning, our bodies did not want to get out of bed. Jacob slept until about 11, then we went back to the old house to clean up and take showers. The new house has gas heat, water heater and stove, they didn't come out to turn it on until Monday morning.

Tuesday I had to meet my Dad and the realtor at our old house for our final walk through. While I am NOT happy with the landlords, its not the realtors fault but I did just have to tell him what I thought of them. My Dad also served them with a demand letter for our deposit. AZ state law says they cannot keep it. I haven't heard anything from them but they have 14 days to respond. So we will see. They did send me a text message at 1030 Tuesday night saying no water in the house was difficult to deal with since the house wasn't cleaned. I was SO mad, our walk through stated that the house was left in clean condition. We even cleaned carpets, which is more than was done when we moved in. Especially with all the crap they are trying to pull! While I was steaming I decided not to answer her until the next morning since they like to not answer my texts. It took me forever to fall back asleep since she had woke me up, and we all know how easily irritated I have been LOL. In the morning I texted her back saying, "per walk through house was left clean, it is customary to have water turned off when you vacate a property." She texted back, "well I didn't know you were going to have it turned off. A heads up would've been nice" I texted back again "I turned it off on our last day of tenancy, it is your job to call and make sure it is on in your name"
I'm sorry, is this lady for real? Can she really be so stupid as to not know when her renter leaves they are going to take water and utilities out of their name? I mean it even states on the lease that the tenant is responsible for making sure water and utilities are turned on the day you enter the property and turned off the day you vacate. Well, you know I had to rant about something! LOL really though, I have been feeling a lot better. Emotional yes, but not as ill and I LOVE that. I still have not gained any weight, but I have a little baby belly. I just can't wait until I can start feeling our little one. We are pretty excited about our ultrasound on Saturday. I just wish I was far enough along to tell what we are having!

Just to clarify

Due to my recent ranting and raving I guess I have made people think I am directing it at them. So to clarify.... I'm pregnant, if you ever have been you will realize I'm having a crabby day, no big deal. I'm just stating my opinion, the same as everyone else. I don't try to call people out on anything, even if I want to. It isn't any certain family member or friend sending me off the deep end, its my freaking hormones. So yes, certain comments can get me aggravated, but the most common culprit of my moodiness is the idiots at the bank, gas station, and people driving. I have had to go in to the bank many times in the past week to get money orders. Every time I see this certain lady I cringe. The lady had to ask me 4 times what amount I needed, then repeats it back wrong every time. I corrected her, she prints the money order, for $200 less than I wanted. Then she counts my money again to be sure I am not lying and has to re-print one. For Gods sake woman!! You should NOT work in a bank! Have you ever heard of writing something down if you can't remember anything? It took 20 min to do something that should have taken 5. This was my "issue" on my moodiness blog.

Then the guy at the corner store is just a freak and says the most stupid things to me. Mmmm Naked drinks, makes me just want to drink one laying in my recliner, naked. Umm ok, what am I supposed to say to that? Every time I go in he asks me wierd questions. So yesterday, I brought Jacob in with me and the guys is equally as weird. Even asks me, did you ever find out what that thing on your key chain is for? I look at Jacob and say "do you know?" He responds quickly "yeah, its the key to my heart." I had to laugh, what a cutie.

Don't let me get started on all the old people out here right now trying to drive 20 MPH around town. Ok, sun birds, get the hell out of here!!!!

So, as you can see, its not one person or one comment ticking me off. Its just that I seem to have lost my patience. So bear with me. I know its no fun listening to me rant all the time, but I'm told it gets better after the first trimester LOL Oh man, I hope so!!

Busy busy

This morning we went to The Egg and I for breakfast and had our walk through on our new house. We LOVE it! Can't wait to move. It made us realize that while our house now has a pool, its not as nice as our new one. The good news is, if we like the new house we can buy it from the people. So we will see how it goes after renting it for a year. I have a feeling prices will still be pretty low then too. After we were done we went home and loaded up Jacobs truck and my Land Rover with what would fit and brought stuff to the new house. Just as we were done unloading we realized it was time to go for my Dr's appt. I was SO hungry, but didn't want to be late. We ended up being there for an hour and a half, by then I was starving. They did order me another ultrasound being I was having some issues so we will go in next Sat. for that. He said everything looks good, but just to be sure they would like to do one. I am happy about it! It was going to kill me to have to wait months for another one :) We still won't be able to see much, but it will be awesome to see it. We won't have Internet for a few days starting tomorrow. They should get everything set up for us at the new house on Wed. So until then, wish us luck on our move!

Todays cravings

I think my morning sickness is starting to fade. While I did have a bad day all day Friday, I have felt good since. I felt horrible because I was looking forward to going out with everyone Friday night, but I had to send Jacob by himself. He did come home bearing gifts of food :) As I said, everyday I want something different. Today, it was crab cakes. I have a hard time finding anywhere that doesn't make them with onions, but when my friend Jamie was out here last summer I found them at Gordon Biersch. MMMMMMmmmmm. Soooo good. So today when Jacob got off work we headed out for some yummy food. He is on call tonight and got a few calls when we were on our way home. We did get a chance to drive by our new house though. We are SO excited to move. What I am most excited about is the big garden tub that is in the master bath. I can't wait to just relax in a nice bath. I had a few clients to do today so I went in to the salon for a few hours. I was going to go get my blood work done, but it is first come first serve and there was a waiting room FULL of old people. I decided I was already hungry and waiting that long wasn't an option. I will try again earlier in the day sometime soon. I also changed my next doctors appt to Friday so Jacob can go along. We were looking at nursery stuff last night. It seems like forever until we find out what we are having. Although, I think it is going to be a boy. We have a few names picked out already.

On a sad note, Dax has an owie. Jacob gave him a haircut (so that he can pass as a lab mix) LOL Well Dax moved while Jacob was trimming his tail and he got a bald spot on his tail. It must be irritating him pretty badly because he has now licked it raw no matter what we do to stop it. Needless to say, we have not been getting much sleep due to his gross licking noises. Anyone that knows Dax, knows what I am talking about. We get pretty frustrated at him during the night and this scares me. How the heck are we going to handle a baby waking up every two hours! Oh man, we are so in for it!

Sooo tired

I have been less moody these past couple days, thankfully!!! My Dad came over yesterday to help us pack. I will admit that Jacob is doing most of it. My Dad was a HUGE help. I got all of the kitchen stuff done, which is a lot. I have a lot of gadgets since I like to cook. The problem is, I haven't been cooking much. The nauseousness is letting up though, so I can start getting back in the kitchen. We packed until about 3 and then laid on the couch to watch a movie together. I fell asleep pretty quickly though, sprawled out across Jacob :) The rest of the night we just relaxed.

We woke up this morning and went to breakfast at the Waffle House. Last thing before I fell asleep last night I decided I wanted waffles. Its a game Jacob likes to play now, what food am I going to want. We came home and started packing again. I am surprised how fast it is really going. I am especially thankful that Jacob doesn't mind doing most of the work. As we speak, he is packing while I am typing. He won't let me do much, being I am pregnant. I know that technically you can still do a lot even when pregnant, but being what happened last time he wants to be extra careful. So when I start feeling tired I am told to sit down. I can handle that :) As I said before, he is doing almost all of the cleaning too. He's learning to cook too! LOL I love him.

Moodiness

Have I mentioned lately how things rub me the wrong way VERY easily lately??? This being said, why must people feel the need to say and do such stupid things? I myself get pretty tired of how irritable I am, but how can I get over this? I would love to feel normal again.

I dropped off the deposit for our new house today and they should be sending the lease by email for us to print and sign. I got a call from our landlord today saying that they have renters that want to move in by Feb 28th. Good thing I found a house! This was the exact situation I was trying to avoid. I am still peeved that they want to retain the deposit even though they have the house rented. The whole situation with them has just left me irritated for days, but what hasn't?

On a good note, our Valentines dinner was great. I was craving cashew sesame chicken from The Cheesecake Factory for some time. It was a great idea to pick up the food and bring it home. The line was very long to get into the restaurant and I never know when I am going to start feeling sick. I tried to put on something cute but have realized that while I haven't gained any weight, my boobs are freaking huge. Time to go up a size again. Geez, by the time this is all over I'm gonna be a triple D. OUCH!

Happy Valentines Day

I have to agree with Brianna, once you have been in a realtionship for a while and married, its just not the same celebrating Valentines Day. Although, I never was very big on it. Last year we had fondue at home and it was wonderful! So tonight, I'm thinking we will go pick food up from the Cheesecake Factory and bring it home.

I applied for a few jobs this morning and got a call for an interview at a law firm for a part time position. There are TONS of people out there looking for jobs. The one thing that keeps being brought up is that I am over qualified for the positions I am seeking. Who cares!! Doesn't this mean I have more to bring to the table then? So we will see what happens, they will be making decisions by Tues. I haven't heard anything back from my interview on Monday but she did say they wouldn't be calling people until next week. That is a full time position, which I don't really want but at this point I need to stop turning jobs down.

We found a house that we really liked and put in our application to rent it. We got the call today that we are accepted. Woo Hoo! This means we have to pack and move by Feb 29th, holy crap. I need to get to packing ASAP. Anyone want to come down to help, PLEASE!

Houses galore

I spent most of yesterday meeting with realtors to view houses. In between houses I had an interview to go on for a property management position. They will be doing 2nd interviews next week and then 3rd the week after that. So, if I get a call back great, if not, oh well. I decided against working for that other company after reading through the contract.

Back to the houses..... I viewed about 7 houses, 3 of which I liked. Jacob was able to meet me at 530 to see 2 of the houses. We really liked the last one, but I want him to see my other favorites before we jump on anything. He should be getting off early today so I made a few more showing appts. I am impressed at what is out there for around $1000. It made us realize that our house is way over priced.I am also waiting for my landlord to email us a copy of the lease, they said they emailed it yesterday. I realized that when I signed it when we moved in they took it and were supposed to send us a copy back. Of course they never did. I am getting pretty impatient with them. Of course these days I'm impatient with EVERYTHING. I am really tired of being so emotional and irritable. At least it comes in spurts and then I calm back down.

Ahhh the weekend

The meeting with landlord and realtor Friday just irritated me. They sprung a few things on us that I am peeved at. Since we had agreed to stay in the house until they found new renters they gave us the impression we would be getting our deposit back. Oh no, they want to retain our deposit, charge an extra $250 for hiring their realtor, and want us to stay until the house rents. I'm sorry, is it just me with my pregnancy hormones screaming through me, or does this seem not kosher? Granted, in most cases if you break your lease you lose your deposit, but how many renters are willing to stay until the house is re-rented? So, my feeling are, if they want to keep our deposit because we are breaking our lease, then we are free to move when we would like. I requested a copy of our lease from them this morning and got a conference call from them basically freaking out because they are afraid we are going to leave before its rented. Well, then they should've stuck with the deal they made with us in the first place. We have been nothing but good renters, which they keep saying, in fact they want to keep us in the house, but aren't willing to drop the rent down to where it should be. Business is business and we need to protect ourselves as much as they are trying to protect themselves. I have really had to fight the urge to call them and tell them all of this, but Jacob has convinced me to wait until we are telling them we will be moving. I know thats the best, but I'm so angry at them!

Friday night I slept horribly, I was so sick all night and most of Saturday. Jacob is on call this weekend and had to go out on a few Saturday. When he came home we went grocery shopping. When we came home I noticed I was bleeding, again. I can't help but wonder if that had anything to do with how sick I was feeling. We laid around the rest of the night and watched movies. I am so glad that we love spending so much time together. This morning we woke up and drove to some houses to check out the neighborhood before we call a realtor to show us the houses. There were a few we liked and may go look at a couple this afternoon. My parents are on thier way up to our house now to brings gifts of food LOL My mom wanted to know everything that sounded good to me, so she could bring it. She wanted to go so far as to make a ham and turkey, but honestly it makes me ill thinking about it!!

A Day Off

I have been so busy this week that I was SO excited to not have to get up and go to work today. Don't get me wrong, I am lucky to have clients to keep me busy, but I had a rough day at the salon yesterday. I got through it, but its no fun feeling that sick and working. I also had my hair done. I cut about 4-5 inches off and touched up my hi-lites. I feel SOOO much better. When I first told Jacob I was going to cut my hair he was concerned, but no need for him to worry. I'm not a short hair girl :) Of course, just like a typical man, he didn't even notice LOL.

We told our landlord that we wanted to put our house up for rent, so today I am meeting them and their realtor for a walk through. It was tough trying to clean house, smells just send me running, but Jacob was a HUGE help. Almost everything I thought I was going to be able to do I couldn't. He cleaned the shower, bathrooms and the carpets, took care of the back yard, helped me carry all the dishes from our room downstairs. We tend to bring snacks up at night since I lay down so early and they stack up pretty fast. I was able to put the laundry away, vacuum, do the dishes, clean the kitchen. We make a great team. I so lucky to have a man that will help! Oh how I love him!

Birthday

I had a very busy day yesterday, and a pretty good birthday, although once you grow up, its just another day. I had to wake up early and get to the salon for some appointments I had. I was so excited that I felt good. After my appointment I had a job interview to go on. I was offered the position, but I am going to research it some and carefully read through the contract to make sure it is something I want to do. I also contacted my sister, who is in the industry, to ask a few questions. I had to hurry back to salon to do my other appointments. I didn't get home until about 6. I had wanted to go to the gym with Jacob, but its a better idea to make sure that I am all clear to work out again. My parents were going to come up to our house with dinner and my birthday cake, but my Dad was sick. He NEVER gets sick, and he felt so bad that they couldn't come. He wanted to still try, but I told him to stay home, I didn't want to get whatever he had. So instead, I wanted to order pizza, I have been craving bread sticks from Papa Johns. I had them all to myself, but only managed to eat 2. I laid on the couch watching Ghost Hunters. I was happy to just lay around. I got lots of phone calls from friends and it was great to get to talk with everyone and catch up.

There are quite a few people getting married this summer. I just have to laugh at how caught up you can get in wanting things "just right" I know its different when its your first wedding. I've been there, and did that, trust me, its not worth it. Take the money people!! LOL In all reality, no one cares how fancy it is or how elaborate it looks. The part people enjoy most is joining you in taking your vows. That is what a marriage is about, not the party you throw. The day goes by SO fast you hardly remember it yourself. It almost seems like everyone is in a competition, how weird are women! We all know the men don't care :) I am so glad that Jacob and I didn't argue about one thing to do with the wedding. We didn't make people have seating arrangements. We didn't worry about who couldn't make it. We just wanted everyone to feel at home. When the day is over all that matters is you are together. Of course, these are all things that everyone tried to tell me my first time around, but of course my response was, but its your special day that only happens once. When it was all over, I had wished I listened. At least Jacob and I got to do it again in a way that really meant more to us. In the end all that matters is that the two of you are happy.

Well

Saturday I felt GREAT! I didn't have any sickness until that night of course, but it made it such a wonderful day. We went looking at baby furniture then to Jamba Juice. I have been craving a lot of veggies and fruits. Meat doesn't sound so good, although I did have a steak that night, for my birthday dinner, which was pretty good. I had my ultrasound and we got to see the babys heartbeat. The Dr says I am about 6 weeks along, but I can call my Dr tomorrow and get the exact date. He said everything looked good, and I have a tilted pelivs, which I already knew.

Sunday we went to my brothers for a Superbowl party. Unfortunetly as soon as we got there I noticed I was bleeding a little. I had been having cramps that day, but didn't think much of it since they say that is no big deal. I wasn't in too much pain, so we stayed until about the 3rd quarter. I swear as soon as 7pm hits, so does my sickness, if I haven't felt it yet. There was soooo much good food there and my brother was especially excited about his "meat sauce" LOL It was pretty good. Once we got home I headed upstairs to lay down. The Dr suggests I take B6 and half a Unisom at night to help with sickness, so I have been. I always take my B complex during the day, and if I keep it in me it does help, but the problem is it keeps you up so I wasn't taking it at night. This morning I woke up and was SO sick, plus still had a little bit of cramping. I tried to get up and clean house, but couldn't do it. So I laid back down, took my B complex and half a Unisom. I slept till 230. YIKES! I know its best for me to rest, but geez. So I am up, and taking it easy. I guess cleaning the house can wait.

Oh so good

Well my birthday is on Wednesday so we are going to celebrate it tonight. Jacob was very cute and wanted to surprise me with dinner and a gondola ride. I think it will be so much fun. When I was in Italy, on a gondola ride, all I could think of was I can't wait to get to do this with someone I love. Now, I know its not Italy, but I am still excited.

We have our ultrasound today, the day is just full of excitement. We can't wait to see our little itty bitty baby. I know we won't be able to see much, but we should be able to hear the heartbeat. EXCITING!

We joined a gym Thursday, just down the street from us. They offer tons of classes, steam room, sauna, tanning, and TONS of equipment. Jacob and I were pretty impressed. I of course can't use a lot of that being I'm pregnant, but it is still worth it. We went last night and did arms and cardio. I am pretty excited that Jacob and I are going together. Its nice to do something active with eachother. I'm not getting crazy with my excersing, I know I need to be careful, so I am not over doing it with the cardio.

Tomorrow my brother is having a Superbowl party. I asked what I can bring and it looks like my spinach artichoke dip is requested. Its so easy to make and I LOVE it, I rarely make it, so I can't wait to have some.

I have actually lost about 6 pounds since finding out I'm pregnant, not because I am trying. Its just that I am still in the stage where nothing sounds that good. I made dinner last night after the gym and I could only eat a little bit of it before I thought I was going to have to make a run for it. I hate having to go through that. I laid in bed a lot of yesterday just trying to keep the nauesea at bay. Yes, I've been eating crackers, taking my b-complex, but it is what it is.