Thursday, July 31, 2008

Pregnancy Brain

I have to laugh even though it is quite frustrating. My boss told me today, in a nice way, that the farther along in my pregnancy I am getting the more absent minded I seem. He assured me, its not a bad thing! It happened to his wife, and all the pregnant ladies he has been around, and as soon as the baby comes everything goes back to normal. I'm thinking "Oh, great!!!" At least he is understanding about it, but really I am pretty frustrated! I told him that I am afraid with my lack of concentration that I'm not going to do well on my tests. He said don't stress, take your time, if you don't get your license till after the baby comes no big deal. Of course the sooner the better, but I don't want you to push yourself. I'm lucky to have such a laid back boss. Today he has me writing a few contracts for him and my brain seems fried! I'm glad come 5 I can chill out and try to study some. I really need to take some time and get some studying in.

We got Nadia's letters in the mail today! I am SO excited to hang them up, they are just adorable. I LOVE them! I'll post some pics soon.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Studying

Ok, so I have never been the best at studying. Throughout school I would always just do enough to get me by. I was never one that was interested in getting the best grades LOL So I guess I never really learned a good studying technique. This is going to be a major downfall for me. I have Jacob quiz me and I do really well, but its when they put the questions into real life situations that it gets tricky. They throw in all this needless info to throw you off. I have to pass my tests with an 80 or above, so I am a little nervous! I go through my flash cards, I go through all the practice tests in my book, I write down important items I need to remember, I just hope that all of this helps me pass.

In pregnancy news.... I can officially no longer touch my toes easily or put lotion on my legs. While this might be TMI I feel like I am on verge of peeing my pants all the time. I'm sad to say that for the first time the other day I sneezed and sure enough! You can guess what happened. Thank god I was at home! For all of you that haven't been pregnant, this is all the good stuff you get to look forward to LOL. Poor Jacob has been great at helping me, he really is the sweetest man. I BEGGED him to paint my toes for me and he finally caved. I'm sure he will be very happy that I am sharing the story LOL While he was doing it for me all I could think of was how much I love him and how nice he is to me. I really am SO lucky! I have been having a horrible time sleeping. Last night I woke up in so much pain. I'm not sure if it was my rib acting up, as it has been lately or if I was possibly have contractions. I am leaning more towards the first since it was excruciating and it didn't go away. I hope tonight is a little better.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Woo hoo! All Done

So I finished school on Wednesday and I am SO excited about it! It was tough, and they weren't kidding when they said fast paced, but I am happy to have it all done with. I move on to all the tests I have to pass now, so I will keep you updated on that. They make you pass them at a higher rate at the school so that when you go to take the State and National tests you are more likely to pass. It is $90, just to take the test, I would hate to have to take that one over!

Yesterday I did sleep in. I woke up to a mess of work to do though! I was busy ALL day and didn't get as much time to study as I wanted. I may have to go up to Scottsdale to take pictures of the new houses that we took on up there. Man, if you have some $$ there are some NICE houses to be snatched up! The one we listed yesterday is at $789,900. I don't see it selling anytime soon since it is such a high price, but I hope it does before Nadia comes ;) I know the others will be higher in price, so those will probably sit too. I can hope though!

I am supposed to meet up with my parents for lunch since I haven't seen them in a few weeks. It was just too hard trying to go to school, study and work. I know that they went over to a friends house last night, so usually if my Mom went anywhere the day before, she is too drained to go out the next day. Guess we will see. If she doesn't want to go, maybe my Dad will meet up with me and we will go up to Scottsdale. He wants to see the new houses LOL.

I am going to post an updated picture of my belly. I am at 31 weeks and a few days! I am getting SO excited! I also ordered new letters for Nadia's room. I wasn't fond of the ones we had bought and he guy sent me pictures of the new ones. I am SURE I am going to love them. When they come I'll post pictures of them too.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Almost there

I had a horrible time sitting through school yesterday. With all these weird pains and symptoms, its hard to know whats normal and what I should be worried about. All day yesterday I had this pain in my lower abdomen, really low, kinda like cramps, but constant. I don't know if I am just growing and stretching or if this is Nadia moving down lower. I just know it hurt, and it was hard to get up and even walk around. When I did stand up it felt my belly was going to explode, I'm wondering if I was having braxton hicks, except I hear they are not supposed to hurt. Anyway, I'm glad that today I only have one class to sit through, then I can come home and study and work from bed :) I must be excited that its my last class because I have been up since 5. Of course that was kinda due to a little girl having a party in my belly. I have noticed that I feel her punches very low, I'm not sure what shes doing, but it hurts.

Tomorrow will be a LONG day. I am going to review class all day then I am going to attempt my first series of tests. I don't think I will get home until about 9 so it will be a 12 hour day that will kick my butt, but be well worth it! I want to get all of this done well before Nadia comes!

I have started to kinda freak out about not having a bag packed already LOL. All I could think about at school yesterday was, what if she did come early and I don't have anything packed. We have the car seat, but it's not installed yet! So I think with one of the free days I will have coming up I am going to get everything in order, just in case :)

Sunday, July 20, 2008

A much needed lazy day

I have been running myself ragged! I know its better to do all of this now though rather than after the baby comes. I only have 3 more classes left then I do my review days and move on to testing. One of the girls at school and I are trying to decide if we should attempt our first set of tests Wed night after our review. I guess we will see how fried my brain is by then!

I had Friday off from school, but had a ton to catch up on at work. I also had my Dr's appointment which I now have to go to every two weeks. The Dr had asked if I was told about my glucose test results and I told her I had called and talked to them and gave her the test results that I had gotten myself after a few days. I don't think she was very happy with me, but she said as long as I or the baby don't start gaining weight quickly and sugar doesn't show up in my urine than she is fine me just being careful. At this point I am up 10 pounds, and was told I will probably gain a pound a week until the baby comes, so I guess I will just watch myself. I really don't think that I have a sugar problem though. She asked if I was taking my Iron and I told her yes and that I had been feeling much better since starting to take it. She said my levels were VERY low so it is VERY important I take Iron, I know she was thinking that since I was stubborn about the sugar test maybe I wasn't listening to her about the Iron, but I am. The rest of the day Friday I had to spend researching houses to select the ones that I was going to show on Saturday. I was originally supposed to take them out Friday, but they wanted to move to Saturday.

I woke up bright and early and drove up to Scottsdale. I had to stop by Jesse's house first to pick up his MLS key so I could get into the houses. I picked up my clients and we headed out. I thought I was going to be a nervous wreck, but I was fine. It actually made me feel pretty good about myself. I have really learned my way around the valley and I felt like I could provide good information. It took us about 4 hours to view seven houses, but she didn't know where she wanted to live so we were driving from Scottsdale to Mesa, Chandler and then back to Scottsdale. Generally as the agent you would take the clients out to lunch, but they insisted on feeding the baby, and paying. So once we were done looking at all of the houses I went out to lunch with them and then headed back to Jesse's to drop off the key. I finally got home at about 3 and laid down. I needed it badly! Jacob came home a few hours later and we were both just exhausted. We just laid in bed, ate and watched a movie. We watched Vantage Point and it kept me pretty interested, it seemed to go by very fast actually, but it did give me weird dreams.

Today we slept in. I woke up at 10 and worked a little, Jacob woke up about 11. We laid in bed not wanting to move, but wanted breakfast. We have been making a tradition out of going to breakfast every Sunday. It was more of a lunch today, but it was nice to get to rest. After we came home I laid back down and Jacob watched a movie. I guess I didn't realize how much I have been pushing myself. Being in my third trimester, my body is definitely telling me. I feel like a Roley Poley trying to get out of bed and it doesn't help that I swear I have had a pulled groin muscle for the past 5 months. The Dr said its just from my muscles stretching and that muscles goes from there up your abdomen. So needless to say, it won't get any better and neither will my rib LOL! Oh, the joys!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

30 Weeks, Woo hoo!

I am getting close!!! It seems like I have been pregnant forever, but it also seems like I hit 30 weeks pretty fast, I know, that makes no sense. I can't wait until our little girl gets here! I am stretch mark free, so far and my belly button hasn't popped out, although it is close LOL.

I only have 5 more classes to take for school then I can move on to all of my tests. Yikes! I have to pass 4 tests before I can go on to take the state and national test for my license. My school has a pretty high pass rate, but can my forgetful pregnant brain keep up? I guess we will see!

My boss asked me if I could skip school tomorrow, I told him I would rather not since I would have to wait for that class to come back around before I could take it again. He has some clients that are coming in to town tomorrow from Texas and they wanted to look at houses. I'm thinking then why are you going out of town??? I'm sure these people didn't just spring it on him last minute. I know that in the real world, if they were my client, most likely I would skip school to take them out, but they aren't my client, I'm not the one making the commission off of them. So needless to say I'm going to school. I do have to take another one of his clients out on Friday to look at houses. I have to go pick her up in Scottsdale and then drive her back down to Chandler and Gilbert to show her houses. I'm technically not supposed to be doing this, but its his butt if I get caught not mine, so oh well I guess. I'm not going to complain too much, I am pretty lucky to have a job that is going to hand me money basically. Its a hard real estate market, especially for someone new. So the fact that he has bank owned properties, which are the ones moving right now, is a big deal. Not many people would be willing to give part of their business away like that. I know he is doing this so he can concentrate on his Scottsdale clients, but if I start helping him with them too, I want compensation! :)

Friday, July 11, 2008

Information Overload

I have actually really been enjoying school, and most of the information in the last 5 classes I have taken I know. The problem? My brain seems to blank out when I'm trying to answer a question! Damn pregnancy brain! I knew this was going to be an obstacle, and if you haven't been pregnant, you have NO idea how bad or frustrating this is! Somehow I still manage to pass each of my section tests, but it is pretty nerve racking. Not to mention my butt and ribs are extremely sore after sitting for 9 hours LOL. Today we got finger printed to run our background checks and I am disappointed that I had to register under Lewis. We never received the certified copy of our marriage license so I have to go pay for one then apply at Social Security for the name change, the process is a little different here than CO, I'm sure it's because of the higher rate of fraud here. I can always change it later I guess.

It hasn't been too tough trying to keep up with work, so far we have almost all of our properties under contract, so there isn't a whole lot to do besides making sure everything is on time. Jesse goes out of town next week for two weeks then he is leaving for the whole month of August. I know he is hoping I have my license by then, and of course so am I.

Tonight we are going to go out to dinner, then watch a movie. Jacob is working tomorrow and I am going to go in for a half day class. I figure I might as well since he won't be home anyway. Sunday will be our resting day as usual, but the house has been a little neglected since I've been so busy so I will probably try to catch up on that. I just have to try to keep myself from getting too exhausted so I can make it through.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

A busy two weeks

I signed up for school on Monday and will doing the fast track program to get my Real Estate license down here. It will take me 2 weeks and then I can start the testing process. There are quite a few tests that I will have to pass. The ratio of passing on the first attempt is 50%. Of course my Mom keeps telling me how hard her friend said that it is, and is basically setting me up for failure. I have been through this course once before in Colorado, and while state laws will be different I am keeping my thinking positive. My only worry is that I won't get bored in class, I have a problem trying to keep focused for a long period of time. I am hoping since it is fast paced this will keep my attention. We have 3 REO listings in Scottsdale now that I have the potential of getting the comission on. All I need is my license, so I am extremly motivated! Heck ya I want to start bringing in commisions on 1M properties!

The Dr never did call me back regarding the 3 hour glucose test, so I am assuming they are not going to pressure me to take it. I have to see the Dr every two weeks now and my next appointment is on Friday, so we will see what they say then. We have our tour of the hospital coming up and then shortly after we start our classes. We also set up maternity pictures for August. I hope my belly can hold out on not getting any stretch marks until then! LOL

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Happy 4th

Well quite a lot has happened since the last time I wrote. Jacob had three days off for the 4th and we had a great time together. Thursday I went up to Scottsdale to the office to drop off files and then my parents met me at the house to take me shopping. They wanted to buy us our car seat for the baby. I know that my Mom wanted to wait and give it to me at the shower my sister-in-law wants to throw me, but I was anxious to get it. We had picked out a travel system so we got the stroller that goes along with it too. Afterwards we went out to eat at the Native New Yorker. Jacob was going to try to meet us there, but he ended up getting off just as we were eating so I brought his food home. We all hung out at the house for a little while and my parents got to see the babies room almost all finished. My Mom can't believe how ready it is for Nadia :)

Friday we woke up and went to breakfast then we went home picked up the dogs and went to my parents for a BBQ. It was about 112 out, but we hung out in the pool and Jacob even took a nap out on the lawn chair with the misters on him. After we ate we brought the dogs home and decided to go to the movies. We wanted to check out the movie theater by our house and we were really impressed. We saw Hancock, which was actually pretty good. Afterwards we headed towards Tempe Town Lake to see the fireworks. We were able to catch the Mesa fireworks show on the way there and we timed it perfect so that as we were driving up Mill we had a perfect view of all the fireworks while getting to sit in the air conditioned car LOL It was still 105 out at 9, a lot of people had the same idea, and it worked out perfect. It was a pretty long firework show and one of the best I have seen, it was almost 45 minutes long.

Saturday we decided to take a drive. Jacob wanted to take me to Ahwatukee where there are some awesome houses. Since we were looking at houses, I took him up to Scottsdale to look at a few new ones we have listed up there. We went to lunch at Claim Jumpers, which I have never been to, but they had great food, and even better desert :) We got home at about 3 to find out that our t.v. in the living room was fried. I was going to surprise Jacob with a new t.v. for Christmas, but he got a Christmas in July present. We went around to compare prices and found one that we couldn't pass up, we looked at the 42", 50" and 60". I told him I thought the 42" was out and of course he loved that, if we are going to spend that much money we might as well get one we would be happy with. The 60" would've been nice, but we weren't really sure if it would fit well in the nooks that we have in our living room. So the 50" it was and as you can guess, he is in HEAVEN. We didn't get home until late and by the time he had it all set up with the surround sound and everything it was almost 11. We stayed up and watched a movie then went to bed around 2.

Today will be a relaxing day. We already watched Rambo, and I started dinner, so there isn't much else to do. I have been taking my Iron pills and I can actually tell a difference in how I feel. I don't feel as tired. As far as the blood sugar levels. I called the Dr's office and asked some more questions. Turns out the first lady fibbed. I scored a 138 and the cut off is 139, so I did not technically fail the test. I am however on the boarder line. The lady asked if I have ever had blood sugar issues and I told her no, if anything I am always low. So my Dad brought up his tester on Thursday and left it with me. I have tested completely within range, even a little low, so when they call me tomorrow I am going to tell them that I am kindly going to pass on the 3 hour glucose test. I'm a little peeved that they lied about me "failing" to begin with and who seriously consumes 50 grams of glucose every hour? I feel more than comfortable with the results I have gotten over the last few days testing myself.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Test results

Well, my test results are back. Not the greatest news in the world, but not the worst either. Turns out I am anemic, so I have to start taking Iron, which makes me nauseous :( I also failed my glucose test. Now I have to go back and do the three hour test. I am NOT looking forward to spending 3 hours in the Dr's office at all! When I am supposed to find the time to be able to do that? I wanted to start school on Monday and with the holiday there isn't much time to do it before then. My Mom had Gestational Diabetes so I knew that there was a change I might, but I am still hoping that everything comes out fine. I need to do more research, because honestly I have not really looked much into anemia or gestational diabetes, so I want to get a little more info.

On another note, I am going in for a pregnancy massage tomorrow! I am VERY excited!!