Some November pictures, too

Delayed Halloween dinner with Brooke & Greg- me & Jeremy exercised our.. uh.. "artistic skillz". I still think they are cute, though.. :)

OREO PUDDING, NOM NOM NOM

(i am an oreo monster)

Handsome hubby

Ginormous selfy (38w?)

39w!

Big hair to match a big belleh!

I hope the rest of this month's pictures involve a baby instead of a huge tummy!!

October pictures

I'm still pregnant! What a bummer, eh!? I'm way too impatient for this sort of thing. Especially when it's something I'm relatively nervous for. I want to get it out of the way so i can stop this low-grade worry... but I have no say in it! How rude, nature!

Oh well, might as well catch you guys up on some pictures!

Stolen from Liz.. Dayton Delta Zeta Alumnae on Founders Day!

A few DZ (fresh) alumnae, collegiates & new members went to the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in October, saw our school mascot there!

Dayton's turn out was awesome :)

With Lisa & Liz






Dayton, and our random river fountain..


Do you see that sign!? A 96 year old woman/survivor even did the walk!


Good job, ladies!


How cute are these bagels?!


With Brooke!

I do love that I can stay involved with DZ as an alumn.. and I love the alumnae group as well! We're having a dinner tomorrow which I'm excited for too. They think I'll go into labor during it, but apparently they didn't get the memo that I'M GOING TO BE PREGNANT FOREVER! AND EVER! AND ALWAYS! *cries*

Baby Shower pictures!

I never really was sure which direction i wanted this blog to take, which is, of course, why it ended up being so quiet for so long. Not wanting to bore you all with weekly updates on my pregnancy (though i'm subscribed to EIGHTY BILLION blogs that do that very thing, minus the bore) I tried to not talk about it all the time- but look where it got me. A half-neglected blog and nothing awesome to look back on in a year. GRRR.

Argh. :(

That's going to change soon, and I will go back to posting horrifically dull personal updates (doesn't that sound SO EXCITING?!)... though at least in a few weeks those will include adorable baby pictures! Otherwise i'm sure it will come out as total blog vomit, but oh well, at least i'll be posting SOMETHING. And I can look back on something in a few years.

So anyway... Sunday was my second/final baby shower, so I have pictures (from both) to share! Huge thanks to all the awesome people who came to them both. They were lovely! <3

Family shower

With my mom

With my mother in law & the nursing cover she made :)

measuring my belly (my cousin got it spot on, my friend(/DZ big) Kim got it just right in the other shower, too! Everyone else were jerks who thought i was twice my size. ;D haha..

Playin baby bingo. (There was 10 people there i was just busy hosting so i didn't take as many pictures)

Friend shower. So cute!

minus about 6 people & me.. it was crowded! Huge thanks to Liz for hosting it at her house!

cutest washcloth ever!

My face can enjoy soft things better than my rough ole' hands can.

A lot of the girls there were my Delta Zeta sisters.. these are my Big (in the pink) & the other two bits of my triplet-ness (We are all Kim's littles, so we are triplets!)

So, yeah. Yay, friends! And family.

I'm still alive, I promise

I just started a crunchy parenting blog & had been spending lots of time on that.

Here: Family Crunch

And plus, I'm 35w and working on getting the apartment ready for baby! & I look like this:

Not too much longer now! Hopefully once my life gets a little more interesting I'll have more to share!

<3

Dil Bole Hadippa! *Excited Face*

So, you all should know that I looooove Bollywood. More than any other 'ollywood in the world (and there are lots!)

And Rani Mukherjee is my favorite actress in Bollywood (/world) and I also think she's by far the most gorgeous.

Soooo, her being in a movie where she dresses up like a boy to get on a cricket team (coached by Shahid Kapoor's (<3) character, flown in from England) is already a hilarious concept. Rani... IN A BEARD?!



Yes, yes, YES!
Obviously, I need to share the love.


Trailer (that girl in the freeze frame is not Rani!)

And here is a song & some snippets of some songs from the film (of course, it's Bollywood!)

(THAT is Rani!)







Comes out September 18th!! Hoping it's being shown somewhere in Ohio or there will be much fussin' done by me!
Dil Bole Hadippa Official Site

30 weeks! (Pretend I posted this last Friday :p)

How far along? 30 weeks!
Total weight gain/loss: I'm at 183. So, that's a lot. I'm not even counting anymore. The midwife i had for the first time this week was like "STOP" and my other midwives are like "It's normal! No worries!" So she's a poophead.
Maternity clothes? Our friend Rachael gave me a bunch of hers! (YAY, Thanks!!) I desperately am in need of new bras though. Mine currently have a bread-twist-tie expander, which J has to put on me, so i can't even leave the house this morning because i forgot to have him help me put it on!
Stretch marks? AHHHH! The night I turned 30w my stomached POPPED (in caps) and I woke up to a "stretchie forest" on my belly. *sob* J saw it first. The reaction was: O_O "Uh oh!" *Pulls my shirt down over it and tries to distract me* but I KNEW what was up! And immediately freaked out. Not as bad as some women do or anything, i know most women have them.. but still, drastic overnight changes to one's body are scary and weird.
Sleep: I've woken up a couple times this week to go potty (for the first time since i took my pregnancy test!) but mostly i just have TONS of really weird dreams, so I wake up feeling exhausted & disoriented.
Best moment this week: Surely not the stretch marks -_-
Movement: This has been going on for a while, but if i have anything on my belly, baby tries to kick it of. Cell phone, hand, heavy blanket, arm while i'm typing, doppler at the midwives' office, etc. So sensitive!
Food cravings: nothing in particular
Gender: I imagine it's the same.
Labor Signs: No!
Belly Button in or out? in, but OMG if i pull on it weirdly it pops out. I SAW THE INSIDE OF MY BELLY BUTTON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE YESTERDAY! I am NOT happy about it!!! Ewwwww
What I miss: not having someone stretching around in places that hurt, having energy & brain power.
What I am looking forward to: BABY BEING BORN!!!!!!!! Finding out when my baby shower will be.
Weekly Wisdom: HA! I can't even remember where to put the milk when i'm done with it (the fridge, Mey, not the cupboards..)
Milestones: 30 weeks! 10 week countdown! Passed my Gestational Diabetes test (though my anemia was bad so i'm on extra iron pills)

Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance

When our local General Motors plant closed down in December & my mom lost her job (after 15 years), we lost our fabulous insurance. I was WAAAAY too expensive to insure from the get go (being asthmatic, anemic & of child-bearin' age,) so I was immediately without coverage. It took my mom 7 months to find a replacement job (and it's still less than half of what she made, and without the benefits) and it's now to the point where she had to kick my 16 year old brother off her private plan & go down to minimum coverage for herself (so insurance only helps if she goes to the ER, she's on her own for doctor's visits & yearly exams.)

I'm just as expensive to insure with my husband's private insurance and it's very near impossible to find a full time job that provides insurance these days (without very specific degrees like nursing or finance,) and if it wasn't for Government-Run medicaid, baby & I would be royally screwed, and I'd be giving birth over a toilet after 9 months of no prenatal care. So, US Government, thank you for being there when capitalism only sees me as a cost vs. profit equation. I wish that other, non-pregnant / not as desperately poor people (like my mom&brother) would be able to get to visit the doctor too.

And, if we'd get off our arguing butts and reform the health care system, it wouldn't be as insanely expensive for the government to do. There's no reason that we allow ourselves to have one of the (if not *the*?) highest health care costs in the world. And no reason that the estimated 18,000 people die every year because of their lack of insurance. And no reason that 68% of all bankruptcies are because of medical bills.

I want to box up all the guilty company heads/lobbyists, strip them of their health insurance & deep pockets and ship them somewhere so they will have the time and opportunity to regain some humanity. This whole situation is much too ridiculous.