Wow, this brings back old memories and feelings!
[Edit] New layout is up, completed, and turned out awesome. I don’t like the navigation as of right now, so that might be changing. Otherwise things should be good. Oh yea! I forgot to post the pictures of the baby shower gifts & invites like I promised in the last entry… I’ll do that soon, hopefully.I haven’t done this in a really really long time … Drinking a cup of coffee while posting a blog. I haven’t been able to drink coffee much due to getting sick instantly from it with the pregnancy. I’m a coffee fanatic! I decided after the lack of sleep for the past few nights, I would make a pot of coffee this morning to try to give me a little boost to get me through today. :: Raises Glass :: Cheers everyone. Well, as you read from the previous entry, yesterday was the baby shower. It was a ‘successful and eventful gathering’ as I like to call it. I don’t know, I’m horrible when it comes to parties. I always worry and wonder far too much about what people are thinking or saying. Are they entertained? Are they bored? Do we have enough? Are they judging the decisions we made for the party? Honestly, everyone’s like “Why care about that? Don’t worry about it.” Trust me, I’d absolutely love not to worry about it but its not my nature and I cannot control my mind. [This is why I was up until 2:30-3am last night unable to sleep. x_x] Regardless of all that, the gathering can be broken down like this:♥ Gwenn and I got to her Mom’s house around noonish. We set up pretty much everything right away. People started to arrive around 12:30pm. Out of 12 people, 9 people showed up. It was a good turn out. I wasn’t expecting the others to show anyways. So, out of those people, Mike’s two Grandmas, his two Aunts, his Mom, my Mom, older sister Sarah, my Step Mom, my Grandma all showed up. As soon as everyone was settled in their seats, I was told to open gifts right away.♥♥ My gifts were amazing. I was so overwhelmed with the amount of bags and stuff there. I was almost surrounded by gift bags that said “baby”. It was awesome. This made me super nervous though. I got so jittery. Of course, Mike’s family pointed it out (because what is a family that doesn’t point out your flaws ^_^). I just started opening and needless to say I got a ton of stuff. A quick run down of the stuff, because honestly I don’t remember everything, I got tons and tons of clothes (all sizes ranging for the first year), two diaper bags, three or four pack of bottles, a bottle cleaning/drying rack, some pacifiers, maybe six burp rags, loads of bibs, two packs of socks, a few toys, a $50 gift card, a ‘cocoon’ for the car seat, two baby carriers, a mirror play thing to put on the crib, crib sheets, and a really soft blanket. There’s some other stuff we got to that I’m sure I’m forgetting, but there was honestly SO much stuff I can’t list it all.♥ No baby games. We ended up playing only one game. Everyone had a clothes pin and they couldn’t say the word ‘baby’. If someone caught them saying it, they called them out on it and the person had to surrender their clothes pin. *shrugs* Some people didn’t care so it wasn’t all that big of a deal. After gifts, we ate, talked a while, had cake, then everyone departed. ♥♥ The clash of families wasn’t too bad. Some would’ve said “What were you so worried about?” The fact that my Mom does nothing but talk about herself and her problems – gets on peoples nerves. I feel critiqued by Mike’s family (hell, after four years, you’d think I know they weren’t) but I could only imagine how someone, who is meeting them all for the first time, would feel. It was successful though. I got almost everything we needed. On to a different note; my energy… I’ve been go, go, go, lately. I just can’t seem to sit down and stay put. We got our new wash machine on Saturday. [Its 1960s retro green... fits 6-7 towels, can't beat that!] So I’ve been doing laundry like a mad women. As soon as we got back from the baby shower, I was exhausted and just wanted to rest, but I couldn’t let myself. I needed to get it all put away, sorted and went through. I just cannot get my mind or list of tasks to slow down. I feel like everything needs to be done now or there will be consequences to pay [not really, but still]. I don’t know. I’m just scared that at any given moment, I can go in to labor, then while I’m at the hospital instead of worrying about the baby, or recovering I’ll be worried about what needs to be done at the house before I bring baby home. I just want everything to be done, perfect, set, and ready. I’ve been doing lists again too. Don’t be surprised if you start seeing the “to-do” list I have on the site growing extremely large or just get stupid. For instance, there will probably be some point in time where you’ll look at it and say, “Now, what is the point of putting that on your site? Its a simple task, just do it.” Yea. It will happen. Anyways, I want to say I regret to inform you all that I forgot my camera and did not get any photos of this grand gathering we had yesterday – BUT my Step mom and Mike’s mom did. I don’t know when I will be receiving copies of their photos, so don’t expect them anytime soon. ^_^ Thanks for reading the super long entry I just wrote. By the way — coming up with a title for stuff abbreviated is hard. For instance; T.I.L.T – Stands for “Things I Love Thursdays”. Tilt is a word. I cannot come up with a new one! I want to call it something different and I have been plaguing my mind for something new and it just is NOT coming. Any ideas? I’ll give ya credit. ^_^ I don’t know. I’ve been reading stuff like “101 great posting ideas that will make your blog sizzle” because I’m a nerd like that. Oh! Also, if I receive some motivation to stay on the computer longer than 20 minutes at time (instead of cleaning the house) I will be making a new layout. It will be a fake-div layout… It will look like a div layout, but it won’t be because quite frankly I hate div layouts. I can’t work with them. I think they suck. If you have them, I envy your choice of having them because you have the ability to use them, and I do not. So, once again, I’m going to say I’ll bring this to an end. For real this time. I’m done writing. I’m walking away. Good-bye.
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