Pregnancy: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The Good

1. So far, I have to say I like being pregnant. I love how Little C can be quiet and not move for such a long time, but when I start to say "our" prayers at night, the little turkey starts moving and kicking. I guess he/she likes to pray too :)

2. Over the belly maternity pants. I've always thought they looked funny but when I bought my first pair of maternity jeans that had that kind of panel (they were on clearance, yay), I was instantly hooked. I love them!

3. Nails, nails, longer stronger nails!

The Bad

1. Having to remember to keep said longer and stronger nails trimmed! They're like 20 (toes included) little dangerous weapons!

2. I'm eating a lot of sweets, which I normally don't do. Bacon and eggs for breakfast? No thank you. Give me some pancakes or donuts or sugary cereal. I'll be honest. I consumed a box of Lucky Charms in 2 days. I think Anthony may have had one bowl. Would I normally buy Lucky Charms? Nope. Go figure. This baby definitely has Anthony's sweet tooth!

3. Trying to tie my tennis shoes. I don't think I'm even that big...yet, but I seriously have to take a deep breath in order to bend over (while sitting) to tie my shoes. Looks like I need to find some slip on sneakers. Thank goodness flip flop season is back. Not that I ever stopped wearing them in the winter anyway :)

4. Bye bye self pedicures? The answer may have to be a yes. I tried to do my toes myself last night. I'm too cheap to go get them done. That was a chore. I did it though. Stronger longer nails cut, old red paint taken off and a pretty aqua(ish) blue color put back on. It only took me a little over an hour to do. Not too bad.

The Ugly

1. Body odor. I know, it's disgusting. I'm sorry. But it's the truth. I have tried just about every brand/type of deodorant and have had to make the switch to what Anthony uses. An Old Spice men's deodorant. If that's not ladylike enough, I have to put the stuff on AT LEAST twice a day. I stink! haha! I miss smelling like a girl!

2. I feel like a side show act at a circus. "Come one, come all! Come see the bearded lady who's growing another human in her body!" UGH, I swear! I keep thinking that when people talk about a beard they're talking about Anthony not having shaved for a couple of days. Wrong! They're talking about me! :( Don't get me wrong, I try to keep those suckers in check. Pluck, pluck, pluck and pluck some more. So fun...

3. Trying to get out of the car. Yeah, it's ugly. I can only imagine that it's just going to get worse as I get bigger and further along. Can't wait...

4. Gas. Thank goodness it's not from the stinky side!! (I'll leave that to Anthony, haha!) I've always been a pretty good burper. Man, oh man am I awesome at it now! I could beat any frat boy in a burping contest. I'm proud of my ability, it's funny. I'll just let one out for no reason. Not necessarily because of something I ate or drank, just out of the blue. I chose to list this under "the ugly" because Anthony thinks it's disgusting and not lady like. Oh well, he's just jealous :)

That's all I can think of so far. I'm sure there's stuff I'm leaving out. When/if I remember them, I'll make a part two post.

Food Wasters

I'm not happy to say that we're currently wasting food. It's not by choice. About a week or so ago, our refrigerator started making this odd noise. It would click, make a buzzing noise for a few seconds and then click off. Well, yesterday morning our freezer decided it was tired and started thawing stuff out. Not good. It didn't take long for the refrigerator part to slowly get warm. Ugh. So, we found a place that would come and diagnose the problem. After looking at the darn thing for about 5 minutes, he said it was the compressor and quoted us $912 to fix. WHAT?!? Are you kidding me?? When we bought this house last summer we negotiated with the sellers to leave the fridge. It looked pretty new and it has the freezer on the bottom. It's a nice fridge. I guess we're lucky that we didn't have to buy one at first.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the guy messed up our floor. Yes it's linoleum but now it's got a pretty tear right in front. I wanted to call the guy back to tell him, but Ant said no. How were we going to prove that he did it? He was already gone (by about 3 minutes) when we noticed it. Sucks! So, we're out $79 for having the guy come tell us what's wrong and now have a messed up floor. I guess someone's going to be getting a not-so-nice review on the angieslist.com website!

So, Ant and I decided that we could go to a scratch and dent place and hopefully find a good deal on one there. Off we went! After looking at a few places, we finally found one. We also found out that to buy a compressor would cost around $300. I understand charging for labor, but to charge $600 for it? That's absurd! The guy we bought our new refrigerator from gave us a good deal. Since we offered to pay with cash, he didn't charge us any sales tax. We were hoping he'd knock off a little more, but oh well. It was a good deal and it's about 6 cubic feet bigger than the one we have now. It doesn't have the freezer on the bottom, it's got the side by side doors. That's okay. Hopefully we'll like it in the house.

It looks like after tomorrow I've got some grocery shopping to do. Too bad that a half gallon of milk and a brand new unopened gallon of chocolate soy milk got to get poured down the drain. Such a waste!

The important question to this story is this: Why does the word fridge have a "d" in it but refrigerator does not? Hmm...

Dallas Mavs vs Memphis Grizzlies

Final Score

Mavs - 103 Grizzlies - 104

Thank you, thank you, thank you to our friends Karin and Brian! They were so kind as to invite us out to a Mavs game. Not just any Mavs game, Courtside seats at a Mavs game! Holy cow! We were 3rd row back. We could spit on the players if we wanted to! I always thought Jason Terry was cute, but he's adorable in person :)

Anyway, Karin scored the tickets for us and we had a fantastic night out. It would have been nice if we had won, but we lost in the last 3 seconds of the game. Victory was in reach but the other team snatched it up at the last second...literally. Such a good game!

We really appreciate Karin and Brian's kindness! Thank you guys so much for that awesome opportunity! We'll never forget it!