Busy weekend and random thoughts

I worked on Baby Girl's scrapbook Friday night with a friend. I actually got two pages done - one I think came out well, and one was a disaster. But it's little more than a filler page, so I'm leaving it alone. When I'm done with the book, I might go back and do something else. I wish I had more time to work on my books, but I do enjoy my nights! I'm going with some other friends in two more weeks for a night of scrapping. I think Andrew is getting a little sick of me disappearing every Friday, but I like it :)

Baby Girl is going to get a little cousin this summer, and luckily for us it is going to be a boy! We need a little boy in this family, and this meant that BG got a bunch of her older cousin's hand me downs. I was pretty excited about that, we were having a bit of a pants problem lately. She had about 5 pairs of pants that actually fit, and now we have at least a dozen! I love hand me downs!!! And I'm thrilled to have a nephew, little boys are so much fun.

We spent an hour at Babies R Us this morning and came home with a new stroller for BG. We ultimately decided on an umbrella stroller for her. We didn't go with a travel system when she was born because we thought they were too big and bulky - we used the car seat and a Snap n Go. When we were wheeling the full sized strollers up and down the aisles of BRU today, we still thought they were too bulky. I guess we just aren't full sized stroller or travel system people! So this is BG's ride for the next few years:

It's the Maclaren Quest Sport. She seemed to like it in the store, hopefully it continues to meet her strolling needs. Now we just need to get a jogging stroller down the cape and we will be all set!

Is anyone else looking forward to Parenthood on NBC once the Olympics are over? I think it looks like it could end up being a good show. I'm fearful that I will always see Lauren Graham as Loralei Gilmore, but that probably won't happen to people who haven't seen every episode of Gilmore Girls at least 3 times.

I am SO DONE with winter. SO DONE. I know, I know, I live in New England, I should be used to it. It hasn't been a particular snowy winter here, though it has been almost everywhere else. But it's just so cold and so dark and I've been stuck inside for so many months. On Saturday I was going out of my skin and I was thisclose to bundling up my niece and taking her out to the park to play. I'm praying for a semi warmish March. I need to get out of this house!

I created a trending topic on Twitter. #overpricedbabygear. Watch it.

31 weeks

I am 31 weeks into this pregnancy, with 9 to go (give or take a few days...). That frightens me on so many levels. In fact, I'm so frightened by it, I'm not going to talk about it. Forget I mentioned it.

In other news, I only have 3 classes left. Yep, that's right, 3 classes. And a 15 page paper and an exam to get through in those 3 classes. Bring on the stress, that's exactly what a woman who is practically 8 months pregnant needs! Did you ever think that the time would come that I would graduate and stop complaining about school? No? Well, neither did I. But it's almost here. For which I am supremely grateful.

On to some other, more important news. I think the time has come in which I am officially sick of watching repeats of Gilmore Girls. I know, your entire world just turned upside down. I'll give you a minute to digest that.



You still with me? Here's the story. I flipped on ABC family last night around 5 to catch the daily airing of Gilmore Girls and it was the one where Richard and Emily get back together and Sookie is sneaking upstairs at the Inn to watch TV sans husband and child. And I was just so sick of it. I must have seen that particular episode literally 9 or 10 times. And every time Rory came on the screen I wanted to change the channel. While I haven't seen the later seasons quite as many times as the early seasons, I'm still on Gilmore Girls overload. It's still my favorite show ever and I will continue to watch it for many years to come, but now I'm taking a break. No more 5:00 viewings, no more popping in the seasons, nothing. I'm taking a few months off. I'll just have to watch Dirty Dancing to get my Emily Gilmore fix!

Where you lead...

I have the Gilmore Girls soundtrack running through my head. Not because it's my ringtone either. I've popped the 5th season in so I can finish it already and move on to season 6. It's more or less playing in the background right now, because I've seen this particular episode recently. So now I'm just singing the theme song... damn it's catchy.

I heart nights that I don't have to go to school. In 16 months this will be my life every day. Day in... day out... no class. I'm pretty sure I'll just be a walking ball of euphoria.

We're going up to Loon this weekend for a nice old fashioned ski weekend. I'm pretty excited, Andrew's never skiied Loon, and I only have once so it should be fun. Not as expensive as Okemo and hopefully less crowded, though it is school vacation week, so we'll see. I hope people don't laugh at me when I display my mediocrity when it comes to skiing.

It took two weeks of Molly being alive before I had to change a poopy diaper. Lucky me. I hadn't changed a diaper in a good 6 or 7 years so at first I was all like "hey, this sounds like a good job for Nana!" but then Mr. Bill was holding Molly and although he does dote on her to the point where I'm all "hello!! I'm the daughter here!! Look at me!!!" changing smelly diapers wasn't something he was willing to do again. So it was either take Molly and change her or wait until Nana came to get her. So I took her and performed my First Diaper Change in a Long Time. Thankfully my mother, who has vastly more experience than I do with such matters, helped out to fill in where my memory lapsed. So yeah. Two weeks. I made two weeks before I had to change a diaper. I wonder if I can last longer with my own children...

wasting time is a glorious way to spend an afternoon

so I took a half day today because I really really needed the extra time to study for my exam tonight. You might be wondering why I am blogging instead of studying, but I needed a mental break. I'm completely stuck on one issue and I needed to walk away from it for a little while before I started to cry. I tend to cry when I am frustrated. Anyway, my lack of blogging frequency lately has come from the end of the summer session crunch, but I start a new session on Tuesday so I should have more free time for about a month.

So I am slowly making my way through all the seasons of the Gilmore Girls. I'm one episode into season 4. It's been quite a journey. Episodic television shows were not meant to be watched all together like that and I have been on somewhat of a GG overload. I think I will take a break this weekend. When you have two consecutive dreams about the Girls, it's time to take a break.

Other than that, there isn't a whole lot more to report. Andrew and I are supposed to have 4 full days in Falmouth this weekend, but of course Andrew's work is going crazy right now, so that might not happen. Or I will go down without him... I don't know yet. Hopefully things calm down and he is able to join me!!!

It's been awhile, but...

I hardly ever post about Gilmore Girls anymore, but have no fear. I still love it. This week's episode was especially fantastic. For those of you who aren't avid watchers (and why aren't you?) let me sum up the season thus far: Rory is graduating from Yale in a few weeks and is lost about what she wants to do next. Lorelei married and divorced Christopher and is trying to rebuild a relationship with Luke (oh and Lane has twins, Kwan and Steve). So Rory has been rejected from a prestigious internship at the New York Times, passed over a job at ProJo, and the Chicago Sun-Times is not hiring. Basically she's freaking out with no job offers and she didn't apply to grad school (you know if Rory Gilmore was a real person she would have gone straight to grad school so I'm not really buying this whole plot line). So she, like 90% of the Class of 2007 is spazzing. What is she going to do, where is she going to live, will anyone hire her, is her college boyfriend Husband material? It's a scary time in people's lives and other than the fact that she would really be going to grad school at some Ivy League school, it's close enough to real life. Lorelei got drunk and sang "I will always love you" - the Dolly version, not the Whitney version. She started off singing it to Rory, but then Luke walked in. So she sang it to him. Brought tears to my eyes, not gonna lie (not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent). And it kudos to Scott Patterson, he actually pulled it off. There was a Look between them, it was fantastic. (and he looked especially hot in this episode) This episode Will. Not. Be. Deleted. From. My. DVR. (get that Andrew? We're keeping it). It will be forever next to the series finale of The O.C. (and come someone explain to me why Seth's little sister wasn't a flower girl at his wedding? That's heartless. Heartless) Forever until we have to get rid of that particular DVR box anyway. Then of course Logan asked Lorelei for her permission to propose to Rory, but I already read spoilers on that. I'm really interested in if Lorelei and Luke are going to get together by the end of the series, which is in like 3 weeks, unless Alexis Bledel realizes that she will never get other work other than Rory Gilmore because she is terrible and has very bad bangs. But it will end soon, so I might as well accept that fact. Me and the Gilmore Girls, we've been together since the first episode when Rory got into Chilton. "I'm going to be in a Britney Spears video"? Classic.