a review

I completely ripped this off another blog and I'm not sure where the original is.   It is not mine though, don't sue me.   If anyone knows where it came from, I'll link it back.  Obvs. 

2012 in Review

1. What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before?
Made it to the hospital BEFORE I was 10cm dilated.
Decided whether or not another person should be circumsized
Stayed home with the kiddos

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

 These were my resolutions from last year:
1.  Water.  Drink it. 
2. de-clutter my house.  
3.  Wii Fit. 
so, No, No, and No.   I'll make the water resolution again.  Eventually I WILL drink enough water


3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Me!  ME ME ME!!!!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.   I had friends and family lose close family members.   It was sad.  It always is. 

5. What countries did you visit?
None.
  Booooo. 

6. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
A third bedroom and a minivan

7. What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
6/25/12:  my Little Man's birthday. 


8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Giving birth.  Again. 

9. What was your biggest failure?
oooh.   Just one?  um....  Sleep training my son.   It's a work in progress.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing major.   Except you know, the whole LABOR AND DELIVERY thing.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Sit n' Stand stroller.  Sad.  Yes.

12. Where did most of your money go?
Daycare, mortgage, and preschool.   Someday my answer will be vacation.  Someday.

13. What did you get really excited about?
My baby boy.   Also, I ran a 10K without a lot of training.  So I'm pretty much the best person ever.


14. What song will always remind you of 2012?
Pontoon.   Also,  not sure I'll be able to hear Hallelujah without thinking of those babies in Newtown.


15. Compared to this time last year, are you:

– happier or sadder?  MUCH LESS STRESS and happier that I am no longer pregnant.
– thinner or fatter? I was pregnant, so imma hope I'm leaner right now
– richer or poorer? oh, so much poorer.

16. What do you wish you’d done more of?

There can never be too much time spent at the beach.  Never.

17. What do you wish you’d done less of?


 stress about work

18. How did you spend Christmas?
I will be spending it with the family.   Isn't that how most people celebrate?

19. What was your favorite TV program?
Grey's.  I know, but it's true.  Also high on the list: Nashville, Bunheads, Big Bang Theory.

20. What were your favorite books of the year?
I really liked Room (though that might have been the very end of 2010?) and Moloka'i

21. What was your favorite music from this year?

LOVED Zac Brown Band's album from this summer,  "Uncaged"

22. What were your favorite films of the year?
The Hunger Games.  It was the only movie I saw, but I LURVED IT.

23. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 31.   I have no idea what I did.  I was 9 months pregnant so I'm sure whatever it was, it wasn't that much fun

24. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Selling the 881SF of hell and having people stop asking me why I don't move to a bigger place.  The next person who asks me is going to get an indepth lecture on how stupid they are and how they should educate themselves on the world around them and how the housing market has still not recovered.  And then I will ask them for $60K,  because I can't move until I get $60K.   Someday I will find the long lost rich relative that I know I must have.    Also,  if the election hadn't been so heated.  And people didn't say such stupid things.   And if politics and religion were banned from Facebook.

25. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
pregnant, chubby,  desperately holding on to boot cut jeans.

26. What kept you sane?
wine and baby cuddles

27. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012.

Getting the epidural early is the right thing to do.

Resolutions!

Of course I have New Years resolutions!  How else could I break them by the middle of January if I don't make them?

1.  Water.  Drink it.  
(ignore the fact that has been a New Years resolution of mine since... oh I don't know,  I was 18 or so?  Some day it will happen)

2. de-clutter my house.   We actually did a really good job with that last year,  but we didn't keep it up throughout the year,  so we're back to clutter again.    We don't have a hoarding situation,  but running out of room in closets.   And when you only have 4,  and two are bedroom closets,  that's a bad thing.   This year I also want to focus on the kitchen.   While there's not a lot of clutter,  there's a lot of stuff and I know it could be organized better.
(I know, this is a lame resolution,  but I'm a lame person.   That's what you get)

3.  Wii Fit.  It's so hard to get out and move in the winter.  It's dark when I leave for work,  dark when I get home from work, and freezing in between.   But the Wii Fit should get me moving at least,  even if it doesn't get me the cardio workout I got while training for Falmouth.
(I'm actually kind of sad I can't train for Falmouth this year.  I hated every last second of training for it,  but I really loved running it!  This year I'll watch Andrew do it instead.... not the same thing.  Sad face)

And there you go.    Do you think I'll even have a sip of water today?  We'll see!!

Happy New Year

Once Baby Girl goes to bed, we're getting chinese food and watching The Hanover part 2!   It could only be better if I had some wine.    God,  I miss wine.

I could make a single glass of red wine last for an hour.   I loved to hold it and smell it and finally sip it.   It's the great tragedy of pregnancy,  not having a glass of red wine when I want it.  Sadly, when I am finally no longer pregnant,  it won't be red wine season,  not to mention I'll be nursing an infant.   Oh, the great sorrows of my life.

So yes,  it is New Years Eve!  Happy New Year!  I hope 2012 is the most fabulous year yet!

Happy New Year!

Per usual, Andrew and I had a quiet New Year's Eve. We got Thai food (didn't feel like waiting for Chinese) and rented The Town. I actually stayed awake to watch the ball drop and we had a glass of champagne. Pretty exciting stuff! There was a time in my life when I actually went out on New Years Eve... that was before this boogaloo took over my life:

She's starting to answer to Boogaloo, and try to say it. Oops! Sorry the picture is blurry, I didn't realize it when I was taking them, and I have no photo editing software. But you get the point.

What are your resolutions? I actually don't have any this year. I really don't want to examine my life that closely, I don't know if I'll be happy with what I see!

However, I do have some goals for the new year. One is to start and keep up with a 2011 family scrapbook. I made a 2008 one, started making a 2009 one, but stopped, and I have one from June 23, 2009 through June 23, 2010... so I'm all over the place. But I'm committed to getting at least one page for each month of 2011 done. I'm going to start with Christmas (maybe Thanksgiving?) for the 2011, which is slightly cheating, but this way I will still have all of my girl's holiday seasons captured.

In order to accomplish this goal, I need to dedicate some time each week to scrapbooking. I don't have a good place to do set up my stuff at home - which means I have to take it all out and put it all away every time I want to work on it. So I always find an excuse to not work on my books, which is how we ended up with only a 2008 scrapbook completed! I'm not sure how I'm going to get this done, but I'll be happy in 20 years that I did it... if I don't jump off my balcony in a fit of frustration when I don't have room to do ANYTHING!

Happy and Healthy New Year to all of you!

New Year, New Decade... new shoes?

yes, yes, yes, I'm well aware that the decade technically does not end till 2011, but people who harp on that are lame. Stop being lame. I am talking to you, Andrew.

Are you going to say twenty ten or two thousand and ten? I'm going for twenty ten. I really can't wait until 2021 when we can go back to saying '21. Except I will be FORTY YEARS OLD. And my baby will be 12. OH MY F&*%ING LORD I AM 12 YEARS AWAY FROM BEING 40

new topic, new topic.... if you ignore something it will go away....

I got on the scale this morning. Good news? I weight exactly the same as I did when I got pregnant. Bad news? I in no way look like I did before I got pregnant. Also, that is still overweight. Lesson learned - don't be chubby when you get pregnant, because then you have to lose the baby weight PLUS the chubby weight. But, in order to keep myself motivated (as if this ridiculous matchy matchy family picture with the WHITE SHIRTS isn't going to do that...) I've decided that at 10% lost, I will get new shoes. Also, I really want new shoes, so any excuse I can come up with works for me.

I haven't bought a new pair of shoes since last winter. I kid you not. I don't even know who I am anymore. So 10% lost = new shoes.

Happy New Year!

2009 was certainly the most eventful year of my life. I finished grad school and had a baby. But even more impressive is getting to 10 centimeters WITHOUT ANY DRUGS! 10 CENTIMETERS BITCHES!!! Okay, so it hurt like hell and I thought was I was going.to.die. I fell in love with the nice man who gave me my epidural and I probably would have named my child after him if my child had been a boy. And I kind of still want to marry him, because do you have any idea HOW PAINFUL 10 CENTIMETERS WITHOUT AN EPIDURAL IS??? I do. And to the very nice, but misguided midwife who wanted me just to push because I was practically giving birth in triage? SUCK IT. SUCK IT SUCK IT SUCK IT. Just because you were completely right and it would have been over in 1o minutes, but I dragged it out another 2 hours - who cares. Those two hours were pain free!

So are you getting my point? Mother of the year, right here. 10 CENTIMETERS!

Yeah, 2009 was pretty cool.

scared

I have gone back and forth on deciding whether or not to post this. I've started writing it and dented it more times than I can count. How personal do I want to get on this blog? I won't even put my daughter's name on it (though that's mainly because she has an uncommon name and I don't need crazy people knowing it!). Though her name is on facebook, so I don't really know what I am accomplishing by keeping her Baby Girl on here.

I'm digressing.

Anyway, I've decided to bite the bullet and let the interwebz in on my personal 2010 goal. Not that I feel like you need to know everything about me, but here it is.

I'm chubby.

Wait, you already knew that :) And I'm not that big, just bigger than I should be. When I realized that I had lost all my baby weight, but I was still heavier than I probably should be, I knew something had to change. My doctor is fine with my weight, but agrees it could be less than what it is. I just want to wear nice clothes again and not feel like an elephant.

So here it REALLY is. No tangents this time: I am going to be UBER LAME, and start weight watchers again on January 1. I don't have they money to go to meetings, but I will be doing it online.

Fear not, this blog will still be as pointless as it always has been. It won't be a specific weight loss blog any more than it is a "mommy blog". Of course it never could be a mommy blog, because I am not Mommy. I am Mama. And later I fully expect to be Mum. But I'll spell it Mom.

Digressing again

Weight Watchers starting Friday. I do not expect this will be easy, but I am giving myself a good bit of time to get it done. I want to buy a nice outfit to go on vacation at the end of June. I also have to be able to wear a white shirt for a family photo shoot by then (and can someone explain to my in-laws the "coordinating outfits" idea instead of the "matchy matchy" outfits for said picture?? We will look so much better if we do it MY way!!) I haven't work a white shirt since I was 15 and 100 pounds soaking wet.

If you want to join me, feel free. I will probably post total pounds lost every weigh in day. I say "probably" because I most likely will not want people to know when I've cheated and haven't lost any weight.

and breathe...

Wow, that was quite a Christmas. Baby Girl is certainly loved, she has so much stuff now! Sesame St characters, a ton of Fisher Price toys, dolls, books, stacking and nesting toys... we have it all! We actually have so many toys that now we need to run out and get a toy box for the living room. By "toy box", I mean "Rubbermaid container", but what are you going to do? A regular sized toy box will take up too much room in our undersized condo. You know you had a good Christmas when your parents now have to figure where to put all your new toys!

Andrew and I are not huge New Years Eve people, which is good because we don't have a babysitter and can't go out. We would have gone to Keene and had Andrew's parents babysitter, but they went down to Virginia for the week. Right now our plan is to put the baby to bed, watch The Hangover (because we are the last two people on earth that haven't seen it) and go to bed after we watch the ball drop. I normally don't watch the ball drop, but since my parents will be at Times Square this year (yup... you read that correctly) I might try to watch.

Other than that, it's back to business as usual. Kind of a sad thought :(

new year; new look

Some changes to the blog for the new year. I was getting a little sick of the old version. I really wish Blogger gave some more choices for a template, but I suppose you have to take what you get to some extent, considering this is a free platform.

The changes are pretty obvious. Unfortunately my ticker had to be deleted because I couldn't fit it anywhere else. So you won't have a daily reminder of when I graduate, but it's not that far away. May 29th - remember that date, and not just because it's MY BIRTHDAY!! This year it's also my graduation day! I won't be walking at my ceremony, as I will be about 36 weeks pregnant at that point and graduation ceremonies at huge universities are not quick and conducive to women who are 36 weeks pregnancy. So I won't be celebrating with my fellow graduates, and I won't have the vat of margaritas I wanted to have, but I'll be celebrating in my own pregnant way!

Also obvious - I added a photo to the top of the blog. I'm going to change them monthly and hopefully they will reflect something about the current month. If you are paying attention, you'll know I took the current photo in December, but hey, it snows in January too. I have a feeling the February photo may include snow. And this will force me to take some nicer pictures. Although my camera is a piece of junk, so you will have to put up with what I can manage to get that camera to produce.

So what are your New Years resolutions? I have 2: to drink more water (I am terrible with getting enough water) and to try to put a little more of an effort in my appearance at work. I'm so tired at 6:20 in the morning, that all I manage is to make sure my pants and top match and are reasonably not-wrinkled. And the last part only happens because Andrew irons my clothes for me. I need to try a little harder, if only for my own sake. I just feel fat at this point - if you didn't know I was pregnant, you would never guess I was. I'm not showing yet, but I'm gaining weight everywhere (some may tell you that means I'm carrying a girl) and I don't feel pretty. So those are my goals for 2009. Except I'm giving myself a reprieve from the second one when I go back to work in September - I don't have any delusions of being pretty at work after sleepless nights. Although maybe we'll win the lottery between now and then and I won't have to go back to work at all!

Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot...

Happy New Years Eve! It will be a quiet night for me and Andrew, as I'm still fighting fatigue and can't stay up much past 11pm anyway. I was hoping to have a glass of champagne tonight, but due to the driving snowstorm, I didn't stop to pick some up on my way home. If Andrew doesn't stop either, I'll just have to have a glass another time!

Yeah... about that snowstorm. It took me an hour and a half to get home. That's no record, but it's still extremely frustrating. The snow is pretty though, and it's covering up the nasty dirty snow that was left over from the last storm.

So have a happy new year everyone! Stay safe and warm!