I had quite the productive weekend, at least Friday and Saturday, and really feel like we've made some progress on the house and baby's room. Right after work on Friday I headed to Homo Depot to rent a carpet cleaner. We rented it for 4 hours, which I figured would be plenty of time to get the carpets cleaned in the living room, foyer-ish area and guest bedroom. I didn't, however, factor into the equation that I was picking the thing up at the height of rush hour, and I live 20 mins from the store-- in good weather and traffic-- which it wasn't. So I got home and started by 6:00. Thank god Skip had moved all of the furniture and the house was all ready to go. I got all of the carpets done before 8, then even did the couch in the living room with the upholstery attachment to the cleaner. Wow does everything look nice! It just sets the whole house off to have clean carpets, and now there's also no dog spooge on the couch! I left the house just after 8:30 and got back to the store with 10 minutes to spare, just in time.
We had wanted to do the carpets on a dry day, so we picked Friday. Haha, NOT! Of course we pick seriously the wettest, most humid weekend to let them dry, which totally sucked. We weren't in any of those rooms too much on Saturday, which meant we were kind of sequestered to the kitchen and bedroom, or outside-- which wasn't happening. I managed to get into the guest/baby's room a bit and finish taking apart and moving to the basement the remaining furniture that needed to move. I really now feel like we don't have much left to do in terms of getting the room/house ready for the baby. We still have to organize the spare closet in there and move Skip's nursing school papers and info to the basement, but other than that, it's coming along. I'm sure my nesting instinct will find more things to do, but for now we're good. :)
I took Scotch to the dog park in the late afternoon, got soaked by the rain, then came home and had a hormonal pregnant crab attack. Skip was like, "what is wrong with you? why don't you just go lay down for a few minutes?" So I did, then I was better. I love hormones. Then we headed down to Bristol for an engagement party for our friend Quentin (from Meda-Care) and his new fiance Kim. We had a very nice time, and really got some good catching up done with the Bowmans and Meshenkys. I've decided the Meshenky kids are two of the cutest kids EVER! Too bad we didn't get to meet Ben and Christy's baby Brie-- but hopefully soon! We stayed up and talked (yes, talked) for about an hour when we got home, so I was up until like 1am-- haven't done that in a while!
Sunday was friggin' hot. I stayed inside all day except to pick up dog poop so Skip could mow the lawn. I got some laundry done, then vegged. We got yummy stuff from El Rey for dinner, then went for a walk and vegged some more.
We had our first Baby/Birthing Class yesterday evening, and it was very informative. I know neither of us are uneducated or naive about the whole process, but it's nice nonetheless to go and just get some exposure to what will be happening. There is a couple in my class who are both approaching 50 and whose baby (their 1st) was a TOTAL surprise (the lady actually thought she was going through menopause at first!)-- they were "hard partiers" they said (she looks like she has smoked 2 packs a day for her whole life, and I would have pegged her for approaching 60). So if we think our baby is changing our lives, I can't imagine how theirs is changing! Squirrel wriggled all night through class, which seemed quite appropriate. I took a little road trip after class to get some shoes from Steph to borrow for her wedding (NEXT WEEKEND!), and had a nice visit. Then Stephanie got kidnapped-- we had no idea where she was. No, actually, she just went to visit the neighbors, but Mike didn't know and was worried, so he called me to see if I knew where she was. A couple of tense moments, but she was fine, thank god. I thought she had gotten stolen by the freaky lady with the suitcase who had been wandering the neighborhood just moments before...
Okay, long enough post for now!
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