movin' on up

tomorrow begins my 30th week.
crazy how fast things have started to speed by. i really cannot believe i'm down to the last ten, or, in soren's case, it was 12. but hopefully this lil' guy will make up for that lost time. i have a feeling he'll come early. wishful thinking? we'll see.
i cannot put on shoes without some amount of discomfort.
sleeping at night is a hit or miss--take tonight, for example. it's nearly midnight and i'm completely restless. usually, though, my sleepless nights are due to discomfort. the big belly wakes me up every time i turn over. plus, it's a little frustrating to only have two possible sleeping positions. i shouldn't bitch, i have ten more weeks of this.
my toes have long since disappeared.
but i'm getting excited. okay, and a little anxious...how will it all go down this time? will i be in labor 23 hours again? will my husband be the support i need? i'm sure all will be fine once it's said and done.
my daughter becomes more and more affectionate toward my husband and i and the baby inside my tummy. it's so cute, she loves to lift up my shirt in public and show off her baby brother to whomever might take interest (usually it's other three-year-olds). she kisses him and tells him she loves him all the time. i can only hope this attitude will continue after he arrives and needs much coddling and feeding and other sorts of attention. i think she will be great.
speaking of, we registered her for preschool last week. see, there are all sorts of milestones going on that keep reminding me that i'm getting older. i just hope a little wisdom is coming with this age, otherwise, what's the point?
i do get a nice break this next week, though, while my step-mother-in-law takes soren for an entire seven days! she's meeting me halfway between here and grand junction to take the squid. they will, surely, have fun, and i'll get a rest! it will be much appreciated, though i will miss the kid. then she's back for easter and she and justin turn around and get on an airplane to oregon. i'm hardly going to know what to do with myself.
any suggestions?

DO THIS!!

Are you at all concerned about the possibility of eating cloned meat and dairy products without knowing you are consuming them? Read this:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last month that the agency will likely approve the sale of cloned foods this year. FDA’s action flies in the face of widespread scientific concern about the risks of food from clones, and ignores the animal cruelty and troubling ethical concerns that the cloning process brings. What's worse, FDA indicates that it will not require labeling on cloned food, so consumers will have no way to avoid these experimental foods.
But you can do something about this!
Go to http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/index.cfm and under Urgent Actions you can take a minute to email letters to your senate and representatives and the FDA to express your concern. It really doesn't take long, they have pre-written letters you can approve and send along.
I think this is a really good issue to take action on and if you feel so inclined, join me in fighting this preposterous proposal in (lack of) food safety!

nothing like a busy week to throw me out of my funk

so i've been on the go. a bit more than i would have liked, given my constant fatigued condition, but it's been good.
we took soren to see where the wild things are ballet in denver, which was great. it was absolutely stupendous. the length was a bit short, but that actually worked out good for the audience in the 2-10 year old range (and my sister, who couldn't keep her eyes open). there was, however, a more classical ballet piece to open, which helped make the $60 tickets seem more worthwhile. but soren loved it, was particularly taken by the monsters, and wanted to do some dancing herself afterward.
it was a nice chance to hang out with my mom. we drove up via colorado springs, the way i hate to go (i absolutely avoid the interstate at all costs--i'd rather take my chance with deer than idiots going 100 mph) and stopped to get our photos taken on the way. here's a sample of what we had taken:


precious, eh? it was a good time to spend with my sister, as well. after the ballet we all went out (much to the chagrin of my daughter, who by this point was deleriously tired) to the cheesecake factory for wine, appetizers, and, of course, cheesecake. it was a lot of fun, especially after my mom finished one glass of wine and moved on to her second.
so that all ended thursday. friday i stayed home to spend some time with my husband and we did some work in our garage, trying to get ready for a ginormous garage sale we hope to have before the baby comes.
then saturday it was on the road again--to the ghetto town of albuquerque. i swear, there is always something bad going down in albuquerque. we get the new mexico news (since we pick up our one station with our antennae) and there's always drive-bys and robberies and the like. bad place. but i had a party to do for a friend who also has a daughter soren's age, so a few months ago we decided to make a weekend out of it. of course, a few months ago i didn't know i wouldn't feel like doing that much running around, but it ended up not being too bad. it was nice and warm down there, and the girls had a good time torturing each other, so i suppose it was worth it.
but now i am home and have an almost clean calendar, with the exception of a few parties here and there, and i'm really looking forward to doing not much of anything. i do have some of soren's clothes to sort through, some scrapbooking to catch up on, and some general house cleaning to attend, but none of that requires me to drive 4 hours away or even half that, so it's all good.

check.her.out.

so back in college i had this roommate. she was, what can i say, quirky. but we got along really well (for the most part...you could kill anyone you live with after a certain amount of time, right?). we always had a lot of fun together and went dancing a lot, causing the usual mayhem in downtown boise. well, she's a musician, and a talented one at that. i loved listening to her bang chords out on her guitar or strum her cello or sing, and often her music brought many other musicians around...it was great. so she's been working toward recording an album for quite some time, and it's finally happened. and everyone should check it out. you can do that here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/krisdoty. you can sample the album and even purchase it if you'd like.
so listen to a few clips and let me know what you think.