Booooored. (p) *

Yikes, this week has been SO freakin’ boring for me. I’m still not completely adjusted to the fact that Jake’s not here for me to bug if I want to. Actually, he just called me on his lunch break and we were talking about that. Jen, I told him what you said last night about maybe I should just stay on unemployment, and he actually said that maybe that’s not a bad idea. I mean, JR is making like $10 an hour with his job, and he’s only bringing home a little more than what I make on unemployment. I certainly wouldn’t be making $10 anywhere around here, unless I finally did land an office job, so what would be the point? Anyway, so if that’s the plan now….great. Once I get over the boredom factor, I’ll be able to concentrate on all of those little projects I’ve been meaning to do for so darn long…..I’ve already made some headway in a couple of them, such as getting all of our CDs ripped to the computer, and getting all of the pictures scanned in. I do have that scrapbook for Dawn to make, and while I’m making that, I’m also working on making Carley pages for my own scrapbooks. Well, ok, I’ve only got two pages done so far, but still.

We also came up with a new plan. I’m going to start putting like, $10 into our savings account every week. Actually, I can set it up to do that automatically so I don’t forget, so I’m gonna do that when I’m done here. I had wanted to do that to save money to buy things for the baby, because I know that no one else is going to buy us the larger items, like the pack n play and stuff, though I know that my mom and Marissa at least are going to spoil the baby with clothes and toys. I would also like to buy a rocking chair….no clue where I’ll put it right now, but dammit, I want one! Anyway, while I’m certain I can stil manage to save some more money for those items, Jake had a better idea: Use that money for the medical bills. Yes, the insurance will cover the costs of my visits and such, after we pay the co pay of course, but the delivery is going to cost us a bit more (we’ll have to pay the deductible and another co pay, and then we’ll have to cover 15% of the bill that remains after that).

Another idea I had to save money? I’m going to ask JR and Louisa if we can use Dale’s old car seat – the one that we bought them! He’s graduated to a toddler car seat, and I don’t think they’re planning on having any more kids for a little while, so it’s not like they need it right now. And I know that it hasn’t been in any accidents or anything like that. Am I a genius, or what? Hopefully they still have it and the dog hasn’t chewed it up or anything……I had originally wanted to get one of the travel systems with the stroller, but I’m not sure that we’ll need a stroller right away…..I guess we’ll have to wait and see how I feel about that a few months from now.

Oh, and I took some more belly pictures last night. Jen says I’m crazy, but I swear that my belly is becoming rounder…..it’s not just a blob of fat anymore.

They came out a little blurry, but here you go anyway:

Yeah, ok, that still just looks like fat, right? Meh.

But I swear I’m more rounded when you look at my belly sideways. Don’t mind the fat stretch marks.

Ugh. We went out to O’Charley’s for dinner tonight. That was great, the food was excellent and all….actually, we stuffed ourselves and ended up having to bring half of our food home! But either something didn’t agree with me, or I stuffed myself a bit too much, because almost as soon as we got home, I threw up just about everything.

Actually, I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later….I’ve been feeling extremely nauseous the past few days, like, bad enough to where I don’t want to do anything, don’t even want to move for fear of getting sick. I’ve had to deal with a lot of dry heaving and gagging….

Anyway. I do have another story to share, but in order to get the full effect, I would need to upload some pictures, and I’m really not in the mood for that right now, so you’ll have to wait. In the meantime…ask me some questions. It’s been awhile since I’ve done that, so ask away, ask anything!