Thursday Five

I didn't know about this until today, but Mrs. Gambizzle over at Life as a Sailor's Girl took Thursday Five over from Keely at Mannland5 and I've decided to help her keep it going.  She made a new button for it and everything! How cutie is it?

So you guys know the deal...you post about 5 things about the week that have made you:

Happy

Joyful

Appreciative

Giggly

or

Excited

 

and then head on over to Mrs. Gambizzle's to get linked!  So here we go:

 

1.  I got home early today...so not only did I get to come home to see my sweet darling and our 2 furbabies (I'm counting our honorary fur-baby, Chester, since yes, he is still here--Malu just won't give him up!), but I am home with enough time to update this blog!  If I don't get up really early to post in the morning, I usually don't get to do it until late in the evening and by then, I'm just plumb tired!

 

2.  I found out that Mrs. Gambizzle gave me another blog award, which I'm hella stoked about.  Thank you so much!  I'll be posting and passing out that award and another award that I received sometime last week. Man, awards all over the place! 

 

3.  I'm not sure that I'm ecstatic that Baby V and I have officially reached our 39th week--because I was so sure she' be here by now!  But I am happy that we're healthy and well at this point in time.  Is it bad that I just want her to get here already?  I mean, I'm at the point where I'm just getting tired of being tired (from tossing and turning all night long from the discomfort--man, I can't wait to be able to sleep on my back or my stomach again!) and sore--and just being the size of a blimp!  Malu and I are ready to see our baby girl!

 

4.  The girls from work went out to lunch at the Corner Bakery yesterday.  No pictures, but it was so nice to see everyone again (everyone had been on leave for the past two weeks and I'd missed them). OMG...I had these chocolate whoopie pies that were deee-vine!  I wanna go back for more.  In any case, we decided to have a get-together at my friend, Leah's house on Saturday evening.  The theme is Italian/pasta....I wonder what I should make!

 

5.  I sent out my Summer Essentials Swap package (albeit late, I'm sorry!) to my swap partner, Allie at My Marine and Me, the other day.  I can't wait for her to get it!  I've also signed up to participate in Kimberly's Snail Mail Swap.  She's still taking participants until 9:00 tomorrow morning, so if you want to participate, head on over to her blog!

 

Wow, that's a lot of links in one blog.  But hey, if you're interested, just check 'em all out.  You never know what fabulous stuff you'll find...or cool people you'll meet! 

 

Enjoy the rest of your Thursdays everyone!

29 Week Photo & BBQ Sunday

Before I go into this evening's fabulous BBQ, I thought I'd throw in a picture of my 29 week-old belly. It's been a while since I posted one anyway. People tell me that I'm getting bigger, but for some reason, I don't feel like there's been any change in the last few photos. But....in their defense....I can definitely FEEL a difference. But I feel great. I'll try to remember to sum up the last two or so weeks in another post sometime this week.

But gosh, 3 posts all in one Sunday! I'm on a roll! Well, the ladies lunch crew from work decided to go one step further and do themed dinners on one Sunday each month. So this Sunday, we kicked it off at Leah and Jay's house and went simple and easy with a BBQ. Oh, it was tons of fun. The food was great and what was even better was that I was allowed to bring Lucy along. There, she met Leah and Jay's Great Dane, Moose, who really is all that his name implies. The guy is huge! They also have what I believe is a chihuahua/dachsund mix, but Lucy pretty much steered clear of him, for whatever reason. They also have two cats, but they stayed in the master bedroom. But look at this guy, he's huge! And he's got Lucy's temperament--chilled/laid back and just plain ol' sweet. I love him!

Since I was giving this guy all kinds of attention, I had to share some with my baby girl too. She does get jealous from time to time. No matter....she still won't make eye contact with the camera!

And you know we couldn't end the event without taking a group photo. Besides, I've been throwing out all kinds of friends' names in emails and phone calls to Malu that he is thoroughly confused on who's who. The last time he came to El Paso, I had a different set of friends from another unit! I thought I'd catch him up to speed and send him this photo. This is pretty much the ladies lunch crew--and the nicest set of girls to boot.

[L to R: Katie, Laura (3 mos preg), Leah (8 mos preg), Graciela, Joy, Melissa and Me (7 mos preg)]

Now it's time to get serious and head back to work tomorrow. Really, who are we kidding? Serious? No way! Thanks for hosting the party, Leah and Jay. It was grrrrrreat!

Ten on Tuesday

1. OMG, I just saw the preview for the new Robin Hood movie, starring Russell Crowe. Robin Hood was my favorite movie in high school...the one with Kevin Costner. I'm so excited to see this version. And Russell Crowe looks the best that he's looked since The Gladiator--same haircut and all. Nice!

2. I felt better going in to work today and I have to say that it's because of this stuff the OB gave me yesterday for my sinuses. It's a sinus rinse made by NeilMed Pharmaceuticals and is basically a nasal irrigation system that cleans out all the "yuck" in your sinuses. Having chronic sinusitis, it would have been nice to know about this years ago. The way you use the system is kinda weird. You shoot the saline solution up one nostril and have it drain out the other nostril and though your mouth. Then switch nostrils. But the relief you feel afterwards--is unbelievable.

3. Continuing on with our "hole in the wall" ladies' lunches....my co-worker girlfriends and I went to Rosco's at the suggestion of our friend, Maddie, who couldn't go with us today because her hubby just returned from his deployment! Yay Maddie! Anyway, this place was in another run-down part of town, but they serve the most delicious hamburgers ever! The place is so dingy looking outside, but it was jam-packed and we were barely able to grab ourselves a table. I should have taken a picture of my burger, but didn't have my camera on hand. I had a cheeseburger and fries with chili on the side. To die for!

4. Remember how I blogged about my friend Chrissy meeting Jack Johnson the other day? Well, the next day after she had sobered up...she told me that she did meet Jack Johnson, but not the one I spoke of. Just another singer who had the same name. What are the odds? So funny. I'm somehow knew it was too good to be true! Now I don't feel so bad about missing that night.

5. I sent flip flops out to my Flip Flop Swap partner, Summer, yesterday. This event was hosted by Kimberly and was such a fun idea. I hope she likes what I got her, as she likes the bling-blingy kinds of slippers. I can't wait for her to post about them when she gets the package. You guys should check out both these ladies' blogs. They're great!

6. OMG...I'm up to 80 followers now. How cool is that? As promised, I will be doing a giveaway, I'm just thinking of ideas. Thanks to everyone for becoming followers. It means so much to me.

7. Speaking of giveaways, I've entered so many the last few weeks and I have yet to win. I never have that kind of luck!

8. Can you believe that I start my third trimester on Thursday? This means I technically start my 8-hour work days. Let's see if I can actually pull this off. I haven't had 8 hour work days since I've been in the Army. But if I don't actually start doing it sometime soon, I'm going to wear myself out. We don't want that to happen. Wish me luck, guys!

9. Malu sent me a just-because-I-Love-You email yesterday. What great timing. I got it while I was home on quarters. He somehow always seems to know when I need to be loved on! I love you baby.

10. Lucy just wanted to people-watch on our evening walk tonight. She just plopped down in the middle of the grassy field and watched all the other walkers pass her by. It was so cute. When we do walk, she walks about 10-15 feet in front of me and looks back every 5 or so paces to make sure that I'm there. Either that, or she's making sure I don't pass out. Gosh, I can't wait until Malu comes home so he can play and run around with her. She's been getting jipped by mommy! Sorry Lucy!

And that's it you guys. Hope you have a great hump day tomorrow!

Ten on Tuesday

Wow! What a day! It started out great, got kinda crazy, and then ended up okay again. I am exhausted, but happy to share the details with you guys.

1. Did our weekly ladies lunch at Chili's today. Yummy! We usually do it on Wednesdays, but today we had a special guest join us--our brigade commander's wife, Christina. And it was tons of fun. We had a total of 13 gals come. It was so great and we had sooooooooooo much food. Chili's has this $9.99 appetizer and main dish combo, so everyone got to share appetizers. I had the Southwestern eggrolls...my favorite. And a quesadilla explosion salad--also a fave. We didn't get dessert.....

2. ...at Chili's because some of us were pressed for time and had to get back to work. Conveniently for us, there was a McDonald's right next door and three of us--Leah, Laura and I--went to get some cold treats. I had an ice cream sundae, Leah had a cone and Laura had a fruit smoothie. All three of us are pregnant--Leah 7 1/2 months, Laura--3 months and me--6 months. Of course it would only be the pregnant chicks that would still make room for dessert. That was delicious too.

3. Left work early to take care of the Jeep. Last weekend, somehow the car wash (or perhaps even the car washers) did something to it because ever since the car emerged from the drive thru car wash, the programmable (computerized) keys haven't worked. The dashboard said "damaged key" every time I put the key in and the car wouldn't start. Somehow that day, I was able to get the car to start after a few minutes and bring it home. But I couldn't get any of my keys to work the entire week.

4. So today, I had to had the Jeep towed to the Jeep Dealership where they would re-program the keys. Those guys at the dealership were expecting me too. So I had the tow-guy drive me over with the Jeep to the dealership. But when we got there (around 4:30), the dummy who works at the service department says, "um, ma'am, our service guys went home at 4:00. your car won't get seen until tomorrow morning." I was like, "what?!?!, no freakin' way" because I basically had no ride from there.

5. After calling a few people and not getting any answers, I got a hold of Auntie Daisy, who was in the middle of dying her hair. She wasn't going to be able to pick me up for another 45 minutes. So I was like, fine, I'll just walk down the street to see if there are any stores I could just shop around in.

6. There was nothing down the street--at all. After walking about a mile in the heat (and it was H-O-T! I'm glad I had changed out of my uniform before taking the Jeep), I settled for a place called Incredible Pizza, which is like a glorified Chuck-e-Cheese. Because honestly, all I wanted was a cup of water. I was so tired and thirsty. I was such an idiot to do such a thing.

7. A few minutes after I'd settled in there and had a few bites to eat from the pizza buffet (I mean, why not eat while I wait, right?), my friend Jennifer calls. I tell her the story and she comes to get me in a hurry. She is closer than my Auntie Daisy after all. So I tell Auntie Daisy not to come to get me anymore and minutes later, Jennifer comes to the rescue.

8. She proceeds to scold me all the way to her sons' daycare, where we picked them up. "You're can't do everything by yourself anymore," Jennifer says. "Stop trying to be superwoman," she says. My friend Melissa called, after seeing that I had called her earlier, and she starts to scold me for walking alone in that area (which, by the way, was just off of I-10). It gave me a good laugh, but they are right. Sometimes I just need to ask for help and they are such great friends for caring. But Jennifer also said she's going to put a GPS tracker on me. Now that's funny!

9. But the day ended on a good note. Since I was hanging with Jennifer anyway, I got to go to Dominic's t-ball practice. All of those little kids were so adorable and Dominic was such a good sport all the way through. I got a few good pics! I can't wait to go to a few games myself one day!

10. And now I'm home and lounging on my couch, exhausted. Even too tired to eat anything. What a day, huh?

Enjoy the rest of Tuesday you guys! Is anyone else thinking that my life seems to be shrouded with crises lately?