I just bought my first piece of maternity clothing! Until now I’ve been making due with what I have. I was lucky enough to borrow some bigger size dress pants from a friend to hold me over in that department! But Jeans… forget it, don’t fit at all! I already missed one jeans day at work and don’t want to miss another (plus the proceeds for this jeans fee go towards breast and colon cancer research so I just have to participate!) So I shopped online to find prices ranges at certain stores first, and then scoured the mall. This is going to be more difficult than I thought, because I’m so short! I have to buy petites and you just can’t find them everywhere when they don’t have a big maternity section (guess I’ll have to shop online going forward for a bigger selection). But I found a pair, at a decent price, at Motherhood Maternity. It’s kind of a small store in the mall closest to me, but these are kind of perfect. The band at the top is actually kind of comfortable with the maternal it’s made of- more comfortable than the first pair I tried on. I don’t know about you, but this was the first time I ever tried on maternity clothes! It was kind of weird! LOL. and of course, being the photography freak that I am!, I had to have my husband take a pic of my first maternity purchase! The first is the band folded down (which can actually be folded a little lower, I didn’t realize I has it up so high!) and then the alternate view is pulled up to go over the baby bump

I am happy, and now ready, to announce to the world that I’M PREGNANT!!

We past the first trimester PHEW! So now I’m ready to share the excitement

And that’s all I have to say for now… but many more posts to follow!

At work today I got the strangest phone call. And believe me, I get some doozies, but this one was on the verge of creepy. Since we had to get rid of our receptionist I’ve been forced to cover the front desk a lot and answer the phones when the admin is on lunch or before she gets in or whenever she takes time off. Yes, I love my job I have a college degree and I’m playing receptionist… great for my self esteem!

On to the phonecall…. he calls in and says, “HI, Who is this?” very cheery and like I knew him. by the way, I answer with the name of the company and “how may i DIRECT your call” obviously I’m a receptionist. But this guy thinks I called him because whenever anyone calls out the main line is the number that shows up on the persons caller ID not their extension… so anyway, at first I thought it was someone who worked here or one of our other offices, so i say my name. He says, “This is Vinny. Do you know I am?” Um, no, sorry I dont. “Oh, well you sound familiar too, you didn’t just call me?” I explain about main line and this is the front desk, all that stuff. He continues to say, “You sound like someone who used to work for me, what did you do before this?” To keep it short I just said I was in college before this, and that also negates me ever working for him if I didn’t have another job, right?? This guys voice was even creeping me out even though he seemed nice and cheery…. But he said, oh where at? “In Michigan” “Oh what are you doing down here in Florida?” OMG is he really trying to have a conversation with me right now?? I thought we established we dont know each other! Then he continues to say, “Well do you know what I do?” I’m Not psychic! “I work in fashion, the girl you sound like was one of my models in the fashion shows. Have you ever done anything like that?” “No” “Have you ever been interested in that?” OMG Is this some kind of line to try to get me into the business? is this what this call is about? Are you kidding me? Even though my truthful answer would be YES I was actually in a fashion show when I was little, and have dreamed of doing it since but just never had the self confidence that I was pretty enough, and now I’m sure as hell not skinny enough! LOL, even though that would be the truth, of course I replied shortly, “NO.” “Oh, you’re cute!” He says. CUTE? UGH dont talk to me anymore please! Luckily he cut the conversation there and said that he would wait for the person to leave a message or call him back. Because I was just about to hang up on him anyway…

see what i have to deal with? Why can’t they just hire another receptionist so I dont have to put up with this crap anymore?? LOL But at least he was friendly and not rude or incredibly stupid like most people that call in, even if he was quite creepy…

ha ha, this is great. I found it on ria’s page. I wouldn’t say it was completely true!! haha, but it did make me giggle! I would say, less energy… oh more wisdom OF COURSE HA, and definitely more than a Splash of SENSITIVITY!!

The Recipe For Michelle

3 parts Energy 2 parts Elegance 1 part Wisdom Splash of Sensitivity Limit yourself to one serving. This cocktail is strong!

What’s the Recipe for Your Personality?

and for a little extra fun, I used my screenname:

The Recipe For IrishCailin

3 parts Tolerance 2 parts Ingenuity 1 part Class Splash of Desire Finish off with a little umbrella and straw

What’s the Recipe for Your Personality?

OOOHWWWEE Would you look at that? Desire, class, oh yeah thats me HA!

This just made me laugh hysterically, so I had to share…

If you ever have some time to kill and need a good laugh, visit this site:

http://ihasahotdog.com/

And I almost forgot to post the pics of my new car!! How dare I!! It’s actually not a car, but a mini SUV. It’s a Ford Escape. YEA!

I am sooo excited because i actually have A/C that works now!! This is my first car with a sun roof, and keyless entry… Hell, it’s my very first NEW car!! I’ve only had 2 other cars in my life. My first was a 1990 ford escort (I got it in probably ‘98) a gift from my wonderful parents for my birthday. The 2nd car was my mom’s car, it was only about a year old. They gave it to me when I was worried about driving that old car 2 hours home from school. They didn’t like the idea of me not coming home, so they gave me my moms car and she got a new one! lol. like how i worked that one out?? And I drove that car ever since! now I’m 26 and finally have a new car all my own!

“Secrets, Secrets are no fun. Secrets, Secrets hurt someone.” (From “The Office” Season 3 Ben Franklin Episode)

In my family, I’m usually the last to know things. Possibly because I’ve always lived the farthest away, or maybe I just keep to myself the most, I’m not sure. But how things change! Not only do I know one family secret, but I know two! Now, I can’t share the actual secrets, so don’t get too disappointed on me…and they aren’t the type of secret that would hurt someone like the quote I used (I just really like the office and saw that episode recently and the rhyme has been in my head ever since and is somewhat fitting) so I dont have to worry about holding something bad in or keeping it from anyone in particular, so it’s not a bad thing.  But a couple weeks ago I called my sister for her birthday, we don’t talk on the phone much, and she was compelled to tell me something. I promised I would keep it a secret. Then yesterday, my little brother called me for some answers to a question and advice. Then at the end of the conversation said, “Let’s just keep this between us.” Sure thing! I won’t say a word. But in the back of my head said… oh great, another secret!! I can’t keep all these things bottled up inside! lol. But they are my family and I won’t tell a sole! (well… except my husband which I’m sure both knew I would have to do anyway, because we don’t keep secrets from each other! Actually I did tell my brother I already mentioned it to my hubby when he text’d me before he called, and he’s like, yeah of course, so he understood!)

so now that I got THAT off my chest… sort of!… on to the scary, but now happy stuff! The Hurricane Season is upon us!! And I’m sure you’ve heard lots about that. We’re already to letter J naming them!! That means there has been 10 tropical storms or hurricanes this season already! Yikes. And it’s not over until… I think Oct or November… I forget. So Hurricane Ike is a category 4!! OMG and it was projected to hit South Florida on Tuesday. LUCKILY!!! I just read my broward County updates email and read this:

Broward County Emergency Operations Center continues to closely monitor Hurricane Ike even though Broward County is not in the storm’s projected track or cone of error.

New Projection:

YEA! However we will still be in the outer bands with wind gusts up to 40mph! and they also say…

This is a very dangerous storm and the situation could change as the storm continues its track. All residents should be prepared and have their personal hurricane plan ready to implement.

I haven’t been able to sleep well lately… the night before last both me and the hubby were up for some reason, so we were able to watch tv together at 3am before we finally both tired out so much and were able to go back to bed. Last night, it was only me! so I went in the other bedroom to not disturb him with my tossing and turning- and also it helps sometimes to just change locations. The spare room is in the front of the apartment, right next to the front door. I was up from approx. 1-330am before falling back asleep. 530 am I hear a pounding on the front door. Who the hell is pounding on my door so early in the morning?? I dont really know anyone who would live around us that would need us for an emergency so I try to just ignore it thinking they will go away. Nope, more pounding! So I get up and look out the peep hole and see a police officer. UH OH! So I open the door… my husband still soundly sleeping in the back bedroom mind you… “Sorry to disturb you in the middle of the night Mam’ but is that your car out there?” Um theres a whole parking lot full of cars out there and I have one out there so I’m assuming it is… but I say, “The Focus, that one is mine.” “Do you know what happened to the tags on that car?” (or something to that effect, I know he said “tags” a bunch of times instead of license plate so I dont know in my half asleep, exhausted state I knew what he was talking about!) I had taken the plate off the night before because I was supposed to get my new car and we were transferring the plate to the new car. I started to explain and I got to “I just took it off yesterday bec—” He stopped me there, “OK so you took the tag off?” “Yes.” “Ok so it’s not stolen?” “No” “Ok, just wanted to check and be sure it wasn’t stolen” “Nope, thanks”…. and thanks for waking my ass up on my DAY OFF! at 530 AM when I couldn’t sleep!!! GEEESH. Even if it was stolen what the hell would I do at 530 am? And come on, on a holiday when i usually am up at 530 but I actually get to sleep in you wake me up?? ERRRRR.

Then i was thinking… as I was desperately trying to go back to sleep… what if it really wasn’t a police officer, but he was just dressed up as a police officer? That wasn’t very safe for me to open the door by myself, but how can I not open it to a police officer, right? lol. Then when I told the hubby what happened (after he woke me by standing over the bed at 830 am just to check to see if I was ok…. gee thanks. Again, I’d rather sleep thanks!) he yelled at me (ok didnt yell but just sternly lectured and I took it as yelling in my exhausted state) “wake me up next time, don’t open the door. What if it was just someone dressed up as a policeman?” Haha, sometimes we thinking alike…

In Other News… I GOT MY NEW CAR TODAY!!!!! YEA! I have some pics but not uploaded yet. I’ll do that in another post later this week