So… I have to take these iron pills now… and I read to take it with orange juice becuase the citrus helps absorb the iron. However, you can’t take it with milk or dairy because calcium blocks the iron from being absorbed.  So what am I supposed to do if I buy the Orange Juice w/ calcuim because I’m partially lactose intolerant and can’t drink milk??? LOL. Did they think about that? And what happens if I do take it with the calcium filled OJ? (like I just almost did) Does it absorb or block?? It certainly can’t do both can it? I’m so confused!

By- The- Way… I know I don’t always write much, and don’t keep up with this blog as well as I should (Blame it on the tiredness from this pregnancy- hense the iron pills because I found out I’m anemic from what else, the pregnancy- I get a free pass card for everything now, it’s great, it’s always the pregnacy and not me!!) BUT NEWAYS I found this on Ria’s page!

and thought it was 1. a good idea and 2. a really cool pic so I’m stealing it! and 3. I’m very curious to find out who the hell is reading my so uninteresting blog! haha. I know you’re out there, I get lots of views but just don’t know who you are! So Leave Me Some Love Please. I need to know people actually read my stuff and maybe that will motivate me to write more often.  I’ll even make it easy for you and give you an opening, a question to answer to give you something to say… whats something easy… Oh How about you tell me this… what is your favorite food?? Because I’m pregnant and like talking about food. haha

What are you waiting for?? Tell me!

Have you ever had such a busy weekend that you say, I need a vacation!!- that just wasn’t long enough and I had no time to rest!? Well folks… I’m going to get my wish! I’m going on Vacation tomorrow! YEA! Not before putting in some major work today on a busy busy day…

This weekend I feel like I didn’t stop. We went to the mall- what a nightmare that was! I get a little anxious in crowds sometimes and people down here in S. FL are SOOOO RUDE! Much more then any other place I’ve ever been. It’s a huge mall too, always busy. We had lunch out at a resturant (because the foodcourt was a ZOO), which never happens, we’re poor! (we had a gift certificate lol) Well, we did rest for a little to watch 2 of the “Left Behind” series movies with Kirk Cameron. Then… we set up the Christmas stuff!! EARLY I KNOW! But C wanted to set it up this weekend so it would already be set up when we returned from our vacation. We usually set it up right after Thanksgiving or Dec 1st, and we wont be getting home until Dec 2nd, a Tuesday, so most likely wouldn’t set it up til the next weekend. So, I humored him and agreed to set everything up. And I’m glad I did becuase it did put me in a rather cheery mood!  So that was all just Saturday! Sunday I was slow moving because I couldn’t sleep Saturday night. We stayed up way too late setting up the decorations and I was up early as usual. We had to finish setting up the decorations we didn’t get a chance the night before. Then I painted the dresser knobs!! What a process. First I had to paint them white, 2 coats. And then I practiced what I was going to paint on paper before I tried it on the knobs. It’s for the babys room so I was painting within our Frog and Duck theme. I thought about doing some butterflies and dragonflies too, but I was having fun with the frogs so I did 4 frogs and 4 ducks… to actually paint on the knobs it took me 4 hours!! that is not including all that prep time! Crazy. But I think they turned out rather well if I do say so myself!!

After the painting and brief break, I had to go to the store and then I tried to pack after dinner. I pulled out all my winter clothes about a month ago to see what would fit me over my pregnant belly! Well, it has grown conciderably since then so I had to re-try everything on and I could only fit into 1/2 of what I previously took out!! fun stuff… so instead of having things to chose from, I have just enough to last me the 8 days we’ll be in Michigan! And that includes the dress clothes I wear to work lol so i can’t be casual the whole time… owell… And that was my weekend, it’s usually not so event filled, and that was after a busy busy week. Normally during the week I dont do much after work, but Tues-Thurs I wasn’t home at night. I’m just glad I have the next week off work! It will be SOOO NICE!

 

(pictures coming soon)

Ria did an “I AM” post and asked people what they are so I decided to do my own instead of comment on hers cuz its going to be long…

- I AM extremely tired

- I AM nervous that my throat is starting to hurt again, I am hoping I’m not getting sick again!

- I AM debating on, and worrying about, taking this AFP bloodtest. Do I know everything, are we making the right decision not to do it?

- I AM extremely relieved that I got to hear my baby’s heartbeat today and that it sounded healthy (secretly i was nervous because it took her a while to find it!)

- I AM wondering why I get so many views on my blog some days but only the same 2 people ever comment, it kind of hurts my feelings and I’m curious as to who else is reading! so feel free to let me know who you are!

-I AM glad my job is flexible and they let me work from home today

- I AM happy that it is the weekend!!

- I AM going to bed soon, so that’s all I have!! Good night!

This morning I watched the movie Crossroads… you know the one with Britney Spears, DON’T LAUGH! haha.

It was the first thing on when I turned on the tv and I was watching it trying to figure out what it was and by the time I figured it out I was already into the storyline, so I had to keep watching to see what happened, you know. And i think it was somewhat at the beginning of the movie. You know it didnt even look like Britney at first! She looked so young and sweet and innocent… and put together, not all trashy like she is now! haha. I wonder if she was dating Justin Timberlake at the time of making this movie… because one of the songs they were singing to on the radio was “BYE BYE BYE.” Interesting… I really like the old younger Britney. She was very pretty. And I always liked that song ‘not a girl, not yet a woman.’ She performs it in the end for some contest. Oh but you know who I CAN”T STAND in the movie? Taryn Manning. I can’t stand the way she talks, she slurs everything, how can you be an actress when you can’t even speak clearly!? and she so skanky lookin… haha. ok i’m done with the rant… I think my opinion is a bit skewed with her because… at my bachelorette party they were asking me questions that they asked my fiance ahead of time for this game. And one of the questions was something like what famous celebrity would you want to sleep with… yeah his answer was that girl! Are you Kidding me?? Seriously?? haha. She’s not even pretty… sorry, I thought I was done with the rant but I guess not… SO ANYWAY… yeah I ended up watching that movie in it’s entirety, well except the beginning that i missed… and although it is geared for the teeny bopper generation… sometimes I like feeling like a kid again watching young movies…

ever have one of those days where you just feel out of it? you feel constantly tired or confused. you can’t seem to focus. you can’t hold onto anything, you just drop or knock over everything? well,  its been like that for me all week! I don’t know whats going on with me. the other morning getting ready for work i just couldn’t hold onto anything, everything I touched dropped. another morning walking into work i just felt weird, just not all there, almost zombie like and I got plenty of sleep so it wasn’t that. and just now i was loading dishes into the dishwasher and just completely knocked a bowl into a glass on the counter and it fell off the counter into the dishwasher! Glass Everywhere! I hope I snap out of it quick!

Do you ever think that at any time you could be fired? I mean, one day you’re all happy and cozy in your nice little job and then *boom* “You’re Fired!” and then you have to clean out your desk with all your personal belongings, or rush out and risk losing everything… and No, that didn’t happen to me, Thank God! I’m way too good at my job for that to happen *shifty eyes*(HAHAHA!). But it has happened a lot recently at my work and today I was left to clean up the pieces! I’m number 2 when it comes to internal happenings (if you watch The Office you will get that saying of number 2 even more…) and of course… OF COURSE… something BIG always happens when my boss is out and I have to try to figure out what to do. I guess she’s out kind of a lot though… but anyway… Today was draining… emotionally and physically…

I get pulled into the office managers office today and i’m like UH OH! But of course, not about me, I told you, I’m good *winkwink* so he said, I just let KA go, what else do I need to do? R usually handles the rest from here. Oh man, I can’t even get ahold of R or her boss or any other manager I know of because they’re all in a regional meeting. I’ll figure something out. so i’m looking through her desk figuring there has to be some sort of “procedures book” but I can’t find anything. and I know a little because i’ve helped out before but never had to deal with the full situation by myself. So then the office manager comes up to me again, I just let JR go too. WHAT??  total shock there, no idea why. I could see why KA got let go because of performance, and I dont know the full reason for JR because he said it was kind of the same but other things as well, but he would not elaborate… but JR was seriously the best ever! I mean not numbers wise, he didn’t bring in all the numbers like others did but whenever I needed Anything even if it should be from someone else but they were out of the office, he would help me no questions asked. I could count on him for ANYTHING. I can see getting rid of someone that wasn’t performing well, but its a total moral buster to get rid of the nicest person who would do anything for anyone, and of course a jokester to lighten the mood every once in a while. So I’m Really bummed about that… so on top of the total shock i’m still trying to figure out what to do…Well I pretty much get it figured out, and put a phonecall into a corporate payroll person to ask a specific pay question and then when R finally gets my message and calls me back she pretty much said, you did everything you needed to do, good job. so that felt good! Even though I was at my wits end already. So I just have to finish some data entry regarding it tomorrow which shouldn’t be too bad. Oh and did I also mention the same time he announced the firing of KA he also announced someone else put notice in and then someone else pretty much got demoted but it was “mutual” and “the right decision for him” to move to this other job. Both were managers that I managed as well, and JR was in my team as well. So 3 out of the 4 ppl I worked with regularly. My head is just spinning!!

and not to “complain” anymore but I worked 10 hours yesterday without a lunch and today I had to come in early to give a presentation and then because of everything happening left over an hour late so I almost worked another 10 hours today with a quick lunch break but couldn’t leave -for another reason I will not even get into- so more like being at the office for 11 hours today… Yeah….I’m ready for bed and its not even 8pm yet LOL. Lets just hope tomorrow is better….

What A Week… what a weekend… I barely turned the computer on at all last week and I was deprived of internet for the long weekend. Last week we were busy getting ready to leave for the weekend, plus I was more tired than usual and busier at work, so I picked sleep over internet. Friday we drove over to the other side of the state to see the family, we stayed with the hubby’s mom who doesn’t have internet and we can never pick up a wireless signal with the laptop

Luckily the drive was only a 4 1/2 hr drive each way, even in holiday weekend traffic (twice it has taken us 6 hours). I think we went at the odd times so it wasn’t so bad. But man I was sure glad we weren’t going the other way on 75 on the way home. Some stupid idiot didn’t tie his boat down good enough and it flew off the trailer!! backed up traffic for MILES! it was a HUGE boat too! I wish i had the camera out to take a pic of that mess…

But I’m home now, and catching up on some of my fav. bloggers… Ria being one of them. Wow she talked a lot about me this week and I feel bad for not reading! HAHA. Sorry Ria! And she even named me as one of her 5 fav featured bloggers and gave me a “kickass blog” award, even though I think she’s just being nice LOL but thanks Ria!  and we will get back to our “writing challenge” this week, promise! and hopefully I’ll have time for more interesting blogs as well. I had a good rant last week but I didn’t get a chance to get on here, so there goes that!

But hopefully everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend! And either relaxed or had lots of fun! And don’t forget WHY we celebrate, it isn’t just an extra day off work;)

Wish me luck for tomorrow that I won’t have to work until 9pm due to one day payroll because of the holiday…

Whenever I wear anything new, I don’t get to do anything fun. I have come to the conclusion that I must do a test run with new outfits as to not be disappointed when I’m looking forward to doing something.  The first example I can think of was last month. It was a work bbq on the beach on a Saturday. I wore this shirt i’ve had for a while but never wore, and this was the perfect time to wear it. It was a tube top type shirt which is why i never wore it yet, i lived in MI, there are not many chances to wear it. Now that I’m in FL it’s nicer a lot more often. I didn’t want to wear a bathing suit to the work thing, so a tube top seemed the perfect choice to get some sun… long story short I got ready and all dressed up and then we never made it…I just happen to have a picture however, because I was doing a “self portrait challenge” that month and had to take a pic every day for the month. So I have a pic from before i left…I’ll share it now so i can share my outfit I missed out on, even though its only part of the shirt and not the full effect but you can see how my necklace perfectly ties in, and of course the new shades I had bought… not the mention the fact it was perfect I took a pic With the glasses on because I dont have any pictures of me posted on here, so it kinda works out perfect to still “camouflage” my identity. haha.

Which brings me to my second event…Yesterday, I decided to wear this shirt, again never wore before but had for a while. Not as long as the other shirt, but I’ve had it since March. I decided I didn’t need a “special occasion” to wear this shirt, I would just wear it when I was meeting my friend for lunch and to hang out for the day. Again, got all dressed up and ready to go and then she cancels on me last minute! So I “wasted” another good outfit. Here is that one…isn’t it a cute shirt??? lol

And then to top it off… twice in one weekend i get disappointed! Sunday rolls around. My hubby and I were going to go play tennis, but we couldn’t get moving early enough because we were too tired. So then it got too hot to play tennis. So we decided to go play mini golf. Oh, I should have mentioned, since I didn’t get to hang out with my friend yesterday I went shopping by myself just to get out and do something. I bought a few articles of clothing. What I decided to wear today was a whole new outfit! Nothing fancy, but I got these cute shorts, I believe the style is called Bermuda. They’re really long, like to the knee. I’m into the capris now, which i never thought would happen because I’m so short they look kinda funny on me, like long pants. But its FL and I don’t like short shorts anymore, getting too old to show off the legs HAHA. So these seemed kind of appealing. I remember when I realized I should get shorts like that. I saw a girl walking down the street, a younger girl, with her family. She looked so cute in the shorts, I think they were pretty similar to the ones i found actually. And they just jumped right out at me at the store so I went ahead of bought them! They fit great. And then I got a plain black tank but its a scoop neck that gathers you know… its kinds of hard to explain and you can’t really see it in the picture, so I hope you know what I mean…but anyway… mini golfing… we start driving along and we’re about half way there when it starts to rain! well it’s Florida, it could stop in two minutes, or maybe its not even raining over there. So we keep going. We get off the expressway (yeah the closest one we could find is like 25 mins away) and it starts Pouring and lightning… yeah, guess we can cancel those plans. So we turn around… and there goes another outfit!

I kinda feel like I look like an old lady LOL but I like them, so shut up! haha.

So thanks for letting me finally share my outfits I so dearly missed going “out on the town” with.