Even though it’s so late, I’m sending out some happy Christmas wishes for all of you!

My Mom has been known to make some strange impulse purchases, which usually end up getting gifted to family members. Just a few years ago, I got some weird slippers with cow-print fake fur and giant pompoms. Her taste in home decor is usually much better, but my sister just sent me a link to a photo of Mom’s latest bizarre acquisition.

If I’m having dinner, I sure as hell don’t want to look up and see that in the middle of the table. That’s just scary!

One Month Left! (The whole post is just the sentence below.)

It’s now just one month until my due date of January 22, 2005!

Gestational diabetes update

Monday I had another appointment with my endocrinologist’s nurse about the gestational diabetes. It was a routine meeting. She…

35 wk Ultrasound and Checkup (with bonus ultrasound picture)

At last week’s checkup, Misty had been a little concerned that I would be in Houston next week and…

Getting scared

Prior to my appointment today, I broke down in the shower and started crying. I was just suddenly overwhelmed…

I finally finished my holiday cards last night. The ones I started working on back in October. Start early and still finish late. How typical of me.

Dale and I went out to lunch today. We stopped by the post office afterwards to mail my cards. Most were stamped and could just be dropped off, but I had three cards going to three other countries and we had a letter we needed to send with delivery confirmation. After I filled out the delivery confirmation form, I looked in the bag I was carrying for the foreign-bound cards. They weren’t there. Dale pulled out the 50 or so cards that were in the bag and checked them all, and the three cards weren’t there.

So, we stood in line to spend $.92 on posting for one letter. When we came home, I checked the snail letter holder and found the three cards sitting there with the handful of cards that need address confirmations.

*sigh*

34 wk Checkup and Ultrasound

We had our weekly ultrasound and checkup early this afteroon, and we’re both doing fine. I tried to time…

It’s not too late to fill out my LiveJournal poll with your name and address or email me your information if you’d like to receive a handmade holiday card from me this year. (And probably a birth announcement early next year.)

So, some time this morning I was filming a movie with Snoop Dogg. The film was more along the lines of Soul Plane than his Girls Gone Wild (NWS) endeavors. I was playing the part of a bimbo stewardess. Later, the filming was taking place on a bus and the current star was Tom Hanks, playing an asshole busrider who was being mean to the other passengers.

Then there seemed to be a break in the filming, because I was hanging out with my family (parents and sister). I think we were setting up RC cars and vehicles to play with outside, when suddenly Scott Peterson was there, hanging out with us. WTF??

A bit later, I’m back to filming, except the movie subject has changed yet again. I’m in an apartment set with Jane Krakowski, and we’re bitching about men.

I’ve had celebrity dreams before, but never that many crammed into one. Weirdness. Just total weirdness.

33 wk Checkup and Ultrasound

Today’s ultrasound was shorter than the last one, because they didn’t measure the baby. (They won’t do that again…

Gorillas pay final respects to their deceased group leader.

One by one Tuesday, the gorillas filed into the Tropic World building where Babs’ body lay, arms outstretched. Curator Melinda Pruett Jones called it a “gorilla wake.”

Babs’ 9-year-old daughter, Bana, was the first to approach the body, followed by Babs’ mother, Alpha, 43. Bana sat down, held Babs’ hand and stroked her mother’s stomach. Then she sat down and laid her head on Babs’ arm.

The article describes a rather touching display by the gorillas, so much so that one of the keepers spent the event in tears.

Though this has been in the works for a while, I’ve barely mentioned it so it’s taking people by surprise. (Sorry about that!)

Shortly after I became pregnant, Dale and I began discussing moving to Houston. We would like our baby (or children) to grow up around family, and Houston has the highest concentration of relatives, outside of Korea. Korea being a bit far away from most English-speaking relatives, plus our lack of Korean-speaking and the likelihood that Dale would not be able to effectively telecommute from there, we decided to move to Houston. (Now we just have to convince my parents to move to Houston too.)

We have not yet put our house on the market. Nor have we started packing, though we’re supposed to start the move in a couple of weeks. Thanks to Dale’s parents, we will be able to make this a leisurely move. They’re giving us the use of a house they own just outside of Houston. We’ll be able to take our time with the move, then have a place to live while we clean up the Austin house and put it on the market.

I don’t have the new address on hand and we haven’t set up phone service there yet, but I’ll be sure to share that information with our friends and family by the time we move.