according to the dr, no babies expected this week, and most likely no babies expected next week. the kids are 5lbs each (est).
I am mechwarrioring tonite.

ok lets see what ive done thisweekend....my mom is 75% done with the painting and the wood stripping upstairs, it looks nice. it was 93 or so yesterday so I didnt venture out much. we did go out to dinner at PF Changs with Robin Mum and fred and Jason...Robin and Jason are moving in together (4 cats!)....went out for Mack's custard (yum) and watched the football game on TV. Today is gym and gaming (here) plus dale is mowing the lawn, its already 80 out and its only 10am....

cool news is laura is coming from texas for a visit in October, she was emailing my old address and thought i was ignoring her! We got that all worked out...Ill have to try to get everyone together from the wedding to say hello, i believe shes here the 5th and 6th which is neat. i should stil be on leave...!

well after todays dr appt i learned that i am 1 cm dialated and the dr can poke my babies in their heads. when she does that they do what is called "floating up" which means they dont like being poked in the head and move up out of my pelvis. the good news is theres no bleeding or anything which means im not going into labor. which is nice. TODAY IS ROBINS BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBIN!

Saturday we are going out to eat at PF Changs for her birthday. i have never eaten there but it is supposedly very tasty or something.

also major superbestest goodest news today, the lame ass boss at work, Jim, resigned as of Sept 1 to pursue opportunities elsewhere (vp at an associated bank branch) i will now be taking my money out of that bank and placing it elsewhere, the man could fuck up anything, he reminds me of all those saturday nite live skits where they play jeopardy, if you asked him to name a letter he would prob. tell you "f". the company only spent prob. 800-900k on this loser and its amazing he didnt get fired months ago. as i said to alan "krusty has come to save us and we are going to tiajunana" (had to be there), its quite possibly the best news I have had in months. now what am i going to bitch about?

Today is dr's appt 987 for the week, or something. Im losing track. Im also increasingly unpleasant at the hospital. I can't tell you how annoying it is to answer the following questions 7000 times a day:
1. How are you? "Im fine."
2. Is the daddy to be excited about the babies? "yes, hes thrilled"
3. And are we having any problems? "no more problems than the ones i had two days ago?"
4. And do we know the sex of the babies? "yes girls"
5. And what names do you have picked out? "i cant tell you?"
6. Why? "because we arent telling anyone"
7. Does this hurt? "no it feels FANTASTIC"
8. Aren't you happy to be doing this test? "no, i hate having to come up here every other day and sit to get monitored when there is absolutely nothing wrong with the kids, plus it hurts to walk and I have to trudge halfway through the hospital to get here to be tested when there is nothing wrong."
9. But dont you just LOVE being reassured about their wellbeing? "i love being able to sit at home and relax and sleep vs getting all 3 of us stressed out by walking in here."
10. And do you know which way the babies are facing? "yes head down. theyve always been head down"
11. Are you doing to deliver vaginally "no, i plan on pushing them out through my ears."

Honestly to you it may seem silly that all that pisses me off, but imagine that everytime you go somewhere you have to answer the same 15 questions to a new person and then repeat the process with coworkers, the checkout girl at the sentry store, that guy over there. Its enough to make me plotz. The only one that doesnt bother me with questions is my cat, all she does is sleep all day. Lucky cat.

YEA! The a/c is fixed at a low low cost of $200.00 for a part that costs $45.00. a/c repairmen are bitches. Spent today trying to clean the a/c filter outside, replaced a/c filter inside with a hepa filter (was the old one grrrrrross!) and vacuumed the air ducts (fun and messy). Had hamburgers at Murffs with the parents, had pasta at Pepinos with the inlaws, finished my baby blanket cross stitch (only took like 6 months) and worked on a bib. I also had an ebay buyer call me an evil seller because i sent them a great item quickly? ok...? dale is now #1 in the state again in Mechwarrior, i guess he has 13 straight wins...

i am now officially tired of being pregnant. Our air conditioner has a part broken so we cant use it (because it gets so hot that the grill on the unit melted, i kid you not) so i sit in the house and am hot and unhappy, at least our basement type area is cooler than upstairs at at least it looks like rain today. I now have to go to the hospital 3x a week, once for a dr's appt and 2x for Non Stress tests which means i sit for 30 min with monitors on the kids measureing contractions and heartbeats. fantastic, so now i can barely walk without pain, but i have to walk to the drs office 3 times a week, in pain-lovely. the good news is I should deliver in august vs sept so count down the days folks!

Hung out with Caitlin and Breezy last nite to show them the house and catch up on whats been up. I guess Doc and Nancy have redone the whole house (B said you wouldnt even recognize it!) and backyard! Breezy said Nancy thinks we need to come over and visit, I agree-can't remember the last time I was over there! I think Ill wait till the kiddies born and bring them over to say hello. Dale thinks we need to make sure when we do that we dress the girls alike, I betcha Nancy will get a kick out of that, and we may wind up not being able to take them home (Nancy lovvvvves babies).

Dale said his bosses boss Dirk (from Germany) has OK'd him getting set up to work from home if he needs to when the kids are born or if his Vertigo comes back. I think thats cool.

Had last (I hope) U/S yesterday. babies weigh 3 lbs 13oz each and are fine. We have a neat U/S picture of Baby #2's face, shes sucking her fingers/thumb..say it with me, awwww.

dale was out of work all week (ex for wed which was a mistake) and i got up early this am to drive him to work, i guess driving for him is like driving drunk, but he can sit up and work. we are having fun watching him take 80.00 worth of pills that may or may not clear up the vertigo (yech)

My children spend most of their time kicking me, the doctor estimates that they are between 4-5 lbs each, plus placentas and fluid which would account for most of the 42.5lbs I have gained. I'm spending most of my time damning my skin to hell as (some of my female breeder friends will find out) strech marks when they keep streching because you dont have any more skin left to stretch feel like sunburned scabbs that are being streched and pulled. it is the most painfully uncomfortable thing ever, and there is nothing i can do about it. Ill take morning sickness over this crap.

no big plans for this weekend, dale wants to play at lost worlds of wonders on saturday afternoon, my mom is coming over to paint, i will most likely sleep as thats all i do lately, or play diablo 2 with the 1.10 beta test patch. check it out here! and gaming on sunday of course, we now argue over 3.5....

dale still dizzy and sick in bed today. meds make him super drowsy so he spent all weekend sleeping, fun. its hard to take care of someone else who is sick when you can barely take care of yourself. The kids spent most of the weekend kicking the hell out of me. The cat is now sleeping behind me keeping my neck warm. Dale is sleeping keeping the bed warm and I'm working. everyone else in this house has it really really easy.

spent like 4 hours at the Er last night as dale has some inner ear vertigo thingy which makes him really really dizzy and stuff. remind me that when you are 8 months pregnant, 4 hours in the er on a stool in a hot room really sucks....no, really it does, since dale is sick we have done nothing this weekend, i went to the market and got food, went to the pool and floated the kids and spent the rest of the day getting my stomach kicked from here to kentucky by these kick boxing maniacs.

check out my new carLEGACY WAGON

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Busy weekend. Dale and I had a date nite and went to Sticks & Stones in Brookfield on Friday night. It was very very tasty-very. Then we went to look at cars. We are going to test drive a Subaru Legacy Wagon at the Acura dealership Tonight. It's pretty sweet, and darker blue, and stick (thank god)!

Saturday spent time with Dan who is here from Texas, was at Jeffs then went to the Pond to cook out and swim and play a crazy game of bocci (which turned into Sand Bocci and toss the ball 7000 feet bocci thanks to Muench).

Sunday we gamed here at our place and ate Yummy food from the deli (thanks mikey). Now this week I (Thankfully) have very little to do, no doctors appointments, no baseball games, and all I need to do is head into the office on Friday to go to a 1 hour meeting (and lets hope I feel shitty enough to just call in for it!)

Sprechen of that, I actually feel pretty crappy. Have a cold (gotta be from the pond), Im achy pretty much everywhere from the waste down (except my back doesnt hurt, go figure?) My boss is gone all week in CT so I'm not sure how much real work (new) I will get this week, looks like another week of updating the manual for training, yippie skippy!

bah, what a bust yesterday. We didnt get to get the 4d ultrasound, just a normal 3d ultrasound (albet with the new logiq 9's). We have a Cd rom of pictures, (if you want to see a few, email me and I will send you some) but they arent as cool as the 4d would have been.) Plus my nerve was acting up during the scan so I was in alot of pain on my back :(

We saw the girls fighting however. Apparantly my kid (baby "b") was kicking dales kid "baby a" in the crotch. Now this isnt really what was happening as they have a pretty thick membrane between them, but on the scan it looks like shes pushing the membranes and her foot was in the other girls crotch. and baby a had her hands up by her face, which was funny...i think we have it on the vcr tape of the scan.

the plummer is here now fixing our sink (we have a new one and a new faucet) and the cat is freaked.

Today will be super busy! 9am doctors appt, 11am carpet guy here, 3:30 ultrasound (4D whoo hoo), after that my dad is taking out our sink as we get a new one tomorrow, so tomorrow the plummer comes at 8:30 then i have mechwarrior at 6pm. one of these days i need a break. its getting pretty hard to move around, it tired me out to walk around sams last nite, bah!

busy weekend this weekend! Saturday went to the dump, the dentist, the kmart for a cooler, the grocery store (2x), and the booze store (the looks that I got being pregnant and carrying booze out were funny), and my parents house (2x) to pick up a grill and a cooler.

we got pulled over 2 seconds outside of my parents house for not having a front plate on my truck (i havent had a front plate since I bought it 2 years ago) and were let off with a "warning" to "fix" that.

we then had everyone over for the worlds largest BBQ/babyshower. Had many sausages this weekend, also some yummy spinich dip (thanks robin) and brownies (thanks robin and carol!). Played a rousing game of bocci in the backyard (the anti-reynolds beat the reynolds 12-10 thanks to my stunning 2 point last round)....then Muench, Mike, Dale, Jeff and I stayed at our place LATE to play munchkin and illuminati. Jeff brought over Papa Murphys-yum.

sunday mikey got a free 1/2 barrel (about 1/2 of it was left) from his bosses boss who had party on saturday and no one drank. sooo, dan, julie, mike, muench, jeff, jim, crystal, jake, nikki, me and dale went down to the pond to eat the leftover food from saturday and help finish the keg (except for me, I didnt help down warm MGD). I left around 4pmish and came back at around 7:30ish to find dale very very drunk in the pond with jake and mikey. went back home, got my suit and drove in to swim me and the girls out to the far raft to watch over said drunk hubbie.

around 8:30ish took my drunk hubbie home and make him mac and cheeze since he hadnt eaten anything but chips all afternoon.

2:am drunk hubbie proceeded to wake all of us up by throwing up in the bathroom. On a good note he did toss out the garbage can he puked in before coming back to bed.

3am drunk hubbie finally took some asprin like I told him too 4 hours before.

and now its 8am and I am working today.

plan on hitting the BB game to watch bucko coach in a few hours.

Bah its raining again and the kids are kicking me and I'm tired and sore from sleeping.
Im going back to bed.

So next week I am getting a GE 3d ultrasound Click here to see what they look like The cool thing is they can video tape the ultrasound and also put pictures on a blank CD-R for you. So next week I can email everyone pictures of the kids. The ultrasound is so detailed that you can see their faces, fingers, eyelashes etc..

Some of the people at work who were pregnant did'nt want to get the scan because they thought it would be too creepy to see what their kids looked like before they were born, which may or may not bother me, I don't know...

I know my mother in law is excited about seeing them, Dale's cousin had a 4d scan done with her first baby (and maybe the 2nd one, Im not sure....) and it is really amazing. So if you would like to purchase a lovely Voluson 730/Logiq 7 or Logiq 9 let me know, I can hook you up with a nice sales rep!

SAW T3 TODAY WITH DALE AND MUENCH, I MUST SAY, IT WAS BETTER THAN I EXPECTED. THE GIRLS EITHER REALLY LIKED IT OR REALLY HATED IT BECAUSE THEY KICKED THE HELL OUT OF ME DURING THE WHOLE FILM AND ARE STILL KICKING NOW...MAYBE THEY LIKE AH-NOLD OR MAYBE THEY THINK HES AN AUSTRIAN-UW STOUT GRAD-HAS BEEN, WHO KNOWS. VOTE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!

BLOOD PRESSURE BACK UP NOW ITS 138/70, DAMN, THEY MAY STOP ME FROM WORKING. THANKS TO NANCY AND BREEZY FOR THE SWING WE GOT TODAY, SO CUTE, YOU TWO ROCK! HAVING GRILLED STEAK AND POTATOES FOR DINNER-YUM YUM.