Danke Schoen

Yes, I am still pregnant. (A few days of not posting anything sometimes makes people wonder.) However, I had a really great weekend and am not feeling as impatient with the whole thing. Although she certainly wasn't the first or only person to tell me this, when JN emailed me, "Try to enjoy the last couple of days of just you and {my hubby} because it will never be just the two of you again," it hit me like a ton of bricks. Wowsa. Our days together are sorta limited!

So enjoying time with my husband was what I spent the weekend doing. I had a really great, relaxing weekend. Several things contributed to this, of which/whom I will now personally thank:

1) Thank you Dr. L for shortening your vacation, thus making me more relaxed about the fact that I could still have you in the delivery room if I give birth this week (after Tues, of course).

2) Thank you, Mr. Video Store Clerk, for not only leaving your stand to go find discs 3, 4 and 5 of True Blood for us, but for giving us Disc 5 for free.

3) Thank you, Ms. Jo-Ann Fabrics customer, for exclaiming, yesterday, that I look "fantastic" when hearing I was due in 9 days.

4) Thank you, neighbors, for having one of those super sweet sheet cakes from Sam's Club for your daughter's first birthday party on Saturday. YUM.

5) Thank you, Mad Men writing team, for bringing Betty back in last night's episode. (And now I have the song "sexy back" (justin timberlake) in my head with the words "i'm bringing betty back" in lieu of "i'm bringing sexy back")

6) Thank you, baby Charlotte, for inciting baby envy with my baby yesterday. The ENTIRE time I was holding her, our baby was kicking her in the butt. This is funny to me, because I very rarely will get movement near the top of my uterus/bottom of my ribs, where C was resting.

7) Thank you, K's custard stand, for making delicious cheeseburgers. (Last week at my weigh in, I lost a pound so I had a lot of catching up to do in the food arena, ha ha ha).

8) Thank you, makers of Trader Joe's sparkling limeade, for making me think I ALMOST am drinking a mojito after some doctoring done by my hubby.

9) Thank you, Charlaine Harris, for writing that superb sex scene between Eric and Sookie in the shower in the 4th Sookie Stackhouse book. Yes, I think these books are probably considered "trash", yes, they are about vampires and yes, I like them. Are you going to argue with a woman who is 9 months preggers?!

10) Thank you, fashion magazines, for the September issues. While the heavy weight of you makes it a tad difficult to read you whilst you rest on my stomach, the glossy pages and pages of clothes have brought a smile to my face. Oh how I can't WAIT to not be in maternity clothes!

11) Thank you, US Cellular woman, for hooking us up with some pretty sweet new phones. I went through an entire battery in about a day already. Maybe an internet phone wasn't so smart!

12) Thank you, inventor of string cheese. Yes I am STILL obsessed with string cheese.

13) Last, but certainly not least, thank you, my darling husband. For the foot rubs, the back rubs, nesting FOR me, watching 8 episodes of true blood with me in one weekend, making me yummy snacks, inventing the faux-jito (non-alcoholic mojito), meeting me middle-of-the-night bathroom trips with a "are you ok" (I can hardly wait to tell him I'm in labor, the man is so excited), for making homemade salsa with an extra little kick (you know what they say about spicy food...), for painting my toenails for me (even though they look like a first grader did the job), and for always making me laugh. Even though you don't know about this blog's existence, I hope I have said "thank you" and "i love you" enough that you have gotten this message.