Cats...

So last night we got about as much sleep as the night before. This time it was thanks to our sweet cat Osiris who we noticed (at midnight) had blood in his urine.

We knew he'd been acting weird as far as the bathroom is concerned all day. He kept going in there over and over again and I thought he was just being finicky because we were out of our regular litter and had to downscale on the number of litter boxes we had available. We were going to get litter today after church.

Well, we didn't get to church this morning because we were at the Emergency Vet until 1:30 last night and didn't get to sleep until after 2am. Add the most annoying cat in the world (our female, Isis) and we had another long night. She just sits outside our door in the morning and meows - as I think I mentioned in the previous post. I guess since her brother was at the vet all night she felt the need to continually ask us where he was. ALL freaking night. We do have three cats and Anubis, our other male, didn't seem to matter to Isis: In fact, I was this close to having another cat to take to the Emergency Vet, only this time I was going to be the reason she needed to go.

I'm seriously about to give her away (okay not really..but I'm very very tired of her). All my pregnancy hormones get directed at this obnoxious cat. I actually got out of bed at 4am and chased her around the apartment trying to catch her so I could put her in the kennel for the rest of the night. If you will, imagine a half naked, 9 month pregnant woman run-walking after a fat little tabby with a small head at 4 in the morning. I'm sure it was a sight. Needless to say I couldn't catch her and I gave up. Eventually we were able to block her out until about 7 when I threw a pillow at our closed door in hopes she'd get the message. She did, and then promptly came back at 9.

Anyway, back to the sweet, sick cat. We're going to pick him up here pretty soon. He had crystals in his system and it is a urinary tract infection. Apparently crystals can cause what is called "blockage" in male cats and can be life-threatening. Luckily we caught it early ... sadly we caught it on Saturday night and got to charge a ridiculous amount of money onto our credit card.

Ahh...Maybe tonight we'll get some sleep?

insomnia

I've been awake for over an hour. I have heard of pregnant women not being able to sleep but so far I've been pretty blessed. While I usually wake up at least once during the night to go the bathroom, I'm able to fall right back to sleep. Tonight I was not so lucky.

I woke a little earlier than usual for my standard bathroom break. Usually it's 5 something, this morning it was 4:30ish. Sadly when I returned to bed my mind was racing and despite my best efforts to calm it, using all of my usual tactics, I had no luck. Poor Caleb was wide awake too, I probably woke him up when I got up.

Anyway, I tried for about 45 mins to get back to sleep and decided to go ahead and get up once my stomach started growling. There is absolutely no way I'll be getting back to sleep once I'm hungry. Usually I have a stash of saltines by the bed for situations such as this, but I was out and just decided to get up.

So now it's almost 6am on a Saturday morning...I've got my coffee, I've had my bagel. Now what? Guess I'll be hanging out on the computer again. I'm on here way too much these days. But, at least I know that (as well as any hope of getting extra sleep) will be coming to a quick end in a few weeks. I guess I'm just making up for all the time I'll be MIA once the baby arrives.

Getting closer..

Well, we're getting there. Closer and closer to having a child that is. Only a few more days and I'll be offically considered "term" although he probably wont be making an appearance until a bit closer to his due date.

I don't think I'll be mentioning his name on this blog. Mainly I assume only family and friends will be reading but since I have to keep it open for all of those family and friends to access it, anyone can really find it. So, for protective reasons I'll be coming up with some nickname for him on the blog. Not sure yet what that will be...since I'll always be calling him that, I want it to be good. I'll have to think about it a bit. I'll get back to you on that.

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In other news class is still going on. I only have three weeks left though so that's nice. Today I had to go watch a Preschool Story Time at one of the local libraries. I had to "observe" and now I get to write a 2-page paper on it. Not really that difficult of an assignment and it allowed me to get out of the house today. Since I'm really the only person I know that has the summer off I don't have anyone to do anything with. I'm so grateful to have all this time to relax and rest before he shows up, but it would be nice if I had a friend to go do some stuff with. Oh well, I'll survive...I just feel like I need to get out of the house more.

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Also, I've written another article on ehow:

How to take a great summer lake trip in Oklahoma - http://www.ehow.com/how_5240079_great-summer-lake-trip-oklahoma.html

random

Ugh, I really need to find something more interesting in my life to blog about. Not that my pregnancy isn't interesting, but after a dozen posts on the same topic? Well, now come on. Even I'm getting bored writing about it. Until this little guy decides to make his appearance I can't imagine the next couple weeks will be very interesting on that front.

I did stay home from class yesterday...I just couldn't do the hour drive both ways. It stresses me out too much. I really wish we lived closer to campus. I just hope I don't have this kid early and regret already missing a class. My teacher will understand, but it still isn't very studious of me.

So, like I've mentioned Caleb is going to be staying home with the baby during the week once I have to head back to work. He'll be working at the pub on weekends still and he'll continue to pursue his actual career interests in the evenings. Right now he's working on a webseries with some guys from work as well as a comic book. They've just finished writing the first story arc of this comic book and I got to read through issues 1-4 last night. It was pretty good and I promise I'm not just being biased. (Remember, I don't actually read comics despite how much my husband has attempted to get me into them. I just have issues with the format, not the story lines. I can't read all those little bubbles without getting confused over which one to read first. I'm sure that sounds ridiculous to the avid comic reader, but for me it makes sense. I hate reading graphic novels for the very same reason.)

Anyway, I think the comic book could be promising. I'm not sure what hoops you have to jump through to get a publisher to look at it, but I think it would be pretty neat if they were able to get the thing published. We'll see how it goes I guess. Caleb is going to the Chicago Comic-Con in next weekend..he goes simply to see the panels he says. Apparently they give things away about certain stories, or at least hint at them. Yeah..the only way I'd go is if David Tennant was there. So, if we lived in the San Diego area I would have gone to that one last week...gotta love the Doctor!

Okay, just some random babbling. Off to do something else non-productive. Maybe I'll actually work on some homework today...that would actually be productive for once.

Good morning everyone! I've written another ehow article:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5219161_make-bookshelf-visually-appealing.html

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In other news, Stellan (see the icon on the left side of my page) isn't doing well this morning. If you read MckMama's blog (www.mycharmingkids.net) you can see what the little guy has gone through in his short life.

It is looking very bad though, here is her latest Twitter: It's bad. Our parents and families are on their way. I don't know what's happening. Stellan is in my arms.

2 minutes ago from Tweetie
Please please pray for him if you can!

$ for my knowledge...

I recently found this great website (ehow.com) that you join for free, write articles on things you know how to do and then get paid for them. The more people that read the articles and click on the ads associated with them, the more you make. I'm hoping this can really help us out in the money department. I'm not sure I can make more than $200 a month, but if I can even make that it should be pretty great for us! You can write articles on anything you know. So far I've written three:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5216526_make-turkey-spice-rub-holidays.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_5214653_make-awesome-nobake-cookies.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_5215152_support-woman-through-miscarriage.html

Check them out if you have time! I like making articles on recipes since I have a few of those that will work well. Once I exhaust those however, I'm not really sure what else to write about. I'll have to do some thinking.

One more month

Good morning everyone! Happy Friday =)

Tomorrow I will be officially one month out from my due date. That seems to be all I can talk about on this blog these days. How quickly this is all going. Oh well, you'll get over it. If anyone is actually reading that is.

UPDATE: We did finally find a car seat that fits correctly in my car. The Combi Coccoro (which I posted about a couple posts ago) fits in the middle seat without touching the seats in front and without making it impossible to sit in the front. I love it. I can't wait until he gets here so we can try it out.

I mentioned a while ago that it looks like we wont be putting the baby in daycare anymore. Well, this is because...Caleb is going to stay home with him! I'm very excited and a little jealous about this. I want to be a stay at home mom so badly, but it just can't happen right now. Not only does my job pay the rent but I'm in the middle of getting my masters which actually applies to my current job. It would be stupid to quit even if my paycheck wasn't vital.

Things will be tight without Caleb working during the week, but we think daycare will end up costing more. Plus, he should be able to pick up weekend hours. Since I get off work early and am home by 3:45 then he can get his much needed break from "daddy time" and I know I'll be more than happy to take over watching the baby. So, it should be good - I'll keep you updated.