It's not easy being green, but it sure is beautiful!

In honor of our daughter Aisling, who was born in May, I have uploaded 3 new pieces to the etsy shop.
Emerald is May's birthstone, and May is well into spring, everything around has turned it's fullest green.

Did you know that in Celtic culture, green clothing was avoided as it was considered the color of the fairies?

Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green is associated with
money and progress. Green Means Go!

I also recently read that it is the most restful color for the human eye and it can improve vision.

Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
Olive green is the traditional color of peace.

Jan 24, 2011

I have become really fascinated with the new person in my belly.

She's moving enough to be felt on a regular basis and has started to actually make my stomach move on it's own.

It is a strange sensation to feel her then see her actually affect her surroundings. There is almost a little disconnect in the feeling and seeing the outside move.

She still goes quiet as soon as she hears her dad's voice, so I haven't been able to show Mathew yet.
He's convinced she doesn't like him, which we all know isn't true. I think she stops to listen to his voice.

January 23, 2011

After an emotional day yesterday, today was about comfort food.

We went to lunch with Adam & Shabnam at Olive Garden, then went to go see Green Lantern (3d)

A big bowl of pasta in cream always seems to make me feel better... Just can't do that too often or I'll start to look like a big bowl of pasta :)

The movie was cute, not sure it was worth seeing in 3d. There were some cartoon graphics in the credits that looked AMAZING in 3d but the movie as a whole didn't need it.

I suck at blogging Jan 22, 2011

So I have come to the conclusion that I totally suck at blogging.

Today we drove up to Vista to look at an apartment closer to my office. We need to move so that when I go back to work after the baby is born I am not commuting 2 hours out of my day. I don't mind commuting but when I think about having a baby, spending 2 hours away from her just sitting in a car every day just seems like a waste.

Our place in Hillcrest is great. I hate to leave but it isn't big enough to have more than one person over at a time and it seems our group of friends has migrated from going out to meet up to staying in and meeting up. Not surprising, but way less convenient. We have to wait until there is an invite since we can't really have anyone over at our place.

So onward to living far away again. I am not too worried that we will see people any less, in fact we may end up seeing people more this way.

Well the apartment is exactly what we want - and end unit with a private balcony, 15 min from work, with a washer/dryer. The catch, yes there is always a catch, it is available NOW, and we can't move until 2/15. They refuse to hold it that long. sigh... whatever will be, will be.

After the apartment we went to the lovely Stella's 2nd birthday. It sucks, because we really love seeing Stella and her parents but she is the same age as Ethan was when he passed away, so it is always emotionally draining for Mathew to see her. He slept for 3 hours when we got home tonight. I think it being a birthday party with several 2 year olds made it worse. Next time we'll try to hang out with just the 1 child around, it should be easier. It is pretty awesome for me to see her getting so big. heck I remember holding her at a tiny 5 weeks old. :)

January 7, 2011

So the pregnancy is impeding my ability to sleep.
No position is comfortable and I require a wedge and a body pillow to get anywhere close to comfy. With me, wedge, body pillow, hubby and dog the bed is crowded.
So every time I roll over I need to bring the body pillow with me and I of course whack either the husband or the dog with it.
Apparently if I can't sleep, no one can.

I am tired today, in case you hadn't guessed. The joy I realize is that it is only going to get worse over the next 4.5 months.

Although, I haven't even met her and I already know it is all worth it.
sigh, hormones make me sappy.

On the up side, hubby can take melatonin and sleep through my tossing an turning, I am happy for him, honest. If he turns up strangled it wasn't me. :)

January 6, 2011

Today was a long day.

It started out nice, Mathew woke me up and presented me with breakfast. The drive into work also started out fine. However, there managed to be 2 accidents on the freeway within a few miles of each other dragging out the drive horribly.

Work was fine although we have a project due tomorrow that is one of those that was on time, then dragged out, and is now a week behind... you know those... I haven't even gotten all the pieces to the project when the project manager asks me if I could get it done today instead of tomorrow.. Why are they asking this? No, not because of the deadline, but because they don't feel like coming in tomorrow. SERIOUSLY! I mean really, you can actually say those words with a straight face and still respect yourself in the morning? Wow I really don't have what it takes to be a manager then.

I am quite proud of myself, I took all those crazy pregnancy hormones and kept them inside and only responded with a "no, honestly I don't think I can rush the project to get it to you today instead of tomorrow, I'll try but I can't promise anything."

Honestly, I deserve a cookie for not strangling the person in question. It would have been within my professional rights to loose it, I am quite certain.

There was no way the project was getting done, the other person working on it hadn't finished their part when I left this evening. I don't feel bad at all.

Enough about work.

I got a desperate call from a dear friend this afternoon. Her 1 year old has been miserably ill with a stomach bug all week. Her husband managed to catch it as well, and while being ill, he put his back out. So all dear friend wants to do is go grocery shopping but she can't leave a (mostly better but still needy) baby with her invalid husband. So I stopped by after work to let her go grocery shopping and keep her husband from putting his back out even more. Everyone in the house is better, so there was no danger of me catching anything. The 1 year old of course was a total angel for me, because I am not mom, so none of the same needy behavior. It was a pleasure to go visit, we watched Disney's Beauty and the Beast, sang along then played with blocks.

January 5, 2011

Ahh, all caught up!
I am starting to get really sick of this cold rainy weather.
Enough said.

I guess there always has to be bright side, and the one to our crappy weather streak is that it has gone on long enough that people are now accustomed to driving on damp roads. The drive into work this morning wasn't nearly as bad as it has been the last few weeks. Mathew was up before me and made a nice breakfast so I was well fed, awake and had a decent drive.

Work had been slow, but now all the stuff that was behind schedule has finally been approved, on top of that a last minute needed to get this done 2 weeks ago project has popped up.. Oh joy. It's going to be a fun week.