Annoyed

I came home from work to wait for Verizon to come fix our battery backup box or for Ryan to finish up with his meeting so I can go back to work. It's been beeping for months. Since we've called to report this (almost a year ago) they've told us it is probably the battery issue, they'll send us a new one. We got a router. Which we sent back, which to Verizon meant that they should send us another router. This too went back. But third time's a charm and the wonderfully bright people at Verizon got it right and finally sent us a battery. Unfortunately, this did not solve the issue and the loud beeping every 30 minutes or so continued for months.

They guy came and left in 10 minutes. I waited for 4 hours, it's almost five now. There's no point in going back to work. Miscommunication b/t Ryan and I, I thought he was coming back after his meetings this morning. Apparently I was mistaken. Verizon sent me about 7 text messages... I don't have a text plan. Just slightly annoyed.

Mmmm....

Hubby makes an awesome apple bread pudding with rum sauce... even when we're out of the normal ingredients. One of my absolute favorite desserts!

Today is a milestone in my life. I am officially into the 3 digits! You have no idea how exciting this is for me. :-P

I finally broke down today and dragged Ryan to the mall with me and spent like $200 on maternity clothing! YIKES! We got like 11 things though, so average wise it wasn't too bad. But I'm so used to shopping at Old Navy or Aeropostale clearance... this is painful to think about. On the other hand, maternity pants fit! They are so much more comfortable than wearing the belly band with my pre-pregnancy pants.

Prenatal Massage

I finally broke down and booked myself a massage for today. I don't know why I didn't do it earlier. Well I did, but at this point the benefit outweighs the cost. Lynn's Day Spa in Columbia isn't much to look at, in fact it was probably about the worst looking spa that I've ever been too. However, I wasn't there for the ambiance. Teresa was my masseuse, and she was great. The only issue was that she was really soft on my legs. But she had informed me beforehand that since I'm 5 months in she's not allowed to work hard on the leg for fear of blood clots. Sigh... I really really wanted a foot massage. Oh well. Other than that, it was relaxing. I could have fallen asleep if I hadn't gotten hungry halfway through it. This may be a monthly habit.

An hour is never enough... I felt like she could have worked on my arms for a whole hour each. sigh....

It's a Girl!

We had our 2nd trimester ultrasound at 9AM. The baby was pretty relaxed and calm throughout the whole procedure. She just laid there, occasionally punched and kicked, but was pretty content just laying there on her back. The tech had to tilt the bed and jostle my belly quite a bit to get the baby to shift a little just so she could get a look at the spine and spread the leg a bit to see if it was a boy or girl.

But it's a cutie! :)

Pictures in Facebook.

Movement

I think the baby's definitely moving. For the past week of so, I wasn't so sure but it is definitely stronger now. It started with what it felt like big gas bubbles. Then I noticed when I'm sitting that it felt like something would briefly push my bladder every few seconds. Now, I can feel something push outward and that area would be hard to the touch. Either it's a really big gas bubble, or someone's active.