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So I’m picking up a few things at Giant today and what do I spot in the baking aisle but lemon meringue pie mix. Now, I know I claim to be a food purist and all but there’s plenty of room in my life for the comfort foods of my youth including kraft dinner and Shirriff lemon meringue pie. The box is a different color and the label says Dr. Oetker but I think it’s funny that it advertises from the makers of Shirriff as if that means anything to people that shop at Giant. Dr. Oetker is that same kind Dr. that brings me vanilla sugar for dusting my vanille kepferls. :)

So like I love this neighborhood and I loooove that we have two groceries and a market to choose from but that makes it really hard to choose where to shop. I went to Giant today because I was at the Barnes and Noble studying and was already up that way. I can’t decide which one I like better. On one hand, Giant has the pie mix, the kind of cream cheese and yogurt that I like among other things. On the other hand, Safeway’s produce is better and they have nestle mini morsels. Giant has this new line of products and the packaging is so nice that it made me want to eat the spaghetti sauce right there in the aisle.
I also learned that there is a Chipotle across from the bookstore the other day and today I saw that they’re putting in a Starbucks next to that. That makes me a little worried since Donna’s was the only place to get coffee before but I guess I’m ok with it since the starbucks in the barnes and noble totally sucks and donnas isn’t really a place where you can go and sit and study. I’d rather stick with Donna’s just for lunch/dinner. Well maybe just dinner and chipotle for lunch.

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Good news, I found the batteries while I was looking for the cordless phone! Here are my latest pics. I have to say a Boppy makes for one boring picture.
Here’s me at 36 Weeks. I think it looks about the same as it did two weeks ago.Yesterday a package came in the mail… now we’re definetely putting up the tree! Thanks for thinking of us Nad.

Here’s the Bop with it’s new slipcover… zzzz….

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Well I went and picked up the boppy. It wasn’t in great shape but I tossed it in the wash and then in the dryer with some tennis balls and it looks pretty good now. While I was at target picking up batteries for my camera I also bought a new slipcover. I would take a picture except now I can’t find the batteries that I bought… story of my life. You’ll just have to use your imagination.

I went to yoga this afternoon and realized that I can probably only squeeze in one more class next week. The week after that is a holiday and I guess I could conceivably go the week following but I’m thinking probably not.

I can’t wait for exams to be over this week so I can finally catch up on some laundry. My worst.. ok not my worst nightmare, but I don’t want to go into labor already behind in the game.

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It happened so fast. I can hardly believe it and I can hardly wait another second to meet our baby. Everyone has a suggestion for how to first encourage baby to arrive and then later to evict if need be.

Tomorrow I pick up my Boppy, very cool and I think I’ll go to Target too. I have to save our potted palm from an untimely death by buying the cats some of that cat grass. While I’m there assuming that I remember, I will pick up batteries for my camera and take some pics.

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This makes me very happy. Of course my last exam is a bad ass closed book kind of a thing but I have a few days in between to prepare so I think it will be ok. Basically I sat down and wrote everything I know about civil commitment, the insanity defense, and trial strategy and all the possible constitutional issues that could arise in that regard. I just wrote and wrote and wrote until I couldn’t write anymore. I mean what else to do, he already admitted that his grading scheme for the whole made up class is completely arbitrary.

Other than that, not much going on. I’ll probably take it easy tonight seeing as it’s already after 9:00.

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Why?? Why? All I wanted was to watch the office is that too much to ask?

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So I’m waiting ever so patiently for the day of my appointment only to get a call saying that the doctor has been called into a “procedure” and that I’ll have to be rescheduled. The next available appointment isn’t until next Friday! So much for two week appointments. So I complained about it to anyone who would listen. My sister aptly pointed out that I was getting all bent out of shape over a 10 minute appointment where the doctor would weigh me and take my bp which is true… but I like hearing the heart beat and now I have to wait more than a week for another chance! The good news is everything seems fine and baby is as squirmy as ever. So it’s like 7:45 now and I’ve finally come to grips with the missed appointment. I studied for a while at Barnes and Noble and got a lot more done than I would have at home. Now to push through the rest of the material.

Aside from getting a lot accomplished, being out made me feel a little more Christmassy so I think we will put the tree up which is something that I had vetoed as recently as last week. I figured out what to get Ben for Christmas. I’ve given up on getting him things that he truly finds exciting and surprising cause they’re just to dang expensive (that’s right, you’re not getting a plasma screen tv) it’s impossible to keep up. So acknowledging my limitations I have come up with a modest themed gift with a couple of different components.

Let’s see my light at the end of the tunnel for tonight: the office! I swear if it’s a repeat someone at NBC is going to get an earful! I broke down and ordered chinese for dinner. We’ve been pretty good though well I have anyway with the exception of coffee. I’ll cook again tomorrow, no that’s a lie cause my exam is from 6-9 have you ever heard of anything so ridiculous? People will be asleep in the class. I guess it’s technically an evening class but do you really have an exam from 6-9 for a class that’s usually from 4:45 til 6:00?? Good grief.

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So I read back through my post from yesterday and realize that it’s just chock fulla mistakes. First of all as much as I’m looking forward to it, my appointment is tomorrow, not Monday. I have no idea where I came up with that. Well ok, that’s the only mistake I can remember but there were more I’m sure of it. I guess I should be glad that I made it through until the last four and a half weeks before my brain got totally fried.

I called the hospital today because I couldn’t remember if I had pre-registered like I was supposed to or not. The lady there was like well you could have that baby any day now you should be registered already. I was like.. oh, uh, ok. So I go make my breakfast and look at the milk only to see that it expires long after my due date. That happened once before but it was half and half and that stuff never goes bad so I didn’t think too much of it. I guess it’s starting to hit me how close we are to the end.

Oh, and of course as I suspected Discovery Health showed the third trimester installment of Pregnancy for Dummies today! What a rip! I should demand my money back. Maybe I’ll start my own childbirth class make good use of the screen Ben put in the basement. My light at the end of the tunnel for tonight: I don’t have an exam tomorrow. It’s not much, but I’ll take it.

Lastly, I’m typing and wondering what’s keeping my ankles warm so I reach around and take a picture.

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One down, two to go. It wasn’t as bad as it could have been. I still could have stood to be a little more prepared but I’m generally satisfied with how the exam went.

On the other hand, I am less than satisfied with our childbirth class. I am more nervous now than I was before going. The crazy l & d nurse that teaches the class “especially”for the quasi practice group kept going on and on about how much they love pitocin at that hospital. Then she asked how many people were planning to get epidurals and clearly everyone who had been thinking about not getting it was now terrified and too afraid of her to say anything. Basically, I could have learned everything she went over tonight with the exception of how much GBMC loves pitocin from a video… oh that’s right, because we watched a video. Seriously, I paid to watch pregnancy for dummies, which incidentally is showing the part about the second trimester on DHC tonight. Interestingly, the couple that moved into the house across the street where the people that referred us to our doctor used to live are also in the class. She’s due in February apparently, I’m not really sure how I missed that but Ben knew. So there are sure to be enough babies on this block to have our own whatchamacallit… playgroup or whatever.

At any rate, I’m still looking forward to my appointment on Monday and meanwhile will try not to totally fall apart. I’m so crazy tired.

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I just keep telling myself what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I bet I’ll look back at this time after finals are over and laugh and laugh.

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