Goals: December

I have decided to make a post each month on the last day of the month for my goals that I would like to achieve in the following month. I think this will be a great tool at getting stuff accomplished, and once the month is over I can go back and see how many goals I did achieve and how many I didn't. My hopes are that this helps me become more focused and maybe even a better person.

What I would like to accomplish in December 2012 (these are not in priority order):

1. Get my roommates out of my apartment.
2. Clean my apartment for Bear's arrival and Anthony's move in.
3. Set up the nursery.
4. Have at least $650 in the bank after the rent is paid.
5. Get through the month with out giving birth. (Bear is due in January I am quite scared he will come early)
6. Call Orkin and exterminate my apartment.
7. Figure out whether or not I plan to sell on Etsy again.
8. Start my family portrait. (More details on this are soon to come in upcoming posts)
9. Prepare myself mentally for the arrival of my son and my boyfriend moving in.
10. Read the Bible more.
11. Have a plan for EXACTLY how everything is going to work when Bear is born like where we will live right after, how long we will be there, when we will move, how we will pay for everything etc.
12. Enjoy and relax with Anthony for the last two weeks of December as it will be the last two weeks we are a family of two.

Lets see how this goes :]

Raw Feelings on the Table

Warning: This is a highly opinionated post.

I don't think I would call this post a rant, although it may seem that way. This is a post about my feelings, about how I feel inside. About what I battle with everyday. This is how I feel.

I am not a confrontational person, 99.9% of the time I keep my feelings, thoughts, and comments to myself. Why do I do this? Because I don't think that sharing the way I feel would not result in a productive conversation. So I bite my tongue. I suppress it my anger, my depression, my guilt, my pride, and sometimes even my joy. All this suppressing does built up, but I have never "blown" before. I don't know if I ever will.

I can't bare to see people mad at me, upset with me, disappointed in me, or most of all I can't stand it when people pity me! I AM A STRONG PERSON! I do not need pity nor do I want pity. I have overcome obstacles that most people can't even attempt. I believe that anything is possible and I know the value of today.

There are lots of things that anger me that I just keep quiet about. The biggest thing though, the thing that always sets me off no matter what... nosiness. Pure nosiness. This tends to come mainly in the form of Face Book but it happens in person as well. People who ask me about my son. They ask just to ask. It's like they just want the juicy details. They don't care to ask about me, or how I am doing, nope. All they want to know is "Where is Seth?" "Who has Seth?" "What happened to Seth?" and the list goes on. And if I tell them, they will just do exactly what I don't want them to do! Pity me. Tell me about how sorry they are and then once they have retrieved their precious info, they will go about their way and not talk to me for another several months.

Recently I posted a picture of Seth on FB. I do not do this often because for one I don't have that many pictures of him. And for two, it causes people to ask questions. On this particular picture it did just that. It caused two people to ask the question "Where is Seth now?" what did I do... I ignored them. The first person seemed okay with it but what did the person do... waited about a week and once she realized that I wasn't answering the question she went back to the picture and asked it again but in a different format! The second time she said "Is Seth with your parents?" This was last night. I have not said anything back to her.

This is the response I wish I could say to her:
"As you have probably noticed, I did not answer your question the first time you asked it. There was a reason for this. I am not sure why all of a sudden you are taking an interest in my son, wanting to know his whereabouts... but I can tell you this: my son has been in the same place for 10 months. Where were you for those 10 months? Why are you now coming to me like we are BFF's demanding me to report you info on my life? You don't call me, you don't text me, you don't even FB me. And don't say "Oh, I don't have your number!" because my number has been the same for two years! and not to mention it IS listed on my FB page, AND if you couldn't figure that out on your own, you could have always called my sister or dad and asked one of them, you know they would have happily given it to you. Both of their numbers have been the same for over 5 years. If you really did "miss" me like you say you do, you would have done something about it. You don't care about me, and that is clear. And if you don't care about me how could you possibly care about my son (who you have only met like once before)? Well I'm gonna let you in on a little something, I am NOT here for your entertainment! My life is not a movie or a drama show. I will not stand for people coming to me and asking questions about my son just to obtain the "juicy details", shoot me some pity and then go about their way! I do not need your pity nor do I want it! If you want to know whats been going on with my life, your going to have to get to know me and be my friend and actually make an effort to be there for me, not just some lame excuse of a friend that adds me on FB and then only says like 5 words to me every 6 months! I am sorry if I have offended you in anyway, that was not my intention at all. This is just the way I feel and I wanted to let you know, because clearly biting my tongue and ignoring you is just not satisfying enough to you."

Will I say this to her? Probably not. But I sure do want to. Chances are I will paste it in and contemplate pressing enter for about 30 minutes before I ultimately decide it's a bad idea. Does this make me a coward? To not even be able to speak my mind? I don't think it does... but then again I kinda do. I just don't want to upset anyone. I feel as though it is better to remain on good terms then to sour things up, especially when it really isn't even necessary. The only good that would come out of this would be she would know how I feel. I think the main question I have to ask myself though, is "Will it make me feel better?" and the answer to that would be "No" not at all. It would probably just make me feel bad for kinda yelling at her. At the end of the day I will still feel the same and she might feel upset of even angry with me and maybe a little guilty with herself. It is not my want to anger or upset people or to make them feel guilt. So chances are, no, I will probably not post that response to her.

I do say, typing that out for you guys to read has made me feel a lot better. I think to get it off my chest but at the same time not anger or upset anyone is just what I needed.

While we are here on this post there are two other things that upset me that I REALLY think I need to get off my chest as well.

For my roommates: "Oh boy I don't even know where to begin! First off I have to say, thank you for all the money you have given me it has really helped. Now that you are unable to pay me however, I am kinda of a lot less lenient on your uncleanliness. This weekend I came home to a sink full of dirty dishes, a house piled high with furniture that does not belong to me nor does it even remotely fit in there to begin with, and the stench of pure ammonia in the air. I bared through it, and even washed your pile of dishes which was okay, because sometimes you guys wash mine too. BUT over the next few days you guys made a lot of dishes and did not clean them up, and I even noticed the fruit flies were coming back because of this! I was forced, to clean your dishes once again. PEOPLE please give me a break! You sit on your ass ALL day long and watch Netflix (on my account in my house that you are not paying for!) I think that you have the time and the energy to wash your dishes and God forbid you change your cats litter more than once every two months! I feel like I am choking in my own house, hints why I stay in my room all the time when I am home (which is never because I hate being there due to the mess you guys have created and refused to clean up). I honestly think that it is unfair that I go to work for 10 hours a day 8 1/2 months pregnant pay for EVERYTHING but your food and yet have to come home to a pile of your dishes to clean because you were to busy watching TV all day to do them yourself! Not to mention the state of your bathroom is DEPLORABLE! I can not invite my boyfriend over and my sister down rite refuses to spend more than ten minutes in my house because if its disgusting crowded state. And while I'm on the subject of telling you how I feel, where are all my dishes going?!? everyday I come home to less dishes! I paid money for these dishes they are did not just fall out of the sky for free from the dish fairy! It is not fair for you to throw them away, give them away, ruin them with out buying me new ones, or do whatever it is that you are doing with them! And not to mention when you eat my food, I bought that food for me not for you! You have your food (that is free from foodstamps) and I have mine (that I pay for with my money that I get from the job that I go to for 10 hours a day!) you can not just eat my food because you feel like it! I honestly feel that you are stealing from me when you do this. It causes me to have to go to the store and buy more of what I had all ready bought. You have a car, you can go to the store whenever you please, I can not. This is not fair. This whole situation IS NOT FAIR!"

I think that is all I have to say about that. Will I tell my roommates how I feel? Absolutely not! Mainly because they live with me and I do not want to create ill feelings in my house. But also because they are leaving in 2.5 weeks so I don't know that it is worth the aggravation. And this whole game they are playing with beating around the bush about when they are leaving... I am not playing that game past December 17th. If they are not gone I can assure you, I will be changing the locks to my doors because this has gone on long enough. I can no longer stand to be in this situation.

Andddd for my last tid bit on how I feel. I have no one in particular that I would like to say this to. It is just for most of the people in my life in general.

If you did not know all ready, I have not publicly announced on my Face Book that I am pregnant. At first I did not want to due to the complications I was having with the pregnancy but as time went I decided I did not want to tell people at all. This goes hand in hand with the people being nosy thing. I do not want to be reporting to everyone about details of my life, to people who do not care about me. But the main reason I did not post it on my Face Book is to avoid negative judgement. I have told a lot of people in real life, around 20 or 30 and I only heard "Congratulations" maybe two or three times! Everyone looks down on me when they find out I am pregnant, everyone stares, everyone judges, and everyone thinks it is a bad thing. I really fail to see why!!! I am 21 years old in a stable relationship, we both have jobs, I have my own apartment with a room for the baby, my boyfriend has a license and a car, we are mentally sane, not on drugs, we don't drink, we are not into partying, not immature or irresponsible... we even have everything under the sun for our baby! What is the big deal?!?! why is everyone frowning at me when I tell them I am having a baby? We are happy, we want our baby and we ARE exited! Why can't people just be happy with us? I just don't get it, and I don't think I ever will. I can not go to the mail box with out people staring me down like I am a some sort of dirty slut! I am carrying a beautiful miracle inside of me that was created through the love of God and by the love my boyfriend and I have for one another. I fear that if I post my pregnancy on FB for all 187 of my "friends" to see, I will get a lot of questions, fake joy, and negative judgement behind my back.

Now a lot of you are probably thinking who cares what others think and who cares about their judgement! and I do agree with that outlook but I do not want to give them the enjoyment of gossiping about me to all their friends and talking smack about my life when they really have not the first clue about what I have been through. I think it is better to just not tell the world and to spare everyone the unnecessary feelings (whatever those feelings may be). Once my baby is born, I may decided to put pictures up and see how people react.... but to be honest I really don't think I will even do that. People are so judgmental these days.

This concludes my feelings (well as much as I care to share for today) and boy do I feel better! I am going to conclude this post with a cute picture of my sweet little half bear, Seth. Because lets face it, that was A LOT of words so we need some pictures to jazz it up after all that reading.

December 2009

Frosted Confetti Cake Pop-Tarts Review

A while back, (I'm not sure how far maybe in September?) Publix had a sale on Pop-Tarts they were 3 for $5.00! I got 3 boxes, two of which my roommates ate (stupid roommates). The third box, they didn't touch, I was actually least exited about this box as well.

It was a box of Limited Edition Spider-Man Yum-Azing Vanilla.

I will admit, the only reason I bought those Pop-Tarts is because they had Spider-Man on them ;p I am a sucker for anything and everything Spider-Man themed. Vanilla Pop-Tarts? To be honest they sounded kinda gross to me and I put off eating them for a LONG time about a month and a half. Were they good? ABSOLUTELY! These turned out to be my all time favorite Pop-Tarts and still are. I loved the sweet vanilla flavor. It reminded me of the Cookie Dough Pop-Tarts with out the chocolate chips in the middle or the chocolate frosting.

Unfortunately, by the time I got around to realizing how good these were, the short amount of time they were in production was already over. So I went in search for something similar, I did not find any vanilla flavored Pop-Tarts but I did find these:

Frosted Confetti Cake Pop-Tarts (My box said "New Flavor" not Limed Edition)

Confetti Cake is supposed to taste like vanilla... right? :D For all of you who haven't had Confetti Cake before, it is basically a white cake with rainbow sprinkles in the dry batter mix. When you bake the cake, the sprinkles melt making the white cake spotted with rainbow dots. There is also matching frosting you can buy that is white and comes with rainbow sprinkles for the top.

Looks like this:

(You can see the resemblance of the two products by looking at the boxes)

As for the Pop-Tarts themselves? Do the look like the picture? Eh? Kinda. I would say Kellogg's did a pretty good job making the product look like the picture on the box, but they typically do.

The only thing that I noticed that was kind of off, was the fact that in the picture, the Pop-Tarts filling also has rainbow dots. I could only find one dot in my Pop-Tart even after digging for a bit. Maybe I got a dud, or I didn't dig enough...

You can see the one lonely dot I found after dissecting the Pop-Tart.

I expected these to smell like cake. Instead, they smelled like frosting. Close enough I guess, although it would have been pretty cool if they actually smelled like a fresh cake pulled from the oven (maybe that's not realistic for a toaster pastry).

The first flavor I noticed when I took a bite was SWEET. Is sweet even a flavor? Who knows. After the sweetness the second flavor I tasted was vanilla. A lot like the Spider-Man vanilla. I do not think it was exactly the same as the Spider-Man vanilla but it was definitely close.

If you eat the edges, so that you are only tasting the crust and not the filling, you can also taste that the crust has a more buttery flavor than the normal Pop-Tart crust used in the fruit flavors (and the Spider-Man ones too). I think this was supposed to be the cake part of the Pop-Tart and the filling was supposed to be the frosting.

The texture was the same as any other frosted Pop-Tart that has sprinkles. Chewy outside with a gooey inside. The filling in this Pop-Tart was sticky, unlike the fruit flavors. This makes sense seeing as it is supposed to resemble frosting.

I ate my Pop-Tart raw. I have not tried it frozen or toasted. I think that it may be *different* not necessarily better, if frozen. I do not think these would be appetizing if they were toasted. I am just not a fan of toasted Pop-Tarts in the bakery flavors. I think toasting works better on the fruit flavors and freezing works better on the bakery flavors. These are just assumptions though, there is really no way of knowing without trying it.

So the big question. Does it taste like cake? Nope, not at all. I think it tastes a tiny bit like cupcakes, but that is only because cupcakes have a lot of frosting and are very sweet.

Is it yummy? Indeed it is. Is it as good as the Spider-Man Pop-Tarts? Nope, but I think it is the closest I am going to get to them for the time being.

Overall I would say this is one of the better flavored Pop-Tarts but because of the sweetness, I am only able to eat one per sitting. (Maybe this is a good thing).

Rating: 7 out of 10

Pros: yummy vanilla flavor, pretty rainbow colors, pretty close to Spider-Man Pop-Tarts

Cons: too sweet, weird butter taste, don't actually taste like cake

OB Update

Update from my OB visit on November 27th.

I was 34 weeks + 1 day at this visit

Vitals: all vitals looked good, including urine, weight, temperature, and blood pressure

Weight: I was 134 lbs. At my last appointment (two weeks ago) I was 134 lbs as well, so I didn't gain any weight these past two weeks. My doctor said that that is not "good" but its all right. I should have gained something though. I have gained 23 lbs total since I got pregnant.

Uterus: My uterus is measuring at 32 to 33 weeks, still behind by 1-2 weeks, my doctor is starting to get concerned by this.

Heartbeat: I asked what the heartbeat was this time and my doctor said 136-144 BPM he said it was bouncing up and down which is normal.

Notes:
My doctor is concerned by the fact that my baby is measuring a week ahead but my uterus is measuring two weeks behind. He thinks that my baby might be stressed out and ordered a NST for next visit in two weeks. If he is stressed, they may have to take him out then. He didn't seem too worried so I am not extremely worried either just a little uneasy. If he is born in two weeks, he will not be a preemie as I will be 36 weeks and 1 day pregnant at that visit. My house will not be ready until the 15th though so I am REALLY hoping that he is not born in two weeks. All though it would be very cool if I got induced on the 11th and he was born on the 12th making his birthday 12/12/12 :] We shall see how that goes.

My next appointment is on Dec. 11th two weeks from today.

34 Weeks Pregnant - 42 Days to go!

It's getting closer! only 42 days to go! I can hardly believe our sweet baby will be here that soon! I finished buying all the things that we need for Bear. There are still some things that I WANT but don't have to have, well see if I can get the money to buy those or not :]

The nursery is no where near even started yet, and won't be until my roommates leave around December 15th! So here's to hoping this little guy stays in until at least December 15th.

I am getting more and more stretch marks on my belly (super sad face). I am starting to feel really tired/fatigued and getting pains at night when I sleep. Overall, I am no longer comfortable and I am officially tired of being pregnant. I wore my first maternity pants this week. They were size small and still too big, but so comfy! I am so glad I got some, because I really felt like I was being strangled in my normal pants. I still haven't worn any maternity shirts, but I think I may need to soon as I only have like 3 shirts that will fit over my belly without it hanging out and making me look like a fat slob lol. Back pain also started this week. I have been having it at night mainly, and it is making sleeping hard and very uncomfortable. I really hope that its temporary and goes away soon.

The excitement is definitely setting in now! All though I am also kind of frantic/worried that everything wont get done in time with my apartment and the nursery. I am definitely in full blown nesting mode.

34 Week Update (from babycenter.com)

"Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. Her fat layers – which she'll need to regulate her body temperature once she's born – are filling her out, making her rounder. Her skin is also smoother than ever. Her central nervous system is maturing and her lungs are continuing to mature as well. If you've been nervous about preterm labor, you'll be happy to know that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks who have no other health problems generally do fine. They may need a short stay in the neonatal nursery and may have a few short-term health issues, but in the long run, they usually do as well as full-term babies. "

34 Weeks

(You can see my first pair of maternity pants here)

Top View

Covered View

(I feel HUGE but everyone says I look super small)

I can't wait to meet you baby Bear <3

Muffin Tin Monday: Thanksgiving Leftovers

Ok, so I will admit, the only thing that was actually from Thanksgiving in the MTM was the turkey. I actually made the mashed potatoes and green beens when I made the muffin tin meal. :]

In this muffin tin meal: chopped turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, and vanilla yogurt with sprinkles

I finally got my camera up and running! I was being lazy when taking the picture though because I didn't want the food to get cold ;p I think it is still better than my cell pics though.

P.S. These stars do not hold much, that's why there are so many. This was not that much food at all (for an adult) if would probably be a lot for a child though.

Click here for more information on MTM and Muffin Tin Meals.

Silent Sunday: Our Christmas Tree

Crochet Fail

While I was staying with my sister, she decided to try an attempt to teach me how to crochet. She is really good at it, and makes it look super easy, so I figured, "Hey! how hard could it be?". Lets just say... crocheting isn't easy. I am good at some stuff but this definitely not one of them! At first the loops were too loose and then they were just way too tight, it was almost impossible to do. I may try this again sometime, but I am not so sure if I will, as it really just does not seem like my thing.

This is what I was *trying* to make. (For Bear)

My sister started it out for me...

And this is how far I got before I gave up lol.

My sister made a stuffed Tardis! She's so good at like EVERYTHING on the planet :O

Thanksgiving (and Baby Shower) Fun

As you all know, yesterday was Thanksgiving day. I hope everyone had a fun day with their family :]

My Thanksgiving was very different this year but different in a good way. First off, this was my first Thanksgiving with Anthony, and he is Puerto Rican so it was not the traditional American Thanksgiving I was used to. We had rice and beans, macaroni salad, and a yuca stuffed turkey! No mashed potatoes or green bean casserole here! It was very good though and we all enjoyed our selves and had fun.

His family also decided to throw us a baby shower on the same day, so instead of the typical Thanksgiving deserts, we had cake! lol it was perfect though.

I have a few (very crappy un-edited) cell phone pics to share. Man I REALLY need to get on that camera thing. I didn't get any Thanksgiving-ish pics but I got pics from the baby shower part of it. And of course I tried like hell to get Anthony to take a few pics with me but he down right refused as he never lets anyone take pictures of him.

Panda themed!

Diaper Cake.

The coolest cake in the whole world.

The cake with out the plastic (and with worst lighting).

Anthony... this was while we were still getting ready.

Charlie :]

I know WORST pic ever lol but this Charlie eating Thanksgiving (We gave him a whole plate, cuz yes we love our doggie!)

In other news, Anthony and I went to Wal-Mart this morning at 3AM to attempt to get a TV from the Black Friday add. The add clearly stated that they were NOT selling the TVs until 5AM. When we got there we were told that they were giving away tickets at 4PM YESTERDAY  and they all sold out then. Honestly, this makes NO sense to me, if the TVs were not going on sale until 5AM this morning how is it that they were all sold out at 4PM yesterday? I just started to hate Wal-Mart a little more :/

Roommate Update:

The day before Thanksgiving I got a text from one of my roommates stating that they got an apartment but will not be able to move out until mid-December! 2 weeks after I told them they needed to leave. On top of that, they also informed me that they will not be able to pay me until after they "get the money" currently they owe me around $250 and that will soon go up to $500 at the end of November. SIGH. So now I am stuck with them and my dirty house, and they are giving me NO money, AND I will now not be able to get my house ready for my baby unless I take time out of my vacation and stay at my house to clean when I was supposed to be in Kissimmee enjoyed the last days as a family of two.

"The Best Lemon Bars" Recipe

Happy Thanksgiving! I figured that Anthony and I would be super busy today and I would not get the time to write a post for today, so this is a post I actually wrote last week. And since it's Thursday, I decided to do a recipe with a mini review.

About a month ago my sister and I went to the flea market to pick up some green tomatoes to make fried green tomatoes (Those were FANTASTIC  one day I will post that recipe as well). While at the flea market, we had lots of fun, we even ate a huge smoked turkey leg, and it was absolutely beautiful outside. When were in the produce section buying the tomatoes I found a great deal for lemons and limes, and I have been wanting to make some lemon bars for a while, so I bought a few and headed home to look for a recipe.

I found one on allrecipes.com that looked pretty good and decided to give it a try and I am SO glad I did because these were the BEST lemon bars I have ever had! And I made them too, so it was a win win.

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 lemons, squeezed (I doubled this amount when I made my bars)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, blend together softened butter, 2 cups flour and 1/2 cup sugar. Press into the bottom of an ungreased 9x13 inch pan.
3. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until firm and golden. In another bowl, whisk together the remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1/4 cup flour. Whisk in the eggs and lemon juice. Pour over the baked crust.
4. Bake for an additional 20 minutes in the preheated oven. The bars will firm up as they cool. For a festive tray, make another pan using limes instead of lemons and adding a drop of green food coloring to give a very pale green. After both pans have cooled, cut into uniform 2 inch squares and arrange in a checker board fashion.

My lemon and lime bars.

When I made my bars, I cut this whole recipe in half, and made one half with lemons and one half with limes. I also added a few drops of yellow food coloring to the lemon bars and a few drops of green to the lime ones. I added a finishing touch of powdered sugar on top as well.

These turned out SUPER yummy. The lemon bars were very good they had perfect amount of tartness but were still sweet at the same time. The crust was a perfect consistency as well, good and buttery. 

The lime bars were yummy as well, but I think that the lime bars needed more lime, I doubled the amount of lime juice in mine, so I used two limes squeezed for just half the above recipe, I think because limes are smaller than lemons, this may be why more would be needed to create a bar that is as flavorful as the lemon. If I were to do it again, I would put three limes, squeezed in. When eating the lime bars alone they are great, but when eating them with the lemon bars, I could tell how much more flavor the lemon had.

I cant wait to make these again!

I am Thankful for:

I have been seeing a lot of people doing daily posts of what they are thankful for on Facebook and on their blogs.I wanted to do posts like these as well but  I started blogging right in the middle of the days so I decided instead of doing a post everyday, I would just do one large post the day before thanksgiving :]

I am not sure how many days everyone else is doing but I am going to go ahead and do 22 because thanksgiving is on the 22nd this year.

Here is what I am thankful for this holiday season:

1. My relationship with God- This has gotten me through all the hard times in my life with it I would have never made it.
2. My amazing boyfriend Anthony- He truly is the light of my life.
3. Our sweet baby Bear due in January - I am so happy to be pregnant and so in love with my baby all ready.
4. My job- In this economy, I am so thankful to have a job let alone a decent one!
5. My apartment - There are lots of people that have no home to live in, I could not imagine what that would be like.
6. My sister - My sister is my best friend and I am so glad to have her.
7. My dad - We don't really agree on everything all the time, but I don't know what I do without him.
8. Food - I know there are so many people that are hungry out there, and every time I eat I pray for God to bless them with food as well.
9. Vacation - I am so glad for the time off to spend with Anthony this holiday season
10. Being able to pay the bills - There was a time in my life that I was unsure if I could pay the bills, I may not have a ton of money now but I am just so glad I can pay all my bills without an issue.
11. Clean running water - Here in America we tend to take the small things like clean water for granted, could you image how life would be if you didn't have running water?
12. My dog - I love my new companion he surly does brighten my day.
13. My legs - I may not have a car, but God gave me two perfectly good legs to walk with.
14. Being able to go to the movies to see Life of Pi with Anthony- Once Bear is born I know we probably will not be able to do this for a few years so I am really glad we get to get out and do this before he's born.
15. Candy- I know kind of silly lol but I just LOVE candy! Thank you who ever came up with it! :]
16. My computer - Really I don't know what I do without it.
17. My Blog - This blog has given me something to do and something to look forward to everyday, that is not expensive. I am so glad that I decided to start a blog.
18. Central A/C - I have lived in houses with out this, and during the cold winter (I know FL doesn't get that cold but still!) with out central A/C it always seemed like my house would be the same temp. as it was outside and I would freeze! I am so glad I have central A/C now!
19. USPS - Since I can not drive, I rely on them to deliver all the things I buy! 
20. My shoes - I am so thankful for shoes, I cant help but feel bad for all the people out there that don't have shoes, their feet are probably all cut up :[
21. Netflix - My main source of entertainment, I would be so bored if Netflix was never invented.
22. Not being alone for Thanksgiving - This year I am spending Thanksgiving with Anthony and his family, and I am so thankful for that! I am also SOOOO glad Anthony was able to find someone to cover his shift at work for Thanksgiving day so we can be together :]

Black Friday Deals I Would Die to Get

While my sister and I were lounging around the house, we decided to look at all the Black Friday deals they are going to have going on. And oh how that was a BAD idea! There are so many great deals that I would just kill to have. And I need so many things for my apartment! Unfortunately,  I can't buy anything on Black Friday because I have to save my money up for rent while I am out of work on maternity leave. But hey!, I can still dream :]

Here is a list of the stuff that I would definitively be buying if I didn't have to save up all my money.

All these deals are going to be at Wal-Mart because that is like my all time favorite place (aside from Publix of course). :]

1. Emerson 50" LCD HDTV - $298
Currently I have a tiny little tube TV that is so ghetto that I can't even play games that have instructions pop on the bottom of the screen, because they are literally unreadable. I am actually working on convincing Anthony to let us buy just this one thing ;p I don't think he will go for it though lol.

2. Skylanders Giants Characters - $9.98
Anthony and I are into these little Skylanders, I do say they are quite addictive, once you start collecting them you just want them all! Now that the new Skylanders Giants game came out we have A LOT of catching up to do with our collection! These are normally around $14.00 a piece.

3. Wii U-Draw - $10.00
I have just always wanted one of these things, they just look way too cool. I believe they are normally about $26.

4. Xbox LIVE 3 month subscription card - $11.98
I have not had my Live account subscribed for quite some time, this is a great deal, I would definitely pick up a few of these if I had the money.

5. Video games for Xbox, Wii, and 3Ds - $10-25
There are LOTS of games that I have been dying to get and now (when I cant spend any money) they all go on sale. FIGURES! lol The add is too small to see what the particular games are but there are tons that I want so I am sure that at least a few of them are on sale.

6. The new Furby - $45.00
Ever since I seen that this came out, I got super exited ( I know, I know I'm too old for a Furby lol). One day I will get one. I believe these are normally selling for around $55.00

7. V-Tech Bouncing Colors Turtle - $15
This is just way too cute! I would LOVE to buy one for Bear and for $15, that's a steal!

8. Crock Pot 6-Quart Slow Cooker - $9.44
I see so many recipes that I want to try and then when I read the directions I realize that I can't make them because they require a Crock Pot. It would be awesome to be able to buy one of these!

9. Mr. Coffee Programmable 12-Cup Coffee Maker- $9.44
I actually do not own a coffee maker! With Anthony moving in soon, I'm sure this would definitely be something I would buy.

10. Eureka Maximum Upright Vacuum - $36
My current vacuum... well its a stick vacuum that my dad gave me that's like 5 years old and won't even pick up crumbs! I desperately need a new vacuum.

Oh if only if only!

33 Weeks Pregnant - 49 Days to go!

I will not be doing a Muffin Tin Meal today as I am on vacation in Kissimmee with Anthony :]

Here is my weekly baby bump update:

This week my belly is feeling 10X bigger than last week! I can barley bend over, making simple tasks like tying my shoes or putting on my pants quite difficult  As my baby gets bigger, hes starting to get himself into odd positions some of which are painful to me! I think I even felt the out line of a leg a few days ago because he was pressed so hard in one direction against my skin. It was cool and painful at the same time :] I am feeling pretty good though, no nausea and the heartburn isn't really that bad, and I still haven't thrown up once during this pregnancy (hopefully I didn't just jinx myself) lol.

33 Week Update (from babycenter.com)

"How your baby's growing:

This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance. These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood."

33 Weeks

(Once again, sorry about the crappy cell pics. I got batteries for my camera but left my camera at home :O)

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Silent Sunday: Fridge Fun

Fruice is what I call Anthony :)