still nothing.

Well, I got a bunch of pictures taken of the nursery and am working on getting a page up, but of course they’re on my desktop and I’m on my laptop watching a show in the living room with Firefly. I can access the pictures remotely, but it’s slower going than if I was in my office. Hopefully I’ll get it up tonight.

Still no real movement toward the outside from the monkey, at least not that we can tell. I’m ready to go at work, so tomorrow I’ll just be finishing some things up.

Would it be cheating for me to make up a few picture posts and have them at the ready so I can keep up with this NaBloPoMo thing even if we’re at the hospital? I don’t think it is. Right?

cleaning house.

Nesting is in full swing here at the Blue/Fire house. I went out to dinner with my mom and Bean and then to chorus just long enough to let my section leader know that I won’t be able to do the concert this Sunday. When I got home Bennder and Firefly were hard at work cleaning the house. I joined in and we’ve pretty much gotten everything done at this point. We still have a few small things we can do, but all of the big jobs are done and we’re ready to go.

Hear that, Monkey? We’re ready whenever you are.

Now we just wait.

still waiting.

Nothing new happening here. We did get quite a bit done around the house, but no sign of the monkey yet.

Tomorrow I’ll go to chorus, but I have no real hope of actually being at the concert on Sunday. I’ll be letting my section leader know, although she’s been pretty aware of how things have been going so far so it shouldn’t be a surprise.

I plan to spend the workday finishing up with things in my office in preparation for being off.

Right now I’m tired and hoping that something will happen soon. Very, very soon. But after we get a good night’s sleep.

just some stuff.

Who in their right mind goes disc golfing on the day they’re due?

Oh, right. That would be my wife.

It was a beautiful day for it, though. It was so lovely out and I took lots and lots of photos….and then realized that I had my camera set at 800 ISO. Yeah, I’m smart. I wondered why nothing seemed to be working quite right, but apparently it didn’t dawn on me to check that. So I got a lot of blown out images that no amount of correction will fix, unless I want some crazy looking colors. Which I might, because I did a bit of playing and had some cool results. But I did get this, which I like:

And I also got a photo of this little guy that we spotted in the grass:

Soon after Firefly found someone else that was a tad bit longer. In fact she almost stepped on him. Bennder and I thought she might go into labor then and there. I’ll put those pictures behind a cut for those of you who visit the blog and may have a similar reaction. To those of you following along on  a reader, well, I hope you don’t since you’ll be able to see them right now…

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getting ready.

I went in to work for a few hours and got quite a bit done in terms of getting ready to be gone. Next week I shouldn’t have a lot going on, so I feel pretty good about being able to get everything done that I need to, assuming that the monkey continues to hang tight.

When I got home Firefly had been working on some things around the house. We went out and ran some errands,  then finished up all the little things that were left in the bathroom. We put up the last two little pieces of tile, did a small bit of caulking, hung the towel rings and toilet paper holder, put the handles on all three doors, got the shower curtain up, and we cleaned it all (except the floor, which was swept but not mopped). It is officially done. We even managed to squeeze in the hockey game in the midst of it all. We have lots of stuff we’d like to get done tomorrow, too, so hopefully we can be as productive as we were today.

Anyone want to come hang out tomorrow?

Now if I could only kick the rest of this crud from my sinuses everything would be golden.

Oh, and also someone asked me about nursery pictures. I’m working on it, I promise!

well hello there.

I’m feeling much better this evening, thanks everyone so much for your well wishes. I went back to work this morning, and although I was feeling it quite a bit then and dragging a lot I haven’t had to take anything for my congestion since this morning when I first got going.

I did leave work early today for the last weekly OB appointment. Still no real change, but we have a plan so that’s good. When we got home we made a list of all the things we’d still like to do before the monkey arrives, although of course that’s up to him at this point.

I’m supposed to be off tomorrow for the holiday, but I may go in for a few hours to try to finish getting everything together for my absence. I’ll only be completely out for four weeks since I don’t qualify for maternity leave, but I don’t want to leave a mess. Right now, though, I’m going to go spend some quality time with my wife while I still can.

well then.

Just my usual, according to the doctor, but I made it in early enough that it hadn’t turned to bronchitis. I’m on antibiotics for a week and slept off and on for most of the afternoon and evening. Firefly had darts tonight and I had wanted to go with her since it might be the last time for quite a while that I’d be able to, but decided it was better to stay home and rest. Probably the better choice.

I’m planning to go back to work tomorrow, but I’ll be leaving early anyway because we have the weekly OB appointment, so I can always head out a little earlier.

Oh, I do believe I just heard her car door outside. And I need to blow my nose.

well. can’t deny it now.

I am sick. Definitely. This sucks. I called my doctor, but she didn’t have any openings until tomorrow so I took the earliest one I could get. I left work early today and thought I might go in for an hour or two in the morning before my appointment, but seeing as how I’m now running a low-grade fever I don’t think that’s going to happen. I’ve been resting on the couch most of the afternoon and evening, dozing off and on and drinking juice and tea, but I’m stiff and sore and generally miserable even with the meds I’ve been taking. Firefly has been lovely as always and made me dinner, but I wasn’t even able to eat half of it before giving up. I don’t think it’s the flu as it pretty much feels like my annual get-sick-and-then-it-turns-into-bronchitis thing. I’m just happy that Firefly has gotten both vaxes and am trying to stay as far from her as I can. I’m thinking a night on the couch might be in order just in case.

ok, body.

Seriously. It is not okay to feel like crap five days before your wife is due to deliver your baby.

Not okay.

Are you listening?

Damn it.