Why can't bills stop at Christmas?

Well turns out that little scare we had last month that landed me in the hospital for 3 whole hours ended up costing $605!!! That is after the insurance paid their part. Awesome. When is it due? 12/24/10. Yay! $298 of that was a room charge. Lets see for that 3 hrs I watched Grey's Anatomy in an uncomfortable bed. Would've rather paid for a nice room at the 4 Seasons or something!! I don't want to say it was for nothing but geez. So there goes that.

B lost his keys a few months ago and has been using my set. Had a new set made today at the dealership, that was about $50 for the key itself, but for the remote and to program etc it was another $130!!! New car still under warranty but apparantly there was a hose that had a hole in it from when someone fixed the air filter or something previously. Not covered under warranty because it was a "user error" that was about $15 and $40 for the labor. Grrr.

I need this week to go by fast. There is like no one at work this week cause they are all on vacation. I have to save my vacation for maternity leave so no extended time off for me this year till then. I wish Wed were at least a half day. I do have a doc appt that morning though so maybe by the time I get in the rest of the day will fly, positive thoughts!

One month a year isnt enough!

I love Christmas music! I leave my radio on that channel that plays Christmas music all day long (yeah every city has one) and wish that we got to hear these songs more than just one month out of the year! I never seem to get sick of these songs even if its the 3rd time that day I've heard it. There is that station that does Christmas in July for like a week but its just not the same. Christmas music is associated with sweaters, and decor, and hot chocolate in my head, not sweating and it being 103 outside.

I've also come to the conclusion that you don't have to have a good voice to sing Santa Baby. In fact, that song seems to have a novelty to it, like the dopier you can make your voice the better. Honestly, I could see Quinn from Glee singing that one perfectly. Her voice isn't great and it just fits.

I'm super excited about Christmas this year. Only one week left till we get to start the celebrating! It was kind of hard for me to come up with things I wanted this year. It was all mundane stuff. I did ask for some Coach gift cards though cause I am IN LOVE with this one bag thats freakin gorgeous.

Traditions

Well this was year 13 for our annual cookie party this year. Yep, 13 years. The first year was horrendous, duh we were like 14 what did we know about baking and or decorating cookies? Can't say we haven't had some other fails over the years. This year Brandon and I tried to pre-make his mom's sugar cookie recipe and refridgerate it so it would be already made by the time the girls were here. Fail. It never really got doughy. It looked like cake batter and tasted floury. Not sure what went wrong there. Bridget attempted her fudge this year (that shes made before) but wrong ingredients or something prevented this from being a success. 2 batches of fudge and none really edible. I was so looking forward to that too. But one new thing this year we did try was the mint choc chip cookies. Using the creme de menthe baking chips (a snack in itself). Those came out nicely. Needless to say, theres a lot of cookies at my house right now. Even after I sent a lot home with others.

Burning Love

Heartburn-EVERY day ugh!!! It's getting old. Everything sets it off it seems. Oddly enough sometimes spicy food does NOT. But anything else, anything bread, cokes, meat, ranch dressing, you name it. I try not to exceed 3 tums a day but man, its hard some days. It doesnt wake me up every night but there are def times I get up anyways to use the restroom and I can feel it.

Not to mention anything red gives me heartburn, but thats pre-pregnancy. I think I'm allergic to Red 40 dye they put in everything. I can't drink any kind of red drink, fruit punch, gatorade, etc without getting heartburn. Needless to say I'm stoked about the glucose test I do next week at the doc. What flavor drink did they give me? You guessed it: fruit punch :(

Coming soon in 4D!!!

Not really sure what the difference is in 3 and 4 D but in another 2 weeks I'll get to see my baby in 4D! I've only ever heard of 4D when talking about sonograms so, I dunno. It's still mind blowing to me how much they are developed so early on. Like looking at her 12 week sonogram pics and her 20 week sonogram pics, its like wow, they already look like that? So I'm very curious to see details of her face. I'm 99% sure she has hair (cause shes my kid and I was born with a ton of hair) but maybe we'll catch a glimpse of some floating in the...fluid? And if that old wives tale about heartburn being associated with hair is true then she will have a ton of hair! Anywho, I'm anxious to see her again.

Picky

This sounds terrible but I'm just being honest: some babies I've seen lately are not cute. I know to the parent they are perfect and the cutest kid ever but if the first word that comes to my mind is "oh" followed by "look at that" or something similar, the word cute doesnt follow. Yes my friend and I determined that a long time ago. If someone looks at a baby and points out the obvious like "look at you!....look at that outfit!" they are just being nice and avoiding telling you its cute. I have a cousin that has a baby that looks nothing like her, rather but exactly like the low life dad who's currently in prison. Again, cute, doesnt come to mind. I know I know, not everyone will think my kid is cute but I'm sure I will. My co-worker tells me to talk to my stomach and say all the things I want her to have, looks, personality traits, etc. She rubs her belly (she's pregnant too) and says "I want you to have your daddys teeth but my hair..." etc.

Merry Christmas-Happy Holidays

I won the Nsync Christmas cd yesterday at our work holiday party so that song is stuck in my head! I still like it though. We got a nice chunk of Christmas shopping done last weekend while out with my sister and Austen so thats nice. The tree has been up and decorated for about 12 hrs now and Bobcat has already climbed in it several times and taken off 6 ornaments. Bob just loves decorating so much, he wants to do it all over again everyday, hence him taking them off. As if I'm not already getting up in the middle of the night enough, when he starts batting them around the kitchen floor at 3am it makes me mad. He got put into solitary confinement this morning around 4am cause I had to get up twice in like 5 mins to take them away from him. Grr. I think its gonna be a long month.