20 Bucks

Things have gone crazy in my work life….I'll try to blog something about my "real" life tonight...I've got new baby bump pictures, I've got pictures of Maddy's room half painted….I'm just swamped.

In the meantime, my friend Moe sent this to me and I love it…

"$20.00"

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, 'Who would like this $20 bill?. Hands started going up. He said, 'I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this. He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill. He then asked, 'Who still wants it?' Still the hands were up in the air. Well, he replied, 'What if I do this?' And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. 'Now, who still wants it?' Still the hands went into the air.

 

My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson.

 

No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value.. It was still worth $20.

 

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE and WHOSE WE ARE. You are special - Don't EVER forget it.'

New Tip!

I'm sitting in the middle of a SharePoint training class and just learned you can link Outlook 2007 to your different blog sites and publish blogs DIRECTLY FROM WORD! Holy easy, batman!!!!!!!!!! Yet another reason to upgrade to Office 2007 – that's new favorite tip!! Don't say I never told you anything useful ;).

Wordless Wednesday

Your baby rivals the average rutabaga in weight -- about 1 1/2 pounds. (Length: 13 1/2 inches, head to heel.)

Rainy Days

and Mondays always get me down.

I've always loved that Carpenter's song...in fact I sang it in the Boise Chapter Sweetheart competition (I won, thank you very much) when I was 14.

And rainy days don't get me down - I rather like them (that's good, seeing that I live in the Puget Sound). But Mondays...those get me down.

Especially this Monday. The pregnancy hormones are just raging - and I'm alternating between feeling sad, feeling overwhelmed with a general does of overall weariness.

I'm just not sleeping very well - and after a few weeks of that, it just seeps into your bones and it's hard to get rid of that weary feeling.

And my poor husband - I'm over reacting to things. What would normally be mild annoyance sets me off into major anger. I hate that. And I hate that I can't seem to control that. It makes me want to crawl into my bed and just hide from the world...which is exactly what I did last night before my very loving husband came up and rubbed my back until I was calm enough to sleep at least a little bit.

Don't get me wrong, I love being pregnant and I am excited for Maddy to get here, but this is a part of pregnancy I don't love so much.

:(

Time Warp...

It's just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
Put your hands on your hips.
You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
Let's do the time warp again!
Let's do the time warp again!

One of the girls I *adore* (who incidently, is having a baby boy due on the day before Maddy is due) on my parenting/newlywed chat board pointed this out to us...and it's a hoot!...

http://www.yearbookyourself.com/

Here are a few of my shots ;)

1958....I always said I wanted to be Donna Reid...and I actually think my grandmother Vi rocked this look in pictures I have of her.

1968 - circa my Mom being in college - I think she rocked this look, and I'd have been a damn hot co-ed.

1970 - I always wanted to wear big clunky pearls...

1974 - the year after I was born....trying my hand at Cher-izing my look.

1982 - I actually think I had something similar to this "do" in 7th grade (always a day late..) - I would have been in 6th grade-ish in 82.

1984....I would have been smack dab in Junior High...and *wishing* I looked this cool.

1990 - Rockin the mall bangs....the year before I graduated from high school.

1996 - I'd have been in Korea in this time frame - and actually have a hair style similar to this now :::blush::::

Juice Me

The jones for the juice continues..... All I can think about is Jamba. And I've been trying others, to see if it's just the Jamba that works or it's any smoothie. So for, Jamba wins out.

I tried a "smoothie" from Jack in the Box. BLEH - unless you like super sweet Orange Juiliuses (and I don't). I tried one from Red Robin - and it was "okay" - but no Jamba. I even made one at home...and it was gooood, but it wasn't a Jamba.

I want my Jamba.

In other news....no sooner than I posted I was afraid I wouldn't feel her kick on the outside, Maddy came through, on Daddy's birthday, nonetheless. Unfortunately, Daddy was passed out on the couch (he wasn't feeling well) and thus missed Maddy's little birthday present. Oh well...it at least gives me hope that we'll get there and he will be able to feel them.

It was pretty cool though...I thoroughly enjoyed it.

But on to my MOST EXCITING FAMILY NEWS!!! My sister in law is pregnant again!!! I'm so excited, I just can't stand it! I'd been really excited that Maddy and her little cousin Kaycee would be so close in age. Kaycee will turn a year old in November, so she'd be a little over a year older than Maddy. Kaycee's mom and dad (my brother and sister in law) thought they'd through caution to the wind, expecting that it'd take 8 or 9 months like it did last time.....but life had other plans for them and they're pregnant their first month!! We're expecting another little cousin for Maddy sometime in May/June. Now that's close in age!!!! Yipeeeee!! I'm not so secretly hoping it's another girl so all the little girls can play together :) :)

And finally, just because I have to brag on them a bit....ESPN showed the BSU Broncos in our cable market last night....and I got to watch them spank LA Tech. Yes, the same Broncos who spanked Oklamhoma in that now famous Fiesta Bowl game. The same Broncos that spanked Oregon last weekend.

Why do I go on, you ask? My husband and I have an outstanding debate in our house. I personally think BSU should be invited to join the Pac-10 - they're ready - and there is no way to get better than to enter a better conference and play tough schools. Jim always teases me that they have no business in the Pac-10, that it'd be a joke (I think he plays it up just to get me heated up). WELL...MISTER DOUBTER....being that the current Pac-10 teams include a team holding OPEN TRY OUTS in the middle of the season for a Quarterback and another team who's roster is so injured and is doing so badly that there's talk of firing the coach due to their losing record, I think BSU could hold their own...

Wordless Wednesday

Your baby has caught up with an ear of corn in size and gained about 1/4 pound since last week. (Length: almost a foot.)