Training the un-trainable

The kid who's buying the salon is coming in for training today. I have to train him how to run the system and everything. How crappy is it that I have to teach this guy to run the salon, and he's taking my job? SUCKY!! He was supposed to be here at 12, but he didn't show up till 1. He asked if it was usually busy around this time and I said no, so he left to go shopping at the plaza down the road. Wow. I can already tell he's going to be a great business owner... Oh well, it won't be my fault if he screws up and loses all his money. His daddy is buying him the salon and expects him to make enough money with it to pay for his own college. This kid has never had a job in his whole life. Who in the right mind thinks it'll be a good idea to buy him a business and let him run it?! Whatever. Not my problem. It just kind of irks me that this is the moron who is taking my job. And it's going to flop horribly!

Hubby's tattoo

Friday night we went to our favorite tattoo shop to get some business cards (people always ask us where we get our ink at). Mason also wanted to have Rick (the owner of the shop, and the one who does all our ink) draw up some ideas for a tattoo of our soon-to-be-here baby's name. :) Well, Mason liked his idea for the tattoo so much, that he decided he wanted to get the tattoo done right then and there. The baby isn't even here yet, and now he has his name along his arm. What a devoted daddy, lol!
Of course I took pictures the whole time! I'm so jealous that his sleeve is coming along faster than mine. :-P Oh well, I still have more tattoos than he does. ;)






Before the shading and color:


All done!!


I love it!! I've been coming up with ideas for my tattoo. I'm getting it in the same spot he got his. Just a differant tattoo, of course.

Ready or not, here he comes!

I had my Dr's appointment this morning. From now on i'll also have fetal monitoring at each appointment because of my diabetes and high blood pressure. The doc also told me i'd be induced two weeks before my due date, unless I go into labor on my own. SWEET BABY JESUS!! My little man will be here sooner than anticipated!!!!!!!!! I was so nervous and excited when she told me, I couldn't put a complete sentance together! She kept asking if I had any questions about being induced, but my brain was scrambled lol! She said to just give her a call if I came up with any questions. I'm so excited and nervous! I can't believe I went from having 8 weeks left, to only almost 5! I still feel like I have so much to do and everything is moving so quickly that I wont have enough time!! But we are so ready and so excited to finally hold this baby!!!!!

I made pretties!

I'm usually not very creative with my makeup. I put on one color eyeshadow, liner, mascara and then i'm done. I was feeling ballsy today, so I used two colors. Go me!(?)




Its a pink/purple color and bright orange.



All done! Man I have a huge noggin... lol! Oh well, it matches the rest of me. :-P Now all I have to work on is that mess of hair I have... Maybe next week.

7 days till the salon closes! I opened about a half hour early this morning. We used to open at 9, now we open at 10. A lot of people came in at 9 sharp because thats the only time they could make it in. I opened a half hour early so those people would have a chance to get in (if by any chance they so happened to stop by). I figure, if they're paying to tan, why not give them an extra chance? Surprisingly 3 people showed up as soon as the open sign came on! :-D
7 days till my vacay. I'm so ready to sleep in and lounge in the pool and have the house to myself. It sucks I wont be making any money, but Mason makes enough for the both of us lol. ;)

8 weeks and 4 days to go...

And I feel like Gigantor The Whale. I may look all cute and round, but I dont feel cute. Round, yes. But definetly not cute. When I get home from work I feel like my hips are about to rip apart and the baby is going to fall out of my va-jay-jay. This whole pregnancy I had the feeling he was going to go past his due date and stay in there past 40 weeks. Now with the way i'm feeling i'm wondering if i'm even going to make it to 40 weeks! I kept having Braxton Hicks contractions yesterday evening. Then every once in a while I would get this little crampy feeling in my lower stomach. It only happened maybe once every 40 minutes, with the pain lasting maybe a minute. So i'm not too worried about it. I have another Dr's appointment Friday so i'll mention it then. Hopefully the doc doesn't freak out and send me to L&D again like she did when my blood pressure was a little higher than normal.

Only 9 days of work left till we close. I've been putting off cleaning the house so i'll have lots to do when i'm home bored out of my mind. And I can finally put the finishing touches on the baby's room! :-D

8 weeks & 6 days to go!

I seriously feel like this baby is about to fall out of my va-jay-jay. My pubic bone hurts, my hip/leg joints hurt, my hips themsevles feel like they're going to explode. Getting out of bed is so hard. Not because i'm super tired, but because I feel like an old grandma who might break a hip if I move too quickly!

This weekend Mason surprised me and took me to Orlando. Kind of as a last "hoora" before having the baby. Next time we go we'll have a baby with us. So he figured we'd go one last time, just the two of us, before it's not safe for me to travel any more. It was a nice relaxing weekend. :) After we got back I hopped in the pool to relax and soak up the sun.

Back from the doc!

The test for preeclampsia came back negative, yay! One less thing to worry about! :) But they're upping my insulin dosage to get my blood sugar a little lower. Fine with me, that's easy. At the ultrasound they confirmed my suspicions...he's head down! He was facing my back with his hands around his face though. So we didn't get any face shots this time. He wouldn't even turn around! Before the ultrasound in the waiting room he was wiggling all around. But once it was time to get a look at him, he hid! He was wiggling his feet around through. We got a cute picture of him spreading his toes, lol. She took a picture of the back of his head and put a little arrow on the screen and said "see all that fuzzy stuff? he's got lots of hair!" WOO! No bald baby!! And she said he weighs about 3lbs 4ozs. He'll probably gain about 3 to 4 lbs the last few weeks of my pregnancy. So we're looking at a 6 to 7 lb baby, which is normal.
And i'm measuring right on track at 30 weeks and 5 days. I know I still have a little while to go, but i'm so ready to meet this little stinker!!! ♥

Last night I went to Ulta. I got two NYX eyeshadows, one in hot pink and one in hot orange. I got some Super Skinny straightening serum for my hair, and a headband. I really like how the two eyeshadows look together. It's a nice Springy look!

There is a little arrow pointing to a 'fuzzy halo', which is his hair, lol!

Ultrasound tomorrow!!

I was supposed to get a call from the Dr's office yesterday about my 24 hour pee test results to see if I had preeclampsia or not. They still haven't called. I'm wondering if thats a good sign or not... I have an appointment tomorrow, so they may be waiting to tell me the results then. But for right now i'm going to go with 'no news is good news'. And i'm too excited about my ultrasound tomorrow to even think about bad news!! I can't wait to see my little man again! My mom is going with me, so she'll get to see him too. :) At this ultrasound they're checking to see how big he's getting. If he's too big we'll have to start talking about an induction or a possible c-section (keep your fingers crossed for NO C-SECTION!!). I wouldn't mind being induced, as long as he's healthy enough to be born.
Today cannot go by fast enough! I'm ready for it to be Friday and to be at the Dr's office seeing my little man!!!!!!

Preeclampsia

9 weeks and 4 days till my due date!

Today the nurse from the doc's office is supposed to call me with my pee test results. Hopefully it'll come back negative for preeclampsia! I don't want any more problems with this pregnancy!!! Hopefully when my little man finally gets here he'll go easy on me and be a good baby who sleeps through the night and isn't fussy during the day.

I can dream, can't I? :)

We went to the Sketchers outlet last night. Mason got some new work boots and two pairs of sneakers. I got some really cute red flipflops that have little devils on them.

We changed the opening hours at the salon from 9am to 10am. Let me tell you, that extra hour of sleep I now get is HEAVEN SENT!!!! Snuggling with my body pillow for an extra hour is soooooo nice! :-D Our closing day has been set too: May 15th. I'm already planning all the things i'm going to do once i'm not working any more. I'll still have a few weeks before my due date. So I want to lounge around in the pool, maybe hit the beach, do a little shopping (ok, lotsa shopping), get the house all spick and span and SLEEP!!! I'm really looking forward to being home alone for a little while. No hubby getting in my way while I try and clean, and no crying baby (yet).

What a weekend!

Friday
I had my dr's appointment. Everything was fine till they took my blood pressure. It was 187 over 95. They said that was way too high and sent me to Triage in labor & delivery to be monitored. I was hooked up to the blood pressure machine, which came on every 20 minutes, a baby heartbeat monitor and a contraction monitor. His heartbeat was fine and I was having no contractions. As soon as they hooked me up to the machine my blood pressure was 122 over 65. It stayed in that range the whole two hours I was stuck there. The only time my blood pressure is ever that high is in the doctor's office. I think it's their machine. I take my blood pressure at home, at the store, in Triage, it's perfectly normal. But in the doc's office it's sky high! The nurse said I was fine to go home, but my Dr wanted me to do the 24 pee test. I had to collect my pee for a whole day in this huge orange jug, keep it in the fridge and bring it back to them on Monday.

So far during this pregnancy i've had to take my blood sugar 6 times a day and give myself 2 insulin shots a day. But the biggest pain in the ass so far has been having to collect my pee every time I go for one whole day. We couldn't leave the house because the pee had to stay cold in the fridge. If we just so happened to be out somewhere and I had to pee, I wouldn't be able to "save it" lol. The whole reason for the pee test was to check for Preeclampsia or whatever.

After the Dr's appointment we went home. I was kind of stressed out about the pee test and being sent to Triage. So we got in the pool and floated around for a bit. When we got out we decided to go grocery shopping. Mason was in the shower and I was getting dressed in the bedroom when I heard a knock on the door. My dad always knocks a certain way, and that was how the knock on the door sounded. So instead of looking through the peephole, I just opened the door expecting for it to be my dad. Instead it was some scrawny young guy in a suit that was 5x to big for him. He handed me a bottle of Joy dish soap and said they had opened a new shop around the corner and they were giving away one of their products free in hopes people would start coming to their store. I was like "Ok sure whatever, thanks, bye" and then he asked if I was busy. I told him my husband and I are about to leave to go grocery shopping. He said "Hold on!" and ran down our drive way. I closed the door and went back into the bedroom where Mason was getting dressed. I told him what the guy had said. Mason walked out of the bedroom and then I heard a knock on the door again. Then I heard Mason open it, then there was a lot of noise from the livingroom. I go out and this dingdong kid was back, dragging a bunch of boxes into our house! It was a freakin Kirby Vaccume sales guy. He put the vaccume together and proceeded to show us how it worked. He cleaned our area rug in the livingroom, the couch, the tv our surround-sound speakers, the hallway carpet and our bed and pillows. So I told DH we should just let him do his thing and I wont have to clean for a while. Unfortunately, him "doing his thing" took till 11:30pm (he got there around 5:30pm). We kept asking him how much longer this would take because we had stuff to do and we were getting hungry and it was getting late. It was always "just a few more minutes, let me just show you this!" When he was finally done, we asked how much his stupid vaccume was. In all honesty, it was a pretty awesome vaccume. But when he showed us the price, $2,000, we said "NO THANKS!" and holy crap did he get pissed! He started taking it apart to packup and leave and he was throwing parts around on the floor and he wouldn't say another word to us. Then he called his boss or someone to come pick him up from our house and no one would answer his call. So he sat down on the couch and said he'd have to wait. Mason said he had to get out or there would be "problems" so we sent him packing, hahahaha! He had to walk to where-ever his boss was. Boohoo for him. And damn you Mason for letting this dingdong in the house!!





Saturday
Not much happened. I cleaned the house (with MY vaccume, not some stupid Kirby), did laundry, did a little more organizing in the baby's room. I called my friend/owner of the tanning salon I work at. It turns out she found a buyer for the salon. The problem is they want to close the salon here and move it to Orlando. So our closing day is May 15th. I'm really upset that the salon will be closing. I LOVE my job, I love all the clients we have. Who wouldn't want to get paid for having a job they actually enjoy? But honestly i'm looking forward to not having to go to work for a while. The 15th was around the time I was probably going to stop working anyway to get everything prepared for the arrival of Lil Scooter. I'm really looking forward to having a few weeks at home by myself before the baby arrives. :) I'm happy she found a buyer for the salon and her financial issues will be taken care of, it just sucks because now i'll no longer have a job I love. And now that ruins my chances of buying the salon. Oh well, it just wasn't meant to be I guess.



Sunday
We went to my parents house for Easter lunch. I always like to take pics on the holidays but since we moved, my battery charger for my digicam has gone MIA. So I used my dad's camera. :-D

















I look freakin HUGE!!!!! Mason said with that shirt on my belly looked like a giant easter egg lol!






Mason and I. He closed his eyes when my dad took the pic...grr...



TODAY!
I dropped off my pee jug at 9am this morning. They sent me to the nurse's station to have blood drawn too. I told the lady I always have my blood taken from my hand. She said she was going to try to take it from my arm. Good luck lady... She tried her hardest, but couldn't get a drop. So from the hand it was. I tried to tell her, lol! I'll get the results from the pee test and blood draw on Wednesday.
Friday I have another appointment, this one includes an ultrasound!!! I can't wait!!!

Mmmm... Starbucks

10 weeks and 3 days till my due date!!

I was having hardcore Starbucks strawberries & cream frappuccino cravings this morning. I actually left the house an hour early to make sure I could make it to Starbucks and then to work on time. I made it, about half an hour early actually! So for that half an hour I decided to work on my tan. It's been in the 50's and 60's outside lately, so hopping into a nice warm tanning bed felt sooo good this morning! :)

Doctor's appointment tomorrow!! Hopefully the Doc will say my blood sugar is looking way better, and I wont have to increase my insulin intake. Mason is going with me, so we're going to beg for another ultrasound. He only got to be there for one of them, so he really wants to see what the baby looks like now. I'm curious to see too. Sometimes it feels like I have Gigantor The Baby in there!

All better now

Well, the computer is FINALLY fixed. We re-installed Windows and now everything is running as it should be. :) No more weird error messages or programs just not working. We opened on time today and so far everything has been good!
I'm running a sale on the lotions today: 45% off any bottle, today only! Hopefully it'll make some money because i'm broke as hell. I really want to get my hair cut and colored this weekend. It needs both badly.

Stupid virus!

Our computer here at work has a virus. I think it's that stupid one that came out on April Fool's day! None of the spyware/anti-virus programs will open. And for a while I couldn't even login to any websites without some stupid error popping up and the Internet Explorer would close down. Quite aggrivating! I believe I have it under control now though. I finally got to log into here and a few other sites, so hopefully everything will run smoothly now.
The virus even affected the software we use to run the tanning beds. So instead of opening at 9am as usual, I couldn't open till 11:30am because I couldn't get anything to work! It kept giving me this stupid error message that said something like "Phone a friend option not available at this time". Yeah.... odd. Now that our tanning software is up and running, i'm working on getting everything else in check!

My blood sugar has been PERFECT so far today! :) I have my Dr's appointment Friday, so hopefully that'll make her happy. Mason has off work Friday and Saturday, so he's going with me. We're going to beg her for another ultrasound. Not for any real medical reason, just because we want to see our little man again. :) Hopefully the Dr is feeling extra nice and will lets us have another.



It is raining super hard outside right now! Which is good for the land, but bad for me because I wanted to lounge around in the pool today, just like I did yesterday. It was the PERFECT pool day yesterday!! It was hot outside and the pool felt sooooo good! :)


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LA MIGRA!!!

We went to WallyWorld (Walmart) kinda late last night to pick up a few things. We were walking through the parking lot when I saw this on a van and just had to take a picture! I thought it was hilarious!!

I have very little knowledge about the Spanish language, but I do know what "La Migr" means, haha! For those who don't, I translated on Google for you....

Too funny! Just thought i'd share. :)

So i'm working all day today. I opened up shop about a half an hour ago and no one has come in yet. I get the feeling today will be a very slow and boring day!

Insulin - Day 2

79 days to go till my due date!

My blood sugar first thing this morning was 122. It's usually about 150, so it's better than it usually is. But still not where it should be. It should be between 60 and 90 upon "fasting" (just waking up). It probably also didn't help that Mason decided he wanted Dairy Queen at almost 10pm! I didn't have any icecream or anything. I had one of their "arctic freezes". I got a small Lemon-Lime flavored one. Once it started to melt, it tasted exactly like the lemon-lime glucose I had to drink at the Dr's office. That totally ruined it for me and I couldn't drink any more!! So tonight, nothing after 9pm, so hopefully my blood sugar will be normal when I wake up!

I was laying in bed last night, not feeling so well, and I hear DH making noise in the computer room. So I get up, quietly, push open the door, and see him sitting at the computer. Guess what he was looking at?



No, not porn! Sorry ladies He was looking on Expedia! Because I already have crappy vision, and I was standing in the door way, I couldn't see excactly where/what he was looking up. So I said "Whatcha lookin for?" and I scared him. He got up and was like "Alighty missy time for you to get out of here!" and started pushing me out of the room. He closed the door and locked it. I kept knocking on the door and bugging him about what it was. So he finally cracks open the door and says "If I give you a hint will you leave me the hell alone?" Of course, honey. So he says he's planning a nice trip for just us before the baby gets here!! But he wont tell me where we're going. Or even WHEN we're going! I'm excited though, i'm ready for a nice romantic vacation!!!!

1st post!

28 weeks 4 days

I took my first Insulin shot this morning! It burned a little bit because it was fresh out of the fridge, but otherwise, it was all good. My blood sugar was its usual high of 148 this morning, before even eating breakfast. So hopefully, now that i've eaten breakfast, the Insulin will do its job and when I check again, my blood sugar will be lower!

It's been semi-busy here at work. So i've had quite a few tanning beds to clean, which I consider my "every day exercise" lol!

I really REALLY want a Mountain Dew..... Maybe i'll let myself have one with my lunch, haha!

UPDATE!

I just took my bloodsugar, and it was 155. Yay Insulin! :-D