March Who Madness Day 17

 Day 17: Least favorite actor
I'm sure there's someone I like less, and I don't have anything major against Noel Clarke, but he's the best choice I can think of today.

March Who Madness Day 16

Day 16: Favorite Actor
Do I have to keep saying how hard it is to choose favorites? And least favorites for that matter? It's usually quite dificult. I think I have to choose David Tennant.

March Who Madness Days 9-15

Day 10: Saddest Episode
The one where Rory falls through the crack. And also Amy who is sad, but can't remember why she's sad because Rory no longer exists.

Day 11: Funniest Episode
There are soo many funny moments. and those stick out more than the whole episode. At least they do at a quarter til midnight. At the moment what sticks out (possibly because I just watched it) is Voyage of the Damned when Clive Swift is sharing Earth history and knowledge, all a little off from reality.

Day 12: Episode That Scared You The Most
There have been several scary moments but what sticks out in my mind is The Dream Master. Even rewatching the episode it's a nailbiter where I wonder if they'll figure out which world is the real world.

Day 13: Favorite Theme Song
I'm not sure about variations before the present series. They're definitely all Dr Who and I like them. But I think if I chose one it would be the second one of the new series. From 2008.

Day 14:Character that you like that everyone else hates
I was asking someone to list off characters people generally dislike. Apparently Amy Pond is relatively high on this list? What's not to love about Amy?

Day 15: Most annoying character
Jackie Tyler. I think she's a good character. I don't think I"d change her, and she's had some great moments. But she is definitely annoying.

March Who Madness 1-9

Day 1: Favorite Doctor
I'm sure this will be a theme over the next 30 "days" but I'm pretty terrible at choosing one favorite/least favorite. I love all three of the modern doctors in their own way, however, I think if I chose just one I"d have to choose the ninth doctor. I'm really sad we only had him for one season. You really should have seen how angry I was when he regenerated it's a good thing I was watching on Netflix and not in real time.

Day 2: Favorite Companion

Day 3: Least Favorite Companion
This is quite a bit easier. Martha. She just doesn't appeal to me in the way other companions do. I like the Doctor traveling with a doctor, but overall I could live without her.

Day 4: Favorite Villian
There are some great villains and there are several I'm rather fond of, but this is still an easier category for me. The weeping angels. They're just marvelous villains!

Day 5: Favorite Alien
 Is it cheating to say Time Lord?  I'm going to say Time Lord. In case that's cheating I'll also say sontarans.

Day 6: Favorite Special Episode
I don't even know for sure which ones all the special episodes are! There are a couple that come to mind that I'm either fairly certain or postive are special, but I think I'll say The Snowmen. This is at least in part because I'm anxious to see what happens next. It would have been so much fun to watch this with someone else.

Day 7: Favorite Season
Again, I really can't choose one. Season 4 and 5 are my favorite.

Day 8: Least Favorite Season
Martha's season. Again, it just isn't the same to me. Only okay.

Day 9:  Favorite Master
Harold Saxon. But t his is at least partly because I've only seen the new Doctor Who. 

Resolution

It's not too late for "New Year's" Resolutions, is it?
The new one, and I'm documenting it in order to hold myself accountable: I will STOP setting things on the counter for later, with very few exceptions like the mail that will go out tonight on Javvy's walk etc. My "island" counter will NOT be a "catchall". Neither will my coffee table or my dining room table..or any other place things don't "belong". We're starting with the coutner.
This one is also new, but goes with the prevoius. I will put things back in their home and not create piles when sorting through mail etc. I will toss more of that stuff as it comes along too.

Old ones, that I had at new years, but did not document include:

Being better about staying in contact/communication with my long distant friends/relatives. So far I've done pretty well with this...it is only February though so hopefully I continue to stay on top of things.

I will actually USE this blog. Again, I think I'm doing okay with that so far.

I will continue to make at least one new recipe per week... Especially with the help of Pinterest, this should go pretty well.


I will finish the projects I start.

I will stop biting my nails. September was a trial run. And I did really well for a little while, but obviously eventually fell of the wagon. 2012 I will stop, for good. In fact, we're starting that right now, March 5th is mt first goal-It takes 21 days to create a habit.

Those are all of the resolutions I can think of off the top of my head for this year. I will update if more occur to me....and with this awful pregnancy brain, I'm sure they will! Now later tonight, I can, hopefully, get caught up on my daily picture posts.

10AM, Dinner, and life at home

 10 AM- for those who don't know me there are a couple things you should in order to truly appreciate this picture. 

1. I'm the exact opposite of a morning person. I'm a night person. 10 am is a time I see quite regularly, but it almost always involves pajamas and coffee (or tea). And/or slothlike movement. I like to ease into my day. I'm sure this will change once baby joins us.

2. I'm notoriously not on time. Like ever. IDK how I manage it, even when I'm trying really hard I run late. Thus the time actually reads 1022..it was close. I actually purposely waited for 1022 though because 1022 is a time that seems to always get noticed both AM and PM in our household.

 Dinner-this is what we ate for dinner tonight. It's a new recipe for chicken pot pie I found. It turned out pretty tasty. and actually not too bad looking. I cheated on the pastry topper-it's just crescent rolls.

Lastly, this is JMan again. He's not very happy because it looks like an army surplus store threw up in my living room. This actually isn't that bad as far as army vomit goes, but it's the first time JMan has experienced it. He's pretty sure he's not liking it one bit-and he's right. He's going to miss "Dad" while he's gone.

Not only that, this is what the time frame generally looks like:

B will go to the field until it's time for me to have Ramzy.

While B is in the field, we may have a couple visitors. He doesn't mind visitors, but it will be another change in the normal routine which I don't think he'll like.

I will go into labor, B will come home, we will definitely have at least one visitor, my doula, if she's not here already.

We will leave for the hospital.

We will come back with a new guy.

Life will never be the same again (in a good way), but it will take quite a bit of adjusting for the JMan, and actually for the Catador too. (And mom and dad)

I can't believe we're already this close to having a baby. My doctor seems to think there's a good chance that there's a baby in next week's forecast! I can't believe we're already this close to having Ramzy with us. It's not that I feel unprepared, because I truly feel like we're ready whenever he is. It just seems like the past several weeks flew by! We've been knocking of things from the "last time before baby comes" list like crazy! For instance, this was our last weekend together, last doctor's appointment together, last trip to ihop/cold stone together etc, without baby.

And this truly is the last thing, because it needs to be documented somewhere:

B and I went to the commissary tonight. We had the week's groceries and a few extra things such as dog food to buy. Pedigree had an offer for a free bag of dog food and four free cans of wet dog food if you adopted a dog in 2011. We sent off for the coupons and somehow ended up with  two sets. We went ahead and bought two 30lb bags of food and 8 cans of wet food retailing 45.90. With the coupons they were free. So we go to the checkout line-there's literally no wait, we go through the checkout process, hand the cashier our coupons, and the register ends up flipping out over the coupons wanting manager overrides etc which is relatively understandable. I'm pretty sure we stopped traffic flow which resulted in a super long line, a committee of 2-3 managers at our register, and the computer shutting down while we're trying to figure it out. So they have to reboot that register and send us to another line. Luckily in that line it went pretty quickly. The original cashier and our bagger both said they'd never seen anything like that happen before with the register. B says I"m 100% responsible.

Hands

 Hand Family. 

While these aren't hand-hands they are clothes for hands.  In the shape of hands. The black gloves on the left are Bs or "Dad's", mine are the red one's ("Mom's) and of course the ones in the center are Baby's. Can't wait for us to meet the new guy and be a family of three.

I feel it is apparent that J-Man will star in a lot of pictures. I've had to refrain from using him in some other photo ideas already (some of them were ideas for future photo days). He will sit by either one of us when we're at the computer (or anywhere really) and we will both pet him while we are computer-ing or watching tv, reading etc. He was very happy for B to show him some love and I took the oppurtunity to get Bs hand.

Words

 This was my first attempt at the super awesome book for "words". I actually really wish I could have found the quote book or been in my Twins "quote room" for this project. It would be have been closer to what I wanted. I also wanted the Catador to be "reading" this book...he clearly had other ideas.

 This is what I'm considering my actual challenge photo. Extra points to anyone who guesses which book this is. There was no particular significance of this book over most others. It was just the first "good book" I saw on the shelf.

 The other three were taken with my phone, which defeats the reason why I took part in the challenge anyways. But I really loved this "Family". I just had to capture it. It turned out so much better than I imagined it would. It's possible that I should have chosen it for my challenge pic. But again, main purpose, for me, was to practice with the "big camera"

 I couldn't resist. I am a little emotional these days. But I think that's to be expected.

Finally, the last one, again this is more about the words than the image. It was my fortune cookie last night. I think it refers to my son in one way or another. He will have an ocean nursery after all. I'm hoping it means there's a cruise in my near future though! We'll see!

My View Today

 

This month, I will be doing a photo challenge. Each day I will take a picture, ideally with the "big camera", that fits the theme of the day. I will post the picture I choose, along with any runner ups I happen to capture to my facebook, and on here. I will complete the entire month, but due to the whole giving birth to the guy currently taking up residence in my uterus, I may not do all of them on the day I'm "supposed" too. I can't wait to see how different the pictures are I take are from the ones my friends are taking of the "same" things.

The first one was "My View Today"

Honestly, I barely left the house. And that was really only because Miss Jessica, who is also doing this photo challenge, invited me to the park with her son. Javvy and I were happy to go. I used that oppurtunity to get in my view of the day. The image I came up with was the J-Man digging in a hole.

20 Weeks

That's right, halfway to a baby! Give or take. Actually we were officially halfway on Wednesday, if you want to be technical

.It appears I've still gained less than 5 pounds. And since the beginning of September, I've gained about 2 inches in my belly region. Also, just for the sake of documentation, not only have I been able to feel the baby move occasionally, a couple nights ago Husband was also able to feel movement. It was really exciting. I've also been convinced that the baby is sitting on the left side of my body. I've felt very lopsided and all movement has been on the left. I guess the little one is running our of room in there or something because he seems to have stretched out some. I feel less lopsided lately and I've felt some movement on the right (not much). 

A Little Bit of Everything

Lately I've been very excited about just about everything happening! 

We've been busy picking things out for the baby. So far I think we've got all of the big stuff picked out. After that we can start filling in with some of the little stuff.  I cannot wait until we get to start actually purchasing some of it (next week maybe?!)

Another thing on my agenda has been getting random stuff for the house together. I'm not sure if it's part of this baby preparation stuff or if it's more because we have people visiting in November, but I've got a rather long list of "little" things the house "needs". (Some of it is needed more than others, like some of it I know I'm not being neurotic, other things I'm pretty sure I'm being neurotic).

And, I've been feeling very "crafty". I got a bee in my bonnet to make my own Christmas cards. I'm already more than halfway through them. And only having a slight problem feeling crafty enough to make them all. I know people aren't' going to compare one to the other, and some of them are quite similar. I just feel like they should be slightly more individual.  I've also got the supplies for a halloween wreath and a fall pumpkin with decoration. And about 20 cups of pumpkin puree sitting in my freezer. I am READY for fall to get going. And I'm also excited for winter to get going, and make insane amounts of cookies etc. Also because at the end of winter we'll have a new member of the family :)

As if I didn't need, have enough on my plate with just the stuff mentioned above, this month my friend, Jessica, and I have decided to stop biting our nails. And at the end of our 21 days (because it takes 21 days to create a habit) we would reward ourselves with a manicure. I have been so surprised with how easy this new habit has been to create! Personally, I feel like I've been more determined this time. Not only for my own personal reasons, but also because I didn't want to "mess it up" for Jessica. We were in this together. And now we've completed our challenge, and soon we will have a manicure date to "celebrate". I'm soo proud of us, we've both been life-long nail biters (but not now!)

 (Looking back, I really need to expand my transition words to words that do not include "A" words.)

First Post

So, I've finally actually created a blog. There seems to be a lot of stuff worth documenting lately. And undoubtedly many things to come as well. We have a pregnancy to write about, our first duty station, a new dog, the old cat, etc. And I know I'll really enjoy having all these memories filed away to revisit.

I think I"m going to start with a little bit of "catch up" because one of the reasons I finally committed to this is Javelin. He's a sweet boy with several interesting stories lately.

First Javvy Story: "Houdini Dog" In July, just a couple weeks after we adopted him, we took a small trip to Albuquerque. Husband and I spent the first day separately-he was at a concert. When I left to pick him up, Javvy somehow escaped our hotel room. They had lever door knobs and he managed to push down on it, and pull enough to be able to walk (run?) out the door. The door opened inwards. Luckily someone else staying there found him and called us from his tag. I would have been really sad if he disappeared for good. 

More recently I gave him a water bottle to play with. He usually isn't very interested in them but this time he was. When I was cleaning and came across the bottle later, it was in two parts. The bottle. And the lid. He managed to unscrew (not chew) the cap off the bottle.

We also bought him one of the super bones. He goes through smaller rawhides so fast, we were hoping he would make this one last a bit longer. He's had it almost a week, and the bone is kicking his butt! He just barely got the first knot off. But he holds it in both paws and caught on his "thumb" nail. He will also carry it around and it's very cute, because it is actually pretty large in comparison to him.

Less cute after we got home from visiting home, he started eating our blinds. His "uncle" Jake must have told him about it, because he never used to do such things. It seems we might be over that hump, although it may just be that we haven't replaced our blinds yet, so he doesn't have anything to chew on.

I'm continually amazed at how smart he is, how well behaved he is (he just came that way), and how fast he has managed to wriggle himself into a very special place in my heart. I really love my Jabberwocky and all his quirky things.