Ruby Baby

I never posted on Friday..hah it was the Friday of Spring Break. I went home to hang out with family; I enjoyed time with my boyfriend's parents as well as my brother and his expectant wife and their almost five year old son. I realized then that it wouldn't be long until there was a sweet new baby girl that I get to be the proud Aunt of coming into the world what seemed then, two weeks ago, like any day now. I waited and waited and tried not to bug the expecting parents since I knew they were just as inquisitive and uncertain of when the show would start as I was.

 We joked at her baby shower that she would skip the 28th which was her due date and would be born on March the 29th to be the same date as her mother who was born on April 29th. We laughed and shrugged it off thinking for sure she'd be here before then.

Wow this week has been so exciting.

On Monday the 28th at 9pm I got on a bus to go see if I could hang out and see some of the action. I left there this morning at 6am> From 9:53pm last night until sometime around 1am this morning I was timing Theda Jane's contractions which started at 10 minutes apart to between 6-4 minutes apart. She called the hospital and they told her to come in so they got everything together, jumped in the car and the car started having trouble that related to the anti theft system and the starter. Dj, after a great deal of frustration considering the circumstance was able to disable the theft system, start the car and get his family of three to the hospital to introduce their fourth member.

I could not stay to enjoy the moment since I had to make it back to State College before 5:30pm as I have a fundraiser dinner at a restaurant to help get what we need to fill the bags for the food bank! I scheduled this a month ago, I am the host, and I cannot miss it. As bad as I want to, I just cannot. I’m excited about the dinner. I have been looking forward to it and now all I can think of is meeting Ruby June.

I plan to be leaving State College before 1pm tomorrow afternoon to go meet this sweet little girl that started coming last night that made my family one person bigger.I think it’s time to nap now. I’m beat.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

Yesterday was such and up and down day. I felt cranky, I was better for a little while after having a nice workout/iPod session on the trampoline then I became cranky again, then better.Though things had continued to go the opposite direction of the way I wanted them to go, thankfully, there is always a tomorrow!  

Today has been the complete opposite of yesterday. Chuck (my love) and I woke this morning before the alarm clock went off and had a nice snuggle fest which included a brief visit from our bunny. The bunny isn't snuggable, he's not holdable, and he pretty much has the jitters and is on edge at all times so to be visited by him and for him to want to visit us and get attention and petting on the bed is an unusual and surprising delight. Not to mention a great addition to the already perfect morning.

Like yesterday today I needed the car so I had to drive Chuck to class. Since we were up earlier we were able to stop and grab a quick bite from sheetz (MTO fo'life fools!) before dropping Chuck off on campus. I stopped at the post office afterwards and was able to get the errand done that I had failed to do yesterday. 

Today I'm meeting with a woman from an artist co-op that I met on Twitter.com that happens to be local and that has a few ideas on how to help raise funds for the Un-Birthday Group http://theun-birthdaygroup.blogspot.com/ . I'm really hoping it's a productive day and that we come up with something awesome.  

Chuck and I plan on getting some laundry done today in preparation of the upcoming weekend spring break trip to the Pittsburgh area. We will be staying with his parents (who are A-mazingly awesome and I couldn't ask to have better prospective "in-laws" they are so accepting, fun, and kind & did I mention fun?) and I will get to visit my brother and his family as well as celebrate the upcoming birth of my first niece Ruby June with a baby shower for my sister in-law Theda Jane. We will be leaving on Friday shortly after I get back from babysitting Miss Elizabeth, my three year old "boss". 

I'll tell you more about her on Friday evening, she's the best boss ever.  

March, time to beware!

This morning I woke to birds chirping, the sun shining and my love right next to me with the most wonderful warm and tasteful snuggles on the block and more than likley in the whole world.......

SIKE! INSERT LOUD OBNOXIOUS NOISE! AGAIN! LOUDER! Striking a nerve in the brain that screams at you to GET UP move your ass and find the damn thing that is sending the sound waves sharply into the atmosphere. Realize there isn't enough time to have any snuggles because this is one of two early start days out of the week and it's cold as hell outside... Though the part about my love producing the most wonderful warm, tasteful snuggles on the block and more than likely in the whole world....is not a lie.

I gladly watched my love with goo goo eyes while he dressed and prepared himself for the long day. We had our usual morning chit-chat and baby talk to our fur child Betty the bunny who we found out recently is not really a betty after all; she is in fact a he. We have yet to decide what to call him other than "bunny", "the buns," bunnicula, bunny hoffa, bunnylicious, little bunny-wunny, bunster, bunny monster, fluff-pants, fancy-pants, fluff-r-doodle.... yeah so he's just bunny with a ton of pet names and suprisingly so, he still knows when we are talking to him. He's so cute it's disgusting.

Anyhow back to me; the real subject here! I drove my love to class this morning and for some reason I wasn't anticipating the cold weather even though it's been winter since winter came. I came back home when I realized the post office wasn't going to be opening up for another 20 minutes ...ha like I'M going to wait 20 minutes, fat chance. No new messages, no etsy sales, nothing to do but homework, housework and cuss. It's 11am is it too early to slam a few beers?I'm just not in a good mood!

 I'm trying to organize a few fundraising events for my group and I'm not hearing anything that I want to hear and I can't seem to locate the things I need to pull these events off. Things will come around and together. I know, what goes up must come down and to every down there is an up. I'm aware of the logic I'm blissfully irrational today.

I just really want to be stubborn and insist that today, the grass is really green on the other side. ---> STOMP MY FEET and yell that I don't want to be!...I don't want to do anything but procrastinate, scoff, make fun of random people who pass by...drive sideways around corners, honk my horn at people working on things close to the road, steal a kid's candy and complain about people shopping in the grocery store and how they need to learn to "drive" their carts and respect my personal space. I'm sure all of these wonderful qualities I poses today have nothing to do with female hormones. I'll just sit here and whistle my sad song and pretend that the sulkiness of today has nothing to do with my attitude. Its march, I'm ready for spring already...the day is starting to look promising since the sun has come out and is currently melting the snow.