D-Day

Sooo, we went to the Doc today aannnnnnnnnnddddd.........

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...............he said I'm just about where I was at last week. (?!?!)

Despite the pained halfway sleepless night I had last night. Despite me not taking it easy anymore. Despite the pep talks. So tomorrow is looking a bit grim for d-day. But I am NOT giving up. I've got just over 24 hours to convince this baby that although it's nice and warm and cozy where he's at, I've got lots of blankets to keep him just as cozy. Oh, and since we're now in sunny Cali, there is little reason to get a chill. And I've decided to even offer him an extension. If tomorrow doesn't work for him, I've graciously decided to give him until Monday. That way our place will hopefully look a little less like a tornado hit it. Which is probably a good thing when you're trying to convince someone to leave their comfy little 9-month (and 5 star, might I add) hotel. And if nothing else works, maybe I'll start eating only veggies and cut him off from the mid-afternoon rocky road binges. That outta get him moving on out.

Until then, I've decided to finally post an Awkward & Awesome Thursday!

Awkward:

 - The general lack of my brain power. I used to have a memory that would rival even the fiercest of elephants. But lately it has been embarrassingly terrible. The hubby says it's even messing him up since he counts on me to remember everything. That part is actually kinda awesome.
 - The fun stuff that comes with the pregoness. If you've been prego, you know what I'm talking about. If not....I really don't want to scare you.
 - Wearing the hubby's tshirts. Every. Single. Day.
 - Walking. Anywhere.
 - The wimp I've become. I'm sorry - is that 5 pounds? No....that's too heavy for me.

Awesome:

 - Getting our microwave mounted above our sink. If you knew the story of the hubby and I trying to build shelves you would understand how great of an accomplishment this is.
 - The hubby. Not only does he not let me do a thing, he's been taking up the slack of my general ability to do anything. Dinner needs to be made? Done. Dishes put away? Done. Dogs taken out? Done. Building dressers & unpacking boxes? Done. I could go on, but I'm sure you're already gagging (or maybe swooning) at this point. Basically he's been an all out superhero to me these past few weeks. (See here and here for even more reasons he rocks).
 - The friends & family that have selfishly helped us move in/unpack/decorate/all-around support. It's been a tough go and I couldn't have done it without you guys. Seriously.
 - Van de Kamp's powdered donuts.
 - Getting excited to meet little Orange Seed and imagining just how amazing he's gonna be. I can already see him running on the beach with the pups. In fact, it makes me smile just thinking about it.

Awkward & Awesome Thursday

So someone told me the other day "Laura, you're normal........for being weird." Let me tell you -  that is probably one of the truest statements ever made. Luckily, I've locked myself down an excellent beau who is stuck with my normal weirdness forever :)

  

{Jeans & Scarf: F21, Shoes: Target, Henley: JCPenny's}

Awkward:

• Finding that whenever I have to talk to my {amazingly talented and beautiful} dance coach I can't form proper sentences and stand there babbling like an idiot. 
• This random guy at a truck stop legitimacy thinking that Joe {the hubby} was from Mexico and not letting it drop. It didn't help that Joe admitted he did speak Spanish fluently.
• Accidentally hitting my dance partners butt on the way to another partner everyone got a good laugh and I even squeaked out an embarrassed giggle. 
• My face falling off (literally) from my facial last Friday and my new skincare regimen. I seriously want to carry around a sign that says: "I promise I am not a leper."
• (If you're squeamish pass over this one, I sure wish I could). While at said truck stop, finding a bag of trucker poo and accidentally getting it on the tarp we were trying to cover the truck with. With the wind whipping I was praying as hard as I could that it would not touch me. Luckily the hubby and I were both safe, but Mr. Trucker, next time please at least find a dumpster.

Awesome:

• Practicing my monologue for my acting class at school, which involved squeezing real tears out of my eyes and London hopping down from her nap on the bed to console me. 
• This MASSIVELY huge bruise I got on my inner thigh from snowboarding. I'm not kidding peeps, it was like the size of Antarctica.
• After accidentally taking my dead Kindle all the way to Texas, finding a pay-by-the-minute charger in the airport on my way home. Score!
• Even though the after effects of my facial and regimen is terrible, it is AWESOME that my step-mother-in-law took the time to help me out. I'm looking forward to the perfect skin that is underneath my painfully dying skin cells.

Awkward & Awesome Thursday #3

Some days you just want to be done with. Not in an emo-my-life-is-so-terrible way, but in a geez-that-was-a-tough-sucker-and-im-pretty-pooped way. Yesterday was that day. I won't make you suffer through all the woe-is-me details but I'm happy to report that I figured out the cure: Popcorn, dog cuddling (the hubby was away for work) and PS I Love You. It's proven to get all the tears right outta your system so you can feel right as rain the next day. And I'm happy to say it worked like a charm :) Now onto today's main event: Awkward & Awesome Thursday!!

Awkward:

 - Asking a random chic where she got her shoes...I looked them up immediately and here they are, perfection on a stiletto, although they looked a lot better in person:

{They're sold out everywhere but ebay}

 - Finding a contact in my hubby's new phone named "wifey" that wasn't my number. (Don't worry, it turned out to be some dude and we're pretty sure he bought the phone and returned it so some of his data was still on there)

Awesome:

 - Going to my niece's Jr Miss competition and having one of the moms ask if I was one of the students. I wonder how long I can pull off looking 17.....

 - My sweet hubby agreeing to let the littlest nieces do his hair and almost having the 4 yr old put pierced earrings into his closed-for-ten-years holes. 

 - Finding out from a random friend-of-a-friend that my hubby's band from like ten years ago is a huge hit in Hong Kong. Yeah, Socrates!

Awkward & Awesome Thursday #2

Awkward:

 - Trying to remember how to do the right hip rolls in Samba, let me tell you it is not an easy task and I look ridiculous trying to figure it out again.
 - My French teacher asking me (in front of the class, mind you) how old my husband was and me replying that we've been married for two years.
 - Doing the awesome-est face plant while going down heel-side snowboarding yesterday.
 - Being passed on the bunny slope by bite-sized children on skis.
 - Cutting my own bangs too short after doing it right a million times before. It's been a week and they still haven't decided to cooperate. Thanks, guys.
 - Feeling old because I don't know how to appropriately use hash tags.

Awesome:


 - Finally getting the heel-side down the mountain thing and feeling pretty confident (minus the face plant).
 - Going to Rexburg tomorrow to see the fam and my awesome niece take on Jr Miss.
 - Making my school's ballroom dance team! WAHOO!
 - My cute husband who makes dinner for AND puts away the dishes after he's had a 11 hour work day because he knows I've had an even longer one.
 - A certain show (that shall not be named because it is WAY too embarrassing) is on tonight. YES.
 - The girl in my acting class not holding back and smacking the other guy across the face in their improv scene. #itwasawesome (.......was that right??)

Awkward & Awesome Thursday #1

I've fallen in love with Syd's Awesome & Awkward Thrusdays. In LOVE people. So I've decided to adapt the practice since I swear there are both awkward & awesome things that happen to me every stinkin day. The trick is remembering them....

Awkward:

• Doing a flexibility test in my flexibility class and having my partner and the teacher both go "woah!" Apparently I have a weirdly flexible lower back. 
• Being forced to act like a three year old in my acting class on campus. How...in....the....heck?!
• Walking around this building on campus in circles looking for my classroom - why oh why do they not have building directories??
• Forgetting my deodorant in the car and having to use the hubbys this morning. Don't worry I doused on lots of PINK body spray to cover the uber masculine scent. 
• Losing terribly in the game we played in French today - I'm pretty sure I was the person in the middle of the circle the most, which wasn't a good thing.

Awesome:

• When all hope was lost, finding all my textbooks online for less than half the price they were at the bookstore - I saved about $300!
• All my classes! Well, almost.....Intro to International Relations might turn out to be lame.
• Finding out that auditions for the U of U Ballroom Dance Team are this Saturday! Wish me luck!
• Going to the temple tonight. 
• These super duper yummy baked cheese taquitos I made for dinner last night. YUM.