ONE.
I had a woman come in to my work the other day and ask me where she could pick up her emails. Oh. Um. Ya know… on the INTERNET? Sometimes, people just amaze me. That was definitely my laugh for the week.
TWO.
My belly has definitely popped lately. Everyone at work has been saying I finally look pregnant. I think I’ve had a big belly for awhile now, but I wear maternity clothes at work which typically covers it up pretty well. Anyway, they were not convinced.
THREE.
Over the weekend while we were doing some laundry, we had some major basement flooding. Turned out to be a drain pipe backing up and we couldn’t shower, flush the toilet, wash dishes, etc. My dad came over and he and Jerry spent a long while trying to fix it, using Draino and snaking, but no luck. We resigned to having to pay a plumber some big bucks out of our maternity leave savings, but when I asked for a plumber recommendation on Facebook, my friend told me to call the town’s Department of Public Works. Her husband works there and she said they typically look at these issues for free. Now, I work for the town and had no idea about this but I called them anyway, even though I was skeptical. Long story short, they were at the house within 15 minutes and had it fixed for FREE in another 10. It was something about the drain leading to the street… I don’t really know, but I was so relieved, I almost cried.
FOUR.
Jerry and I are going out to dinner tomorrow night at our absolute favorite Italian restaurant where we haven’t been in AGES! We’re going to order our favorites and have been looking forward to going out all week. We used to eat there all the time, but after buying the house, we had to re-work our budget and dining out was one of the first things to go. We decided to splurge a little bit since we DIDN’T have to pay a plumber and we want to enjoy some more date nights together before baby arrives!
FIVE.
Some of you know, I’ve had a bit of a blogger identity crisis. I’m no longer identifying myself as a book blogger, and have become more of a personal blogger over the last year, which I’m loving. I have rediscovered my blogging passion after having been at this for over five years. I blog about everything in my life (including books, but only on occasion now), so I’ve been working a bit on revamping the blog. I’ve started adding new pages up top that aren’t all bookish (with a few more to come that I’m working on… “Baby C” and “Weight Loss and Running”), and I reorganized my blog categories. I love my current design, but it pins me down as a book blogger, so I’m planning on getting a re-design done by my same designer. Jerry is going to work some OT and save up to pay for it for me for Christmas… isn’t he sweet?! But in the meantime, I’m excited about the little changes I’ve started to make around here. So far, I’ve condensed all my bookish pages down to one tab with sub-pages including a new page (“Why (and What) I Read“), and made a new page of “Our Love Story.”
That’s five for now — see you in the next chapter.
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