Happy Mother's Day!

So it's not really Mother's Day for me this year, since I'm still a mother-to-be at this point (and hopefully for a few more weeks... I don't need any early arrivals!).

Jon told me earlier this week that he'd been racking his brain for the past few weeks trying to come up w/something to get me, but wasn't hitting on anything. And frankly, I couldn't think of anything either, aside from getting the nursery furniture put together. So that's what I told him :) The crib, bookshelf, and toybox (save the lid, which arrived w/a chunk broken off it...we're waiting on a new one to be shipped) are all together at this point. Just the changer/hutch are left!

I just kind of peer in the doorway sometimes... it's still really odd to me to have a pink room w/a crib in it :)

And why didn't someone tell me that I would be so freakin' EXHAUSTED during the 3rd trimester? It's light-years worse than the 1st 3 months. I fall asleep at the drop of a hat... and it's not just dozing. I'm OUT, sleeping hard. It's like this all the time, no matter how much sleep I get at night. *yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn*

I've been trying to stay off my feet more, when I can. I've been having weird tingliness in my thighs when I do a lot of walking (or lately, not even that much, really), which apparently is a result of the baby smooshing my sciatic nerve. It kind of feels like they're asleep when it happens... pins & needles-ish. Annoying more than anything, really.

I was doing the math last night, and unless she makes an early appearance, I have only 7.5 weeks of work left before I'll go out on leave! Holy cow... that's kind of snuck up on me :)

Doin' battle

We had switched to a new cell phone company last month, and before doing so, I had called our old company to verify when our contract would be up and to make sure we wouldn't get hit w/an early termination fee. Well, I found out that when Jon had to get a replacement phone about 1.5 yrs after we initally set up the contract, that had extended his contract for an additional 2 years! So his line wasn't set to expire until 2009...however, this extension was never disclosed to us when he got the phone. So after talking w/the rep, he said he'd go ahead and adjust the date and make notes on the account to indicate that both line's contracts were up at the same time, and that there wouldn't be any sort of fees. Great, right?

I called back a few days later before we actually set up service w/the new company just to verify AGAIN that the notes were there, and that the changes had been made, and there were no problems. Again, I was assured that everything was good.

So yesterday, I get home from work and in the mail is a bill from the old company, which included -- guess what -- a $200 early term fee on Jon's line!

I was livid.

I got on the phone, spoke w/a nice girl who was able to locate all the same notes as the previous people, and she says that she has to xfer me to the cancellations dept, as they're the only people who can issue the credit. OK.

I get xferred to cancellations, and all of a sudden, ALL the notes that everyone else had been able to see w/no issues had magically disappeared! There just weren't ANY notes there validating anything that I was claiming, and there was no way to credit the $200 back.

I lost it. BIG time. Up till that point, I'd been keeping myself in check pretty well, even though I was pissed. But that pushed me over the edge. And when I asked to speak w/the guy's supervisor, he thought it would be a great idea to HANG UP on me.

Wrong move, buddy.

I called back, asked for a supervisor immediately, explained the situation to the guy, and he wound up not only crediting back the early term fee, he wiped out the entire balance on the account.

That was 1 of just 3 calls I had to make to various companies last night to get crap like this taken care of. The other ones went much more smoothly ;)

Nursery renovations

So in the course of one day (that day being today), we got rid of the daybed (sold on Craigslist), had the crib delivered (still in the box), and primed & put the first coat of paint on the walls in what will be the nursery. Not bad for a day's work!

Here's a few photos of the work in progress:

Before:



Jon priming:



After 1 coat...it's a little streaky. We'll be doing at least 1 more coat.






I think the color we chose is going to complement the bedding nicely. It's a tidge darker than we thought, but we're still pretty happy w/it overall. I probably did more than I really should have, and I'm sure I'll be aching tomorrow.

I had a doctor's appointment this morning, which was fine. I'm measuring right on point for 31 weeks, and the baby sounded great. No worries!