jade's Blurty

It's coming.
My Clarisonic is coming. I can't wait. I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas. It is probably unhealthy for a person to be so excited about receiving a thing, but whatever. Marnie, like you, I am totally obsessed with skincare, so I'm beyond thrilled. It's all I can do to keep myself from waiting outside the door while jumping up and down clapping at the thought of the arrival of my much-anticipated delivery.

A full review will be forthcoming, and I'm hopeful it will be a good one! I read a zillion reviews of this thing before I bought it, and 99.9% of people seem to be more than pleased with the results. YAY!

So I just got back from the doc, and I guess I now know what all that crazy 4am baby movement was about the other night. I mean, she's beeen more active in general at night, but the other night, it was like something out of an Alien movie. You could actually see my stomach rolling and moving. She finally rotated! She's head down! Given that she was sideways until just the other day, this is a huge improvement. I'd seriously prefer for her not to be breech, so this is good news. Of course this also explains why I have to pee constantly, because her head is probably on my bladder now, but like I said frequent peeing is better than a breech delivery.

My doc said everything, my weight, my blood pressure, my glucose (I am apparently a glucose and blood pressure all star...100/70 BP, Glucose of 80--you had to get under 139), baby measurements, all that good stuff, so yay. I'm borderline anemic, but that's been the case for like....the past seven years, so whatever. I will keep popping my iron supplements and hope for the best.

What else is new? Err...

Not much really. I mean, I guess that's not entirely true.

I'm starting to work on this project for school; it's my final project before graduation. I'm a bit freaked out about it because the scope of the project is excessively ambitious. My professor told me it would take a team of professionals over a year to do it, and that there was no way in hell I could ever do it in a semester. He basically told me I was smoking crack. Of course the over-achiever/person who wants the job in me wants to say ...YES! I can do it! Ummm yeah. So we'll have to scale it back a little. I'm meeting with the chick today, the girl who I'll be doing the project for. This should be interesting. She's totally big picture oriented, so getting her to scale down or focus on any one thing is next to impossible. The silver lining of all this is...if I finish, I graduate with my MBA (say it with me now...FINALLY!), and I'm hoping to get a job out of this. A job. For a business. Not the stupid government. That pays me about what I make now...but with way fewer hours. Which is essentially a raise....and is way more condusive to the whole mom thing.

I'm also starting to tweak out about how I'm going to finish this project, move into a house, and have a kid all within a span of a few months. I swear I'm a glutton for punishment.

We're hoping to get a closing date next week. Keep your fingers crossed; say a prayer; send good thoughts...

I also have Mugs signed up for obedience classes (he's an angel, but he's just overly-excitable and tends to jump up and jump on people and stuff, and I want to get that under control before the baby gets here.), and of course I have baby classes coming up, and the move, and everything. We told our landlord we'd be moving, so of course now she wants to show the apartment all the time, which means trying to keep it clean constantly. All of this when I am exhausted and have the attention span of a mosquito. Great.

Now for random stuff..

Did anyone else see these pictures of Cindy Crawford in a bikini? WTF? http://theskinnywebsite.com/site/2008/08/07/cindy-crawford-in-a-bikini//#comment
She is 42 and has had two kids. Granted she's probably had work done, but wow. Talk about winning the genetic lottery....

Of course I have been watching Project Runway, but I have to say something about this season is not grabbing me in quite the same way as previous seasons. I can't quite put my finger on it...I mean not that I don't LOVE it, but you know. I also started watching Mad Men, which is a surprisingly good show..I also tune in for the occasional I Love Money, but don't tell anyone.

I've been keeping up with my walks. I think I walked in the concourse 3 days this week, and D and I walked Mugs 2x in the park, so yay. Maybe we'll walk him today too because the weather is nice. I'm also hoping to make it to the gym this weekend for a strength training session. *Flexes*

Tomorrow I'm hoping to make it to the library so I can check out some good, fun summer reading. I'm thinking I'll check out Wear More Cashmere...I'm up for anything that endorses wearing more cashmere.

And as always...
Today:
So far:
Bfast: whole grain english muffin with peanut butter
Lunch: Amy's lentil soup, low sodium V8
Planned:
Snack: organic non fat greek yogurt
Dinner:????
Dessert: Skinny Cow Fudgesicle (50 c)

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