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Times New Roman stinks.

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My blog needs a designer and an editor. I'm accepting applications. I'll be my own blog boss, work from home, won't have to worry about finding a sitter for the baby! Perfect, I knew I could come up with something really cool and efficient like that.

Sitting here this lovely Thursday evening, I'm wondering if I'm feeling a cheeseburger or a baby. Probably the former.

18 weeks along and still dumbfounded. I've figured out what lamp (with a dimmer) and crib to buy at IKEA. That's all we pretty much need, right? And then maybe a sitter if this blog career doesn't pan out.

Baby sweater

Em is a crafter, a REAL, honest-to-goodness crafter. I just pretend to be one. She took this photo of her first sweater creation that she recently sent me in the mail. Check out her newly acquired Flickr account. Upon opening, this little cardi just about broke my heart. Look at those wooden buttons! Em's coworker Andrea also gifted me with some yellow polka-dotted baby leggings. What they really are, are super long full-length leg warmers. These people know me too well, because I want to have a fun dressed baby. I already have a couple of Charley Harper T's.

Blogging.

Kim thinks I don't have anything to blog about until I have a baby. Au contraire. I have TOO much to blog about! And never enough discipline to gather my thoughts into anything cohesive and even after that, put fingers to keyboard. Although I do like that speed typing game found here: http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/ I've gotten over 100 words a minute! But that only happened once.

Plus, I have a fear of the mundane with blogging which is a trap I just about always fall prey to (you'll see down the line). CANKLES, anyone?

I found a nursery that I want to emulate - found via the Cookie Nesting blog and blogger Abbey Goes Design Scouting. Too bad that rug costs AS MUCH as the crib! But the wall decals are totally doable and so are the crib and changing table.
Feeling better now, which means packing my lunch with PB&J most days since my ankles and pregnancy don't agree. My circulation has always been fine, but for some reason salt HATES me, but I LOVE it. Ate dinner at BW3's last night and after consuming some boneless wings while sitting on a barstool, my feet burst out of my flats. Man, I can only think of what will happen when I'm huge. Hopefully proactive measures NOW will save my ankles and feet. Then I went to bed and while my ankles looked better this morning, all of the fluid swam up to my eyes. I'm a hot mess.

When times are tough.

You can still count on buying a cheap T to make you happy. Following one of my favorite fashion blogs, I discovered just in the nick of time the last day of an online sample sale at Built by Wendy. Normally I just drool over everything, knowing it's out of my reach. Well, a 10 dollar T and purse were just what the dr. ordered. And super fast service!

This T is the best handcrafted henley and looks way cooler in person. Bright white rubbery buttons tightly sewn, thick cotton, navy blue and grey stripes (love this combo), the perfect spring/summer little sleeves that pop out, Buit by Wendy felted embroidered arrows logo. This shirt is going to get a lot of play; you can tell it's a quality T.

So the moral of the story:

You can never have too many Built by Wendy pieces for 10 bucks! And keep up on your fashion blogs so that you don't miss out on the T in this color too. (and other swoon-worthy pretty floaty tops - dangit!)

However, the white buttons really pop against the gray and the navy T. Here they get lost.

Another moral: A girl can never have too many stripes. Just don't wear striped pants and a striped top together.

Flowers to come!

I forgot that these will be greeting me in the morning soon!

I can see the light

Things to look forward to:

New U2 album, which means CONCERT!!! Karen are you game? Father-in-law, are you game?

Chicago and bikes this summer!

Playhouse in the Park volunteering! More FREE plays! When I helped take down the Playhouse holiday decorations, the volunteer coordinator gave us all a backstage tour including rehearsal rooms. The costume design area was my favorite part; I wanted to steal one of the colonial looking jackets for my own wardrobe!

Cousin's birthday on Friday!

Luncheon with the Cous Saturday!

"Crafternoon" later that day at Em's! - how do you like dem play on words?! Em's a genius!!!

At said crafternoon party, Em's mom's going to teach me how to knit! She's already bought big needles for me to learn. How sweet is that?

Kitchen backsplash!

Seeing Christina and Ryan next weekend!

Seeing Kim and Scott not too long after!

Lupson's wedding in May!

Planning a BIG trip somewhere!

SPRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What are you looking forward to? Anything I wouldn't know about already? TELL ME!

Sweaty hands, sweaty feet. And tears too.

I've never watched a movie before that made my hands and feet simultaneously sweat. Man on Wire also made me cry. Sweat, tears, that's a lot of bodily functions for one movie.

The pictures atop the World Trade Center (WTC) are captivating. Footage of the massive buildings going up are totally awesome. The whole story is really awe-inspiring, from the creative process of the Frenchman Phillipe Petit and his friends figuring out how to get the wire across the 140-foot gap between the WTC to accessing the roof with guards manning the then unoccupied top floors.

And to know that he was up there on the tightrope for 45 minutes, going back and forth 8 times, doing tricks like lying down and kneeling.... all I can think is unbeliavable as my hands start to sweat a little even now.

The walk between the towers happened on August 7th, 1974, on my mom's 20th birthday. The movie never goes into 9/11 but that makes it all the more thought provoking. Times were different then, even though one of the Frenchmen called America at that time, a litigious nation. He, one of Petit's friends, was expelled from the country, while Petit comparatively was let off with the sole punishment of entertaining American crowds.

Man on Wire is an amazing documentary with piano music at all the right times. The only thing I desired was some kind of closure at the end. There have been 34 years since the event took place, after all.