the insurance company said that if our car wasnt found by august 15th then we would get reimbursed for the value of it. so that day has come and gone and finally we got a check saturday, deposited it into our bank and were very excited. so that night we are sitting at home and we get a phone call .... from someone unexpected.... the police!! they found my car.... is that not nuts! the day we get paid off they find my car!

the insurance company wasnt able to pay us for the items that were in the car so we were kinda excited that we might still get them now. so long story short....

the insurance company was going to pick up the car today from the towing place... and if i wanted the stuff in the trunk (if its still there) then we had to rush over there before they got there to take it to an auction. so we got there just in time. and everything was still in the car. apparantly the thieves dont like baby toys..... so we got paid for the car and still got all our belongings back! woohooo!!!!

it was nice to say goodbye one last time to good old betsy..... she was a good car ... when she didnt run away.... i hope this doesnt reflect our parenting habits..... we did also kill our one and only plant recently so things arent looking so good for the baby.....

so i am 18 weeks now and that is 4 1/2 months. we find out what the sex is next tuesday.
i would really like to have a pic up of my tummy by then! its just a little poochy! Sometimes i think it looks smaller than before..... but i hear that is normal. its hard to find clothes to buy that arent costing us our first born(= seriously, i am not quite into maternity yet, but i cant wear regular pants, they are so uncomfortable!!! and furthermore what is with that big waist line thing that comes up to your chin on those maternity pants???!?! i cant imagine wearing those... there has got to be a better way! so for now i am just wearing a lot of skirts! which are wonderful!
i read all kinds of different things people say about stretch marks and for the most part, people say that there really isnt a way to prevent them... but i am going to try !! (=
take a bath in olive oil maybe once a week to elasticate the skin..... hmmmm that might work..... anyways, if you know of something that works let me know.... but no funky expensive remedies please!

Sorry if any of you tried to surf over here this last week. Due to some technical difficulties the site was down for large portions of the week. After much head scratching, some re-wiring and a replacement part it should be stable. So until we move next week it should be solid.

We are moving out next weekend (20-21). The site should be up again within a few days of that.

Cheers.

we found a house! and furthermore we are approved!!! well we are just renting but it is such a great place!! 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms..... two story... its only seven years old too! we will be moving in this month, most likely wont be living there until august 27th. we are so excited! we looked so many places and they were "ok" but just not what we were looking for... we really didnt want to live in an apt. a house or duplex type thing was ideal. our neighbors are an older couple who take care of the yard and such. we want to have a party or something when things get settled! we would have a bbq but we dont have bbq-er (= oh and no news on my car yet.... so if we dont get it back by august 15th then they will assess the value and let us know how much they will give us. hopefully around 1500.00.

i want to know who made up this absurd idea to wake up at 5:30 in the morning and then have the nerve to follow that up with working!!!

i just got a temporary job for a couple months doing assistant bookkeeping. i started on monday. and no matter what people say.... you dont get used to it after a while!! i am so drained all day long and have no energy for anything afterwards! im sure partly why i am so drained is because this type of work isnt necessarily my strengths! if any of you read my previous blog about jobs i like.... then you would know that i would rather not sit at a desk all day... i would rather not look at numbers all day... i would rather be talking to people all day..... and this job is exactly that. so it takes a little more out of me than some jobs. but its good for now and its what i need.

i remember back in california at school i had to be at the gym by 5:30.. (almost puking during karake class!) ... so i had to be up before 5am..... and that was in the winter so it was definately dark still... i did that for 5 months and it was just as hard every day! then we would go to school at like 7:30 or something..... everyday i either nearly fell asleep or i actually did! its just not meant to be! maybe some people like it feeling like crap all day long and dont mind feeling like you have a hangover.... and maybe some poeple just dont have as much trouble as me but as for me i would be in heaven if i had a job from 10-7 or something!!!

ok ok now dont think that i have forgotten what little babies do at 4am... i know they cry and that i will have to jump out of bed and nurture and feed my little bambino... but that is totally different!!! its a different kind of work.... i was just talking to my friend shekinah and we were saying that husbands have to work their whole lives while the wife doesnt necessarily have to.... but even though we have work of our own on the homefront that is hard.... its a different kind of hard.... and i would rather have "homefront hard" that is involving my children, than slaving at some job that you really dont believe in anyways... not that you cant get a job that you believe in... anyways.... i have rambled enough (=

all in all, I COULD NEVER WORK AT STARBUCKS!