My faucet's a-drip

My faucet is leaking. It used to be a steady drip that would come and go - but now its a full blown stream.

The plumber in town said they chard $90/ hour PLUS a $25 trip charge, and then for additional parts.

What?!?! A $25 TRIP CHARGE?!?!?! But you are 2 miles away.

I told them basically where to "stick it...."

Procrastinating....

I am not a procrastinator by nature. If there's a job - JUST. GET. IT. DONE.

Not today. I have no idea why. I feel like working - but for some reason I'm just ... well, not. I even have a sitter today so I can rock and roll. I will in a moment. This morning, I wanted to do some blog cruising - something I haven't done in 6 months or more and I just miss it. Sometimes I can easily feel isolated in this place, and forget that there IS life on the outside. Maybe I've spent too much time traveling in my earlier years (I speak as if that was more than 5 years ago...). Maybe my travel days were a bad thing - giving me a taste of something that I couldn't have forever.

(Sigh) coming clean, I think I'm a little down because I found out last night that a particular family member and his wife are leaving today to spend a week in New York City. And I'm just ... ugh ... longing, I suppose. November/ December is my favorite time of year in NYC, and I suppose I'm a little envious that I won't be able to go there ...or anywhere, for that matter... for quite some time. Just feeling a little sorry for myself.

But on another hand, there's no way I could leave my little man here, but its much too hard to get around in NYC with a toddler - let alone being pregnant at the same time. So I just need to get over it.

Looking at a few blogs today, I noticed a few were writing random things about themselves. So I thought I would dig up a few that I *could* share. (ha!) So here's my procrastinators-list-of-random-facts-about-me:

1. I have an outie belly button. Yes. Its true. And it is accentuated by my pregnancy ALREADY. Didn't take long.

2. I love chocolate but don't care for other sweets. I'll eat some, but would rather have a coffee, chai tea, water, or an apple than a candy bar.

3. I absolutely LOVE eggs and peanut butter. Together. Mixed. Yum. Hey-don't knock it until you try it.

4. My name is Katie. Not Katherine, Kathy, Katrina, Katalina.....just Katie.

5. Love shoes, but can never find any I like, and always fall back on my Reefs leather flops, even in 30 degree weather.

6. I hate to shop. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it.

7. I love forensic science and crime scene investigation. If I was to start over again, and choose another career path, I would do one of the two.

8. I'm very simple and love simplicity. I love the classic pottery barn living style - no clutter, all organization, and matching colors. I don't have that right now due to the merging of lifestyles of marriage, and my lack of a sufficient budget. Maybe someday.

9. I dream in vivid color and detail, and often remember the most minute of detail.

10. My favorite places in the world: Home, Venice Italy, Sicily, Seville Spain, New York City, Sardinia Italy.

11. I love Sangria.

12. After my first pregnancy, i became allergic to a bunch of foods that I love: carrots, watermelon (any kind of melon), some nuts (not bad though), cherries, and many more.

13. I love tequila, but after pregnancy, my body will NOT accept it. (That's a good thing.)

I have so many more, but my procrastination hour is needing to come to an end. Tell me some of the random things about you! :)

Days go by

Day by day, things are getting a little more settled, and I think before long, we will be more settled that we thought we ever could be. There's just so many things to do around this house that we simply just don't have the time to do - and its embarrassing that we've been here since June now, and our garage still looks like we moved in an hour ago. Pretty bad.....

I've been busy with designing sites lately. Not really building anything right this moment - but will be very soon. Still in design stages with a few clients, but its going pretty well. I'm still eating some dirt yet - but who doesn't in the early stages of a small business (or any business) for that matter. Photoshop is becoming very familiar to me, and I'm flying on it now. I still have worlds of learning to do, but I can at least compete now. And oh, so much to learn with web development. Its not necessarily rocket science, but the type of sites that I want to be able to build ARE in fact a slew of tedious tasks. I'll get there eventually....

Little man has a birthday coming up. Hard to believe he will be 2!!! Where has the time gone? He's still incredible. His heart is just simply amazing. He's trying to enter the terrible two's but I'm not taking any crap from him, so he gets shut down right away when the whining starts. He still hates diaper changes and going to bed at night, but what kid likes either of those?? The thing about him - he'd rather have a poop glob stuck to his behind, and run 100 mph from me than let me clean him up. The other day, he deposited a stealth poo that went undetected for about 2 hours (I'm guessing by the redness of his back side when I went to clean it up), and he's paying for it now with a raw bottom.

Halloween has come and gone - but here is the little pumpkin that stole the hearts of many...



I'm finding myself these days going batty if I have to watch another Thomas the Tank Engine video or Nemo or Cars. Yeaow.....

The baby is growing fast....I'm about 17 weeks now - and I'm getting so big. UGHHH. We find out in early December if we have a girl or boy. I'm READY! :) I've been feeling guilty because I just haven't put that much thought into this baby yet - but I think I was the same way with my first until I found out the sex. Then I could really start personifying him and feeling like I wasn't just getting fat for no reason.

Joe's kicking ass and taking names at work. Man - if they would just let him take the reigns on so much stuff, that place would flip upside down and profit intensely. He has all the muscle to do it - but no one to spot him. Well, he DOES have a spotter, but they choose not to do what's right. long story..... maybe someday.