A Mystery

So I went into the bathroom the other morning and found this.

I asked Ben about this. He claims to know nothing about this strange event that has occurred. My stuff (notice that the structure contains all feminine items) somehow re-configured itself into a nice tower. Do you think someone is trying to tell me something?! Perhaps I was taking up too much counter space? No - that couldn't be it. After all, when I get all gussied up, I am doing it for TWO people now. I need twice as much space to make myself pretty.

So let's play a game. Anyone who can name all of the items will win a prize (TBD later). There are a total of 7 items (start from the top) and be specific!!
Leave your answers in the comments section....

Here is another picture.

Baby Clothes!

I received a big package in the mail last week and look at what I got! My Godmother sent me a bunch of super cute baby clothes.

We like big boxes!

Love the little hat!

Cute giraffe

I showed Ben all of the clothes and the note my Godmother wrote for us.
He thought the clothes were cute (as much as a guy could get excited about
baby clothing) but what he REALLY liked was the little chick on the stationery.
He found it very amusing (and perhaps he related to it?)

I feel that I should mention that the stationery is from China.....

Fermentation Chamber

What the heck is a fermentation chamber? Well, I didn't know what it was either until 2 weeks ago. It started the day after Trudy's (aka soon to be Grandma) Birthday Party. There was a lot of food at Trudy's birthday which means Karen was happy. As you know, she likes left overs and there was a lot of it! So we packed up barbecue chicken (which Ben is still eating cause I discovered that I don't like chicken off the bone...but I digress), baked beans and cole slaw and took it home.

The next day - Monday, there was a funny smell in the house. Ben and I thought it was the trash so he took it out. Problem solved.

On Tuesday, I caught a whiff of something bad near the shoes. Hmmm. That's weird cause our feet can get smelly but not that smelly. I did some investigating. I sniffed around and found a bag of stuff from Trudy's Party (vases and candles). I could not find anything. I decided I should clean up a bit and picked up the bag. The bag was heavier than it should be. I look UNDER the vases and candles and it was cole slaw and baked beans left over from Trudy's Birthday. I forgot to put it in the fridge after the party cause I was so tired. EWWWW. It was totally gross. I couldn't even open up the tupperware - I had to throw all of it away. I felt so stupid for forgetting about the food but I was also happy that I found the source of the bad smell.

Wednesday is a hot day. I ran some errands and came home to a TERRIBLE smell in the house. It was SO bad that I threw up. Yeah. I threw up. I was so confused cause I thought I had found the source of the bad smell. I opened the window and turned on the fan to air the house out. I told Ben when he got home. He didn't take the trash out (I thought he did) so the cole slaw and beans were in the trash that is STILL in the house. Jeez!! Okay - he takes it out and Karen is happy again.

About 2 hours later. I still smell it. I am confused. I thought we got rid of the source. I tell Ben that I can still smell the awfulness. So he lights a candle. One hour later, I catch a whiff. Ben tells me it's in my head. One hour later I bring it up again. Something smells bad. I can't stand it. I make him get up and start smelling around. He starts walking around the shoes, the kitchen, the trash and he walks over to his fish tank. He leans over the tank and he says, "Oh my gosh! (gag, gag, cough, cough). What the heck is that smell?" he asks me. "What?!?! What is it?" I ask.

He says, "Something went wrong with the fermentation chamber."

"What the heck is a fermentation chamber?! Never mind, I don't care what it is - just get rid of it!!!!!!!" I tell him.

A fermentation chamber, my friend, is this thing where you ferment yeast and it somehow produces carbon dioxide for the fish to help them breathe. I am told by Ben that some other bacteria got into this so called fermentation chamber and it decided to breed all sorts of evilness and emit the most awful smell a person can ever breathe.

Ben starts opening it up and puts it in the kitchen sink. I immediately start gagging and dry heaving. I am hysterical and tell him to get rid of it. I am yelling at this point that the fermentation chamber MUST leave the house. I am ready to cry. I think he's trying not to laugh but he takes the fermentation chamber downstairs and Karen is happy again.

So the lesson here is if there is ever anything smelly in your house - check to see if something went wrong with the fermentation chamber.

don't eat the fish from the bay

I was in a food gathering mood on Sunday. I went to the farmer's market at Civic Center and got some tasty pears. Yum yum!

Later in the day, I went to the garage to pull out the bike that I'd fixed up the day before with Lance. We worked so hard getting it ship shape. Unfortunately, I discovered a world of suck with the back tire. Have you ever had this happen to you? You fix the front tire, then discover that the reason the back tire was flat originally, was not due to neglect, rather, to a very slow leak. Luckily I had a spare tube. Once I got the bike back in working order, I took it down to the pier.

At the pier, I briefly thought about borrowing a fishing pole from one of the many fisherpeople, but balked once I saw this sign.

As you can see, any fish I caught would only be good for Karen at most once a month. That was a risk I was just not willing to take, even for free fish (once I caught them). They are not good for pregnant women (pregs).

Belly Button Trauma

I love my belly button. I have always been very proud of it. It's just perfect. When I was young I would play with it until I fell asleep. Instead of sucking my thumb or sleeping with a woobie (or blanket) I would put my finger in my belly button and everything in the world would be right.

About 10 years ago (when it was the cool thing to do) I decided to decorate by belly button with a ring. Let's be honest, if you want to draw attention to your favorite physical attribute you embellish it, right?

Then I got pregnant. Ben told me that I would need to get remove it. He told me this as soon as we found out I was pregnant. I was in denial. Then the day came when the baby and belly ring could not co-exist together. So I said my goodbyes and took it out. Actually, Ben did it cause I couldn't.

That was hard...BUT last week - I was seriously traumatized. Ben and I went to take a belly picture and he says, "What's going on with your belly button?" So I looked down and I almost cried. My perfect inny was starting to pucker. I have seen those pregnant belly people who's belly button starts to stick out. But I thought there was NO WAY my button was going to do that cause it was a pretty deep inny. But it's starting to work itself inside out and I am now checking it every day to see if it's changed.

I do not like the belly button sticking out like a button thing at all (sorry to those people who have outies...). So my master plan is to stick a band aid over it if it decides to rebel. Then I found out about the Popper Stopper!! A sticker for your belly button. I love it!

Getting Excited for the Baby Shower!

I'm getting excited for the baby shower - it's coming up in a couple of weeks. I was asked what kind of dessert I like and the answer was....yes!!! I like dessert. But I was also asked what kind of cake do you want? I have no idea what baby shower cakes look like so I did what most people do. I hopped on to the internet to find some ideas. Well - there's a lot of cute stuff out there but I found some pictures of what I definitely DON'T want....

This is just far too realistic. Who wants to cut into a baby and then eat it?!

This is suppose to be a belly with an alien baby.
Imagine my face contorted and confused. So gross.

What is this?! There is a butterfly explosion behind the little innocent baby.

This is just wrong. I don't need a preview of what's to come. Eewww.

The good news is that I went shopping with Trudy last week and she bought me the cutest dress to wear to the baby shower!! Yeah!

This is Ben.

I am really excited about the new platform bed we put a deposit in on today. It's on a slow boat right now, but when it arrives things will be different. You can count on that!

So if you have never shared a bed with a preg, you don't know the kind of flips that preg must do to accommodate the life growing inside. Crazy flips! Right now our bed is like a bowl full of jello when the flips go down. 

So the platform bed will help mitigate the jello factor.

Why do I get so excited about beds? Well that's where the sleep happens, at least for the next three months. 

Dude! We've got to bank our sleep now!

Sphere was the place I got the furniture.