YouTube Tuesday

SO EFFING FUNNY! *blushing* and true....lol.

Step on a crack break your momma's back

Not to beat a dead horse, but WTF LAKERS:?????

'nough said.

I'm really beginning to think that it's mine and G's fault that they lost. We have watched every single game at our apartment [along with the usual suspects of Rob, Chris, Mike, and sometimes Ryan & Hector] except for 3 games. What 3 games? The 3 these bitches have lost! [The one they lost to San Antonio - yeah we were at a Dodger game]. It really blows that our Lamaze class is on Thursday, but what can we do? For $90 I ain't skipping!

Speaking of Lamaze, G is really enjoying it. He feels he's learning a lot which is good since this class was for him more than me. He is gonna be my coach after all. But this is also making me consider a natural birth. AKA drug FREE. I know....I'm crazy....but they make it sound so easy! We'll see because I'm totally not opposed to drugs. I'm all for it! I'll elaborate more on this on my baby blog.

Today we get a gift from my MIL. She is giving us a fat check to use on baby gear. Anything we want. This money is practically spent already. I want to get the Safari bedding from Baby Gap [although just as I was gonna order it they sold out, but I know they'll get more] and a Glider w/matching ottoman from Target. Can't wait! We don't have much baby stuff yet. Sorta just been waiting for our showers.

Nothing special planned for the weekend. Kids b-day party tomorrow and then Sunday we plan to catch a matinée showing of The Happening and then the Laker game.

Have a good one!

And happy Friday the 13th. ;)

4x4

After a long ass day registering for our baby showers, G was rewarded with this. A 4x4 from In n Out. He also had animal style fries. What was I rewarded with? Krispy Kreme donuts! I had been thinking about them since yesterday. It being national donut day today I figured it was the best day to get em. Plus, we were in Burbank at the new Babies R Us (which had its grand opening today).

We're now heading home to enjoy our donuts and watch "Sweeney Todd". Maybe we'll also watch "Charlie Wilson's War" if I don't pass out. And don't worry folks. I have Krispy Kreme once a year...if I'm lucky. I promise Baby G won't come out obese.
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Things that happen when ur pregnant

You have to resort to someone else doing your nails. In this case, my husband. I'm in need of a bad pedicure, but haven't had time to get one done. Here we are waiting for G's dad before heading to a baptism. My nail polish was growing out so I asked G to touch it up. :-p He did an ok job for his first time. But I still won't let him near me with nail clippers.
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You know you're a bad blogger when.....

You know you're a bad blogger when your brother [who you had no idea even read your blog or cared for that matter] tells you he has checked your blog everyday and you have failed to amuse him with your promised daily posts. Yes, it is true....I am a bad blogger. And thank you little brother for caring. Makes me all warm and fuzzy that people care enough to read, but not comment. :-/ Looks like May-o-polooza has gonna to shits.

So what can I catch you all up on?

- Lakers won yesterday [woo-hoo!] in Game 5, and they will win on Friday to close the series. We have decided that all future Laker games must be watched at our home since they lose when we see the game elsewhere. Friday is gonna suck though. With temperatures predicted to be in the upper 90's to low 100's, our poor apt is gonna feel like an oven! Stupid A/C. Who decided to place you in the damn kitchen anyway?

- Baby G had a doctor's appt. today and all is perfect! I had been worried about Gestational Diabetes, but I passed my 3 hour glucose exam! This means I can continue to eat my Big Sticks! We also heard the heartbeat and Baby G kicked the doctor when she was holding the doppler on my belly. Baby G likes his space! ;) And I also only gained 1 lbs this month. High-five!

- Today we will be heading to my parents house to do some much needed free laundry. I love being able to hang our sheets in the sun to dry [all whites for that matter]! They just get so much cleaner. Sun is, after all, a natural bleaching agent. Stains just disappear. And of course it doesn't hurt that we get to eat my mom's bomb-as food while we're there.

- I totally predicted that the American Idol finale was gonna be a showdown between the David's. I do think Syesha is gonna do well. And I really hope Michael Johns doesn't fall off the face of the earth. I <3 him!

- Sooooo looking forwarded to LOST tonight! We finally find out how the "Oceanic 6" get off the Island and why they are, in fact, the chosen 6.

- While on the TV subject, I watched the season finale of Brothers & Sisters at lunch time and it was so good! I love that show. I'm so glad I got back on the boat. I watched the first season off and on as it didn't fit into my sleep schedule, but I got back in to it this season, and boy is it a great show! Can't wait for next season.

- While on the subject of finale's: damn The Hills season finale sucked! This is my guilty pleasure and I puffy heart this show, but that was one of the lamest finale's ever. I am, however, still looking forward to the next season starting August 18th! Woot! :-p

Picture Post

Just a quickie picture post. This is G and I on Mother's Day. I don't think I've ever posted a picture of me preggers on here. But you can clearly see my bump. I'm now 7 months pregnant. Looks like I'm carrying my weight in my belly and boobs. That's fine with me! Glad I haven't blown up.....yet.









*Picture credit to the new awesome family photographer - my brother Robert. :)

Happy Mother's Day

Although we did a lot of mother's day celebrating yesterday for Mexican mother's day (and yes I now realize I didn't blog), today we did a lot more celebrating. We had a huge BBQ at my mom's for my big fat Mexican family. Loads of fun, great food, and pictures! I'll post pix tomorrow with my weekend rundown.

It was also nice to be one of the mothers this year. It was a question (in my head) whether I should be a part, but I've been caring for our baby for 7 months now! I think that qualifies me as a mommy. Mommy-to-be of course!

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!
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I failed

I didn't blog yesterday! I was so busy at work. Then we had the guys over for the Laker game and then I watched a American Idol on fast forward and went to bed. I completely forgot to blog! I made time for my baby blog but forgot to come back for this one.

Well I'm at the lab right now taking the 3 hour glucose test. I'll explain later. Won't be at work till after I have lunch since I had to fast. I'll blog more later...I hope. :)

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May-a-polooza

Today is day 1 of my 31 days of consecutive posts. It's quite a commitment and I'm scared. But I'm motivated by the fact that there is at least one person out there who is looking forward to my posts. :)

Sometimes I find it really hard to think of things to post that aren't pregnancy related. That's really all that's going on right now. That's why I haven't been posting much. So don't be surprise if some of my May posts turn out to be solely pregnancy related. I know not everyone reads my baby blog so it won't be redundant.

I'm feeling a lot of pressure to make my first post a good post. But I think it just gonna be one of those "I'm sorry..." "let me explain to you..." posts. But here's a question. What do you give a 15yr old getting confirmed? I'm my cousin's Sponsor for her Confirmation and have NO idea what to give her as a gift. I know...I should be enough of a gift, but teens are tough. I have narrowed it down to at least.....oh crap....I think she reads my blog. Never mind I can't say what. But please give me some suggestions people! And btw - the Confirmation is this Saturday so I need ideas ASAP! :)

I also wanted to mention that I heard last night that Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, has picked up the movie rights for "A Beautiful Boy" and "Tweak" [the son's memoir]. I'm glad we're reading the book right now and look forward to seeing the film. Although I hope they don't cut a bunch of scenes out like with "The Kite Runner." In this article you can also read about Plan B developing "Eat, Pray, Love" with Julia Roberts being reported to star. IMDb has a release date of 2010 with no other info. Interesting.

And don't forget tonight is Taco Truck Night!

Recent Addictions

- Frozen Yogurt from 21 Choices in Old Town*

Specifically dutch chocolate with fresh strawberries and raspberries mixed in.

- Listening to "Pour Some Sugar On Me" by Def Leppard over and over! Plug it in here to listen.

Heard it on Jack FM on my way to work 2 days ago and I can't get it out of my head! I was totally rocking out to it!

- Twitter [back to constant twittering]
- Anything potato [fries, smashed, mashed, roasted, baked, etc.]*
- American Idol [even though Michael John is gone :(]
- Sunny D [smooth flavor]*
- Coco Krispies*
- The Hills [will always love this show]


*Pregnancy related a.k.a cravings.

And a shout-out to the best in the West!

Playoff time!

You know what I don't need?

LISTERIA! It really pissed me off to find out that fucking Vons reuses their day-old deli meat in their Paninis. Are you fucking kidding me?????

I was really craving a turkey Panini with tomato so I went to Vons at lunch time. I was disappointed to find out that they were not grilling their Paninis. instead they were just heating them up, so no toasty bread. Whatever, I really wanted it. And it was still good.

So I am chatting with my brother about how they don't grill anymore [he use to work in the deli dept at Vons] and he tells me that he doesn't trust those Paninis! That it's day-old meats and he remembers how the lady's, who still work there, use to handle the meat. OMG! I make a conscience choice to eat deli meat while pregnant. Sure...many books and doctors advice against it because you may get Listeria, but no all are against. The only consolation I have is that at least my turkey was heated, and therefore potentially killed any possible bacteria. But come on Vons....are you kidding me?

Today is the day I had my last sandwich [EVER!] from Vons.

WEEKEND RUNDOWN

Guess who didn't take any pictures in Vegas??? Me! I never once busted out my camera. I actually forgot it in the room most times. Oh well. We've all been there. Wait! I did take pics of our room because I liked the newly remodeled rooms at Treasure Island...or TI. I'll have to upload those tomorrow.

G and I decided on this last minute getaway on Wednesday. We had both been aching to get out of town and G finally had a 3 days weekend. So we headed out around 11:30am on Friday. And although it was technically a "vacation" for us, I am so not feeling refreshed. I told G I needed a vacay from our vacay. I was just soooooo tired everyday. [I need one of those lounge by pool/beach all day vacations] I wasn't use to all the walking and my feet were killing me everyday [Considering we hardly walked! Just walking thru a casino was enough]. I think the fact that my feet are growing [pregnancy effect] and I was all swollen up there [because I'm not swollen at home!] really made it all the more painful. And Saturday I tweaked my ankle some how and ended up semi-limping the rest of the weekend. It was weird because we were playing Wii at my cousins house [went to watch the UCLA game there] and I was sitting. I got up to go to the bathroom and had to limp. WTF? No reason what-so-ever. It sucked. But we still made the most of it.

So Friday we got in to Vegas at 3:30pm [with 1 restroom stop]. But after all the strip traffic and long check-in line, we didn't get into our room at TI until almost 5:30pm. I really wanted to shower before heading out since my alarm hadn't gone off that morning. But I was also starving! So we ordered a club sandwich with fries from room service and shared it. We then wondered around our casino an dplayed some Wheel of Fortune [my fav].

Around 8:30pm we headed to Mandalay Bay to meet up with my cousin V and her husband. We went to Red Square where her husband use to work [great Vodka bar]. We sat at the bar for a while catching up and drinking [non-alcoholic for me of course]. By 11:30pm we were pooped so we said our goodbyes. G was starving so we headed to In-n-Out, took it back to our room, ate, and passed out. We are sooooo not fun! ;)

SATURDAY

We were up early. Had a lame breakfast at Kahunaville at TI [we had a coupon]. We then too the tram to the Mirage next door and from there we walked over to Cesar's Palace. Our mission was to make dinner reservations at Mesa Grill [Food Network's Bobby Flay's restaurant]. We walked thru the never ending Forum Shops which pooped me out. By the time we found the restaurant we had already decided to go watch the UCLA vs Memphis game at my cousins house. We figured we wouldn't be back in time for dinner before our Cirque du Soleil show. However, after seeing the lunch menu and finding my favorite Cuban Style Burger I immediately wanted to at least have lunch there. You see, my brother makes these burgers. We saw Bobby Flay make them on his show "Boy Meets Grill" and it has become a staple. So I really wanted to try the "real" Bobby version. My dreams were wuickly crushed upon realizing the the Lunch menu was only served M-F and it was Saturday. Booooooo! No Cuban Style Burger on the weekend brunch menu. Double boooooooo!!! I was so upset. G even tried asking the Hostess if the kitchen would take a special request. No such luck. I thought about using the "pregnancy card" but knew that was a stupid idea since the Hostess had already said no. So we left and the whole walk back to the hotel I wrote Bobby Flay an angry complaint letter in my head.

We headed to my cousin's house. V's hubby bbq'd some awesome food for us. The UCLA loss was disappointing, but after a couple hours of Wii we all forgot about it. G and I took off at about 7:30pm to get ready for our Cirque du Soleil show. After sadly realizing that our first show choice was on break, LOVE, we bought tickets to Mystere.

I thought Mystere was really good. And guess what? No giant man baby! I think they took him out of the show. I was worried about watching this show because of this man. All I kept picturing was the scene from Knocked Up where the 2 guys head off to Vegas and do Shrooms and watch this show. I think my fav part was the music. No soundtrack all live. That was cool. I forgot to check the shop for a CD. And of course the crazy acrobats were awesome. I'd definitely recommend this show.

That night we went back to the room after the show to decide whether I wanted to make an appearance at the Playboy Lounge at the Palms. My cousin G [who works at the Palms] told us earlier Hef and the Girls were in town celebrating his 82nd b-day. He told us he could easily get us VIP if we wanted to go see them. But yeah, we went back to the room and while "thinking" on the bed I passed out. LOL. Plus, my only heels that i thought fit and had worn for Easter no longer fit. :( So I didn't feel like I'd be dressed up enough.

SUNDAY

I got up SUPER early [6:45am] to shower before my massage at WET Spa in TI. I had an 8am appt and had to be there at 7:30am [Saturday was all booked]. My massage was awesome! The lady who did it has been doing prenatal massages forever! She was really good. Especially because it wasn't just a back massage. It was a shoulder/neck, then both arms/hands, then both legs/feet, and then the back. Awesome. I was all oily afterwards so I took a quickie shower at the spa. They had everything you needed after you showered.....all products. Even hair straighteners and curling irons.

We then checked out early and headed out for a cheap buffet off the strip. Yeah that that didn't work. we went to the Orleans Hotel & Casino on the back of the strip and still paid $14 for the buffet! I was looking for an $8 buffet. Too bad we couldn't say never mind. And the buffet sucked. The plan was to hit up the new LV indoor outlets before heading out, but I was too tired to walk around. Especially after G happily donated our last $50 to Wheel of Fortune.

No traffic back. 2 pee stops. We were back by 4pm but stopped at BJ's for an early dinner. Good times all around. Wish I had more pics to jazz up this post.

Conglomerate of stray thoughts

- Happy it's Friday
- not happy I'm broke till Thursday's paycheck
- i looked at a clock that said 3:55pm and got excited at the thought of going home only to realize that the clocked hadn't been changed for daylight savings.
- 1 more hour of hell
- staff meetings blow
- "now err body in the club gettin' tipz" - lol
- feeling the need to give a certain friend a much needed hug. Been a tough couple of days for my friend.
- There are some big ass birthday celebrations going on tomorrow night, but I can't seem to get into party mode. Just not feeling it....guess this being broke part is affecting my mood. Shouldn't have made such big payments so soon.
- 2 weeks to find an apartment...outlook not good.
- Must import my CDs to itunes. I never did this. Too much work. Now I import as I buy or burn. But all my old stuff is gathering dust in CD cases. Must take full advantage of 30 gigs.
- My favorite Italian Chef is pregnant! Congrats Giada....not like I know you or anything. But I puffy heart your food porn.
- haven't decided if I will go get Nigella Lawson's autograph tomorrow.
- hookah tonight! My place....be there.