Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay! My oh my what a wonderful day!

I got a perfect score on my project!!! That leaves me with another A so my streak continues!!! if anyone wants to take me out to celebrate (or fly to Colorado to see me to celebrate) let me know :o) While the season has been slow going, Christmas week is turning out to be amazing- everything seems to be going my way. Life is great!

I had my appointment today and baby/mama are doing well. We are both growing nicely and perfectly on track. Small scare for a few minutes with the lack of a heartbeat sound but turns out the baby is just very active so she was having a hard time catching him to hear it. It would have been nice if she would have mentioned that while there was nothing but crazy silence but my doctor's nurse is definitely not an expert at bedside manners. It just seems so crazy to me that by the next appointment, we will be halfway through the pregnancy! And then, hopefully, we will officially know that he is a he. Of course, I do understand that there is a 50/50 chance that I am wrong and will be just as happy with a girl.

How I would rather be spending my day

It is interesting how I can find so many things I NEED to do today that do not involve writing my project that is worth 1/3 of my grade and due at midnight tonight. I tried starting it early (yesterday afternoon) but it just would not flow. I am hoping if I start checking things off the rest of my to-do list, the project will just flow. Or maybe I should just sit down and make myself do it and then get the reward of doing the rest of the stuff on my list. At least I get two weeks off between the end of this class and the start of the spring semester.

Things I would rather be doing today than completing my project:
*Making banana bread
*Eating banana bread
*Making sugar cookies
*Eating sugar cookies
*Making carmel corn
*Eating carmel corn
*Going to a movie with Jae (like we planned) & eating movie theater butter popcorn
*Christmas shopping at the mall (does that give you any idea how much I don't want to do this project???)
*Going to the Aurora mall (last year I was stuck for over an hour trying to get out of the mall because people drive so stupid) and getting Cinnabon, the four pack, not just one- YUMMY!!!
*Going to Park Meadows mall and getting Cheesecake Factory
*Going to Target and being influenced by the magic of the store (we finally made up so I can shop there again)
*Curling up on the couch with my new warm tie blanket and watching Four Christmases (I still haven't seen it!)
*Curling up on the couch with my new warm tie blanket and taking a nap while a movie with a happy ending plays on tv (I sleep better when there is a happy show playing)
*Going to Pizza Hut and getting some breadsticks (I do not remember them being yummy but golly do they sound delicious!)
*Making Kringla
*Eating Kringla
*Sending some Kringla to Andrea so I can get some chex mix
*Go to Petsmart and adopt another dog (they had the cutest boxer there yesterday)
*Go to Cold Stone and find a new creation (I just finished the pint that was in the freezer)
*Go to Taco John's in Iowa & get some Mexi Rolls and potato oles with cheese sauce (and see my family!!!)
*Get a car wash for my stupid Saturn (it hasn't officially had a carwash for a few years)
*Go buy a new car and trade in the stupid Saturn

Now that my list is getting dangerous (I really, really want a new car!), I suppose I should try my project again. Only 18 self- assessments, 8 journal articles, and 10 pages of writing to go! Wish me luck :o)

I should be writing my paper for school but I just cannot concentrate on it. Same reason I have yet to register for spring classes- i just cannot focus on the specializations to pick out one that sounds most interesting and will motivate me to finish my degree. I am at the point where I have to pick something so I can continue and have all my classes count. I am leaning towards change management but I just haven't committed to declaring it officially. I just wish someone was really looking forward to writing a paper tonight about the dimensions of culture in the workplace- I would be nice enough to let that person write it. Next week is the last week of this class and my huge project is due. Turns out I was supposed to be actually doing the assessments in the book all semester to be the main focus of the project- ooops!
On a positive note, I did manage to watch the last episode of the Dexter season. Oh my goodness- it was crazy!!! The only downside is that I have to wait 9 months to see the next episode. At least I have something to keep me busy until then.
Flash (that's the baby) is contributing to my jeans getting less comfortable. While I have discovered a few extra pair of comfy pajama pants for home, work was getting interesting. (Please note: I am glad that I am just sitting at a desk instead of waiting tables pregnant but apparently the way I have always sat at my desk is not going to work until after June.) I am lucky that I get to wear jeans to work so I decided to try out the belly band. While it is strange knowing that I am walking around with my pants unbuttoned, it is amazingly wonderfully comfortable.

It's official!

Baby Butler will be here around June 12th! These are the pictures from our 12 week ultrasound last week. We won't know until late January if it is a boy or a girl. I had a semi-rough first trimester but I am starting to feel back to my old self- thank goodness! If my work would just change the dress code to allow pajama pants and hoodies, life would be perfect! I am starting to struggle with the buttons on my jeans and my shirts are getting a little snug in the tummy area.