Paint, paint, and paint again.

Day one of painting is over. We painted the room two colors, light, LIGHT pink on top, and a dark red on the bottom. We primed the bottom first (coat one) then did two coats of pink on top, (2, 3) and then finished the day with 3, count em THREE coats of red on the bottom. (4, 5, 6).

SIX FREAKING COATS OF PAINT.

If I never see another roller again, it will be to soon. And tomorrow we still have to do the glazing on the bottom. And then at some point, border.

And then at some point, assemble the dang crib. Of course, the box itself says the crib is white. The label says it's Natural. We're hoping for the latter.

Side note from yesterday... I said Gin and Tonic here I come... Ended up being cheap Miller light drafts at happy hour. And then a really bland supper with Jodie. God, why am I not in bed? Dang Blog. Taking all my free time.

What a week!

Without going into too many details, I've been running my sweet SWEET ass off all week. I was worried about coming in early to make up hours that I would work late on Friday, because I had a late shoot. Turns out, I had waaaay too much crap to do at work, wasn't really needed at the shoot and I got stuff accomplished.

Now, instead of lugging Light Kits around a builder's warehouse... I'm going out for cocktails!

Seriously, it's been such a crazy week, I'm looking forward to the relaxing task of painting a baby room and assembling a crib with hidden hardware.

GIN AND TONIC, HERE I COME!!!

Attempting to Catch you up... Volume 1

Let's do the time warp... Back to October. Jodie and I had been trying for 3 years to get pregnant. We tried Ovulation Prediction kits, injectible fertility drugs, "sample counting" (I have excellent swimmers.) the whole thing. Then on October 11th, we went in to the Reproductive Specialist for an IUI Procedure. This is different from In-Vitro. IUI is basically the "turkey baster" approach to getting pregnant.

After gathering a "sample" at our house, we drove into the REs office and eagarly awaited squirting this stuff in. (ewww) With 2 nurses, a Med Student, the good Dr. Zamah, Jodie and myself, the room was rather crowded. I picked my chair and sat patiently as the doctor explained to the student how good Jodie's cervical mucas was.

I, unfortunately, was at the "foot end" of the table. This means I had front row seating for the whole procedure. Not only does a husband never, ever want to see someone explain the clear-ness and stringy-ness of his wife's mucas, a husband also should never, EVER be privy to seeing his wife spread-eagled on a exam table... complete with a speculum. Trust me. The image still haunts me. But all for the best, I guess. *shivers*

And so it begins!

Fine... I've got a Blog now. Impressed? Now the world will know how crazy I am.



There she is. Riley Jane. (Unless we change our minds.) This was taken at about 19 weeks. We're at 21 weeks now.

This weekend the crib and dresser go in the baby room. I hope we have it painted in time. Jodie said we'd never do pink for a girl, or blue for a boy. Well, the new guest bedroom is now light blue, and the baby room is dark red and you guessed it... pink. Technically "Berry Cheesecake" but pink nonetheless. And then we hang border.

I hate doing stuff like that. Whenever we work on the house, something goes wrong. It's never easy. Wish me luck.