Daria’s Life

Hey thanks to each of you for your interpretations of my crazy preggo dream. I enjoyed reading your take on what it all might have meant. I had so many suggestions from the Love of CHEESE, to Manolo shoes (oooo I wish!!), to Vinnie Barbarino - LOL!! They all cracked me up, so thanks for bringing a smile to my face this week! I have decided that the Daria’s Life Dream Weaver is Ann D who’s analysis just felt so bang on to me - she’s got a FABULOUS blog too so I have got to give her props!! The Queen of Dreams Ann D. Here’s her link!!

The Mother of All Blogs

I couldn’t possibly crown our new Dream Queen without honorable mention to all of the people who also took the time to analyze and post! Thanks to the Queen’s Court of Daria’s life. Check out these people’s blogs too - you all rock!

Noodge

Garrison Steelle

Milton

Ms. Niki

Faith

Manolo

Keeper of the Holy Zucchini

Meg

I’ve been meaning to blog about my trip to the drugstore a few weeks ago. In the corner of the make-up section was a huge display for Britney Spears new perfume “Curious”, and to tell you the honest truth I was curious. I wondered what kind of scent Miss Britney would come up with as her introduction to the Perfume world. I stepped up to the tester and sprayed my wrist. As expected the perfume smelled Cheap and gave me a headache…I am no longer curious.

OK I’m not offering some glamourous prize or anything but if you take the time to analyze my WACKO preggo dream I will think very highly of you and post a link to your site in BIG LETTERS for everyone to see that you are the King or Queen of Dream Interpretation. The Daria’s Life DREAM WEAVER! Now how can anyone pass that up?!

I’ll just jump in by saying that pregnancy dreams can be pretty weird! I don’t know about the rest of you ladies waiting to deliver your little bundles but sometimes the anticipation of actually having dreams that make sense is one of the many reasons that I want to GET that Kid outta me now!!! LOL!

It all starts in a classroom setting during what I assume is a math class. The professor is up at the front of the class and looks like any regular Math Teacher would look with the tie, and the shirt with a pocket protector. I’m sure I noticed that he had a Palm organizer attached to his hip in a little clip case. Anyway, suddenly as he’s talking about some equation that we will be solving he “changes” - he morphes into a totally different person. I almost laughed to myself in the dream as I realize that it’s now in fact TONY DANZA (star of such past television shows as “Taxi” and “Who’s the Boss”. He starts going down the rows asking students one by one to walk up to the board and solve the equation. GULP - I panic. On the one hand I want to stay and ask him about what it’s like to be in the BIZ, and what Alyssa Milano was really like. But my fear takes over and I quietly creep out of my chair and head for the door. As I look back quickly I notice that the numbers on the board have beady little eyes now and pop off the board and start to follow me. They have a very creepy Sesame Street on Crack appearance to them now and I have to hustle my butt to avoid them.
Walking through the halls I notice that now the school has changed into a half school and half hospital. People are lying on gurneys in the hallway but when I look inside the rooms there are tons of students at their desks looking perturbed that I’m out there and they are stuck doing schoolwork.
Suddenly I see my Sister-in-Law Elizabeth. She’s on the cell phone talking to her mother-in-law Sherrie. Liz looks fabulous and skinny but for some reason she’s trying to coordinate Sherrie getting to the hospital for the birth of her baby. (she doesn’t look preggo at all). She’s telling Sherrie that she can come for the birth of this baby but then Liz wants to go home for the birth of the Twins which will be popping out shortly there after.
I keep on walking, then running as the crazy numbers start to catch up to me, I am panicked now. I run past the classroom where Tony Danza is teaching and notice that the kids getting all of the answers correct are hiding calculators. Why isn’t Tony catching this? ARRRGH!!!

Anyway, that’s when I woke up and decided that I’m clinically insane.

I had an interesting experience yesterday as I drove up to our complex. There were a few cars ahead of me with other Mom’s driving and also a car full of young girls. We have a traffic circle type of turn around in the complex and as I rounded it I could see the expressions on these women’s faces were of disgust, shock and anger. Then I saw why they were looking so stunned.
On the side of the road was a 13 or 14 year old boy in a yellow jacket. He had a younger kid with him around 9 would be my guess and they were cracking up laughing and thinking they were pretty clever as the older boy was making Extreme sexual gestures to the women in all of the cars. I swear the kid was almost humping the road he was so aggressive in his game of “I’m going to shock and embarrass these girls”. He made a gesture at me also and honestly my first thought was, “what a little punk” but then my Motherly instincts kicked in and I couldn’t ignore it, I couldn’t drive past, I didn’t know what I was going to do but I stopped the car.
The boy looked at me as I rolled down the window and in his most obnoxious teenage voice he could muster said “WHAT??!”, I reached down into my purse and pulled out $5.00 and said to him “Hey you know what, I am going to give you $5.00 but I also want to give you some advice. Not a bad deal hey?” The kid looked at me like I was insane but the prospect of five bucks must have peaked his interest because he said ok.
Then I just said “I’m sure that you are a really great young man, I just want you to know that when you make gestures like that to women it makes you look younger and more immature than you really are. If you learn to treat women with respect right now you’ll have alot more girlfriends in the future. Making gestures like that can also get you into trouble and I’d hate to see that happen to you. Anyway that’s all I wanted to tell you -Here you go, I hope you have a good day.”
He took the $5.00 out of my hand and looked kind of stunned, I imagine that he hadn’t had anyone respond to him in that way before and was expecting some mean old preggo lady like me to pull the car over and yell at him. Anyway, it was a lesson to me that anger isn’t always the best way to get through to someone and sometimes just taking them off guard from the reaction they are expecting can do some good. I’m sure that I have in no way “cured” this boy of immature behavior but I do think that he will remember what I said to him and to me that was worth the five dollars and minute out of my day.
What would you have done?

After several weeks of painful contractions and various other yucky preggo complications my family doctor and the OBGYN have agreed to induce me next week. I am so happy, so relieved! It’s been a long and difficult pregnancy but seems a bit lighter now with the end result in sight. I find out tomorrow what day they will induce me on and I can’t wait to know!! Nathan and I are both so happy and he’s just relieved to have some Medical Compassion on my behalf too. So next week is baby week and as soon as I can I’ll be posting pictures of our new little man and all his stats - what’s more exciting than a new baby?!!

Thanks everyone for your advice and cool posts over the past few weeks, it’s really helped! :0)

I’m so excited to meet this new baby boy of ours - new babies are miracles and I know I’m going to love him to pieces. I have to publicly admit that I desperately want a baby girl, but it’s just not happening for me. I have three little boys and one more on the way - plus my hubby! HELLO HOUSE OF TESTOSTERONE! I was thinking last night of what knowledge and life’s lesson’s I would be able to impart to a “would be” daughter someday. I’m 31, I have my own business, I am Mom to 3 (almost 4) - I’m a superwoman, I should have a bevy of advice and wisdom right?? But as I thought about it my list started to sound like one of those weekend courses you can sign up for, for the bargain price of $49.95!!
Things like:

How to open a pickle jar when your man is nowhere in sight
or
How to change a flat tire using only a paring knife and a pair of tweezers

I must have better advice than this!!! I’ve lived, I have laughed, I’ve made mistakes! Oh yeah, mistakes that should spark my creative juices flowing.

Here goes:

Skipping classes in high-school. The first step on the road to hell.
or
How to find a GREAT man by only dating 150 losers!! Woo hoo!

Maybe this is the reason I keep getting boys, I just have no Womanly Wisdom to pass on - I can’t even balance my checkbook or organize my refrigerator! What business do I have trying to steer an impressionable young lady into womanhood?! But think of the CLOTHES, THE HAIR BOWS, the Jewelry, the sheer excess of having a baby girl!! I want that someday. So like my dear sister in law said to her brother - “dude you need to put your testicles on ice!” - it’s Canada, it’s cold here! You’d think we’d have a Country full of only WOMEN!! LOL! Wait, that wouldn’t work would it? Maybe I shouldn’t have skipped so many Bio classes in high-school…

A very special CONGRATULATIONS to my beautiful cousin Leah for her hard work in growing this precious new baby boy! Little Nolan Don is darling and looks strikingly like his very proud Grandpa Don!
Love and best wishes to your little family!

I totally love having people comment on my blog and reading what you all have to say. I have to ask if any of you are getting this blog spam junk comment stuff from the online-poker jerk who keeps leaving tons of posts in my comments boxes and I have to delete each one individually!! I’m getting ticked! How can we stop the POKER JOKER?!!

I’m so so excited! We just got our OLD NAVY store in our city! FINALLY, it’s about time. I was so excited I thought about it in my sleep last night. I popped by the store on the way to my Doctors appt. today and felt giddy at all of the cute cute clothes. I even bought a few new things for our new baby - it was so fun to shop for him and pick out a few darling outfits! Can’t wait till he gets here so I can take pictures of him in them and share.
My friend Debbie is going to be GREEN with envy that I got to go and check it out already!! LOL! Love ya Deb!

We had an ultrasound yesterday just to make sure everything was going good with the little guy. I actually have started to lose weight and was measuring small for 36 weeks but everything looked wonderful yesterday. The dates are acurate and Nathan and I were in awe looking at this little guy. He was so incredibly sweet and the image was just so clear. He has some darling little chomper cheeks and beautiful kissy lips! They could even see some hair so we know he’s not bald. Nathan is hoping so badly to have a baby with dark hair like him, all of our other kids are blonde and he wants to shake things up a bit.
I have to admit that it was so reasurring to see that our baby is doing so well. They estimate that he’s around 6 pounds which is great and his head is way down (but hey I already knew that because I can’t sit down or walk around without total pain and discomfort). I’ve been so emotional lately, wondering if everything would go ok and if baby was growing alright just because of all of my own pregnancy woes with the low blood pressure (it was 80 over 45 the other day) and iron injections, then the weight loss really got me concerned. I’m so relieved and excited now to meet this little guy and feel like he’s got everything he needs to be a healthy and beautiful baby. I am going to have to really take care of my own health after he’s born. It’s been a really full 9 months of anticipation, anxiety, worry and wonder but I do feel it coming to an end very soon and I feel pretty peaceful finally about it. Seeing his little face yesterday certainly helped put me at ease knowing that he could come anytime now and be alright.