Baby Stuff

Well, I feel lame for again excusing my absence from the interweb because of my dumbass home computer, but that has been the reason I have been absent for the past few days. Our home computer is just not co-operating (we thought it was coming around, but I guess that was just trickery), so I don't know: We'll have to take it in to be serviced or we'll have to throw it in the dumpster. I'm leaning toward option #2.

So, what's new in the Jess world? More baby stuff, but of course!

Jerry and I spent a somewhat exhausting weekend researching, browsing, and then ultimately registering for some baby stuff for Baby Norah. First of all, we decided on a nursery motif: The below featured bedding with ladybugs and dragonflies is gonna be the "centerpiece" of the room's design. Yes, it has pink (it's not that I'm not anti-pink, per se -- in fact, there's a lot of pink I do love, but I just didn't want a solid pink theme), but I like that it also has some greens, some red, and some cream. We'll probably paint the room a cream color, just because we'd like the walls to be neutral, but we can incorporate the other colors in other ways in the room. Plus, both Jerry and I liked the above design: It's feminine but not overly so, which was the vague concept we went about searching for.

Additionally, we decided on a furniture line: Except that what's featured here in the picture isn't the stain we're getting. We are getting what's called an "espresso" stain -- so it's a much darker, almost black, wood.

But that's the crib and dressers.

We didn't actually purchase anything yet (still waiting for some parental-assistance with some of it), but we got registered at a new baby store near us called Buy Buy Baby.

So that pretty much took up our weekend. We did fit in a great party with friends on Saturday night in which we had a shrimp boil, fireworks, and shenanigans, but other than that, I don't have much else to report. I haven't run since Friday, and today is a rest day for me because tonight is bowling.

Now, I have an hour of office time left today, so I think I will waste that (I mean "use that") time to catch up with some of you homies! So, toodles!