I’m always thinking of oddball things I could “use.”  It’s time I put together a concrete list of things I want, but could live without.

• A good moisturizer or whatever a 30-something-year-old woman needs to put on her face.  If it combats wrinkles and will shrink pores, all the better.
• A good pair of walking shoes.  Don’t say Rockport.  I am 34.
• What color drapes go with brown furniture and yellow walls?  I’ve been trying to figure this out for three years.  No clue.
• Can you get rid of fat/flab while pregnant?  This is very important, my bottom is out of control.  I planned on tackling the old physique in the new year BUT…yeah.  So can I get rid of the jiggle without hurting anything?
• A jewelry box.  I gots a lots o’ bracelets.  Mainly because Dave makes them, not because I’m a jewelry person.
• A HUMONGOUS nursing bra that doesn’t cost $100.00 – it is impossible to find.
• One of those constrictor devices to use after the birth to get my stomach back to normal.  I can just hear it now “Naw Ms. Donna, you done had a baby, you ain’t never gonna be no 18 and a half inches again.”  (In my version of Gone With the Wind, Mammy is referencing my ankle circumference, obviously).
• Something to keep me from wanting to vomit 24/7!
• Dark brown paint for the guest room walls.
• New carpet for the family room.  I hate that berber madness.  I am almost crazy enough to take a pair of scissors and cut every.single.loop of that hot mess and make it look like pile carpet.
• An ipad skin because I will drop the thing.
• A tempurpedic mattress.

Also, some random thoughts:

Do people still use those “hug the toilet” bath mats?  Considering the sprinkling that goes on in a house full of boys, I can see it’s appeal.  Sort of.  Of course you’re unknowingly stepping in sprinkles, but ignorance is bliss, right?  I don’t have a problem with it as long as I don’t know I’m doing it.

Why does NC make you leave your curtain hardware behind when you sell the house?  Word to the wise:  before you list your house and take pictures, switch out any good hardware with cheap stuff.

I am reading “Decision Points” by GWB.  I like it, he comes across as down to earth and pragmatic.  Also, I do not get the appeal of Huckabee.  He’s doing better in the polls, I cannot tell you why.

I am so hungry, yet nothing sounds good except Moo Goo Gai Pan and Dave won’t fetch me any.  I should ask earlier, I guess.

I will post Christmas pictures and asides at some point.  Hopefully by Valentine’s day.

I like how Henry still mispronounces “shovel” as “shubble.”  I don’t correct him, hee.  He also says “free” instead of “three” but we’ve started working on that.

Also, if you read this and didn’t know (which is rather improbable since I think I personally know everyone who reads this blog) I am pregnant and due at the beginning of August.  Whee!