Our dear sweet apartment, how we love you so.

It's not your fault that you were given faulty loud appliances that don't work well.  But don't worry, when they break, know that I will be on the phone within minutes ordering you a new one from the maintenance shop.  I know how you love your maintenance guys, so that's why I keep 'em coming over to our home at least every other week.  Although I think they love you more than me, so I may have to cut down on those calls.

Our dear sweet apartment, how we love you so.

We are sorry that a family of elephants moved in upstairs. I know you are old and you can barely deal with them stepping all over you let alone shield us from the noise as they stomp around their forest. We are as surprised as you that we can hear them "making rain" in the bathroom, discussing dinner plans and getting up at 5 am to go to work. 

I wanted to let you know that Alyssa also feels your sympathy about the elephants.  I'm sure you have seen her jump and then stare at the ceiling when the elephants get up from the couch to stretch their legs.  She also apologizes for waking up crying while napping the last couple of days.  I mean, I'm sure Alyssa would normally love to be woken up by elephants when napping, if she could only see them and not just hear their sudden creaking footsteps.  So of course she cries when the elephants roam, I mean wouldn't you want to cry if you were jolted from your sleep.

Our dear apartment, how we love you so.

I also wanted to take this time to personally apologize for cutting off your power almost every morning.  It's just that sometimes I forget to turn off all the lights in the house, silly me, before I turn on the hair dryer.  But don't worry, I just got a hair cut, so hopefully I can dry my hair under the allotted 7 1/2 minutes you allow me to power my hair dryer - even with the lights off.

Our dear apartment, how we love you so.

I just wanted to give you ample notice that we will be leaving you as soon as our lease is up in 10 months.  I know it seems like such a short time we will be together and I'm sure it will be a sad departure, but our family is growing and we are looking for a place that has more than one cupboard that can fit our plates and maybe a linen closet.  I know, I know, it's so modern of us to want a place where our washer/dryer isn't in our kitchen and our bedroom has walking space, but really it's Luke's fault.  I mean I would love to stay here, but he's always like "let's spend more money and get a bigger place."  So as a dedicated wife, I do what my husband wants.  Because even though he's never said that out loud, I know he's thinking it.

Dear apartment, there is one thing I don't understand. What is that loud Woodpecker sound the fireplace makes in the afternoon when Alyssa is napping?!  How I hate it so.     

Our dear apartment, how we love you so.

We really do love the way you keep us warm from the snow!

As many of you know I'm a You Tube lover.  I love it when my friends send me video's because it's like a surprise birthday party, they are usually totally unexpected and they usually provoke an extreme emotion weather it be laughter or being totally grossed out.

I recently came across some video's that I just can't stop watching and so I thought I would post them.

This first one is my very first favorite You Tube video.  At first, I was like 'huh I don't get it.'  But then my mouth dropped and I was flabbergasted!  And then of course laughed so much I cried as I watched it over and over.  It is kinda long at 6 minutes, but totally worth the watch.

"Crazy Bride"

This next one used to be my 2nd favorite although recently it's been demoted to my 3rd favorite.  I also watched this one over and over and of course Luke and I tried to teach Alyssa to say this...we'll see if it's her first word. :) hehe just kidding.

"Buhlood"

I recently came across this video and it is my 2nd favorite video.  I am smiling just thinking about it!  I wonder if it would be as funny without the accent.  So cute.

"Ow Charlie!"

The next two are professional commercials.  There are a few other of these commercials that are funny if you have time to watch them, but these are the best two by far!

"Spinach and Carrots health commercial"

"Snotty Doctor"

If you have computer issues viewing the videos you can go to You Tube and search using the titles I gave above each video and you should be able to find them.

So yesterday was my very first pregnancy doctor's appointment.  And we're having twins!  Yup, we're pretty excited about it.  I mean, they didn't say we're not having twins, so we're just assuming that we are.  We were able to listen to the heartbeat at the doctor's office, but who's to say there isn't another heartbeat underneath that heartbeat.  So I guess we'll find out for sure at the ultrasound in a couple of weeks.  But until then, we're having twins.  Alyssa's pretty excited, here was her reaction when I told her at breakfast this morning. Yikes! hehe

Luke's pretty stoked though.  Hopefully he won't be too disappointed if it turns out we're only having a singleton.  Alyssa is a singleton and she's turned out to be pretty fun, so another singleton won't be so bad either.  A bonus for twins is that it justifies my belly, so I'm fine with that for now.

 Oh so I vandalized Luke's car yesterday.  Yeah I figured that since he was turning the big "three oh" and he had no friends to celebrate with that I'd make him feel like he was loved on by a bunch of high school friends.   I didn't want to exactly embarrass him in front of his coworkers so I didn't take a sign or balloons or cupcakes into his work, I just taped a bunch of "Happy 30th Birthday" balloons to his car.  He gets "first tier" parking at work since he's one of the first people there so his car was right in front of the glass staircase of the building.  So anyone going up or down stairs in the building that day got to smile at his car.    

He said that when he was walking to his car he had to pause just inside the building to wait so that they guy getting into the car next to him wouldn't know it was his car.  hehe  Gosh, so easily embarrassed.

Something kind of exciting - We got a new dishwasher yesterday because like the rest of our appliances it was crapy and not working right.  So while I was out with Alyssa, so that they could put in the dishwasher, unfortunately I missed the FedEx guy.  I was pretty excited because I was sure it was a birthday present for Luke.  They left a note saying they would leave the package with the apartment office, but when I went by it wasn't there yet. They said to check back just before 6pm, so when Luke got home from work we waited around for a while then went to  the office to go get the package.  We were both in the dark as to who had sent him a birthday package, but thought it was cool that he was sent a package and it arrived on his birthday.  When we finally got it, he opened it and it turned out to be a cell phone that my mom had ordered.  So it wasn't even for him AND now we would have to reship the package to my mom.  What a let-down surprise package.

So we're pretty disappointed and sitting in the car at the exit waiting to turn right out of our apartments.  Just as I'm about to turn right the car honks and Luke and I both freak out for a moment.  I jump in my seat and then start laughing and Luke is looking at me like I'm crazy.  He was like who honked?!  Oh it was just me.  I have no idea what I was doing, but somehow I honked my own horn on accident and freaked out the both of us.  Then he was laughing at me for jumping since I was the one that was honking.   

Oh but the laughing at me didn't stop there.  No sir.  Later on in the evening I'm getting ready to put into the oven our homemade "Bazookie." And as I'm opening up the oven to put in the gigantor cookie, I snag the bag of carrots sitting on top of the stove and into the oven the entire bag goes.  I'm like, oh crap.  Our kitchen is so small and dishes are everywhere (due to the dishwasher incident) that there is no place to set down the bazookie except the floor (luckily I had just mopped).  So then I'm trying to grab the bag as it's melting all over the rack of the stove and onto the door of the oven.  Carrots are everywhere!  Luke is standing in the entry way to the kitchen and says , well that's an interesting way to open the bag of carrots. 

So last but not least, to top off the evening we're getting into bed and just as Luke turns out the light I reach for a bottle of hand lotion.  So now it's pitch black, but that's okay because I'm pretty good in the dark since once my contacts are out I can't see much anyway.  So I open the bottle and squeeze the lotion onto my hand, but it comes out surprisingly fast and now I have too much.  But that's okay because my arms are dry too so I rub it all over my hands and up to my shoulders on each arm before I realize that whatever I have in my hands is NOT lotion.  It's slimy feeling and smells strange.  So I'm like "Uh! Turn on the light!"  The light comes on and I glance to the shelf with the lotion.  Then I start cracking up laughing because I had just put hair gel all over my hands and arms!  I'm laughing so hard Luke is starting to catch on, but isn't exactly sure what happened.  He says "I take it that, that wasn't lotion?" 

So that was some 30th birthday we had yesterday.  

Happy 30th Birthday Daddy!  

I usually run my blog topics off my husband to see what he thinks before I publish them because sometimes my emotions get the best of me and he usually has a pretty good sense of what is appropriate and what is not.   For instance I have lots of friends and sometimes my friends do strange or crazy things and I just feel like the world should hear about them, but then I am reminded that those are inside thoughts. 

But this time I can not resist. 

So this evening Luke and I are brushing our teeth and talking - which isn't so easy by the way - and the topic of conversation is quite comical and so I tell him that I'm going to blog about it.  He immediately threatens me by saying that if I blog about this subject then he is going to blog about how I drool. So there. Yes, I am 29 years old and I drool when I sleep.  Okay to be fair, I also drool once my head hits the pillow before I'm all the way asleep.  I'm sure he would elaborate more, but I'll just leave that to him to decide.  So now with that out of the way.

I know because I'm pregnant that my body temperature is higher than when I'm not.  So I'm usually warm most of the time and especially when I'm sleeping.  When I go to bed, my pajama's consist of spaghetti straps and sometimes socks, but usually not.  Now we've been married for almost 3 years and so this shouldn't be shocking to me, but this evening as I looked up from the sink while I was brushing my teeth I began to laugh because my husband looked like he was getting ready to go outside in the snow.  He was even laughing at himself or maybe laughing at me laughing at him.  He was wearing his usual undershirt, long sleeve shirt, boxers, long underwear and of course his pajama pants tucked into his socks - his usual - but then he also had on super bulky fleece pajama pants and a really thick hooded sweatshirt.  Actually now that I think of it, he does wear a sweatshirt to bed (nicknamed "hoodie" - oh gosh he's so going to kill me), but it's thinner and tonight he brought out the heavy duty hoodie "cousin of hoodie."  

So we were quite the pair looking at each other in the mirror. 

How can he sleep like that?!  He actually hasn't been sleeping well so his thought was to revert back to pre-marriage when he slept in all this plus a sleeping bag to see if he could get a good night's rest. 

So I guess we'll see how he is feeling in the morning.  He also took a Dramamine, lol, so hopefully he wakes up alive and well. 

What do you sleep in??  Yikes, maybe I shouldn't publish this.  To push or not to push that publish button....is this only funny to me?  Maybe so, but it's my blog and it's so tempting and so late at night.  Plus, it's almost his birthday (the big 30 by the way) and Valentines Day so maybe if he gets embarrassed by this I can still make it up to him. 

Dedicated to my faithful reader Bridget who makes me laugh and so here is a laugh for you. :) 

UPDATE:

A person, who I'll keep anonymous, sent me this link. I think maybe I'll get this for Luke for Valentines Day!
gizmodo.com/.../itch+free-temperature+regulating-sex+preventing-pajamas-created