This is the easiest way for me to post my many thoughts, that seem to be circling a barrel, without having to write in any conducive fashion.  So here goes, in order of what pops up:

• Paxton is 4 weeks old today, and will be a month old in 2 days.  What the…
• When he found out we were looking to purchase our next home, our jerk landlord had the nerve to say, “I’d like for you guys to buy my house.” after all the hell he put us through.  Um… NO!
• I haven’t gone to see a movie in a theatre in months.  I think I’ve forgotten they exist.
• It’s weird to talk to a someone who was once your closest friend and feel like you now don’t know ‘em at all.  It’s disheartening. 
• My head is heavy.  I think my hair weighs 3 pounds.  I wonder if I can weigh it somewhere.
• We’ve seen a dozen or so houses now.  I feel like we have a lot of great options
• I received a really nice email from my old boss/pastor today.  It was a nice surprise.
• I twitter a LOT!
• I’m excited (but a bit anxious) about moving next week into our interim house.  I really like my life in order (I know… I have issues).  I can’t believe it’s next weekend.
• No more baby blues for me.  I’m relieved to know I’m not “progressing” into PPD.
• Thinking about selling one of my guitars ‘cuz some extra money would be nice… but it’s like parting with one of my kids.
• I finalized the service plans for our Christmas Eve Service today.  I feel a bit behind in work and I don’t see myself “catching up” to where I’d like to be any time in the next month.
• Totally looking forward to our family vacation at Eagle Crest at the end of December/beginning of January.  We’re gonna teach Chance how to ski (we being Brian… I don’t ski, I snowboard).
• I’m bored with the way my blogsite looks… but I don’t have time or energy to make it look any different.  *sigh*
• James 2 slays me every time I read it.  One day I won’t be a sinner anymore… when I’m in heaven.
• Our neighbor, Eric, just brought dinner by, offered to help us move next weekend and said he’d really miss us when we’re gone.  I hope we still keep in touch with them after we move.
• I’m STILL dealing with Verizon three days later on the move order THEY messed up on.  UGH!  I feel a “Dear Verizon” post coming on.
• My 6-week postpartum appointment is in two weeks.  I’m hoping they tell me that I can work out by then.
• How horrible is it that I kinda like when Chance is feeling a bit under the weather?  It’s the only time he likes to cuddle.

Paxton’s awake now… so it’s time to end this post.

I think complete sentences are over-rated right now… here’s another installment of what happens in my brain.

• I’ve already packed our hospital bag and washed all the baby’s bedding… but I sort of want to unpack and RE-pack as well as re-wash the baby’s bedding.  I get that I’m nesting… but isn’t that just a bit ridiculous?
• My booty hurts from bed-resting.
• Brian and Chance are singing in the bathroom together right now and it’s just about the cutest thing in the world.
• A Chevron lost my “fill-er-up” business today because they wouldn’t take my cash from my car.  They demanded that I get out of my car with my 50 pound belly and stand INSIDE the whole time they were pumping gas AND wouldn’t start pumping it till I was in the store.  So I drove away and went to another gas station.
• I’m experiencing a ridiculous amount of contractions today.
• Hormones are stupid:  one minute, I’m sillier than the Trix rabbit and the next minute I want to cry till my face is as puffy as my belly.
• Chance keeps building me airplanes and trucks out of legos because he says it will make my belly not hurt.  I just tell him it’s working.
• Ever feel like a part of you has died?  It could be good or bad.
• I’m looking forward to all the meals I won’t have to cook after we have Paxton.  Thanks, Faye!!!
• I LOVE Hummus.
• I can’t wait for all this negative campaigning to stop!  It makes me sad.
• Praying Backwards on www.ragamuffinsoul.com now!!!

I’m feeling a bit silly right now so I thought I’d write a Floating Thoughts Edition to make the best of it:

• I can reach my toes because all I do during “bedrest” is surf the net and stretch.
• I think all the comments about how I “do” bedrest is pretty funny… mostly because everyone’s right.  However… I really HAVE been on my backside for the majority of the last two weeks and have noticed a little relief in the last couple of days.
• My nails are pretty long for me right now.  And I don’t have to cut them because I won’t be playing guitar or keys for a few months.  This is only a big deal to me because I’m a nail biter and usually have acrylics but quit a couple months ago to save money.  
• For the rest of my life, one of my kids will have the same birthday as Kurt Brandemihl. Will Kurt be in my thoughts for the rest of my life?  Oh dear LORD, save me!
• I have broken blood vessels on both sides of my thighs due to the apparent OVERLOAD of weight my body presses onto them at night.  I’d post pictures, but I think that’s a bit inappropriate.
• For the next four days, when someone asks me, “When are you due?”, I’m gonna reply, “Due for what?” then take a picture of them during the awkward moment.
• I’m gonna ask my nurse if I can keep all my staples from the C-Section when she takes them out this time so I can mail them to closest friends in case they want to clone my DNA for anything important…
• There are 8 hats on the hooks of my entryway right now belonging to Brian and Chance.  Really… do they REALLY need that many hats in the entryway?
• I wish I could be Brooke Fraser for a month because she writes better songs than I do… but mostly because I want to have an Australian accent… and she’s on Wikipedia.
• Why aren’t I nervous about the birth of this second child?  Should I be?
• I hate vertical blinds.  Almost all the blinds in my house are vertical.
• I have to pee.  Be right back.
• I’m back.
• When will Chance finally poop in the toilet?
• Halloween was two days ago and Chance has only had 2 pieces of candy from his trick-or-treat stash.  He hasn’t even asked.  Greatest kid EVER!!!
• I’m a sideways camel: