a lot has been accomplished in the past 2 weeks. we now have carpet in the living room, bedroom and on the stairs. i repainted spots in the living room and bedroom. the old cabinet is out of the bathroom and the primer is drying on our new built-in shelving. we bought a new set of living room furniture (entertainment stand, coffee table, end tables) and picked up some nice table lamps. the lamp shades are neat. when the light is off they look plain beige, but when you turn the light on this funky pattern shows up from the inside layer of the shade. it's like two lamps in one. i might just be exaggerating the coolness factor to make up for the excessive price of the set though.

other than picking up a few things off the floor, the living room is DONE. woo! we finished something! the bedroom is almost done. i need to find a plant or two for upstairs. we also have a conspicuously empty corner, but since the cradle my dad is building will eventually go there, i'm hesitant to fill it. although ideally we'll have sold the house before she arrives. after the built-in is finished in the bathroom (probably today) we just have one more smallish project of putting this fake tile sheet thing behind the toilet and sink for aesthetic purposes. then i'll need to repaint 1 wall in the bathroom around the built-in and new heater, remove 95% of all the crap in the room, and that will be done. the kitchen is a whole other story... anyone want to help amos move a 2,000 lb wood stove to the garage? over a gravel driveway? yeah...

so i was laying on the couch and checking out how my stomach is super lopsided when all of a sudden my belly jolted. i kept watching and it moved 2 more times. i saw the baby move! super awesome.

in other news, the heaters are completely installed. just have 4 walls that need paint touch-ups (3 colors unfortunately...). we're going to lowes tonight to see about getting carpet installed. and while we're waiting for that to happen, we will do our mini bathroom built-in shelf project, paint 3 ceilings and then we list!! yay!!

so tuesday morning, at approximately 2:00am, i learned that there is some virus going around that causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. i discovered this at the precise moment that it hit me. it was the really awful sickness where you don't know which end should be facing the toilet... TMI, i know. i ended up sitting and holding a bucket in my lap. for 3 hours. i lost 5lbs. i then sat on the couch for another hour before trekking back upstairs to bed, where i got a grand total of 30 minutes of sleep. ugh. it's now friday, i haven't gotten sick in any way since that morning, but my stomach is still angry. luckily, i had sims 3 to distract me from the awful. the past two days i've eaten pretty much average for being pregnant. (today i had pizza for breakfast and lunch, grapes for snack, salad for dinner and then a BIG bowl of ice cream. yum).

unfortunately, amos caught the death virus on wednesday and ended up staying home from work for 2 days, missing the last day of school. sad. but he's doing better today and made it in to work, so hopefully our week of extra sick is done. well.. 2 1/2 weeks of extra sick for me since i had *just* finished those stupid pills THE DAY i got sick. sigh.

in other news, all drywalling is done. just waiting for 2 spots of mud to dry and then i will finish painting, we'll get the heaters all wired in and this project will be DONE. my parents are coming up on sunday so my dad can wire everything into the circuit box. amos is working on getting the individual heaters installed right now. i'm hoping this project will be 100% complete by early next week. then it's carpet time! and then we list the house!!

YAY!!! time to upload! oh, and special thanks to UPS for apparently putting me almost last on their delivery schedule for today. it is much appreciated. i also would like to thank you, 2 years later, for putting me last on your schedule when you delivered my previous macbook. i'm really starting to feel the love.

last night after an impromptu chinese buffet dinner, amos and i decided to see how low the glorious staunton mall had crumbled. (the answer is "very low.") we went into bath and body works to see if they had any foot soaks for my preggo footsies, and we found this. i debated buying it since it's $15 for a sorta small bottle. amos convinced me that if my feet were hurting bad enough, i probably deserved it, so i grabbed one and we to the counter. well, somehow it rang up as $3.75! needless to say, i bought 3. i tried some out last night in a plastic tub and it feels great! i went online to see if it's listed as clearance or something and it's not. so i wonder if it was just in the register wrong or a store-only discount or whatever. regardless, i'm pretty pleased.