Ow, Pregnancy Hurts

My body is sore from trying to sleep, both sides of my hips hurt, so no matter which side I tried to sleep on, it ended up getting sore and hurting. And from that my lower back hurts...like majorly. Plus yesterday they mowed the lawns here at the apartments, and my allergies are always worse the day after...it sucks. That and my belly just hurts, no I'm not really worried about it, but I will call my doctor later just to be sure nothing is wrong. There isn't any cramping, but just pressure and soreness. I think because I'm growing again. I hit 24 weeks pregnant yesterday, and I had Husband take a picture, and since the beginning of the pregnancy I have worn the same shirt, but we haven't taken any pictures since I was around 16 or 18 weeks....and looking at the picture from last night I have defiantly gotten bigger, even with still loosing weight. I just can't wait till it's very obvious I'm pregnant, even in the pictures it's not 100% clear. Oh well, I've got plenty of time for that left....trust me.

An interesting side effect of me being pregnant, the dog, so long as Husband isn't distracting him will follow me around from room to room, and if I'm in the bathroom, he'll be sitting right outside waiting for me to get done and come back out to the other room. I guess he's just more protective than he used to be.

Nerdy Things (non-nerds beware)

The whole party was killed yesterday (which was only me and Pretty Boy, so it really wasn't that hard) Although it was a little frustrating, especially considering my character saved Pretty Boy's from having his brains eaten by a mind flair (or illilad) But in the end a Chuul got me in it's pincers and I couldn't get out of the grapple to cast a spell anyways...long story short, with a lot of damage being taken by my from both the Chuul and Pretty Boy's character we both ended up dying....so we're continuing on with the campaign but with new characters.
And since we thought it would just be the two of us again for the actual playing, we decided to make a brother/sister duo of Druids, both of us are Aasignar, the opposite of the Tiefling, (a celestial descendant as opposed to a infernal) Well we got a text from Fireball later on in the evening, asking if we were going to be starting up DnD again, and so we responded positive, told him what level to make his character and to show up next Sunday around 4. Later we got another text, but this time from Little Brother, also wanting to play. So going from a two person party to a four person party...I can't wait for Sunday!!!
Besides, I've heard Husband giggling manically in anticipation of the game...that's always a good sign.

Ouch

As I type, my phone is next to me with the speaker on and I'm waiting to talk to the unemployment people about when they will be sending my card out so we can actually get some money...cause lord knows we have no money right now. We're also going (as soon as Husband gets out of the shower) to the SRS building to file for Healthwave (the state insurance) and food stamps, plus WIC if we can do that there, otherwise I'll be filing for that online when we get home.
All in all a fun day of begging the government for money, I just hope they take us in this time...cause we're really freaking broke.
In other news, we had a wonderful and I mean fan-freaking-tastic weekend. Got to see a special friend, had fun talking to Roommate when she was home, and Husband and I got some quality time together doing nerdy things. Speaking of nerdy things: Actually...nerdy things will be put in a different post, cause there's a lot there...
So today's gonna be pretty full, and oh so much fun, but I'm sincerely hoping everything goes well and according to plan...and that I'm not on hold over an hour, so far it's been, okay it's only been 15 minutes, and that's not horrible yet, Husband was on the phone 45 minutes last time....anywho, I'll talk about nerdy stuff in another post and update about how things went today later.

*Edit* after call a total of 5 times, being hung up on 3 times and dropping the phone once, I was on the phone for a total of almost 3 hours. Finally the 5th time I called in less than 5 minutes I had gotten to talk to a person, changed my address and will get my card by Monday at the latest....
Food stamps we're having to gather information for them from both our jobs, and then after that we will be able to find out within 30 days, I hate the wait, but hopefully we'll qualify this time, cause we really need the food stamps and the health insurance for sure...I can only pray that we make it.

Pure Joy

Husband felt Loki kick, really kick this morning. I had been in the computer room just fooling around, and she started moving. So I went into the bedroom and told Husband to roll over and we'll see if Loki will keep moving for her daddy. And we both laid there for a while, and then *kick* and I saw Husband's head rise up and he just looked at me with this look of shocked joy, just pure shocked joy on his face and said "is that her?" and I nodded and he just looked at me. And I just hope I remember that look on his face for the rest of my life.
It was so precious it makes me want to cry. I honestly don't think that life can get better than that moment for the next couple months.

Well, some good news, and some indifferent news

Good news--I was finally convinced by Husband to call the unemployment people because I have had no hours from work for the last three weeks, and *fanfare please* I qualify!!! So very happy day for us! I'll get to start filing on Sunday, but I need to call them tomorrow because the first time I got unemployment, when it was finished I shredded my card...so I need to make sure they're going to send me a new one. I was just so stunned and excited that I was able to get unemployment that I forgot to talk to them about it then.
Indifferent news-- we didn't end up going to the church Sunday, we're going to try for their Saturday night service (especially since we can't afford to go to the monthly get together) but we did make it out to the grandparents for a nice family dinner, and then out to my parents for a little visit (Fun fact, my parents have been married for 30 years as of today!) and when we went to visit, mom gave me my very own bread machine! I'm quite excited, I can't wait till we have some extra money so I can buy supplies and start making our own bread.
Well Husband and I got a fair amount of cleaning done in the baby room/study. Still haven't found out anything about a crib, Husband has someone he needs to call tomorrow that gut be able to get us a free one, which would just be the bee's knees, but we got much more organized. And that makes me feel much better.
Loki is moving right on time tonight, doing summersaults in my belly, kicking my bladder as she rolls around. it still feels very odd, but I do enjoy knowing she's still moving around. Plus it's really nice to know she's a girl...

Well then...

Tomorrow hopefully Husband and I will be starting to find our own church to regularly attend. It's quite nerve racking for me, I really dislike new things, and especially crowds of people. But here's hoping everything goes well. I'll try to post what I think about the church tomorrow...if I don't forget.
In other news, Husband and I had gotten a crib from a friend of a friend for free...and now we found out why it was free. While trying to put it together today, not only are we missing the bolts and screws required for it to be held together, but we find out that even if we could put it together it doesn't seem safe enough to place a child of any age inside...so we're back to square one on that one. But hopefully we'll find a nice crib to add to the baby registry we've created.
Well, I'm off to dig through the drawer of cords to try to find the one that hooks the camera up to the computer...at least that's what I'm hoping to find.

Been away for a while again...

and I guess this proves it...