How come me shirt don’t fits no more? Huh? Oh, dats right, I need to fix me up some maternity clothings.
Or, I could walk around with my belly hanging out all over the place just to see the reaction from people and humor myself. See Week 35
You know what it’s like. You work all day and spend time with your co-workers and all you talk about is business, money and what needs to be accomplished. Yeah, well that’s Joe and I lately. So we were in NEED of a little getaway. A date night, if you will.
I’d had this Groupon purchase for a gondola ride in Huntington Beach that I’d made months ago and with it’s expiration date looming around the same time the baby is due, I thought for sure it would end up in the garbage bin, never a gondola ride to be had. But then Thursday was expected to be 85 degrees and I just HAD to force a date night upon us! I decided it just wasn’t proper for us to be all work and no play when we have a baby on the way. We should have SOME down time to hang out and talk about ANYTHING other than what work and to-do’s we need to accomplish. And didn’t we deserve a celebration of our ONE BIG project down?
Our date night started at 3:30pm with a ride down to Huntington Beach. It took us an hour and a half to get there! An HOUR and a HALF! So right from the start of our sacred date night we were all, “No wonder we never go out in LA! We could have stayed home and enjoyed this last hour and a half relaxing instead of fighting traffic!” Only, we wouldn’t have relaxed if we were at home. We would have been on our computers or tackling some sort of to-do item. It’s hard not to when an unfinished project is staring you down in the face calling out “Hey, lazy ass, you don’t have time to relax! Get to work!”
In the car at least we were miles away from our screaming unfinished projects. And once we we made it to our destination and started our private gondola ride, the drive was totally worth it. It was such a beautiful day, our gondola “driver” was funny, sang Italian songs and made us kiss while we went under the bridge. “It’s good luck”, he explained. Something about being on the water and feeling the warm sun is so relaxing.
Afterwards we drove a little further down the coast and found a great restaurant in downtown Huntington Beach to watch the sunset over the ocean, one of my favorite things to do. And we only slipped up and started talking business ONCE before we nipped that conversation in the bud! For those few hours spent in the warm sun while floating on the water in peace and then watching the sunset while eating delicious food and spending relaxing time together, it felt more like a mini-vacation than just a date night. And all seemed right in the world for an evening.
The stress level around here has gone from a 10 to about a 4. One huge “project” (for lack of a better word) that’s been going on for about 3 years has been completed. One BIG thing we don’t have to think or spend time on anymore. Whew! hat a LOAD off. It finally came to completion last Friday and it’s success is slowly sinking in day by day.
Joe and I have both been sort of in awe saying things like, ‘Wow, this feels really good. I still can’t believe it’s over.’ And OK, yes that feeling was magnified by the beautiful weather, a whole house scrub down from the cleaning lady, the last tax document emailed out, and other previous looming “to do” items checked and completed, but I KNOW it’s 99% due to the success of the BIG project because before this, we probably wouldn’t have even NOTICED the beautiful weather or if the house was clean or dirty.
Now we just have ONE BIG project left to finish. But it’s currently on track (knock on wood) and we hope not to have any derailments. And It’s OK with me if this great feeling of contentment only lasts for a few days or weeks. And this may just be the calm before the storm of sleepless nights with a crying baby, but I don’t care. I’m. Savoring. Every. Moment.
I know I talk a lot about baby, baby, baby, blah, blah, blah. But it sort of consumes my life right now. I am almost ready for him with only a few more necessities to buy before he makes his debut.
And to help out with that, Joe’s mom threw us a baby shower in Missouri over the weekend and we attended… via Skype! Isn’t that a fun idea? She got all the girls together out there, they did the baby shower thing, and we got to see and chat with everyone while we sat right here in Cali. And my laptop made it possible to even give a tour of the baby room.
They drank wine and snacked and showed us gifts and now they’re mailing them off to us. It was a really sweet idea and really nice of everyone to take the time and effort to get together.
I know Skype has been around for a long time and is old news, but I have to admit, I still thought that was pretty cool. The only thing better would have been to be there personally by saying, “Beam me up, Scotty.”
These twin boys are having a VERY in-depth and important conversation…
