2 rooms done

Been busy for the last couple of weekends cleaning and setting up furniture. We finally got our room and the nursery done. We got a new King size bed and matching drawer chests. The bed is soooo big. Can't wait to actually sleep in it. The mattress also came and it's soooo comfy. The nursery is all set up too and it's just so cute. We put the crib, the changing table, chest up. Just have to get a small bookcase. I just love the nursery bedding set I got. So excited.

I think my girl is too. She's been kicking real hard. LOL

Woohoo! Finally!

Finally Gary saw the bump moved last night. I have been seeing it and feeling it myself for weeks, but Gary hasn't had the patient to stare long enough. And it's like the baby was playing with him...like she knew he's staring, so she wouldn't move. But last night it happened.

We are both going baby crazy. Buying loads and loads of baby stuff already. We'll be ready to set up the nursery next week after all the baby furniture arrive. We even got booster seat, baby sling, carrier...pretty much everthing if you ask.

Uh...we even have socks for age 5. ROFL ;p

What a mess!?

...as I was saying, my friend from Ireland who came all the way to visit a friend in Boston and me in New York wanted to shorten her trip and go home early (from Monday to this Thursday). I was like WHY? The story began...

This guy she was going to visit was an old friend of hers. He now lives with his fiancee and their 2 year old son in Boston. They haven't talked in years, but got in touch again last July. So she'd planned this trip to visit him and I. The night she arrived Boston, this friend of hers invited her to uh...sleep together WITH HIM & HIS FIANCEE! *faint* (I hope no one under 18 is reading this blog) My friend freaked out...but don't ask me, she actually managed to sleep there on the couch for two nights (second night, this guy grabbed her hand when his fiancee wasn't around!!!!). So when she came down from Boston on Friday, she told me she wanted to go home early!!! She was supposed to go back to Boston on Monday. I was like NOOOO! You could stay in NYC for as long as you wanted and just DO NOT GO BACK to that guy's place anymore. BUT SHOCKING: She told me she still had her stuff there! I nearly fainted.

So we tried searching for another flight, but we couldn't find anything. Probably because it was Easter, everyone was flying, so everything was booked up. To purchase a new ticket, it'd have cost over $700!!! So not worth the money (although well worth not being attacked). So I suggested to her to take a trip or two and just stay in NYC. So on Monday, she took a trip to Washington DC. She came back on Tuesday and had a great time there.

Today, she went back to Boston to get her bag. She called him last night and told him she'd be back and would give him a call around 2 or 3pm. He said he'd be home all day (according to her, he'd taken off the whole week!), but this jerk didn't show up until after 6! So she waited for 3 hours plus just to get her bag. Anyway, she got her bag without much trouble and she's on her way back to NYC now... Whew...

And about my job...my boss went away last week. He told me to stay for at least one more week (last Friday was supposed to be my last day), so he could have some time to think about whether he'd let me work from home and how we could resolve our "differences". So Monday came, I went in and found out his dad just passed away on Sat. He didn't even make it back until Sunday! So much for talking to him. I don't think it's a good time to talk to him and really don't wanna bug him. His dad's funeral was today and we had today off. I took the opportunity to work on the house with Gary. So this kind of sums up what's been happening! We'll just have to wait and see on 1) when we'lll move back to the house, 2) if I will be without a job soon. :p

Everything is happening...

Everything has been happening all together!!! I have been so busy I actually forgot about my blog. :S Putting being pregnant aside...

On Thursday, I got a phone call from my contractor who told me that the plumbing fixture count on our application was incorrect. I called my expeditor to ask him to fix it and he had the nerve to tell me he couldn't because he was going on vacation for 3 weeks! And I was screaming on top of my lung in my head: I PAID YOU TO DO THIS, now you screwed up and you told me you couldn't help me???? He never replied to my second email asking if there was anyway he could try...

So I left the office early on Thursday and went to the Department of Buildings to check what was original filed. I found that the application was missing 13 fixtures (plumbing and gas) out of the 21 we'd have. >:O And being someone who had NOOOO knowledge on filing this type of paperwork, I tried to fill the form that night.

Then on Good Friday, taking advantage of Gary having it off, I also took off to work on the house. I went to the house early to wait for Verizon (phone) and Times Warner (cable) to hook up the new cables. Both of them were supposed to come between 8am & noon. Not wanting to waste anytime, I started putting together bathroom cabinets. While I was doing my own thing, Gary rented a trunk and first went to get the dining table from Long Island...then started his journey to Staten Island & NJ to two of our friends' places to pick up our stuff that's been stored there since last July.

The phone guy came at around 9am. I told him where we would like the wire to hook up and I went back into the house. Next thing I knew, he was gone and his truck was gone. All he did was put a clamp over the public wire. I thought maybe he went to pick up some supplies. Then an hour or so later, another phone guy came. He told me he was there to install the interface box -- ONLY. I explained to him about what happened to the other guy and he said he'd probably come back in the afternoon. And I was like, weren't you guys supposed to be done between 8 & 12??? I didn't wanna wait all day.... :S

So at around 2/2:30, I went to get some lunch, and had my dad wait in the house for both the cable and the phone guys...while I rushed to the Department of Buildings to file the new Schedule B. When I got there, I was told that I was missing another form called the PW-1. :( So I made the trip for nothing. I went back to the house to release my dad and neither of those guys showed up!!!

I called the cable company, they told me someone went, but no one was home. I was going to scream so loud that the whole world could hear me, but the lady on the phone was so nice, and it obviously wasn't her fault. So we had to reschedule to this coming Sat. And the phone company? I called them and they told me that the order was completed. So without wire (either from my house or from the public wire) hooking up to the interface box, the person on the phone told me to plug a phone to that box and see if there was dial tone. I felt stupid even testing that, and of course, there was NOTHING! So she opened a case for me.

Not long after that, Gary and my friend came back with a trunkful of stuff. It was nearly 4pm and they started unloading. They brought stuff into the kitchen and I just started moving them into the living room. Finally after the two of them nearly killing each other moving the 375lb TV (nearly dropping it and crushing their own fingers), the 280lb dining table and the too-heavy refridgerator, we finally finished at 7:30pm. We then returned the trunk...

You'd think that'd be the end of the story...but no. Friday was also the day that my friend was coming to visit me from Ireland. She's visiting Boston as well and had taken the bus from Boston to New York earlier that day. My mom picked her up from Chinatown and they went home together. Since we didn't have our house yet...she had to sleep in the living room. I didn't even have the strength to talk to her and that was pretty much it for Friday, or so I thought... She told me she wanted to change her flight and go home 3 days early. And I was like WHY???

-- More to follow -- ;)