It’s such a nice day today. My favourite kind. I went out to get a bit of Vit D and standing out on the grass in the sunshine was lovely. Not hot….and there was a cool breeze around me. From now, until the middle of Spring, is my fave weather. I wish there were places for me to do photography around here. It’s hardly windy, which makes macro really easy. But I have nothing to macro

I am going to visit Davina (my Auntie) tomorrow. I haven’t seen her in months. And I have only been to her new place just the one time….so I am hoping that I can get there and back without stress…..as I don’t really remember how to get there….so I gotta map it out again. At least most of it is just a straight forward trip on the highway.

Rick decided he wanted to go to Aldi today. There is one about 9 minutes drive away from where we live and so we went and checked it out today. Haven’t been there for a while. It’s much the same as it was years ago when we first went, when it first opened. So Rick got what he went there for and I got a few bits n bobs for the baby. Got a couple of Winnie The Pooh framed prints to put up in her room. And a tub of Magnetic Alphabet Plastic letters for the fridge and going to try a pack of their baby wipes too. Then we went to Coles and got some grocery and a couple of things for my hospital bag.

Now I am sitting at home enjoying a cappuccino and watching the pigeons sitting on the bird aviary, preening themselves. Boy they look so SOFT . Then I am going to make myself a sandwich for lunch and probably watch some foxtel and read a bit. Have to get cracking on my childbirth dvd too. Quite a nice day today.

……feeling flat.  Not going to write down why.  Just needed to say it.  It’s not a pregnancy thing…it’s a mental thing. 

so I was aware that whilst pregnant you will feel your baby kick.  Duh.  But I was never told that you would also feel weird ‘roll’ like movement.  It feels like my baby is rolling around rubbing her knees and head and elbows etc against my belly.  It’s kinda creepy to watch.  Think I might take a little video clip of it for future reference.  It reminds me of Aliens,  the movie….where the alien is moving around in the belly and you can see it turning round.  It’s just such a surreal feeling.

Well it’s time to go and make a nice hot cuppa and have a little bit of the ‘forbidden’.  (chocky) 

Went into the city today. Haven’t been in there a while….there was no real point in going either, since we don’t really have any money for spending as we have been spending on car stuff. Still have a bit to buy that is essential for baby, but we also needed a couple of things for the new car. We needed mats and a dash mat and that will suffice.

Well I said I would post a new picture of my belly today (@ 33wks) and here it is…

Going to be having proper photo’s done next Sunday at my mum’s. I wanted a couple of decent pics done of Rick and I and the belly. I can’t wait until I can do photo’s of the baby herself. Going to be broke processing all of those too!!

…not much time left to do it all.  But at least the good news is,  that the baby capsule fits in behind either mine or Ricks seat in the car.  It looks like it is going to be placed behind me at the moment.  Rick thinks it will be easier to get her out of my side.  Really he just wants to be able to put his seat back in sleeping position!  So I am going to purchase one of those little mirrors that fits over the headrest,  that allows you to see your baby as you drive,  via the rear vision mirror.

I have been slowly chipping away at all the things I need to get done in the baby’s room,  I don’t want it all done too soon,  cuz then I feel like it has to be redone.  I.e,  washing clothes and hanging them etc.  I am washing the cot sheets today.  I need to get curtains for her room soon and a chest of drawers too.  But that will have to wait,  considering we just bought the car.  I have done the housework this morning and I still have a couple of things to do yet,  like polishing and ironing,  but I am finding it kinda hard today,  as I don’t really have much energy.  I need some food …….. ……. …….

and now it’s all over. *Phew* They paid for the car at 4pm yesterday and drove her away. And now we have our new baby sitting in the garage!! It is such a dream to drive. I can’t believe we were going to waste our money on a Mazda Tribute instead of an Outlander.

Now the next exciting/stressful episode in my life yet to come, is giving birth to our first Baby. Not long to go now. I can’t believe how fast it really has gone too. I am going to insert a photo of my belly on Saturday Morning. I have had such a hectic week I haven’t had a chance to do it before now. But here is an old really crappy photo I took a while ago……..

Well we have been given the cheque this afternoon and they took my old baby away.  If I’m honest,  I still don’t feel like it’s all over.  Not until we have our new car parked in our garage.  Tho I don’t see it happening,  they could still cancel the cheque on us and bring back the car.  So until we have cashed that cheque,  I will still sit tight.  We have just been through so much stress in such a short amount of time and it all could have been avoided,  that it has left me tense and skeptical and pessimistic to say the least.

I can’t wait until we get the new car tho.  I think Rick and I are going to be squabbling over who gets to drive it!! 

FAT lady sings!!  OR in this case,  till the customer pays

So last night we had another call about our car,  but this guy wanted to buy it sight unseen.  Which is silly really,  but maybe they knew what they were looking for and saw our car and knew it was a steal?.  Anyway,  we told this guy that he is welcome to come and Test Drive the car and then if he wants to go ahead with the deal that he can leave a deposit.

Well they came and they saw and they deposited!  I did a proper receipt for the deposit and I will do one for the final payment as well.  Just to do everything by the book.  They are going to come tomorrow and pay for the car and take it away.

Right now it’s just after 4am and I can’t sleep anymore.  My head has thinking diarrhea and it won’t stop,  so I just got up and have hopped on the computer.  This will be the second time this week already.  I won’t be settled and satisfied with this whole car deal,  till it is paid for and taken away.  Only then will I be able to sleep easy.

Never again ……. will I trust or think of anyone’s feelings, except for my family’s.

We had a buyer for the car (or so we thought) who turned out to be a total pig faced scum bag (enter expletives here) who basically told us he was meeting us today with the money. So of course, in the meantime the PERFECT car came up for sale and we checked it out and knew it was the one for us and we went ahead and put a deposit down on it and in the middle of doing so, what did the total pig faced scum bag (more expletives here) do?? He called us to pull out of the deal!!!!

Well what could we do??!! We turned down 2 offers, one email inquiry and about 8 separate phone calls of interest all for this (EXPLETIVE) man. We were far too nice and kind and waaaay too accommodating to this man and we had a funny feeling about him from the start. When someone tells you to listen to your instincts you should rightly do so! Rarely are they ever wrong.

So today was a big lesson learned. Thank goodness we have family who are willing to help us out in the meantime whilst we try to Re-sell our car. We have listed it for less yet again and this afternoon about 3pm we had a new message waiting when we got home, from someone who wants to buy the car. (like we will fall for that bull again) So we told him that he can come and test it out tonight and that if he is interested in going ahead with it or to hold it for him, it will be a $300 deposit. I will do a receipt up ready to go for the small chance that he may be legit. And we will hold for no longer than a MAX of 3 days. THAT IS IT!

Today has been one of the worst days I have ever encountered in the stress department and I have only approx 5.5 weeks left before I give BIRTH!!! As if that isn’t enough to stress about!!! *HUGE sigh*

Well lets hope that this all works out. Right now, I feel sick and spent…I have nothing left in me. I am exhausted. I am over it.