Mike and Music

At about 4:30 tonight, Mike tells me that Chipotle is giving away free burritos from 6 to 9 p.m. if you dress like a burrito.  He then proceeds to try to convince me that we should dress up like burritos.  I explain that we have $12 to spend on burritos, but he pays no heed, and off we go, roll of tin foil in hand.  As much as I hate being embarrassed, I also love free food, so how could I say no?

After parking the car, I wrap Mike in some tin foil.  He returns the favor and wraps some around me.  A random Mexican man stops to enquire what we’re doing, and we explain the Chipotle deal to him.  He’s dubious, and Mike says, “Would I lie about that?”  The man’s response was classic: “No, you look like an honest white guy.”  Yes, Senor, he is an honest white guy.  We give him a piece of tin foil and he follows us into the restaurant.

Inside the restaurant there are about 10 people in varying stages of burrito-ness.  Some have wrapped foil around their wrists, others have gone all out and have paper bag/tin foil costumes.  We’re somewhere in the middle.   We each order our food (chicken burrito for Mike, steak burrito for me), then sit down to eat (washing our burritos down with a free cup of water) and to watch a parade of our (cheap, burrito-loving) people come in.

No sooner have we begun eating than Mike suggests we go to another Chipotle so we can each get another burrito.  I’d managed to talk him down from having to go to every Chipotle in the metro San Diego area, but he was insistent we go to one more.  So when we finished our food, we headed off to another restaurant.

I wish I’d gotten a picture of the line at the second Chipotle.  It was LONG.  Even Mike has his standards, so we turned around and came home: bellies full, but no lunch secured for tomorrow.

Think I’m making this up?  I’m not, and I have pictures to prove it.

Notice the total: $0.00!

Mike and the Chipotle burritero.  Happy Halloween!!!!

Well, here I am, 29 weeks and 6 days along.  It’s starting to feel like crunch time!  Mike and I had our first childbirth education class early this week (1 down, 7 to go) and all the other preparations– getting stuff, renovations around the house, etc.– continue.  Hopefully everything will be on track and we will have another 7-10 weeks (full-term is 37 weeks) of pregnancy to prepare.  I definitely feel more pressure, though, to try to have things ready soon just in case.

Without further ado, here’s this week’s belly picture!

Because having a baby and Mike quitting his job wasn’t quite enough change all at once, I’m happy to announce that I’ve given notice at my job and will be begining a new one in about two weeks.  I have loved the work I’ve been doing– I have a great team and a lot of freedom to do what needs to be done, plus I truly believe in the mission of the organization– but when I was approached with an offer that would pay more and allow me to work exclusively from home, I couldn’t say no.

So goodbye to my 3+ hours/day in the car .  Goodbye waking up and coming home when it’s dark out.  Goodbye monitoring sigalert.com religiously.  As much as I’ll miss the work and the people, I won’t miss any of that!

Of course, life will be very different in a couple of months (once the baby is born), and all jobs– including my new one– have down sides.  Also, it will be weird working at home while Mike is also working at home.  But I’m confident this is the right decision for our family and I’m excited to see what all the changes bring.

I don’t spend a lot of time stalking our baby registry (really, I don’t!), but I do look every now and again to see if anyone has gotten anything yet.  Part of that is that I’m intrigued by the idea of an amazon.com baby registry and am curious to see how it will shake out compared to a Babies R’ Us registry, and part of it is that I’m just excited.  Well, today I looked and someone had gotten some things for our little one!

At least now we know for sure that the baby will have some bottles and a babycare set (baby nail clippers, a suction bulb, etc.) and I’ll have a Boppy pillow and Mike will have a baby carrier.  We’re so lucky to have such generous (and forward-thinking, since it’s still 11 weeks until the baby is due) friends!

I haven’t posted much lately.  Not because there hasn’t been a lot going on, just because I’ve been busy.  And lazy.

In big news, Mike gave notice at his job and will be on his own starting this Friday.  Yup, Thursday is his last day in TV news.  He’ll be concentrating on expanding his freelance business, which has been going really well, teaching a couple of classes at a local college, and preparing our household for the little one.  I’m thrilled for him and am happy he finally made the move.  It’s been a long time coming.

Things with the pregnancy are good.  The baby seems to be very healthy, and I’m feeling a lot better than I was during the morning sickness phase and during the iron deficiency phase.  As of yesterday, I’m officially in the third trimester– woo hoo!  Now I just have to try ot be patient (and comfortable) for the next couple of months.

Mike and I signed up for a childbirth class that will be once a week for six weeks.  I’m looking forward to learning all the things I need to know, because it’s all very real now.  This baby is going to have to come out somehow, so I guess I should start learning about that process…

Without further ado, here’s this week’s baby bump picture.

It’s getting hard for me to remember exactly how far along I am.  The only reason I was ale to figure it out today is because I looked at last week’s photo and did the math.  Is that pregnancy brain?  Maybe just a concession to the fact that this is a long process?  At any rate, here’s this week’s belly pic!

This week’s picture comes at 25 weeks and 5 days.  Two more days and I’ll be 6 1/2 months pregnant.  My goodness, where does the time go?!?!

(Also, where did my feet go?  I can’t see them anymore over my baby bump!)