counting down the days

Man, I guess I've been busy around here lately.
We are counting down the days till Baby Balzer.
And I don't have anything to post other than some randomness,
so here you go...

I have been in need of a new phone for months.

So the search was on, well actually the REsearch was on...

Droid Bionic (which is 4g and Newton is suppossed to get gettign 4g in the next few months), or the Iphone 4s.

I realized quickly I couldn't really ask opinions from others - I had to do the research myself.
I either was talking to an Apple lover that would never consider another product, or I was talking to someone who tried everything they could to never buy anything Apple.  It was kind of frustrating. I just wanted to know what phone was BEST! 
Even going into the store and asking questions didn't get me very far - I could tell very quickly that the sales rep had a strong dislike for one over the other.  When all I wanted was facts.
In the end - it really came to a draw for me (and in lots of articles as well) as far as quality of the phone, comparing specifics, etc.
Where one phone beat in one area, another beat in another.
Both have the awesome pixel camera and HD video that I'm super excited about!  Especially when I don't have my big heavy camera with me.
I came to the conclusion that either pick I'd be happy with.
So I made my final decision on price - the Iphone was quite a bit cheaper

So my first day with an Iphone was nothing like in my dreams.
I mean, from what I heard from others, this thing would rock my world and leave me to desire no other phone.
Instead, it spazzed out while we were still in the store buying it.  Then continued to be pretty crazy all night.
Day 2 - started working better so I began to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Ooops.  Completely froze, turned off and on by itself randomly over the course of several hours and then never came back on again.

Phone calls to Verizon, to Apple, visits into our local Verizon dealer (not Verizon store I'm told!),

total frustration, everyone telling me different things.
In the end a Verizon advisor with Apple told me I needed to walk into my local store and demand them to give me a new phone and that I couldn't be nice about it.
Well, let's just say I didn't get a new phone that day.  Maybe I should have taken my hubby.
But hopefully we finally got somewhere and I'll get a new one next week.
Then I'll really let you know what it's like in the Apple World.

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Today is my last day with anything big on my calendar - YAY!
Now it's just some cleaning and organizing and getting ready for baby - 2 weeks to go!

I have been feeling really great lately - not even close to miserable.
And then I got sick - dumb sinus infection

Now I'm pretty miserable, and mad too. And scared of getting bronchitis again.  Not how I wanted to spend my last 2 weeks before this baby.

I'm hoping it goes away fast!

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Baby Balzer still doesn't have a name.

We had one girl name pretty settled on - and then we added a 2nd out of no where.
And our boy list really hasn't progressed any.
I'm thinking at this point I'm going to have to just write it in on the calendar and make sure we sit down and do this!
My sister, who is having a girl in Feb., freaked out about us choosing their name, so she had to give us the first initial of their girl name so we could make sure it wasn't the same.
We're safe - I think.

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Speaking of my sis.  I got an early Christmas present for her.
A new diaper bag!

I picked out this one  from JJ Cole - doesn't it look yellow and gray to you?
It's not.  It's orange.
I still love it - but when you open it up expecting one color and get a total different color, it's kind of shocking.  I could exchange for one with red and gray instead, but I think I'm lazy and I like it enough to keep it.

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I've been a little worried lately I'm going to forget what to do with a newborn.
I've been told it will all come back.
But oh man, it feels like it's been forever.  Hard to believe almost 4 years.
I can't wait though!  We are so excited to meet our little one, to find out if it will be a boy or a girl, and to see Taylor and Mason with their new sibling!

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Through some of our big organization projects over the last few months, my office got a new look, and our spare room in the basement where we keep a bed for our visitors and lots of junk did too.  I organized my sewing stuff and made a place to have my sewing machine out all the time.  I surprisinggly have been down there quite a bit!  In fact I finished making burp rags that I bought fabric and cloth for 3 years ago and never actually did. I made myself use all that fabric before moving on to my new stuff I just ordered.
Here's just some of what I've done...

 lots of burp clothes, and some receiving blankets...these were some of my favorite gifts to get with Taylor and Mason!

I decided with all these new babies all around me, plus a handful of others that are far away, it will be nice to have some gifts on hand.

I did a crib skirt too - but I'll hopefully post some pictures of the nursery (the little that is done), soon.

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I'm almost completely done with Christmas shopping!  It's been on my list of things to do and I've been slowly knocking things off.  Mostly online.  I even think I got the kids' stocking stuffers done!

And then I remembered I needed another stocking.

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It's crazy how back and forth the pregnant comments have been lately.

In the same week, I heard "you're due THIS month, wow, you're not big at all"

and I heard

"oh honey, you STILL have 2 weeks to go, I feel so bad for you, are you sure you're not having twins?"

Maybe it's a matter how how often these people get out.

But it's definitely confusing to me.

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Okay, I'll stop there.

There's good chances you haven't made it this far.

I think I'll have some fun pinterest projects to post coming up soon.

And hopefully some of the nursery.