Hello.....anyone still out there??

Okay so I had a month or more of house guests and other social obligations and as you can see my blog was the one that took the brunt of the neglect, my email has as well. So what's been going on. I'll try to recap...

On being pregnant.....I hate it! I'm only 4 1/2 months and I think I look like I'm about 8 months pregnant. I'm sure not everyone feels that way but that is the way I feel. Nothing fits, again, I'm hot all the time, and I currently have a cold that I can't just seem to kick the cough part, which is the worst part. I miss my drugs. My face continues to break out as do other parts of my body (sorry for the TMI) and recently Tim has told me that I have started to snore....BADLY! He said that I'm snoring so bad that I have to go and get the breath right strips so that it would reduce it. He also said that when he rolled me over that the snoring got worse. Also my boobs have gotten bigger, which if you have big boobs to begin with this is already a bad thing. So now they are pulling on my neck. I get lots of pain right between my shoulder blades. So I can only sit and/or stand for so long before my shoulders and my feet start to hurt. What is even sadder is that I'm only 4 1/2 months pregnant. I'm just barely half way there. This sucks....bring on Christmas.

On my many house guests.....We had friends that came down from Lakenheath for the 4th of July weekend. It was really nice to have them here, they will be moving here later this week....I'm so excited for that I can't wait. I'm hoping that they like the house that is just in the next village, only 5 minutes drive from here. Very exciting as well. My parents were here for about 2 weeks as well. Mom, Dad, and I went to Ireland for a few days, it was really nice. We went to Galway on the west cost of Ireland. It was really relaxing kind of break. We mostly shopped and walked along the beach. The weather was good as well. We came home and that then we had RIAT or Royal International Air Tattoo. It is the largest military air show in the world held at our tiny little base. Tim took lots of pictures and the weather even held out for us. My father cooked for everyone so the burgers weren't over done and the chicken wasn't under done. It was fun. Mom and I went out and did some baby shopping. Mostly got clothes for me because I don't have anything. The clothes are nice, to me most of them look like tents on me but again, I'm not liking being pregnant so whatever at this point. At least now I have different options to wear besides Tim's old black t-shirts. We more or less hung out the rest of the time they were here. Dad left earlier than Mom so it was sad to see him go. While Mom relaxing she registered me for baby stuff online. I'm registered at Babies-R-Us. I don't think I'm going to have a baby shower at least not one in person. No one is here for me. I don't have many friends here and the friends that I do have already have stuff picked out for me. I'll probably do a virtual shower or something. I'm not going to open much of anything once I get it anyways as we don't think we are going to be here for very much longer and if we are we won't be here long after the baby is born. Timing is everything isn't it and well ours isn't great. But I'm not upset anymore, just a little stressed, the unknown always does that to me. Back to my house guests. Mom left on Saturday, it was nice to have her here. I didn't have to do anything. If I wanted it she made it for me. All my laundry is washed and folded, now I just need to put it all away (still working on that Mom, haha). That's about it for that.

On reading....I finished the whole Twilight Saga and I totally loved it!! I'm not as excited for the movie(s) but we'll have to see. I have the first one and I was waiting until I finished all the books before I watched it. It is a blue-ray and well currently my PS3 is on it's way back from being fixed so when it gets here I'll finally watch it along with several others that we borrowed from someone that Tim works with. Not sure what I'm going to read next. I mean I read all 4 books in about 3 weeks. I'm sure I'll find something in my collection to pick up.

On all things crafty.....I have been seriously slacking in all things creative. I have been either to tired or to busy. Yesterday I finally sat down and did some stuff. I would like to have all of my unfinished project finished by the end of August and if you know me that's a pretty tall order. But I think I can do it if I just do a little at a time. I mean it isn't like there is anything on TV these days. Sometimes I wonder why we even have cable.

Well that is all for now. I'll update again here shortly with pictures from my parents' visit and air show pictures, etc. My next doctor's appointment is on 15 August and that is when we find out what we're having so I'll be sure to let you all know in a very timely manner. Until then....

I'm Hooked On....

...the Twilight Saga. Never knew what all the rave was until now. I'm currently reading this book, New Moon, the second in the series of four.
I read the first one in about 2 days and as much as I hate paper back books I couldn't wait for amazon to ship me the whole set so I went downtown and paid in pounds for this one. This morning I ordered this and can't wait for it to get here. Now I just need to see the movie. Most people said that it was okay but the book is always better. Love my books, never use to. I hated reading as a kid. It's funny how things change when you get older.

**Disclaimer: If you know anything about the books please don't tell me, I hate people that spoil unless I ask them to. Thanks!**

Finished Another...

Well I finally finished it. In the end it was a good book and of course you read the last 20 pages or so and you want to read the next one but I think I'm going to take a break from Jamie and Claire for a few books just because I want to still be able to love them like I do now and not get tired of them and just read the book to just read the books. The book was slow in the middle. Sometimes the history of the book takes over the plot but at the same time I know they kinda go hand in hand. I have the next book in this series already and will order the one following that once I start the next book which is titled Voyager.
In the meantime I have starts this book, A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz I know they say you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but the cover of this book is really cool and I did something based on a suggestion from my friend AJ (hi AJ if you're reading) and read the first line of th book. He said if the first line grabs you then you should get it. Well it did so I thought I should read this one next.

Currently my computer is being reloaded by Tim who has little time to do it with work, working out, school, EPRs, schedules, taxes, the house, dogs, and house guests, and being a tour guide so I am unsure when I'm going to be able to post the pictures of when we all went to London. I know that Tim has some but I don't know if he has downloaded them yet. I'm going to assume no since I haven't been told to come and look at them.

It's late and I'm not sure why I'm posting

It is late here in England, after midnight. There is nothing much on and I'm fighting not to sleep. Not sure why but just not ready for bed. I finally got my new book. I'm reading Dragon Fly in Amber by Diana Gibaldon. I haven't really gotten into the meat of the book, only about 20 pages in, good so far though.
Not sure if you know or not but Tim and I are doing the Biggest Loser on base. Guess who is winning for the base....not me....TIM! He has lost 14lbs. I think. He is doing well. I on the other hand haven't lost much, but my pants are starting to fit and to me that is all that really matters. Putting more effort in this week. I hate to lose, in competition that is.
My father left for Iraq today. I didn't get a chance to say good-bye, at least on the phone. Not sure when he is getting to his last stop but Mom said she would let me know when he was there. Once he's all set up he'll call in once a week or so like he did before. I'll get to see him soon, March, around my birthday, so it should be fun. My sister might be coming as well.
Other than the weather getting really cold tonight, nothing else to really report. I think I might try and go to bed. We'll see..

Outlander

Just thought I would share with you what I thought about the book Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.

It was GREAT!!!!

I really enjoyed it and it didn't even seem like it was 850 pages long. I kinda like reading a book where I know there is going to be another one that I can just buy and not have to wait for the whole series to come out. I'm ready to order the other 5 books that go along with this one.

Jamie and Claire are my all time favorite characters in almost any book that I have read. That is saying alot since I LOVE Nicholas Sparks and some of his characters are very memorible. I can't wait to get the rest. So if anyone is looking for any Christmas ideas, any of the books that follow Outlander are on my Amazon Wish List as are a bunch of other stuff. Okay, have to get ready for work, just wanted to share. Haven't figured out what I'm going to read next, but my small library has lots of choices.