Electricity Woes

Maybe you can blame it on me being pregnant, but I haven't been able to sleep the last few nights because of anxiety. Anxiety over our recent electricity bill. Yeah, I know it's something really stupid to have anxiety over, but I am really peeved at having to pay a crap load for nothing. This latest bill is the most expensive one yet, which doesn't make sense since it has been a lot cooler over the last few months. We haven't used the A/C unit at all and I am using less fans during the day. We haven't changed anything else for it to be more expensive. It's not like I have every light, fan, TV, A/C on running 24/7. So why is our bill $464.58 for absolutely nothing!!!!

The fuel charge alone was $367! They also just approved an increase in the rates effective Jan 1st. So, instead of paying $.43/per KWH (which is already the highest in the nation) we will be paying $.59/per KWH! This is just another reason for Clarke and I to get outta here as soon as possible!

Thanks for letting me vent a little. Hopefully this will ease my anxiety a bit and I'll be able to sleep a little better tonight!

12-12-2012

I am 16 weeks today! I wanted to post a little pic of the growing belly on this awesome day 12-12-12!

The next few weeks are going to be great. My sis Nicole is coming out to visit and then we are both flying back to Utah next week to spend Christmas with the family. I love the Holidays!

Feeling Good

I am finally feeling normal now. I was pretty lucky and never threw up at all, but I felt nauseous from about 7 -14 weeks. It was the worst for me at night. I never really lost my appetite and actually have been really hungry this whole time. At first I thought it would be awesome to eat all the time, but it sucks! It's so exhausting plus I want to eat as healthy as I can and that takes work! Clarke is a lucky guy and hasn't had to run to the store yet to get me ice cream or pickles or anything. I'm not really craving anything, just have a few things that I want to eat more than others.

Food I love right now:
1 - hard tacos
2 - grapes
3 - honey crisp apples (can't be any other kind)
4 - cottage cheese
5 - meat (steak, ground beef, bacon)
6 - apple juice

Food I can't stand right now:
1 - chicken (weird, but it makes me gag)
2 - Crystal Light (made it easy to break my addiction!)
3 - anything overly sweet

Time has flow by and the weeks go by so quickly. We will be finding out if we are having a girl or boy in about 4 weeks. I really hope the rest of the pregnancy will go just as fast as these first four months have! I'm starting to get a tummy that I know now is baby and not food!

My mom was so sweet and sent me some crochet supplies a few weeks ago since I told her I wanted to learn and possibly make our baby a blanket. This is my first project after teaching myself in just a day. They turned out pretty cute except one is bigger than the other. Maybe we'll be lucky and our baby will be a girl and have one foot larger than the other.