Dinner tonight:

Fresh, hand made guacamole (made with woodman's ingredients)

Veggie Salad (made with CSA vegetables and topped with Parmesan cheese, fake bacon Bits -- my stepdad glued some fake leather fringe around a can of it and sent it with mom's shower gift. I thought it was hilarious -- and useful!) and fat/taste free ranch dressing. :P

Shepard's Pie (made with ground turkey and csa potatoes, onions and garlic, two cans of cream of chicken, and leftover grilled corn from the summer)

All very boring, but yields awesome leftovers for lunch.

Tonight we are going to be shucking a lot of eggs, and I am sure I will be helping Tim get his devilled eggs on for his little work party tomorrow. He read in a magazine of mine to put little olive bits on it to make them look like spiders or something. Oh my darling.

I need to be looking at those magazines too to find something to make for my little, Last-Day-Halloween party (though I am there on Thursday too, but no one else is). I could bring in the guacamole that I just made since Janet is bringing in some of her salsa....but I would also like to do something a little festive. Hm.

I still can't believe its the last week of work. October went by so fast! Heck the whole summer did. I feel like it was just yesterday that we were getting ready to go on vacation to Portland. Now it's nothing but a collection of pictures -- oh yeah and memories.

Well I managed to get stuff done today. I cleaned the living room -- complete with arranging book shelves, sweeping, vacuuming and mopping the floor, fixing the hallway rug sticky things (so that the rug stays in place), washed all the dishes, made dinner, wrote some thank you cards, took a nap -- and will later walk the dog and work on making treats OR watching a movie. Though Tim didn't seem so keen on watching a movie while cooking.

Last night I worked on the hospital bag some more. I went through and picked out an outfit for Bacon Bit -- I packed two onsies, a sleeper/jumper/full suit onsies -- whatever the heck you call it, a hat, little mitts, a receiving blanket, and two other baby blankets. That might be overkill, but what if it's cold the day we bring Bacon Bit home? I want to have options man. Options.

My bag includes: old jammy bottoms, two nursing bras, the boob pad samples that Sarah gave me (there are three...), toothpaste/wash/brush, burt bee's shampoo/conditioner/wash/lotion/lip balm, a comb, contact solution, the spare phone recharger, two pairs of socks, two pairs of underwear, three unread magazines (Good Housekeeping, Red Book and Ready Made), some snacks for Tim -- and that's it so far. What am I missing? I need to make a list of things to stuff in at the last minute like:

black yoga pants to wear home
some kind of shirt (do I need one or two?? I don't have any shirts that button down the front...)
camera
hair thingies
glasses
contact case
purse and it's usual contents
mp3 player

I already feel like I am over packing....Tim and I are grade A underpackers --- so this is a tough one. I suppose anything I am missing Tim can run home and get. I mean he has to go home anyway to take care of the cats and sleep...right? Or is he expected to spend the whole time there with me? I wonder....

I think I had my first, feelable braxton hick contraction tonight! I was sitting here, minding my own business and chatting with Hilary when suddenly I felt a cramp come on and realized "hey I need to go pee!" So off I went. After I was done, I noticed that the cramp went away. So that is a contraction right?

My 38 1/2 week doctor's appointment is tomorrow when the doc is going to take a look at what's going on down there. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious to see if there is any sort of progress. Oh the shepards pie is done. Time to eat.

See? I wasn't kidding about lots of posts.