What a Steal! Modern Baby Furniture

I wish they were some more attainable options for modern baby furniture, seems like everything that has great lines comes with a huge price tag.

Take these dark wood cribs, the first is beautiful designed but $700 is ridiculous, a similar version at Target is $160. Personally I'd rather spend the extra $500 on...umm anything else.




ModernNursery.com $699.99

 

Graco Lauren Crib $159.99 Target.com

Best Fried Chicken

My husband and I were watching the Food Network last night while we ate dinner (which always makes your own dinner seem inferior) and they were featuring the best fried chicken places nation wide.

My hometown wasn't featured so I decided I'm going to spend my downtime today looking for the top 3 of so places to eat fried chicken in the Twin Cities.

Growing up here you'd think I'd know but we never strayed too far from KFC. I have to admit there was a time in my life that the mac n' cheese from KFC was my favorite thing in the world to eat.

Smiley Faces

You know what I hate? Like seriously loathe?

Smiley faces.

Why do people feel the need to put a smiley face on the end of a sentence or to ease the blow of a negative statement by adding a smiley face.

It's passive-aggressive and annoying. If your going to say something rude in email have the balls (or lady balls) to stand behind what you're saying.

P.S. In case you wanted to know I just received an email at work that had not one but two smiley faces.

Clearance @ Children's Place

For the price, this is so cute!



Clearance event at Children's Place



Children's Place too!

Pre-Baby Projects

My husband and I are lazy. We just are and I like it that way but now we have this very permanent deadline of when we should have stuff done. I'm not even talking about a nursery - that will be exciting - I'm talking about those giant looming projects like a new roof, refinishing the hardwood stairs, recaulking the tub (this one takes 5 mintues but somehow it gets clumped in), and regrading the lawn.

We were going to do all these projects this summer but now it just seems daunting. Especially since the majority of the work is going to fall on him. Poor Mitch.

I read that a lot of new parents do actually get a lot done in preparation for their new baby. I envision these to be the kind of people that regularly get their hair cut and skipped ahead on homework just to be safe.

Nerds.

Weird Dreams

I had the weirdest dream last night - scratch that - it wasn't actually weird but it felt so real. I was walking to my little sister's High School Graduation party (way to go Ash!) for some reason and it took forever. I was walking all day and had to jump fences and got bitten by some dogs.

Anyway - it was a dream and it was weird. I'm pretty sure this represents either one of two things.

1) I am about to embark on a great journey in my life by having this baby (presently known as kidney bean)

2) I read an interview with Zach Galifianakis in Rolling Stone before bed last night where he talked about his love of walking. He walks everywhere.

So either I am about to go on a sweet Bill & Ted style adventure or I want to be more like Zach Galifianakis.

Amazon Mom

Has anyone signed up or used the feature Amazon Mom? They advertise 30% off diapers, free shipping, and exclusive email offers on baby related items. This sounds kind of amazing but I don't know if their 30% off is still more expensive than say Costco or Sam's Club. I think this might be an interesting comparison. Of course, prices change locally so it would really only be interesting to me and other Twin Citians. Dang!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/mom/signup/info/ref=sv_ba_2

I don't want to sign up for this so early in my pregnancy because I'm afraid there is a short term promotion along with it and I'll miss out.

My husband and I traded in a bunch of DVD's on Amazon recently and have a large credit so I am mildy obsessed with buying things on Amazon and not having to spend real money.