37 weeks, 1 day: Another reason NOT to shop at Walmart

It's fantastic to be off work!!!  I have no idea how I sat at a desk and worked for 8 hours after today!  Taking a 2 hour nap every day is fantastic.  I had a great weekend too.  I went shopping with Christina on Saturday.  I bought Cooper a coming home outfit since we are low on newborn sleepers I didn't have anything for him.  A random woman in the baby section thinks Cooper will be less than 8 lbs, because if he were 10 lbs, "I'd be carrying him all over and I'm all belly."  I finished reading I am Legend on Saturday, too.  It wasn't awful, but I wouldn't recommend it to a single person to read.  Go see the movie--it's a better story.

On Sunday I walked Scout in the morning and then we ran some errands.  Chris is building models for Cooper's room so he needed paint, and I'm going to stencil a quote on his wall so I was looking for supplies.

Today was a busy day for me.  I walked Scout in the morning and then came home and got ready.  I had lunch with Caren and Jennifer at Olive Garden.  Then I went to Target, still looking for stencils, and then to 5 other places.

I ended up going to my most hated store--Walmart.  I really hate shopping at Walmart and I haven't shopped there in over a year.  I disagree with their labor practices and their business practices.  I hate how cheap everything is, how dirty the store is, and rude the average customer is.  I hate their long lines and dim lighting, and the feeling of claustrophobia.  So I vote with my dollars and refuse to shop there, unless I get desperate.

As a last resort I went to Walmart to get stencils.  As I was walking down an aisle, this old, fat man in the automatic shopping cart that's more like a wheel chair says 'Did you swallow a watermelon?'.  As I kept walking, ignoring his rude comment, he yells down the aisle, 'Ma'am!'.  Unbelievable.  Just another reason NOT to shop at Walmart.

When I came home I took a nap, ate dinner, and then tried to finish another book I'm reading, Pledged.  I just can't finish it.  I don't like it--sensationalized journalism.  It has a lot of accuracies about sorority life, but it also has tons of generalizations.  I guess maybe it's more fitting for large southern universities, but I can't relate having been at a 75% male, small, engineering school.  I also filled out most of Cooper's baby book today!  That was a lot of fun!

Cooper was being a brat yesterday.  I couldn't get comfortable to save my life and every time he moves his head over certain spot, I get a shooting pain from my pelvis to my knee.  It's awful!!  Does he ever stop moving??  Here's his schedule (as best that I can tell)...I wonder how it will be once he's born:

5 am - 9 am:  awake and moving, but gentle, enough to wake me up every 30 min - 1 hr

9 am - 10:30 am:  very small movements, or none at all

10:30 am - 12:30 pm:  regular movements, some big, some small

12:30 pm - 2 pm:  very small movements, or none at all

2 pm - 4 pm:  some small and some strong movements, but very regular

4 pm - 9 pm:  lots of strong movements...what the heck is he doing in there....my belly doesn't move that way!!

9 pm - midnight:  slowing down, smaller movements, irregular, but enough to wake me up if I'm sleeping

midnight - 3 am:  he doesn't wake me up, could be moving

3 am:  bathroom break:  he's moving when I get up

3 am - 5 am:  he doesn't wake me up, could be moving

 

(37 belly pic posted...messing with settings on camera, so lighting looks different/worse.)