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Hey!

So I'm sure you've all noticed that I've slowed down on the blog posts. I was thinking that the heat wave would lift and I'd get back to writing everyday. The good news is: the heat wave is over for now. The bad news is: it's summer, this is Greece, so it's still friggen hot! I still will try my absolute best to write everyday because I notice I feel much better on these days. I don't know why, but I do. Maybe it's a small sense of accomplishment? I don't know. Whatever it is, it's good...so I will try. That being said, some days I just won't have it in me. Sometimes it's just too hot and I'm just too uncomfortable, so finding a way to relieve that becomes priority number one. And I just have to accept that. I know you guys won't really mind all that much, even if pretty much all of you have been SO kind to write me and tell me how much you love to read everyday (which is so nice of you by the way! I have the best family and friends in the world! THANK YOU!!). It's ME who will have a much harder time dealing with the fact that this is just another one of those things that I can't do so easily anymore (and I promise I'm not about to launch into yet another rant about limitations or frustrations in pregnancy).

Just so you know, everything is absolutely fine with the pregnancy. I feel great other than the fact that I'm just having a lot of trouble coping with the heat. That's it. If I was in Canada right now, I'm 100% confident that I'd be able to work...probably even full time, because that's how good I feel. It's just the 30 and above temperatures and high humidity that have me on my ass. Literally. Sometimes my feet are so swollen by midday that the only thing I can do is sit on my ass with my feet up in the air! Sweating like a pig is not the most comfortable or attractive thing either. So, that being said...you will probably notice a small decrease in blog posts. Maybe I'll still manage to write pretty much everyday, but maybe I'll just cut down on the content a bit so I don't find myself sitting at the computer for longer than a half hour or something like that. This way I'm not putting too much pressure on myself everyday. I tend to do that to myself with everything I do, which can be a good quality BUT during pregnancy....meh. Throw it out the window! I just don't think there's any need for pressure at any time during pregnancy. Except for maybe labour...but then that's a whole different kind of pressure.

My poor little swollen sausages. 

Note to self: get someone to paint my toenails florescent pink. People are gonna notice my feet anyway because they're like hoofs right now, so maybe bright pink toe nails will distract them enough they won't even notice the puffiness

SO moving on to what I've been up to lately.....

Since it's been so flippin' hot I've been finding myself indoors, under the air conditioning quite a bit. That means, I haven't been doing a whole heck of a lot other than watching The Bachellorette and various other reality tv shows online. What I HAVE done (as in, what is actually worth talking about so I don't look like a lazy ass...but the Bachelorette was pretty good this week so maybe that is worth talking about? probably not...) is make a massive list of things I want to accomplish in the house before the baby gets here.

Yesterday I walked around the house with a pen and paper and made a note of EVERYTHING, big or small that needs to be taken care of in the next 2 months. So slowly, everyday, I'll try to do at least one thing from this list. Also, now that Antonis is aware of how much needs to be done...maybe this will get his butt moving into nesting mode along with me so I can get some help with some of the the bigger project (example: THE BABY'S ROOM!)

Here's what my list looks like:

Livingroom

• organize desk (I did this yesterday. 1 thing down, 1,000,000,000,000,0000000 to go)
• wash windows
• organize bookcase that has become Antonis' junk shelves...there is absolutely no need to keep that many old newspapers EVER
• finish painting (just inside the sunken windows and balcony door and the wood around the door)

Kitchen

• shelves under the oven
• menus...garbage or take them to the restaurant
• paint materials...USE THEM! and stop storing them here
• give Olympia back all her dishes and make it clear that she has to STOP bringing food here because he's making me fat and I'm sick of hoarding her dishes....how does she even have any dishes to eat off of anyway? Seriously! Note to self: next time I go to her house, see if she's started using paper plates...
• clean fridge
• organize all the cupboards (yes, this means Mr. Giant Spider hanging out in the pots and pans cupboard will need to find a new place to live soon)
• clean the microwave
• finish painting (just a little bit of trim that needs to be fixed because I'm a perfectionist and I'm sick of looking at that corner that isn't perfect...make it perfect!)

Bedroom

• organize the toiletry shelf because it looks like Costco blew up over there
• organize the dresser (job for Antonis because I refuse to continue dusting his empty bottles of cologne...why the hell to Greek men insist on keeping EMPTY bottles of cologne? In Canada, guys usually collect their empty booze bottles and display them proudly around their bachelor pads...this is the only way I can make some minute sense out of this weird hobby)
• organize the night table (job for me because I refuse to continue dusting all of the crap that I pile on there)
• take out the carpets...maybe throw them away when no one's looking because they're hideous and should never have been made, let alone bought and used (I didn't buy them...I have absolutely nothing in common with old Greek women when it comes to interior decorating and unfortunately they seem to think it's cool to 'help' with this all the time)
• get rid of the spider webs
• finish painting (this needs to be redone completely. It was the last room to be done when we repainted and it looks slapped together. This has FOREVER been a piss off and I can't take it anymore)

Bathroom

• BURN IT DOWN AND START FROM SCRATCH!. Period.

Baby's Room

This part of the list is just WAY too massive and a lot of it won't make any sense right now so I think I will make this it's own blog post another day...as I promised a long time ago and have since done nothing except for what got done that rainy day

So as you can see I've done ONE thing on my list. YAY ME. I'll pick something else to take care of tonight...probably the spider webs in the bedroom because that's freaking me out a bit at night to be honest. We get some honking huge spiders over here and these are honking huge webs so...I'd really rather not wake up with a spider the size of my face ON my face. If I don't get rid of the webs that is. So tonight I'm on spider web duty I guess. I'd pick something else because theoretically this should only take a few seconds. But realistically I'm probably going to see that hippopotamus sized spider and there will be screaming and flailing around and things will get knocked over and broken and it's just going to be a big dramatic mess that will probably take more like 45 minutes so....that's what's on the schedule for tonight. And to think I used to sit in the moonlight drinking wine, eating various little Greek snacks and smoking cigarettes....pfffft, I used to be so lame! (no offence wine and little Greek snacks, we will be together again someday. Cigarettes, you may want to take offence)

Good night!