Baby Registeries

To Anyone Who Cares:

We finished our registries! Whew! If you care to view them, you can do so at Target.com and Walmart.com. You will need to use either mine or David's name and either the date or the location. Date is my due date (Nov. 8) and Location is Syracuse.

A word of caution:
Not everything is on both registries, so if you are looking for something specific, check them both because each has only a few overlapping items. Also, if something isn't on the registry (besides clothing) it means I already have one or don't want one. For example, I already have those bassinets like I mentioned in an earlier post, as well as a high chair. The only clothing I registered for were some onesies, booties, caps, and sleepers. Please feel free to buy whatever clothing you think is cute. Winnie the Pooh is always safe, as are all Ohio sports teams, and most anything blue. Of course, don't feel obligated to buy anything at all....It's weird asking people to buy stuff for me. As a matter of fact, this blog is making me feel weird.

Later!

Mmmm...Friday

After discussing with David, we decided to not schedule hours for Friday mornings since we have to work weekends and I do NOT want to work 7 days a week if we can afford it.

This means I can sleep tonight. AT NIGHT. Amazing.




We got two free bassinets from people in the ward. I can put one in our bedroom and one in the basement by the computer for when we're working. Score.

I Love Being Right!

It seems like everyone who reads this blog already knows, but I shall share again, just because it is so exciting.

It's a boy!!

I have felt that he is a boy for awhile now. Call it motherly instinct, but I just felt strongly that our first little one would be a boy. It also wouldn't surprise me if he looked more like David than me, although I think he will have a few of my physical charicteristics. David and I have also had some wonderful experiences in the temple that I won't share, so this wasn't too much of a surprise, although it's nice to have the proof now. I'm just happy that he's healthy and for all intensive purposes, perfect. That, and I'm glad he wasn't shy to let us know he was a boy. I would have hated to be one of those people who get told "I can't tell, sorry!"

One thing I think he has from me is stubbornness. He was lying on one of his arms during the ultrasound, and try as she might, the tech couldn't get him to move it so she could measure it. He definitely has a mind of his own.

Just so everyone knows, we are naming him Nathan Michael, after my brother, Jon, and David's best friend, Michael Carey. Coincidentally, Jon (Jonathan)'s middle name is also Michael. I plan to call him Nate most of the time. David likes Nathan better than Nate, but when Nate's old enough to talk, I'm sure he will probably tell us which name he prefers. Actually, if it bothers me for some reason, I'm sure David would call him Nate anyway, but I can't see right now how that would matter.

We are blessing him in Rootstown on December 27th. I have my reasons, the most important of which is that I want my grandfather to be in the circle as this is the first great-grandchild he will ever be able to meet and participate in a blessing for. He hasn't stood in a circle for a family member baby blessing since mine I would imagine. Overall, I'm a little nervous about flying to Ohio with a newborn, but mostly just excited to introduce him to my family.



Next job on my list: Complete registries.

I posted this earlier with pictures but I am too lazy to crop them now and I'm too tired to keep hearing that having my full name and birthday on my blog isn't a good idea. So they are gone. If you are my friend on Facebook you can enjoy them there, at least there they are more protected.

Work

Today was my first official day on the job at O'Currance. Here are the reasons it sucked:

1. The amp box I was given is a piece of crap. What is supposed to happen is you plug your phone in the wall, then you plug the end of the curly cord that goes into the handset into the back of your amp box instead. Then the amp box plugs into the wall as well and your headset plugs into the amp box. I did this with the phone I had and it let me log into Avaya (the phone server at O'Currance) but the headset didn't work. We went to DI and picked up another phone for $3. No luck. Couldn't even hear a dial tone. So David went to Wal-mart, bought another phone, brand new, for $25. We set it up and we could hear and log in, so we went to bed, only to find out when it was time for work that the microphone wasn't being heard. I know it's the amp box because when I switch boxes with David my headset works great. However, if I used another curly cord and plugged the handset from the phone into the second jack at the back of my amp box, I was able to take calls on that. Therefore I sat at my computer for 9.5 hours with my shoulder holding up a regular handset. AND I have to do it again on Sunday and Monday mornings until the front desk people are back at work and I can drive to SLC for a new one. I could have driven to SLC and worked in the call center, but I would have lost even more time (I already lost my first hour) and the restrictions are much higher in the call center (can't eat at the computer, can't check e-mail, etc). Needless to say, I can't WAIT for a new amp box, and it BETTER work.

2. My stats were not where I wanted them to be. I ended the day around 34-35%, out of 40+ calls. All together I had 16 total sales. David assures me this is a still pretty good (he ended almost identical to me), but we are able to see live team stats throughout the day, and compared with the rest of the team I really wasn't doing all that well. Most of my team was apparently getting a lot of lucky calls because most of them were above 50%. It was frustrating because the hardest thing (I think) to sell is "Your Baby Can Read" because it's a 30-day Risk Free trial, and the infomercial doesn't give the full price, and a lot of people hang up when you tell them it's $200. That's what happened to me. I took almost 30 YBCR calls and only sold 7.

3. It was a LONG night, well kind of. The time goes pretty quick, especially when you're on calls, but being my first night, my body wasn't used to being awake from 1:30 AM until 1:00 PM. I tried my hardest to go to bed early last night (like 5:00 PM), but my body wouldn't sleep until around 10:00 PM or so. I was actually surprised...I didn't have to struggle too much to stay awake, but I could feel the fatigue setting in. Luckily, the babysitting gig we had for today fell through (sick nephew) so we were able to nap from 2:30ish PM until 7:30ish PM. Tomorrow our first shift is at 1:45 AM and our last shift ends just before it's time to get ready for church (about 10:00 AM), so I know I will be napping after church. However, I need to make some phone calls to Ohio for Father's Day....and because of the time change I shouldn't wait until after my nap. I hope I can stay awake!

However, here are the reasons it was totally awesome:

1. I got to work from home. As annoying at it was to hold that phone to my ear the whole night, at least I could work in my PJs, eat breakfast between calls, and surf the net while on the clock. Working in the office just isn't as cool.

2. David was so excited to have someone to talk to all night. I enjoyed the company as well and appreciated his assistance a couple times when I had questions I needed answered. He hates working in the office as well and was proud of me for working that whole time with the stupid handset. That kind of made it all worth it for me, especially because my sore neck has a guarantee of a nice massage. :)

3. Even though my stats weren't quite where I wanted them, I still made some good money. I make $11.00 base plus commission, and even though my YBCR conversion was pretty low, I still got those 7 sales, and each one is worth $2.50 without any upsales; the most of any product. Of those 7 sales, I did get upsales on 4 of them, which adds more commission on top of that. I also sold 6 of 8 on our Back2Life product, 2 for 3 on Bullet Express, and 1 for 1 on Youthology, and of all those sales, 5 had upsales. Technically, 8 had upsales, but 3 of them were 1-pay only (they pay the whole price at once instead of payments), which pays a few pennies but doesn't count toward my upsale statistics. So overall, I feel pretty good about my abilities.

4. Because I worked so many hours today and will tomorrow, I get overtime this weekend, which bumps my base pay to $15 per hour. Show me the money!

5. I had a comfy chair, and I was able to stay awake OK. My throat almost gave out a few times, but overall, I really don't know how much more comfortable I can be while on the computer.

Anyway, Monday will be busy. We work until 8:45 AM, then we are going to SLC to get me a new amp box, then we have to be in Ogden for my 3:20 appointment. AHHH!! I get to see my baby!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait. Seriously. SO. PUMPED.

I'm Awesome

I took my first call at work today, in front of the entire class.







And I rocked it.


I sold two of the product as well as two more upsales.



















I'm awesome.

Chance to Show Off

I was the unofficial wedding photographer today. Despite a freak thunderstorm, I think it went well, and I got some decent shots.


Here are a few:


Also, quick update: I did get a new job! Thank goodness! I am working for O'Currance Teleservices, the same company that David works for (for now). We are actually on the same team and so we can work the same schedule. This will be nice because up until now he has gone without sleep a lot just because that's the only time we can spend time together. I start on Monday and I'll have to drive to Salt Lake City for a week or two, but after that I'll be set up here at the house like David is. Plus, they don't care that I'm pregnant and it's a job I can keep after the baby comes if I need--it's really flexible. I am happy because we really could use the money and I actually make more than we need to finish covering the bills so we'll be able to save for the baby. The Lord has truly blessed us--Thanks for all the prayers in our behalf. I am doing well physically, just even more over emotional than usual (if you can even imagine such a thing).


Countdown to "Big Ultrasound": 9 days

Weddings Weddings Weddings

Well, I guess it comes with a large family, but it seems the weddings just keep coming. Last year if I include friends or in laws I went to 3 or 4. Nick and Chelsea, Derek and Celeste, Chris and Amber, and I am sure I am missing a few. This year there is Job and Jessie, Chris and Amber in the temple, and I am sure there will be a surprise one soon. My brother Daniel is the only one left but has a serious girl friend right now and may get married next year if things work out. Not sure, they have known each other for like 5 years, but they see each other all the time now and we can hope right. This morning we are heading up to the Bountiful Utah temple for Job and Jessie's wedding which we are very excited for. I get off work in an hour and then have to get ready, but that is one of the best parts about working from home, I can cut things closer and still have extra time. There was a beautiful deeply colorful and large rainbow over bountiful last night and while looking at it the temple was right under it so it made me fell like god was watching over us. it was very pretty. We took pictures and then this morning I got a call from a lady in Bountiful ordering a Youthology cream and I asked her if she saw it and she said yes and agreed that it was amazing. We took some pictures with our phone but it was so big that we had to take 2 to see it all. I have never seen in my life a rainbow so bright. It is nice to have my family in town. We have already had a game night and spent plenty of time catching up. Well, that is the Wedding update. Soon I will run out of brothers who are not married, but I still have plenty of friends who are on their way, and we still get wedding invitations from Ohio missionaries.

Feeling Impatient

I woke up feeling very impatient today. I was able to feel the baby move for the first time on Sunday, but he/she is still so small it just feels like bubbles in my lower abdomen. I dreamed last night that I went bungee jumping while pregnant and was able to feel the baby move a lot from that. In the dream I knew it was a boy and I laughed about how much he didn't like bungee jumping. Ha. Maybe it's just having my new neice and nephew around, but I just can't wait to see my baby! I am grateful for the months I have left to prepare...I definitely don't want him to come so early he can't survive and I don't want him to come before we have a crib or anything, but I so want to see him. At least I can see him on ultrasound in less than 2 weeks! Then I will know for sure if it's truly a "him" even though David's father is convinced it's a girl. Anyone else want to vote?

We spent the weekend in Springdale, Utah, just at the southern border of Zion National Park, as well as a day in St. George. Overall it was fun, but there was some interesting parts. Maybe I will post about them later. I am not in the mood for a play by play post today.

David's brother is getting married on Saturday. Lots of in-laws this week. I should clean today while my laundry is in...most of them are coming over tomorrow.

Oh. Jimmy Fallon is trying to arrange a Saved by the Bell reunion on his show. If you haven't seen them yet, find the clips of his daily "Saved by the Bell Reunion Show Updates". He had Mark-Paul Gosselar (Zack Morris) scheduled for his new show, "Raising the Bar" on last night, and he totally came on as Zack Morris. Classic. So far only Dustin Diamond and Tiffani Theissan haven't agreed to the reunion show. Oh man, if you ever watched that show, find the clips, they are hilarious. That's one Jimmy Fallon show I would DVR.

Countdown to "Big Ultrasound" Day: 13 days