Nicole Carina’s Neighborhood

First thing is first....

ITS A BOY!!!!

This is his "boy"....
I am just so thankful that so far everything looks really healthy and normal.. Well the doctor said he has a big head lol.  I just hope I am not going to have to deliver a 11 pound baby.  Not gonna happen.  Now we are getting bombarded with name questions.  Everyone seems to expect us to have one already.  The sad thing is that we have been set on a girl's name... like 2 years ago we picked that one but boy names... really hard.  I think we will just go through one of those baby name books for help.  Everyone is expecting me to pick something weird... they are probably right.  I just want to assure that my top priority is to make sure that his name is not one that he will get made fun of easily.  Stay tuned for that. 

More news..
I moved!  Last week we came into Wilmington and stayed at a really great Bed and Breakfast called "The Blue Heaven".  If you ever stay at a B&B in Wilmington I recommend it.  Actually I found out about it from Nicole.  One funny thing that happened when we were there was as the Inn keeper was showing us the house and our room Grey went to put our suitcase on the rack and accidentally put a mark on the wall right in front of the guy. LOL it was so awkward.  I laughed so hard later I was crying.  Here is a picture...
  

mark on the wall

We took a few days to pack up my place.  It rained on Saturday so I was really glad we decided to hire movers to load the truck.  I can't really lift anything now that I am bigger. 

I also decided to purchase a domain this week.  I am working on a website for my new family.  I used to have a site I made a few years ago but I didn't have a proper domain so it was really hard for people to check.  Once I have it all the way up and running I will let you all know.  Check out what I have so far and let me know what you think:

www.kellyandgrey.com

I want to put my baby registry on there so that it is easy for people to go to one place to get info.  Most of the stuff I want is only sold online so I am crossing my fingers that my not so computer savvy family will find this easy.  Well stay tuned for more...

following the uhaul

This game is called little big planet and the premise behind it is to create and share.  what that means is tey give you all these tools to build with,  you use your imagination and go nuts, then you get to share you creation on line with the community.  the possibilities are endless.  so without further a due   Little Big Planet

So, anyone who knows me knows how busy my life already is between Micheal and his activities and my job and my  personal life.  I feel as though I am running,running,running all the time. It is about to become even more so. Today I went to Grand Rapids to take The College Board Accuplacer test at GRCC only to find out that the test was technically unnecessary.  Of course, never having been there before,I didn't pay attention to the name of the building I parked my car in or which floor it was on. I started the test at 1:30 pm, and it was supposed to take up to two and half hours.  I got done in 1 hour with a 95% overall.  So my afternoon was pretty much shot because of construction on Bostwick Avenue and time spent searching for the evasive parking ramp. I got back to Lake Odessa at 5:00 pm to pick Micheal up from my mother's.  Grand Rapids is only 30 mins. (give or take) from Lake Odessa.  Where did the afernoon go? Not sure.  All I know is if I plan on working 40 hours a  week and being a fulltime student I need to get organized and scheduled. I just have to meet with a couseler and sign up  for classes.  Business and Design baby!  My long term goals are 1 year GRCC, 1 year Kendall University, 2 years Shaumburg. Goodbye Michigan.  This is the plan.

I've been spending a lot of my free time playing "virtual" games lately. The latest one I'm hooked on right now is a combination of plush and virtuality: Littlest Pet Shop (LPS) Virtual Interactive Pets.

Shawn and I have been up to our necks with stress over buying new furniture and necessities for our new apartment, and while on our search for that stuff, I came across some incredibly adorable plushies with big eyes and pretty fabrics. I think the reason I was attracted so much to them was because of their big eyes and sweet faces. (Shawn said I have a thing for toys that are top heavy, haha.)

I first came across the LPS bunny when Shawn and I were at Kohl's a few weeks ago. I saw that there were more animals available so I started searching for them at the stores we went to. I immediately fell in love with the panda, and after noticing how rare it was in my area (I had only seen one in all the stores we visited), I snatched her up when I realized I couldn't live without her. Normally, I go for the pink plushies, but there's something about her dark oriental print that really draws me to her. I've named my panda Moshi Moshi (which can mean "hello" in Japanese in certain contexts).

Plushies aside, I found that I could delve even more into Moshi Moshi's world by visiting littlestpetshop.com to interact with her virtual character. I just plugged her special access code in the LPS: VIP system and Moshi Moshi's life started coming together.

Even though the games and plushie sales in general are geared more towards younger, teenage girls, I'm actually not that great at all of the activities, haha! In fact, Shawn had to help me out for a while until I got the hang of it. As I play more games, I gain more points to spend in the stores for clothes, furniture and plants for my garden.

There are some features I haven't accessed all of the features yet. There's an option where I can "meet" other people on LPS, but I'm thinking that I'll rawk out Moshi Moshi and her friend, Chiisai (a pink mouse) and their houses first so I won't look too silly in the LPS virtual world. ^__~

Chiisai (which means "small" in Japanese) is the newest addition to my LPS family. I looked up all of the plushies online, and I thought the mouse was very similar to Yukimo's build (tee hee). Of course, I couldn't resist.

This last Sunday, Shawn and I made it our mission to hunt down and find the mouse. I really didn't feel like ordering her online when I knew that at least one could be found in stores just a few miles away from me. >__> I think I have a kawaii sickness or something.

Anyway, we ended up finding Chiisai at the very first store (a Toys 'R Us) we went to, and there happened to be only one mouse on display. Just like Moshi Moshi, Chiisai was one of a kind for me.

I'm still working on building her wardrobe and room in my house.

Besides playing my newfound LPS love, I've been working on a new Maple Story character. Kathleen decided that she wanted to try playing on a new server, so our friend and I decided to try it out with her.

Now, I'm not a huge Harry Potter book fan (the writing style seems too simplistic and I get bored easily), but I do enjoy watching the movies. So when Kathleen said that she wanted to create a guild dedicated to Harry Potter characters, I was in. I would take a bullet for Luna Lovegood and Kathleen was nice enough to let me take that character while she took Nymphadora Tonks, and our friend taking Professor Moody. We had to think up names that sounded similar to the book characters, yet were original enough to enter into the MS system. As it turned out, Luna Lovegood became LunieLove; Nymphadora Tonks became NymphyTonks; and Professor Moody became MadMoodDood.

I don't think I'm as attached to LunieLove as my other MS characters (Minkka and Roonies), but it's been fun starting working on a character of such a low level. ^__^

I've also gotten into the routine of playing Animal Crossing after I finish my work shift every day. There's something extremely relaxing about sitting down and playing in a world that contains absolutely no worries. I can get money for my house's furniture just by collecting fruit around the village, and I can pay my mortgage at any pace I want. In fact, I don't even need to pay off my house if I don't want to! Living a simple virtual life is so much more enjoyable sometimes.

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So, here is my super sexy leg. Notice the ginormous wrapping. It hurts pretty bad. Oh and crutches suck. I will be in bed for a while since no pressure on it.
Toria Wagner

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My work coffee mug