25

25. Yep. That's how old I turned on May 5th. I must say that it was my first birthday that I've actually dreaded. It just sounds so old! I'm not 18 anymore....that was like 7 freaking years ago! Ugh. Happy birthday me. Blah.

Well it was a good day though all in all. I only had to work half a day and after that Brandon took me out to lunch to the Olive Garden! YES! We only eat there every once in a while (like my birthday) because Brandon doesn't like it for some strange reason, so I take full advantage of going there on my birthday.

Yikes I just sat here for nearly a minute straight staring bugged eyed at the computer trying to remember what else we did that day. haha. Um, we just mainly relaxed and Brandon let me do basically whatever I wanted. He made me waffles for breakfast (another one of my loves that Brandon doesn't like so it's always a real treat when I get it) and we also took advantage of one of the 3 warm days that we've had this year and went for a bike ride. We ended the night with ice cream cake and me watching a chick flick while Brandon sat next to me and played on his computer. That's the one thing he still refuses to do, whether it's my birthday or not is watch a chick flick with me. Which he SHOULD because I sit through all his weirdo alien/sci-fi stuff for him. Where's the love?!!

Brandon also thought it'd be funny and play a trick on me. He gave me this huge present and I had no idea what it was, so I opened it and what was it? Your top of the line Nerf Gun. I just stared at it and then stared at him and then stared at it and then glared at him and told him this better be a joke. And he had me going for like 3 minutes that this was in fact the present he got me. Was I fuming?? Just a little. Luckily for him though just about the time I almost sent him to the dog house, he said he was just joking and gave me my real present. Here's some pictures to prove it...

This is my "oh you better be joking" laugh/smile. See how forced??

And here's one of sweet baby girl at 24 weeks along (we'll be 26 weeks tomorrow) And I swear she has double in size since then:

So I'm gonna take a D.C.O.S. here (drastic change of subject) but Brandon randomly reminded me of this one time blah blah blah and began to tell a story of an embarrassing moment of mine that I tried to block out. Remember this post? Yeah he thought it'd be pretty funny to tell his class mates about that one. Ugh the things they must think about me! So it got me thinking about all the bad luck I've had over the years with embarrassing stuff. Which I'm sure I feel like embarrassing stuff is always happening to me because I get embarrassed easily. I then decided to just let my guard down and say to heck with it and let everyone know some of my most memorable moments that I would've liked to forget at the time, but now I have to admit they're pretty funny!

*Brandon and I decided to go out ice skating last fall and I hurried and threw on some pants and a sweater and out we went. We got to the ice skating rink and walked around for a bit and found someone to ask if we could go skating and of course free skate was only lasting for about 3 more minutes. So we turned around and watched for a second and I went to adjust my sweater only to discover that I had a bra hanging out the bottom of my sweater!!! I walked around with a bra hanging out the back of my pants for who knows how long and sweet Brandon "claimed" he didn't notice, that's why he didn't say anything. yeah whatever.

*One time when I worked at a credit union, I was trying to cross-sell a mortgage and I have a tendency of mixing up words that sound similar. So I was really close and then I blurted out "Well if you would like, I can get your number so I can have a Mortgage officer call you and set up a confrontation?" (I meant consultation) And she just looked at me weird and said "No thanks" and walked away. I was puzzled because it was going so well, when a coworker asked "Did you just say confrontation???" Ugh Stupid stupid!

*I was leaving work for lunch one day and I stepped off the curb to get to my car when my high heel got caught in my pant cuff and I didn't even have time to even try and stop myself. I just fell spread eagle and smacked right into the side of my car. Most ungraceful fall ever AND it made it better that about 20 feet from me was some Pepsi
guy unloading his truck and he saw the whole thing. I've never got in my car and driven away so fast in my life.

Note: I also had my high heel get caught in my pant cuff countless times while at work. And it ALWAYS had to happen when I was walking to the counter to help a customer. Seriously. Why it never happened when no one is around, I'll never know.

*On my 2nd date with Brandon we went and played Bingo for my 21st birthday. Well I had accidentally stamped a number she hadn't said, so I made a mental note to not count that one. Well of course I forgot and a little while later was so excited to see that I had bingo. So I shouted BINGO BINGO!!! What are the odds my first time playing I'd win?!! Well the lady came over to check my card and announced to the whole room that I had mistamped something and in fact didn't have bingo. There was lot's of laughing and pointing and whispers of "Oh that's gotta be embarrassing!!" throughout the room. I was convinced for the rest of the night that Brandon wouldn't go out with me ever again.

*I usually don't get embarrassed around Brandon, so this is rare. Brandon wanted me to proof read a paper he had written about computer programming or something to that nature. Not gonna lie, it's not my favorite thing to do cause it all goes over my head and makes it very boring to read. Well I hurried and skimmed through it and made little corrections and handed it back and told him it all looked good. And he said something like "Wow you went through that fast! It all sounded ok and flowed smoothly and made sense?" and I said "Oh yeah! Best paper ever!" Only to find out a few seconds later that the paper was actually front AND back...and I just lied and told him that it all flowed smoothly and made sense even though I had no idea that there was text on the back! He then thought it'd be pretty funny to tell his whole class about that one and now I'm sure they all think I'm retarded.

*I was at work one day when Carrie Underwood's song "Before He Cheats" (the one where she trashes a guys car for cheating on her) came on and I told one of my male co-workers that was one of my favorite songs because every girl fantasizes about doing that to a guy who broke their heart. A couple weeks later another Carrie Underwood song came on, I think it's called "Last Name" (that one is about a girl who slept with a guy and didn't even know his last name) and my male co-worker hears the song come on and says in front of a lot of other coworkers "Hey Nicole! It's the song that you said you fantasize about doing!" And I turned about 10 shades of red and hurried and said "NO NO NO!!! Not this Carrie Underwood song! It's the other one about trashing the car!!!!" and he was like "Oh, my bad...they sound the same." Humiliation galore.

*Back in the day when I was on the swim team, I was getting ready for practice and my coach started counting down how long we had to get in the water and I was rushing to put my cap and goggles on and the countdown got closer and closer to 0 and she said something like "Hurry up Nicole!!!" and I shouted back "Ok I'm going!" and I went to hurry and jump in the water and instead stepped on a kick board and totally slipped and completely belly flopped ungracefully into the water in front of most of my team mates....pretty sure I didn't come up for air for a while until I was ready to face the humiliation.

And I know there are many many more but those are the ones that are seared into my brain. At least it makes for some good reading.

P.S. Baby girl is doing just wonderfully. Growing and moving like crazy! I LOVE IT! Pregnancy has been an amazing experience and I really am enjoying everything about it (well almost everything) 99 days to go!!! Can't believe it!!