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::  I'm lacking all energy to be productive right now.  And really I don't have anything all that important to blog about either, but I'm laying on the couch with my laptop so I figured why not.  You all were hoping for some random bullet points today, weren't you?

::  First, there probably won't be a 'day in the life' post tomorrow.  Haven't heard from who was scheduled this week even after a reminder e-mail, so sorry about that.  But I'm sure you'll live.  Anything in particular you'd like me to blog about instead?  My brain is flat out concise ideas.  Oh, but speaking of 'a day in the life', I'm looking for someone who might be interested in writing a post for the November 7th slot.  Any takers?  Leave your blog address and e-mail in the comments section.

::  I sold the mattress set in our guest room this weekend.  Slowly but surely we are getting close to starting on the nursery.  I'm so completely torn about what all I want to do.  Right now I've settled on three white walls with some shade of aqua as an accent wall.  I suggested to Chris that the whole glitter wall thing might be cool, and he said hell no :o).  Unfortunately for him he works a lot...  Just kidding, I'm not really sure I need a whole wall of glitter, but I do hope to make a canvas like this.  I need to go search for fabric before I can pick paint colors, but I'm hoping for a color scheme along these lines...

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Mostly aqua, coral and yellow, with some pinks and peaches, a little green and white.  Why I keep going for coral I have no idea.  I used coral for our wedding and the gender reveal, and it is always a pain in the ass to find coral stuff (you'd think I'd be an expert by now, right?).  Mostly because coral can be interpreted in so many ways (as can all colors, but I feel coral is particularly tough).  If you happen to know of any great fabrics that use those colors I'd love to hear about them. 

::  We ordered Ryann a twin mattress yesterday, and scheduled delivery for October 23rd.  So I'm pretty sure I have about two weeks left before I never get to sleep again...  I'm crossing my fingers that it goes better than I'm expecting it to, but I anticipate lots of wanting to be out of bed and roaming around her room.  I ordered this white quilt yesterday, now I just need to decide on some sheets.  And we need to get the dresser secured to the wall so my little monkey doesn't tip the thing over in the middle of the night.

::  I went a little crazy shopping at Gap and Old Navy for fall clothes for Ryann when we had some coupons and there were sales.  The sizing says a 3T is for 36-39 inches tall, and apparently I misread the weight, but it says 33-36 pounds (I swore it was 30-33, that would be the 2T, whoops).  I failed.  Because most of the stuff is HUGE.  I'm sure it will fit her in a few months, but now I've got a limited selection of 2T items we bought towards the end of last winter/spring.  Today she is wearing a 24 month shirt, and it fits just fine.  Oy.  I don't want to take all the 3T stuff back, because she probably will fit into it, I was just so darn excited for her to wear it!

::  Also related to Ryann's clothing size?  Shoe size.  Currently she is a 7.  All of her closed toed/fall shoes from last year are 6's.  The majority of 7's we have are sandals.  So my poor child was wearing socks with sandals this weekend when it was chilly.  That is most definitely something I never thought I'd allow.  But for the record, Chris let her do it first when I wasn't home.  Anyway... I don't want to get 7's right now, because I'm sure she'll grow out of them.  But the 8's are too big.  The kid might be really awkwardly dressed for the next month or so, until she grows just a bit more...

::  I'm sure you are so incredibly happy you just wasted time out of your day reading this :o).  Happy Tuesday!