Cheerios and Flys

Those of you who have been long time readers, remember a few of my older posts about the urinal at Wrigley field that is just a long slit in the ground, and my picture of the very sleek looking sinks at the Jacksonville Airport. Well, a friend recently showed me this and I had to share!


This is a picture from the men's room in the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.



Here is what it says in case the writing is too small:
In Amsterdam the tile under the Shciphol urinals would pass inspection in an operating room, but no one notices. What everyone does notice is that every urinal has a fly in it.

Look harder and that fly turns into an etched outline in the porcelain. It improves aim. If a man sees a fly, he aims for it. Fly-in-Urinal research found that the etching reduces spillage by 80%. It gives the guy something to think about. The perfect example of Process Control.



How clever! I have heard of using cheerios to teach young boys to aim when potty training. I didn't realize they had the same thing for grown men. Clever idea Amsterdam! Now someone needs to make a business plan and offer this service to households. Porcelain etching - you choose the design, we'll etch it on your toilet. I wonder if that would reduce spillage by 80% at home???

It happened...

Awhile ago I commented on the fact that I like wearing pants with no zipper or button. I enjoyed the prego pants and wondered what it would be like when I went back to 'normal' pants.
Well, Yesterday I decided to try on 'real' pants to go to Baby shower. I was a bit afraid to try them on, but they were my 'big' jeans so I thought, what the heck. Well, I got them on, zipped, and buttoned! yippee!! The only problem is that twice I tried to pull them down without un-doing them. And I was worried the whole time that I would forget to zip them. Who would have thought I'd have to relearn to button and zip once I start fitting into more of my regular pants.

So if you see me out in public..dont be afraid to let me know 'XYZ' (eXamine Your Zipper)

Cutest baby

In case you have not seen this yet, it's my favorite video of Austin so far. He is just one day old here and Bob is holding him in the hospital. I have a second favorite but it appears to be too large to post. I'll keep trying.




So far things are going well. Austin has been a very good baby and I hope he keeps it up. We are looking forward to a visit from my dad soon, and Bob's parents will be coming down also. Lots of time for the grandparents to spoil him. I just hope he doesn't keep them up to much at night while they are here.

False advertising

I was at the store last week using my weekly super saver and Ice Cream was on sale. SO I decided that chocolate chip cookie dough sounded good.



Doesn't it look yummy. The box says 'Loaded with STUFF!' How could I not pick this one?

You can imagine my disappointment when I got home and opened it up to find this.




Where is the 'stuff' ? Yeah, scroll back up and look - The pictures shows loads of brown cookie dough goodness. It is totally missing from this container. So one of two things happened....They used the wrong box when filling this container and put chocolate chip in, or the weigh scale got clogged and was not dropping the correct amount of cookie dough into the ice cream mixture. Either way...I was glad I had left over Magic Shell so that I could still be excited about my ice cream.

Growing

I was skyping with my new web camera today and stood up to show my family in Texas my belly. They all gasped and said that I needed to post a different belly shot. Apparently the one in the grey and white shirt by the tree does not show how big my belly is. (Although it is a very stylish shirt Jennifer!!!)


So...here are some shots to catch you up on my waist line. I think I left off here...

32 weeks


I did not do a very good job of taking one every week, but you get the idea

35 weeks (Measuring my belly at a shower)


And gasp...I can't believe I am going to post this one but here it goes....
37 weeks


This one was shot tonight..
39 weeks


It's hard to believe that in a week our family will be three!!!

5 - S my house

So...I am still here...prego....and waiting. I figured I should blog some stuff while I have the time so here are a few random pictures that I found on the camera as I was cleaning it out.

At work, (before I left) they were working on organizing and cleaning up the entire plant. It's called 5-S for 5 different words that start with the letter S. The first is Sort, then Set in place....etc. I won't bore you with the details. The main idea is everything has a place, and everything in it's place. It is something that will take months to complete at the plant, so I know that they have been working on it since I left.
Well, last week Bob comes home and he has two strips of sticker in his hand one Blue and one Pink. He doesn't say anything about them, just says hi and goes to change his clothes before dinner. (the same way he always does). I think it's odd, but don't think about it again until I go to get ready for bed. I find this on our bathroom counter.



Apparently I have a habit of using Bob's brush. This would not be so bad, except I shed, a lot! A few years ago, I remember him complaining because the girls at work pulled one of my hairs out of the back of his hair. Well apparently I started doing it again, and he decided to color code them for me so I would not accidentally use his.

I'll be keeping a closer eye on what he is bringing home from work. If I start seeing a shadow board in the kitchen with all the spatulas and outlines on the floor where all the furniture goes I'll start to worry.

Yikes!!

So....I was looking on my brothers blog and he has this count down. Today it said:

'Only 20 more days until I become an Uncle'

Holy cow!! That means we're almost in the teens for delivery day...yikes

I'd like to appoligize in advance to the nurses and Dr. if I go into labor on Christmas...I know that the hospital is the last place they want to be on Christmas.

On the other hand....If I go in on December 31st....lets shoot for that new year baby. I could get a lot of cool things, but I am not going to be on TV or the Newspaper in a hospital gown! They'll get a picture of proud Dad and Son.