I took my last pregnancy test today and snapped a photo of the entire test progression. I can't remember why I skipped taking one on Aug 10th. That doesn't sound like something I'd do at all. Oh that's right.....after that first barely-there line on the 9th, I was under the delusion that I was going to wait until AF didn't show that weekend to test again. Ha ha. Yeah right. You can see how that went.

I called my midwife this morning and we set up my first appointment, a week from today at 10:00am. She seemed very excited for me. I asked if it's something she would encourage DH to attend as well, and she said, "Absolutely!". She supports fathers being as involved in the pregnancy and birth as possible, which I think is great. I called DH and he said he's going to try to get off work to go with me. He really wants to go....it's just this blasted job he's got right now. If any employers are reading this, just a little advice: don't work your employees to the bone 6 days a week. It's bad for morale and your employees will end up hating their jobs and in turn, give you sub-standard work. Really, give them the weekend to spend with their families, you awful Scrooge! Okay, just had to get that little rant out of my system.

I've got to get to work. DH and I are taking a good number of our 3,000+ vinyl record albums to an open air market in a (somewhat) nearby town next weekend and I need to alphabetize several bins. Yuk. I am VERY excited about selling them and getting them the crap out of our house. We bought them super cheap from a local record store a while back, thinking that we could sell them on eBay, but eBay is totally saturated with records. Some records that could sell for $8.00 or $10.00 at a record store are selling for as low as .99 on eBay. Grading the records in order to accurately describe their condition within the listings is a time-consuming process. I would always end up grading them lower than what they really were for fear that a customer would receive it, think I graded it too high, and then leave negative feedback on my account. We have probably sold more records and made more money putting the records on consignment at our friend's store than we have with me spending months listing them on eBay. I hate failing at something that I had confidence was going to be relatively successful. Now any time I have an idea of how to go into business for myself, I am afraid that it will be a bust like the records. I would LOVE to make a living sewing cloth diapers and maybe even buying some wholesale diaper accessories and opening up an online store with my wares....but I'm not sure where to start. It seems you need capital to start a business and that's something we don't have a lot of right now.

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