There is nothing like the soft pitter-patter that is your unborn child's heartbeat...

I heard baby Jerinic's heart beat and it was the most beautiful sound in the world. I had a pre-natal visit on Thursday, the 12 week visit, and apparently at 12 weeks you can hear the heartbeat. I was kind of sad though, because I thought this time was just going to be going in and doing the regular check-up sort of deal, and so I didn't have my roomie come with me, so he missed out. But on Wednesday I go in to have my first ULTRASOUND!!!!! I'm so excited. I can't wait to see the little bean shaped fetus that is my offspring. This is just a routine ultrasound where they verify my due-date and how far along I am and what not. I'm hoping we get a sonogram picture as well, but I'm not sure if they do that yet. Darko is definitely going to go with me this time. I want to hear the heart beat again. It's so cool. They put the microphone thingie up against your abdomen and you start hearing lots of weird gross sounds coming from your belly and then you hear a heart beat, but the doctor tells you it's yours, and then all of a sudden, you hear this heart beat, that if it were in a normal person would indicate that they'd just finished running a marathon. A fetus's heart beat is super fast, but apparently that's healthy. It was really cool.

I was in Northern Virginia on Saturday because my sister's fiance's mom's sister was throwing Jessi a bridal shower, and as her maid of honor, I was required to be there. I'm going to go ahead and skip over how the shower was, and just say that the one I'm throwing in January for her, hopefully, will be better. After the shower though, Jessi had mom, grandma and me attend a Mary Kay party with her best friend Sara as the Independent Beauty Consultant. I was pleased with the results, and thus bought some of their products. Now, I know what you all are thinking. Mary Kay? How hoky right? But actually the skin-care products were really nice. Ever since I got pregnant my oil glands have been working over time, resulting in more zits on my pretty little face than I've had since I was around 15, seriously, and I figured what I usually do isn't working, so Mary Kay can't hurt. I bought the cleanser, the moisturizer, and the foundation from Time-wise, which is supposed to cut down on the lines and wrinkles in your face. Not that I have wrinkles at the moment, but isn't it better to start now then to wait until you actually have wrinkles? And also, if I like the Mary Kay line, I have Birthday and Christmas present ideas for the rest of my life. Know what I mean. I'll keep you guys posted on how it all works.

I was a little bit excited to go to Nova this weekend and one reason for that is I haven't seen the inside, well, or outside for that matter, of a Starbucks in roughly three months, and if I had to go one more week without spending some time in Target I was going to go crazy. I had starbucks three times while I was up there, Tropical smoothie once, and we spent two hours in the Target in Charlotesville on the way home yesterday. I've desperately needed sunglasses since I lost mine the first couple weeks we were in Grundy. Isaac Mizrahi makes the best line of sunglasses for Target. For the past, oh, two years or so, that's all I've been wearing. And again, he doesn't fail. I found the cutest, biggest pair of sunglasses that not only blocks my eyes from harmfull UV rays, but also covers half my face on days when I refuse to shower. They are perfect. Since the sun is finally shining after a week of rain, the glasses couldn't have come at a better time.

I know this is a short one, but I have to be in class in 10 minutes. So, I'll sign off for now, and if I think of anything else I'd like to say then I will write later this evening.

Oh, I forgot. When I went to the Dr. they weighed me, of course, and I had only gained 1/2 a pound in the past month, which to me was UNBELIEVABLE considering the imense amount of Hardees Hashbrowns I've consumed in the past few weeks.