Bumpie of the Week 6.1 - slartybartfast

cayaylonglegs · June 2016

Congratulations on being selected as Bumpie of the Week! We look forward to getting to know you better below. Only answer questions that you feel comfortable answering.

What is your first name?

When is your due date?

What part of the world are you from (be as vague/specific as you want)?

What number baby/pregnancy is this for you?

What is your occupation or dream occupation?

Does your/will your nursery have a theme or color combination?

Have you bought anything for baby yet?

If you have bought things, what is your favorite thing that you have gotten so far?

What is your favorite part of pregnancy so far?

Do you have a favorite maternity/baby brand?

One thing you will splurge on this pregnancy?

What are your top pregnancy related priorities?

What is your favorite book?

What is your favorite tv show?

What is your favorite movie?

What is your favorite band/singer?

Anything else you would like us to know?

slartybartfast · June 2016

ME!

What is your first name? Slarty (sorry we had so many trolls on my last BMB I'm feeling shy still)

When is your due date? Dec 16

What part of the world are you from (be as vague/specific as you want)? I mostly grew up in VA but now I live out west in a mountainy area

What number baby/pregnancy is this for you? 2/2

What is your occupation or dream occupation? I am in a specialized science field. I mostly work with contamination remediation and water resource characterization and protection. However. I'd love to have a singing voice like Alison Krauss or Susan Tedeschi or Aoife O'Donovan or Natalie Maines and get awesome at guitar and perform by night and train for ultra races (mtn bike and running) by day.

Does your/will your nursery have a theme or color combination? We'll use the same nursery eventually. We painted the walls yellow and used a bunch of the things we've picked up on our travels to decorate. For instance, DH used to be back and forth to Africa all the time and each time he would bring me back a little carved animal so now we have a whole zoo's-worth. They're on a little wall shelf. And we have maps and stuff up. It actually came together kind of nicely.

Have you bought anything for baby yet? A lotus guava travel crib and a LOT of hardboiled eggs and string cheese. And that inflatable tube chair (it's not here yet).

If you have bought things, what is your favorite thing that you have gotten so far? That travel crib is awesome. SO portable. So easy to set-up. Unfortunately they're kind of pricey and you can't really find them used like a pack-n-play.

What is your favorite part of pregnancy so far? ...if you've read any of my whiney posts you know I've been really sick... I guess that, so long as everything goes healthy, this will be my last pregnancy. So every day pregnant is a day I will never have to be pregnant again.

Do you have a favorite maternity/baby brand? 99.5% of our things are hand-me-downs but I do really like the stuff we were given from Janie and Jack and Hannah Anderson. And nothing is cuter than a toddler in Osh Kosh overalls

One thing you will splurge on this pregnancy? I think that travel crib was my splurge. OH. no. It's a doula. We're meeting with one Sunday and if we like her, we'll hire her. It's expensive but I have all kinds of fear about giving birth again. My first go was so rough. Healthy but really really rough. And I did sense how important my frame of mind was. I'm hoping to find an Obi Wan to guide me to the finish line.

What are your top pregnancy related priorities? Good gracious I'd like to get some fitness going. I'd love to be able to move without ralphing again. I felt last time that it was so healthy for baby too. That's a huge priority. Other than that I just need to get through this thing. I am NOT good at it.

What is your favorite book? I love the following series: Hitchhiker's Guide, Golden Compass, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, DaVinci Code. I really do like to read but I'm lazy about it. I demand that an author grab me quickly and then keep me.

What is your favorite tv show? Arrested Development no question. But also Orphan Black, I liked Weeds but I don't pay for media (except Amazon Prime) and I don't know how to watch it free. The Office, Modern Family...

What is your favorite movie? Once Upon a Time in Mexico, I Heart Huckabees, Chipmunk's Adventure

What is your favorite band/singer? Devon Sproule, Norah Jones, The Pixies, Enya, Dave Mathews Band, Wailin Jennys, Bela Fleck, Aoife O'Donovan, Union Station, Tedeschi-Trucks, CSN, Pitbull, Shakira, Marc Anthony, Ke$ha, Pat Metheny, Charlie Hunter.

Anything else you would like us to know? Today is my dog's birthday. I tear up telling the story of the day I adopted her. I was planning to take her camping tomorrow night but I'm sending the boys off with her while I stay at home in bed. She'll have a blast.

bakerstreetboys · June 2016

Once Upon a Time in Mexcio...I love that movie and had totally forgotten about it! Thanks, will have to re-watch

KatieJo1205 · June 2016

OMG - Chipmunk's Adventure is awesome! Love it!

acreight13 · June 2016

Love all your reading choices!

LinziLoo09 · June 2016

I'm super impressed that your parents named you Slarty

I hope the baby is Slarty Jr.

slartybartfast · June 2016

KatieJo1205 said:

OMG - Chipmunk's Adventure is awesome! Love it!

Seriously - watching it as an adult I realized that kid me was so into the songs I had no idea it was about international diamond smuggling. And that half the people I thought were bad guys are good guys... Jamal...

Kacie209 · June 2016

@slartybartfast My youngest nephew just got that Chipmunk's Adventure for his birthday a few weeks back. So, when we were over there for his birthday I asked if we could watch it since I watched it as a kid. It was in the middle cos they had started watching it already... I think all the adults (besides me) thought it was lame. But, none had ever watched it... their poor childhoods!

aevan011 · June 2016

VA native here living in TX - I grew up in the Hampton Roads area.
Happy Birthday to your pup! I get emotional about my dogs too

slartybartfast · June 2016

aevan011 said:

VA native here living in TX - I grew up in the Hampton Roads area.
Happy Birthday to your pup! I get emotional about my dogs too

I spent a lot of years in yorktown! Kid neighbors!

aevan011 · June 2016

@slartybartfast I miss Yorktown beach! Our wedding was in Williamsburg but I grew up in Hampton. Neat past connection

slartybartfast · June 2016

aevan011 said:

@slartybartfast I miss Yorktown beach! Our wedding was in Williamsburg but I grew up in Hampton. Neat past connection

Super strange but I think I miss bush gardens the most! I wanna go there so baaaaaaaad.

aevan011 · June 2016

@slartybartfast Yes!!! I had a season's pass from age 13 to 28....I'm hoping to squeeze in a trip when I go back in two weeks but not sure....I miss it sooooo much. I don't even care that I won't be able to ride anything, that place was like a beautiful second home for me!!! (My hubby is weirded out that I know the park so well that I don't need maps...)

phoenix870509 · June 2016

First roller coaster I ever went on was Loch Ness Monster. My dad and I rode it 5 times in a row and even got front row. I'm the same way with the Busch Gardens in Tampa. Haven't been in ages, but I don't need a map to know where everything is.

leksiL · June 2016

Yay mid-atlanticers!! We used to go to Busch gardens when I was a kid too! There was the Loch Ness one and the. One that was like a wolf or something right? It's been awhile. I'm hoping our kid will like theme parks so we can go to them across the country. We have season passes to six flags (bought them in the fall whoops!) but at least I can do the water park!

SmashJam · June 2016

the His Dark Materials series is my fave ever!! I hated the Golden Compass movie was so awful

aevan011 · June 2016

@leksiL The Big Bad Wolf. I miss that ride, they took it down several years ago and replaced it with a new roller coaster but it's just as fun if not better!
@phoenix870509 The Loch Ness was my first coaster too, though it took me a while to warm up to them. Man now I'm really sad I won't be able to ride lol

slartybartfast · June 2016

Big Bad Wolf started shaking your head so badly that you'd come out of it with a headache by the end!

@SmashJam - the movie was TERRIBLE. but it wasn't really movie friendly to begin with I don't think.

ETA - I have toyed with the idea of naming a girl Lyra

Christinaruth74 · June 2016

I like your perspective on pregnancy... Every day pregnant is a day I'll never have to be pregnant again... AMEN to that, girlfrann.

cayaylonglegs · June 2016

I imagine you meeting your doula and she has a jedi braid. That would be fantastic.

slartybartfast · June 2016

@cayaylonglegs oh man I hope so. I may request she wear a hooded robe for the birth. Also - I request you bumpie of the week yourself soon! I want to learn what's behind the woman of many scents!

R0824H · June 2016

ohhh i'm the same way with books

, if I don't want to keep reading after the first few pages, i'm usually done

SmashJam · June 2016

@slartybartfast I agree that the book was not movie friendly. And Lyra would be a GREAT name!!

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