Could I be nesting online?

I’m so close to being full term, and rather than clean up around the apartment, I’m trying to get my business things taken care of. Insane things to do this late in the game like change hosts. It’s in process right now. I keep thinking of things I should be doing online rather than around here.

And boy do I need to get things done around here! The cradle isn’t set up – for that matter, the space for the cradle still has moving boxes in it! The living area of the apartment is still completely disorganized.

Maybe that’s what comes of working at home and owning a home business. You spend so much time doing these things that the natural urge to get things ready for baby take on a different tone.

I’m making progress on the move to a new host finally. Took them a while to get things setup – for some reason my payment didn’t show up, so the order sat as pending. I’ve had that happen a lot with PayPal lately. It’s very frustrating.

Now I’m working on getting the discussion board set up so that when I can start moving the nameservers everything should be ready to go. I’ve been backing it up regularly each day whenever I think of it, even though the change shouldn’t happen until tomorrow, and then it will take some time, I assume, for the change in nameservers to propagate. That’s normally about two days for complete propagation.

The hosting company I’m using is TotalChoiceHosting. They give a lot of space and are very affordable. I’ve been happy with them for my Jewels to Remember site, so now they get one that is quite a bit more important to me. The extras they offer that the old host didn’t will give me quite a bit more flexibility to do things, so I am really looking forward to having this host. The only hard part is that I might have my discussion boards down for a couple days. Moving this blog, on the other hand, will be the easy part. Just have to change a few settings and republish.

I can’t spend too much time on this today, though. Ariel’s with her grandparents, and I really need to get transcription done while I can before I have this baby. I have someone coming over to pick up the old couch finally, so my mother’s coming by rather than have me meet these people here alone. Not paranoid, just cautious. It will be so nice to be able to reclaim my living room and sit on my beautiful, new to me couch at long last!

I’m exhausted! Yesterday was my sister’s wedding reception, and I was tired before it began. Ariel’s been a little sick, so between her coughing much of the night, the baby moving around and my usual hips problems I’ve been dealing with this pregnancy, I don’t get much sleep right now.

The party was a lot of fun yesterday, although I sat through most of it. I think I worried a lot of people because I was moving so slowly, but my hips hurt too much to walk much. I caught my foot while walking earlier in the day and pulled some of the areas that already ache just in general. Lucky for my sister, I didn’t go into labor at her party, as we had joked about.

Now that I have my transcription equipment, I’m trying to figure out how much work I can do. It’s painful to sit for long periods the way I need to to for transcription, so between that and just being tired, setting a schedule for these last few weeks before I have the baby is not going to be easy. I would like to get a few hours a day in, just have to figure out how to break that into tolerable chunks.

I can cope with website work for longer periods, only because I don’t have to use the foot pedal, so I have a lot more freedom of movement.

I’ve been trying to get rid of an old couch through Freecycle. Thought I had it, but then the girl canceled. I’m waiting to hear from the next person, and if she doesn’t reply soon, go on to the last person who asked me about it. It’s a bit of a frustrating process – I want that couch GONE – but I really like the idea of not sending it to the dump when it’s still a perfectly functional couch.

Sometimes these things seem to take forever. Like getting set up on a new system. I finally got my medical transcription foot pedal the other day, got the software installed, and now I have to wait until tomorrow for the actual training. Oh well, it’s more time to do website things.

I had a good OB appointment today. They’re pretty sure the baby has turned, so I probably don’t have to worry about how they’d handle a breech delivery. That is a huge relief.

Getting ready to change hosts here.

It’s not a fun process, as I decided to change registrars for my domain name too (trying to keep things consistent, and the domain name was with the host I’m leaving), so I may hit a little downtime, but I’ll be watching carefully for that, so as to minimize it. I’ve already backed up the site, and I’ll be keeping backups of my discussion board so that hopefully any switch there can be reasonably smooth.

Changing registrars is actually the hard part. It takes much longer than getting a new one, and I can’t seem to get the nameservers on the new registrar ready to point where I need them to be. That’s my one concern for downtime – the change in nameservers takes up to two days, so if I can’t do it in advance, that’s two days down. I’ve done the best I can, as I have some hosting where my domain name is moving to, so most of my site is there, but the hosting doesn’t have all the functionality I need, so not everything will make it there.

The ultrasound came out fine.

I figured it probably would. After all, this baby is plenty active. About the only negative thing the tech came up with was that the baby is still breech. The OB thought he had turned already. This explains why my ribs don’t hurt, but baby really needs to turn! I do NOT want a C-section if I can avoid one.

I am so glad to be able to get to focus on business things again – well aside from doing some research on ways to encourage the baby to turn. I’ll have to call my employer on Monday and get on their case again about getting me that foot pedal so I can get some medical transcription done before I go on maternity leave. I stopped worrying about that once I heard there might be a problem, because I could have been put on bed rest or even sent to have the baby right then, so it just seemed pointless to try to get a foot pedal I would then not need for several weeks.

Quick update – why do they always call right after you tell people something?

The doctor’s office finally called me back. I had called to see if two weeks was really what they had wanted the radiologist’s office to do. Took them a long time to get back to me because they had to call the radiologist to reschedule me. Now I go in on Saturday. Looks like they definitely didn’t mean for me to wait THAT long. I am so glad I called now.

I hate waiting!

Had an OB appointment today, and was told I was measuring small… 31 weeks instead of the 35 it should be. So I have to go back again next week and get an ultrasound the following week. Waiting so long for the ultrasound is NOT going to be fun. After all, by the time I have it, I’ll be 37 weeks pregnant, that is to say technically full term. Wondering if there is a problem this late is very hard. OK, so it would be hard at any stage.

Wow, that hole in AwStats has given the phpBB developers a lot of trouble.

Not with phpBB itself, but with getting their new server. Delivery troubles have kept them offline, and may continue to do so until Friday. Right when I had a question, too.

I sympathize. Remember that foot pedal I was supposed to be getting yesterday? Didn’t come. I’m waiting to find out what happened. The person who was going to send it is out sick, so they’re having to check for me.

I should be getting my transcription foot pedal today!

Mixed feelings about this, though. I’ve loved the time I’ve had off to work on websites, but it really is time to get back to transcription. Business is good, but until I know it’s going to stay this good I need the safety net. Besides, in a month or so I’ll be taking maternity leave, which should give me time to assess my results.

I’m trying out a new program, which you can see as a link off to the side. It’s called The Instant Guru Blog. In my initial scans, the blog looks like it provides some pretty good tips. I’ll be watching this one carefully to see how things go and if it’s worth my time.