He's still in there

I'm still pregnant. This was not supposed to happen! I woke up with contractions a couple of days ago and they persisted for the whole day. They were about 10 minutes apart from the time I woke up to about 6 pm. At around 6 that evening, they began to get closer together. At one point they were 2 or 3 minutes apart and I called Merrie to let her know. I didn't want to be heading into active labor without knowing it. She told me to continue timing them and then to give her a call in an hour. So, I timed and I called and after an hour they were still 4 minutes apart, but were not really getting any stronger. Merrie told me again to call in an hour. In the meantime, I was to have a wine cooler to see if that eased the contractions and to help relax me. I had the wine cooler and in an hour the contractions were only 10 minutes apart and not any stronger. I called Merrie again, and we decided I was not in labor. So, then I was irritated and disappointed and I decided that the best thing for me to do was to go to bed and sleep or risk biting someone's head off or having a complete emotional breakdown. So, I went to bed and woke up the next morning with no contractions and still pregnant. A couple of days went by with nothing happening and then last night I started having contractions again after I went to bed. After a couple of hours, I felt like they were becoming pretty regular and they were stronger than before, so I woke Joel up and had him time them for me. They were consistently 5 minutes apart for about an hour, but they never got any stronger than that. We decided to lay back down and see if we could sleep a little bit (it was about 3 am and I still had yet to sleep at all). I think I finally fell asleep sometime after 4 and when I woke up at 7, there was nothing happening ...... AGAIN!! Joel let me sleep in a little bit since I had only gotten about 3 hours of sleep and when I did get out of bed I was still without contractions. I have had some contractions throughout today, but nothing regular or strong or indicative of labor pains. I am now ready to kill someone and am trying very hard to be in a pleasant mood and not make Joel or Isabel suffer for my discomfort. Through it all Joel has been a champion husband. He has been up with me in the night, he has taken on almost all Isabel related responsibilites, he has done the grocery shopping, he has been very careful not to ask me the status of my contractions too often (even though I know he is always wanting to know) and he has spent lots of time rubbing my feet and my back. I am being well taken care of.
I am going to do my best to wait out the weekend and then I will call Merrie on Monday and tell her she has got to do something!!! This kid has got to come out ASAP! I'll keep you posted on what happens ... or doesn't happen.