5 good things
1. I have the day off of work
2. I bought a few baby things and new maternity pants for cheap at a co-worker's pre-garage sale
3. I am optimistic about what I will accomplish today (mostly because it's still early)
4. The cat has become my buddy while Dave is gone
5. The weather has been really nice this week (we've had rain for weeks)
I missed Dave the most on Monday. It was a tiring day for me, I even skipped my walk. Now I'm feeling better with the day off and less week to get through, though I do have to work on Saturday and again on Monday even though I guess it's supposed to be a holiday since Independence Day falls on a Sunday this year. I guess if I needed drugs I would appreciate my drugstore being open.
Next week will mark a couple pregnancy milestones for me. Besides being week 27, it will also be the week I have my glucose check (fingers crossed that I don't have gestational diabetes, it will be difficult to give up many carbs and sweets), and Dave and I start our "baby classes." I'm hoping to learn a lot in them and feel more confident about the whole birthing experience. I should also get some answers about how my clinic/hospital feels about a birth plan. I plan on writing one that covers any major stuff... such as, please don't give me a c-section unless it is completely necessary for the well-being of the baby and/or me. I can work out how I word it in the next few weeks. Today one of my primary goals is to get a start on finding daycares and rates. I am nervous, this will help me decide what I want to say to my boss when I sit down and talk about maternity leave and possible part-time work. Maybe if I'm being proactive enough I will check in again today with a list of accomplishments (it's nice once in a while to see what I got done, but only when it's a satisfying amount of stuff).
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
gross things
First 5 good things...
1. I got done with work at 5pm today and wasn't late to work.
2. I have a restful evening ahead of me.
3. Kiki is spending the evening indoors with me and not complaining much.
4. It's very warm, but mostly comfortable.
5. Baby is alive and kicking.
Today was rough, two of our more experienced technicians were gone from the pharmacy so it was more stressful trying to figure things out when problems came up. I also found an unexpected (but small) bill on my credit card, thought I saw a tick hop off of Kiki, and had my dinner plans changed on me.
First I wanted to supply a picture of what I think was a wolf spider and was found by me in our bathroom. The experience was surprisingly traumatic considering that I usually will trap spiders and let them outside myself. This spider actually gave me an icky feeling in the pit of my stomach and I backed into the corner of the bathroom. I wouldn't watch Dave trap it or attempt to flush it down the toilet (he didn't want it coming back in). He had to flush a couple of times and then we poured some bleach in for good measure. The coin in the picture is a quarter (not sure how clear it will be).
Now, the most upsetting/disturbing part of my day today was finding that something I thought was a skin tag on Kiki had grown in size quite a bit. After rubbing it back and forth enough times I found that it was not part of her at all, but that it was a tick, and that she had two others right near her eye. I had to pin her down and tweeze them off of her. Gross, gross, gross. I do not like ticks, and I do not like playing doctor, there is a reason that I never even remotely considered going into that line of work. I have to admit that I'm sort of proud of myself for "man-ing up" and taking care of the problem, but it doesn't mean I ever want to repeat the experience. And for your viewing pleasure I also took a picture of the ticks next to a penny - I believe them to be deer ticks so I'm hoping that Kiki doesn't get any diseases. This is why Kiki is now doomed to spend a lot more time inside.
The credit card bill was my fault, I tried the number that was listed and found that it was some sort of coupon thing that I had signed up for online without realizing there was a monthly cost. It was very easy to cancel and they are even going to credit my credit card so I was pleased. The changed dinner plans were due to my grandma and her new "boyfriend." I guess he must be more fun than I, but it means I get to relax after the busy day so all is well.
As far as the migraine issue that I mentioned in the last post, I had a series of strange things happen last Friday between 10am and 12:30pm. First there was tunnel vision, next some numbness in my left fingers, followed by a headache, and closed out with very mild nausea. My blood pressure was fine when checked about an hour later and the clinic thinks it was just a migraine. The headache was pretty mild so that's surprising but I would much rather that's what it was than something more serious.
In other pregnancy news I will be having another ultrasound because my placenta (or rather baby's placenta) is low and they want to find out if it moves up (hopefully) in another few weeks. If it doesn't I will likely need a cesarean delivery. It sounds like there is an 80% chance that it will move up so I'm hopeful. At least I get to see baby again out of the deal.
1. I got done with work at 5pm today and wasn't late to work.
2. I have a restful evening ahead of me.
3. Kiki is spending the evening indoors with me and not complaining much.
4. It's very warm, but mostly comfortable.
5. Baby is alive and kicking.
Today was rough, two of our more experienced technicians were gone from the pharmacy so it was more stressful trying to figure things out when problems came up. I also found an unexpected (but small) bill on my credit card, thought I saw a tick hop off of Kiki, and had my dinner plans changed on me.
First I wanted to supply a picture of what I think was a wolf spider and was found by me in our bathroom. The experience was surprisingly traumatic considering that I usually will trap spiders and let them outside myself. This spider actually gave me an icky feeling in the pit of my stomach and I backed into the corner of the bathroom. I wouldn't watch Dave trap it or attempt to flush it down the toilet (he didn't want it coming back in). He had to flush a couple of times and then we poured some bleach in for good measure. The coin in the picture is a quarter (not sure how clear it will be).
Now, the most upsetting/disturbing part of my day today was finding that something I thought was a skin tag on Kiki had grown in size quite a bit. After rubbing it back and forth enough times I found that it was not part of her at all, but that it was a tick, and that she had two others right near her eye. I had to pin her down and tweeze them off of her. Gross, gross, gross. I do not like ticks, and I do not like playing doctor, there is a reason that I never even remotely considered going into that line of work. I have to admit that I'm sort of proud of myself for "man-ing up" and taking care of the problem, but it doesn't mean I ever want to repeat the experience. And for your viewing pleasure I also took a picture of the ticks next to a penny - I believe them to be deer ticks so I'm hoping that Kiki doesn't get any diseases. This is why Kiki is now doomed to spend a lot more time inside.
The credit card bill was my fault, I tried the number that was listed and found that it was some sort of coupon thing that I had signed up for online without realizing there was a monthly cost. It was very easy to cancel and they are even going to credit my credit card so I was pleased. The changed dinner plans were due to my grandma and her new "boyfriend." I guess he must be more fun than I, but it means I get to relax after the busy day so all is well.
As far as the migraine issue that I mentioned in the last post, I had a series of strange things happen last Friday between 10am and 12:30pm. First there was tunnel vision, next some numbness in my left fingers, followed by a headache, and closed out with very mild nausea. My blood pressure was fine when checked about an hour later and the clinic thinks it was just a migraine. The headache was pretty mild so that's surprising but I would much rather that's what it was than something more serious.
In other pregnancy news I will be having another ultrasound because my placenta (or rather baby's placenta) is low and they want to find out if it moves up (hopefully) in another few weeks. If it doesn't I will likely need a cesarean delivery. It sounds like there is an 80% chance that it will move up so I'm hopeful. At least I get to see baby again out of the deal.
Monday, June 21, 2010
ultrasound
Is it really any surprise that it's been a while since I've posted? Here's five good things for the day...
1. I went on my walk
2. I ate pineapple pie
3. My weird symptoms from last Friday were most likely a migraine and not anything more serious (more on that another time)
4. Dave is still here tonight (but leaves tomorrow for his trip)
5. The ferret is still doing well
I need to get going, but I will finally add some important pics -
The photo that isn't a profile is the baby yawning. I call the picture "the scream" because I think the eye sockets are a little spooky, but it also can look a tiny bit like it's smiling and I like that.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Life and stuff
I'm thinking of writing a list of 5 good things that happen each day just so that I have to post more often.
Since the last time I wrote I transplanted my little plants outside. They have been doing pretty well. The tomato plants seem to thrive the most, I'm a little concerned about the endives and arugula. I also directly planted some bean and cilantro seeds but they don't want to come up at all.
I've gotten bigger and that is exciting. Dave and I will be going to the ultrasound appointment in about a week and a half. We're not going to find out the gender of the baby which some of my co-workers seem to be having trouble with. A couple of them looked up a Chinese calendar chart that said I would have a boy. Another coworker plans to hang a needle above my belly at some point, at which point the needle will swing one direction or another because of polarity relating to the gender ??? Yet another coworker keeps asking how I am going to decorate since I won't know... the room is fairly neutral/baby decent so I'm not really worried. I didn't realize that it would be so controversial to not find out, but I'm sticking to my guns because I think it will be a fun surprise. I told Dave that we can find out the sex on child number 2.
One thing I have done to get ready is measure all living room and baby room furniture as well as the dimensions of the two rooms. I then made little cut-outs of the furniture to scale (I don't know what the scale was, but each square on the graph paper is 0.5ft²) and have moved them around until I found an almost workable situation. We have a lot of stuff in the house because we have a lot of stuff in addition to all of the furniture that was still here from my grandma. I will try to post photos of my little creation soon.
My mom has bought us tons of baby stuff. I really like it, I'm not a big shopper and not super picky plus it was exciting to see all of the stuff. She even got me a bunch of maternity clothes which I have started to wear mixed in with some of my pre-pregnancy stuff.
I had my hair cut and I really like it as does Dave and most of the people I've talked to about it so I will return next time I get it done. I was pleased that someone was finally willing to give me bangs, other stylists seemed to shy away because of my cowlick (?). My forehead is kind of high so I like that bangs make that less obvious.
Dave is almost done with school for the year. The kids are done and he only has two inservice days left. His summer is looking pretty lazy other than my demand for dinners... actually, we need to talk about this more, I'm willing to help him, but I'd like him to have food started or at least have an idea of what to make since he will be at home and I will be working throughout the summer. I am extremely bad at meal planning so it feels a little hypocritical and I feel guilty, but I also feel that it's a fair trade-off for his multitude of free time, that's why we should probably talk about it more, but he knows, I am not totally springing it on him.
Dave and I have collaborated on dinner tonight, it sounds like his chicken is done so now we're just waiting on my potatoes. We're both happy to enjoy a day off tomorrow. I've been spending a portion of the weekend going through my photo albums and cutting down on them. I'm mostly done and have eliminated two books worth (of 6 or 7... I took a lot of photos growing up). I'm hoping to go through our home and find more stuff to get rid of. I need to check the potatoes, pretty sure they still have 5 minutes, before I go I should also note that I've been feeling the baby move a lot. Dave can feel it too and occasionally we even see my stomach/belly moving, which is really crazy but fun.
Since the last time I wrote I transplanted my little plants outside. They have been doing pretty well. The tomato plants seem to thrive the most, I'm a little concerned about the endives and arugula. I also directly planted some bean and cilantro seeds but they don't want to come up at all.
I've gotten bigger and that is exciting. Dave and I will be going to the ultrasound appointment in about a week and a half. We're not going to find out the gender of the baby which some of my co-workers seem to be having trouble with. A couple of them looked up a Chinese calendar chart that said I would have a boy. Another coworker plans to hang a needle above my belly at some point, at which point the needle will swing one direction or another because of polarity relating to the gender ??? Yet another coworker keeps asking how I am going to decorate since I won't know... the room is fairly neutral/baby decent so I'm not really worried. I didn't realize that it would be so controversial to not find out, but I'm sticking to my guns because I think it will be a fun surprise. I told Dave that we can find out the sex on child number 2.
One thing I have done to get ready is measure all living room and baby room furniture as well as the dimensions of the two rooms. I then made little cut-outs of the furniture to scale (I don't know what the scale was, but each square on the graph paper is 0.5ft²) and have moved them around until I found an almost workable situation. We have a lot of stuff in the house because we have a lot of stuff in addition to all of the furniture that was still here from my grandma. I will try to post photos of my little creation soon.
My mom has bought us tons of baby stuff. I really like it, I'm not a big shopper and not super picky plus it was exciting to see all of the stuff. She even got me a bunch of maternity clothes which I have started to wear mixed in with some of my pre-pregnancy stuff.
I had my hair cut and I really like it as does Dave and most of the people I've talked to about it so I will return next time I get it done. I was pleased that someone was finally willing to give me bangs, other stylists seemed to shy away because of my cowlick (?). My forehead is kind of high so I like that bangs make that less obvious.
Dave is almost done with school for the year. The kids are done and he only has two inservice days left. His summer is looking pretty lazy other than my demand for dinners... actually, we need to talk about this more, I'm willing to help him, but I'd like him to have food started or at least have an idea of what to make since he will be at home and I will be working throughout the summer. I am extremely bad at meal planning so it feels a little hypocritical and I feel guilty, but I also feel that it's a fair trade-off for his multitude of free time, that's why we should probably talk about it more, but he knows, I am not totally springing it on him.
Dave and I have collaborated on dinner tonight, it sounds like his chicken is done so now we're just waiting on my potatoes. We're both happy to enjoy a day off tomorrow. I've been spending a portion of the weekend going through my photo albums and cutting down on them. I'm mostly done and have eliminated two books worth (of 6 or 7... I took a lot of photos growing up). I'm hoping to go through our home and find more stuff to get rid of. I need to check the potatoes, pretty sure they still have 5 minutes, before I go I should also note that I've been feeling the baby move a lot. Dave can feel it too and occasionally we even see my stomach/belly moving, which is really crazy but fun.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Kiki doing her part
Though there wasn't much snow this winter we did get enough to require some Kiki assistance...
news I've been withholding...
I am
I'm serious.
and I'm due at the beginning of October. Although I think anyone reading this probably already knows. I used the digital tests because I had heard from a friend that the others were often difficult to read and I didn't want any confusion.
I'm not sure if keeping this secret had anything to do with my lack of writing on the blog, but at least now I can write about it without concern if I desire.
So far today has been a very lazy Saturday. I got up at a decent time of 8:30am and have been at a computer since. It took a while to go through emails and search websites/blogs etc. Plus Dave found out that I didn't have Norton Anti Virus on my computer and needed some time to remedy that. The weather goes back and forth from sunny to rainy. Right now it's in between the two and I have been meaning to take a photo of the "point" so that I can add a spring version to my collection. I better go do that now.
Before I go I should say that Dave and I get to be an aunt and uncle for the first time, very exciting. M and his wife had a healthy baby boy on April 21st. Now we're waiting for another couple (friends of ours) to have their baby, any day, the due date is today.
I'm serious.
and I'm due at the beginning of October. Although I think anyone reading this probably already knows. I used the digital tests because I had heard from a friend that the others were often difficult to read and I didn't want any confusion.
I'm not sure if keeping this secret had anything to do with my lack of writing on the blog, but at least now I can write about it without concern if I desire.
So far today has been a very lazy Saturday. I got up at a decent time of 8:30am and have been at a computer since. It took a while to go through emails and search websites/blogs etc. Plus Dave found out that I didn't have Norton Anti Virus on my computer and needed some time to remedy that. The weather goes back and forth from sunny to rainy. Right now it's in between the two and I have been meaning to take a photo of the "point" so that I can add a spring version to my collection. I better go do that now.
Before I go I should say that Dave and I get to be an aunt and uncle for the first time, very exciting. M and his wife had a healthy baby boy on April 21st. Now we're waiting for another couple (friends of ours) to have their baby, any day, the due date is today.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Return!
I am back from my vacation, I have been back for almost a couple of weeks. I had a lot of fun and was able to make it work out really well despite forgetting my passport in Oslo and British Airways being on strike.
The stone photo is the corner of a building in downtown Oslo. The other stone statues are in the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo. The photo below was a pink boat in the Oslo harbor/bay.
You may have noticed that there was actually snow in Oslo. I was a little surprised despite the fact that Norway is north of Minnesota, even London is north of Minnesota. I didn't bring a hat or gloves but my friend was nice enough to lend me her scarf and hat when I went out alone (she sometimes had to leave me in order to practice her horn, the whole reason she's there).
The above photos are from London. The first I think is the tower? Rory? It's where they brought a lot of prisoners, and Anne Boleyn. We crossed the Tower Bridge (on right) to get to it. I learned that the Tower Bridge is not the same as London Bridge. London Bridge is far less impressive and the original resides in Arizona.
Below is my (and Laura's) fish and chips dinner. The green stuff is mashed peas. There was vinegar to sprinkle on the chips/fries, and tartar sauce and mayonnaise for the fish. It was very tasty but maybe a tiny on the greasy side. I like my fish crispy if it's fried.
I'm still not used to writing the blog so I'm going to go make cookies and balance our budget. I will write more later.
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