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Category Archives: Life
Puke
I was going to go on about nausea, but the dooce has already done it and I’m too tired and queasy to write it again: dooce: Survival of the Species.
I’m at work, I’m tired, I’m nauseous, and I can’t focus. I want to go lie down. But since I’m not sick, I don’t know if I can allow myself to go home. Buh.
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Baby Gallery: Justin Morgan
Meet my cousin Paul’s new son, Justin!
Many of you may not know much about my cousin Paul, since I haven’t really hung with him in about twenty years, but he’s the cousin I took baths with when I was a toddler. So we’re close, in our own special way!
Outta the woodwork
For some reason, announcing one’s pregnancy on one’s blog brings out all kinds of folk. I’ve gotten emails from Mark Polokow and Matt Ahearn in the past couple of days! How very super extra blown is that?!
Does anybody say blown any more? Am I dating myself?
Blah-g
I fear that what little interest my blog may have held previously will slowly leach out as I become more and more involved in my private journey of What Hormones Can Do To An Otherwise Moderately Interesting Human Being.
I watched The Red Cap on TBS last night. It was some cheesy holiday special directed by Chaz Palmieri and in the end I freakin’ bawled like there was no tomorrow, thinking, “Wow. Hormones are intense!”
Brett and I spent most of the weekend in our pajamas on a futon on the living room floor staring at the telly. We went out for breakfast twice. I made a cake. We bought groceries. My boobs actually made noise they were growing so fast.
Today I’m determined to accomplish some domestic goals, like (1) Do the dishes. (2) Do some laundry. (3) Find the living room floor. But I’ll probably just watch those baby delivery shows and feel weird about being pregnant at 36.
In case any of you were having a bad day, this will cheer you up:
There’s this stuff called Rainbow Light Prenatal Multi-powder. It’s “ginger ale” flavored. It’s got all the trad vitamins and minerals, and then a bunch of food-based good-for-you hippy whole food stuff that tastes like dirt, such as uber-healthy green superfood. You’re supposed to mix a teaspoon of it with water or juice and drink it, and it’s formulated especially for chicks who can’t take pills.
IT’S DISGUSTING. Be thankful you’re not drinking any right now, that’s all I’m saying.
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Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers
Since we’ve told Brett’s mom, I can now announce it on my blog:
We’re pregnant!
Not very pregnant, just a little shy of seven weeks. But enough pregnant that I’m suffering constant morning sickness, my boobs hurt like hell, and I’m constipated. (This is due to hormones; they slow down the action of the bowels. Insult to injury. Fantastic.)
I’m totally useless. Everything makes me want to hurl. The dog smells bad, food smells bad, everything smells bad. I can’t smoke or drink. I’m off caffeine. I’m off drive thru.
I’m supposed to be eating healthy foods, but all I want is starch: pasta, cream of potato soup, bread and butter, crackers. It’s a fight to eat veggies, and I’m usually all about veggies. (I’m craving a glass of white wine like you wouldn’t believe, but there isn’t any in the house and I don’t want it bad enough to go and drive 26 miles to get it. Europeans drink wine during pregnancy and they make all that yummy stinky cheese so it can’t be all bad.)
I wasn’t sick sick Tuesday, I was just too fucking queasy to be able to survive the commute without hurling.
I thought – we both thought – that I couldn’t have kids. We gave up a couple of years ago, shortly after my last miscarriage. When I peed on a stick two weeks ago, I did it because I was a couple days late and feeling really bloated, and because wasting twelve bucks always gets things flowing.
Referrer CGI for MT
You don’t have access to your website log files and you don’t have MySql. You still want linkback information to your weblog, just like everyone else. What do you do?
Install Backlinks for Movable Type, a free CGI script. (I installed mine today, but it’s not working yet. Hurumph.) Off to review my config edits!
Cysty
About an hour after I got up this morning, I noticed a bump on the back of my left hand. It’s the size of a pea and it’s under my skin. It doesn’t hurt; it just grosses me out, kinda.
So I got dressed and came to work and walked in and showed it to Buzz. “I have a bump on my wrist! It wasn’t there yesterday!” He took one look at it and said, “Oh, yeah, that’s a ganglion cyst. Cyndi’s had one for years. I had one on my foot once, but it went away.”
Naturally I looked it up (I LOVE THE INTERNET) and I’ll be damned if he isn’t right. He’s really tremendously handy to have around.
I rather feel like running home and getting my bowling brace, to keep my wrist immobilized. Or something. I hope it goes away on its own ’cause it kinda grosses me out. It’s just not supposed to be there. That particular area of my body is supposed to be smooth, it always has been before!
Ah, being a thirty-something computer-using carpel tunnel-potential victim is weird. Talk about insult to injury. First the puking, and now this.
Wimpy
You know what turns me into a big, fat baby? Tummy aches.
My tummy feels reeeally bad and even though I don’t think I’m actually going to puke, I still feel sorry for myself.
Yesterday I thought for sure I was gonna puke, and I spent a lot of time holding the couch down and barely managed to get my ass to town to do my normal Monday errands. (I would have blown it off totally except we were out of dog food and I would have felt too guilty. I’ll not feed myself, but I can’t not feed the dogs!)
Today it’s better, but I still feel grody. Eech.
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Trio: Silver
Final installment in a series of three, it’s Trio: Silver for WisBar Advance 2.
This skin features all-original graphics for WA2, a standard Sound scheme, groovy Start menus and cascading menus, and a generally bright shiny funness you can’t get anywhere else. Also included is a matching Today theme called Drop.
This skin is part of a suite that includes Trio: Blue and Trio: Green.
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