Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Lemon Bars
As I sit here eating a lemon bar, I have been thinking....I need a job. All I want to do is eat. All day long. I'm trying really hard to be good, and I will say I guess I've never been a big "sweet" eater, but...MAN, this pregnancy...it's like, before, I guess I just drank. Now that I can't drink, I want to eat...lemon bars, chocolate cake, popsickles, vanilla creme cookies, (yes, these have all been consumed in my house recently) ICE CREAM. I dream about ice cream. I wish I dreamt about fruit and vegetables. How come the baby never craves healthy stuff. I will say, the one thing I have no desire to eat is a cheeseburger. Josh has been trying to make burgers for a month, and I'm like, it just doesn't sound good. Maybe if he threw some frosting on it, I would be in.
Matthew McConaughey
Josh and I were watching tv the other night, and a commercial for We are Marshall came on, and Josh says to me, "Do you think he's hot?"Me: "Duh!!"
(Pause)
(Pause)
Josh: "Do you think you two would make a good fit?"
Me: "Josh...that's the stupidest question you have ever asked me."
(Pause)
(Eye roll)
"Of course we would."
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Maternity pants are the devil.
Yes, I bought maternity pants. My sister, Tara, and mom were in town last weekend. Tara is pregnant too, she is due in Feb. We go shopping. I'm like well, I'll try on some pants just for fun, because I mean technically I can still fit into mine, it just feels better not to button. These things were like butter. They sucked in all my fat, and didn't even have to try and suck in. Obviously, I bought them. Fast forward to today. I go downtown to get an application to sub for Iowa City, and just happen to drive by the new Chipotle that just opened up in town....no line, parking spot in front, fate? I'm enjoying my chicken tacos...when before, after a good meal at Chipotle I would be stuffed, and feeling rather tight in the pants. But these are no normal pants...these are maternity pants...they just expand with me. I'm like did I even eat? Well, apparently not, because as I was driving home, ole' Dairy Queen caught my eye, and wouldn't you know it a few minutes later I'm eating a snickers blizzard. I'm thinking, I won' t finish it, I just want to satisfy my craving....well, apparently my craving was the whole thing. These pants didn't know what hit them. I feel full, but my body in these pants, are telling me I can go for more....needless to say, I'm eating popcorn right now. These pants are the devil.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
All Knocked up...don't know what to do...
I'm pregnant! I've been out on email/blogging due to the fact we just moved...again...to Coralville, IA. The computer was recently set up...and I still haven't found the camera to send out any pics. BUT...I'm back. I'm due April 27th which puts me at a little over 8 weeks. We went to the doctor 2 days before we were moving from Chicago. I was hoping for a sonogram, because I wasn't really sure how far along I was based on the last time Aunt Flo visited me was in June, but I tested negative until August....hmmm...interesting.
So, we go, and Josh is hungover by the way...I was hoping he would not get sick by watching me get a pap, but he stayed near my head, and tried not to watch....the funny thing is afterward he's like...does that hurt? I'm like, no it's the best feeling in the world to have a giant metal clamp in your vagina....any more questions? So, basically she was not going to give me a sonogram, but wasn't sure how far along I was either, so...I got one.
Moving on the the next place where more things are in my v-ja-ja. At this point, I'm like bring it, I've already had the pap, the blood test, the breast check...which Josh's comment was...man she was all up in those things....That time I just gave him a look like..."seriously?"...moving on to the sonogram, now, I've never had one. I didn't know there were several ways to have one of these things like internally...so she asks me if I would like to insert it myself...to which I replied, um...well the last time I put a giant wand with the camera on the end of it in there...so go for it. Now, this might be a personal decision for some. My thought was, aren't you the nurse? Then she was annoyed that I didn't want to do it myself....WHATEVER.
So, we see it...the "rice" shape that is our baby, but she's not really telling us that, and finally I have to ask...is that it, and she's like, oh, yeah. Well, that would have been good information to know. So, I'm annoyed, because she's doing things on the machine and not telling us what they are, and she's trying to wand areas in me that apparently don't want to be wand-ed...and Josh is like...I don't see it. But then we hear the heartbeat...and it was so cool. I don't know how my baby's heart could beat so fast when it is that tiny and just sitting there, but it became very real. Josh said, ok, now it's starting to sink in. Boys...
I realize this is a novel, but I guess I'm making up for being out so long. I had to go pick up my results of the sonogram so I could bring them to my new doctor. On the report it said, extra amniotic fluid, and 2 cysts on my right ovaries. I'm like that's weird, but surely they would have said something to me if they thought it was bad. I call Josh and tell him, and he kind of freaks out, and tells me to call the doctor. I ended up calling his mom, because she is a nurse, so she asks one of the nurse practitioners that she works with. She said the cysts might just be the egg shell left over from when I ovulated, the corpus luteal. I looked on the report, and that's what it said it was. She also said to have extra amniotic fluid doesn't mean it's a bad thing...then she says, are you sure you're not having twins? I'm like, I think they would have seen that. My theory is since I hadn't had my period since June, but didn't get pregnant until August, that I ovulated twice, and that's where the 2 cyst luteal things came from. That's my theory anyway. I've been feeling pretty good, just tired. Still running, just not as far, or as fast. I've gained about 5 lbs. I get pretty cranky and weird when I haven't had food in a while, but what else is new. :) So, that's the update. I go back the 2nd, and will hopefully know more then.
So, we go, and Josh is hungover by the way...I was hoping he would not get sick by watching me get a pap, but he stayed near my head, and tried not to watch....the funny thing is afterward he's like...does that hurt? I'm like, no it's the best feeling in the world to have a giant metal clamp in your vagina....any more questions? So, basically she was not going to give me a sonogram, but wasn't sure how far along I was either, so...I got one.
Moving on the the next place where more things are in my v-ja-ja. At this point, I'm like bring it, I've already had the pap, the blood test, the breast check...which Josh's comment was...man she was all up in those things....That time I just gave him a look like..."seriously?"...moving on to the sonogram, now, I've never had one. I didn't know there were several ways to have one of these things like internally...so she asks me if I would like to insert it myself...to which I replied, um...well the last time I put a giant wand with the camera on the end of it in there...so go for it. Now, this might be a personal decision for some. My thought was, aren't you the nurse? Then she was annoyed that I didn't want to do it myself....WHATEVER.
So, we see it...the "rice" shape that is our baby, but she's not really telling us that, and finally I have to ask...is that it, and she's like, oh, yeah. Well, that would have been good information to know. So, I'm annoyed, because she's doing things on the machine and not telling us what they are, and she's trying to wand areas in me that apparently don't want to be wand-ed...and Josh is like...I don't see it. But then we hear the heartbeat...and it was so cool. I don't know how my baby's heart could beat so fast when it is that tiny and just sitting there, but it became very real. Josh said, ok, now it's starting to sink in. Boys...
I realize this is a novel, but I guess I'm making up for being out so long. I had to go pick up my results of the sonogram so I could bring them to my new doctor. On the report it said, extra amniotic fluid, and 2 cysts on my right ovaries. I'm like that's weird, but surely they would have said something to me if they thought it was bad. I call Josh and tell him, and he kind of freaks out, and tells me to call the doctor. I ended up calling his mom, because she is a nurse, so she asks one of the nurse practitioners that she works with. She said the cysts might just be the egg shell left over from when I ovulated, the corpus luteal. I looked on the report, and that's what it said it was. She also said to have extra amniotic fluid doesn't mean it's a bad thing...then she says, are you sure you're not having twins? I'm like, I think they would have seen that. My theory is since I hadn't had my period since June, but didn't get pregnant until August, that I ovulated twice, and that's where the 2 cyst luteal things came from. That's my theory anyway. I've been feeling pretty good, just tired. Still running, just not as far, or as fast. I've gained about 5 lbs. I get pretty cranky and weird when I haven't had food in a while, but what else is new. :) So, that's the update. I go back the 2nd, and will hopefully know more then.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
The truth
All right I admit it...this is why we are moving to Iowa...The world's largest truckstop. There, I said it. Yes, folks it's real...and really big. In route to Iowa to look for a house, we were greeted with just one more reason Iowa is the place to be. We were driving through endless corn fields, when this blinding light came over the horizon...Josh and I started laughing, and we were like wow, it's official we're moving here for sure. Apparently this place is like the Mecca for truck drivers. They have to visit this place once before they die. I would make fun of it more, but you know they probably have really good koozies there.
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