This baby is getting on my nerves.

Literally.

It seems to be sitting on the nerves in my back and causing shooting pain through my body.

This just gets better and better.

Random Thoughts

Last week I thought of all kinds of things I could blog about but now I can't remember any of them. Pregnancy brain? Perhaps.

Next week I'll be halfway through this pregnancy but it doesn't really feel like it. I'm not very big yet. I guess I'm not very big anyways so this is probably good. But I don't really even LOOK pregnant yet. I'm sure that'll come soon enough and then I'll feel HUGE. And my feet will swell and there will be all kinds of other horrible ramifications and then I'll be wishing back to these days.

The only thing that tells me for sure I am pregnant is that I'm still throwing up. And I ran out of my lovely pills until next month and it's a sad, sad day. This morning sickness business isn't for sissies. I did come across a wonderful book for anybody who has morning sickness or will have morning sickness when they get pregnant. Keep this book in mind. It's called the Morning Sickness Companion by Elizabeth Kaledin. There's not so much in there about remedies, although there are a few things to try. But it's just a nice book that makes you feel normal and human when you feel like junk. There are experiences of women who have gone before and survived, there is information about suffering depression during pregnancy, and just a lot of empathy which is really all you want from anybody during this time. It's quite humorous too. I would read parts to Hubby and say, "See, I'm normal! These things happen to other women too! I'm not crazy!" Yeah, that's nice. So, ladies, keep this book in mind. Or men, you might want to keep this in mind too if you end up with a wife who has morning sickness during pregnancy. It might just save everyone's sanity!

And I've decided I can't watch Oprah anymore either. It makes me weepy. And I hate that. For absolutely no reason I'll be watching Oprah and something will be just the slightest bit touching and all of the sudden I'm sobbing. It's ridiculous. Maybe I should start watching something like American Chopper. But it would be just my luck that that would make me cry too.

Hopefully next time I'll come up with something more entertaining for y'all to read. This really wasn't exactly what I'd intended to write about but it's just what came out. Enjoy...

I found this and thought it was a good reminder for all of us:

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this. He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill. He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. Well, he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the
ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.

My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dity or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless
to those who DO LOVE you. The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE. You are special- Don't EVER forget it."

Feed Me, Seymour!

Before I got pregnant, as many of you know, I was trying to lose weight for my nutrition class and just to get back down to my normal weight since I've gained a bunch since getting married. I cut my calorie intake pretty much in half and had lost about 5 or 6 lbs but that's about as far as it went. However, I wasn't eating anywhere near as much as I had been before and I was trying to make healthier food choices which are both good things and in the long run would help me lose more weight.

Now that I'm pregnant and supposed to be gaining weight I just can't seem to do it. Understandably, the first several months I lost weight because I couldn't keep much down, even water most of the time. But even now that I'm on a medication that's working and I'm getting further into the pregnancy and I'm starting to feel better I can't seem to eat enough to gain weight. I'm supposed to be eating around 2,000-2,300 calories a day and no matter how hard I try I just can't seem to consume that much!

Part of it may be that my body got used to only getting about 1,200 calories and any more than that makes me full. Also, I'm trying to eat healthier for the baby's sake and fruits and vegetables just don't add up to a lot of calories. I haven't really had any weird cravings yet or the desire to eat in the middle of the night. I guess I'm just waiting for those to kick in and then I'm sure I'll gain plenty of weight. Hopefully not too much.

And I really shouldn't complain that I'm losing instead of gaining because there's still plenty of me for the baby to live off of even if I'm not getting as many calories as I think I should. Maybe I won't have much to lose to get down to my normal weight once the baby gets here! That would be very nice.

Adventures in Babyshopping

We bought a crib this weekend. Well, really, my parents bought us a crib this weekend. And the mattress for the crib and the most adorable bedding for the crib. It has frogs and turtles and dragonflies all over it. We were going just to look but USA Baby was having a one-day sale and everything was too good to pass up! Of course, we won't even be able to use the crib until we move into a 2 bedroom apartment but at least we have it for when we need it. I love having parents who are super excited for their first grandchild and want to fork over lots of money so that grandchild is well taken care of!

I thought our new apartment had pretty good parking. Way better than our last place. There we got one covered parking carport and the other car had to fend for itself among about a million other cars. Sometimes it seemed like we had to park a mile away.

Our new apartment only has one spot for our cars because we're in a one bedroom. The two bedrooms downstairs get two spots. Fair enough. Our other car has to park on the street. We live in a fourplex on residential road where most people have driveways and garages so there's rarely anybody parked on the street so it's not hard for me to be able to park right in front of our building. Pretty nice setup.

Except for the signs on our street that say "2 hour parking 8am to 6pm."

That's not a problem on the days I work. I'm outta there before 8 and not home again with enough time to be parked there two or more hours before 6. But I'm off every other day.

"Why don't you just park in the back during the day?" You ask. Well, frankly, trying to park in back scares me. The driveways are narrow and there's not a lot of room once you get in back anyways. I'd feel much more comfortable sticking to parking on the street and let Hubby maneuver his smaller car in the back.

When we first moved in I was pretty paranoid about moving my car every two hours but there are rarely other cars parked on our street and I never saw anyone patrol it anyways so I basically stopped worrying about it and was never penalized for leaving my car in the same spot for more than two hours.

Until this week.

I was already having a crappy day. I tried to do laundry downstairs in the laundry room but the washer kept eating my quarters and then just totally shut down. I had laundry in, with the liquid detergent, and then I had to take it out and haul it all over to my mom's house. I get outside to put the laundry in my car and there is a ticket on my windshield!

I tried to find out if something could be done. You'd think a person should be able to park in front of their own home whenever they wanted without getting a ticket but apparently not. I can't get a permit to park on the street or anything.

Word to the wise: Don't rent an apartment where there are restrictions about parking on the street if you're going to need to do that.

Oh, and Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Et Tu Brute?

It's the Ides of March.

I think we should all be wearing togas today.

Drugs Are My Friend

Thank you for all of your suggestions on a place to go for a Babymoon. Tentatively we're thinking St. George and maybe a day trip to Las Vegas (to see Celine Dion, of course). That is, as long as I'm feeling up to a Babymoon.

I went to the dr yesterday and she put me on a new drug that seems to be working so far. I had been throwing up nonstop again so the medication I was on was not helping anymore. I have lost 11 pounds in the past 6 weeks and I'm getting dehydrated again - both of which are cause for concern. The baby still sounds ok though so that's good at least. As much as I'm loving this new drug there is a drawback. Each pill costs somewhere around $80 a pill so insurance doesn't cover a lot. Our insurance is really good but it only covers about 15 pills a month. That means I can only take one every other day instead of two every day like all my other prescriptions have been. Kind of sucky but I guess feeling good at least part of the day every other day is better than feeling crappy all day every day. I'll take what I can get.

The irony of this situation is that Hubby and I have been asked to speak in church on Sunday about overcoming trials:) This is probably as big of a trial as I've ever had so hopefully I have gained something from it and can share that with our congregation on Sunday. Good thing I got this medication so I'll be able to make it to church, although I think Hubby would have been happier if I was deathly ill that day and he had to stay home to take care of me!

Babymoon

I want to go on a babymoon. I'm just not sure where yet. For those of you who don't know what this is (which is probably the majority because I only recently heard of it myself), it's a little vacation you take with your honey before the baby comes. Sort of a "last hurrah" before your life is completely taken over by dirty diapers and 2 am feedings and the end of your freedom as you know it.

And I'm not trying to make it sound like having a baby is all bad because I'm not trying to say that at all. I'm getting very excited - especially as the time to find out what we're having looms closer (Read: 5 weeks!!!). I just think this babymoon thing sounds like a fun time so I want to do it.

It's generally done in the second trimester - before you get too big and cumbersome to be able to enjoy yourself. So we're thinking sometime in May. Now, the hard part is coming up with a place to go. That's where you all come in. I want to go somewhere fairly inexpensive and fairly close (because that helps with the expense part). Hawaii would be nice but not really feasible at the moment. Probably somewhere in Utah or close by. So, I'm looking for suggestions of places to go and activities for while we're there. Hubby would prefer a place with a golf course but you can find one of those practically anywhere. Any and all ideas are welcome so please leave lots of comments with suggestions:)