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10 Random points about this week

November 20, 2008 · Filed under The girl, a day in the life, health, pity party, pregnancy 2008

1. Yesterday was our 7 year wedding anniversary. No 7 year itch here…but I am not very itchy these days!

2. The girl has been really, really annoying this week.

3. It is my second last week at work. That is good, but I have way too much left to do.

4. I have woken up 2 nights in a row with a throat full of bile. Nice.

5. My migraines have hit an all time high. They are making me throw up and cry almost every day-they are usually at their worst in the afternoons and early evening.  I like to bitch about them here, but HATE talking about them (I am not a fan of discussing any health issues in person, I always feel whiny, pathologizing, annoying and pitied and would rather talk about other things…here I can just say it and drop it), so please don’t ask me about them. I can answer here and doubt the answer will change until I have the baby if my last pregnancy is any indication: Yes, I am still having them, and they suck.

6. I am now lying to my chiropractor when I tell him he helps me. He doesn’t…but I keep going in hopes it’ll start working again…and because I will have other uses for him as I get closer to my due date.

7. Tomorrow is my Baby Shower at work. It is exciting for me, especially since Jews do not usually do baby showers, so if I did not have one at work, I would not have one at all. The girl will be coming, and is also excited. Luckly, she is less annoying in public.

8. I want to quit sending the girl to Kindergarten. The papers and expectations that follow her home every day are taking over my life. And kitchen table, which is not big to begin with.

9. I am irritable and crabby and bitchy and easily annoyed these days. Don’t take it personally, though it probably is you (joking!). If you don’t like it, don’t talk to me for 5 weeks or so…or at least until I am done with work.

10. I am feeling so lazy and crabby I have actually not painted my nails since I took polish off this past weekend, and I am wearing them bare. Any of you who know me know that this is UNHEARD of for me. The first thing I am doing when I leave work is getting a mani-pedi!

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I will be adjusted

July 24, 2008 · Filed under health, pregnancy 2008

My last pregnancy I suffered horrible headaches the second and third trimesters. After 5 years, I really hoped my body’s response to pregnancy had changed…but nope! It seems once again headaches are to be the bane of my pregnancy. I have had a headache for most of every day for the last 2 weeks. Of course, given how damp and overcast the weather has been I likely would have had headaches anyways…but I believe they are worse than they would have been, and am sure the pregnancy is not helping matters, nor  is the fact that I cannot take my trusty Advil, only Tylenol which may as well be a tic-tac for all the good it does me.

So, I am going to be adjusted. I have never seen a chiropractor before, but my midwife highly recommended it (and this specific chiro), so I am going to give it a try. I’ll let you all know how it goes! I am kinda scared.

Tomorrow? The BIG ultrasound. Maybe I’ll find out the gender? Nope! I will be checking if this baby is okay though, and am a bit nervous as I did not do any of the earlier screening. Crossed fingers and toes please!

UPDATE: No adjustment today, just a 1 and 1/2 hour assessment (most of which was spent with me waiting in a room for the assessment) and I discovered there are no less than 37 things wrong with my spine! OH well…my first adjustment is Tuesday.

I am very, very nervous for my ultrasound tomorrow.

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Is it tonsillitis or the flu?

June 29, 2008 · Filed under a day in the life, health, pity party

Sore throat, headache, neck-ache, fever, chills, exhaustion? Yuck! No white spots on the old tonsils yet, but I’ll be watching for them. Meanwhile Tylenol is so not cutting it and I almost hope it is tonsillitis since antibiotics (the ones I use anyways) are safe in pregnancy and start to work really quickly.

What is it with me and long weekends? I am never ever healthy over long weekends (and this isn’t even a real long weekend since the Holiday is Tuesday, but everyone is treating it like one since a lot of people-though not me-get Monday off work.)

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people can be projectile!

April 27, 2008 · Filed under about the blogger, advice, car-seat craziness, health

I have an annoying rule in my car; I do not move the car until everyone is wearing a seat-belt. I mean adults as well as kids. Many times, adults have complained about my rule. They state that they are more comfortable without seat-belts, that they never wear them, that they’ll pay for a ticket, that they’ll be fine, and that they are adults and it is up to them if they want to take the risk.

Well, not quite. Firstly, I don’t want anyone to die in my car, adult or not. If that ever happened, I would never be able to drive again. I am not sure I would be able to live with myself. So someone risking thier life by not wearing a seat-belt in my car is also putting my mental health, and my livelihood (as I cannot do my job without driving) at risk. Secondly, when someone is not wearing a seat-belt it is not only themselves they are putting at risk, but everyone in the car. If they become dislodged from the seat (and in an accident, they will if they are not restrained), they can become projectile; banging around the car injuring or even killing those of us that are in seat-belts, and possibly hitting the driver who could lose control of the car even more as a result.

Here is a video that perfectly displays this concern. Buckle up!

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blech

March 21, 2008 · Filed under a day in the life, health, pity party

I woke up at 5am-ish with a stiff neck and a sore throat and a headache…and at almost 10am it is all still here.

Great.

Sick on a long weekend.

And the man is working today (yes, on good Friday…the life of an accountant during tax season) so I am sick and on my own with the girl.

And my parents are taking the girl overnight tonight.

So I am also sick on date night.

As if having my period on date night does not suck enough.  

Lets just all cross our fingers that it does not morph into tonsillitis, which I  have not had for 3 months now. So far…no white pus spots, so that is good news.

for now.

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