Starting to feel Gilly move. V v exciting!
Heartbeat November 6, 2007
In the morning, I go in for yet another midwife appointment. The previous highlight of my prenatal appointments was getting to hear Gillys heartbeat, but as a friend lent me her home doppler, I really dont care much at all about about getting up at the butt-crack of dawn to hear something I can hear whenever I damn well please. And I certainly dont have to worry about not shaving when I do it myself.
E. coli November 5, 2007
Maybe I shouldve joined some post every other day plan.
The other day, I told my husband that he could make Hamburger Helper for himself using the ground beef in the meat drawer. Silly me, I forgot that, along with the new beef, there was a package of old beef. It looks like I may have accidentaly given my dear husband E. coli poisoning by inadvertently instructing him to eat a package of month-old ground beef. Whoops.
All Souls Day November 3, 2007
Eh, so I missed the second day. Sue me.
The reason I missed is b/c last night, my mother and I went to the All Souls Day Mass at her church and I did not get home until almost midnight. Apparently, All Souls Day is where you pray for the people in pergutory?????? Wtf, mate, I am Presbyterian, not Catholic, so it felt totally heretical of me to be there. The Mass is once a year and it specifically honors the people who died in the past year. It was very long, clocking in at two hours. My mom lit a candle and then got to take it home. She is supposed to light it at the holidays to remind everyone that even though my father is not with us physically, he is with us spiritually. Truthfully, I am not much looking forward to the holidays this year. My family is extremely tiny. I am an only child and my mother has only one brother, and her father is also deceased. That will make for three, count em, THREE of us at the Thanksgiving table (Mom, me, and Styles), and eight of us for Christmas. My cousins are ages 21 and 18, so there arent even any kids to get all excited about(until next year, of course!!). The big problem is that my grandmother lives six hours away from us and I get one, count em, ONE day off from work for Christmas (generous of them, no?). So, after my work on xmas eve, we get in the car and drive six hours to basically spend one day with my family. Balls. I will probably be able to get the day after off, which I did last year, and we came home early so we could see Styles family that day. It worked out pretty well. Next year will be worse b/c we will be splitting the holiday due to it being Gillys first. Styles family celebrated on xmas eve, so after that, well drive 3 – 4 hours, stay at a motel, and drive the rest on xmas morning to my Grandmothers. Now, the benefit then is that I will not be working, so we wont have to worry about getting back for my job, so we could spend an extra day afterwards. It really irritates me to live so far from the family b/c Styles and I also like to celebrate w/ his family. This year wouldve been our year to stay here, but of course we cant do that now. This whole dead father thing really hands you a lot of inconveniences in a great variety of ways.
National Blog Posting Month November 1, 2007
How lucky for you: I joined National Blog Posting Month, also known as NaBloPoMo. This means that for the next month, you can find a delicious new post from me, wait, get this, every single day. No, seriously. Last year, I tried my hand at NaNoWriMo and failed miserably, so I figured this is my only shot at writing greatness.
First things first: no foster kids yet, but we did buy our stroller in anticipation. It is the Phil & Teds Sport with the doubler seat and it is freakin awesome. We got the black one. Im so in love with it. A double stroller that takes up only the same room as a single? How can you not love it? Second things second: Styles has been switched at work to the evening shift, which runs from 3 pm – 11 pm. This stinks b/c now I only see him when I wake up and on the weekends. Fortunately, it will only stink for me until Gilly is born, as I am quitting work, so I will see Styles during the day. I do feel bad for him, though, as this ruins his evenings indefinitely now. Well, that is all for todays post, see ya tomorrow!
