Author: Sarah

I “failed” the one-hour glucose test I took last week – not by a lot, but they have a hard cut-off, after which they make you take the three-hour glucose test. This involves drinking twice as much awful fizzy extra-sweet orange soda (I hate orange soda to begin with) and getting blood drawn four times (which I’m really not good at in the first place).

So, tomorrow bright and early (well, maybe 8:00 isn’t really that early) I get to go become a pincushion. I’m going to look like a drug addict by the time I get home. Hopefully, I’ll at least be able to knit for most of the hours I’m sitting there…

Oh, and this topic came up at Sit & Knit tonight: how do women not know they’re pregnant? I’m not talking three or four months here, I’m talking about those stories you hear where someone goes to the emergency room for abdominal pain and comes home with a baby, not knowing they were pregnant in the first place. I mean, you would think the alien kicking inside their belly would be a big clue, wouldn’t you?

Backstory: this is an animal cracker. It’s supposed to be a camel. I realize that the poor camel had a small accident before being baked. But does anyone else find it absolutely hilarious to see a camel with its legs crossed? (Sorry, it’s probably just me. My sense of humor gets a little strange(r) when I’m tired…)

Oh, and on an even sillier note, when I give my dogs animal crackers (they love them, even though I keep telling them it’s cannibalism) Molly gets a camel because she can go days without peeing, and Murphy gets a sheep since he’s always after my wool.

Yeah, maybe I should stop this entry right now and go to bed before everyone realizes just how bizarre my sense of humor really is…

I know it’s just the Hall of Fame game, but there’s football on! Right now! The chili’s on the stove, and I’ve already taken a nap, so I ought to be able to stay up for a good part of the game.

Football!

I’ve just been totally wiped out this week. Turns out that there is actually an underlying cause – I had some routine bloodwork done on Thursday, and I’m apparently anemic. I guess this isn’t an uncommon pregnancy issue, which is why they test for it around now. It does explain a lot…

But the extra iron supplements my doctor suggested really haven’t helped much. (Granted, I’ve only taken them for a couple of days so far, maybe it’s cumulative?) I took a two-hour “nap” this afternoon (can you call it a nap when it’s that long?) and I still feel like I could go back to sleep for another two – or more – hours.

This is not helping me get anything at all done. Even ignoring the dog fur tumbleweeds and layers of dust, I have no energy to cook, or knit, or blog. Just the thought of trying to get the nursery in order is too much energy. I hope this gets better soon, or baby is going to come home to a room with ugly striped wallpaper, a weight bench, and random furniture and other stuff that’s accumulated in there over the last five years.

I’m surprised I didn’t turn out to be the geek sheep…

You are a – Neutral Sheep!
Congrats – you do what you like! You make your own rules, not follow the flock!

Which flock do you follow?
this quiz was made by alanna

Other neat things to look at today:

• Haven’t you always wanted a customized bobble-head doll? They’re surprisingly inexpensive, considering they make each one individually.
• And while you’re ordering take-out tonight, go ahead and order a take-out t-shirt too. I particularly like the onesie that says “A nap is in my near future”!

OK, I think I had my first official pregnancy craving today. I mean, I’ve felt like I wanted certain foods more than others, but I’ve never had a random thing pop into my head and take over my thoughts until I got my hands on it. So, what was this mysterious craving? Pillow mints – a.k.a. after-dinner mints.

Yes, I had to go to Wegmans and buy a bag of candy earlier this evening. The lady at the checkout must have thought I was crazy. Heck, I even think I might have been a little crazy – I can’t even remember the last time I ate these things, but all of a sudden I absolutely needed to have them. I think I might have snapped at Denis because he was taking too long to get ready to go out, and I really, truly needed these mints right then.

Please tell me this was just a passing moment of insanity, and I really won’t be asking him to go buy pickles and ice cream at 2 in the morning any time soon…? (Actually, we do have both in the house at the moment, and the thought of eating them at the same time is quite disgusting. Separately is a whole other matter, though…)

I don’t know where the past week went. (For that matter, I’m not sure where July went.) I’m just sleepy. Really, truly, awfully sleepy. Apparently, that’s normal for the third trimester, which is about where I am now – depending on which book you read, it starts anywhere from week 24 to week 29, and I’ll be 27 weeks on Friday. Only problem is, I can’t find the time to take a nap – and even if I could, I don’t nap well. I wake up feeling cranky and headachy, and just generally worse than I felt before I took the nap. (I should really work on that so that I can nap when the baby does…)

I’m sitting here at work, watching the baby have hiccoughs. It’s very odd to see your belly moving all by itself. She really doesn’t like it when I put my laptop on my belly – she kicks at it until I move it. Actually, I’m pretty sure I’m growing the princess from the princess and the pea story in there – if I lay down at night and there’s a wrinkle in my pajamas or the sheets underneath my belly, she kicks that spot until I smooth everything out. I mean, it’s not as though there isn’t an awful lot of padding there. Should I be worried about how well she’ll deal with sleeping in her own pajamas on her own sheets in a few months? Hmm, maybe I should really work on my napping abilities…

Since we replaced the sidewalk, we now have a large gaping hole in our foundation plantings – we had them tear out the old, extremely overgrown juniper bushes in that section. (The plan is to get rid of the rest of them next year.) I’ve been trying to learn how to be a landscape designer for the past week – it’s not easy! It’s really hard to visualize circles on a piece of paper as a three-dimensional, colorful, living, breathing garden. I think I might finally have a workable plan that won’t cost a fortune, though…we’re going to break ground this weekend.

(Really, there isn’t anything more exciting going on in my life right now besides home improvements. Sorry.)