Prego. Holy Shit.. It's In Where?

That's right folks. This lady is Prego and that was pretty much my reaction when I found out too. I've been pregnant before, so, yes, I do realize how this works. I can say with assurance though that Rafe and I were both very surprised to find a positive pee on a stick, so surprised that I peed on another one and then went to the doc too just for "third times a charm" benefits. We are very excited to be having a little babe added to our family and it has, so far, just showed me again why I love Rafe. He has been so attentive and sweet. He is a pretty great guy!

So, along with this news has come the added bonuses of nausea, extreme need for sleepy time, hunger at all hours, emotional dramatization, and mommy potato brain. Or, aka...my brain has turned to mush!

The nausea has been a real pain in my ass cause unlike my pregnancy with Tim where I had "morning sickness" this is lasting all day long, every day, and even night. So not cool. I can't stand being an emotional wreck, especially when there is no rhyme or reason and it is purely hormonal. I apologize now to anybody that I scream, cry, laugh, or growl at in a completely inappropriate state.

The fun side. Mush brain! Some of you that read this may not realize what exactly I'm referring to. When a woman is pregnant her body is so out of whack and she has so much going on that she starts to do really stupid things and looses all sense of logic. Such as example number one: making a bowl of cereal for breakfast and then placing it in the freezer and going to watch the morning news.....therefore not eating the cereal or even realizing what you have done until you have half frozen mini wheat floating in milk ice!! WTF?? I must say at this point that I'm not sure if it's because I'm older that this is happening sooner in prego months, or the hormones are just extra crazy from that Colombian lovin. However, in previous Tim pregnancy this didn't start happening to me until I was about 7 months and I only had one thing that I did repeatedly and that was to leave the keys in the car, running after I would get home from work. Not sure why...maybe my hormones were just out to destroy the planet with carbon gases.

This pregnancy though, has already embarked on my stupid ass brain as noted in frozen floaters above. I have also translated needing two vitamins a day into "I need to buy two bottles". These are the same kinds of vitamins AM and PM mind you. I have left to babysit the Bennington Babes and left my house unlocked and doors wide open for a period of 7 hours simple cause I forgot that you close the door when leaving the house.

Last but not least the cat incident. I have noticed that Ferb kitty is on me constantly. I realize that animals have sensory about these sorts of situations but he is driving me bonkers!! He follows me EVERYWHERE and when I'm standing in one spot for more than two minutes he jumps UP my leg. As if to say "hey lady, your pregnant, sit the fuck down and take it easy." He even follows me to the bathroom, which is my incident theme room. I came home today from shopping. I was the only person in the house at this point and was not expecting company any time soon. As I walk to the bathroom, of course the dad cat follows his prancy ass behind me at which point I kick him out of the bathroom so that I can pee in peace and then I lock the door. Let's see...I LOCKED THE DOOR!!! Like that fraking cat is going to climb up and unlock it because he's just that interested or even cause he can....What?? I locked the door.I locked the door so the cat couldn't get into the bathroom people! Geez.

You know. I think there is a Dane Cook skit about things like this. Somebody help me!!! No wonder moms have that lasting effect of mom mush brain when they go to call their child's names and end up calling out every other persons name they've ever met before finally landing on the child's name that the frustrations were meant for. Thank god Rafe is moving in so that I don't do something crazy like super glue my ass to the floor or something!

Need Stimulation!

I feel like I'm losing my mind over here! I've been off work for two weeks now and although I have been very busy trying to obtain those personal goals of launching the "fidge" invitation site on Etsy. I am starving for other human interaction. I went out to dinner the other night with a girlfriend and for two hours straight I talked and talked and barely ate and talked some more. I don't think either of us came up for air until we got in our cars to go home!

I am loving that I can stop and do things around the house when need be or make a run to the grocery with only a two second previous plan consisting of the thought " I need ice cream." However, yesterday it hit me like a ton of bricks. I need people!! I realize this is why I switched majors in college too. I had started out in computer programming cause I am one mega nerd at heart and I naturally understand that junk but being a hermit was hard times for me. Then onto nursing which was all wrong. I'm not even sure what led me there except that It was all about the people and somehow I ended up walking through the school art gallery and the rest was history.

I'm really enjoying my creative time when it is just that...creative. I feel lately though as if I'm not getting enjoyment out of it because it has become more of a money making necessity. I want to make the money at it when I'm not dependant upon it for things like food and shelter. I would love to be able to go back to school right now but my head is so clouded I can't even figure that out and where the hell to begin. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all just pick the job we really want and learn it. There would be no, "you can't get this job because you do not currently qualify." I think I would like to work for the local arts council. Or the Herron School. To no avail though, they do not have job openings. Poo!

I realize this blog is an open session of thoughts. That's what I do right? I am officially conversing with my computer as if it were human. It could be worse right?

Marketing = Deception? Oh No...Never

Alright,...seriously? I caught this commercial on TV this weekend, and for all I know this machine may work very well. Here's my beef though. Just cause you get skinny, doesn't mean you get tan too. Check it out, at about 47 seconds into the video. Unless this thing is shooting out ultraviolet rays or spraying fake tan on while you swivel. Or maybe they are suggesting that the more you sweat the more you run your tiny hiney to a fake bake to hide the cellulite cause you know when you ditch a ton of weight that shit dimples. I see this all the time and the point needs to be made that they are cushioning beauty with bullshit! Do people really believe this stuff?

Out Of Service

What do you do when your head isn't working? When it's one of those "blah" days and you can't remember anything or get motivated. Your mind wanders all over the place and all you really want is to go out with some friends and have a good time? When your thoughts are so blurry you don't even know if they qualify as solid thoughts or closer to something resembling mashed potatoes. Mmm, that sounds really good to eat. Anyhow, I found myself going to get online earlier and then sat there as the seconds compounded into minutes, thinking to myself "what the hell was I getting on here for? Was I checking my email? Shopping? Paying Bills? Going to Web MD to look up why I feel like I'm on the verge of early Alzheimer's but only occasionally? What the hell? I don't feel like I'm a spazz or anything but wonder on some days just why my brain decided to take a vacation and not notify me. That's just not cool. I could use a beach, some cold drinks and hours to waste basking in the sun too! I mean, couldn't we all?

The Mass Insanity

So, I'm answering phones at the front desk today and for no apparent reason I start wondering random things. This happens all the time. For instance, if there were no planes in the sky flying from place to place would the world be less windy? They create wind...along with cars driving ect.... Just imagine if all transportation and movement came to a halt for five minutes...do you think the wind would stop? Now, hang in there with me, if this notion were true then does that mean that on especially windy days there is simply more movement happening in the world? Is that why Chicago is "the windy city?" Simply because they have so much going on?

Then, again, my mind jumps to pringles...yes thats right! Chips! I'm suddenly wondering if you get more chips in a tube of pringles or a bag. The tube looks smaller but the whole tube is full. You buy a bag of chips and suddenly you seem to have decided to invest stock in air as well cause that damn bag is half air! Don't they know that their chips may have a longer shelf life if there was no air in the bag. Air causes food to go stale, I want vacuum packed chips damnit! Then again...maybe that's the point. If the chips go stale, we buy more. The insanity, at least it's not just inside my head!