Embryo: I have decided that sleep is for chumps, and I won't have a chump for a mother. You're welcome.
Me: What do you know? You're the size of a jelly bean. Go. To. Sleep.
Embryo: Um, no. Also, I rather enjoy this peeing thing, so you'll be doing that more often. Probably instead of sleeping.
Me: You know, you're not too small for me to come in there and spank you.
Embryo: Is that SASS I hear? Are you SASSING me? Just for that, beef is going to smell like hot garbage and week-old roadkill for at least the next week and a half.
Me: Don't test me. If you're old enough argue with me, then maybe you don't need those stinky prenatal vitamins that give me the fish burps for three hours anymore.
Embryo: Hey, if you want a half-retarded baby, that's on you.
Me: If you're going to keep me up anyway, then maybe I'll take up drinking coffee and tequila. I bet you'll fall asleep if you're drunk.
Embryo: Guess what? You're going to crave cat food at some point during your pregnancy. I'm not going to say when or for how long, but it's happening. Brace yourself. Also, I'm going to love Dad the most.
Me: This is what I get for taking those expensive vitamins. An evil genius jelly bean baby. Awesome.
Embryo: Ain't it though?
Me: "Ain't" is not a word. You will use correct grammar while in the womb. I won't have my offspring sounding like an ignoramus.
Embryo: Don't make me take away ice cream.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
How hot is too hot?
Alright, I have a question for all of you, as even my not unremarkable researching skills have failed me.
As you may know, I live in Texas, where summers are HOT. Like I hear northerners complaining about 90 degrees and I laugh at them. It's not unusual to have the hottest days of the year reach over 110, and that's before the heat index adds another 5-10 degrees. Last year alone, we had over 100 days at over 100 degrees.
This doesn't usually bother me. My car doesn't even have air conditioning, and when my cars HAVE had it, I almost never used it. My motto is, "suck it up and roll down the windows." We don't even turn the air conditioning on in our house until the daily highs are well over 80 degrees, and we turn it back off and open up the windows as soon as the temperature drops back below 78 (which is the lowest we ever run our A/C).
But now there's a fetus involved, and I'd very much like it to not die from heatstroke on the drive home from work. My husband's truck has air conditioning, but it's a gas guzzler and I'd prefer not to use it unless it's necessary.
So my question to you is...HOW HOT IS TOO HOT?? There's no doubt that I'll take the gas-chugging truck to work on days when the high will be 105 degrees, but what about 95 degrees? 98? I have a 1/2 hour commute (barring traffic, etc.), I'm inside the car so I'm out of direct sunlight, and I have the windows down while I cruise along at anywhere from 40-75 miles per hour.
The only information I found online about pregnant women and heat was to avoid hot showers, baths, and spas, which has surprisingly little to do with my daily commute. I'm fairly used to the heat, but I don't want the baby to be missing an arm or half its face or something because I picked the wrong day to drive my gas-sipping Aveo to work instead of the air-conditioned boat of a truck.
So, what's the cutoff? What is the "danger zone?" Not what's comfy or convenient; I can live with a little discomfort in the face of such high gas prices, but what is the UNSAFE temperature for a pregnant woman to be driving in an un-air-conditioned car for about 1/2 an hour?
Any thoughts?
As you may know, I live in Texas, where summers are HOT. Like I hear northerners complaining about 90 degrees and I laugh at them. It's not unusual to have the hottest days of the year reach over 110, and that's before the heat index adds another 5-10 degrees. Last year alone, we had over 100 days at over 100 degrees.
This doesn't usually bother me. My car doesn't even have air conditioning, and when my cars HAVE had it, I almost never used it. My motto is, "suck it up and roll down the windows." We don't even turn the air conditioning on in our house until the daily highs are well over 80 degrees, and we turn it back off and open up the windows as soon as the temperature drops back below 78 (which is the lowest we ever run our A/C).
But now there's a fetus involved, and I'd very much like it to not die from heatstroke on the drive home from work. My husband's truck has air conditioning, but it's a gas guzzler and I'd prefer not to use it unless it's necessary.
So my question to you is...HOW HOT IS TOO HOT?? There's no doubt that I'll take the gas-chugging truck to work on days when the high will be 105 degrees, but what about 95 degrees? 98? I have a 1/2 hour commute (barring traffic, etc.), I'm inside the car so I'm out of direct sunlight, and I have the windows down while I cruise along at anywhere from 40-75 miles per hour.
The only information I found online about pregnant women and heat was to avoid hot showers, baths, and spas, which has surprisingly little to do with my daily commute. I'm fairly used to the heat, but I don't want the baby to be missing an arm or half its face or something because I picked the wrong day to drive my gas-sipping Aveo to work instead of the air-conditioned boat of a truck.
So, what's the cutoff? What is the "danger zone?" Not what's comfy or convenient; I can live with a little discomfort in the face of such high gas prices, but what is the UNSAFE temperature for a pregnant woman to be driving in an un-air-conditioned car for about 1/2 an hour?
Any thoughts?
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Happy time is Baby time!!
In case you missed the exciting news via Twitter & Facebook, I'm pregnant! YAAAY!!! I'm about 5 weeks along (according to their weird calendar, anyway. The baby was conceived 3 weeks ago, but that's not how they measure it; go figure), probably due in February.
We just told the Grandmas 9and everyone else) this weekend. I made these crystal bracelets (for the girls) and keychains (for the boys) for each family member that said things like "Nana," Grandma," "Hello, my name is Uncle Bobby," etc. We have them their presents and waited for the gasps! This will be the first grandbaby for everyone, so everyone is SUPER excited! My mom cried all day, told everyone we saw all about it, lol.
The crazy thing is that my sister is also pregnant, just about as far along as I am, so we'll be racing to see who will REALLY give Nana the first grandchild. I told her no having them on the same day, because we live over an hour apart and of course Mom can't be both places at once! It'll be kind of nice, since I was beginning to despair that my kids would ever have any cousins, or if they did, they'd be so far apart in age that they wouldn't be interested in one another.
There sure does seem to be something in the water, though; my best friend is pregnant (5 months along), and one of my husband's best friends' wife is, too, also 5 weeks along. Craziness!
I;m going to try and stick to my low-carb diet for the most part. not TOTALLY, of course; it wouldn't be safe for the baby for me to only eat 20 carbs a day, so I'm bumping it up to around 60-70 carbs a day, which is the "maintenance level" of the low-carb diet, and I'll try to get those mostly from fruits and veggies. I won't lose any more weight, but I shouldn't gain too much, either. Everything I've looked at online seems to back up my belief that this will be fine for the baby. After all, I can't imagine that I'll be denying my baby any real nutrition by abstaining from sugar, bread, and pasta.
My first prenatal visit will be July 2nd. We're so excited!!
Friday, June 1, 2012
Fixing your Broken Smartphone
My husband dropped his EXTREMELY expensive, 1-month-old, Samsung Galaxy SII smartphone a couple of weeks ago. And yes, it broke. It was now a $600 brick, and we sure didn't have the money to replace it. After waiting a few days to make sure it really was broken and not just "sick" or something (because androids can repair themselves, right? RIGHT? No? DANGIT!!), we started looking around for repair options.
Replacing it with a new phone of similar abilities was out of the question, and the 48 hours he'd been using one of our old phones that only makes phone calls and sends text messages had convinced him that he could likely die from technological starvation if he had to use it for another 2 years. So we started poking around on the internet looking for anyone who might be able to repair smartphones.
Lo and behold, we stumbled across MobileTechVideos. They gave us a quote that was $100 less than anywhere else, and they have some spiffy YouTube videos showing how they can "unbrick" your phone. With no small amount of trepidation, we sent them my husband's broken phone, $200, and prayed.
About 2 weeks later, it came back to us in brand spankin' new condition, and my husband claims it works even better now than it did before he broke it. The staff there was very helpful and communicative, and they assured us that it only took as long as it did because they didn't keep the necessary parts for that phone in stock and had to wait for it to arrive from Samsung.
We couldn't find any reviews of MobileTechVideos.com before we used them, so we were understandably nervous about sending our phone to them, but we did it, and they did a fantastic job. So if you need your phone fixed, I highly recommend them. They were quick to reply to our questions, cheaper than anyone else I'd found, and they did a really great job. They repair many types of phones, and you can always email them to ask about yours.
Replacing it with a new phone of similar abilities was out of the question, and the 48 hours he'd been using one of our old phones that only makes phone calls and sends text messages had convinced him that he could likely die from technological starvation if he had to use it for another 2 years. So we started poking around on the internet looking for anyone who might be able to repair smartphones.
Lo and behold, we stumbled across MobileTechVideos. They gave us a quote that was $100 less than anywhere else, and they have some spiffy YouTube videos showing how they can "unbrick" your phone. With no small amount of trepidation, we sent them my husband's broken phone, $200, and prayed.
About 2 weeks later, it came back to us in brand spankin' new condition, and my husband claims it works even better now than it did before he broke it. The staff there was very helpful and communicative, and they assured us that it only took as long as it did because they didn't keep the necessary parts for that phone in stock and had to wait for it to arrive from Samsung.
We couldn't find any reviews of MobileTechVideos.com before we used them, so we were understandably nervous about sending our phone to them, but we did it, and they did a fantastic job. So if you need your phone fixed, I highly recommend them. They were quick to reply to our questions, cheaper than anyone else I'd found, and they did a really great job. They repair many types of phones, and you can always email them to ask about yours.
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