Attention whore, post whore

Yes, I've done this once before, posting three times in one day. And yes, it was even on a Thursday. But I'm back at work, it sucks, I'm bored, so here I am. Deal with it or get off my blog!

Went to the doctor. I've lost another pound. And since the baby is gaining, this means that I've actually lost more. Good thing I had more than enough love to go around to begin with! Blood pressure is fine, nothing wrong with my pee pee, and the baby's heart rate is good. She tape measured my belly for the first time, but the only thing she said was that my measurements look good. So we are still right on track! I also went ahead and got the h1n1 vaccination, so hopefully I won't catch it from any of the kids now. I'll keep my fingers crossed. It hurt like a bitch though! I think my arm is dead now!

My midwife told me to try taking my tummy pills at night before I go to bed and see if that will help keep me from getting sick in the morning. I'm going to try that tonight and pray for the best tomorrow. My back is still killing me from my hurl this morning. It even hurts to breath deep. I tried to let this be the reason that I couldn't come back to work tonight, but A said no.

After we went to the doctors, we picked up my car. It started, thanks to the fact that my dad had taken the battery out earlier today and charged it. Thanks, dad, even though you don't read this! We got it to Olympco, where A knows someone who works there. He's a family friend, and replaced the battery and defective parts without charging labor. How nice was that? So my car is running better again, and for under $100. Hooray!

I literally left the car shop and came right back to work. These damn conferences! I don't even think I can call it that since I don't meet with anyone! I am so tired and bored sitting here. I'm dreaming about going to Target to try to find me a warm sweatshirt for this weekend's trip up North. Maybe if I'm not feeling too bad I'll have to treat myself to that before I come home.

I ate the chili dinner that they had here, and I'm still wondering if it's ever going to settle in my stomach. That stuff was the most condensed chili I've ever eaten. It was almost as bad as my one failed attempt at vegetable soup a couple months back! (vegetable gumbo, anyone?) Then I ate about 6 mini cherry tootsie rolls. Those were pretty good. I then opened a little fun sized box of dots just because I was bored. I used to love this candy! Nope, not now. Ew. Seriously, ew. I can't get the taste out of my mouth now. It's quite unpleasant. And their lemonade is lacking some serious sugar here! But I'm thirsty so I'm drinking it.

Ok, I can handle parents coming into my classroom if they have something they want to talk about or even if they just want to meet me. But what I don't like it when the middle school students just wander in here and park, expecting me to stop what I'm doing to talk to them. Ok, I guess this is a good sign that they want to come talk to me, but I'm blogging here! My faithful few need to know what's up in my life in every painstaking detail! (you wanna know what I'm wearing right now? Well, I'm wearing my black maternity pants, and this black top that isn't maternity so it doesn't go down low enough and I have to wear a tank top underneath it to make up for the length and make sure I don't flash my belly...)

I now have one hour left. I wish I could take a nap. Or I would text, but the battery on my phone is pretty low. I really need to pack tonight, but something tells me that A and I will wait until tomorrow to pack, and it will take him 2 seconds to do while me on the other hand, even though we're only going away for the weekend, will have to take a much longer time. I don't understand why it always takes me so long to pack. Probably because I overpack and overthink things.

Ok, I guess I'll sit here and try to act like a teacher. But I'm not going to like it, not one bit!

24 week belly pics

I promised earlier that I would put up my pics later. Here they are! One normal, one bare belly.

Happy V - Day to me!

No, it's not Valentines Day yet. 24 weeks into your pregnancy is considered vitality day, or when your baby is considered viable. From this point on, doctors will try to do everything in their power to try to save the baby, should I go into labor early. Of course they would do this regardless, but from now on, my baby's chances of survival go up! This is a big milestone that I have been waiting to reach for a while now! But stay put, baby Daven! You're not done yet!

So this week, the baby should be as big as a papaya. I really think that now they are just struggling to keep coming up with fruits to compare the baby to. I've never had a papaya before. Are they good?


Baby Daven has been really testing me this week. I've gotten sick 4 times in the past week, after going for 3 weeks without it! I got sick again this morning. Now, throwing up at all is terrible, but it hurts so much more when there's nothing in your stomach to come up. I hadn't even had a drink of water before I made friends with my toilet this morning and now I hurt so bad! I think I pulled a muscle in my back, and my ribs feel sore. Baby Daven, mommy loves you more than anything, so is there any way that you can help stop the tummy troubles?

Well, besides the early morning hurl, I've had a bigger string of bad luck. Because of my feeling poopy I forgot to pack a lunch. I had leftover hibachi from last night's dinner at Kobe (which I was able to eat, by the way!) but I didn't bring it. Then my poor old car wouldn't start. I tried and tried, and my car said no. So A had to take me to work this morning. I felt bad, because this put him getting to work late. I left my water bottle in his car. Luckily though, I still had a powerade waiting for me at school. Since I don't have a car to go get lunch, I had to over food from the cafeteria. Luckily, one of the alternates was grilled cheese, because I have no idea how I would have managed cafeteria taco meat. (makes barf face)

I'm still waiting on my dad to call me back to let me know if he is going to go over to my house and see if he can figure out what's wrong with my car. They have an extra key over there, and I'm hoping that it's something that can be easily fixed for cheap. A and I knew that I was going to need a new car soon, but not this soon!

I go to the doctors today. I've got to ask again about my morning sickness, and I need to ask her about the lumpy place under my arm. I'm kind of embarrassed to though, because it hasn't been shaved in a while. Oops. Oh well. I've got to keep telling myself that she's seen worse! I'm interested to know if I've gained back any weight yet. Even though I've been pretty sick this past week, there was those other 3 weeks where I was able to eat more regularly. And Daven is supposed to weigh over a pound now!

Sweet action! I just remembered that I bought chocolate donuts yesterday! I was getting hungry and really dreading eating a breakfast bar. Hooray for mini chocolate donuts!

I really don't want to come back to work tonight, after I've worked all day. It was torture enough having to stay until 5 yesterday. Now I have to come back tonight. It'll definitely be a pain for A if my car situation isn't figured out and he has to drive me here and back again.

Ok, I think one of the boys in my class is getting bullied during their game of Apples to Apples. I guess it's time for me to go be a teacher. ::sigh:: I'll have to post my picture later on today. I hope that this school day goes by fast! And I also hope that my grilled cheese for lunch doesn't suck!