I've been super swamped after my week away. It was great to be gone for a week and start that week off with 2 days where I could sleep in. Awesome! But the subject matter of my job does exhaust me and I'm feeling the fatigue creeping up on me now that I'm into my 28th week. I flew back on Saturday which made a huge difference. Much nicer than arriving home at 3 am. :-)
I've been very busy this week too. I've been busy at home tidying and organizing the main floor ahead of what was supposed to be my Pam.pered Ch.ef party this Friday. Everyone seems super busy this month so with only 2 rsvps it looks like I'm going to have to reschedule. So, I've stopped my baking projects and didn't stop to buy wine today. Imagine the looks I'd get at the LC.BO with my cart full of wine bottles! No really, they're not for me. I'm drinking plain old lemonade. Anyway, I got a bit bummed by this and the fact that the only person who has purchased anything from my registry is my parents. Um, okay. I know something will happen at work but being a long term planner it is driving me nuts not knowing what I need to add to my list of things to buy this close to baby's arrival. I think I've got all the absolute essentials for the first month or so but I don't like the thought of having to do a bunch of shopping the first month my little guy is here. Not to mention I'm rethinking the whole stroller thing ... *hanging my head in shame* ... I might actually buy a bigger stroller for everyday use. I can't envision myself using the little one to go for walks or shopping trips. I got a tip on a better store with more selection and less expensive pricing so I'm going to check it out and see what options are available. I really didn't want the infant car seat thing since I have a good 3-in-1 car seat but if it comes with the stroller at a good price I might just end up with one. It might be helpful for things like grocery shopping when he is little. We'll see what I can find.
And in totally non-baby related news I scored a great deal on Den.by dishes today. I checked the Ameri.can site to register my new email address in the event my pattern is discontinued and discovered that the American factory ships to Canada now (instead of from the UK with its less favourable exchange rate) and that shipping to Canada is currently free! I scored some awesome seconds for $5-7 each. Mugs usually cost between $35 and 40 so getting real Den.by mugs that might have a small colour flaw for only $5 each is making me super happy. And I found a casserole dish that is being discontinued so I got it for 50% off. And the free shipping? I managed to save $130 on that. That makes me so happy ... I love it when I get a good deal on housewares.
I'm so boring. lol
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
3D Ultrasound
I tried to post ahead of today's 3D u/s but my work computer didn't get along with blogger. Something about an outdated version of IE. *sigh* Why can't the IT folks at work get with the program and allow us to use the newest version or figure out that other browsers out there are better?
Anyway, I got my 3D scan done today. I haven't planned on pregnancy photos so I felt this was an extra I could definitely afford. He was as stubborn as ever sticking his hands in front of his face regularly. The tech had to try to get his attention a lot in an attempt to get him to move his hands. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. And my mom got to watch live from across the country. That was pretty cool!
Here is the little guy, as best we could get him:
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| 3D scan of the little guy at 26w2d |
My mom says he looks like I did when I was little. That is a bit of a relief. I did spend some time worrying about what he will look like, not because I think he's going to look like an extra-terrestrial, but because I worry about him wondering who he looks like and having no one to compare his features to until he is 18. If he looks like me and our side of the family it will be a lot easier for him to identify with us and spend slightly less time wondering where he gets his nose from. lol
He's now sitting head mostly down hanging out on the right side of my uterus. His feet are up by my bellybutton. This would explain the high kicking I felt this weekend and his activity when I am on my right side. I'm not sure if he is complaining when I roll over to the right or if he's happy. No idea but he definitely gets more active.
Not much else to report. Work is still busy. Thank god for one of our analysts who is tackling my files for next week. I still didn't have any of them in hand when I got in this morning. A week before my hearings!!! One of our admin assistants has a serious time management problem but thinks she can do all this by herself and refuses to allow anyone else to help. That's changing now that we're getting more admin help. We need our stuff in order to prep. I can't read through a file in 5 minutes and then be ready for a hearing. Sheesh! Anyway, the analyst is taking a swing through the next 4 files which will help to relieve my stress immensely. I have a midwife appointment tomorrow, an appointment with the security system installer Wednesday morning, I have to vote Thursday, deal with life insurance Thursday night, and then hop on a plane late Saturday for another week away.
But I do get so spend Thanksgiving back home and will get some quality time with the niece and nephew. Yay!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Pure Exhaustion
(warning - nephew's photo at the end of the post)
Sorry, nothing fun today. My connecting flight in Toronto was late last night. Way later than normal. The way AC organizes their schedule makes everyone scratch their heads. But when the only option to get back home on Fridays is to take the 00:15 flight (okay, technically Saturday) you take it. Then the 00:15 flight is delayed until 1:10 am. When many models of the same plane are sitting at the gates totally unused. *sigh* I ended up walking into the house shortly before 3 am last night.
The power went out at some point this morning. A friend said it was about 7:30 am. I didn't care. When I went to the bathroom I just knew it was early and I was getting back into bed afterwards. When I checked my watch again I thought, okay 10:30 time to get up. Except ... I hadn't changed the time on my watch last night. It was still on SK time which is currently 2 hours behind. So my 10:30 was actually 12:30. I never do that! But apparently my body and the baby think I needed to be in bed that late. I've been lazy all day and I just don't see myself going anywhere, not even for groceries tonight. I've got enough stashed in the freezer that I can find something tasty and healthy to eat for supper. Tomorrow is another story. I've got to figure out lunches for the week. And I'm going to visit a friend and her little guy who will be a year old when my baby arrives.
The trip was good but it felt long. My hearings have been going long lately, mostly because I've had newer adjudicators who even a year of doing this work seem to take forever to cover what the more experienced ones do. Plus I had two 3-hour driving trips tacked on to longer days. The OT is nice but I'm flat out tired. I would love to schedule my next trips for return on Saturdays but I don't think I'm going to get lucky. I think kitty will have to spend time with the vets for my next 1-week long trips. She's going to be switched to prednisone soon and she absolutely cannot go without those meds. She did okay this week with my friend but at the end of the week she wasn't eating much. I expect that was because she wasn't feeling well. I found a couple of large po.ops upstairs in one of the bedrooms (lovely, kitty, just lovely) so she's definitely having some constipation problems. But since she actually passed solids more than once this week she's doing okay. But I'm worried about her so I need to check with the vet office. They're only open until 12 on Saturdays so I'd need to take that late flight back on a Friday night to get back in time to pick her up the next morning. I don't like leaving her there but if she gets the meds she needs she's happier in the end. And the vet staff love her and love having her there since they don't usually have pets stay with them. Not the worst place she can stay. I am looking forward to stopping travel so I can give kitty her meds regularly.
Other than all of that the trip was good. I did a little shopping. I picked out the fleece and flannel for the blanket my mom is making for the little guy. I also picked up a pattern for curtains which my mom now said she'll sew when she's out here. Um, okay. I picked up a few things for things I have to fix sewing wise and some stuff for Christmas crafts I make. And I when I go shopping with my mom we use her membership card so I get a discount. ;-) Otherwise I'd buy stuff here. I picked up a couple more baby clothing items on sale but in bigger sizes since my house is overflowing with clothes for baby.
And I got to spend time with my niece and nephew. My niece gets a bit wingy in the afternoons after school but she wasn't too bad this week. And my nephew is getting more interactive every day. He has been teething for almost 2 months and it appears one of his teeth has come through. But he's still a bit fussy lately because of it. Overall, though, he did quite well. And he had his first foot bath and pedicure because of his chunky toes not getting along too well with his toenails.
My niece declared that he looked like a country bumpkin that day thanks to his Jo.hn De.ere onesie, the green overalls and matching hat. And the next day I saw him? She declared he was a gnome thanks to his green jacket with pointed hood. She's nothing if not imaginative.
Sorry, nothing fun today. My connecting flight in Toronto was late last night. Way later than normal. The way AC organizes their schedule makes everyone scratch their heads. But when the only option to get back home on Fridays is to take the 00:15 flight (okay, technically Saturday) you take it. Then the 00:15 flight is delayed until 1:10 am. When many models of the same plane are sitting at the gates totally unused. *sigh* I ended up walking into the house shortly before 3 am last night.
The power went out at some point this morning. A friend said it was about 7:30 am. I didn't care. When I went to the bathroom I just knew it was early and I was getting back into bed afterwards. When I checked my watch again I thought, okay 10:30 time to get up. Except ... I hadn't changed the time on my watch last night. It was still on SK time which is currently 2 hours behind. So my 10:30 was actually 12:30. I never do that! But apparently my body and the baby think I needed to be in bed that late. I've been lazy all day and I just don't see myself going anywhere, not even for groceries tonight. I've got enough stashed in the freezer that I can find something tasty and healthy to eat for supper. Tomorrow is another story. I've got to figure out lunches for the week. And I'm going to visit a friend and her little guy who will be a year old when my baby arrives.
The trip was good but it felt long. My hearings have been going long lately, mostly because I've had newer adjudicators who even a year of doing this work seem to take forever to cover what the more experienced ones do. Plus I had two 3-hour driving trips tacked on to longer days. The OT is nice but I'm flat out tired. I would love to schedule my next trips for return on Saturdays but I don't think I'm going to get lucky. I think kitty will have to spend time with the vets for my next 1-week long trips. She's going to be switched to prednisone soon and she absolutely cannot go without those meds. She did okay this week with my friend but at the end of the week she wasn't eating much. I expect that was because she wasn't feeling well. I found a couple of large po.ops upstairs in one of the bedrooms (lovely, kitty, just lovely) so she's definitely having some constipation problems. But since she actually passed solids more than once this week she's doing okay. But I'm worried about her so I need to check with the vet office. They're only open until 12 on Saturdays so I'd need to take that late flight back on a Friday night to get back in time to pick her up the next morning. I don't like leaving her there but if she gets the meds she needs she's happier in the end. And the vet staff love her and love having her there since they don't usually have pets stay with them. Not the worst place she can stay. I am looking forward to stopping travel so I can give kitty her meds regularly.
Other than all of that the trip was good. I did a little shopping. I picked out the fleece and flannel for the blanket my mom is making for the little guy. I also picked up a pattern for curtains which my mom now said she'll sew when she's out here. Um, okay. I picked up a few things for things I have to fix sewing wise and some stuff for Christmas crafts I make. And I when I go shopping with my mom we use her membership card so I get a discount. ;-) Otherwise I'd buy stuff here. I picked up a couple more baby clothing items on sale but in bigger sizes since my house is overflowing with clothes for baby.
And I got to spend time with my niece and nephew. My niece gets a bit wingy in the afternoons after school but she wasn't too bad this week. And my nephew is getting more interactive every day. He has been teething for almost 2 months and it appears one of his teeth has come through. But he's still a bit fussy lately because of it. Overall, though, he did quite well. And he had his first foot bath and pedicure because of his chunky toes not getting along too well with his toenails.
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| 3.5 months |
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Losing my Balance
Well, today was entertaining to say the least. I had a hard time keeping my balance thanks to a cold.
I managed to pick up this cold while on the road last week. I thought it was just allergies all weekend but woke up on Monday morning with a definite cold. Not the worst one I've ever had, more annoying than anything else. I took some cold medication last night hoping that I could get some sleep. That plan didn't pan out. I kept waking up and think I got just enough sleep to get an accurate temperature reading on waking. And since I was on my left side most of the night that is where the cold settled.
I got up to our floor at work this morning and bumped into the wall, ran into a filing cabinet and spent the rest of the day trying not to veer off to the left. It provided me and some of my coworkers with a good laugh, at least.
And wouldn't you know it, I'm CD 10 today. I can tell my body is gearing up to ovulate. My left ovary seems to have made an appearance this month. And the right one is piping up as well. I had a cold or a mild influenza back in September, also caught on the road, and it delayed my ovulation by 3 days. While I don't enjoy being sick I'm trying to look at this positively in 2 ways: (1) this isn't going to interfere with treatment since I don't start until January, and (2) I'm getting to see what being sick in the pre-ovulatory phase does to my body, cycle, and ovulation pattern.
I'm just looking forward to this cold going away so I can get a better night's sleep and walk without fearing that I'm going to list like a ship.
I managed to pick up this cold while on the road last week. I thought it was just allergies all weekend but woke up on Monday morning with a definite cold. Not the worst one I've ever had, more annoying than anything else. I took some cold medication last night hoping that I could get some sleep. That plan didn't pan out. I kept waking up and think I got just enough sleep to get an accurate temperature reading on waking. And since I was on my left side most of the night that is where the cold settled.
I got up to our floor at work this morning and bumped into the wall, ran into a filing cabinet and spent the rest of the day trying not to veer off to the left. It provided me and some of my coworkers with a good laugh, at least.
And wouldn't you know it, I'm CD 10 today. I can tell my body is gearing up to ovulate. My left ovary seems to have made an appearance this month. And the right one is piping up as well. I had a cold or a mild influenza back in September, also caught on the road, and it delayed my ovulation by 3 days. While I don't enjoy being sick I'm trying to look at this positively in 2 ways: (1) this isn't going to interfere with treatment since I don't start until January, and (2) I'm getting to see what being sick in the pre-ovulatory phase does to my body, cycle, and ovulation pattern.
I'm just looking forward to this cold going away so I can get a better night's sleep and walk without fearing that I'm going to list like a ship.
Monday, November 15, 2010
2-for-1 Post
In order to prevent any new reader who stumbles across my blog from thinking I'm a raving, bitter lunatic I thought I should post something new and more positive. Today we have a 2-for-1 post.
Donor Sperm Ordered
After careful consideration of all the, er ... options, I made my choice on the weekend. I knew immediately upon reading the donor's profile that he'd be the one but I read through quite a few others to make sure I had a couple backups. I placed my order by e-mail on the weekend and got confirmation today. The vials will ship on November 22nd direct to the clinic. At $700 a pop (yes, you read that right) I only ordered 3. Yeesh, I need to earn more overtime to pay for the next round.
I'll post on how I went about choosing the donor at another time. I haven't come across a lot of blog postings about this but those few I did I found informative. What I can share with you is that the donor has brown hair, hazel/green eyes, is 6'0" and has a mixed English/Dutch background. Chances are my child will inherit my brown eyes anyway. And the background is close to my family's which is German. My goal was to have the donor blend as much as possible with us. He has one sister and a good medical history. I specifically excluded donors with a history of diabetes (because of my PCOS) and a lot of cancers, particularly ovarian, endometrial, and breast cancer since we have absolutely no history of that in our family. He's also smart and ambitious, which seems to run in the family. And most importantly he's an Open ID donor.
I Told My Boss
Well, okay not the real bosses, i.e. the Minister or the Prime Minister. lol Nope, I told the brand new supervisor for our team. I was really hoping to not have to tell anyone at work and was even getting pretty crafty with planning my travel. I have the perfect plan to do my required 1 week of travel a month during the 2 week wait to distract my brain. But pressure is coming from on high to add to our workload and I can't commit to any more than that 1 week a month. And seeing as how I've been a go-to traveler for the past 21 months someone was going to wonder what the heck was going on. Not to mention my frequent absences from the office for appointments and tests at the clinic.
So I took advantage of our supervisor's request for our availability for extra travel starting in January as the opening. I became very nervous and I think my heart started pounding a little too fast. Yes, I did remember to take my thyroid meds last night. Everything is fine. My supervisor has a friend who had to go through fertility treatments to have her daughter so she's understanding of the fact that this can be a very involved process. I'm starting out with unmedicated IUIs so I have lots of leeway in terms of changing things up and adding meds. But I told her that I'm glad to go unmedicated for now so that at least for a few more months I don't have to deal with fertility drug induced hormones. Pretty important in my job seeing as how I deal with historic child abuse cases.
She's fine with my 1 week a month of travel as that meets my job requirements and she'll always ask me if there is anything else I am able to pick up. If not, no problem. I'll keep her updated on my schedule as the weeks I predicted being available January through March are already a little off thanks to what seems to be a 26-day cycle.
I can officially classify today as a good one.
Donor Sperm Ordered
After careful consideration of all the, er ... options, I made my choice on the weekend. I knew immediately upon reading the donor's profile that he'd be the one but I read through quite a few others to make sure I had a couple backups. I placed my order by e-mail on the weekend and got confirmation today. The vials will ship on November 22nd direct to the clinic. At $700 a pop (yes, you read that right) I only ordered 3. Yeesh, I need to earn more overtime to pay for the next round.
I'll post on how I went about choosing the donor at another time. I haven't come across a lot of blog postings about this but those few I did I found informative. What I can share with you is that the donor has brown hair, hazel/green eyes, is 6'0" and has a mixed English/Dutch background. Chances are my child will inherit my brown eyes anyway. And the background is close to my family's which is German. My goal was to have the donor blend as much as possible with us. He has one sister and a good medical history. I specifically excluded donors with a history of diabetes (because of my PCOS) and a lot of cancers, particularly ovarian, endometrial, and breast cancer since we have absolutely no history of that in our family. He's also smart and ambitious, which seems to run in the family. And most importantly he's an Open ID donor.
I Told My Boss
Well, okay not the real bosses, i.e. the Minister or the Prime Minister. lol Nope, I told the brand new supervisor for our team. I was really hoping to not have to tell anyone at work and was even getting pretty crafty with planning my travel. I have the perfect plan to do my required 1 week of travel a month during the 2 week wait to distract my brain. But pressure is coming from on high to add to our workload and I can't commit to any more than that 1 week a month. And seeing as how I've been a go-to traveler for the past 21 months someone was going to wonder what the heck was going on. Not to mention my frequent absences from the office for appointments and tests at the clinic.
So I took advantage of our supervisor's request for our availability for extra travel starting in January as the opening. I became very nervous and I think my heart started pounding a little too fast. Yes, I did remember to take my thyroid meds last night. Everything is fine. My supervisor has a friend who had to go through fertility treatments to have her daughter so she's understanding of the fact that this can be a very involved process. I'm starting out with unmedicated IUIs so I have lots of leeway in terms of changing things up and adding meds. But I told her that I'm glad to go unmedicated for now so that at least for a few more months I don't have to deal with fertility drug induced hormones. Pretty important in my job seeing as how I deal with historic child abuse cases.
She's fine with my 1 week a month of travel as that meets my job requirements and she'll always ask me if there is anything else I am able to pick up. If not, no problem. I'll keep her updated on my schedule as the weeks I predicted being available January through March are already a little off thanks to what seems to be a 26-day cycle.
I can officially classify today as a good one.
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