Day 1059: So this is winter
Jan. 6th, 2013 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nagi_schwarzTo say the least, I've haven't been nearly as good about my new year's resolutions as I'd like, but at least I'm getting up earlier in the morning. I just need to do more useful things with my time, is all. Woohoo! Cody and I were finally caught by the bishopric, which means we now have a calling: team-teaching gospel essentials. Yay! I don't mind teaching, and I know Cody loves it, so it's going to be an adventure.
It's been evil cold here, so naturally our heater stopped working. When I called the landlady upon making this discovery late Saturday night, it was too late for a repairman to come out, and no one comes out on a Sunday, so we have to wait till Monday. Luckily, we have electric heaters we've been using, but our house hasn't gotten above sixty since Saturday. Also, it turns out running both heaters at once blows up the fuse, so Cody has to go out and throw the breaker to get power back. So...only one heater at a time. Kinda sucks. I've been drinking an awful lot of warm tea, though.
Cody's dad got a gift card to Olive Garden for fifty bucks, so we went out for dinner on Friday night, which was super nice.
Also...in totally random news, I think I'm pregnant. As in I used all the tests in the boxes they come in, and what do you know, they all came up positive! I have to go to the doctor for a confirmation blood test, but given the state of my body, if I'm not pregnant, there's something very wrong with me. But this past week I've had some serious food ADD (which is why it's a good thing I had all kinds of weird snacks leftover from Christmas), and also I've had awful cramps. Everyone's been saying that "mild cramps" are perfectly normal at this stage in the pregnancy. I like to think I'm not a sissy. I'm used to getting hit and what have you. I have a pretty good pain tolerance, even for a girl. The cramps I've been having? Not mild. Bad enough that they're interfering with my sleep. Usually only migraines that would make a green beret weep interfere with my sleep. Was the doctor concerned? No. Just told me to take Tylenol, but in lower doses. So...it's not really helping. And even though I have a cold, I can no longer take Dayquil or Nyquil. Good thing we have loads of boxes of tissues in the house.
I figure if it's this uncomfortable in the first month, and I've got eight months to go...well, Mother, I'm sorry for every time I ever sassed you. Because if you were willing to go through this to bring a child to life, you are a goddess and should be worshipped.
Because this kinda sucks. Granted, my husband has been very solicitous about the entire affair, making me food and making sure I'm warm and comfortable and being patient about the way I get all squirmy in bed whenever I have cramps or other pains (I did not know your uterus could cramp. Seriously! What is this nonsense?), but this kinda sucks. I figure that's the sacrifice making a human life requires. Let's face it - human beings are some of the most awesome biological machines ever to exist. So making one wouldn't be easy. Scientists haven't even figured out how to recreate the process. Gotta do it the old-fashioned way, no matter what you see on Kyle XY. So...yeah. Apparently going to have a baby. Kind of terrified.
Poor Cody has a cold, and he and the glass crew have to do a job out of town for a week, so that's going to suck for me. I need to do better at establishing good habits this year, so maybe I will succeed. Not having my personal bed furnace in the worst of winter is going to suck, though. The meteorologists keep saying it'll get up to 17 or 18 degrees, but most days it never gets past 8. Liars.
Here's to a warmer week.
It's been evil cold here, so naturally our heater stopped working. When I called the landlady upon making this discovery late Saturday night, it was too late for a repairman to come out, and no one comes out on a Sunday, so we have to wait till Monday. Luckily, we have electric heaters we've been using, but our house hasn't gotten above sixty since Saturday. Also, it turns out running both heaters at once blows up the fuse, so Cody has to go out and throw the breaker to get power back. So...only one heater at a time. Kinda sucks. I've been drinking an awful lot of warm tea, though.
Cody's dad got a gift card to Olive Garden for fifty bucks, so we went out for dinner on Friday night, which was super nice.
Also...in totally random news, I think I'm pregnant. As in I used all the tests in the boxes they come in, and what do you know, they all came up positive! I have to go to the doctor for a confirmation blood test, but given the state of my body, if I'm not pregnant, there's something very wrong with me. But this past week I've had some serious food ADD (which is why it's a good thing I had all kinds of weird snacks leftover from Christmas), and also I've had awful cramps. Everyone's been saying that "mild cramps" are perfectly normal at this stage in the pregnancy. I like to think I'm not a sissy. I'm used to getting hit and what have you. I have a pretty good pain tolerance, even for a girl. The cramps I've been having? Not mild. Bad enough that they're interfering with my sleep. Usually only migraines that would make a green beret weep interfere with my sleep. Was the doctor concerned? No. Just told me to take Tylenol, but in lower doses. So...it's not really helping. And even though I have a cold, I can no longer take Dayquil or Nyquil. Good thing we have loads of boxes of tissues in the house.
I figure if it's this uncomfortable in the first month, and I've got eight months to go...well, Mother, I'm sorry for every time I ever sassed you. Because if you were willing to go through this to bring a child to life, you are a goddess and should be worshipped.
Because this kinda sucks. Granted, my husband has been very solicitous about the entire affair, making me food and making sure I'm warm and comfortable and being patient about the way I get all squirmy in bed whenever I have cramps or other pains (I did not know your uterus could cramp. Seriously! What is this nonsense?), but this kinda sucks. I figure that's the sacrifice making a human life requires. Let's face it - human beings are some of the most awesome biological machines ever to exist. So making one wouldn't be easy. Scientists haven't even figured out how to recreate the process. Gotta do it the old-fashioned way, no matter what you see on Kyle XY. So...yeah. Apparently going to have a baby. Kind of terrified.
Poor Cody has a cold, and he and the glass crew have to do a job out of town for a week, so that's going to suck for me. I need to do better at establishing good habits this year, so maybe I will succeed. Not having my personal bed furnace in the worst of winter is going to suck, though. The meteorologists keep saying it'll get up to 17 or 18 degrees, but most days it never gets past 8. Liars.
Here's to a warmer week.
