Day 1375: Twenty Weeks and Counting
Jan. 3rd, 2019 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nagi_schwarzIt's a girl!
Really. That was all I cared about. I cared about finding that out more than I cared about Christmas. For reals. In other news, I've gone back to work...
The Good:
New Year's Eve with my friends! It was lovely. We had delicious food, played Bards Dispense Profanity (Like Cards Against Humanity, but with Shakespeare quotes), Super Smash Brothers, and Mario Party, and had a gift exchange. The roads were dry both ways (since it's been snowing here a lot) but there was some crazy wind; thankfully we drove safely, and that's what counts.
Being lazy. Yes, being lazy during the holiday was awesome. Even though I was technically on the clock for a few days between Christmas and New Year's, I had no actual appointments, so I could work from home, which mostly meant lying on the couch answering emails and phone calls, watching more Great British Baking Show, and generally enjoying life.
We found out the sex of our baby! I realize plenty of people prefer to have it be a surprise, but my mother would be very displeased if I didn't tell her. I reckon if we have a girl and a boy, after that I'm willing to be surprised. The baby is healthy and coming along well, as am I. The lady who did the ultrasound was very nice, showed us all the parts of the baby, her little arms and legs and hands and feet, her brain and her kidneys and her heart, her spine and her heartbeat. Right after we went to the doctor's office, my husband and I had to go straight to work, and of course the crazy picked right back up where it had left off before the holidays, but it was wonderful news! I wanted to go out and buy a whole bunch of cute little girl dresses and shoes, but I resisted. (Instead I went out and bought supplies to crochet a dress for the baby blessing, but oh well.)
The Bad:
Work. Always work. It never stops being crazy. I spent almost three hours yesterday listening to and watching horrifying interviews in the awful water torture case. (I'm facing five hours of court on that case tomorrow, which is going to be just lovely). I ate popcorn the entire time, totally eating my feelings. For reals, how would a little nine year old girl even know how water-boarding works? What was almost worse was listening to the interviews of her two brothers, who pretty much blame everything on her (and explained that they had been instructed by their parents that if asked about their sister, the victim in this case, they should both explain what a horrible sister she is).
Two more discs of horrible child interviews were delivered to me today, but I took a hard pass on those, especially after having to read proposed legislation for a couple hours.
Also there seems to be a resurgence in my nausea and headaches. Not a fan.
Check-in:
Fitness! Not great, but definitely more motivated to walk even if it's a bit cold thanks to the magic of Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go and Zombies run have done more for my fitness than just about, well, anything. How sad is that?
Spirituality! Better! So much better. Of course, it's a new year and I made vague resolutions to do better, so I am doing better at this, the beginning of the year.
Tidiness! Better but not great. Still, better than before, and that's what counts.
My goals this year really are mostly to keep house a bit better and improve my spirituality, which will be very important once Baby Girl comes along. Other than that I'm keeping my expectations fairly low since I don't actually know what motherhood is going to be like, other than hard.
Here goes!
Really. That was all I cared about. I cared about finding that out more than I cared about Christmas. For reals. In other news, I've gone back to work...
The Good:
New Year's Eve with my friends! It was lovely. We had delicious food, played Bards Dispense Profanity (Like Cards Against Humanity, but with Shakespeare quotes), Super Smash Brothers, and Mario Party, and had a gift exchange. The roads were dry both ways (since it's been snowing here a lot) but there was some crazy wind; thankfully we drove safely, and that's what counts.
Being lazy. Yes, being lazy during the holiday was awesome. Even though I was technically on the clock for a few days between Christmas and New Year's, I had no actual appointments, so I could work from home, which mostly meant lying on the couch answering emails and phone calls, watching more Great British Baking Show, and generally enjoying life.
We found out the sex of our baby! I realize plenty of people prefer to have it be a surprise, but my mother would be very displeased if I didn't tell her. I reckon if we have a girl and a boy, after that I'm willing to be surprised. The baby is healthy and coming along well, as am I. The lady who did the ultrasound was very nice, showed us all the parts of the baby, her little arms and legs and hands and feet, her brain and her kidneys and her heart, her spine and her heartbeat. Right after we went to the doctor's office, my husband and I had to go straight to work, and of course the crazy picked right back up where it had left off before the holidays, but it was wonderful news! I wanted to go out and buy a whole bunch of cute little girl dresses and shoes, but I resisted. (Instead I went out and bought supplies to crochet a dress for the baby blessing, but oh well.)
The Bad:
Work. Always work. It never stops being crazy. I spent almost three hours yesterday listening to and watching horrifying interviews in the awful water torture case. (I'm facing five hours of court on that case tomorrow, which is going to be just lovely). I ate popcorn the entire time, totally eating my feelings. For reals, how would a little nine year old girl even know how water-boarding works? What was almost worse was listening to the interviews of her two brothers, who pretty much blame everything on her (and explained that they had been instructed by their parents that if asked about their sister, the victim in this case, they should both explain what a horrible sister she is).
Two more discs of horrible child interviews were delivered to me today, but I took a hard pass on those, especially after having to read proposed legislation for a couple hours.
Also there seems to be a resurgence in my nausea and headaches. Not a fan.
Check-in:
Fitness! Not great, but definitely more motivated to walk even if it's a bit cold thanks to the magic of Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go and Zombies run have done more for my fitness than just about, well, anything. How sad is that?
Spirituality! Better! So much better. Of course, it's a new year and I made vague resolutions to do better, so I am doing better at this, the beginning of the year.
Tidiness! Better but not great. Still, better than before, and that's what counts.
My goals this year really are mostly to keep house a bit better and improve my spirituality, which will be very important once Baby Girl comes along. Other than that I'm keeping my expectations fairly low since I don't actually know what motherhood is going to be like, other than hard.
Here goes!
