Ahhhhh

The Husband came home last night with French Mint Girl Guide cookies. Bless him.

My pregnancy diet

Up until Friday, here is the list of foods that I could eat:

• apples
• oranges
• peaches
• carrots (raw)
• cucumber
  
• toast (with cinnamon and sugar)
• Kraft Dinner (if I didn't think about it too much)
• Oats 'n Honey bars
• Golden Grahams (plain, no milk - but they were getting too sweet)
• Cheerios (plain, no milk)

And that's it. To combat morning (ALL DAY) sickness, I was trying to eat frequent small "meals" from my short list of tolerable foods. But I couldn't eat enough to stave off the nausea. How many apples can one eat in a day? I was sick of most food. I spent more than half the day on the couch, trying not to feel like crap. And then suddenly, briefly, I wouldn't feel like crap, for a blessed 15 minute period... until I felt like crap again. Total suckage. I was 8 weeks pregnant, the nausea was only getting worse, and I was faced with at least 6 more weeks of suffering.

Enter Diclectin. What a wonderful drug. I ate meat on Saturday. I can take the bus without wanting to hurl. And I'm not lying on the couch for half a day, each day.

Further proof that I'm off my rocker

I decided to brave the elements yesterday morning. (I had to go to work.) I bundled up the kid (note: kid looks like cream puff in winter gear), then me, and stepped outside, and you know what? It wasn't that bad. IT WAS MINUS FREAKING TWENTY CELSIUS OUTSIDE.* That I would find -20 C "not bad" is insane. To me, this proves that winter messes with your mind.

I still blame my ancestors. Why oh why, after living through one winter here, would you not pack up and leave? How many roots could you possibly have put down in less than a year? What possessed you to stay?

* That's -4 F for you non-metric weirdos out there.

I guess that's why you're supposed to keep the lid on a travel mug

Fuck! My new travel mug, which actually fits into the cup holder in my car, unlike my old one, was not dishing out the caffeine quickly enough 15 minutes ago. So I took off the lid. You can see where this is going. Silly me, I tried to get a good dose of tea at once and spilled it all over me - on my face, my shirt, my pants. It's always fun to clean tea off of your glasses.

I suppose the good news is that the tea was tepid (just the way I like it), so it's not like I burned myself or anything. And I'm wearing fairly tea-proof colours today (eggplant and black). I'm just trapped in my office until I evaporate.