My belly doesn't look as big in this one, but my posture is way better and I therefore don't look so shlumpy. Thanks to all the sweet people who have told me I look cute! MUCH appreciated! :)
Found out the real meaning of "round ligament pain" today when it got so bad I couldn't move anything but my toes without pain. Laid there and cried, even asked Jason to give me a priesthood blessing, a request I don't make lightly or often. But I could feel the baby moving even during the pain, and the blessing said our baby would be fine, so I really wasn't worried about that, I just wanted an out from the horrible pain. I mean BAD. Once it had died out somewhat, he took me to the doctor's, where they told me it was probably the round ligament pain but that it was good we came in to get it checked. (No blood or anything.) All that pain and tensing wore me out so much, I couldn't even go to work and slept most of the afternoon after we got home.
To be honest, we were hoping they'd do an ultrasound to check things out and we'd get to find out the gender early, but no such luck. The nurse did listen to the heartbeat, and it was amazing how easy it was this time; she didn't have to search at all, just plunk on my stomach, and there it was.
Three-day weekend! WOOOO!!! (Not so good for paycheck, but good for morale.)
FIVE MORE DAYS!! WE FIND OUT AT TEN O'CLOCK THURSDAY MORNING!!! (They changed my appt time.)
Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Cranberry Chicken
1 can cranberry sauce
1 cup Russian dressing
1 packet onion soup mix
3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
Mix first three ingredients together in either crock pot or baking dish. Cut chicken into strips, add to sauce so the pieces are covered in the sauce. Crock pot: cook on low 4 hours, oven: cook for 30 min at 350. Suggestion: serve with instant mashed potatoes so you can spoon the leftover sauce over them.
So. Stinkin'. Easy. And good. Jason loved it. Doesn't taste particularly cranberry-ish, but still really good. Not too expensive either.
The recipe calls to cook it in the crock pot; I just improvised because I don't have time to come home in the middle of the day and do it. Or I do but don't want to. (You only get 40 minutes to eat and relax when it takes you 10 to get home and 10 back.)
1 cup Russian dressing
1 packet onion soup mix
3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
Mix first three ingredients together in either crock pot or baking dish. Cut chicken into strips, add to sauce so the pieces are covered in the sauce. Crock pot: cook on low 4 hours, oven: cook for 30 min at 350. Suggestion: serve with instant mashed potatoes so you can spoon the leftover sauce over them.
So. Stinkin'. Easy. And good. Jason loved it. Doesn't taste particularly cranberry-ish, but still really good. Not too expensive either.
The recipe calls to cook it in the crock pot; I just improvised because I don't have time to come home in the middle of the day and do it. Or I do but don't want to. (You only get 40 minutes to eat and relax when it takes you 10 to get home and 10 back.)
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Gettin' Bigger
I finally took and put up a pic of how I'm looking these days. I don't always look quite as big as the picture; depends on what I'm wearing and stuff. But that one came out looking the biggest out of all we took, and of course, that made it the most impressive. (Right? Not fat? Impressive?) But I hate the way my tummy looks almost like it comes it a point in front instead of being a perfect mound. So why am I pointing that out to everyone... :)
Less than two weeks til we find out if Jason's dad has more of a prophetic gift about our baby than Jason does! (Jason is just sure it's a girl, and his dad really thinks it's a boy, so J's ego is going to smart a bit if he's wrong. :))
Thought I should mention, on some days, all the music I have to listen to at work comes from this playlist. The CD deck doesn't work in my computer (?!?!), and Jason takes the iPod to work most days, blah blah the details aren't important. So I've added a ton to the list just so I have something to listen to, sitting in that cave of an office with no window and trying to combat my coworker's music coming from nearby. So if there are random songs, that's why.
Feeling the baby move every day now. J still can't feel it. I wish I could see it. Can't wait for the ultrasound, especially after hearing from my cousin Nor how cool it is to see the baby moving. Last time it was so tiny (gummi bear) that the only thing moving was the heartbeat.
Ummm...I made my own tortilla chips for taco salad today, and they were a hit! And you don't even have to be talented, I just took a pizza cutter to some Mission tortillas, baked them til they started to turn golden, and it worked great. We have a new tradition.
Well, gotta go type up a nice copy of our menu for the next couple weeks. It really helps to save money at the store, if you know exactly what you'll be making and what you need for it. And it's nice to come home from work and not feel lost because you haven't planned anything. There's my tip for the week. :)
Less than two weeks til we find out if Jason's dad has more of a prophetic gift about our baby than Jason does! (Jason is just sure it's a girl, and his dad really thinks it's a boy, so J's ego is going to smart a bit if he's wrong. :))
Thought I should mention, on some days, all the music I have to listen to at work comes from this playlist. The CD deck doesn't work in my computer (?!?!), and Jason takes the iPod to work most days, blah blah the details aren't important. So I've added a ton to the list just so I have something to listen to, sitting in that cave of an office with no window and trying to combat my coworker's music coming from nearby. So if there are random songs, that's why.
Feeling the baby move every day now. J still can't feel it. I wish I could see it. Can't wait for the ultrasound, especially after hearing from my cousin Nor how cool it is to see the baby moving. Last time it was so tiny (gummi bear) that the only thing moving was the heartbeat.
Ummm...I made my own tortilla chips for taco salad today, and they were a hit! And you don't even have to be talented, I just took a pizza cutter to some Mission tortillas, baked them til they started to turn golden, and it worked great. We have a new tradition.
Well, gotta go type up a nice copy of our menu for the next couple weeks. It really helps to save money at the store, if you know exactly what you'll be making and what you need for it. And it's nice to come home from work and not feel lost because you haven't planned anything. There's my tip for the week. :)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Madison County Fair
**Disclaimer: this is mostly for my California friends who have grown up in the same area I did and would be equally as baffled as I am by small, podunk Idaho towns and the things they do for fun.**
I now present, for your entertainment and mockery purposes (because, hey, I did): the Madison County Fair. I love fairs in general, so I looked up in the Rexburg Standard Journal online about the details. Most of the events listed were 4-H-, rodeo-, or other livestock-related activities. And the quote they got from the guy in charge said (and I kid you not): "It's just a lot of fun for the whole family. Come on out and enjoy the cattle."
"...he joked." "...he said, laughingly." Nope. That was dead serious.
Next: the sign on Main Street said Madison County Fair, with two pictures: one of a blue ribbon, and one of, you guessed it, a cow.
Oh, and when we went, there were maybe ten cows in the livestock barn. There were probably a hundred chickens.
No rides. Two bouncehouses for kids.
Rodeo: when we got there, they were having little kids (in tight jeans, flannel shirts, huge cowboy hats, the whole getup) see how long they could each stay on a poor, innocent, frightened sheep before they fell off.
Last but not least: at the amateur talent show across the way, there was a yodeler.
'Nuff said.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Bubblies
Last Thursday, I finally felt the baby move! I probably felt it before that and just didn't realize, but I was laying on the bed watching a movie or something, and I just felt these little movements like bubbles. And now I feel them more often. It's crazy.
Oh, and you know my entry from months ago where I was all psyched about fitting into my brown pants again? Ha. Lol. Those days are over for awhile. They were the second pair of pants I tried today (first was just not going to happen in this universe), and the only way they're staying up is the rubber-band-through-the-button-hole-and-around-the-button method. So, my friends who have been savoring the thought of me getting fat (Lol...), enjoy! :)
Today some big-shot is at the office, to check our compliance to something or other. So everyone has to be all perfect, all the management is sucking up to her and acting nicer than usual in front of her, and I'm basically trying to hide from the woman so she doesn't get a chance to quiz me on where the infectious condition log book is or something. (There's a million of those dumb things we're supposed to know.) Better go. Three weeks and two days!
Oh, and you know my entry from months ago where I was all psyched about fitting into my brown pants again? Ha. Lol. Those days are over for awhile. They were the second pair of pants I tried today (first was just not going to happen in this universe), and the only way they're staying up is the rubber-band-through-the-button-hole-and-around-the-button method. So, my friends who have been savoring the thought of me getting fat (Lol...), enjoy! :)
Today some big-shot is at the office, to check our compliance to something or other. So everyone has to be all perfect, all the management is sucking up to her and acting nicer than usual in front of her, and I'm basically trying to hide from the woman so she doesn't get a chance to quiz me on where the infectious condition log book is or something. (There's a million of those dumb things we're supposed to know.) Better go. Three weeks and two days!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Went private. :(
Well, as you may have noticed, I've made my blog private, due to a very unkind comment by a girl I've met once in my life (who works at a different branch) about my job. I never thought people I don't know would be much interested in my blog; I just figured the only people who would care would be family and friends. I know I kept it open for anyone, but I seriously felt violated that this near-stranger would have the audacity to not only judge me but leave a comment about it, when she really has no idea what she's talking about. Some people's cluelessness truly amazes me.
So yeah, I hated to do it, but I don't want to have to be careful about what I say on here for fear that someone with an insane sense of loyalty to Valley Medical Shoppe will find it, see that I don't like the company, and show it to a boss and somehow get me fired. (Because, yes, that thought definitely crossed my mind. I wouldn't put it past them.) I figure once I have the baby and quit, I can say whatever the heck I want, and I'll un-private it again.
So yeah, I hated to do it, but I don't want to have to be careful about what I say on here for fear that someone with an insane sense of loyalty to Valley Medical Shoppe will find it, see that I don't like the company, and show it to a boss and somehow get me fired. (Because, yes, that thought definitely crossed my mind. I wouldn't put it past them.) I figure once I have the baby and quit, I can say whatever the heck I want, and I'll un-private it again.
Monday, August 4, 2008
We have a date!
Thursday, September 4, we'll find out what we're having at 4 p.m.! The countdown begins!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summerrrrrr....
We did our bi-weekly shopping in IF today and while we were at Target, we noticed a book display that had the first Twilight book on it, and, oh, would ya look at that, I guess that's the new one. Must have come out today. Huh. Anyway, shall we go?
Doing my routine look-through of all the blogs on my list, I've already run into two that talk about how excited they are, one kind of spoiler for something I wouldn't have guessed :(, and one who did not sleep until she had gotten it at midnight and finished it the next day, so was up for more than 24 hours.
Dang.
I'm glad people enjoy it so much. Not understanding why yet, though. Haven't finished the first one and quite honestly, can't understand what is so amazing. It's good and all, but not can't-put-it-down good. But I guess I'd better get on the waiting list for #2 at the library, because I'm guessing they get better and better. I'm hoping so, because I do love an amazing book series that I can really get into. (I was a little late jumping on the bandwagon this time, though. The whole series is already out, so I won't have to wait if I don't want to.) Anyway.
Looked at some big baby stuff (strollers, car seats) today just for kicks, and WOW, I'm getting nervous about all the stuff a baby supposedly needs and how much it costs. And I have to say, grocery stores are not good places for deciding if you're ready for kids or not. At Sam's Club and Wal-Mart alike, why does it seem like all the kids are always crying and/or whining?? Thank you to those who have kids who put cute pictures of them on your blogs--pictures clearly not taken in grocery stores, because it's becoming obvious to me that that is the UN-happiest place on earth for kids.
Not much to report on the week, as usual. Work, work, work. I was about to give details about it, but why would I want to think about it on Saturday?? Went to the doctor a week early on Wednesday because I was having some disconcerting stomach pains, and Jason went with me and finally got to hear the heartbeat. The nurse couldn't find it for a good five minutes again, so she had me go to the bathroom. Then she came back and found it nearly right away, but it only lasted about five seconds and then the baby apparently rolled away. So weird, because I can't feel it yet, so it's hard to imagine the gymnastics class that is supposed to be going on in my abdomen.
Oh, and for the stomach pains, the predictable happened: "well, if it gets excruciating and you have to go to the ER, let us know. Meanwhile, try Tylenol." Glad we didn't have to pay for that. Yay Medicaid!
September 1st-ish. That's when the ultrasound appointment is. Counting down!
Doing my routine look-through of all the blogs on my list, I've already run into two that talk about how excited they are, one kind of spoiler for something I wouldn't have guessed :(, and one who did not sleep until she had gotten it at midnight and finished it the next day, so was up for more than 24 hours.
Dang.
I'm glad people enjoy it so much. Not understanding why yet, though. Haven't finished the first one and quite honestly, can't understand what is so amazing. It's good and all, but not can't-put-it-down good. But I guess I'd better get on the waiting list for #2 at the library, because I'm guessing they get better and better. I'm hoping so, because I do love an amazing book series that I can really get into. (I was a little late jumping on the bandwagon this time, though. The whole series is already out, so I won't have to wait if I don't want to.) Anyway.
Looked at some big baby stuff (strollers, car seats) today just for kicks, and WOW, I'm getting nervous about all the stuff a baby supposedly needs and how much it costs. And I have to say, grocery stores are not good places for deciding if you're ready for kids or not. At Sam's Club and Wal-Mart alike, why does it seem like all the kids are always crying and/or whining?? Thank you to those who have kids who put cute pictures of them on your blogs--pictures clearly not taken in grocery stores, because it's becoming obvious to me that that is the UN-happiest place on earth for kids.
Not much to report on the week, as usual. Work, work, work. I was about to give details about it, but why would I want to think about it on Saturday?? Went to the doctor a week early on Wednesday because I was having some disconcerting stomach pains, and Jason went with me and finally got to hear the heartbeat. The nurse couldn't find it for a good five minutes again, so she had me go to the bathroom. Then she came back and found it nearly right away, but it only lasted about five seconds and then the baby apparently rolled away. So weird, because I can't feel it yet, so it's hard to imagine the gymnastics class that is supposed to be going on in my abdomen.
Oh, and for the stomach pains, the predictable happened: "well, if it gets excruciating and you have to go to the ER, let us know. Meanwhile, try Tylenol." Glad we didn't have to pay for that. Yay Medicaid!
September 1st-ish. That's when the ultrasound appointment is. Counting down!
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