The week in review
I have much better posts than this one to write, but I am lazy. Instead, enjoy this poorly written post riddled with bad grammar.
So, without further ado, here is a list of things that have happened in the last week (in no particular order).
- My back has gotten increasingly bad. Walking used to be the only thing that made it feel better, and now that hurts too, so I'm basically screwed.
-We had our 20 week anatomy ultrasound. It was mostly awesome. Except for the part where the baby was breech and totally would not cooperate and they kept making me move from side to side, and then they made me walk around and eat ice cream, and after all that the baby was still breech. So, 4 different sonogram technicians poked and prodded my belly trying to measure various parts of the baby.
There was one part where the baby was kicking me, and I mean REALLY kicking me. Like get this fucking uterus off my feet/ kung foo fighting kicking me and even the sonogram technician whose job it is to look at babies in the womb ALL DAY was like "WHOA, that kid is really kicking you" and I'm thinking that when I can REALLY feel her kick (right now I only feel flutters) this is not going to be as cute.
After two hours, when we were on our fourth sonogram technician, the only thing left to do was take some measurements of the baby's profile. That was right about the time the baby decided to nuzzle her face into the placenta so we couldn't see a god damn thing. I fear that this baby is just like me.
- I was going to drive the animals to my mom's house by myself on Friday because we were going to be leaving for vacation at 5AM on Saturday, but the husband concluded that there was no way with my bad back that I was going to be able to load all the animals and their crap into the car by myself and then drive 4 hours (especially knowing that I was going to have to sit on a plane for six hours on Saturday). So, he made the executive decision that after the sonogram on Thursday he would drive to my mom's.
Because the sonogram took so long we didn't even get on the road until 6:45pm, so we didn't get home until 11:30 PM. The husband had to get up at 5 the next morning.
When we got back, the husband couldn't find his wallet anywhere. Which was just what we needed to be dealing with after such an emotionally exhausting day. We concluded that the only time he had taken his wallet out was when we stopped for gas (about an hour into our 4 +hour round trip). So, I spent 10 minutes on the phone with directory assistance trying to figure out the phone number of the gas station.
I finally got the number, and miraculously they had found the wallet.
However that meant that I was going to have to drive 2+ hours round trip on Friday to pick up the wallet which kind of defeated the purpose of the husband driving me the night before.
I was complaining about all of this to Heather over IM on Friday morning when she offered to drive me. Seriously. It's things like this that make me realize that I have hit the friend jackpot.
So, she drove me. And I picked up the wallet. And everything was still in it.
- We left for our vacation at 5AM on Saturday. At the security check at the airport I got pulled aside to be screened. The woman was wanding me and there wasn't even a beep and she said to me "why did he pull you aside?" and I said "I don't know, maybe because I'm pregnant" and so she asked him and sure enough he said he pulled me aside because he wanted to make sure I wasn't smuggling anything under my shirt. The woman, who was his superior, got really pissed and said "she's pregnant, you idiot".
-We used all of our frequent flier miles to fly first class because we figured it would be easier on my back. Boy, were we wrong. They didn't have any pillows, so I had to use 4 blankets to support my back. One of flight attendants was rude to me, there was hardly any leg room, and the food sucked.
So NOT worth it.
-We are in Utah. We're up in the mountains right above Salt Lake City. The husband is skiing while I sit around the lodge on my fat ass all day.
-Utah is BEAUTIFUL, but DRY. Really DRY.
I have never consumed so much water in my life.
Also, my nose is all dry and crusted, and bloody. I'm seriously considering shoving some of my moisturizer up there.
-Yesterday I leaked colostrum all over my husband's T-shirt.
I can't believe this is already happening. I thought that wouldn't happen until after I give birth.
I keep thinking if I'm leaking this much now, imagine how much I will leak once my milk actually comes in. I wonder what kind of trajectory these bad boys will have.
-Flickr has something against me and it won't let me upload any of my pictures from my laptop.
-People ski entirely too fast.

Comments
I leaked colostrum like crazy and now I only leak milk when my breasts are really full. Or when the baby squeezes my nipple, but that probably doesn't count.
Posted by: Annika | January 9, 2007 02:11 PM
I started leaking colostrum very early in my first pregnancy. It's not too soon to start wearing nursing pads.
Try Vaseline in your nose. Apply it liberally, with a Q-tip, so you can get all the dry inside areas. It's especially helpful at night, right before bedtime.
Posted by: LadyBug | January 9, 2007 03:03 PM
The trajectory test? Video. I'm just sayin' ...
Posted by: Nilbo | January 9, 2007 08:13 PM
Yeah... security people pulled the husband aside because apparently his cast tested positive for bomb residue. They started jamming their hands in to the top and bottom of the cast, as we were trying to convince them to test it again, look at our xray picture, etc, as the biggest thing they told us at the hospital was NOT TO STICK THINGS INSIDE THE CAST! Sheesh.
And yeah, it's dry here too. I have lotion stashed everywhere. When we were in NY last week, it was sooo delightfully humid!
Have a good break!
Posted by: Lazy Lightning | January 9, 2007 09:06 PM
the colostrum leakage is alarming, isn't it?
Posted by: J-Le | January 10, 2007 04:52 AM
egads
Posted by: mrtl | January 10, 2007 10:39 AM
how i miss the colostrum. and the nice big boobs.
I know they have belly bands for you once your belly gets big enough to start bothering your back.
Have fun and i just LOVE love love the ultrasound pictures!!!
Posted by: janasayqua | January 10, 2007 11:27 AM
Heya, you're not, repeat, NOT lazy, you're tired from, oh, I dunno, making eyebrows or something.
As regards the back do you have access to a pool? I love my swim; only part of the day when my whole body doesn't ache. You don't have to be a swimmer, either, just float and kick.
And what's with the "...made me walk around and eat ice cream..."? You sound like it's some sort of trial to be *forced* to eat ice cream! Sheesh!!
Love the 'she's got something stuffed up her shirt" airport story. Some people (mostly men) just have NO idea. One of my bosses at work had *no* clue I was pregnant- at thirty weeks. He just thought I had really let myself go (I was struggling to push a post-cardiac surgery patient around to ICU).
And I'm jealous of your cold, dry weather. Today it's gonna be 37*C (about 100*F) and about 80% humid. We have no air con. I'm going to break out the inflatable toddler pool...
Gotta love that colostrum. Mine freaks out my husband big time.
Posted by: jen | January 10, 2007 06:32 PM
Sounds like a crazy week! How lucky that you found the wallet! Some people are honest after all! Hope you are having fun in SLC.
Posted by: Snickrsnack Katie | January 11, 2007 02:02 PM
let's hear it for another strong woman soon to enter the world! i sense you are right...she just might have some of her mother's great qualities. :)
and her dad's. but which ones of his do you think will be most prominent? ability to grow back facial hair quickly?
heh
Posted by: Sarcomical | January 11, 2007 05:13 PM
You should save that leaking colostrum. I'll bet you could make some money with it. Or fix some really rad drinks with it, like a Mother's Milkshake.
Posted by: Bucky Four-Eyes | January 11, 2007 07:47 PM