November

Yesterday was the Novemberest day so far this November.

I've always had a hate/no love relationship with November. It's just so......November. Cold and stark, really depressing. Even the name sucks. NO-vim-burrrrrrrrr.

Up until yesterday I felt very October this November, maybe because of the baby. October always surprises me how much I like it. I always expect it to be a mini-November but, every year it's my mini-September. Today feels October again.

Are you confused yet?

Anyways, I'm weird.

I'm in a very Christmasy mood this year. Maybe it's because of the baby?

24 Weeks

The baby is as tall as two juice boxes this week. My mama and one of my sisters got to feel it (he? she?) kick on Thanksgiving. Thursday we go to the baby doctor for the monthly appointment and get to see it again on ultrasound. I hope they get a good view of the heart this time and that everything turns out ok.

Thanksgiving 2012

23 Weeks

Today is the first day of week twenty-three and as I type this I'm laid out on the couch with my feet propped up watching Duck Dynasty. (That show is hilarious! Have ya'll seen it?)

There's some weird stuff going on with my baby cooking body. Weird like I'm itchy. More specifically my arms are itchy. More specifically my armpits are itchy. I'm talking so itchy I don't wanna wear deodorant! (TMI? Yes? Ok, I won't tell you sometimes I don't shave. For a week.)

On a positive note, I'm having the best hair week of my life. I don't know if it's the cooler weather (humidity ain't my hair's friend), the fact I've been three days without conditioner, or maybe the cold-as-ice rinse I've been finishing my shower with. Who knows? I like it.

I've gained 10.4 pounds during this operation so far and this little critter is now the size of an ear of corn or a cantaloupe. Corn/cantaloupe got the hiccups Sunday night so that was pretty fun.

In the "this really sucks" category I have had some pretty intense round ligament pain today. Like, hurting so bad I couldn't get myself out of bed this morning, Boots had to push me out of the bed so I could get up. The pain finally eased up a few hours later and in a moment of stupidity I went up the stairs at the funeral home and that sure fired it up again. Fun, real fun.

Buying for Thanksgiving

Let's talk irony. I love irony, don't you? Jumbo shrimp, baby grand, blahdee blah...... Tonight, I had a little food irony at the Publix.

I bought a ham and a kosher turkey breast.

I'm hoping the cashier wasn't paying very much attention or either doesn't know that "kosher" and "ham" don't belong in the same sentence. I felt a little weird about the situation, but I'm hardheaded so I forged ahead.

On a side note, here's what cooked for supper: Medium shell pasta, (jarred) Alfredo sauce with English peas (ball bearin's as my dad says) and broccoli. Not gonna win any culinary awards, but that's what I wanted and it was pretty good.

Reintroduction to the Wild!

Lately, Boots and I have been in the undomestication business. For one reason or another, not sure if it's the furniture scratching, Boots' disdain for cleaning out the litter box, or his own interest in the outdoors, Frank has been spending little bits of increasing amount of time outside.

When we bring him back inside he cries and cries, "MEOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW! MEEEOOOWWWWOOOOWWWOOOOOWWWWWW!" He's quite the kitty yodeler.