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3:19pm
it'a grey and very very humid.
i've barely gotten any sleep not just because of the normal pregnancy related
uncomforts but this time because deiter has this cough/sneeze thing that is
SO loud that i cannot sleep at all.
he has been coughing all day yesterday , laast night, this morning and this
afternoon.
i don't know what is wrong with him.
i've tried giving him honey, peanut butter, other assorted foods, water, whacking
him on the back, soothing him, anything....
he has done this before and it went away on it's own. this time it's lasting
a bit longer.
i don't knwo if he has something caught in his throat or is allergic to somethnig
or what the heck.
i feel so bad for him, but he seems to be fine other than that. eating normally
and acting fine in between the bouts of coughing and sneezing.
i was at my wits end last night. getting up every hour to pace the room and
sigh.
i am tired to the point of being hallucinatory. dark circles under my eyes.
we never did do the bbq thing. we stuck the steaks in the freezer for another
time.
instead we nested.
we got a LOT done.
i had a newsflash as to how i could get a small couch into the bedroom (we
don't even have a couch but hopefully some day soon as i need SOMEWHERE to
sit when nursing, etc)
it entailed moving the stereo, vcr, dvd player onto the top part of the desk.
and moving the tv onto the bedside table by the bed (we want to get it on
some sort of thing that swivels later so we can swivel the tv in whatever
direction we want...right now it is just facing the bed which makes the tv
VERY close!)
then the drawers that everythnig used to be on, these 300 year old chests
from japan, they stack one on top of the other. so we stacked them and shoved
them down the wall which leaves that whole wall free for a couch!
but actually we will put the small crib tehre until we get a couch. my mom
bought us a very small very simple white crib at a garage sale and she is
bringing it next week.
it is on rollers so i can roll it around.
we plan on co-sleeping but i do need somewhere to put lili when i am not holding
on to her or wearing her in a sling.
we moved the big mirrors all against that wall, too, so right now it looks
very open and spacious and modern.
i really don't want to put ANYTHING next to that wall. i love the mirrors.
M had fun pointing the cam at them last night and posing :)
and i put the cam on nightvision which i haven't done in awhile (i don't know
why) and i was shocked to see as i walked past the cam that my veins are even
MORE translucent and apparent than ever before!
they always stuck on in the nigthvision but now it's a regular freakshow looking
thing!
i took some pix of my veins and they are in the images.
i cannot get over how much my veins show!
i read that my veins would become more apparent because of pregnancy because
i am making 50% more blood now. eek!
i took my hundreds of cassettes out the the japanese drawers. M was surprised
at how many cassettes i have!
he raised an eyebrow at me :)
i'm like DUDE! i'm a girl from the 80's! we had a lot of cassettes back then!
(plus i retaliated against cds for quite awhile when they were forced onto
us, but now i have succumbed)
i do see now that cassettes really deteriorate with time...but it took them
many decades to do so!
i washed all the drawers and then
i took all of lili's thing that we have received so far from the registry
and such and put them in the drawers :)
this caused to me...you guessed it...cry :)
because it just was such an emotional thing for me to have a rela place for
her things and it made it so much more tangible and stuff.
putting her little pink snowsuit in the drawer :)
i still have to fold all her clothes. and i have washed most of them but still
need to wash some more.
and now i have lots more room for the onslaught of clothes my mom bought her
at garage sales.
the clotehs my mom bought her i just not my thing at ALL.
cutesy putesy frilly stuff.
everything in pastel. not really my mom's fault....it's really hard to find
baby clothes that are not pastel with little bears and such on them.
but thank god i found the brand called amercian apparel. they sell bbay clothes
that come in ordinary colours and with no embroidery or prints on them.
i've decided that with the clothes my mom got i am going to buy some nice
dye and dye them other colours. cobalt blue, bright orange, dark chocolate,
black, olive green, emerald green, charcoal...you get the idea....
there is no reason everything should have to be pastel.
i love pink and all, but come ON.
there is only so much pink you can take before you start to go a little haywire.
and this is coming from a woman whose fave colour IS pink!
i moved most of the decorative stuff i had i the bedrrom inot the thing room.
because if i am going to give birth in here i need space and stuff.
we need to get a POOL in here!
and lots of people!
me (duh), matthew, the midwife and her assistant, my mom. carolyn my best
friend since age 16 who is going to be my doula and elaine, my other best
friend who is going to be in charge of filming and watching over anacam and
the dogs.
but actually, after last night's deiter coughing episode, i am tempted to
just take the dog's to elaine's for that day and a few days after to make
SURE i have peace and QUIET!
anyway, i think i really overexerted
myself yesterday...god at the end of yesterday i HURT so much!
i really could have used a cane to walk!
no kidding!
i could barely walk at all by the end of it.
my back was in spasms, my feet felt like i had walked 30 miles uphill.
lili was kicking full on non stop.
my stomache doing the wave.
i would just yelp!
but it was worth it with how much
progress we made because i now feel that if i were to (god forbid) give birth
tomorrow, i have the bare necessities in place now to have a newborn.
things are starting to make sense now and have a place.
we just need to get these floors done.
and god...ya...the thing room....
it's ALWAYS the thing room, no? :)
but now that i have moved lili's things out of there it isn't as imperative
anymore that the thing room be completely figured out.
but even in there i can maneuver around a lot better than i could before.
oh and get this, AFTER we moved all
atht stuff all over the place and dusted and swept and cleaned and did 4 lods
of laundry and dishes and everything else....
i made banana bread! yep, that's right!
i was barefoot and pregnnat in the kicthen whipping up a batch because we
ahd 2 very ripe bananaas and , remarkably, all the ingredients and i was feeling
fidgety!
well ok i made the banana bread BEFORE we moved the tv and mirrors and stuff
and i felt like i needed a cane.
then we ate some banana bread after.
actually the recipe (betty crocker) was a bit off.
it came out too bready.
and i've never made a bad banana bread before. but M thinks it's delicious.
it is good but it's just not the banana bread i LOVE.
so who is being all domestic?
why it's ME ME ME!
hahaha :)
now i am tired as all hell and i am going to force myself to eat some protein
things and take my prenatal vitamins and watch oprah and try to drown out
the deiter coughing thing.
poor deiter. poor me.
oh and p.s. the pix from the tv are
from the movie "sugar" which my friend, samara golden, made and
stars in!
a very cool psycho-art independent film!
check it out on netflix!
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baby registry!
I thought you might like to know that I have created a Baby Registry at Amazon.com. You can find it anytime by searching for my name at http://www.amazon.com/babyregistry.
Best Wishes,
ana voog and matthew bruce
You can see ana voog and matthew bruce's entire Baby Registry at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/baby/3BKBUJCBUDKXC
ok, here it is!
if you can think of anything else that would be good for me to add, let me
know :)
if you find a better price for things or want to buy it somewhere else or simply send something else or give us a gift of money (yes!!! $ will go to buy fuzzi bunz cloth diapers and medical costs)
please send to:
ana voog
p.o. box 76152
saint paul, MN
55175
make cheques and money orders
out to:
rachael olson (my legal name) or matthew bruce
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