This afternoon, I broke my shredder. I had gotten very impatient and put way too much paper in and all of it ended up stuck in the blades. Reversing didn't do anything except produce an eerie high-pitched noise and there was no way to pull the page out manually since its very top was clogging the blade. Seized with a sudden determination not to ( Read more... )

I'm starting to really miss sleep. I remember when I was in the first trimaster and every night I'd pass out from exhaustion by 9 pm and I'd sleep all the way through to 6 am when it was time to get up for work. Well, no more. Now I fall alseep at midnight and I wake up at 3 am and pretty much every hour on the hour after that, staying awake longer ( Read more... )

I've been feeling so crappy all day that the cats evidently decided to cheer me up. When I made my way to the bathroom (for the 5673th time), I saw ( this: )

Rich and I got back from Poland a week ago. For the past week we have each taken turns suffering from a horrible flu-like disease (possibly the flu? maybe a very very very nasty cold?). I had thought that my shift would be over today, because I was starting to feel better last night, but, alas, this morning I woke up feeling miserable and mucousy. ( Read more... )

I'm in Poland!! Yay!! The internet is much to slow to write more!!

( Oscar Neil Mascarenhas! )

I was on the train going home from work, when I checked my messages and heard the following ( Read more... )

As of midnight last night, I am officially in the second trimaster of my pregnancy.

( Here's how I celebrated )

Sometime really soon I'm going to actually update my live journal. But for now, here is a thing I stole from Rich ( Read more... )

Today was my first OBGYN appointment and it went very well. The best part was the ultrasound. I know a lot of women don't have one during their first visit, but I'm a little over 10 weeks along, so my doctor went ahead and ordered one. I was a bit skeptical because it's so early and, anyway, I've never been able to tell anything from any kind of ( Read more... )