Week 14 : It’s a lemon!

 

Mmm, I thought a lemon and a lime was more or less the same size – guess it depends on how long you leave them on the tree? So from seafood we move back onto fruit.

BabyCentre says this week my baby looks more or less like this and is the size of a 3,5 inch lemon (that’s 8.89cm).

I am happy to say that we’ve felt a whole lot better this week. Almost no morning/noon/night sickness to speak of and I slept through almost every night instead of the 2 or 3 times up for a bathroom run way I’ve been doing the last few months. From what I understand this is going to be a short lived pleasure so I’m squeezing every ZZzzz I can out of it.

No weird dreams this week either, I kind of miss that though – some of those dreams were very entertaining!

This was actually a pretty significant week for us. You see, the project that I’m working on allocated to is still on hold. Not only is it very frustrating to only be able to work one week per month, it’s also not bringing in the money that I need it to bring in. In a few months time I will have to go on maternity leave and it would be super if I could have saved up to some extent for that instead of twiddling my thumbs waiting for projects to get off hold while I can still be very productive. Grrrr!

So I needed to come up with something to do, and I have. My mom is helping me put it all together and as soon as I’m ready to roll on this I will let you all know exactly what I’m up to. It feels great to have a plan and not just feel so helpless about this work situation. Maybe the stress of that is also what contributed to the sudden bout of morning/noon/night sickness for the last few weeks.

I’m feeling super healthy and positive at the moment. My only complaint is Winter. I am tired of being cold now. Bring on Spring! I am more than ready.

Oh, remember I told you that everyone was pregnant at the moment? Well, I sat down and made a list. There are exactly 10 that I know of. later today there will be 9, because my cousin’s wife has gone into labour this morning and they’re expecting baby Liam’s to arrive any second now. (I think he’s about a month early!). I’m keeping my fingers crossed that everything goes well there, and I can’t wait to see the first photos of the new member of our family. I only get to meet him in December when he’s parents are coming over from the UK to Christen him in Cape Town (maybe I won’t even get to go them, because I’ll be too far along to fly and I probably need to stay close to my doctor in the last month).

Quotes of the Week!

 

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. – Anna Jameson

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas A. Edison

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is one’s self. – Aldous Huxley

Is there method in the madness?

Yesterday I made a little trip to Edenvale to go pick up some Bodythrill goodies from ExMi. The N1 North is NOT my favourite highway at the moment (or ever). Usually it has really crap traffic and with all the road works being done on it for the 2010 World Cup it’s even more of a nightmare than before.

While driving along merrily on a piece of this highway recently worked on I was silently cursing (okay maybe not that silently) the idiots who still haven’t sorted out proper lane markings when I noticed something peculiar in my rear view mirror.

It seems that by some marvel of modern road “technology” our department of transport and roads and what-not has managed to find a way to make drivers observe more carefully their mirrors (I think they must be sticking it to the people who only bother with mirrors for the driving test and then thereafter use it for make up and shaving purposes only).

You see the lane markings, although very faintly visible when you look straight ahead (almost as if someone had recently changed their mind about where they should be and tarred over them) are BRILLIANTLY visible in you mirror looking back.

Amazing! What will they think of next?

 

Friday Song : Keep Bleeding Love

This song always makes me think of paintball, or more specifically bouncing around on the back seat of the orange ferrari (tiny car – BIG sound) on the way to paintball.

Hope you all have a kick-ass Friday!

They did

This past weekend I attended an old school friend’s (shot-gun) wedding.

The way it all came together is quite funny. Way back when I just found out I was pregnant I phoned my old roommate from boarding school to let her know and she told me that I was the second person in the last half hour to tell her that! That’s how I found out that J’s girlfriend N was also knocked up (she’s about 2 months ahead of me). I told you the whole world was pregnant, didn’t I?

My roomy must have let him know because he phoned me shortly after to congratulate me. He asked when I was getting married and I told him I wasn’t. J and N decided to get hitched and I said to him that he better invite me – I can’t come and drink tequila with him (like we did at my roomy’s wedding) but I would definitely be there.

The wedding was held at Bergvallei Estate, which is a pretty venue but it’s F-F-FREEZING! There are 4 fireplaces inside the main function hall but you might as well sit outside without a stitch of clothes on. It’s COLD. Also the floor is so slippery that the best man dropped two dance partners in the first few minutes that the dance floor was open. (I still joked to Freddy that if he asked me to dance I’ll just save him some time and effort and go sit on the floor myself!).

I asked Freddy to come with me and I had a really good time – even though this was probably the first wedding I left completely sober since…well probably since ever. There was a funny moment just after the service when we went to the reception and had to look up our names on the table plan thingy. J had forgotten that I was bringing someone else to the wedding and had put TGC’s name on the list with mine instead. Oops!

The food was great. Typical wedding food I guess but since I was really craving some vegetables I had no complaints. They had butternut soup as a starter, with mains of chicken, beef and lamb, with some yummy potato bake, cream-spinach, pumpkin fritters, cauliflower in cheese sauce, rice and salad, and three deserts baked malva pudding with custard, peppermint crisp tart and ice cream with chocolate sauce. Yumm!

After dinner we danced a bit too. I managed to push through till about 21:00 and then I was completely exhausted. Good times, but enough is enough?

On the way out I managed to have a quick chat with J (who immediately rubbed my belly! It’s less awkward when it’s at least someone you know rather than complete strangers). He looks really happy and so excited about their baby he’s about ready to burst! Apparently he had already bought everything in blue and decorated the entire baby room when they got word they’re having a girl – he had to take everything back and redo it. Except for a toy car set which he already took out and played with which he has to keep now. How cute is that? That’s the kind of enthusiasm I like to see on a soon-to-be-daddy. I have a really good feeling about him and N’s marriage even though they haven’t been together for very long – looks like they’re both the kind of people who throw themselves into a new adventure whole-heartedly, and how can you go wrong with that?

All the excitement of the wedding on Saturday I balanced out with the laziest Sunday ever. I did absolutely nothing, except get up a couple of times to reheat my beanbag. It was the ultimate lazy Sunday.