7 Quick Tuesday Takes
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 8:58AM 1. Last night was my 6 month appointment with my OB - and my glucose test results came back all good! In fact, he said the results were great. Yay! I told him what happened at the lab and he said we did the test the more old-fashioned way and people just aren't accustomed to that anymore, so he wasn't surprised, but he was glad it all turned out okay. (So am I!) So the glucose test debacle is over!
2. I gained one pound this month, which makes my total pregnancy weight gain 4 pounds. He's happy with this, as well (as am I!). I am totally on track to stay below the recommended 15 pound pregnancy weight gain for overweight women - not that I think it's a huge problem if an overweight woman gains more than that (really, you do what your body needs you to do). But for me, I'm glad my body is regulating the weight gain because it's not like I'm restricting my eating in any way; this is just what my body is doing naturally and FOR ONCE I feel good about what my body is doing. I've often heard that about pregnancy - that it helps you appreciate your body in a way you never did before, but I'm surprised that it's taken this form.
3. Buster has taken to chewing on the books on the bottom shelf of my hallway bookshelf. No good can come of this. I have to figure out what to do with that shelf - what I can put on it until he learns to stop chewing on things.
4. The hubby and I are finally getting down to Baltimore this weekend. It'll be the closest thing we get to a "babymoon" before May since it's impossible for us to get away for a weekend, especially since now we have to arrange for the babysitting of two dogs. I'm so psyched to see Mike and Tracy and their little girl Madison, who's now seven months old and who we haven't seen since she was two months old.
5. My coworker got in a fender bender - really, a very minor accident - and he was talking about how upset the guy was that hit him and he said, "But really, he should have calmed down; we're all just lucky to be alive." I get the impression that the accident amounted to some dents and scratches so I had to hold myself back from rolling my eyes. I hope that doesn't seem insensitive but I just really get annoyed when people blow normal life events out of proportion.
6. Thanks to the dogs, I got no reading done for school last night. I really have to start figuring out when I'm going to get my schoolwork done because I can't just sit around and do it like I used to - too busy keeping Buster entertained so he doesn't chew on everything or aggravate Oreo.
7. Somewhere in their basement, my parents have an old drawing I did in elementary school. It's got silver glitter on dark blue construction paper with a drawing of a snowman done in white crayon and the words, "Today is Tuesday. It will snow." For some reason, it pops into my head on a lot of Tuesdays - except on this one, we really are expecting snow. Sometime tonight between 9pm and 10pm, it's supposed to start and dump a foot before the workday tomorrow. We'll see how that goes. We got lucky and didn't get any snow this past weekend, but I don't think we'll manage that again. It's not that I mind snow - I don't; I love it - but I don't like getting up early to dig out before work. Need the zzz's.
Do you love snow? Hate it? Ambivalent?
7 Quick Tuesday in life 
Reader Comments (3)
So glad that your glucose test came back with good results! And wait until your baby starts to eat books--I can only get a page or two in to a book before Porter wants to chew on it. All of his board books have nibbled corners!
congrats on a great ob appt! i remember living for those appts during my two pregnancies.
we are expecting another big snow too. as a kid i loved it - days off from school, playing outside, hot chocolate. as an adult, not so much.
Candice, very glad you had GREAT test results! :)
As for your question, I highly dislike snow. It's ok here and there, when it is pretty as it falls but doesn't really stick much. I really hate driving in the snow. I have terrible panic attacks. Where I grew up we got about 200 inches of snow a year. I loved it then, and my favorite thing to do was get up in the morning and listen to the school closings, hoping to hear my school's name. Now, it is only an inconvenience to me.