Undone

Thanks for saying what I so obviously couldn’t.

Quote:

“Meyer’s religious upbringing taught her something few writers grasp, that fantasies can be about restraint as well as excess. Sometimes nice girls do finish first.”

What a day. It’s been snowing since I went to bed last night, and to be quite honest, I wish it’d stick to the mountains. I’m glad I don’t work in Park City or something. It’d be disgusting to haul my butt up the canyon each day in this horrible weather. I don’t even like hauling myself to work in this weather! I appreciate the precipitation– but if it could give us just a little break… enough to salt the roads and for Scott to clear the drive… I’d be happier.

So I went to the doctor yesterday. I wish I had picked an earlier appointment. I had the feeling the doctor wanted to rush out the door and go home. Anyway, my BP was HIGH (like 168/99) and the doctor was going to medicate me, but he decided to take my BP again… This time with a large cuff. At this point in the story I’d like to pause and say …. WTH? why were they using a small or medium cuff on me anyway? So I look small or medium? These nurses take my weight right before taking my BP (My weight BTW, hasn’t gone up at all this pregnancy. WOOT ME!) So I don’t know why after seeing that number they don’t say “OH she’s obese, let’s use a LARGE CUFF?!” Also, btw, they are taking it over my sleeve. Shouldn’t that indicate using a larger sleeve as well? In any case… They use the large cuff– and hey, what do you know, it’s like 117/71. Who would have guessed. I wish I could pin the cost of the extra tests he ran on them. I wish doctors would start simple and work up to dangerous things… instead of the other way around. Isn’t the simplest answer usually the CORRECT answer? Sheesh. In any case. Problem solved. I’ll still be watching my sodium intake (DUN DUN DUH!) so as to not aggravate any underlying problem I might have with my BP, but I won’t be worrying about it either.

I need to call about getting an appt with my bishop when I get home tonight too. I need to get on the ball and get my recommend, I’m running out of time to do it! It’s tough fitting everything in, especially working so late– but as long as I have a recommend in my hot little hand by 2/7, I’ll be giddy as a school girl.

I got my crochet needles for my birthday from Scott last week. As well as a plethora of blue yarn to make slimes with. It says to use an E crochet hook, but I’m thinking I’ll use something larger to help myself learn. Once I am comfortable, then I’ll use a smaller hook 🙂 I also need to find out how to reliably make the magic ring….It’s hard to do with Katie around… She wants to play with the hook and throw the yarn. Drives me crazy.

I watched all of Anne of Green Gables this weekend, and enjoyed it immensely. Except for the last movie wher Megan Follows sounds like she’s been smoking a pack a day for 40 years. Also I don’t find it terribly romantic, which the first two are, and have a pretty soundtrack. The second one takes place mostly during the war, on the front line,  so it’s a lot of exploding…. also, WTH, why would Anne give up Green Gables to that two faced horrible friend Diana who is putting on airs and it never really explains why they need a house at all… I guess they lost their big one? BLERG!

Anyway, it was a great gift, Scott really secretly appreciates it because it means he can sleep all day and Katie and I will hunker down and watch Anne in the basement. He said it was the best sleep he’d had. YAY for sleeping.

Derringer Meryl [secret sleepings] Out

So I went through my goals and stuff, but due to running out of time at work that day, I didn’t get do my actual recap of the year. HAHA.

January- I got my first neice. How cute! Lashes had her baby, Fell in Love with Ludo *sigh*
February – Scott’s Sis (Scribbles) Turned 18, I watch Juno for the first of 18,000 times, Katie says her first word (hi) and learns to crawl, Baby blessing for Carebear and Frik’s little girl, Katie also learns no and Kitty, I got a new sewing machine…. which I love dearly, Nikki has her baby.
March- Scott applies for promotion at work, My car gets hit by Fedex
April – Start the process of selling our condo
May – Katie turns 1! I read the host (yay, excellent), join spark people,
June – New cell phone, Scott and I’s 4th anniversary, I got a new niece, Scott’s Birthday
July – Offer on the house, house shopping, Katie’s hair is long enough for piggie tails, awesomely fun 4th of July, 3 new Katie teeth, Orbi Gras (need I say more?), W family reunion, Under contract on our new home!
August –  Breaking Dawn! VGmomma,  We stay at Lorna’s for a while while we wait for our house, Move to our new house
September – Katie’s room is painted blue, DQ’s birthday party at our house, Got Bella
October – Went to Boo at the Zoo with Katie, New Blog YAY!, I find out I”m Pregnant due in July.
November- Try for blogging every day and fail,  Host TG at our new home, Twilight the Movie releases (Scott got me tickets for a midnight release),  Mandarin has her baby
December – Parties galore, A very Merry Christmas, My birthday, 🙂

Happy new year!

Derringer Meryl [Recap complete] Out

isn’t this required. I think so. First of all, my goals for 2008: (courtesy of my old blog ;))

Goals for 2008
Church attendance should go up. Muchly so. – I would say in the latter part of 2008, we have been doing pretty well.
Go with my Aunt to the Temple – Uh. Sorry no. I suck
Spend more time with Scott 😉 – Yes, I always have this Goal I swear, but I don’t want to be one of those people who grows apart slowly from their spouse. I make an effort (? It’s not hard, it’s just important) to talk to Scott every day, about whatever I can think of.
Lose more weight – This will take SOME major restraint on my part. – Uh, no here too sparky. And on account of me gettin’ knocked up again– I’d have to say I’m gaining weight. Slow but sure.

Spend time with my friends (that I’ve known PRIOR to my marriage) – While this one is a failure for the most part, I have to say that at least I saw Amerlee outside of a wedding or a baby shower. Also I communicate with pre-marriage friends on facebook. I’m shameful.
Give Katie a good first birthday party – I would say her party rocked my socks.
Be supportive – I wish I had wrote down more what I had in mind here, I did my best to be supportive. I’m also working on having more faith.
Gossip less (I do have a daughter watching me now) – Yes? I try to discourage it. I admit that sometimes I vent, and the things I say aren’t nice. I should keep working on this one.
Start Family Home Evening with Katie – Better But not perfect.
Pray nightly – Still need to keep working on this.
Be less paranoid – HAHAHA! yeah right.
Show my love for my family more – I think so? I genuinely do love my family, I am pretty pathetic at showing it.
Complain less – NOPE. I’m horrible at complaining, especially when pregnant.
Finish unfinished projects (quilts, sewing, Dolls, etc) – Finished two quilts (yay) however I still have 3 quilts in the wings.
Learn how to Crochet – Nope. I tried, I’ll try again.
Stay on top of housework (weekly) – Kind of. I have to say I’m doing alright, except for on dishes.

2009 Goals:

Increased Church and Temple attendence.
Have a happy Baby in July
Attend The Specialist’s wedding
More Crocheting
more Quilt work
Get Katie’s Big girl room set up
Have a great 5th anniversary

That’s all I can think of right now, I will do my recap of the year later 😉 Keep an eye out for that. It’s time to go have fun.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

A girl on my message board just asked if any of us had prepared taxes professionally for a tax prep company. Which obviously, if you’re reading my blog you know I professionally get yelled at by people. It’s a job. 😉

Anyway. I responded that I usually do Turbo tax, but that my SIL (Sister In law for those who don’t chat in girly forums often) has done it for me before and that she works for a company doing accounting stuff. (This is Sukie, in case you’re dense) And then I said something that had never really occured to me. (you know just one of those things you never really think about) I said, that I am really proud of her. 🙂 It’s the truth. I don’t spread my affections too much to her (or for that matter any other SIL’s as I usually just stick with reminiscing about my brothers and how they picked on me, but have also been really sweet.) but it’s true. Sukie and I have had rough patches, but really, I love her. She’s an awesome SIL, and I know even if we’re fighting, I can call her and if I need something she’ll be there for me. She’s always very thoughtful of others, she loves to laugh, and have a good time. I really appreciate her.

🙂

I am the queen, today, of being icky. I feel icky. My back kills.  I don’t know why my back hurts so bad this pregnancy. I would mention it to my doctor if it didn’t mean another battery of tests that are completely unnecessary and painful…. and expensive. My doctor is cautious. Which is great to have in a doctor. But it’s also horrible when this baby wasn’t really expected and you don’t have $5000 saved up for tests and such. UGH. I bet my back just hurts because 1) Overweight, duh. 2) I injured my back in the 90’s babysitting, and 3) I’m pregnant. So there you have it. I hope it goes away. I will admit I haven’t taken anything for the pain today– but (!) I am planning to later after I’ve ate something.

I’m 13 weeks now. And it depends on who you ask if I’m still in the first trimester or not. Either way it should be done SOON. Which means it’s 7 weeks (approx.) until I can find out what I’m having. IF you want it in days, it’s about 48 days. 🙂 or 49. I’m not sure which, my pregnancy tickers can’t agree with how far along I am. I have had two headaches in the past week, but neither seemed to be high blood pressure related. I am trying to keep my salt consumption down, and my fresh fruit and veggies consumption up. Just to keep everything on an even keel. It’s hard though– I won’t lie. I’ll also let you know I’m seriously pumped up about eating some chinese chicken salad. I’m planning on putting some together with my Christmas Cashews. YUM YUM YUM! (yes I know this blog post is all over the place)

I’m going to go off and play for now. 🙂

Derringer Meryl [Something Silly] Out

So. Having a birthday on a sunday sucks. SURE you’re almost pretty much (and very definately at my workplace) guarenteed the day off (YAY For that) but it’s a sunday, and if you’re religious and are in a fairly religious family and have fairly religious friends… well it sure makes the day kinda blow chunks. Scott got me some AWESOME geeky amigurumi patterns. I love researching and working on crochet. The odd thing. I don’t know how to crochet. I have stupid hands. I’m pretty handy at knitting, I just need to buckle down and figure this out. I want to make some cute things. PLUS, I have a lot of cute yarn to use. I would like to make a slime first. The look like this:

Also if we have a little boy I want to do his room with dragons and knights and such… I think it’ll be cute. One of the patterns he got me was for a little dragon, so i’m excited. Hopefully I can work on getting some of these done! 🙂 Cute!

DQ (who is living in our basement now, yay!) gave me a pudding of hers for a present, which she says is a crappy present, but I say, it’s not. I was pleased. Scott and DQ really let me have it easy yesterday … which was nice. I was doing my 24 hr urine collection. I have to say, not the funnest thing to do on your birthday, but life goes on. I just need to turn that in. We watched a lot of How I met your mother, my mom and my brother called to say Happy Birthday.  Then Scott’s family came over and baked a cake, and cooked dinner. I have to say Midori did a lot of work (as well as Lorna and Qwserty)  to make my birthday rock. We had pizza and a really yummy chocolate cake. Also Midori did a bunch of my dishes, which is awesome, because I was dreading them. It’s tough to get around to stuff like that, you know?

We had a good evening, and even played a little Monty Python Fluxx. I enjoyed it. Finally I was so flippin’ tired, I had to go to sleep. I drank a TON of water yesterday, I need to keep drinking because when I do go back to turn my sample in, i have to get blood drawn. 🙁 I hate getting blood drawn. But, it’s a fact of life, that when you get pregnant, they pump blood out of you like republicans pumping oil out of alaska. HAHAH!

Katie has been completely pacifier free for weeks now. I am shocked, and somtimes I miss it. Like when she is being loud and I need quiet time.  or if she’s being grumpy and I need her to nap. She had quite the melt down yesterday, and spilt a lot of juice and spaghetti. it wasn’t a big thing. She just needed a nap really bad. I’m thinking the rocking chair needs to go back upstairs for when I have the next baby, but at the same time I’m thinking, maybe I can find a new one to get on craigslist or something. I love rocking chairs…. by which I mean recliners that rock. Sometimes you need to put your feet up and relax, and other times it’s nice to rock.  Hopefully things work out. Anyway. I had a good birthday, thanks to everyone for all the well wishing. 🙂

Derringer Meryl [crochet, why I never!] out