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I owe people responses to comments... I promise they are coming. Just not until at least tomorrow. This is my ten-twenty minutes where I theoretically have nothing I have to be doing. Theoretically.
I thought that I had finished up most of my Christmas shopping yesterday. When I was at the bookstore and looking for a book to finish up Gillian's present, I happened upon a book that I had had on her amazon wishlist for - no joke - two years. So I said to myself, Self! I think I shall buy this!
So I did.
Then I came home and signed on as her to delete it from her amazon wishlist, and wouldn't you know? Someone, in the less-than-a-month since I last looked, has bought that book off her list. So. Tomorrow I have to go back to the bookstore and return the book.
Other than that, and hoping I win an ebay auction, I am done with Christmas shopping. No malls involved after Thanksgiving (and barely before), no shopping after November 30. Now I can actually enjoy the rest of the season. And wrap leisurely, and all of that.
I had a midwife appointment this morning. Everything is fine, yay. It's v. hard for them to hear the baby's heartbeat because the placenta is implanted right smack dab in the front middle of my uterus. So they can definitely hear the placenta well. :P I'm measuring right at 24 cm, which is correct for 24 weeks. Overall, I am disgustingly normal. ;) My bloodwork came back and it's normal too, except my neutrophiles were elevated. Which makes sense, since I had the blood drawn about a week after I had that massive nasty virus. Other than that, also disgusting normal.
Then we left the midwives and got cinnamon biscuits from Bojangles, at Gillian's request. She cracks me up some days. We came home and finished up preschool for the day and then each had a biscuit. We were sitting down eating them when the schoolbus went by. I was awake this morning (not for good!) when the schoolbus went by picking up kids. I can't imagine Gillian being gone for that long during the day. I mean, the bus comes by at 7 am, and returns at 2:30 pm. Even if I were to take her and pick her back up, it'd still be just before 8 am to just at 2 pm. That's a long time. Especially since if she did go next year, she'd barely be five. Whatever happened to half-day kindergarten, I'd like to know? *sigh*
Bleh. Clothes are dry, which means I have No Excuse not to leave the house and go buy stamps. Whinge. I should have gone to the grocery store today too but sometimes there just isn't enough time in the day. Tomorrow. Tonight I am going out and I have to be at Tracey L.'s house at 5:30 to carpool. Eek.
Random comment - occasionally, I feel like I'm making a political statement when I drive. Not because of my bumper stickers, but because of the sheer fact that it's a car and not a minivan or a SUV, even though I have a kid. I will feel even more this way come March, I suspect. I think it's kind of sad that I'm that unusual around here.
I thought that I had finished up most of my Christmas shopping yesterday. When I was at the bookstore and looking for a book to finish up Gillian's present, I happened upon a book that I had had on her amazon wishlist for - no joke - two years. So I said to myself, Self! I think I shall buy this!
So I did.
Then I came home and signed on as her to delete it from her amazon wishlist, and wouldn't you know? Someone, in the less-than-a-month since I last looked, has bought that book off her list. So. Tomorrow I have to go back to the bookstore and return the book.
Other than that, and hoping I win an ebay auction, I am done with Christmas shopping. No malls involved after Thanksgiving (and barely before), no shopping after November 30. Now I can actually enjoy the rest of the season. And wrap leisurely, and all of that.
I had a midwife appointment this morning. Everything is fine, yay. It's v. hard for them to hear the baby's heartbeat because the placenta is implanted right smack dab in the front middle of my uterus. So they can definitely hear the placenta well. :P I'm measuring right at 24 cm, which is correct for 24 weeks. Overall, I am disgustingly normal. ;) My bloodwork came back and it's normal too, except my neutrophiles were elevated. Which makes sense, since I had the blood drawn about a week after I had that massive nasty virus. Other than that, also disgusting normal.
Then we left the midwives and got cinnamon biscuits from Bojangles, at Gillian's request. She cracks me up some days. We came home and finished up preschool for the day and then each had a biscuit. We were sitting down eating them when the schoolbus went by. I was awake this morning (not for good!) when the schoolbus went by picking up kids. I can't imagine Gillian being gone for that long during the day. I mean, the bus comes by at 7 am, and returns at 2:30 pm. Even if I were to take her and pick her back up, it'd still be just before 8 am to just at 2 pm. That's a long time. Especially since if she did go next year, she'd barely be five. Whatever happened to half-day kindergarten, I'd like to know? *sigh*
Bleh. Clothes are dry, which means I have No Excuse not to leave the house and go buy stamps. Whinge. I should have gone to the grocery store today too but sometimes there just isn't enough time in the day. Tomorrow. Tonight I am going out and I have to be at Tracey L.'s house at 5:30 to carpool. Eek.
Random comment - occasionally, I feel like I'm making a political statement when I drive. Not because of my bumper stickers, but because of the sheer fact that it's a car and not a minivan or a SUV, even though I have a kid. I will feel even more this way come March, I suspect. I think it's kind of sad that I'm that unusual around here.