went upstairs and discovered T reading the manual for the sewing machine so he can hem some pants because he ripped his go-to pair last week and doesn't think that his mending job is nice enough to wear to church anymore he's so domestic

the other day T brought home a book titled "Indoor Cat" but he promises that he's not planning to get one

Baby isn’t measuring quite as small so I’m graduating to just one appt a week! What luxury! Though that didnt stop them from sending me to emergency for 4 hrs last week

something I find hilarious is that I have had plans for the middle name 'Rose' for ... if not a decade, then at least several years. And now every baby I see has that middle name. I'm not planning to change my mind but there is that little cringe that happens inside me knowing that I'm on trend.

T usually finishes the books he starts so I think he'll at least complete his first Terry Pratchett book but I hope he reads it because he likes it. Which I think he will -- he was reading aloud to me a little bit at l'hopital yesterday and laughed. So that's promising.

it's crying era

gosh I sure hope the babies cooperate and aren't born until june 13 or later so I can get 3 extra weeks of paid leave

i priced out the teeny hand creams the EQ gave us and they got a screaming deal -- 36 for $10. There's no way they spent more than $40 (if they were smart)

went to a car wash tonight and they didn't even try to sell me a membership

one of my apps is so funny because they're like "a starfish" or, this week, "a flatbread" thank you so much, that is a useful size comparison

it can go person-to-person??? get outta here with those mice

trying to talk myself into a baby shower and it's going...bad

it's tough to watch that episode of the west wing where the columbia lands safely. still remember where I was when I heard the news on the radio. (at the dugway)

one of the side effects of being so immersed in the fictional world I've been writing about is that I'm getting a little special interest in the actor, which ... whatever. not my usual style. he's probably not even a good person!

this post helped me realize that I ate an entire 2-lb bag in one month.

not me crying because i can't get an iron infusion for another 6 weeks and i might have the babies by then (i hope not! but I will literally be 36 weeks) gonna be a tired month

it's fun to have thicker hair (barely starting to notice a difference even though I noticed when I stopped shedding awhile ago) but it is not fun to imagine how much is going to come out in like 6 months

having a nice full-sugar caffeine v curious if it will affect this afternoon's tests and also if it will help or hinder my ability to be friendly and nice at social plans I'd like to go to tonight

T went to costco today (this should not be shocking) and told me all about the cute cute cute baby clothes that come in 2-packs for cheap but that only one of each set is cute

also had my tdap today and they warned me my arm would be super sore ("it's the sorest" they said) and maybe it's delayed but so far nothing. we'll see how sleeping on it goes (yes i put it on the left, forgetting that we must sleep on our left side)

so she IS a little more behind than she ought to be but everything's still fine. The doc (our favorite fellow) was like "it can just be constitutional if the parents are small" and I looked at my 5'2" husband... anyway the monitoring is gonna be SUCH a pain but at least not 5 hrs a week

I pushed an update to prod on Friday night and immediately logged off for the weekend And it's 11 on Monday and no one's said anything, so I guess if there's a lesson to learn I won't learn it today

I didn’t know seeing stars was a real thing

oh man, now that the pitt is over (for the season) what am i going to do with my thursday nights spent reading other people's reactions with no intent to watch the show myself

the medical professionals are all up in my face about a bb that's <3% percentile but looking at the detailed results it's only a week behind! It's been a week behind LITERALLY the whole time! It probably got FERTILIZED a week behind. anyway I'm not worried about it

I suffer from thinking that all of my emails are important. Sure, ignore the Board President's stuff but when *I* email, it's because I really think everyone should read it and respond!

trying to tell myself that I absolutely will be hungry for costco pizza whenever it arrives even if I eat a bowl of cereal now (the adjustment to caloriemaxxing is honestly not going well)

meltdowns the past couple days and today I spilled milk ALL OVER but barely held it together because you just can't cry over spilled milk, you just can't

Tried sleeping on the couch and I don’t think it’s better

how long do i have to wait for someone that said they'd be here around 5 not that i have somewhere to be but also yes i do because i need to find somewhere with loaded fries

the bbs are moving a lot probably because MY blood pressure is high and I'm annoyed and they're getting some fun new hormones they don't usually have to deal with (or that I'm far enough along I can feel them all day rather than just at night)

oops mini nerdlegame 1534 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

tumblr has an april fool's game. linkedin and squardle are both doing their part in their games. (i legitimately love the linkedin games btw, good on them for getting me to their site) I don't THINK wordle meant to be a prank but I did have a lot of grays. (and then a sea of green)

my spouse is nearly always in tune with my needs and wants in a way that makes me feel lucky every day but I just called up to him "doesn't it seem like a good time for some toast??" and he said "yeah" and nothing has happened

I trained myself over my adulthood to just accept compliments rather than awkwardly try to return them (especially if I sounded insincere) but lately people have been complimenting me and 15 min later I realize that legitimately I wanted to compliment them back, but I stifled that urge too much

Also I think I literally have almost 800 bones inside my body right now

Inordinately proud of how far under 5 hours a day this is. Probably because I spent every waking minute trying to finish my fanfic (which I didn’t)

The risk of leaving a water bottle around in Logan is that thirsty kids might come home and make it theirs

man it's 5:00 and I've gotten everything done that I needed to before work ended (not work stuff) but just barely, and that's because of all the work stuff. but the music's ready to go back to the library and the cake is baked. so all's well

also I'm tired of trying to google what the numbers mean on my test results. can I get a doctor to interpret please (not asking for a bsky dr, asking for one of my own care providers to message me about them so I stop stressing about it)

There’s a special sadness in asking for ice water and getting lukewarm water. Like, not even cold??

set a (seemingly doable) deadline for myself on getting this fic finished and that deadline is TONIGHT and in good news the months of just standing in the shower thinking about it is making it go quickly but it might be a late night.

all my coworkers complaining about gemini hallucinating and how frustrated they get about the waste of time, and me over here having just solved a problem by reading docs

costco only had one carseat in stock lol

It’s so slippery.

hmmm we planned on going out for afghan tonight but it's eid...

T would never forget my birthday but he did forget what day of the week it'll be so we were talking at cross-purposes for a while about when to bake the cake (which I plan to eat solely by myself unless someone happens to stop by)

there is such a night-and-day difference between the expired-in-2022 bag of raisins I was gamely finishing vs these new ones, which I eat by the handful all day long

i have two different pregnancy tracker apps and this week, for the first time, they are using the same fruit (coconut) (there's no way I have two coconuts in here, I don't feed them enough)

both of my sisters who knew the name that I have had in mind for years and years were like "I'm sure it's fine to also use this middle name" and they're not wrong but it mostly makes me sad for my other little girl who will be left out of having that name