Seltzer - particularly lime-flavored seltzer - is the most
wonderful thing human beings ever created. It’s fizzy and makes me burp (but
then again, breathing makes me burp these days), but it’s not the unpleasant
kind of “oh my god, PREGNANCY” burps, and even the first sip settles my angry
stomach.
I can’t eat within three hours of going to bed or I wake up
with screaming acid reflux and have to sit up every fifteen to thirty minutes
to belch. I can’t eat large portions unless I plan to be on my feet and walking
for twenty minutes at a minimum. I could eat an egg, cheese and bacon breakfast
sandwich or a mixed green salad with fruit in it and some light vinaigrette
dressing – its’ all the same to my body right now. The only thing that seems to
“do it” for me, is sipping seltzer between bites.
Nugget has also concluded that somersaults are super fun and
must be performed at the most awkward moments for his/her incubator. S/he’s
taken to doing it while I lay on my side, as if using the mattress as a
springboard. Catbutt seems to find these abdominal acrobatics exceptionally
amusing, and like to flick my belly with his tail, hard enough to get a
reaction out of Nugget… While I’m trying to sleep. This game generally takes
place around 4:00 am, daily.
Last Monday’s OB appointment was par for the course. Nugget’s
heartbeat is normal, and Mum got to hear it over the phone. She and Dad decided
to skip the appointment due to illness on Mum’s part. She didn’t want to get me
and Nugget sick too. I appreciated that. Dr. Colorful threw me a curve-ball on
Nugget’s gender too, so now I have no theories at all as to his/her sex!
Blargh! Oh well; we’ll find out in seven weeks, give or take.
In other news: We’re moving to the greater Queen City area
next weekend. We put the deposit and first month’s rent down on our new place
right before our OB appointment. The new place has two floors and is quite a
bit larger than our current place, with much more storage; one and a half
baths; in-apartment laundry facilities and a DISHWASHER! I cannot tell you how
much those last two please me. We actually have our own tiny little laundry
room with full-sized washer and dryer.
There are a couple very minor cosmetic issues, but I can fix
those easily and cheaply. The tension rod in the upstairs (full) bathroom is
rusty and needs replacing, but I have two of those already, so I don’t even
need to spend money on that repair; and the vanity light covers in both
bathrooms need either a good scrub or replacing. No big deal; I suspect that a
short soak in hot water with a little bit of “Barkeeper’s Friend” and some
elbow grease will brighten those babies right up. There’s also a tiny chip in
the laminate counter top in the kitchen, but we have a marble cutting board
that will probably live on top of it anyway, so no harm done.
Anyway, we still have our current kitchen and a few loose
items to pack, but by Friday we should be good to go. I’ll report more once our
stuff is all safely ensconced in the new apartment! Whee!
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