ms. zira, the cutest & bestest & sweetest bunny in the world, left us much too abruptly on saturday morning.

blah. how boring has this thing been lately? i haven't had much motivation and i haven't been feeling creative at all, which is really starting to bother me.

friday i babysat rob's kitten. i can't believe i had that kitten over here being cute all day and i didn't take a picture of him. i don't know what's wrong with me. we had lots of fun playing and napping. he also made friends with ms. zira, and found her cage to be the most fun place because she has so many toys. kitty's name is asphyxiation, which was already given to him before he came to live with rob. rob decided it was a fitting name, though, so he kept it. when i stayed at rob's last week, i missed my cats and my bunny. now that i'm home with all of my babies, i miss his kitty.

argh. what a day. actually, just the first half of the day was bad. i thought i had to get blood drawn 3 times, but i was wrong - 4 times. once when i first got there, then i drank the yucky sweet stuff again and had blood drawn once an hour for the next three hours. apparently i have veins that don't want to cooperate, so after getting poked twice in the left arm, twice in the right arm (one was no good, though), i also got stuck in the back of my right hand. OUCH. my damn hand is still sore. thankfully rob got the day off so i had someone to hang out with & be bored with for all that time. i also had my monthly exam while we were there. i don't like this whole business of getting poked & prodded & probed all the time now just because i'm pregnant. in fact, i hate it. there's a reason i hate going to the doctor. any doctor.

Which glamour goddess are you? By kjfishie

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my thyroid levels are fine, so hooray for that. my 1-hour glucose screen came back high, though. bugger. i'm on a diet until wednesday. nothing except water after midnight that night, and then i go in for my appointment at 10am on thursday and i'll have blood drawn three times over three hours. oh, yay. all of the other stuff they checked for in my blood was ok, though, so at least i have that. hopefully i'll pass the 3-hour glucose tolerance thing and be done with this, although i'm sure that even if i am, i'll have to be tested again further down the road.

my insane brother was here from thursday - sunday. actually, he seemed to be sane on thursday, but from friday on, it was the normal cannot-deal-with-you craziness. saturday night i went and stayed over at rob's just so that i could get the hell out of here. he got a kitten this past week. and of course he's just too cute (the kitten, although of course i think rob's cute, too). while rob was attempting to sort out the mess of cords behind all of the computer equipment that occupies his living room, i played with kitty until we were both tired. actually, somewhere in there rob made me some veggie quesadillas that were really good, and also probably made me want to go to sleep even more. i know that i passed out before rob came to bed, and i think kitty did, too, but i'm not sure about that. rob said he banned kitty from the bedroom at some time during the morning because kitty was up and he wanted us to be up, too.

last night rob, my mother & i went to see jesus jones. yep, my mom went with. i was actually going to blow the show off, and then one day last week my mom is all "we need to get tickets to jesus jones!" eh? never would have assumed that she really wanted to go. i think she'd mentioned it and i'd kind of blown it off as well because i thought it was more like "i'll go with you if you can't find anyone else who wants to go." (which wouldn't be a surprise - usually, none of my friends want to see bands that i want to see.) anyway, the show was very good and i just felt bad for the band that they didn't get a better crowd in there. i don't know if it was truly just nobody giving a shit about jj anymore (some guy in one of the opening bands was like "wow, i didn't know they were still around" "DUH TO YOU!" i say), or that it was father's day, or maybe a combination of the two. the club wasn't empty, but it certainly wasn't packed, either. oh well, anyone who lives in houston and considered going, but didn't - bollocks to you! iain wasn't there, so he was replaced by a DAT tape and that was ok. i thought they sounded brilliant. rob was never really into them. well, certainly not like i was (most people weren't), but he said he thought they were excellent. my mom also had a good time and she went out to dance for the songs she knew. heh. she even brought her camera, and took some pictures of mr. edwards for me, who by the way, is as cute as he ever was. i wanted to buy the new cd, since it was for sale at the merchandise stand for less than i'd pay through their online shop, but then rob was insistent about me buying a t-shirt, also. he ended up paying for both. the silliest part is that the biggest t-shirt they had was a large, so i imagine i won't be able to wear it for much longer here anyway.

i still haven't heard back on my labs from last week (though i should know something tomorrow) nor the ones i just did yesterday. so, no news to report there. as much as i'm not anxious to get big & fat, in a way i wish it would come sooner. i'm feeling all bloated & it seems like none of my regular pants are comfortable anymore, but at the same time i'm not large enough to fit into maternity stuff yet. argh. perhaps i could try some of these low rise pants.

that's another thing, though. i'm pretty much clueless as to where to shop for maternity stuff. gap & old navy both only sell maternity clothing online (i think old navy sells it at stores in SF and NY, but that's no help to me). sarah said she bought some stuff from motherhood maternity, and they have stores here, so maybe i'll go check them out. i went to an old navy outlet store today and bought a few things that i'll probably only be able to wear for another month or so because i'm duh like that. i did buy a couple of cute little baby sleepers for $1.99, though.

i bought ghost world on dvd, even though i've yet to actually see the movie. i figure i will like it, but if i don't - well, too bad for me i guess. it was on sale, and it's been like fifty years since i bought any dvds, so i just thought "what the hell?" i also bought the 20th anniversary edition of tron because, well, because it's the 20th anniversary edition of tron.

i think it's getting close to time to change this layout again. of course i love badtz maru, but i doubt i'll ever leave any design here permanently. i can't even remember when i last changed it. i think it was after my trip to japan, though. hmm. it appears i changed it on january 27th. yes, i think it's about time for an update. of course i haven't been feeling very creative lately, so who knows when it will actually happen.

i'm a rabbit.what kinda pet are you?
quiz made by muna.

thanks to damodred for the pet quiz.

random movie quote:

"you and i combined make the perfect woman."
"no. you and i combined make the perfect political prisoner. what we really do well is act self-righteous and starve."

again, i have been neglecting the hockey. neglecting to mention it in here, anyway. go red wings! see, i have to root for the wings because every other year in history i have rooted against them just to irk david. now that david is all moved away and i miss him, i feel like i should root for his team. my mom had been pulling for the avs, but after the massacre that was game 7 in the western conference finals, she said "i see red!" and changed her tune. she passed out the other night after the 2nd OT - she couldn't last any longer. my dad likes to make stupid comments about things my mother & i do, just because he's like that. if he walks through while we're watching hockey, one of his favorite things to say is "blood on ice!" where he got that from, i don't know. i thought of him during the third OT, though, when duchesne took that puck in the mouth.

i'm 12 weeks, 1 day now, and my due date is 21 december.

i think i know part of the reason i haven't been updating as regularly. if i write, it seems all i have to say are things like "i went to the doctor today" or "i finally have the ultrasound scheduled" or "they think my TSH level (thyroid) might be low." not very exciting stuff, now is it? not really. i did go to the doctor today. he upped the dosage on my anti-depressant. oh yay. i did get the ultrasound scheduled for friday afternoon, so that's finally taken care of. midwife thinks my TSH level looks low, so i'm off to an endocrinologist tomorrow afternoon. he seems to think it's normal, but he's going to see me and do more lab work anyway. oh double yay. also, i think i'm getting a bit of a belly now. my scale says if i've gained anything, it's only like 2-3 pounds, but for some reason it feels like it should be much more than that. i looked through some belly galleries last night, and i have to say that those end of the road bellies look so frightening. check out this animated gif from 8-40 weeks. yikes.

since i've been so bad about updating, i thought i'd come back and add another entry. technically it is a new day now, but it still feels like sunday.

will i ever get back to updating normally? it's not looking too good. i don't know what my problem is. honestly, i just haven't been spending much time using the computer at all lately.