Olympic Energy

My energy seems to have returned!!!!  I was really starting to get depressed from just sitting around.  After dinner, I cleaned the living room, which is rare, even when I'm feeling at my best.  I mean, who wants to clean on a full belly?  Jasmine was even excited.  Although, it was mostly her toys that had to be removed from the living room floor in order for her to run around like a manic.  (which is what she's doing now)  Now I'm watching the Olympics.  I feel like I've been missing so much of this Olympics but I can't sit around and watch it all day and night.  I finally started recording it and hopefully I'll get to see most of the events that I was interested in.  I'm sure my DVR is going to be full in a day or two.  The Chinese are just kicking ass in the women's synchronized diving.  It's unbelievable that you can time a dive to that degree.  I'm glad to see that Mexico scored a bronze medal.  They have never medalled in this event. 

Bad start to a long day

I actually fell asleep two hours earlier than I've been able to last night.  Unfortunately, Jasmine woke up two hours later, throwing up.  God I was tired.  I felt awful for her but at one point was basically begging her to try and go to sleep.  (when I'm throwing up, if I am able to fall asleep, I tend to feel better and the vomiting stops)  She eventually went to sleep hours and hours later but we didn't sleep for long.  She was better after she woke up but was attached to my side the rest of the day.  I hope she sleeps better tonight.  It made me panic a little bit about when this baby is born.  I'm imagining the worst.  The baby wakes up all night long, and as soon as it falls asleep, Jasmine wakes up for the day.  I really do awful on very little sleep.  My husband can get three or four hours a night and seems fine.  I just can't function on that. 

I had another really bad headache tonight.  It came on just like that last one, extremely fast and horribly painful.  I don't think there was a part of my head that didn't hurt.  I really think this was the second worst headache I've ever had.  (And I frequently get migraines)  Within ten minutes, it was gone, just like that.  I'll definitely be mentioning it to the OB I'll be seeing on Monday.  That, along with the fact that I've had a constant headache for almost two months now.  Although, if I had to choose between morning sickness and the constant headache, I'd choose the headache.  But, just barely.

First Edition

A few weeks ago, Shawn told me one of his friends grandparents had a yard sale.  In this sale were some very old books.  My husband asked if the books were not sold, if he could have them.  I believe the family was just going to take them to Goodwill if they hadn't been bought so one day Shawn comes home with two bags of books.  I really didn't think anything of it.  Tonight I stumbled across the books and looked through them.  Most are from the early to mid 1900's.  I believe the earliest one I have is from 1895.  I also believe one of these books to be a first edition book.  I've looked it up and it wouldn't go for very much.  I probably wouldn't have sold it even if it had.  I just think it's a little neat to have a first edition book.  (and by the way, had I decided to sell it, I would've given a portion of the profit to the original owner of the book, the grandfather)  The book is a bit worn.  The binding long ago lost it's hold on the pages but everything is together, no pages missing that I can account for.  What I find even more interesting.  The person who wrote this book was born in Indiana and is buried here, along with her daughter.  Apparently, the book I have is one of the most popular books she wrote.  The book is Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter.  Now, I don't know that I'll ever read any of these books and a few of them I might find new homes for but several of them I intend on keeping.  (none of the others are first edition, nor are worth more than ten dollars)  I found by looking through these books that the grandfather would receive many of these books from (assuming) relatives.  I know one was for Christmas.  He also wrote down his address in the books in case they were ever lost, as well as the current date.  One that I'm looking at right this moment has a date of 1911 in the front page, another from 1908.  I just thought it was interesting. 

Pregnant and showing

I had a total stranger ask me if I was pregnant today.  I guess I should accept the fact that I'm just going to continue to get bigger.  It was something I looked forward to with Jasmine but with this one I'm just thinking about how long it will take to get rid of the weight.  At least the baby is due in January, I have a few months before it gets warm out.  I'm also using ace bandages on my stomach after this one which supposedly helps a little. 

Motivation is Lacking

I have no energy to do anything these last few days.  I know I need to clean up but every time I get up to do it, I just end up sitting back down.  Usually once I get started cleaning, it's hard to stop but that's not the case lately.  I don't want to do anything and yet, I don't want to sit on my butt all day either.  I hope this goes away soon as I am about sick of having no motivation at this point.  So far today I've accomplished, getting dinner, burning my finger on the curling iron, and cleaning two windows.  Tomorrow I'm getting some coffee and maybe for an hour or two I'll feel as if I have some energy.  But for now... these make me happy.

House Guests

On the 21st, we have one of our closest friends flying up from Kentucky.  He was planning on coming up next week but is having car trouble so he decided just to take a plane.  It gives me an extra week to get this house spotless.  The only room that is going to give me trouble is the room he's going to be using to sleep in.  We basically use it as our closet and it looks like a teenage girls room... clothes are everywhere.  I don't know where we're going to put it all at.  We are just so unorganized.  He'll be up here for a full week.  *gasp*  I've never had someone at the house for a full week.  As a matter of fact, Paul is the only person that has ever stayed here and it was never for more than a weekend.  I'm flipping out trying to figure out what I'm going to do with him while my husband is at work.  I'm not very good at entertaining people.  I'm either doing one of the following, playing on the computer, reading, playing with Jasmine or cleaning the house.  He's also bringing his teacup chichi.  How am I going to keep my dogs from eating her?  I'm most concerned with Cash, the doberman.  Even if he were only playing, he could seriously hurt her.  But he tends to get bitchy and go after the larger dogs.  He normally only leaves scratches on them and no really gets hurt but a chichi would be crushed.  *sigh, sigh, sigh*  If I'm panicking now, imagine how I'll be the day we pick him up from the airport.  At least he'll have my husband through the weekend.  I just don't want him to be miserable the entire time he's here.  The last time he was up, I didn't want him to leave because we had such a good time so maybe I'm just freaking out for no reason.  I'll be a cleaning freak for a few weeks and be trying to find things to do with him. 

Our house guest with Jasmine when she was itty bitty and when he had a few less piercings, yes I said less.  :)

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A few days ago, the final rat, Toby died.  I told my husband a few weeks ago that I didn't think he had much time left.  I have no plans on adopting anymore for quite a while.  There's just too much going on around here and in a few months, it's only going to get more hectic.

I've had a lot of headaches over the last few weeks.  It's to the point that I plan on saying something at my next OB appointment on the 18th.  There's only been a few days where I have been completely headache free in over a month.  Today was one of the worst ones.  I woke up with a little headache but hoped it would ease after I got up.  Once we started eating dinner, it suddenly got really bad, to the point that I couldn't eat anymore.  It was one of the worst headaches I've had in a long time and then it was suddenly gone and I felt completely drained.  Over the last hour, I've started to feel a little less like my muscle's are made of jello.  If that happens again, I will most likely call the doctor's office as it was certainly not normal. 

I'm down to two foster kittens.  They both appear healthy so I don't believe either one of them was the one with the infection, although I haven't heard if the other two are fine so who knows.  It's been nice having to only deal with the two of them.  The litter box if much cleaner that's for sure.  I also tossed Minka and Jake back outside.  It was just too much to deal with.  I was planning on redoing their outdoor enclosure while they were inside but there weren't any days while they were in here that would've worked.

Last night we spent about an hour in the basement.  There were tornado warnings.  Usually around here I don't take them too seriously but for whatever reason, this time we decided the storm looked pretty bad.  We were only able to take one dog down with us.  I didn't want to spend too much time dragging animals down the stairs and I didn't figure the storm would produce a tornado, I just wanted to be on the safe side.  We took Mia and it was an ordeal.  She cried like I was beating her when I tried to get her to godownstairs and eventually, my husband had to come back up and push her slowly down the steps.  She cried the entire way.  She was fine once she reached the bottom of the stairs.  Getting Mia to go back up the stairs, was not a problem luckily.  The storms didn't do much damage at my house, although I know a little further west they had some downed trees and one person was killed from a tree falling on his car.