Bath time

The other day when I had my OB appointment, I mentioned the great difficulty I've been having sleeping and he prescribed me some Ambien, stating that it is the safest prescription sleepaid they are aware of at this time.  I never take anything without looking it up first, even if I'm not pregnant.  What I found was not reassuring.  The rat tests on this drug have shown to have bone structure problems in the babies.  I don't know that I want to take it now to be honest.  I will get it filled but I think I'll only take it if absolutely necessary.  I also read that it is extremely addictive and extremely hard to come off of.  (on message boards people complained of night terrors and being up for days without sleep after going off Ambien)  I've always been nervous of taking Ambien so anytime a doctor has suggested it to me, I tell them no but in this case it was Ambien or nothing.  I looked up Lunesta, which I was on before I got pregnant and it appears to be safer based on what I've read.  (although I'm positive that the doctors have a larger library of information than I have)  The worst problems in the Lunesta after the beginning of pregnancy in rats was low birth weight.  I would take low birth weight over major structural problems in the bones personally.  I think I'll just take it if I have absolutely no other options and have to be up early.  Although I may take half of one this weekend while my husband is home so I know how I respond to them.  (that way if they totally mess me up, my husband is here to take care of Jasmine)  Also, I made my appointment for the ultrasound which is September 15th.  And everything was normal at my appointment. 

I thought I should mention that we named Sweety that because she was NOT a nice kitten.  She was semi-feral and would fly off the walls to avoid being touched by a person.  Obviously she grew out of that.  I couldn't very well name her bitchy.  My neighbors might have thought I was a bit (more) on the odd side if I stood outside calling here bitchy bitchy bitchy.  ;)  She turned out to be a very sweet cat after a while though. 

Jasmine is pretty much completely potty trained during the day!  And I even think she's slowly weaning herself from her binkie.  All it took was me telling her she couldn't have it when we went places, only in the car and in the house.  Now she only asks for it when it's bedtime and occasionally (usually when I happen to forget it) in the car.  She has been so easy when it comes to teaching her things.  She went off the bottle easily enough and potty training took no time at all, with only about three accidents.  I just know the next one is going to be a pain when it comes to potty training and all those other nightmares.  You don't get it easy twice in a row!  ;)

Sweety

I didn't post this yesterday because I wanted my mom to hear it from me and not read it on here.  When I came home last night, I found my nine year old cat, Sweety had died.  I have absolutely no idea what could have happened.  The last few days she has acted completely normal.  Nothing out of the ordinary aside from her hair looked a little greasy.  It's really frustrating to have no idea as to what could have happened and had no warning ahead of time.  She was a really good cat.  Never went potty anywhere but in her litter box, no matter what.  She never got on the counters, except while the mean cat, Jake was inside and that was so that she could hide from him.  (and I let her while he was in the house)  Her worst habit was that she occasionally chewed on wires, particularly those that went on the Christmas tree.  She was the most submissive of all my cats, preferring to run, rather than fight.  When we moved into this house, we had seven healthy cats, now we have four cats.  None of my cats that have died were over the age of nine and everyone has their shots.  The other odd thing is that all the cats that died were related.  Polar Bear and Gremlin were the babies of Sweety.  The only remaining "baby" (he's now either seven or eight) is Isaiah, my flame point siamese.  I really hope it's not something genetic as Izzy is the first cat I really bonded with after my cat Tyler died several years before we moved out of my mom's house and it would be particularly hard on me if something were to happen to him.  I almost feel like I'm to blame even though my reasoning is ridiculous.  I had been thinking it would be so much easier if we didn't have so many animals when this baby is born.  I can't help but feel a little guilty for thinking that now. 

 

Sweety always being a mother, even to a species confused doberman puppy.

Ok, so I guess this proves that she got on the counter occasionally.

This was her favorite place to sleep. 

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The Carnival

This is how most of my nights go.  I'm actually not a huge fan of Doug Stanhope.  A lot of his most recent act is something I really don't agree with but that's for another post another time.  This video has some language and is probably NSFW but I guess that depends on where you work and if you have headphones on.

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Sleep, or lacking of

I really need a vacation from life.  I haven't been sleeping very much and it's left me extremely emotional.  (basically, I've been crying over everything)  I don't know why lack of sleep has that effect on me.  As if it's not bad enough to be exhausted, I have to be a basket case as well.  I'm to the point that I plan on asking my OB on Monday if he can prescribe me something that is safe for the baby but will still help me sleep.  As I sit here typing, all I want to do is be able to go to sleep and wake up at a decent hour but I know it won't happen.  I'm lucky to fall asleep before 6am most days and then Jasmine has been getting up at 10am.  Sometimes I'm able to go back to sleep by putting something on the tv for her in my bedroom but here more and more, once I"m up, it's really hard to go back to sleep.  It's been very frustrating.

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.