Fabulous Miss S.

Happy Halloween

Last weekend, I took Noah to Boo at the Zoo ... he ate a banana, and had a good time.   You would not even guess I'm sure, that just one year ago I wrote about how much I hated Halloween.  And now, here I am, going to Halloween events and even carving some serious pumpkin!

Seriously, I did all of these myself.  So. Much Fun. !!!

2009 Halloween Confession, unpictured due to the need for censorship:  I ate an entire bag of mini Butterfingers in three days.  I really need to try and NOT be pregnant for a few Halloweens.

...And, I wrote about this and more over at DC Metro Moms today. Click here to check it out. 

The view from here

One of the things I like about our current home even though it is a townhouse in a suburban neighborhood is that every fall and spring when you shower in the master bathroom stall shower while simultaneously conditioning softness and manageability into your hair you can admire the view of the changing foliage just outside the window.  Because no one can see in from that vantage point there are no blinds and it provides a surprising dose of spa-like calming ambiance.

25 weeks

Belly picture, ya'll.  Gratuitous, poorly cropped, and dirty mirror, oh well. But! My arms don't look fat and my boobs look remarkably small, so I suppose that means I'm looking largely pregnant.  I'm still getting around well, for whatever that's worth.

 

For the sake of comparison and all, click here to read a post and see badly aimed pictures and much fatter arms from about the same time when I pregnant with Noah. 

Oink.

I got my swine flu shot today.  Ok, whatever, H1N1 vaccine.  I prefer to call a spade, a spade and this is the swine flu.  Anyway, I got it. The shot itself hurt and stung but I'm told to expect less side effects than I had with the seasonal flu vaccine which included a very sore arm and a few hours of feeling overall malaise and craptasticness.

I actually went to the doctor for the sinus infection that I wrote about all half=assed like yesterday.  Apparently the current research shows that the sinuses are hard to penetrate with antibiotics and most clear up in about ten days anyway so they don't like to prescribe antibiotics until after about a week and a half of misery.  I am totally cool with that seeing as I loathe diarrhea and all the other lovely side effects of the antibiotics.  I did come away with a nose spray that may or may not help me take actual breaths of air through my nostrils and one lovely side-effect-free vaccine. 

On a positive note, I am protected.  I won't get sick if Marc gets sick, or Noah, GAH, perish THAT thought right now.  We're still waiting for Noah's pediatrician to receive his supply of vaccine. 

My current personal health status:  One sinus infection, Vaccinated against seasonal AND swine (h1n1) flu, and I appear to have recently smuggled a watermelon because at 25 weeks pregnant I am looking round and firm in the belly, very Jolly-Old-St.Nick like, except instead of a long white beard I have a face full of shetus-hormone-laced zits. 

The one benefit, sort of, to this horrific sinus infection is that I honestly cannot smell a damn thing.  Now, I've been sick before with colds and sinus problems and all and I've said that, but it was really more of a smell-hiatus, where I could sort of smell but the sense was very much dulled.  Not this time.  Here's how I know:  besides trying to buy a new bottle of body wash at Target and wondering why nothing smelled at all, last night in bed, Marc turns to me and sheepishly says, "You can't smell anything can you, 'cause I just farted and it's bad."  I had no idea, I sat there pleasantly rubbing my orb of a belly and watching the news, not at all disturbed.  I suppose there always IS a silver lining.  

And now, I'm going to nap because in a very short 15 weeks I won't be doing much of that at all. Gotta get ahead while I can.

More snot.

Oy. 

It's been one of those weeks again, you know, the kind where the stressed out pregnant lady is sick, again.  Fucking again!

This time its a raging sinus infection the likes of which I haven't had since high school which I'm sadly reminded was well over a decade ago.  My face hurts.  My eye lids are hot.  Each breath I take burns from the tip of my nose to the lower reaches of my throat.  A drink of water provides fleeting seconds of relief.  I had a low fever and my entire neck and back ache from the coughing and inadvertently tightened muscles.  I am pretty sure that since this started with some annoying allergies that it is bacterial and therefore, Noah won't get sick. 

I'll check in again when I'm feeling better, in the mean time, be sure to read what I wrote about Boo at the Zoo.