the kammerzells

Lets play a game of “What Sucks Worse?”

• Being pregnant and catching the flu the plague a cold, not being able to take any OTC remedies, being knocked completely on your ass by said flu plague cold, and being left to wonder how many more gallons of mucus its possible for your nasal passages to produce and hold.

• Craving a bean and cheese burrito so bad that you are dreaming of truckloads of them, but not being afraid to eat one because the heartburn you get just from the thought is enough to make you nauseous. But then even water is heartburn inducing at this point so I guess its more of a matter of is this so delicious its worse the insane fire esophagus?

• Being exhausted and wanting needing sleep but not being able to get it because it hurts to lay in any one position too long causing you to toss and turn constantly which is in the end not at all conducive to sleeping and in fact makes you that much more tired.

I have not yet been able to determine which of the above is worse. I’m not sure that I’ll be able to. We’ll just call it a draw…

Welcome to 34 weeks. Blech.

A week later and the cold is pretty much gone. Now my usually crappy sinuses (which end up being downright shitty to me when pregnant) are just doing the cleanup work of getting rid of all the congestion. Seriously, how much snot can a body make in a one week period? If you have an answer, I’d love to know. And while you’re at it, find 10 synonyms for mucous and I’ll bake you a batch of oatmeal cookies.

The bright spot in my week was a surprise baby shower thrown by my friend Kecia last week. Its amazing to feel loved, isn’t it? I walked in the door and saw all my friends and family standing there and burst into tears, true estrogen overload style.

I didn’t remember to take any pictures at all, and true to procrastinator form I forgot until the very moment I sat down to write this post that I never did ask anyone to email pics to me like I’ve been meaning to all week. So be on the lookout for those next week.

The obsessive need I’ve had for months to go buy every baby thing in the world in preparation for Baby has slowed, if not disappeared all together. Now we’re working on figuring out where to put everything because I forgot how much stuff babies have. It does my heart good though to look and see shelves full of diapers and bags (that are yet to be unpacked because of the previously mentioned cold) full of accoutrements.

Despite having planned/vowed to get going on the quilt, I still haven’t. If I don’t get a move on now, I’m going to be hand stitching that thing at the hospital between contractions. I guess its doable as long as I’m not having to push out a one year old. Because that would just be downright scary.

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