something interesting...

the problem with a blog is that there is a nagging voice in my head that tells me I can't write something here unless I have something valiant to write about from "up there"....

and when my head feels blank and my stories seem trivial it's hard to get on the ol' blog and share my life.  I have fallen into the trap that I have to entertain you, make you laugh, cry or think and really that isn't what this is about.

this blog is a place for me to spin the tales that go round in my head, share them without fear and let the laughter, if it may, be from me only.  because life isn't about performing either, right?

So here goes. Some less than interesting but real life things that have happened....

i threw up. for the first time in pregnancy.  i've gotten off so easily this pregnancy and i am certainly not complaining.  i am more amazed at the human pregnant body.  again, i stand amazed at the way my body is changing and how my mind can't form complete thoughts and how this is all a part of hormones racing, heart thumping, blood surging and babies devouring the better part of who i am.  and what i mean by that is how the babies will get nutrients first and any part of my blood that will benefit.  again, certainly not complaining just amazed.  i am currently on iron pills so that i don't faint every time i stand up.

anyway, i digress. throwing up. ah, yes. so i waited too long to eat. i really shouldn't have done that. by the time the food got to the table, my stomach acids were extremely angry and raging. seriously, i could feel that this was not going to be good but i ate anyway, hoping to appease the stomach acids with the simple gift of food but it was not to be easily appeased.

so at a restaurant i threw up.

at home that night i decided to just head to bed and hope for better things.  but as I was washing my face i noticed tiny red dots...?!?! hives?  I called my doctor and found out that nope, not hives but broken blood vessel capillaries from the force of getting sick.

amazed at the pregnant body.  Who does that? Who breaks their capillaries?

while pregnant i've taken more time to read. i have recently fallen in love with jane eyre and would definitely name my first born rochester if mikey would let me. hmmm maybe i should ask. who knew a book that thick could be so captivating and amazing.  the page number really scared me off at first because i hate not finishing a book. i hate having the book linger over me for months and months, sitting on my bedside table begging me to finish it. i don't like that feeling and yet it happens. so i stayed clear of poor jane eyre.  But alas, i was pleasantly spellbound and surprised by how charming the story was.  two thumbs up.

i have been having some mild cravings these days.  i am easily enticed by my nose and eyes.  i've been daydreaming about cinnamon rolls (to which my dentist said, "oh joanna. not those.") and my dad's apple fritters. dancing delightful chicken tenders from DQ (only from DQ) topped off with a DQ blizzard.  I want my grandma's vegetable soup and hot wings from Buffalo Wild Wings....

don't ask me why, don't tell my I'm crazy.  I just see or smell or think about these things and I am half-driven to find the closet DQ and sit there for hours... or at least over the course of a couple of meals.  blizzards for lunch and chicken tenders for dinner.

and the funny thing is.... now, thinking about all those things makes me have heartburn. pregnancy is so intriguing to me.

overall, things are good. I am moving in to a month of nesting and rearranging our home.  I'll be sure to keep ya'll posted on how life (the interesting and the... not so) is going for us.