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One in a million

By kate on July 30th, 2005

When we confirmed that I was pregnant, Steve presented me with a very light cardboard box. The inside was filled with packing peanuts and a few folded index cards, with a point value written on the outside of each. He explained that whenever I needed cheering up, I could reach into the box and open […]

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The afternoon wall

By kate on July 28th, 2005

I’m finding a consistent pattern in how I feel in the afternoons. A little while after lunch, my energy goes down and I want a nap. The feeling sticks with me all afternoon, pretty much, even if I have a pot of tea. (I tend to have low-caffeine tea in the afternoons.)
I keep saying to […]

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Met a midwife

By kate on July 27th, 2005

Steve and I had a preliminary appointment with a midwife today, to get to know her a little and see what we thought. She was knowledgeable, experienced, and straightforward. Steve and I realized afterwards that we were expecting someone charismatic, but she was more laid back than that. She answered our questions, and we generally […]

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Biding time

By kate on July 26th, 2005

When I was little, and my birthday or Christmas was coming up, I had trouble waiting through what seemed like an impossibly huge number of days. My parents came up with a cool idea that really got me through the anticipation.
They had me create a linked chain of paper loops, one loop per day. (The […]

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Looking for Linux gurus!

By kate on July 26th, 2005

My team at Jobster needs a Linux expert. Know anyone good?
 
Jobster is looking for a Linux System Engineer
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Are you my Mommy?

By kate on July 22nd, 2005

I’ve been giving some idle thought to what I’ll be called as a parent. The default is “Mom” - what my own mother was called, and I think the majority of people in this country use Mom. I’d be OK with Mom.
 
“Mama” has gotten a bit of hip cachet these days (from Hip Mama), and […]

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Update from Steve

By kate on July 21st, 2005

I’ve been too busy to write much about what we’ve been up to, so here’s something Steve sent our family recently:
 
We’re now at the point where we need to decide on a medical caregiver and facility for the birth. We’re still trying to decide between “midwife + birth center” vs “OB + hospital”. […]

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A little worse for the wear

By kate on July 21st, 2005

Thanks to a stressful week at work and the pregnancy kicking in a bit more, I’ve started to feel traces of nausea. It’s really not that bad, though, compared to what I hear other people have had. Mostly, it feels like it used to when I would read in the car.
(In a side note, reading […]

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Birth Options

By kate on July 17th, 2005

Steve and I are in the process of researching birth options. We both decided right away that a home birth wasn’t really our thing. It sounds messy, and personally, I think I’d rather go to a special place to give birth, rather than in my regular old house. While I love my house, and feel […]

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Week by week

By kate on July 17th, 2005

When we first started trying to get pregnant, I went to Third Place Books to buy a pregnancy book. They had a pretty scant selection, but I wanted a book, so I chose the best of the lot: an old edition of Your Pregnancy Week-By-Week. The cover was so repellent (and the “trying” so secret) […]

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Weird Science

By kate on July 15th, 2005

The folks at Weird Genius Real Science are really trying to get the word out about their second annual Science Fair tomorrow night (click the link for more details).
 
Steve and I went last year, and it was a blast (figuratively and literally). It’s a science fair for bizarre, eccentric, and artistic adults. I highly recommend […]

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Good for a chuckle

By kate on July 13th, 2005

I have McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lists on my RSS reader, and it’s always entertaining.
Here’s a good example for today: Things Pandora Could Have Opened That Wouldn’t Have Produced Such Unpleasant Results.

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Little discomforts

By kate on July 13th, 2005

Button your pants before you stand up.
This is a new mantra that I’m trying to learn. My stomach isn’t very much larger when I’m standing up, but it seems less compressible. So, when I sit down, it doesn’t fold in as well as it used to. This makes my pants uncomfortable only when […]

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*Snicker*

By kate on July 12th, 2005

Check out Spamusement! - be sure to page back a while. Some of the drawings are so funny that I laughed out loud at my (non-private) desk at work.

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Body Movin’

By kate on July 10th, 2005

I’ve decided to just listen to my body with regard to exercise. I’ve used the elliptical machine a couple of times, and today I went for a regular jog with a friend. I felt fine - no tireder than usual. I felt good when I was done. I’m just going to keep on doing it […]

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