Photos.
As promised, here are the photos of my gorgeous baby.
Baby's hand covering his/her face (the round thing to the left-hand side is the tummy). 
Baby's hand and arm.
Baby's face and tummy.By my calculations, he/she would be about this big:
I'm going now. Work and all. :o)
The ultrasound.
I had the ultrasound yesterday. All of the measurements and everything are normal for 16 weeks. So I'm not 3 weeks early like the doctors thought. I still think it’s weird that two separate doctors thought that I felt further along. I think it was due to the placement of my uterus, so perhaps it is just naturally a bit higher than normal.
But we got to see the baby! He/She was squirming around heaps, it was so gorgeous. It was the most amazing thing ever. And we get to do it again in 3-4 weeks! :o) The doctor printed out three photos for us, I’ll scan them and post them here tomorrow (hubby has them today, he’s showing people at work).
I like the 8th of January due date, anyway. It would be a bit awkward to have the baby so close to Christmas. Of course, it could still happen that way – I could be early, or late. Just depends on when the baby decides it wants to meet us. :o)
Ultrasounds are wonderful, but the hours before an ultrasound are horrible. They make you drink 1 litre of water, 1 1/2 hours beforehand. And you have to hold it in until after the ultrasound. Oh my goodness, it is not easy. Especially for a pregnant woman! To make matters worse, I had to wait for an extra half hour before I could go in. So I was standing in the waiting room (sitting doesn’t work for me when I need the toilet), and kind of moving around. I tried to be inconspicuous, but I bet it was so obvious that I was busting. But I got through it, and it was a fabulous experience.
So I’m ecstatically happy. I’ve felt the baby move a bit. There have been times I’ve felt some fluttering, and times I’ve felt like there were bubbles bursting inside me (once I even
heard bubbles, and I don’t know if that’s normal or not…). I’m showing heaps, too. The ultrasound doctor said, before the ultrasound began, that I
look like 19 weeks. So for some reason, I am huge. :o) Or, bigger than other people are at 16 weeks. I’ve been eating so healthily, though, so it can’t be bad. My body’s probably just adjusting to pregnancy a little differently than some other people. Everyone’s different.
Today is one of those days that I want to have the baby NOW! Why can’t I just fast-forward 5 months? I’m not the most patient person, as you may have realised. :o)
I am so sheltered, in a good way.
This was stolen from
Kristy, because she's my friend, and I can fully steal stuff from her. Yay!
X= yes
( ) snuck out of the house
(x) gotten lost
{Once was on the way to a friend's church, and it cost me $15 in phone calls to find out how to get there!}(x) seen a shooting star
( ) been to any other countries besides yours
( ) had serious surgery
( ) gone out in public in your pyjamas
( ) kissed a stranger
( ) hugged a stranger..
( ) been in a fist fight
( ) been arrested
( ) done drugs
( ) had alcohol
( ) been tipsy
( ) been pissed
( ) laughed and had milk/coke come out of your nose
( ) pushed all the buttons on an elevator
( ) made out in an elevator
( ) swore at your parents
( ) kicked a guy where it hurts
(x) been in love..
( ) been close to love
( ) been to a casino
( ) had braces
( ) broken a bone
( ) been high
( ) skinny-dipped
( ) skipped school
( ) flashed someone
( ) saw a therapist/counsellor
( ) done the splits
( ) played spin the bottle
( ) gotten stitches
(x) drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour
{I love my milk, so this is highly possible}( ) bitten someone
(x) gotten the chicken pox
( ) crashed into a friend's car
( ) been to Japan
(x) ridden in a taxi
( ) shoplifted
( ) been fired
( ) ever had a crush on someone of the same sex
(x) had feelings for someone who didn't have them back
( ) stole something from your job
( ) gone on a blind date
(x) lied to a friend
( ) had a crush on a teacher
( ) been to Europe
( ) saw someone die
( ) Been to Africa
(x) Driven interstate
{Does just over the border count?}( ) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
(x) Been on a plane
( ) Thrown up in a bar
(x) Eaten Sushi
( ) Been snowboarding
( ) Been skiing
(x) Been moshing at a rock show
( ) Been to a moto-cross show
( ) tried killing yourself
( ) tried hurting yourself
(x) taken painkillers
{As a means of relieving actual pain, like headaches and such, yes}( ) had someone cheat on you
(x) love/miss someone right now
( ) had a crush on someone you shouldn't
( ) cheated on a test
( ) own an ipod
( ) own an mp3 player......
(x)fancied someone on your contacts list
{Well, he was on my contacts list when I liked him. He was a friend of a friend that I’d only met once, then we chatted on MSN and emailed each other, and spoke on the phone, and met in person. We went on one date before I realised he was totally, completely wrong for me.}(x) kissed a guy
{Only my husband}(x) fainted
My sinuses have been hurting me today. So badly. It starts off as a headache, then progresses down to my sinuses, then just gets worse and worse until the pain almost makes me vomit. I've read that pregnant women can be more prone to sinus problems. So tonight I'll flush my nose out with salt water (charming, isn't it?), and see if that helps. But I'm feeling okay now, after taking some paracetamol. Hopefully it won't come back.
My uterus.
I went to the hospital yesterday for a pregnancy check-up. Everything’s perfect. But as the doctor was feeling my uterus, he asked if I was certain of the dates. I’m not. Because this baby wasn’t exactly ‘planned’, as such, I wasn’t taking notice of when my periods were. So I told him that, and he said that he thought I was more like 18 weeks, instead of 15! He told me to go to the doctor this week, and get an ultrasound (because if he’s right, it would be time for the 18-20 week ultrasound anyway).
So I went to the doctor yesterday too, and he said I felt about 18 weeks along, too. I have an ultrasound on Monday, so I’ll find out for sure then.
Isn’t that weird? It’ll be like fast-forwarding three weeks! But even though two separate doctors have said that I’m probably 18 weeks, I’m not so sure. I worked out the dates as best I could from previous periods (I knew when the one before was). So I doubt that I could be a whole three weeks off in my calculations. BUT, it would explain why at my last doctor’s appointment, she was surprised at how much weight I have put on. And why I have been experiencing the symptoms that are delegated to around the 18-week mark in pregnancy books.
Patience, Alyssa. You’ll find out on Monday.
I hope the doctors are right. Then we’ll get to meet NJ earlier than expected! He / she will be able to spend this Christmas with us. And also, if they are wrong, then I’ll have to get another ultrasound at 18-20 weeks, which will put me back another $150 (well, really only $60, as we get $90 back from Medicare. But still, it’s a lot of money, especially to pay twice in about 3 weeks).
Gloria Jeans’ Decaf Chocolate Macadamia Lattes rock. I’m fully into the decaf thing now. I never thought I would be. Decaf just seems really weird.
Speaking of things I crave but am not allowed to have - as soon as the baby’s born, I am going to eat SO MUCH sushi from the place near my work. Every time I walk past, I am tempted to get some. But no. Bad.
Poor fella.
Some hawkers don’t even try. Although the sign on our office building door clearly says ‘Hawkers by appointment only’, they come and try to sell us things unannounced anyway. This one fellow came in today, and said that he’s from the local cinema. He asked if I usually go to that cinema, and I said no, because I live closer to another one. He replied “Okay, that means I can’t bribe you then!”, laughed, and left. He didn’t even tell me about how his cinema is half the price of any other cinema (which it is), or try to sell it in any way. Just left. I love his cinema, and go to it when I’m up for a bit of a journey to the other side of the city, but obviously wouldn’t admit that to him. Not that I had a chance to! He just left. I hope he’s not paid on commission. He’s really not very good. I feel sorry for the guy.
Us and them.
Them: Company Name, Jennifer speaking.
Me: Hi, this is Alyssa from blah blah. Can I please speak to Ryan?
Them:
{speaking to Ryan in the background, “It’s Alyssa from blah blah on the phone. OK, I’ll put it straight through to your office”} I’ll put you through.
---transferred---
Them: Company Name, Meredith speaking.
Me: Hi, this is Alyssa from blah blah. Can I please speak to Ryan?
Them: I’ll put you through.
---transferred---
Them: Company Name, Amanda speaking.
Me: Hi, this is Alyssa from blah blah. Can I please speak to Ryan?
Them: I’ll put you through.
---transferred---
Them: Hello, Ryan speaking.
Me: Yahoo! (I didn’t really say this)
Note: These aren’t their real names, simply because I can’t remember any. I blame it on my pregnancy brain.
This is really strange to me, not because of their inefficiency, but because ‘Jennifer’ spoke directly to Ryan, and he was all “Cool! Fully put her through!” and she was all “Okily dokily! I’ll put her through then! Yeah!” Then ‘Jennifer’ either pressed the wrong button (but was obviously close enough in vicinity to Ryan that she’d notice whether his phone was ringing or not), or Ryan just decided he wouldn’t pick up the phone, straight after he said he wanted to take the call. Same thing with ‘Meredith’.
Anyway, I did lots of washing up last night. It was “fun”, or as fun as washing the dishes can be.
I cannot wait until I’m hugely pregnant. Is it as good as I’m imagining? I mean, it would probably be uncomfortable, and carrying around all that extra weight would be exhausting, but I am so looking forward to walking around my fair suburb and seeing people who I knew from school. I never had a boyfriend until my husband came along, you see. And that was only two years ago. So when they see that I’m married and pregnant, they’ll be all like “WOWEE! That happened fast!” Of course, it’s been five years since school ended, but it seems like yesterday.
I’m not very articulate. As such, I’ve decided that whenever I have to talk to someone (especially about business issues), I’ll form a clear picture in my mind of what I have to say, before I open my mouth. See? That sentence was far from articulate! But anyway, when I went to the post office today, I said to the lady, “Ummm, I came in here yesterday, and well, we have an account with you guys, and ummm… Colin did up the transaction, ummm, pink form thing after I left, and said to pick it up today.” I
could have said, “I’ve come to pick up our pink transaction form from yesterday.” Oh well. Lesson learnt.
I have a headache. And a cool comic for you to enjoy.
Best week ever.
Oh, by the way, I’m going to have the best week ever. :o)
Monday night – Sleeping (this was planned by my husband, even though I ended up doing it too, because I wasn’t feeling well).
Tuesday night – Prayer meeting from 6pm to 7pm, then going home and having dinner, doing some dishes and lounging about.
Wednesday night – My sister’s coming over for dinner (we are a great team when it comes to inventing meals from an almost-empty pantry!), then we have Home Group.
Thursday night – Food shopping (always fun!), then renting and watching some movies. I’m thinking ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘I Am Sam’, since these are two of the very few movies I’ve seen that my husband has not.
Friday night – Dinner at my Mum’s house. She is SUCH a good cook. And hanging out with the family is always awesome.
Saturday – In the morning, my husband plays tennis. Mum’s coming over to help me clean the house! She’s so wonderful. She just offered, thinking I might like some extra help since I’m pregnant (and therefore exhausted most of the time, choosing sleep over housework). At night, we have the wonderful Youth! I love Youth. Oh, and I’m Service Team leader this week. So I have responsibilities and stuff. Yay. :o)
Sunday – Morning is church. Then we’re going to a football game between our church and my friend Rachel’s church. We’re having lunch with her and watching the game, then she might be coming back to our house for some coffee (some non-caffeinated drink for me). Then we have church again at night.
And
next Tuesday, I have an appointment at the hospital! Yay! I’m excited. My husband is coming too, and we will most probably get to hear the heartbeat again, and meet the midwife who will be guiding me through labor. And I have
the rest of the day off! You have no idea how awesome this day sounds to me. Oh my goodness. And considering I’ll be coming home to a clean house, I can just lounge around for whole afternoon. Booyah!
Strange symptoms.
I’m having a very strange day. Every time I feel the slightest bit hungry, I also feel as if I’m about to faint. This happened last night, too. I vomited on the way home from work (we stopped at a friend’s house to, uh, release the sick {in his driveway} and clean up my shoes afterwards), so I went straight to bed when we got home. I slept from about 6pm to 10pm, then woke up hungry. I went to make some avocado toast, and I felt like the walking dead the whole time. Seriously, I was so faint, and so out of it. It felt like I was in another dimension, on the outside looking in. But about to fall over. And with a strange headache that also went down into my sinuses. So I hope this is just a normal pregnancy symptom. I have a hospital appointment next week anyway, so if it’s still happening, I’ll ask them. It’s probably not as bad as it sounds, though. Perhaps my mind is exaggerating. I don’t know. That’s the way I was describing it to my husband as it was happening, so maybe it isn’t exaggerated.
My Sims’ little baby boy is now a preschooler. How fast they grow! Before I know it, he’ll be off to college. Mama’s little boy, gone just like that. *tear*
What a dork.
This dude called from our telephone company, and wanted to email us some information.
Him: So what’s your name?
Me: Alyssa.
Him: E-L-I-S-A?
Me: No, it’s A-L-Y-S-S-A.
Him: *laughs* You’ve tricked me then, because you said ‘Eeee’-lissa.
Ummm, no I didn’t. I
DO know how to say my own name. Or maybe I just go around pronouncing it incorrectly, to “trick” people. Woohoo. What a rush. Ha ha, I tricked you! My name’s really pronounced ‘Uh’-lissa, not ‘Eeee’-lissa! You fell for it!
Alisia's adventures.
Alisia, my Sims 2 character, is pregnant!!! It’s so cool. Her fears are throwing up, having an ‘accident’, and passing out. At the moment, her tummy is about the same size as mine. And she passes gas and burps something chronic! Ewww. But hey, don’t we all? :o)
Have I mentioned before that I would be freaked out by people rubbing my tummy? I’ve thought it, many times. Well anyway, I always thought that maybe it would start happening around the 6-month mark. No no no. It started
the day that we made the announcement. Although I’m showing a little bit, I still look more pudgy than pregnant. But so many people have touched, rubbed and put their ear against my belly. It’s the strangest thing ever. But I’ve decided I’m going to get used to it. I’m not a physical touch person by nature (I had a huge problem with hugging until about a year ago), but I’m going to become one. I’ve made up my mind. I want to be all huggy and touchy-feely with my kid, so I might as well start practising now.
Meanwhile, more about the Sims – Alisia’s husband has a fear of
being caught cheating! I am SO disappointed in him. I’m not letting him near that Isabella chick EVER AGAIN!
*UPDATE* Alisia had the baby! And he’s now a toddler. That’s what I get for writing on Friday and posting on Monday. :o) Oh, his name’s Joey. And he looks like he has a moustache, although I’m sure that’s just my imagination.
I started another song on Sunday morning! It was fully long. You know the song ‘Lord I Lift Your Name On High’? Well, we do it quite fast, but sometimes we start it slowly. So I sang the chorus to start it off, accompanied by the piano.
You came from heaven to earth
To show the way
From the earth to the cross
My debt to pay
From the cross to the grave
From the grave to the sky
Lord I lift Your name on high
Woohoo! Thank You, God! You rock my world. :o)
It's a day.
More on my vegetable obsession: I was in the supermarket this morning, and I had some change left over from buying bread. I thought “Hey, I’m pregnant and cool. I deserve a treat.” Guess what I bought, out of everything in the entire store? Cabbage.
For the past two days, I’ve woken up STARVING. It’s fully strange. Then if I eat anything substantial, it just comes back up again. So I can’t win, really. I think I’ll try eating a few small things throughout the morning, and see how that goes.
I couldn’t play the Sims this morning! I left my keys at home, so I couldn’t get into my office. I ended up just staying in the car and having a snooze. It did me a world of good, though. This is the most energy I’ve had in months. See? Sleep fixes everything! Well, it fixes fatigue, anyway.
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I’ve had a bad day at work today. :o(
A certain company was providing us with a product that we needed urgently, but they wanted us to send a cheque through before they sent the product. Fine. We sent the cheque last Friday. But I called them today, and they still hadn’t received it (so they said). My boss told me to be assertive, and to tell them we were going to cancel the order if we hadn’t received the product by tomorrow, regardless of whether they had received the cheque. So, seeing as I am better in written word than I am in spoken word, I sent them a fax.
A man from the company called and said that my fax was rude, and he wanted to speak to the “moron who wants to cancel an order because he couldn’t pay on time”. My boss called him back and, after a few words, and a few “
I didn’t send the fax! I haven’t even
seen the fax!” comments {which made me extremely nervous}, he cancelled our order (very understandably. The guy was SO rude).
I fully expected my boss to give me a good talking to. I expected to get in trouble big time. He came by after his phone conversation and asked to see the fax that I sent. He read it, and said “There is nothing at all rude about that”, then asked me to cancel the cheque that we’d sent and to find a new company for the job.
Oh my goodness. I was ready to walk out. I was ready to quit my job right then and there. Overreaction? Maybe. But I’m pregnant and hormonal. Give me a break! :o)
Anyway, I am so glad that’s over. Now I’m going to be the best receptionist I can be, in thanks to a boss who took my side and stuck up for me. He’s done it before, too. Once when
I made a mistake and unknowingly gave in to a telemarketer (they deliberately made it sound like we were already listed with some business directory, and just needed to authorise our re-listing, which I did. Then they told me we had to pay a fee of about $300, and they started sending us bills), he called them and got angry at them for taking advantage of me and not telling me the whole story. He stuck up for me big time, and made them back off.
So although he sometimes criticises me for not being assertive enough, and sometimes wants me to do things at the last possible moment, I still thank God for him. When it comes down to it, he really is an awesome boss.
Sims and whims.
I’m committed. I’m going to blog right now.
My wonderful friend Kristy gave me Sims 2 on the weekend! It’s so cool. I haven’t actually played it yet, though. It doesn’t work on my home computer, but it does on my work computer! I get to work about an hour early each morning (I carpool with my husband), so I’m going to actually have something to do during that time. No boredom for me. :o)
Okay, so right at the moment I am sticking labels on envelopes. It is interesting work, let me tell you. I can’t handle this much excitement.
I’ve had a real hankering for vegetables lately. I take cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage to work, and cook them in the microwave when I’m hungry for a snack. So delicious! But also very strange, I realise. Hey, at least I’m not craving pizza or chocolate or cake or spoonfuls of butter.
One of my characters on Sims 2 is ‘Alisia Noosky’. :o) I wanted to make her like me, but not too much like me, because then it would be like I was living vicariously through a computer game. Reality is much better.
