smittens

if you stop feeding your cats iams, and start feeding them mush their poo is just not nice and they are hungry all the time. it goes MIAWOOOOOOOOOOOOO over and over and over. thank god i am going to yoga in a bit! there is just no way they can still be hungry. no way. they are bad kittens, how am i supposed to get any typing done!!?

poor little car

today poor davids car is going to the scrap yard, i now feel bale to re-count what happened. david was driving home on wednesday night, and i got a call, the opening statement of which was "the car is F*****". it turns out that a small herd (is that the plural) ? of deer were boing through fleet outskirts and, whilst one managed to aviod the car, another did not. the car now has a HUGE massive dent on the front, and there is one les deer in the world.

it cost 300 quid to tow it, and it is a write off. someone is comming today to take it away.... for free. apparently this si good as they might normally charge. HUMPH is all i have to say to that.

news flash

david is thinking of taking me away for the weekend (pre baby) to a hotel with four poster beds, indoor swimming pools and lots of sexy food!!!! exciting!!!! this is to try and cheer me up as i have been a bag of grump this last week, so if you know me, i am sorry. i would blame the hormones, but i think between being ill and david writing off his car (i will elaborate when thinking about it doesnt make my teath grit) i am not ahappy bunny. four poster beds would go a long way towards fixing this.

dinner

my mama is comming for dinner tonight, what should i make? I am sick of what i normally make, and for once jamie oliver just isnt doing it for me.

hummm. today i am going to mosey on down to the library, pick up the cat flea stuff and a new collar, go to asda and then come homw and do phd. yesterday i got about 6 hours done, which i thought was very good, so i am hoping the roll continues today. all i am doing is rearranging a chapter but it is harder and takes longer than you would think. (longer that i think it ought too as well!)

the mittens are still fighting and now they are moulting too, so there is the occasional big lump of cat hair all over the place. eugh, so long as that doesnt get in my mamas food all is well

bit less blluggghtgh

now the evil cold from hell is just a normal cold. great! at least i have a few days with only minimal teaching, i am getting on (after i hoover) with arranging my chapter 1 museum stuff.. the chapter has become too big to do this on the screen without getting lost in the text. instead, i am going to print it out, chop it up and try re-arranging it that way, so i can get the gist before i try electronically moving it around.

teaching yesterady was funny, the class had to look at three authors, elias, durkheim and foucault. we were doing just fine till we got to foucault, and then they all did the puzzeled kitten face at me. (tilt head to one side and look blank and confused)

i *think* they got it, only time and their essays will tell! haha. i also had to go to the doctors about my ever huring back, my panic went like this:

rachel rings nhs direct to ask about how to get rid of hurting ouchy backs.
nhs direct say ouchy backs can be a sign of a low placenta and rachel should ring midwife.
widwife agrees with nhs direct and thinks rachel should ring gp.
rachel rings gp and is told to come in staright away.
rachel goes there like a whippet and sits for an hr and a half, before being told that he may "had strained it" and to have a "paracetamol."

sound medical advice there that i couldnt possible have come up with on my own.
rachel rings

blurggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

there has been no blogging as i have been DYING at home, yes i have had the worst cold ever and today is the first day i can sit up without feeling faint and not be all shivering and horrid.

i am blaming the students, they always bring germs, mingle them and make super germs!! today i am teaching, so i am so glad i am better, i couldnt have done it on friday, have been so wiped out.

reflections on valentines day

davids supprise was heart shapped buiscuits with wonky pink icing.... i am with the "thought that counts school" on this one....we had a lovely dinner. david made posh risotto, and i did my chocolate thing.... it seemed to be ok, and if it wasnt dave ate it anyway, so im happy!

i am trying to sort out a friendhsip of mind that has gone awry, i havnt been talking much to somone who upset me, but today we are in text contact, i think that we might be able to be friends again, but things will never be the way they were. shame.

today is the arghhh! dentists are bad and evil people who make me parinoid. bastards.

valentines day

ahhh... despite saying we wouldnt do pressies this year david got me a lovely bunch of yellow roses, and a rather odd cat with what looks like a cat on drugs on the front. but, despite being afraid of the card, it is rather nice of him to make the effort!

tonight we ar making dinner for each other. i am going for a jamie oliver chocolate pudding thing, and im not sure wheat david is doing, nothing with garlic in as i have the dentist tomorrow! haha. i think he liked the card i got him, it has lights inside to look like fireworks... and i still have te supprise for him tonigth.... no not that you dirty minded people!

smiling pudding

no not my new indian name, what i had to eat at tgi fridays on saturday! i went with david and my familiy on mass, and we sat and ate all the food! it was nice, but a but pricey, but just a novelty to get us all in one place for a change...

it is valentines day tomorrow, david and i arnt doing pressies (think he may get me an ickle one anyway) and I am going to make him a supprise.... and then we are making each other dinner.... ahhhh.

i met the students for one of the classes i am taking, they seem really nice, so thats good news, god know that 19 year olds can be bossy little whatsits at times!

pottering

we have spent all of today so far potterng like a proverbial married couple.... which i guesss we are.

this involves the watering of plats, housework, and dave doing smashing concerete things in the garden. it is time like this that i am glad i am pregnant. (not that i am not normally glad!) i think though it is a mich to ask his to do all the lugging, but it is quite hard to recruit people for a day of back breaking work!

the cats have been stood around outside watching him, as if to say "crazy human, stop digging and feed me" mind, that is also their face a lotof the time....

i have been cleaning, and imaging how wonderful the world willbe when the firelace is in and the garden no longer resmbels the somme. it is just amazing HOW MUCH concrete can be buried under soil.

we are going out for dinner tonight at tgi fridays with my parens and adama dn karen..... so at least its not chinese. ha ha (sorry adam) but it should be fun.

jollies

today i am off on a jolly to winchester museum, and then probably to yoga tonight. this is to make up for the fact that i have not done all the work i should do this week, and if i trry and keep busy i might forget.... i wonder if this is more effective than just doing the work?

ebay

how cool is this!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ARCADIAN-CRESTED-SOUTHSEA-NAVAL-WAR-MEMORIAL-WW1_W0QQitemZ7387472540QQcategoryZ64958QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i want one!!

exciting

a friend of mine (who shall stay anon) has just told me she too is expecting a baby at the end of july! yay for her and partner!!! how exciting.

i am going to have a ncie relaxing day in the library and at home today. yesterday wasnt as horrible as i thought it might be, there was no vomiting. but i was sat in this horrible room with blood transfusion people for 5 hours... i was def not the illest person there. the injections didnt make me do anything untoward, so feeling ok now, just a bit sad for all the people iller than me. (or iller than i was, i not ill not of course!)

the chimney sweep is comming today, and then at last we can ORDER THE FIREPLACE!!! yippeee. about time. then we can spend the rest of feb bankrupt.

boys names

can anyone think of any, we only like elijah or ethan, and cant think of much else, we dont want chavvy names or anything too common......

help!

we rearragned the front room this weekend and then went swimming. nice. i have to go into hospital tomorrow for the vomiting thing, which i am quite nervous about. will let you know how it went.

cannelloni

i demand that you all go out right now and buy the new jamie oliver book. no, i dont not have shares in him, nbut your life will be 100% better if you made the cannelloni recipe yes it would. dont sit there looking at the computer! Go and buy it!

why does cat poo smell so bad?

is it because of the crap that they eat, or because the evil mitten does it on purpose. it is stinking!


anyway, here is the only clear picture from my birthday, this is the dave and my mama, eating all the italian food.

last night we went ot for dinner with ben and sarah as it was his birthday, again i ate a lot, but mostly veg so thats ok. nice evening was had my all, expecially those who arnt pregnant and could havce wine. meep.

i am being admitted to hopsital for one day next week to try and find a heperin based anti-coagulant that doesnt make me throw up. i apparently may not need the injections everday, but apparently i will need somthing in case of emmergencies. fair enough. had to know what to write though, in the ole diary, "Monday- vomiting appointment"