bean shopping

not for a bean, but for things for the bean..... my mum has paniced me by saying we dont have enought things, so today is the first day of my life that i sall go out and buy nappies. (gulp!) and baby lotion, and coton wool, and muslim squares, and baby power, and a thermometer.... it is weird!

yesterday i went to see a firends baby, he was two weeks late and only weighed 5ilb 1 onz, he was so small! ilke a little doll, one that gets a purple head just before it cries. i wonder if i could market that idea to matel?

teaching training

i hate writing pilt essays, yes i do.

buggy

some buggies (sorry travel systems) you actually need an engineering degree to fold up or down. i have managed to find one that even i can work!

mothers day

ok, i used to think it was a con, but i got my first ever mothers day card (and tulips) on sunday from the bean. my hear melted, david will now have to do this ever year until to bean can do it for himself.

a note though, the card didnt say, "happy mothers day sorry for kicking you all night and making you sick for 4 months"

i went to see debbies baby george eysterday, and he is soos sososossosoososos cute. he smiled at me a lot, and i felt very loved. ahhhh. and she gave us a ton of the things he has grown out of, which is great!

work

had a ncie day at work yesterday, all the seminars went well, and i was too exhausted by the end of the day. when david got home we went for a walk in emsworth. it is soooo nice there, it is just really depressing having to drive back to our house in fratton!

tests yesterday

they were great! i turned up for the pathology lab an hr and a half early so the lovely midewifes let me do the ante natal stuff first! the bump is "perfect" and davids mama cried when she heard the heart beat (ahhhhh) in fact she was great all day, supportive of anxious me and buyer of chocolate puddings.... yummm..


the blood tests say i shouldnt clot, so no more threat of daily injections and i am feeling much happier.

apart from i have "mislaid " my friends memory stick. oops.

silences

sory for the quiet again, i spent yesterday in a miserable state getting al twitchy and having to go to hipsital today on my own to get the results of my thrombophilia tests. my mother in law terry is coming now so I feel a lot better, was getting very anxious, it is amazing how if you think about somthing for long enough, you can make it worse than it really is.

i also had amgst brought on my pregnancy yoga. some of the women there are not very nice. they are marginalising and picking on one memebr of the session as she is a single parent, and being judgemental. They also are a bit older than me, and have more money free to spend on their beans, this, plus their comments on how you should have verything ready by 30 weeks send me into a panic. we couldnt buy anothing else for the bean this month, and i fel like a bad parent wvwn though he isnt here yet. anyway, all this culminated so i was in a foul mood and felt rotton. thank god for david cooking for me, and my mama giving me a pep talk and davids mama coming today!

field trip II

Only 6 turned up, so actually we were a rather civilised group.... wasnt that bad actually, they all seemed quite interested and i am very relieved!

the nursery was nice too, still cant quite believe i have to put our unborn childs name down!

R

field trip

those tow words can stike fear into the heart of any well meaning academic, i have today to supervise, or more like "supervise" 20-30 19 year olds in random military museums in winchester.

i expect them to
1-get bored in 10 minutes and wander off and get lost
2-forget the entrance fees
3-be late and leave me standing there like rachel no mates
4- not bring the handbook to work from.
5- knock over display
6- create general displays of teenage angst and disaffection


anyway, maybe they wont, i just expect the worst and then it can only get better! After that i am going to check the nursery at uni, apparently i have to put the beans name down now to stand any chace of getting a place! what am i suppose to write on the form, "bean jones" ?

pregnancy yoga

is like normal yoga with no actual yoga. you sit about a lot "pulling up" muscles.... then you "breath" and then you go on all fours a bit. not the kind of thing i am used too, but seems to be ok. and i get to meet people who are also growing outwards! in fact, i am still not used to seeing mass gatherings of pregnant women, it just seems a bit surreal!! haha

omen child!

alison has decided to tell me that all babies due around the beginning of june will have been told a due date that isnt the 6th...because that would make thier birthday the 6/6/06, and therefore make them an omen child with the name of damiene!!!!!!!

conference organising

If you know me, and you here me saying i want to irganise a conference again, then for gods sake dont let me! remind me of how petty the speakers can be, how you end up running around stressed, and how only a few people help when thousands offered. please please dont let me do this again at least for a few years!

running around....

we spent saturday looking at cars for david (post deer incident)

we saw:

a knackered and horrid fiat uno that looked like it was made in the soviet bloc.
a dodgy fiat punto (sold m=by even dodgier blokes)
a hiundia that sounded like it was running on broken glass
and a fiesta......

in the end it turns out my mama is getting a new car and so david is having hers! bloody typical.

then on sunday david did a fire walk for charity, he didnt even get a blister. (thought at least it might hurt a tidgy bit) but he is unscathed and is now planning a parachute jump with my mama!!!! my likef just got a little more surreal....

salt mines

why are they used as a metaphor for work, as in "down the salt mine" my work is not in the least salty.

bloody work

apparently my marks for a spesific course have been "mislaid" whn i know full well i gave them to the right person. this is now putting a lot of pressure on me, when i did the damn job to the best of my ability. it is suprising how easy it is for full time members of staff to blame the temporary tutors, when most of the time we are just as (if not more) effecient than they are, gggggrrrrr.

on the good side, free of nasty cold and back ache for a few days i went to yoga yesterday, and feel much better for it. today i am off to aqua natal, so so be really tired by tonight!

in the last two days i have made so really good progress on the museums chapter, although i have to admit that although i am proud of myself for getting it done, i am still a bit sick of it, still progress in this case is good.!