Sunday night. (Or Monday morning, if you prefer.) I woke up at around 2 a.m. with some pain in my lower right abdomen. I got up to pee — which is not unusual these days — and went back to bed. "The pain will subside," I told myself. "You've been having tons of pregnancy-related twinges, pangs, and aches over the past few months. It'll go away." It didn't. By 2:45 a.m. the pain had gotten so bad that I was thrashing around on the bed. And no, J didn't wake up because he's the world's deepest sleeper which has me convinced that I'll be doing all the 3 a.m. feedings by myself when the baby comes. I finally couldn't take it anymore and poked...
Continue readingThis morning, I received my first traffic violation ticket in over a decade. I was at a busy intersection (corner of W. 42nd and 8th Ave) and attempting to make a left turn onto 8th Ave. The traffic signal with a left arrow turned green, so I slowly started to make the turn, but stopped as there were still pedestrians crossing the street. I waited until all the pedestrians had passed, then finished making the turn. I was then immediately pulled over and given a ticket for "failure to yield to pedestrians." The cops had obviously set up a trap at this location, because three other cars got pulled over for the same reason at the time. And in the time that I...
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Continue readingSo I've had an entire night to sleep on it. And after thinking about it some more, talking to my mother and some girlfriends about it...
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It's a GIRL! After the NT scan, I thought that we had a bold and outgoing child on our hands. But this ultrasound certainly made me change my mind — she was a shy one, constantly covering her face with her hands and keeping her legs tightly crossed. It took quite some pokes from the tech, in addition to my downing an entire bottle of fruit juice and coughing repeatedly, until she uncrossed her legs and let us have a peek at the goods. The ultrasound place we had chosen offers a complimentary follow-up exam if the baby's gender can not be revealed at the first visit. Our tech felt so bad that she couldn't get any clear images of the face...
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