The last couple of nights after everyone has gone to bed, and of course I am still up, lying on the sofa being little miss insomniac, I have had the feeling that I have felt tj-baby moving! Which is crazy, right, coz am still only 14weeks, coming into 15,(tho not impossible, I realise many people feel the baby earlier the 2nd pregnancy), granted, but still... With K I never felt anything until about 18weeks, and then it was the "bubbles" or "tickling of the fingertips from the inside" type of feelings at first. This time, I seem to feel actual baby movements, you know, rolls, jumps, line dancing, etc. Truthfully, I think it is just lots of late night gas action (how romantic) but still I like to sit here on the sofa late at night and pretend that it is baby, hehe. Who knows, it may be!
Anyway, I am feeling less "bleuch" after my last post - I think I was just in a downer over no clothes fitting, having a few chuck-ups, still having headaches (trying to keep up water is helping) and whatever. And my effort to keep meal servings to enough for one and one-in-the-oven only, as opposed to enough for a stable of sumo wrestlers seems to be helping out too. My tiredness remains, but I do indulge in wherever possible daily naps with K, which then only seem to make me unable to get to sleep at a reasonable time at night, but without them, I am a mess, so am gonna stick to this style for a while. I was never one to go to bed early anyway.
Today is Friday - we had a busy week, and the house has suffered for it. Haven't really been home since Tuesday, when the house was pretty immaculate due to PIL visit. Wed we drove out to visit a friend about 40mins away, and yesterday was playgroup. Also haven't been to supermarket all week, so stocks are low. This morning we will walk down to big train station and shop, bank, post office ourselves crazy.
Just remembered that Friday is also bin day - better get our 燃えるごみ out there before we miss the boat, er, truck. It comes only 2 times a week, Mon and Fri. Before we moved it came 3 times a week - one less pick up makes such a difference! Maybe we should just get a wheelie bin? Although it is the plastic rubbish that causes more headache - they only come Thursdays for that, and by then we have a huge garbage bag full! I miss our old place where we didn't have to even separate plastics from other rubbish....
Heading down to PIL holiday house this weekend, mainly to bring back all the winter stuff that, in our wisdom in moving during summer, took down there as we wouldn't need it for a while......and then the cold hits, and we are stuck with one single bed sized doona and one single bed sized blanket for three of us! Cold tootsies! Also wanna bring back the coffee machine, some plates etc so that when we have our housewarming next weekend we will be able to entertain properly.
Friday, 6 November 2009
baby fingers, or just gas??
Thursday, 20 August 2009
losing stuff and moving stuff
Sitting here having an ume-shu minus the "shu" (guess that makes it ume juice) and racking my rains trying work out WHERE THE HELL my sunglasses might be. I definitely had them on yesterday afternoon on way home from playgroup (because I basically cannot see without them, even on a cloudy day the glare usually gets me) since I don't remember squinting all the way home. But they are now no where to be found. And I have even gotten well into the habit of putting them in their mega huge sunglass case, so it is not like they wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb anywhere.....
This follows high on the heels of a lost camera batter charger - we have been looking for THAT for 3 weeks now. I cannot find it anywhere. Also, can't remember where it would have been last. Obviously, it is not in all the usual places. gaaah.
And it doesn't help now that we have started packing - I am constantly wondering if I might have put it in with such and such in this box...but I guess it will either turn up before we move, or come out of some random box once we have.
So yes, we are moving, next Saturday actually.
Into a house.
That we bought.
Crazy stuff. It started out as a simple observation that we could *buy* an apartment for the price we are paying each month in rent, but then of course we thought about it and realised that we don't like the apartment lifestyle (what with dog, and kid, and camping/surfing trips, having a car park miles away i.e. not in the front yard is a bummer....) so we started looking at houses. Again, I say crazy - looking for a house in metropolitan Kanto!!!! I don't know how many times we found a great place in Chiba or some other inaka town and said to each other "man I wish we could live here!" but one of main conditions with moving was that J would be able to commute within about 30mins, door-to-door. We figured there was no point living in a great place that HE never got to be in, or got to see us in!!! Cut to 7months later, after searching on the internet every night for houses, spending weekends out looking at houses only to be bitterly disappointed when they are located beside a shinkansen line/factory/cemetery etc etc, or are built on a block the size of what we would use to park the car on in Australia, getting well and truly over the whole househunting biz, and we found a place that we like. It is not our dream home, but it is hopefully ok for now. Saving graces of the house are undercover parking for 2 cars, 4 min walk to train station, and a very teeny tiny, but definitely existent back yard!! We spent the last 2 months sitting on the edge of our seat waiting for loan approval (it came through last week) and J signed the papers yesterday. We have to push the moving to make it by the end of the month, because all of us - me, K, J and his parents - are going o/s on Sept 2nd. We are spending a week in Cairns, then K and I are going down to Bris for the rest of the month (thank you jetstar!!) So basically I will move into my new house, then 4 days later go o/s for a month. Yay.
So I am trying to use up everything possible in the fridge/freezer before the start of next week. I had a pile of capsicums in the fridge for some reason, so last night's dinner was: Spaghetti bolognaise, with red and yellow capsicum and 100% beef mince. Yum
On the menu for tonight:
Tomorrow night:
We have one room already full of boxes, and still piles of shit everywhere that needs to be packed, but I am very much a last minute doer. I can't get myself motivated to pack ages in advance, as I am always worried I will need that random object we haven't used since we got here sometime between packing it in a box and moving. J is on my case to do it little by little, which I know I should, but I have assured him that I will get there. I am already having trouble sleeping (must be the excitement) so figure I won't sleep much next week before the move.
One good thing, I have a feeling that the little amount of pre-moving cleaning and packing I have been doing has somehow helped me lose a few grams.... I feel slightly less stuffed into my clothes. Probably the 10000L of sweat that I am outing every time I move an inch. Also have less of an appetite (especially for snacking) so am looking forward to what the scales say at the end of the move! I am already down 3.5% on my starting (over)weight. My goal is to get about 7% off, which would put me back to where I was pre-K. That's too cryptic, isn't it. Basically I have lost 1.5 kg, and need to loose another 2.5kg.
So I guess I should at least attempt to get one box filled while the monster is asleep - yesterday's effort ended up in K packing up half the cutlery in with the winter clothes....note to self, don't take eyes off boxes while K is around. We would have had to eat with out hands until December if I didn't catch her in the act!! hehe.
