Just East of West

I am not feeling so hot today. You know that scratchy feeling you get in your throat when you start to get sick? It’s upon me. I am renouncing it, but pray for me if you can. Sickness = badness. Especially when you can’t take a single one of the lovely pharmaceuticals modern medicine has to offer.

Other than feeling sick, it’s been a good day. Keep reading →

It is incredibly incredibly hot here right now. My husband, who NEVER complains, was practically crying he was so overheated today. I just checked the weather channel, which informed me it’s 97, but it feels like 102. Whatever, it’s amazingly hot. So hot that when you walk outside it’s like hitting a wall. So hot you burn your hands on the car door and steering wheel. So hot that even in my friend Sydney’s air conditioned car, the A/C running at full blast wasn’t enough to actually cool the car down any. The AC just kept it from heating up more. Being pregnant in the heat hasn’t been too bad until today. I walked out of the shower and immediately started sweating… Keep reading →

Now alot of people may not know this about me, but I very much enjoy being artistic. I like to paint, or draw; I even write little poems or stories sometimes. Unlike my sister’s amazing artwork I often need a picture to go off of if I really want to get something accurate. Call it lack of skill or whatever. It’s just I can’t often call pictures directly out of my brain onto paper. Here is where the picture above fits in. The picture above is a wall mural that costs around 700 dollars.
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I am about to embark on a paragraph that, when I tell people, always leads them to say the same thing. “Oh it will be good practice for when he’s born!”

My doctor tells me it’s because I’m slender, with wide hips, but I started feeling Caden kick at about 16 weeks. When you can start to feel a baby kicking depends alot on how they are positioned, your body type etc. Anyway, when he started kicking, I couldn’t always feel them that strongly, because obviously at 16 weeks they are still pretty small… Keep reading →

I feel so brave, I started a Twitter account. It’s this cool thing where you update your status in 160 words or less. Also, you can follow other people’s status, see what they are doing etc. I am not just making up stories to be popular, it really exists! Aaron could do a better job of explaining it. BUT, if you have twitter. Come find me. Just look for Jennerith.

Word.

I know I mentioned that Aaron and I bought moleskines yesterday. I intend to journal and perhaps write humorous stories for myself in mine. I consider journaling to be a tad different than blogging. Journaling in the form I intend to do it isn’t for mass consumption, and I generally ramble even more than I do here.

Here is the thought I am having about journaling:

In a bit, when this journal is full of random thoughts, praying, dreams I’ve had etc, will I be glad I wrote it all down? Or will I die with embarassment at how verbose I get when writing something that I don’t intend other people to see? I mean, I do wax philosophic with the best of them. I have even been known to ..wince….write poetry.

Will I be glad I journaled, or will I think I am ridiculously silly? Ponder that for me, while I go eat ice cream and shave my legs.

Today it’s been a slow day. I normally do all my housework chores on Wednesday morning. This includes such fun activities as: laundry, cleaning the kitchen, vacuuming and dusting. This morning I only got as far as dusting and cleaning the kitchen. I did pile all of Aaron’s small piles into one large pile that hopefully will inspire him to clean up said pile, and not just walk around it or hike it’s heights and climb over.

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Well, last night was our first lesson in the Bradley method. For those of you unfamiliar with the Bradley Method it’s pretty much like my father-in-law described. I yell at Jennifer in creasing the stress and there for decreasing the time she spends in labor. Plus we pump her full of the latest drugs modern science has to offer. All in order to get us out of the hospital as quick as we can to grab a pizza and get home in time to watch a rerun of numbers.

I’m just kidding of course! Keep reading →

We had an awesome time hanging out with the Loux kids Friday night and Saturday. We played Wii games, we all sketched in our sketchbooks for about an hour and a half, we went to Wendy’s for burgers because no one wanted burgers for dinner. (Don’t ask me to explain, I was happy to be able to just toss all those wrappers, instead of trying to conquer their dishwasher.) Keep reading →

I had a good day today. I woke up really hungry, and instead of slathering some peanut butter on toast I had hashbrowns, an egg, ketchup (it’s necessary to make the egg stick to the potatoes) and a bowl of strawberries. Washed down with of course, milk.

At work I actually got things done that made me feel like I was a productive team member. That was good. I stretched this morning. That’s good for me too. Keep reading →