New morning time drinks

I know this point in a person's blog, I should reflect on Christmas and create an itinerary of my Christmas gifts this year. I do not wish to do that. Christmas was fun, I got a lot of gifts, and next year will be a whole new experience.

However, I have found two new warm drinks that I can apparently take without fear of gastro intestinal retribution.

The first is Postum, Instant Hot Beverage. Original. Naturally Caffeine Free. The bottle statest that it's a Rich, Full-Bodied Taste, and it does deliver. It's made from wheat germ, and initially I was skeptical, but I kept thinking about it and decided to buy a jar and try it. I am remarkably impressed. Here's hoping that I can continue to drink it.

The other is Ginger Tea. That's it, no lemon, no black pepper, no Tea flavored with Ginger, just Ginger Tea. This is surprisingly hard to find, and eventually found it at a health food store. It's terrifically spicy, so I can't let it steep for as long as the directions state (10-15 minutes make a very spicy and overpowering drink) but This Tea is suposed to aid in digestion, and my mom showed me an article where a person "cured" their Acid Reflux with it. Now I'm not that optimistic, but I am hoping it'll bring me back down to at least one Nexium a day.


For a Pregnancy Update, we just entered Week 36, or "The Ninth Month" This is now pretty much on my daughters time. as she can arrive at any point when she feels like it. However, If she's not here by Jan 27, they'll begin talking of inducing.

Another Milestone

My truck, while shortly leaving my driveway this morning hit 100,000 miles.

I've had him since he only had 14 on the odometer.

Here's hoping I can squeak out another 100K

Posting for the sake of Posting

It's been a while since I updated.

This is nothing that spectacular, there just hasn't been much that i felt was post worthy.

Tree's up, We've put pre-lit garland on the bannister, and all the Christmas shopping is complete. Christmas cards have been sent, and we are now at the part of the pregnancy where she would like the kid to be here, and the kid could oblige her at any given moment.

Christmas is here with my family, and many may not know, but my family started a traditon that my Step-father likes. Instead of a turkey or Ham for Christmas, we have a Shrimp Boil. The first year we tried it, I think my Grandfather was the "litmus test" If he didn't like it, it'd have stopped there. It didn't. In fact, My grandfather raced my step-father for the largest amount of shrimp shells that year. Over the years I've developed a taste for them, and now look forward to it. The Tsunami this year however destroyed many of the black shrimp beds, and may not get a good crop this year. We shall see.


That's all I know for now. Enjoy.

Ultrasound #3

Doctor wanted a third and final Ultrasound to check on my young one to make sure she's all right. I guess she last marked in the 22 percentile, which was cause for concern on my overly cautious doctor.

Now my daughter is in the 70th percentile, weighing in around 5 pounds and has just the right amount of amniotic fluid.

She was also kind enough of us to kinda see her face. Up until recently, she was always turned away, and wouldn't move for a good picture. This time we saw her eyes, her mouth was covered by her arm, and some hair. My kid will apparently not be bald like her father was.

So no more ultrasounds, now we wait.

Update

I've been told I need to update by blog.

What about? I lead a rather mundane life, so nothing seems that interesting to post?

Well, we did have some hellacious weather this past week. I had to take a 1/2 Day on Tuesday, to avoid the 1/4-1/2" ice that was coming down. THe missus did the same thing.

Think that's enough? oh no.. next day, they predict 4-`14" of snow same timeframe, so another 1/2 day to miss that blizzard. It was kinda cool. The Weather Channel had a guy out here reporting live during the snowstorm, from my town! I tried to figure out where he was, but he stood in a rather nondescript spot (streetlights, passing cars, heavy snowfall, etc) so we couldn't tell.

Had to shovel a path for the dog twice that night just so she could go potty. She decided to wake up at 4:30am the next day, so up I was shovelling her a path. Looked like we got about a foot of snow.

Well after the dog had a path, I put on some long johns, donned some ear muffs and went to shovel my driveway. Yup I'm now a winter home owner. What I didn't know is that it took me 2 hours to fully shovel that driveway clean. and by that night, my lowerback and biceps were pretty ticked with me.

3 days after the snowstorm, the city decided we needed our cul-de-sac shovelled. Since the sun had melted the majority of the snow on the streets, the gesture kinda felt like shutting the gate after the horses are out, but at least they tried.

Found the hill near the school in our backyard that is a place to sled (future knowledge kept so I can shove my daughter down a hill at breakneck speed on a flimsy piece of orange plastic), and the fact that they didn't clean out our street. It is possible we could get snowed in.

Next worry, last week was "grocery week" but Thanksgiving trumped it. So grocery week was moved to this weekend. was a bit worried, as the weather made sure we stayed at home, and we were running low on dinner items. This is not to say we would have starved, we have cans of veggies, soups, ramen, etc, and could have made it easil yanother 2-3 weeks, but no big meal stuff.

So we went on Saturday to shop... oy... 2.5 hours to shop. 10-15 minutes just to find a space, and I had to Vulture a spot. I hate parking lot Vulture, but I had a pregnant wife, and I wanted to get home, so we hovered until someone backed out. Guess it wasn't so bad, I got to try Egg Nog at the store :)

Saw "Stranger than Fiction" at a local movie theater. Sara asked if I thought i was worth watching at 10pm at night. I think it wasn't worth going to that movie theater at 10pm at night. It had a dirty feel to it. The theater we went into wasn't cleaned from the previous movie until 5 minutes to show, and the manager had to rush in and do his best. I'll give it a try during a matinee before I just give up on it.

That's all I know,

well exept we're now in week 33, and a co-worker decided to tell me we're now in the region of "The baby can show up any day now".