Some Things I May Need to Remember

I am in the mood to ramble so here we go. Since July, I guess you could say I am an exaggerated version of my normal self (clumsy and lots of duh moments pre-pregnancy). I think I need to take note of my personal "pregnancy symptoms" that I may forget over time, or Jeremy can remind me of when he is around for (he better be please, army) the next pregnancy. I predict another boy already by the way.

So far:
Morning sickness? Never had it and probably will not be that lucky again. Food aversions? Broccoli from week 10ish to week 20ish. Cravings? Sour, salty, and citrus...think pickles, olives, lemons, mustard, oranges. Cheese in the first trimester. Fatigue? Oh yeah. Heartburn? The farther along in the pregnancy the more common it becomes, but still hardly never. Headaches? Very much so, mostly in the first trimester.

My #1 Pregnancy Symptom: Accident Prone

I am dangerous! Cell phones and cameras beware I will hurt you. I have already broken Jeremy's cell phone that he sent me from Iraq. I can't upgrade until January and I needed a new phone, my other one that I loved finally gave out on me. It was so pretty and gold and I miss it :( I think I dropped Jeremy's probably ten times Saturday and the side buttons are no more. The rule is, any time I get out of my car I drop my phone. Add 5 or 6 to the number of times a day I get out of my car and then you have the total number of times a day I drop my phone. If I go to the mall that day, go ahead and add an extra 3 or 4 to the total number. The phone barely works when it wants to now.

*My digital camera that I just bought this year...I couldn't tell you when I bought it because my brain is broken...already has developed some sort of macular degeneration and wants to create black holes in my pictures. Again, I dropped the thing daily so it is no wonder. I would have put it in its case and carried it but who knows where the case is. I mean I just found the actual camera today after it had been missing for a week.

*The Tahoe is learning how to take turns by cutting off the corners. For some reason, I can't make a turn without dropping my back tire down into the ditch or whatever and feeling it bump one good time. I am trying hard on getting better at this. I also mostly park on curbs if given the opportunity. I always try to re-park and then just give up. Its a 4-wheel drive so whatever, it can handle it :) as Jeremy is cringes.

*My necklace that never comes off has been to Zales 3 times to be repaired. Jeremy knows me well enough to ALWAYS get the service plan :)

*I am on computer charger number 3 because I somehow tear up the others, and if you see my F7 key please send it my way oh and my spare SD card that has around 800 pictures on it....and my living room remote control :)

*I've dropped 2 glasses this week (we are only on plastic now). I came back in the house on Friday because I was looking for my camera that wasn't in the car, and found my pink sweatshirt hoodie resting on top of my straightener and turning a nice toasted shade of brown. That could have been REALLY bad! In fact, if I hadn't dropped my straightener while we were in Texarkana last week, we probably would have had a fire. You see, only one side of my straightener works right now because the other side is broken, thanks Texarkana trip!

*Speaking of house fires, did I mention that I sat Jeremy's medical records down on a lit candle a couple of weeks ago and had a bedside fire show for a minute there?

*Grilled cheese sandwiches can also be dangerous. Unlike other blogs, I have no bragging rights to any recipes and cool little things I discover while in the kitchen. All I can tell you is take the time to find the spatula. Save your hands from the burns that take forever to go away. You probably already knew this and I probably did too, but not that day!

*Also, designate a place for your cheese grater. When you reach into the kitchen drawer that is stuck and won't open, and claustrophobically pull your arm out because you can't figure out what the hold up is....a cheese grater is the last thing that you want to drag your delicate thin forearm skin over. Ouch! I still can see the marks and I believe this was a pre-thanksgiving injury.

*One more kitchen utensil I am newly afraid of starting today: The Fork. Bad, bad fork. I am blaming the fork because today is permanent and I am so mad at myself and need to blame the fork. I chipped my front tooth on one bite of a boneless chicken wing that I thought deserved a fork. For some reason, I thought I had to bite off half the fork with this piece of boneless chicken. :( So make that plastic cups and forks. I take really good care of my teeth because I already have so many problems with them (thanks genetics, sorry Jackson!) and my front top and bottom teeth I really wanted to keep around as long as possible before having to crown or whatever. Well, I will probably find out the damage tomorrow because Jana is trying to get me in at her office. I'm sad about this mishap the most. I wonder if being pregnant has anything to do with your teeth being more brittle? Mom thinks so.

Well needless to say I am really clumsy and I haven't even mentioned how many times I have almost lost my pinky toe on the door frames, hit my head on the wall while reaching into the washing machine, bruised my arms and elbows on the doorknobs, and knocked myself out on open cabinet door corners. IT IS THAT BAD.

Second to being accident prone would have to be that my brain seriously won't work sometimes. I probably broke it too. We are always talking about the wheels turning too fast in our heads and how we wish we could slow them down sometimes. Well when one of my wheels decides to turn, the rest won't. I seriously feel like my thought process gets stuck. I can't remember easy things like dates and army post names (which I used to know well and now I can never tell anyone where I think we are going because I simply can't remember....yes the location keeps changing but that is no surprise and I couldn't tell you the name of the post in Kentucky that we may be headed to and it isn't Fort Knox it is the other one). I believe they call this symptom "baby brain". It is common along with being accident prone or I would really be worried.

My other symptom is kind of hard to explain. I am moody. I know big surprise. This is a different kind of moody though. When something makes me mad/sad/upset/not happy, I get a heat wave filled with emotion like I have never felt before. Meaning, I get REALLY HOT and my feelings are intensified to the point where I need to be outside and left alone. Red splotches on my neck and chest, it is really odd. Hasn't happened much luckily but wow I think I could really cause some damage. So yeah JC Penney lady you might wanna check that price one more time and really make sure this is where you wanna go with me, you know good and well those boots were on sale.

Well I think that is about it. I feel like I have documented the past 25 weeks to the best of my ability, plus I'm finally getting sleepy and I don't think Jeremy is going to call tonight so I should try to sleep. Looks like I will be heading to Little Rock tomorrow to see my friends at Harris and Reynolds Family Dentistry.