Girls On The Gridiron

My friends at google informed me via their search engine picture that today was the first day of spring. So happy spring to all.

From those of you who suffer from SAD, this will be good news. I definitely yearn for warmth, so I’m happy. Though the 3 week vacation on the west coast definitely helped me get past my usual winter doldrums.

But spring is about new life. So let’s just say I figured out what all the fatigue and nausea that’s been bothering me was.=)

I’m not turning this blog into a catalog of pregnancy symptoms. But I will say how surprised I was in the multiple ways nature prepares your body to reproduce. I guess she’s been doing it for a while, and has it down pat. But it really is startling how a body you’ve known the ins and outs of for decades can just wake you up one day and throw a total curve ball. Followed by a slider. And a knuckleball.

But it’s all good and will all be worth it. We’ve been looking forward to expanding our family for some time now, and this is our chance. I’m lucky to have a wonderful husband who will be an awesome father and a family supporting me that is just as excited about the baby as we are. I am a lucky woman.

I have been really tired lately and really hungry. All I can do after work is eat and sleep.

Ugh

I saw Juno and liked it. At the end there’s a song both lead characters sing to each other. Maybe its because I’ve always been fond of the geeky clumsiness of michael FERA’s characters, so I downloaded it.

The song is as sweet and clumsy and slightly off key as you’d expect. The refrain is ” I do t see what anyone else could see, but you.”

And thats a good way to describe how I feel about the other half.

Especially on a day where I come to a job I hate, so we can stay in NY for his career, while people are lobbing bombs at recruiting stations in times square. NY is not an easy place to live for many reasons and sometimes I just need to remind myself why I continue to do it.

It helps to remember what it was like to go surfing in Waikiki, and that there is life outside of my fair metropolis.

I, like many of my corporate counterparts, got nailed with that multi week bug. I’m still recovering and most days after work can’t do much either then eat dinner and go to bed. And since its week 4, I find it a bit worrisome.

On the flip side, I’m half jokingly wondering if there’s something at work that I’m horribly allergic to that makes me sick. I went from taking two sick days in three years to being sick nine times in less than a year. (though only took two sick days). So I don’t know what’s up with that and its definitely freaking me out.

It only gives me yet another reason to find a job. That and cause the people I work with are type a and morons, which is a wretched combination.