ffwaah…

It stinks around here.  Outside, that is.

The big Cave Creek Complex fire, burning in NE Phoenix is the main culprit.. But, another, smaller fire north of Lake Pleasant (which is pretty much straight north of where we live), has joined the party.  Along with several other smaller fires around the outskirts of town.

So, we walk outside, and the smell of smoke fills the air.  peeeu!

At least nearly all the fires so far this year were started by mother nature.  The lightning shows we had these past couple of nights were pretty awesome.  Some parts of town got rain (down at work today, I wondered if we were going to float away, the rain was coming down so hard and heavy), while others never saw a drop of it.  It’s a pity the rain didn’t go where it was needed most.  The amount of rain we got down at work, surely would have put that big fire out up at Cave Creek..  or at least slowed it waay down.

That is the downside to getting all the rain we did earlier in the spring… Everything started growing like mad after the unseasonable amount of rain we got.  And then once summer arrived and started drying everything out, well, it just created the perfect fuel for fire, and plenty of it, too.

Hopefully these fires won’t last long.  I get headaches smelling all that smoke.  Bleh.

great with lime…

I feel bad for Josh.  Finding somewhere to eat where the both of us can get what we want has become a pain.  I have a huge aversion to beef right now.  I can eat some chicken, although after a few bites of it I want nothing to do with it… Turkey is okay so far, I can eat a little more of it than chicken.  Bacon & ham make my stomach roil… about the only meaty food that doesn’t turn me off right now, is fish.

Well, I should be more specific.  White fish (like in fish sticks), or tuna.

So when it’s time to eat at work, the old question comes up… What am I in the mood for?  My answer is usually, “definitely nothing with beef!”, which eliminates a lot of choices.  El Paso BBQ is nothing but beef and pork.  They have chicken dishes and a salmon salad, but neither sounds appealing to me.  In-n-Out is obviously, out, as it’s nothing but burgers (although I do like their fries and shakes still).  Carrabba’s used to be OK, but when I tried it yesterday, even their regular spaghetti started to make me queasy.  I thought I’d be Ok just picking off the meat sauce, but apparently the smell was a little too strong.  I may try to get it sans meat if we try it again, though.

And then I found out last Tuesday, after eating half of a Del Taco spicy jack quesadilla (along with a plain bean & cheese burrito and part of a fish taco), that baby sure hates spicy food!  I didn’t get sick but felt so shitty that I couldn’t even sit in my office and browse web sites or play any games, or even knit.  All I wanted to do is lay down and sleep.. I ended up taking a 2.5 hr nap, after which I felt better, although still a little bleh, just not as bad as before the nap.

McDonald’s is cool, as I can either get a Filet-O-Fish or a McChicken grill, and their fruit & walnut salad.  Sonic is cool, as I can get either a chicken sandwich or grilled cheese.  Then Wendy’s as I can get a baked potato…

And then there’s Chipotle.  I used to get steak burrito bols.  (yes, “bowl” with out the “w”).  Since the idea of me eating steak now causes me to eye the trash can in earnest, that leaves chicken or pork.  I’m not sure about pork yet (other than ham & bacon), but I’m steering away from it for now, just in case. And their chicken?  It’s charbroiled.  I hated that flavor before (especially when the “char” is a little generous), and I dislike it even more now.  So that leaves the veggie bol, but I don’t like green peppers or onions, either.  So I guess it’s rice, cheese, sour cream & lettuce until my old tastes return.

I’ve gone bland!!  The only tastes that appeal to me are starchy foods, and so far fruits and vegatables (like broccoli and carrots, lettuce, etc) are still fine for my tummy, too.  Maybe I’ll start buying protein bars or something, as I know there is no way I’m getting enough protein with my aversion to half the meats I used to eat.

Anyway, today I had Rubio’s fish tacos.  They had some spice on them, but hopefully baby won’t mind this time and I won’t be wanting to crawl under my desk to sleep it off like some weird hangover.  :roll:

At least with the nausea (which is more evident at night), I’m not stuffing myself with food, so I’ve maybe gained only 1 lb so far, even with eating a diet that’s about 90% carbohydrate foods.  Ok, so maybe 90% is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much.  Crackers, macaroni & cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches, fruit, potatoes… with an occassional chicken or fish sandwich tossed in here or there (with bread-more carbs!)... Yeah, not by much.

Ah well.  Hopefully the nausea will let up in a few weeks so I can start eating a little more normally.

(edited to modify some slight exaggerations.. I don’t really gag at the smell of beef, but it is by no means appetizing at this point.  I can go into an establishment that serves it, the smell may be a little off to me, but as long as I don’t try to eat any, I’ll be ok.)

one plus one equals…

Three.

As long as everything goes well, by the end of January there will be a new member of our household.

Here is peanut:

And no, it was not an accident. :o)

Baby is about 1.06cm right now, so very tiny.  We did see the heartbeat, the doctor estimated it to be about 132bpm.  The u/s dates the size at 7w1d, but my due date is 1/20/06 which really makes me 7w3d.

Morning sickness has not really hit hard yet. So far I am just getting nausous but have yet to bolt to a bathroom to hover over the toilet.  I’ve also been more tired than usual, but that is to be expected.

My next appointment is in four weeks, at which point we’re hoping to possibly actually hear the heartbeat.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I feel a bout of heartburn coming on.  Ugh.

first swim of the season…

Last night after I got home from work, Josh and I decided to go swimming.  It’s been overly hot here recently, and the pool felt nice.

However, the enjoyment lasted only mere minutes, as shortly after I got into the pool, I was stung by a bee.

Now, I get off work at 10pm on Saturdays.  I get home by around 11pm.  We got in the pool at maybe around 11:30pm.

A bee? In the middle of the night??  Just my dumb luck.  I didn’t have an allergic reaction to it, although it still hurts around the area where I was stung, and from what Josh has read, it may hurt for a few days.

Stupid bee.  😠

you say it’s your birthday…

Well, it was my birthday,  yesterday.  Whee! another year older.

I got cards from family, and I got these from Josh:

along with this:

Plus, I had yesterday off from work as my normal day off so I didn’t have to take a vacation day.

stupid frickety-frackety computers!

My work PC is pissing me off.  Yesterday it was working just peachy.  I come in today, and THIS starts popping up:

svchost.exe - Application Error
    The instruction at “xxxxxxxx” referenced memory at “xxxxxxxxx”.  The memory could not be “written”.

And it won’t quit.  We thought it may be the physical RAM, so we tried booting the system with one stick at a time.  Popped up with either stick installed.  I ran Ad*Aware and Spy*bot.  Reboot.  Still happening.  Realized my sound card driver escaped at some point.  Reinstalled sound card driver, reboot.  STILL happening.

It’s really not affecting how my system is running, (except for the “themes” in WinXP.. the start bar is on “classic” mode, while my application windows are on XP’s “new” themes), but it is down right annoying.  The window is “always to the front” of the others, so I have to move it all the way to the bottom of the screen and off a bit so it’s out of the way.. until a new one feels like popping up, then I have to move it again.  Grrr.

And I still have to work tomorrow, too.  I’m supposed to check what kind of hard drive it has installed in it before I leave tonight, and then leave it on the desk of a week-day shift lead so he can try to re-image the hard drive to see if that fixes it.  If it doesn’t, then the HD is possibly dying.  Oh goodie.  Stupid IBM crap.

/end rant

looking for trouble…

Last night on the way home, I was passing by a small park.  There were a couple of cars in front of me, and I suddenly saw something fly across the road in front of me and behind the car ahead of me, and hit and splatter all over the street.  It flew so fast I wasn’t sure what it was.  “What the hell?” I thought to myself.  Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a couple of kids duck into the bushes behind a brick wall that surrounds a giant water tank sitting on the park’s property.

I put two and two together, and realized what the flying-splat thing was… a water balloon.

Keep in mind, this was at nearly midnight.  The park is closed and dark (perfect cover for troublemakers).

For a moment I almost expected my own car to get hit (I think they were aiming for the cars but their timing was awful, as they didn’t hit any of us), but it didn’t.  As I passed the park I decided to call the police (non-emergency line).

I hope the little shits got busted.  Most likely they took off not long after that and the cop would have found an empty park… But I can always dream, right?

it’s Friday, for crying out loud.. go have a beer!!

What’s with the busy Friday nights here?  Why don’t you* people go out and have a beer and just ignore your stupid business data circuits for the weekend for pete’s sake!

This just isn’t right.  😠

* = refers to our customers, of course, not you, dear readers!

packing on the mileage…

It’s been just over three weeks since I got the new Saturn, and she already has almost 2000 miles on her.  No, wait.  She DOES have over 2000 miles on her already.  I think I hit that mark mid-way to work today.

I guess that’s what happens when one has to drive about 90 miles round-trip a day to get to and from work.  I guess it’s a good thing I only work four days a week!  And that she gets good gas mileage! (got about 34/mpg last fill up)

Hi, my name is Mickie

I swear I should just change my first name.

Mickie is all anyone ever hears when I say my name.

Grrr…

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