Here's To Oatmeal!

Just so you know I am alive and well, and have yet to be kidnapped by robots or zombies. This past week I was so wrapped up in my crafty projects and other events I hadn't had time to write anything up.

 

I truly hope that after tomorrow I can still eat oatmeal. It has become a staple part of my snack routine. At roughly 150 calories it is so freaking packed with nommy nutrients and fills me up.

 

Tomorrow morning I will be subjected to my SECOND (and last) three hour glucose tolerance test for this pregnancy. Due to my voluptuousness they are testing me twice, once early and once now as I get ready to roll into my third trimester. Better safe than sorry, but this doesn't mean I am going to enjoy the torture test... At all. I can only imagine how my little parasite is going to take this.

 

After my torture test I get to go and have lunch at the pizza place right behind the hopsital, so there's a positive. Also, I am taking the day off from work since by the time the test is done it will be around noon, and I will need to eat and such. Later in the afternoon I get to have my teeth cleaned. Go oral hygiene!

 

I have been trying all day to ignore this mild sinus headache... That's the pits of the approaching season change, my sinuses are like hyper aware to this shit. In case you aren't familiar with Oregon weather patterns throughout the year, it's around this point that the weather gets a little more wackadoodle than normal. In late summer/early fall we start to see summerfallwinter weather where it can go from sunny and eighty to rainy, windy, and fifty five in a matter of about ten minutes. These weather changes wreak havoc upon any one who is sensitive to pressure changes.

 

We typically have one of the best fall seasons, where it's sunny and comfortable by day and chilly at night; which perfectly encourages crockpots, stews, and ample snuggling. Also fall is home to some of my favorite things:

-Halloween

-Thanksgiving (and the TurkeyTrot 5k/10k which I will sadly miss this year as I will be thirty seven weeks pregnant Thanksgiving day)

-The warms scents of pumpkin (or apples) and cinnamon, and other warming sweet scents

-Baking. I know it can be done year round, but I typically abstain in the summer to keep the house cool. And I'm not just talking any baking, I'm talking about pumpkin breads and muffins, apple everything, and any cookie you can imagine (granted the cookies are typically closer to Christmas, but still).

 

Well, I have done enough drooling over fall goodies... Not a good idea since as of six pm I am not eating anything until after my test tomorrow. Also, should I not pass this test there will be no baking until after this little monster of mine is born. I am confident I will pass okay, and I will make sure to post my results. If they are anything like the first one, it's going to be a rocky (well shaky) morning. Ugh.

 

Now I am off to pin the final panel of the bumpers and sew them all together. I will try and post pictures of them and the sheets I made over Labor Day weekend in one of the next few posts.