it’s only numbers
Some interesting facts:
- My waist size is now the same as Dan’s
- Kicky is 20 cm head to bum, not counting those long, strong legs of hers. That’s awfully big if you measure it out in a ruler! She also weights about a pound now, only 5-6 left to gain.
- I have gained a net of 2 pounds so far. Not bad! The doctor thinks this is right on, nothing to worry about either way. Let’s hope the trend continues.
- We will be 23 weeks this week, leaving 17 to go. Yes, if you can believe it, that’s all. Oh crap, it’s too soon!
- She gets the hiccups at least once a week
I finally feel like I have started to catch up on things. There was, believe it or not, some time for relaxing and socializing this weekend. Tony and Julie had a “worst movie ever” contest last night, to which everyone but us dutifully contributed. Everything from ninja cheerleaders, a Vanilla Ice in love movie, to a horrendous bum-shaking dance scende with Jean-Calude van Damme. The winner ended up being Tony’s entry of … yes, you guessed it … the “Star Wars Christmas Special” which nobody associated with the Lucasverse wants to admit even exists. He was able to get a copy off the net that someone videotaped back in 1978. Not only was the movie painful to watch but the commercials were just as bad, with a particular fixation on underwear but in the most embarassing way possible. Did I mention this was the year I was born?? Anyway, it was also great to see people that we hadn’t seen since September, especially since we hadn’t connected in person since we announced our big lifestyle change.
We had freezing rain on Friday night and by 8:00 the power was out in our nighbourhood. I had been nervously anticipating it all day and fretted uselessly that we would be without power for the whole week and that all our food in the freezer would go bad and that Dan wouldn’t be able to do his homework. Well 23 minutes later the power was back on and everything was back to normal. By Saturday morning there was no evidence of a any ice or water in our neighbourhood. Everything that was encased in ice (cars, bicycles, trees, signs) the previous night had been freed. Today it was the first real snowfall and it was warm, windless with big fluffy flakes falling, like how American TV producers imagine winter to look like. It raised my spirits tremendously.
Dan was quarantined for about half an hour this week. It never made the news, but a “white powder” apparently “exploded” at his school on Wednesday and as he was leaving his building he was stopped by a firefigher who said he “may have been contaminated”. In the end I guess they decided it wansn’t something serious and let everyone go.
So we received our new fridge, thanks to our landlord. Dan happened to be home the day of the switch so he was able to clean behind/underneath the old one before plugging the new one in. When I called he answered the phone with a sneeze. Let’s just say he found a nickel from 1964 and it seems there is a good chance it has been there since then. The new fridge is really low and the fridge part is a bit small. Also the doors open the opposite way which means it hits my chair. But they are reversible, so we will switch at Christmas. And instead of being a “disposable Danby” it seems to be a quite decent quality fridge. It’s even staineless steel! Now we have tons of freezer space.
Kicky now has a gallery. More will be added later.