Archive for the ‘Friends’ Category

Wow can’t believe it is already 13 weeks along — that has gone super fast! Had my first week on the phones and it has been pretty good, I have to keep writ­ing post it notes so I don’t for­get things (I am always for­get­ting cer­tain bits and it is try­ing me nuts, blame it on the baby me thinks!).

So we had our 12 week scan on Mon­day which was amaz­ing, I was at the hos­pi­tal for­ever because baby is a wrig­gly lit­tle bug­ger and wouldn’t stay still for the com­bine test­ing for cer­tain things eg. downs, the baby had to lay still so that she could see the spine and the nose (no idea why) but we had to keep going for a walk or some­thing like that to get it to move into the cor­rect posi­tion, an hour and half later baby did.  Just got the results today the test was neg­a­tive so that is very good news.  It was amaz­ing to see her (I still think it’s a girl so I call baby a her a lot and by the name we have cho­sen but I am keep­ing that a secret of the inter­net ha ha!), she was mov­ing so much and waving!

So here is baby Damita at 12 weeks 1 day (accord­ing to the test­ing piece of paper).

My 20 week scan is booked in for the 2nd of April, I am so look­ing for­ward to hav­ing a big bump.  I have a small one and it is notice­able that I am preg­nant but I would like a huge one, I am sure I will regret say­ing that later ha ha!

Other than that not much else is going on at this end, just work­ing and grow­ing a baby.

 

Steal­ing this from thebabywife.com.

1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?

Grad­u­a­tion! Never thought I would see the day!

2. Did you keep your New Years’ res­o­lu­tions, and will you make more for next year?

Goals for 2011

Well I did one out of four, I got a 2:1 at degree level, I didn’t reach my sav­ing goal as I was unem­ployed for 6 months eeek!!! and I failed my dri­ving test twice. Preg­nancy well still work­ing on it.

This year — preg­nancy, pass my dri­ving test and do my sav­ing goal.

3. Did any­one close to you give birth?

Yes one of my best friends gave birth in Spring to a lit­tle girl.

4. Did any­one close to you die?

No

5. What coun­tries did you visit?

None

6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?

Money would be nice and enjoy my new job.

7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory?

Grad­u­a­tion, it was an amaz­ing day, I got tear­ful. Oh and find­ing out I have PCOS that will be in my mem­ory forever.

8. What was your biggest achieve­ment of the year?

Com­plet­ing Uni and find­ing a job.

9. What was your biggest failure?

Being out of work for 6 months, it was a hor­ri­ble time.

10. Did you suf­fer ill­ness or injury?

No I have been alright this year which is new for me!

11. What was the best thing you bought?

My iPhone 4, I love it to pieces!

12. Whose behav­iour mer­ited celebration?

My amaz­ing husband.

My fam­ily

My friends

13. Whose behav­iour made you appalled and depressed?

A few ex friends

14. Where did most of your money go?

Sur­viv­ing

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Fin­ish­ing uni.

16. What song/album will always remind you of 2011?

‘Gotta get thru this’ Daniel Bedingfield

17. Com­pared to this time last year, are you:

1. Hap­pier or sad­der? Hap­pier.
2. Thin­ner or fat­ter? Thin­ner
3. Richer or poorer? Poorer but not for long

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Enjoy­ing that time off

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Wor­ry­ing and stressing

20. How will you be spending/did you spend Christmas?

With my fam­ily <3

21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
My hus­band, mum, dad and best friend

22. Did you fall in love in 2011?

Already in love

23. How many one night stands in this last year?

None

24. What was your favourite TV pro­gramme?
Ice Road Truckers!!!!

25. Do you hate any­one now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

I don’t hate, I dis­like cer­tain behav­iour from people

26. What was the best book(s) you read?

Re-read Harry Pot­ter again

27. What was your great­est musi­cal dis­cov­ery?

New dance songs

28. What did you want and get?

Mostly — I wanted a 2:1 secretly and got it, and another surprise.

29. What did you want and not get?

Pass­ing my dri­ving test — booo!!!

30. What were your favourite films of this year?

Friends with Ben­e­fits

31. What did you do on your birth­day, and how old were you?

26 and I my hus­band made steak and chips, yum

32. What one thing would have made your year immea­sur­ably more satisfying?

Not hav­ing to deal with unem­ploy­ment for would be great

33. How would you describe your per­sonal fash­ion con­cept in 2011?

Relax­ing in leg­gings and long tops

34. What kept you sane?
My hus­band and my dad

35. Which celebrity/public fig­ure did you fancy the most?

None

36. What polit­i­cal issue stirred you the most?

Rais­ing of uni fees!

37. Who did you miss?

My best friend — wish she lived closer to me!

38. Who was the best new per­son you met?

Met some amaz­ing peo­ple on-line

39. Tell us a valu­able life les­son you learned in 2011.

Every­thing hap­pens for a rea­son and to stop stressing

It’s been a week since I was told I have PCOS and it has taken awhile for it to sink into my brain, not only that but I have had some con­ver­sa­tion with my own mother about it turns out she more than likely has it too. But didn’t realise and since it is nor­mally genetic — I did approach my mum and was like are you sure? I know you had mild endo and she was like oh yeah I think I do as I did have a cyst explode once and I did have mis­car­riages before you and your broth­ers. Then she went on to tell me I look like I have PCOS, I really don’t know what a per­son looks like when they have PCOS but accord­ing to my mother I look like I do, gee thanks. But she has been really sup­port­ive so I am grate­ful for that.

I think telling peo­ple was quite hard, my hus­band was the worse because I feel like I have fail him, there isn’t any­thing wrong with him, he should be able to breed easy peasy but then he did marry a bro­ken girl, peo­ple say I have to stop refer­ring to myself as bro­ken, I went through a stage this week where I just felt like rub­bish and not sexy. It is all in my head, this isn’t a new thing I guess because I didn’t know it didn’t effect me but now I do know I just felt like since I don’t work I don’t feel wom­anly. My hus­band hasn’t done any­thing to push this feel­ing at all, it’s all me.

Telling my par­ents was fine, told my father — he doesn’t want to be a grand­dad but at the end of the day he hasn’t much choice but he has been really sup­port­ive, told him how this cycle will hap­pen with all the drugs and what­not, my mother on the other hand after I had got of the phone to her googled and researched every­thing. I have only told two off-line friends — my best friend was very sup­port­ive so I am really grate­ful for that.

I’ve had to start a new diet called low GI Diet to help with my PCOS and so far so good, I have to stay away from white pota­toes, chips and cake but I can have sweet pota­toe and whole­meal pasta. It is help­ing I have lost 3 pounds this week and it is help­ing my triedness.

Clo­mid starts Mon­day, can I be a mem­ber of a dif­fer­ent club?

Since my last blog post I have been so busy with uni­ver­sity work it is crazy, I even got an e-mail for grad­u­a­tion yes­ter­day and my exam timetable, I can­not believe that this is it! In less than 3 months I am going to be fin­ished, I am going to have a degree! How did that hap­pen, I swear it only feels like yes­ter­day I was whin­ing to my friend on the train say­ing that three years seems like a life time away and he turn­ing to me say­ing it will fly by, guess what it flew by!

I am still unsure what I am doing after my degree but I will be com­plet­ing my PGCE in ICT teach­ing just because it will help even if I don’t go into to teach­ing, I would really like to work in an E-learning area, I can­not believe how much I enjoy learn­ing about and cre­at­ing E-learning web­site and flash games, even if flash some­times makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a fork but so does any pro­gram­ming language.

So what does that leave me.. I now have two assign­ments due in and my 3rd year project draft report due in two weeks and it is nearly done just got to write bits up and then all I have is four exams.  I am get­ting quite emo­tional about it all, I’ve been back in edu­ca­tion after work­ing for full-time for five years now and it has been safe, now I have to go into the big scary world to work and earn some pennies.

Does every­one feel the same after fin­ish­ing col­lege or a degree? How did you feel?

New Sofa!

Myself and my best friend’s new baby girl.

Other than this sud­den panic about fin­ish­ing my degree, we have been doing up the house, we brought new sofas last week and got a new bed frame, com­ing tomor­row we will have our new office stuff and table and chairs, I am very excited!! Also my best friend gave birth to her baby a whole two weeks early or it might of been more, might of been a month, she is healthy and very cute!!

Okay dokey I am off to work on some more java for one of my assign­ments. Oh and I failed my dri­ving test for the sec­ond time.

I’ve never been able to relax, I am always wor­ry­ing or stress­ing about some­thing, I really can’t help it, I think it is just the way I am made.  But at the moment I have more stress than I really want, I am in my last term which has units in at uni­ver­sity, plus try­ing to com­plete my third project, I have a dri­ving test in less than a week (which is going to be so scary even more so since I am stress­ing I for­get stu­pid lit­tle things, the other day for exam­ple I for­got what side of the road to be on and that really wor­ried me) and the TTC.

I think with uni­ver­sity I need more time, I spend most my hours lis­ten­ing to lec­tures and play­ing catch up, this week I spent 9 hours in my uni­ver­sity labs work­ing on a flash time for my third year project which is still not work­ing and I have eight of these to do in the next month!! Dri­ving freaks me out, even more so with the test com­ing up (while writ­ing this I can feel my heart rate ris­ing and my hands are get­ting sweaty! That’s how bad it is), I think even if I fail that’s not a big deal I’ll just re-book but I really want to pass first go.

The TTC is still not going to plan since I am not preg­nant, and it seems to be the fur­thest from my mind lately, but I am stuck at the moment in some weird cycle, I am on cycle day 50 with no period in sight.  I am def­i­nitely not preg­nant so who knows what is going on with my body last time this hap­pened I was tak­ing my exams in the sum­mer and ended up with a 59 day cycle.  But I can­not see the stress of the two items above dis­ap­pear­ing for awhile so I don’t really want to wait until June to get my period!  I took soy this month and I hate the stuff now, I have taken it for 3 cycles and it has man­aged to mess up all three!

I am try­ing to find ways to relax, I did take a bath with bub­bles and can­dles yes­ter­day and sat in it for 45 min­utes that was really nice, but how else do you relax? for some­one who doesn’t relax, I found this list on-line:

At the moment I really need to relax because if I don’t I will explode, how do you relax?