Christmas food for Halloween

I went into M&S at lunchtime for some lunch and saw that they have their Christmas food out now....

Surely the start date for selling Christmas food should be after Halloween!

And I know that I am encouraging them by buying the stuff but I just couldnt help myself...

...besides I had to buy the Christmas pudding smoothie in view of my quest to increase my calcium levels ;o)

Happy Halloween everyone ;o)

bump touching

I have read of lots of instances of pregnant women having their bumps touched by complete strangers.

Well this hasnt happened to me (yet)...

...but I was in Starbucks this weekend and two of the nice (actually the are all nice) baristas touched my bump (which I didnt mind) ;o)

I will have to wait to see if it starts happening on a regular basis.

the red cup is out of the bag

Yesterday morning I was walking past Starbucks at Liverpool Street Station and saw this A-board (hee hee they put the wrong side out on display)...

the question is when the drinks are finally out on Thursday do I go for my favourite gingerbread latte or should I try the new praline mocha?

decisions decisions decisions...

...who am I kidding Im going to have to try the new one ;o)

registering for WBN 2012

Last year James was chosen to be a giver for World Book Night...

The book he gave out was Agent Zigzag.  I have still to read it and am going to do so when I start my Maternity Leave ;o)

...so this year I decided to register too thus doubling our chances of being picked ;o)

You have to give a choice of three books that you would  like to give out and I have gone for these...

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Someone Like You by Roald Dahl

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

So hopefully I will be chosen ;o).

My UK based friends should register too if you fancy giving out some books.

There is US World Book Night too which will be on the same day as ours but the registration wont be until December.

its all getting a bit too real

My replacement started yesterday...

...I am now teaching her everything that I do!

LOL somebody was winding me up yesterday saying that I cant leave until she knows everything...

...so I said I can teach her real quick when I need to ;o)

flu jab

Yesterday morning I went for my flu jab...

I walked into the Doctors Surgery and told the receptionist that I had an appointment at 08.22 for my flu jab, and she said to walk down to the nurses office.

I walked down there and saw that there was one lady having her jab done so I went to sit down and a nurse in the other room called me in...

...she asked me if I had had the vaccination before and I said no she then asked me why I was having it done and I said that it was because I am pregnant, she then said that "being pregnant you should be used to being prodded and poked by now" ;o)

She then asked me if I had any allergies and I said no she then asked if I could eat chicken & eggs?  I can eat chicken & eggs so I am ok but what if I was a vegetarian or a vegan?

As I come out from having my injection I saw a queue of 80 old people snaking around the surgery, the front of the queue wasnt where I had come from but was toward the doctors rooms.

Oooohhh how I would have loved to take a pop shot at a few of them...

...dont worry I didnt but I was mighty tempted ;o)

Following littluns love of music I made sure that I watched both Dancing With The Stars and Strictly Come Dancing and surprisingly enough she boogied to two songs on DWTS but absolutely nothing on SCD...

...she clearly prefers the American version!

Talking of Strictly I had a dream last night that Jason walked out on the show in disgust after being in the bottom two :o(  I cant remember try as I might who he was at the bottom with.

Very strange...

leaning against the luggage rack

Yesterday we had overhead wire problems...

...I knew that the trains were going to be bad when I checked nxea journey planner following the alert that I received errrr alerting me to these, as half on the trains were starting halfway down the trainline thus avoiding where the overhead wire problems and us lowly passengers too.

I already knew that the two trains that I normally catch were starting at Shenfield so decided to get on the first train that was going my way...

I got to Liverpool Street Station and saw that there was an intercity train going to Norwich and as I was walking down the platform trying to find an empty seat I saw that the train was now standing room only so so I got on at the end carriage and stood leaning on the luggage rack (it wasnt too bad to be honest).

Hee hee I was in the quiet carriage and flouted the rules by not only listening to my MP3 player but I was also sending text messages ;o)

tolerating glucose

Today I had to go for a glucose tolerance test, the test was booked for 9am this morning by the midwife when I went to see her last week.

In the leaflet I received with the bloodtest paperwork it said that you have to fast for 12 hours before the test (no food or drink other than water), which was fair enough.  But when I was told that I then had to wait another two hours before I could eat anything I was doing my pieces...

...LOL I think my exact words to the midwife was "I will be eating anything that moves by then" ;o)  She told me to bring a sandwich with me and a book to stave off the boredom.

When I was cooking my dinner last night I did two sausages extra so I could have them in a sandwich for after the test.

Anyway 9pm came last night and I dutifully stuck to just drinking water...

...James was winding me up by asking if I wanted him to do me a full English breakfast the next morning as I was having a lie in!  I told him to stop being so cruel ;o)

This morning I got up half an hour before we were supposed to leave (to stop the temptation for me to eat) .

I got to the hospital about 15 minutes before I had to have the test so I found where I had to go and then plonked myself down and did some people watching.

Then about five minutes before I went to the toilet (knowing that I wasnt supposed to move for two whole hours I thought I will go again now.

The bloodtest wasnt carried out in the normal bloodtest area but in a special place for appointments, there were two other women who were pregnant like me and another one who had a six week old little boy (she must have been intolerant as she had to be restested after the birth).

Plus there were countless old people who wouldnt stop their incessant inane nattering :o(

I had the first bloodtest ok then was given a lemon drink to drink then had to sit back in the waiting area for two hours not being allowed to move even an inch...

About half an hour before I was due to be rebled (cant think of a better term) one of the women started to feel faint (she had her husband with her) so the technician did the rebleed for her about 20 minutes earlier than he should have done...

...the other pregnant lady was complaining that two hours was far too long to have to wait.

I then had my rebleed and promptly ate my sausage sandwich and also had a banana before I even left the waiting room ;o)

and I am about to have my first cup of tea of the day ;o)

bigger portions

As you may remember last week I was whinging and whining about the touchpad on the new laptop...

...well today I am using a proper mouse ;o)

James always gets me to get his portions of chips for him from the takeaway (quite why he wont go in there himself I dont know) anyway yesterday I went and got him some fish & chips and he was saying how he had got a far bigger portion than he gets normally and did the woman say as she was serving me that "there were some extra chips for the baby" ;o)

Today James wanted some more chips (from a different chip shop) and I was watching the lady serving me and she was definitely putting more chips in the portion ;o)  LOL she even asked me how many weeks I had left to go and how I was feeling ;o)

Perhaps this was all down to me wearing a proper maternity top as opposed to the XL t-shirts I normally wear ;o)

scents of the past

I was walking back down the stairs at work after one of my many toilet visits…

…and I could smell geranium oil and I was transported back to working in Chelmsford.

I used to work with one lady and she was very much into aromatherapy and had a wooden box full of different oils and one of them was geranium which would remind me of Turkish Delight, and everytime she got that smell out it would drive me into a frenzy (Im not kidding either)

Hee hee it got to the point where she could only get that smell out just before lunchtime so that I could get myself  some Turkish Delight otherwise I would be whinging and whining about it…;o)

So…

…at lunchtime I went and bought myself some Turkish Delight ;o)

twisting in my tummy

I was watching Dancing With the Stars this morning the theme was "the year that most influenced" (just incase my US friends let slip who has gone out since ;o))

Chubby Checker had a guest appearance and he was singing Lets Twist Again..

...littlun liked it because she was moving around loads (and I swear that she was doing the dance moves too ;o))

I was distraught at the thought of Carson Kressley being in jeopardy  and was well pleased when Tom said that he was safe ;o)

upping my calcium levels

Every week I get an e-mail from Babycentre telling me how littlun is doing...

...James gets his e-mail two days before I get mine as he hasnt updated the due date on his profile...

With that in mind yesterday he e-mailed me a snippet saying that littlun is needing lots of calcium and if I dont get enough then what is needed will get nicked from my bones!

I dont actually like the taste of milk so my first thought was to buy flavoured milk but James pointed out that I shouldnt get anything with too much added sugar...

...so I have bought some yoghurt smoothies - the one that I am drinking as I blog is a vanilla bean & maple syrup one ;o)

pastrying myself out

I was so hungry this morning when I got in (despite eating a bowl of Golden Grahams first thing this morning) that I ate my chocolate Brioche and have now just gone out to buy myself a maple pecan plait ;o)

getting to grips

On Thursday morning we had decided (or rather James had sweet talked me into it) on going to Upminster so that he could look around the charity shops...

...knowing how much I hate charity shops he said that I could sit in Costa while he looked around the shops, but no he conveniently couldnt remember where the place was and because it was so cold outside I decided to go in the places with him.

When we eventually only had two shops left to go in he then finally saw the sign for the coffee shop...

...and I found us a table for two and got myself a deaff skinny latte and a bag of mini muffins as I was getting hungry.

I forgot to mention that before we were going to leave for Upminster James tried to switch on the PC and the screen was just flashing (like when the monitor has been switched on but the PC is still off) and nothing happened he had even tried all of these settings that he knows of and still nothing happened...

...yes our PC had finally given up the ghost

So we had to buy a laptop (we were thinking about getting something for when I start my maternity leave and this forced us to do something sooner rather than later).

So please excuse the swearing as I am getting to grips with not having an effing mouse ;o)  And please also excuse if any thing doesnt read right as the blooming touchpad is jumping all over the place!

Now for something completely different

Last night we were sitting there eating our dinner and James lifted up my t-shirt and I saw him dangling a piece of asparagus by my bellybutton he then said "she doesnt want it at the moment" and promptly shoved it
tip first into my bellybutton "in case she changes her mind"  I tried to tell him that she doesnt get he food that way and he said that he "thought that she would grab the food like one of those skelenton moneyboxes do" yes he uses the actual word skelenton.  I will have to make sure that she doesnt pick up any of his ungood English ;o)

shrinking spaces

James had the step ladder out the other day to put some stuff in the loft after clearing out our spare room...

...normally I can get past the step ladder easily enough but when I tried to I couldnt get past!  If I thought that James could be arsed to do it then I would have sworn that he is purposely moving doorframes etc just to annoy me ;o)

I know that my bump is getting big but I didnt think that it was that big yet ;o)