Helen, age 27, 5'3". Happily in love & married to Dave, mommy to Baby Bean, grateful for love and life. B.C., Canada. Full-time mental health therapist (aka shrink). Left wing, pro-peace, semi hippie, pro-green. Agnostic Buddhist. Viet-Chinese. Spiritual. Dork.


Lack O’ Energy

Boy I am so darn tired, it’s hard to get motivation to do anything. I find myself rolling onto the couch and sleeping at around 6pm every night… getting up just long enough for some food. And then I roll myself into bed at around 10pm later on, waking up only to go to work the next morning. Everyday I’m getting approximately 12 or 13 hours of sleep, and I am still exhausted. The nausea has gone down considerably, though it is still here. The food issues are still here — almost everything makes me nauseous. I am having trouble knowing what to eat for lunch everyday. I’m not sure what I’m going to have today, to tell you the truth.

There are a lot of things to do and they’re stressing me out, but I suppose they will all get done, sooner or later. They always get done. I have some medical bills to pay, and some legal applications to turn in, and a lot of work paperwork to finish off. These are all quite bitches, and little annoyances, that I have to do, but I need to find the energy and motivation to actually do them. That’s hard. Thank goodness today’s Friday, AND payday. At least I can get those bills over with.

I better go take a shower and get ready for work now. I can’t wait for the second trimester to begin… when I can actually see Baby Bean’s growth and feel a little better. I need that energizer-bunny-type energy back, yo!


Cell Phone Woes

My work cell phone is one of the best I’ve had in a long time. It lasts the whole day, even when I’m really busy and end up on the phone constantly. My old cell phone before this one, I had to use a car charger throughout the day because otherwise it would die about 2 hours after a full charge. It was really annoying, and very cumbersome, especially when I ended up missing important client phone calls and crisis calls. I always wanted one of those cordless phone battery, and I bet they’re really useful. I hope one day they’d be something I’d have a chance to use.

Speaking of, my phone is ringing, and it’s like, 7pm. I have one voicemail msg, and I’m sure it’s a client, but I’m so darn lazy to check it. I’m all comfy on the couch in my pajamas, and as soon as I get up, I know that headache is gonna get worse. Le sigh.


Snowing!

It’s snowing, it’s snowing! It’s been falling steadily for quite a few hours now, and I’m so happy about it. Although I don’t like driving in it, or having to shovel through it, it’s one of the most prettiest sight of nature, I believe. The white is so gorgeous. Of course, I will think differently tomorrow when I have to get up a little earlier to warm up my car and scrape the ice and snow off my windows and hood and stuff, but right now, it’s just gorgeous and perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Times like this, you just have to make sure your car has everything it needs for all types of weather, whether you have a Honda or a Charger or Dodge. You need everything from the most useful (such as chains for your tires), to the most mundane (such as Dodge Charger accessory), but having everything prepared so you don’t get stuck out in the middle of nowhere is so essential.

I should go out and take a picture, but I’m feeling a little nauseous and dizzy, so I’m just gonna take a mental picture and call it good. :P


Payday Loans

I always wonder where one can get payday loans without having to go into a store. It’s kind of embarrassing when you have to do that. However, after knowing a friend who has used payday loans before, I realize how incredibly useful it could be when you’re in desperation for money before your payday. Heck, she even told me how useful payday loans no faxing can be. With PaydayLoanRescue.com, my friend (and maybe even me someday, if I ever need it) can get a payday loan fast, easy, and confidentially. You never know when you will need something like this. When you need food and payday is a whole week away, that’s when you can rely on PaydayLoanRescue.


Back From Our Honeymoon

Yo. Okay, so we’re back from our one-week honeymoon in the Mayan Riviera in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. It’s about an hour and a half south of Cancun. We landed yesterday and got home at around 1am. Tired, hungry, sleepy, dirty — first thing we did was check emails, posts, blogs, comments, facebook, myspace, and surfed the internet all around. Didn’t end up going to sleep until around 2:30am. We are such nerds. :)

If you are on my facebook, you can see all the photos I posted. In three batches, a total of 180 photos that I chose to post. Whenever I get around to it, I’ll post them to flickr too, so the rest of you can see them. Right now, I’m just very lazy.

A lot of updates to do. A lot have been happening lately. I leave most news to friends who want to take the time to talk with me and have dinner/lunch, or just a nice chat. There’s too much to tell, too much to divulge on such a public site. However, here are some highlighted points of our honeymoon.

  • I was nauseous from the pregnancy for all parts of the day during the whole week.
  • I even at several points on Thursday last week blacked out for a few seconds. My eyes completely spotted and I couldn’t see anything but black. Very scary.
  • I did a lot of dry heaving and half-vomiting, though there was no actual vomiting.
  • I ate meat during the whole week, which included beef strips, ham, and bacon. It was because apparently our resort had no idea how to provide protein in non-meat products. Dave remained vegetarian.
  • I am back as a vegetarian now.
  • Food overall tastes completely bad to me, no matter what it is, where it came from, how it looks, how it tastes, or even whether or not I historically liked it. This first trimester is kicking my bum. I eat because I have to, and definitely not because I want to.
  • Most of the vacation was spent obsessing over what I’m going to eat and how I’m going to manage to keep it down without nausea and dizziness for the rest of the day.
  • A few days, I couldn’t do anything but sit perfectly still and read. Any slight movement would’ve met more blacking out, dizziness, wooziness, headache, etc.
  • Dave got a sun burn, which turned into a tan. Hehe.
  • Our hotel room was so freezing cold, it was ridiculous. The outside weather was about 85 to 90 degrees everyday. Most days it rained, but it wasn’t a big problem because it was so warm. We bundled up when we went to sleep because we hated our room. Complained about it four times and nothing was done. Grr.
  • We saw THE Chichen Itza pyramid, one of the world’s current seven wonders of the world.
  • We also visited Tulum, another ancient ruin site, set by the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the sites where the Spaniards invaded those many years ago.
  • We also went to Xel-Ha, a water park in Mexico, where we swam with dolphins.
  • We visited an ancient Mayan cenote, which is an underground cave with fresh water to swim in. It was so freakin’ gorgeous.
  • We visited several small pocket communities of the Mayan people, and got to see a bit how they live, what their homes look like, etc.
  • Bargaining is AMAZING in Mexico. They expect you to bargain with them when you want to buy souvenirs. Otherwise, you’d end up spending 20 times more than you really should. It became second nature to me whenever I wanted to buy.
  • We swam in the crisp, clear, beautiful ocean at our resort, where we were alongside giant angel fish right next to us. All natural.
  • The Mexican people, and specifically the Mayan people, are extremely accommodating, hospitable, and so very friendly. They are a humble people. Wow.
  • We met some very lovely international patriots from all over the world. It was really cool hearing all these different languages and accents.
  • I realize that I have some really bad food issues. Serious food issues. It is actually disgusting and ashaming, and this pregnancy just makes the worst come out of me when it comes to these food issues. It took me being in a completely new place out of my element to realize just how backwards my food issues are. It was a very hard food week for me.
  • We are SO GLAD to be home. Oh so glad.
  • We had absolutely NO internet access or wireless. Well, scratch that. There were two computers in the front lobby, but they cost $5 per every half hour to use. So we said screw it. We never felt out of place in so long. Heh. No internet?!
  • We missed Tink something fierce. Man.
  • TV in Mexico is filled with just as much advertisement and nonsense commercials as in the regular western world. Except everything’s in Spanish.
  • Everything went smoothly. We thoroughly enjoyed Mexico, but given our home-body natures and my first trimester during pregnancy, we could’ve done the whole week in about 3 days and would’ve been happy. Heh. However, we got some goodies for a few of my friends and the kids in our family.


    Downgrading

    My bank the other month told me that I should have at least two checking accounts because that would keep me much safer against thievery and identity theft. I suppose so, but I don’t find the use in it when I also carry both check cards in the same wallet. I guess that kind of defeats the purpose, eh. Heh. I certainly won’t be carrying both of them during our honeymoon, though. That’s just asking for trouble, in my opinion.

    One of my coworkers got her purse stolen recently. She was devastated. It left me thinking, “Damn. I keep a lot of shit in my purse and wallet.” I think I need to downgrade and not make myself so vulnerable to attachment. I suppose it’s a good thing to be able to just wave it all aside. Actually, when I really think about it, the only thing that would really piss me off if I ever got my bag stolen is that I would also lose my calender, and my USB plug. Other than that, everything else is replacable. It would just take a shitload of work replacing all the legal crap, but that’s just time, not memory. I still think it’s time to downgrade, though.


    Weird Techno Chick

    I think we seriously need an update on our entertainment units. I think we’re one of the last people I know who hasn’t yet bought an HDTV or some sort of flat screen panel yet. And then, I hear about these HDMI splitters that you can also buy for your entertainment unit. I think I’m really behind on the times, but you know, I just don’t care enough. Our tv works fine. It takes a bit of space, and I would love for it to be hanging off the wall all silent-like and ninja-like, but it’s been working and I don’t see any reason why we need to upgrade when it works perfectly well.

    Maybe I’m just weird. :)


    Honeymoon Bliss

    When we’re on vacation, I’m totally leaving all work behind. I don’t care if I’m behind in my paperwork — this whole next week, I will not be working. Hehehehe. Feels wonderful. Jen and Anne are covering for me next week, too. No cell phone, no work email, nothing. Heck, I won’t even have to get all annoyed by the fact that my cell needs a cell phone booster for going through areas of Blaine and Ferndale! And even some parts of B’ham. I wouldn’t have to worry about any of that!! One whole week free of worrysome phone calls, crises, no shows, cancellations, service logs, and exit summaries. Ahhh, how lovely.

    Then maybe I can finally just concentrate on getting better, enjoying my pregnancy symptoms, and relaxing by the beach while the warmth of the sun hits my skin. :D


    Update on Baby Bean

    Ah these last couple of days, I’ve really hit the hormonal rage. Today I got my blood test results back from the Dr. M, and she confirmed that I’m pregnant (duh.. hehe). I’m at least 5 weeks along, but she’s guessing it’s not very accurate, so we’re going to have an ultrasound done on December 3, 2007, in B’ham. Dave will come with me, and hopefully we can see our big our baby is. I’m still pretty early on, so we’ll see if anything can be seen.

    In the meantime, I’m still sick. Doc prescribed me some Amoxicillin, and so far they’ve been workin’ well. I feel a lot better. The first trimester is proving to be quite painful. I’m very headache, dizzy, queasy all the time it seems. I’m not throwing up yet, but it seems like I’m constantly feeling like I need to, only to be dry heaving instead. Chinese food just smells absolutely horrid to me (imagine that!!). I wake up and I feel sooo queasy.

    Today, I also realized that I can’t seem to be the passenger in a car very well. I get very queasy. I hope I don’t end up having morning sickness, but at this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised. The pregnancy hormones are just sky-rocketing inside me. Baby Bean is growing fast. S/He’s between 5 weeks and 9 weeks. We’ll know for sure soon, anyway.

    Tomorrow morning we leave for our one-week honeymoon to Mexico. It will be fantastic. I’m looking forward to the time off. :)

    Got some other great news, but I will save that for later. Seems like everything is falling together perfectly. Life is sweet. I feel like I’ve worked a whole lifetime to earn what we have, and we totally deserve it. Happiness is wonderful.


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