HAPPY 27TH BIRTHDAY, WILL!

Thanks, everyone!

So the other night I tried to roll over on the bed and realized EVE was right there. This is not unusual. She prefers to sleep under the covers in between me and Will.

However, I guess she got a little warm that night because she was stretched out as long as she could be and her little hind feet were on my pillow, crossed in repose. I poked her foot and she started purring.

Ridiculous cat. :)

I JUST REALIZED IT'S A CYLON.

I passed my glucose test on Friday at the obstetrician, which means I do not have gestational diabetes (that's good). It would have been a surprise if I had had it because I didn't with Len and I'm not prediabetic or particularly at risk for it when I'm not pregnant. It still was possible of course, but fortunately I don't have it.

What I do have, despite religiously taking my prenatal vitamin every day, is anemia.

ANEMIA.

Which I do normally have a mild case of even when I'm not pregnant, but now they want me to take EXTRA iron every evening while continuing to take my normal dose in the vitamin every morning.

New baby needs iron and is stealing mine. He is obviously a giant alien robot.

I'm making sure to knit one row and purl one row every night to make sure the techniques get put in my long-term memory rather than short-term, but my knitting still looks awful. I don't know if I'll ever get it even.

I tied a really big ugly green knot with my new needles and yarn, but I have an idea of what to do so I'm going to keep plugging away. :)

I bought yarn today because at work at lunch tomorrow there is a presentation on beginner knitting, and the goal is to create a baby blanket for a charity. I got green yarn because some people are idiotic about not giving certain colors to girls or boys.

It was HARD to figure out the yarn! Sure, I was supposed to get "bulky" or "worsted" weight, but it had to be SMOOTH, and most weren't. And is bulky the same as chunky? And what about the yarn that only has a NUMBER on it and not a WORD?

I'm sure it's all very obvious to people who know how to knit but I felt it was unnecessarily complicated and probably a big reason more people don't try knitting. The barriers to entry/learning curve.

Anyway, they also asked us to get circular needles, I guess because the width of a blanket is too much for a straight one. Now circular needles look EFFED UP. I have no idea how this is going to work.

I did roll one of my skeins into a ball though so I feel all accomplished.

I'm either developing a cold or secondary bacterial pneumonia from the swine flu. I kind of hope it's a cold, because that kind of pneumonia I've had before and you can only get rid of it with antibiotics, and it blows.

My trachea is all f*cked up and when I take a deep breath I feel like I'm wearing a corset; there's this pressure on my ribcage (NO IT'S NOT MY TITS, SHUT UP, I'M USED TO THAT WEIGHT) and it feels weird.

bleh.

Oh well, time to clean the house!

"Like German tourists, the stupid are everywhere."

Spending the morning taking minutes at a meeting that is discussing another meeting that I am not invited to.

Please, new Twilight movie, whatever you're called, get here soon so I can get hearing about you over with.

EVE needs to stop bringing dead frogs into the house. Dead lizards too.

When Cinnamon kills a snake she LEAVES IT OUTSIDE.

Get a clue, dippy cat!

Despite the heartburn I am now getting whenever I ingest anything, even a glass of water, I am feeling much better today. :)

Still not 100% from the illness, still very sleepy, but definitely better.

Len is at school again today and is tolerating his new antibiotic well, although he hates the taste of it and has started rebelling on taking medicine. I can't say I blame him. He's taken up to four medicines every day up to five times apiece per day since a week ago Monday, and none of them is particularly nice.

My OB called back and prescribed more Tamiflu for me (normally an adult takes one pill a day for ten days, I guess, but they want me on it twice a day now), and also an antibiotic that will help with the green stuff and the cough and will also kill Haemophilus influenzae if that is what I have.

I have very little brain right now, and the J key fell off my laptop keyboard, so that is fun.

I am also to report to the emergency room at the hospital in the next couple of days if I am not improving or if I get worse. On the good side with all the drugs I am taking I doubt I am contagious anymore. I'm only a danger to myself.

Woke up at 5:00 AM today coughing my head off. Took more Robitussin. Didn't help. Never got back to sleep. Zombie.

http://jezebel.com/5396011/jilted-bride-turns-reception-into-party-for-seniors

I want to join her fan club.

He's back at school as he no longer has a fever. He's now been diagnosed with Haemophilus influenzae. Which is fun.

I am personally wondering ( TMI... )

Len has H1N1 (swine) flu and strep. Prognosis is good but he's been sick for a week now.

Another program might work very well for me but there are a few reasons this one will not.

1. I would not be able to have any job during the program, but I would have to have health insurance! How the F am I supposed to do that? Oh right, have Mom and Dad bankroll me like a good UCF student.

2. And most importantly: They have a minimum undergrad GPA they will accept, but effectively you really should not apply if your undergrad GPA is 3.4 or below, as mine was. It doesn't matter whether that GPA is in honors classes, or whether it's from Harvard or University of Phoenix--according to UCF it is no harder to get a 3.5 cumulative AT Harvard than at UCF, which is really debatable.

By the way, the fact that I had nearly a 4.0 in grad school doesn't help. Only my LEAST recent college grades matter, not proof that I can do better now.

3. They use NO subjective criteria in their admissions process whatsoever. No essay. No interview. No opportunity to explain yourself. There is a standardized test, and your GPA. If the COMPUTER decides you fall too low, you don't get in. Period.

Whatever.

I would do better at this school to apply as a new undergrad and pretend that I had never been to college at all. I would get in then.

Leaving soon for this http://www.nursing.ucf.edu/images/pdf/InfoSessionAgenda_10-21-09.pdf

Wish me luck! I've gotten some good feedback on the idea and some negative. I'm trying like heck to keep my mind open right now.