Facebook Pet Peeves

Yup, we all have them. So I figured I'd do quick list of mine, most of these have to do with some of the newer things I've been seeing on Facebook. So no, I'm not going to comment on how dumb the "Poke" button is.

10. Spelling.

Now, I do understand that yes, some words do in fact are tricky in the delightful world of English. However, and I do mean this, if your using a good browser (like Firefox or Chrome anyone still using Exploder needs to update.) it comes with a BLOODY SPELL CHECK. Not even just that, you have the power of Google that will even try and figure out what you're trying to say. So if you are trying to spell 'finally' and end up ' finley"  with there is something really wrong.

9. TMI Status/photo's ect

You all know the one. Usually hinting at some sort of sexual innuendo or maybe it's just something you never ever wanted to read. Such as, pigs making a messy messy poop, or someone motor-boating some chick, or even the 'Come and get some action lover' status, or some one talking about the nasty hang over they have while messing some **** up or finally some ones bare nekked butt letting it all let lose and pretty much mooning everyone that's friends with them. Sadly you can never unsee anything, but you can try to forget. Not like this one is newer or anything, I just really wanted to comment.

8. This is not Twitter, stop putting status up like it is.

I hate Twitter, the concept, the fact it encourages that evil lazy text messaging typing (ie: Im 2 cool 4 u peeps lolz), that and you need to learn the Twitter language. I have my own Trippy speak, I don't need Twitter speak. I don't need to know every single time someone pisses you off, your hockey team scored during that 20 minutes of game time, or even if your taking a poop. Status, once in a while, not every 5 minutes or even seconds apart from each other. If your that lonely get a dog and tell it those things.

7. Blah and Blah are now friends because of Blah event.

This is really new. If you have an event on Facebook, two people you know say they are attending aren't friends on Facebook but have known each other for a long long time. These two people decide to add each other to their Facebook accounts. Suddenly it's because of the event.  Auto assuming. The new auto correct.

6. You don't talk to this person, Auto hide their stuff!

This one was kinda rude. Since I do enjoy some fan stuff and stalking peoples Facebook pages. (It's what it's for right?) So once I actually fixed the settings so that it stopped it. I was kinda blown away by how much crap actually ended up on my news feed. Few more adjustments and I'm not getting updates every hour from some of the "liked" Fan pages. Happily creeps on peoples Facebook pages with much greater ease.

5. 94% of people won't repost this, so post this as your status, even if it's just for an hour to help raise awareness about cancer/sick/pedo's/life issue here.

Really? Why don't you go donate money towards to whatever it is and challenge people to do that instead of just useless status that does nothing for them. Heck, informative Youtube videos's are better then these.

4. Spam

Seriously, do people just not have the will power to not click something that looks like some chick is exposing a breast? Or something that says, OMG 14 year old gets walked in on by her father!!! Just don't, report it as spam and carry on with your day. Don't know how? Here. The black circle is where you'll find that hidden X, click it and the drop down box of magic reporting will appear.

3. I just put up status for the comments/ Good night Facebook!

This is just as bad as people putting up photo's for the likes. Which adds to the growing population that would fall in to the category of the joke, If Facebook closed today there would be millions of kids running around with photo's screaming DO YOU LIKE THIS?!?! DO YOU!?! If you need this much re affirming for everything you post... It may be time to look at why your on Facebook. If your on there to feel popular, I assure you, you don't have that many real friends. You probably have 5 or maybe 10 not 300 or even 2000. I have 300 friends listed on my own profile, I don't know all of them that well. I enjoy the posts that many of them put up, or just to give a quick check to see what's going on in their lives.

Goodnight Facebook! Good-morning Facebook! Lets get one thing straight, you are not actually saying goodnight to Facebook which in fact is a matter of Code in a digital world. In fact, you are trying to say goodnight to every single one of your 300 "friends" who just might happen to be on, even if you haven't sent anything to them in a month. Do you really need to say good night to Facebook? No no you don't.  

2. Questions. IE So and so asked this question.

If you really want to know my answer, send me a message and ask. You don't need a special poll to ask the world.

1. I hate Facebook, But yet I'm still on it....

This one.. self explanatory.

Pregnancy. The Woman's frontier: Part 3

Well, the time has flown and I'm technically carrying around a full term Bubbles. Means he could come ANY time now. Lets take a moment and look at the change I've undergone the past 37 weeks.

8 Weekish
Bust 34
Waist 26
Hips 33
Weight 120 lbs

37 Weeks
Bust 38
Waist 43
Hips 39.5
Weight 161 lbs

Wow huh?

I originally didn't think my face changed a lot until I saw this comparison! You can really see some of that water retention going on. Which has been really entertaining to me since I've never really been poofy before. A lot of this has happened in the past few weeks. My wedding rings don't fit so well, my early maternity clothing doesn't fit so well, some of my flip flops don't fit so well.. the ones that are a little more supportive then just regular plain ones.

I've finally had the joy's of getting those bending over issues. Nothing like keeping feet shoulder width apart and squatting to try and get at the dishwasher soap. Also more getting stuck when trying to get out of bed after enjoying a quick snuggle up in a pile of blankets. Soft squishy things are thine enemy when you get to your third trimester even though they feel SO nice.

Walking has become more of a challenge, well, more like walking for extended periods of time. For example, I went shopping with a good friend of mine. We shopped Chinook Mall for 4 hours. Lots of walking, great deals and a great time. However the total time I was up and about was more closer to 6 hours if you add in the walking to the train station, walking to the mall, walking back to the train station, walking back home. I was a very tired preggo. So, as punishment my body put me to sleep.. for 18 hours. I think I woke up twice for 30 minutes, just enough to go pee and maybe eat something before I passed out again. Either way lesson was learned, so when I went with another friend to do something very similar I was prepared with a knowledge of my limit and was far more awake the following day!

Also, road trips. Traveling in a car for 2 hours while 36 weeks preggy.. not so fun. Maybe it was just the seats in the car but something didn't agree with me while we drove. Back pains and I got restless.. just not a lot of fun. Being able to move around apparently helps keep me quiet comfortable. Other wise things just start not liking me.

I have the line... I like to call it my dissection line. Mainly because it's prefect along my midsection for some alien to cut open. In reality, I know it's Linea Nigra, fancy boring name for the change in your skin pigmentation along your abdominal muscles as they stretch and slightly separate to accommodate Bubbles as he gets bigger. It's actually a fair bit darker then what the photo shows. Also, the photo shows I still got no stretch marks on my tummy! However, it turns out because my hips changed so much, that's where the stretch marks are. Not just on my hips, they've found their way down the backs of my thighs, to the inside of my thigh and even a few on one of my calves. They kinda remind me of long freckles... Good thing I don't sport short shorts anymore.

The sleeping. Oh the sleeping. I didn't sleep for a bit in 8 hour chunks. I typically slept for 2-5 hours, then I was awake for the same amount or less. I called it my prep for Bubbles when he was out. Getting trained for what very easily could be what my life could be like in a few short weeks. I'm expecting less sleep to be honest, but if I get more. Bonus. I also have to give another shout out for my Snoogle. Seriously that thing is awesome. It helps my sleep a lot. However there are still a few moments where it doesn't help. If I lay one one side or the other too long, sometimes I'll get pains from my body shifting around due to my new weight. Mostly one side is typically my hip and the other my ribs. Another thing that likes to keep me up is the occasional heart burn. Minor issue though in comparison to what I've heard. Buckets and buckets of Tums? Not for this girl. Thankfully, one or two at night and I'm typically good to go after half an hour or so.

Movements! No more are the little pokes. In fact, the smaller the movement, the less likely I am to actually feel it. I see more movements now then I feel them. The whole tummy moves now. I can feel him shift around in there adjusting his shoulders, arms, legs, feet and I see it too. Sadly I haven't seen any individual fingers or toes like I really wanted to. There is still time, I might just get lucky.

I've learned a lot over the past few months, over this entire pregnancy actually. I kinda feel like I've been in school since April. Learning about all the things my body is going to do, the things that are going to happen in Labor. I've empowered with a lot of knowledge about my choices for a natural birth, and even a medicated birth. I still have more to learn, review and maybe even share with fellow mothers. The best choice I've made so far was to get a Doula. I haven't even gone into the labor stages of my pregnancy and she's been an amazing help to me. I don't think I want to do a birth with out a Doula, even if I do get in with some Midwives. They are just so warm and helpful. Even my short meet with my back up Doula was great. You can feel the support they want to give you. If your tight on cash, there are options for you. There are newer Doula's just waiting to help you out. I went with Krystal at http://www.ninemonthsdoula.com even though she's in the Lethbrigde area, I'm thankful for her help and I know she'll be a greater help once labor kicks into full gear for me and my husband. (Even your partner needs some help especially for new parents!) If your thinking about getting a Doula, or not even considering it. I'm telling you right now, just do it. You won't regret it, even if your planing to just have the baby via C-section, they can be more help then you even thought.

Since I'm going for an all natural birth, I'll touch shortly on how I plan on dealing with the pain of childbirth. Mostly I'm going for a mind over body tricks. One of which includes taking the pain out of childbirth. I'm not going to go as far as my online prenatal class went by calling them birthing embraces..(That's when I was reminded of a certain conversation with a sister in law about some "Love drugs" that your body makes). More like Birthing pressures, since I've actually felt a few "pressures." The other is keeping myself as relaxed as possible. This means not freaking out and letting the outside world influences about the pains of childbirth. This has meant a lot of smiling and nodding at pregnancy horror stories. Don't get me wrong, I know they happen. To me it's more of a these things happen sometimes. That's why we have Obstetrics. I'm not that person, and each birth is different. It helps to  just remind myself my body was built for this, if a woman in a coma can do with out some one screaming push at her, I'm pretty sure I can too. It's helped to see births with things like the cord being wrapped around the babies neck, being breach and still being delivered vaginally. I know what an actual cord problem is from all the reading I've done, and a rough idea what the care provider choices are. So I have no reason to panic when I hear the cord is around his neck. Keeping relax and not getting all panicked is actually suppose to be key things with keeping Pain out of childbirth. It makes sense. If you are all tense more of your body is going to hurt. Example. Hold your hand in tight tight fist, do that for 10 seconds each for a minute. Now try and tense your entire body and that same fist for 10 seconds, now try to relax just your fist. Do that for a minute. Makes things interesting ya? I thought so too.

Well I went on about that for more then I wanted. I could talk about that a lot, and I'll let you know how well I deal with my birthing pressures and how I found keeping relaxed during the whole thing or if I even manage it. That's for another blog, which I'll do after Bubbles isn't Bubbles anymore and is whatever the name Mike and I have picked for him.

Garden of Earthly Delights!

It's so sunny and wonderful out it's been amazing. A few weeks ago now I cleared out my balcony of all the dead plants, some of which have just been sitting there for 8 years... okay most of them if not all, of the pots I set up in my first attempt at having a little place of greenery out there. They all died out there horribly when I started to ignore them due to my life starting to make some interesting turns and not fun twists. ( Taking care of plants is one way to tell how well you'll do in a relationship. It's a responsibly thing, apparently I sucked 8 years ago.)

So, because of that I forced myself not to go by or in garden center's because I didn't have enough time to take care of them ( I was busy chasing other things *cough cough*). However, cleaning out those dead ones left me with empty pots. Here I am growing and nurturing a baby on my inside and here are these sad empty pots with nothing inside....

So I filled them up! This is one of 7 pots of plants I now have. Pretty little flowers and I bought some full sun ones in my attempt to get part sun ones. So I was worried about how they would turn out. God smiled, and they are doing just fine for now.

I'm pretty sure this was the smallest, saddest little cherry tomato plant Mike could find. Look it the tiny widdle leaves! So this is Mikes's addition to the little garden, and he's leaving it to me take care of it. So I am, and it's doing pretty darn well. It's got some more leaves and as you can tell (kinda) it's not so sad. Which makes me happy mainly because it was one of those full sun plants.  Eventually I'll need a bigger pot for him, I think. I'm a very novice tomato plant person. I'll probably ask my mom or maybe one of my more tomato savoy friends may leave a comment? If anything I'll read on Google too. More information the better. Education is a good thing. I'm excited to see if I can actually make it grow some tomato's. It'd be the first plant that I've grown that would make food since like gr 5 when they give you that bean to grow. ( I killed that one too)

So since I was taking pictures, the little photographer inside also came out with the little old lady gardener that came out a few weeks ago. So I played with my camera, something I haven't done in a while. It was enjoyable figuring out what did what. I was taking a photography course at SAIT for digital graphic design, and only got to the first photography course. I still learned a lot and I'll probably just do it as a hobby.

Of course my main subject just happened to be Yellow. An African Daisy that finally bloomed for me!

Isn't it cute!

It just makes me wanna smile. It's so bright and happy!

I just love the texture in this one. Complete with little specs of pollen!

One of the other flowers that bloomed. This one didn't have it's own pot so I didn't spend nearly as much time on it, but this is my background on my computer now. I'll update this one as my little plants grow and get more flowers. As you can see there are more coming!

Bubble Shower, May 23 2011

Baby shower! I can not express enough on what a wonderful time I had. It was delightful seeing so many friends and family together to celebrate Bubbles. Even if he's not here yet for another month and a bit. Which, by the way, still feels like I should have months to go. My first pregnancy seems to have pretty much flown by. I do kinda of wish it wasn't so fast, I've loved being pregnant so far. It's the coolest thing I've experienced, complete with all of the weird and strange things my body has done. I feel bad for those that don't enjoy it or just complain about everything that goes on with their bodies. I always feel kinda weird when all someone does is talk about how horrible it is, and I'm sitting here loving everything they are complaining about. ( Heart burn is not fun, I will agree to that. ) Though they all agree the end result is worth all the fuss. I'll do it again sometime, hopefully all my pregnancies go as well as this one has. I'm thinking 2 years later when Bubbles is probalbly walking about grabbing things of shelves.. or even climbing them...

The shower was suppose to be an outdoor event, however it showered outside. So it became an indoor event. My mom and sisters went about decorating the inside with stuffed bunnies. Also on of my mom's orchids went a little insane on producing a lot of flowers just in time. She told me it did that just for the shower. Like it knew. Mom always finds away to make something a little more special. She's gun ho like that. The inside windows of my mothers house is normally a jungle in it's self. She's a bit of a green thumb and loves flowers. Wouldn't have her any other way.

Also, it was a pot luck! Which I think worked out great, left over veggie and fruit trays for the win. The really amazing thing is that my mom's kitchen is actually big enough to let like 5 or 6 people run about and set up their contributions. It's a big wonderful Kitchen, even if it doesn't have any flooring yet. I can't wait for the house to be done, I think it will be excellent for entertaining and more when it's done. Anyways, I'm thankful that the pot luck snack idea was a great hit. Less time needed to have one person set up all the food the better.

What would a shower for Bubbles be with out bubbles? Yup, we had bubbles with little blue rattles. Didn't blow any since we where inside but still pretty cute party favor. I'm sure there will be lots of fun with those later and hopefully not sit around and collect dust. I'm beginning to think like my husband, "useful" things instead of something that will collect dust. We also had some pretty fun games. In which my sisters jumped right in on. The Diaper Pin game. Very simple and yet far to much fun. Basically everyone in attendance gets a Diaper pin on arrival and if they get caught saying the word "Baby" whoever catches them loses their pin to that person. The person that manages to collect the most pins wins. I failed horribly. The moment we started reading baby shower cards I was pretty much done. I tried to be sneaky and just say the boy part however, I reversed it and ended up spitting out the Baby part of the phrase. Later, Mike and I got new pins because people left and sure enough, 5 minutes later we were both pin less. Guess it just wasn't meant to be.

The other game we played was a bottle drinking game. Participants ( All men there were picked on to do this, Gill's idea not mine. My sisters jumped in on this one too. ) where each given a 4 ounce bottle of juice. At the "go" they raced and whoever finished theirs first, won. The bottles had slow flow nipples for added challenge. I think a lot of people where surprised at how hard this actually was. I know Mike was, we have video proof of his comments. My sister Andrea has it on her Facebook, it's pretty funny. Mike's dad won that one. Most people only had a ounce fished by the time he was finished. The trick? Bite the very end of the nipple to make the hole bigger. He said all of his kids did it, nothing like the trick of an experienced dad/grandpa. I'm sure Bubbles will figure it out too.

We had singing! Gill's mom brought her guitar and played for us. She made Gill sing with her, which is never too hard to do since Gill loves to sing. They managed to make me cry. Mainly because memory lane was triggered and it all came out. Gill's mom moved to Newfoundland years ago, the last time I saw her was at Gill's Birthday party before I got married. Now I know that wasn't that long ago, but to be fair there was no guitar playing then, just karaoke. My wonderful and kind sister decided to take a snap shot of me crying. (She took 99% of the pictures that are in this blog, yay facebook!) I stayed pretty red faced after that. Nothing like the sniffles to make pictures oh so much more interesting. We did action songs ( one of which had rocking movements, became pee inducing ) and danced. I discovered that Bubbles is kinda bouncy in there so I hugged the belly to keep it from moving so much.

SIS (Singing Induced Sniffles) while Mike checks up on work stuff.

Now for some random pictures of the day!
 

 

Apparently I like the right side of people. Who knew?

Baby Bubbles first haul! He and his parents thank you!

Now I'm going to touch on some of the gifts we got. We got quite a bit of stuff and I'm very thankful for it! Because of it, we are pretty much ready for Bubbles whenever he decides to come. ( Only missing the car seat to take him home in, since the hospital won't let us leave without one. ) I was also impressed with how much Bunny stuff people managed to find. I know when I was looking I could hardly find a lot of baby boy bunny stuff. ( Most of it was pink... Bunnies are unisex come on! ) We even got a pattern for a soft book ( A Fabric book ) that my mom could make. I'm also debating cutting the pages out and framing them, but I'm unsure. Maybe Bubbles could just drool all over it.

Speaking of books! Bubbles now has a mini library of books. I got tons of books when I was a kid, it's only fair that he does to. We got Little critter books, Dr Seuss books, Spot's adventures, books with art by Eric Carle (The guy who arted hungry caterpillar) and many more. Personally, I love the idea of children's books. Even if I'm not a avid book reader. Despite this when ever I'm with a group of children I typically end up reading to them. So I'm well prepared!

Bubbles place of sleeping for the first 3 months of life.

Another gift I'm very thankful for is this home made Cradle that was made by Uncle Larry. ( He's not really my Uncle.. but I can't help but call him that, just like it's Aunty Gwen. ) A shower gift from the Ness family, who I've known since before I was born. Tiffany and my parents where friends when both Aunty Gwen and my mom where pregnant. This, I'm sure, will be used for more then just Bubbles, which is why I'm thankful it comes a part! Otherwise I think storing it could be a great big pain in the butt.

The biggest gift we got was from my mother. I'd post of a picture of it but it's not ready as of yet. My mom got us the crib for bubbles. The reason it's not quite ready is that it came from an unfinished furniture store. So, my mother has been busy adding the finish to the crib. Once it's done I will certainly post a picture of it. It's very beautiful from what I've seen and it came with pieces to become a double bed. I can't wait to get everything set up in his little room. However, I can wait on getting woken up at 3 am.

Oh! Also, packaging. Oh my gosh the packaging on some of the gifts. I just about went crazy trying to snip off some of those tiger tails!( The plastic thing that keeps things on the packaging often found on socks. Yes, I worked in retail far too long. ) Some of the towels (Disney you may be awesome but like 10 of them on a towel? Really? ) it was quite the challenge getting them out of there. Eventually you get the hang of snipping out little tiny tiger tails, it doesn't make it any less annoying. I can't imagine trying to do that with other small kids around trying to get your attention. I suspect they are put in bed and asleep while mom and/or dad open up packaging of baby stuff.

I'm sure we will be getting more things from people, new or hand me downs from other little boys. All of it helps and all of it we are thankful for. I'm so thankful for all we've gotten so far and I can't wait to have people over to meet Bubbles when he does finally come. ( Not all at once, planing on spacing it out for over a week or two. ) I know I'm excited about finally meeting him, or her if that 2% does in fact happen. (She'll have lots of blues and greens to wear!) Bubbles is already flipped and in position to make the exit into the world that is eagerly waiting to embrace him.