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Sickness, bathroom, Ducky and cable
No, it doesn't appear that I got out of The Sick this time. I have a terrible cough, a (slight) fever, sore throat and general muscle aches. Yay! I dutifully went to work but felt dull and sketchy all day until late afternoon, when I was feeling a bit better. That didn't last, of course, and now I feel crummy. M listened to me cough my lungs out in the living room while he painted in the bedroom for a while before coming out to inform me that if I wasn't feeling quite a lot better in the morning that I am staying home from work tomorrow. I have been trying hard not to use superfluous days off, but he is of the opinion that sick pregnant women should be able to rest, since that's what sick leave is for and all. We'll see how I feel in the morning, but I seem to be still in a state of decline so I don't know if I feel too hopeful. I have actually not been sick in almost two years, so I guess it's due. (As incredible as that is, given how very much I was sick that year.) And hey, I'd rather be sick now than in May if I were to get to choose!
Other than that, nothing is new. M was foiled at most every turn with his renovation project tonight, but he did put up the cabinet over the toilet and it looks so nice! It seems to match our floors beautifully, and it looks very nice against the off-white paint we chose. I hope the floor-matching turns out to be a good thing.. we had thought there would be more contrast. We bought the wrong size quarter-round trim, though, so he couldn't fix the missing spots and then paint the trim as he had planned. We bought the wrong size of trim, of course, because every other room in this house uses a different size (the one we bought) than the little bathroom does. The people who put the stuff in the bathroom, though, couldn't reach far enough to put up trim everywhere it needed to be, so they just.. left it. Didn't even paint the baseboards where they couldn't reach. Granted, that area was in a narrow space beside the bathroom counter, but still. It's not like it was invisible, just not extremely noticeable. We also may experience more trouble than we expected when hooking up the sink, since the instructions apparently say something like: 1. Unpack cabinet. 2. Install plumbing. Helpful. But he hasn't really looked at it yet to know if that will be a problem, and if it is, my dad may be coming down on Saturday and he'll have some input on how to do it even if he has to make it up. No, I'm kidding. My dad is kind of bossy, but he is extremely handy so he probably will know what "Install" refers to. We can't move the thing in until Friday anyway because of the drying floors.
Ducky Content: The baby seemed to have moved about a week ago so that she was no longer kicking my cervix and pummeling at my belly. I didn't have a camera aimed at her to be able to tell for sure, of course, but it seemed like she twisted into a new position so that most of her movements just felt tumbly and shifty, not like kicking or punching--I could still feel her, just not as hard and not quite as often. The cervix thing was never my favorite, but the other felt very sweet. This afternoon, she apparently moved back, announced it with a few swift cervix jabs and has been poking me all afternoon to make up for lost time. Hi, little girl! I missed you!
Ooh! We just hooked up my computer to the new cable internet connection. It works! It's fast! It's (so far) three times as fast as our crappy DSL! It's three-quarters of the advertised speed! (Which is really not too bad considering what percentage of speed-to-advertised we had before.) It's not technically supposed to work until next Thursday. I wonder about how they're going to charge for this.. based on sign-up date (considering that they make you wait a week and a half for installation) or on installation (considering that it actually already works). Either way, it is delightful to have something fast. I think I shall go download something large to celebrate.
Other than that, nothing is new. M was foiled at most every turn with his renovation project tonight, but he did put up the cabinet over the toilet and it looks so nice! It seems to match our floors beautifully, and it looks very nice against the off-white paint we chose. I hope the floor-matching turns out to be a good thing.. we had thought there would be more contrast. We bought the wrong size quarter-round trim, though, so he couldn't fix the missing spots and then paint the trim as he had planned. We bought the wrong size of trim, of course, because every other room in this house uses a different size (the one we bought) than the little bathroom does. The people who put the stuff in the bathroom, though, couldn't reach far enough to put up trim everywhere it needed to be, so they just.. left it. Didn't even paint the baseboards where they couldn't reach. Granted, that area was in a narrow space beside the bathroom counter, but still. It's not like it was invisible, just not extremely noticeable. We also may experience more trouble than we expected when hooking up the sink, since the instructions apparently say something like: 1. Unpack cabinet. 2. Install plumbing. Helpful. But he hasn't really looked at it yet to know if that will be a problem, and if it is, my dad may be coming down on Saturday and he'll have some input on how to do it even if he has to make it up. No, I'm kidding. My dad is kind of bossy, but he is extremely handy so he probably will know what "Install" refers to. We can't move the thing in until Friday anyway because of the drying floors.
Ducky Content: The baby seemed to have moved about a week ago so that she was no longer kicking my cervix and pummeling at my belly. I didn't have a camera aimed at her to be able to tell for sure, of course, but it seemed like she twisted into a new position so that most of her movements just felt tumbly and shifty, not like kicking or punching--I could still feel her, just not as hard and not quite as often. The cervix thing was never my favorite, but the other felt very sweet. This afternoon, she apparently moved back, announced it with a few swift cervix jabs and has been poking me all afternoon to make up for lost time. Hi, little girl! I missed you!
Ooh! We just hooked up my computer to the new cable internet connection. It works! It's fast! It's (so far) three times as fast as our crappy DSL! It's three-quarters of the advertised speed! (Which is really not too bad considering what percentage of speed-to-advertised we had before.) It's not technically supposed to work until next Thursday. I wonder about how they're going to charge for this.. based on sign-up date (considering that they make you wait a week and a half for installation) or on installation (considering that it actually already works). Either way, it is delightful to have something fast. I think I shall go download something large to celebrate.