Year: 2007
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The Big Guy and the Pet Food Recall.
As many of you already know, Schmitty had some problems recently that forced us to take him to the dreaded vet. I think the problems began in December when we noticed he was pooping outside of the litter box and that there were small amounts of blood in each of his stools, red blood. After…
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Discovery's Planet Earth.
I am absolutely floored by the Discovery Channel’s new series called Planet Earth (link to episode guide and schedule). Unfortunately I missed the first two episodes: “Pole to Pole” and “Mountains”. But I was able to catch “Deep Ocean” and “Deserts” over the weekend. I’m hooked. I now have my DVR set up to record…
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I'm just sayin'.
In two weeks I am schedule to have a Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT). (I’m going to explain what it is and why It’s done because I didn’t know what it was up until recently. If you already know about it, don’t care, or are bored, skip to the 3rd paragraph.) During pregnancy, hormones suppress insulin…
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Updates on Random
About God and Parking. When you’re pregnant and upset because your body won’t allow you to do the things you were once able to do, other seemingly ordinary events and situations arise that prove to be the most spectacular events ever. For example, today I found out that because of the Jews and the Christians…
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Nutrition and Pregnancy
(The most annoying post ever. It even annoys me.) This month my baby’s brain started developing little nerve cells. They are forming at a rapid rate especially at the front of his brain, the part that does the most thinking. And his spinal cord and its nerves are developing as well. Sheaths are forming around…
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Hindu Rope Plant
It’s called a Hindu Rope Plant. I nearly killed it about 8 years ago. And then during one of my many moves, my father ended up adopting it and while it was with him it grew to be about 10 feet long. (It spins around on itself, ends up looking more like a big ol’…
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Tobyjoe
We were have brunch on Sunday and a little girl kept making googly eyes at Tobyjoe. They always make googly eyes at Tobyjoe. Kids love Tobyjoe. She smiled and hid and then looked again and then giggled and then he did this: And she giggled some more.
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Doula Need It?
From Wikipedia: “A doula is a non-medical assistant in prenatal care, childbirth and during the postpartum period.” Tobyjoe and I are tight with cash right now and while I like the idea of a doula and what I’ve heard from those who have used one, I’m not sure it’s going to be feasible for us.…
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Off Spring
Have you ever had one of those nightmares where the person you love no longer loves you? And when you try and talk to them about it your words fall on deaf ears. There’s no rational (or irrational) way you can make them change their mind, no protest large enough, no sentence true enough. Yet…
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