random thoughts for today

Thanks to all for their get well wishes and sympathy. I am happy to report that I am pretty much over my sickness and, except for the rib, am feeling so much better. The rib is still bothering me at night and that (plus the baby) makes it difficult to turn over in bed--and most especially painful to get OUT of bed. It doesn't help that I am at the stage now where I get up to pee 2-3 times a night now. But, once I am up and about for the day, it doesn't bother me too much.

Speaking of nighttime. They say when you are pregnant you have some crazy or bizarre dreams. So what does it mean when you dream about doing your daily routine? The past few dreams that I remember, I was getting up and dressed, getting the kids breakfast and dressed, eating breakfast, doing laundry, running errands...it was really odd. So when I woke up and actually started my daily routine, I was a little annoyed thinking "didn't I JUST do all this?" I thought sleep was supposed to be relaxing...

And why are there people from high school, whom I wasn't even really friends with, adding me as a "friend"on Facebook? Weird. Do you really want to catch up and get in touch or are you just trying to get your friend count up? I mean, how high school-ish is that? I don't get it. I guess I should just ignore their friend request, but then I think that makes me a bit of a ummm....witch. Right?

On that same note, I am annoyed with people who ignore messages you have sent them on Facebook. These are people whom I actually WAS friends with at one time and sent them a message to catch up with them and they totally don't respond. I'd rather you just ignore my friend request, than add me and THEN totally ignore me. Whatever.

What do they put in soda that makes me so happy? As you can tell by my posting name, I used to have a serious diet coke addiction.

About 132 oz a day problem. And that was on a good day.

And it could only be from a fountain (preferably In-N-Out since their soda is consistantly good...as opposed to say, AM/PM or 7-11 where their fountains are always off on their water/syrup/carbonation mix ) and the cup must be halfway full of ice. Picky, yes I know.

I went cold turkey off Diet Coke in 2003 when I found out I was pregnant with Sammy. It was a sad, sad day. Diet Coke was the one thing that always made me happy and tasted oh-so-good, but I just didn't want to have the caffeine or nutrasweet chemicals while I was pregnant. I never got back "on the wagon" (is it on the wagon or off??) after having him because we nursed for so long.

When I was pregnant with Hannah, I started craving root beer. Specifically, Barq's root beer (any other kind is disgusting!). I have hated root beer my entire life, so I'm not sure where all this was coming from, but it was so nice to have a soda every once in a while. I kind of stopped after having Hannah because I just couldn't justify all the empty calories...and I tried to get back on the Diet Coke wagon, but it tasted so gross to me. (!!!) Again, a sad, sad day.

I guess it's the stress of having two kids, but I seriously have to have a root beer from In-N-Out almost every day now. Yes, I know it has caffeine in it and I feel guily about that, but it's so nice to be back in the soda routine again. Yes, I know how pathetic that sounds. I am back to having a serious addiction problem and am going to have to do something drastic after this baby is born because I will never lose the baby weight by ingesting an extra 500 calories a day. I guess I'll have to go back to Diet Coke.

And don't tell me to just give up the soda...it makes me happy. Really.

If you've stuck with my rambling this long--thanks. I very rarely post anything besides family stuff on here, so I'm not sure why I am posting all this except I was having these random thoughts and why not share them, right?