4:37 pm
Anyone who knows me even vaguely knows I adore the sun, I love it more then the moon even. (Is that considered Pagan sacrilege? Hehe!) I could care less about tanning though I do love my sun kisses (freckles.) For me it is more the mere presence of the sun that uplifts and empowers me. Every morning, especially when I am up to see the sun breaking the horizon, I say a little sun mantra to myself thanking it for being there for me.
I love drawing styled suns too, even my business logo has the sun in it. I love depictions of the sun, anything that catches the sun’s rays, and solar colors. Orange is my absolute favorite color. I have sun catchers in almost every window of my home, a couple of which are dragonflies, my personal sun totem. The snake, another one of my totems is definitely a sun worshiper like me. When I stand in the sun I feel like the snake, my batteries are charging up.
Whether the sun comes out or not during the day greatly affects my moods, which is evident in the past couple days. The night before last I barely got any sleep and the next day dawned gray and drizzly. I had a miserable day yesterday. Last night I didn’t get much sleep either but it was sunny today and I feel exponentially better even with my body hurting and I am a little wiped out.
What can I say? I must be solar powered!
If I loved the sun anymore I just might start photosynthesizing…
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In news from the swelling baby belly front, Michael and I are pretty sure one of my ovarian cysts ruptured at about 2am last night. I thought my appendix has burst it was so excruciating - but I feel perfectly fine today though and the baby is as active as ever. Whatever twist of evolution caused cysts to exist should be kicked repeatedly in the head.
2:13 pm
So I am more or less certain that butt nerve pain is sciatic nerve pain. Why? Because you all said so! And my childbirth class teacher said so, and the lady who works in surgery in our class said so and my Aunt Ruth said so! Actually the lady who works in surgery said a physiotherapist would be great at helping me with the pain, and since that is what my aunt is, I figure she should doubly know! (Unfortunately she is in Ontario and I am in Washington State - a little bit of a commute to get some family treatment…) I do want to thank everyone (pregnant or not!) who gave me their input, I always feel better knowing what is going on and that a particular pain, in the ass no less! (no pun intended…) has a purpose. I read it will probably stick around for a week or two … woopee … but it is almost certainly nothing serious, just really ouchy and annoying and I shouldn’t do anything that hurts.
Not that I am a master of the realm of taking it easy but I promise to try.
I think I figured out what triggered this too, it started a three days ago now, and three days ago I switched from my snow boots to my (overly well broken in/glued together) sneakers. I think that my sneakers are not giving me any support (not too surprising they have no arch and are from goodwill…) I was going to switch back to my snow boots today to see if there was a difference but the zipper broke on them (why Universe? WHY!?) so I am just going to have to get new sneakers it seems. That’s okay.
The stabbing shooting pain is still there of course but my super cushy slippers help lots and my aunt gave me a couple links with some stretches to do for it (omg I love tailor stretching, it feels sooo good!) Maybe I will get a balancing ball and see if that helps (am I allowed to bounce around the house with it?) After trying some of the stretches I can walk around my home without much discomfort which is fantastic! The stairs are another matter though, damn swingy hips!
Happy thoughts though, beyond belly and baby love and setting aside aches and pains, I would like to venture into the realms of pregnant vanity for just a moment to tell you all about this one marvelous change my body has made.
Cleavage.
Oh my gosh! I have breasts with cleavage.
Total and absolute awesomeness.
2:19 pm
I have this pain that has been developing for a couple days in my butt/leg area. It seems to start deep in my left butt cheek and when I walk more then a few steps it radiates like a piercing fire down to my knee area along the outside of my leg. It is excruciating! Pelvic rocking seems to relieve it slightly but basically every position (sitting, standing, walking) is aggravating to some level.
I was at the doctor’s yesterday and I sugguested it might be ligament pain since my pelvic bones are stretching to make room for le bebe and she said such pain is normal. Today it hurts more and differently then ligament pain though and I am thinking it may have something to do with that butt nerve (sciatic nerve?) I don’t consider myself a wimp when it comes to pain, but this is seriously kicking my butt! Literally!
I’m about to see if a warm bath with help ease it but has anyone else (who has been pregnant) experienced this variety of pain?
1:35 pm
OMG the Golden Compass comes out Friday *le fan spazz!* I can’t wait! Hope it does the book justice, though I have heard that they downplay the book’s Gnostic themes. I feel they are not anti-religion but rather invite readers to think about their faith (which cannot possibly be a bad thing.)
Anyhow, fangirling aside, my lower back in killing me, totally throbbing pain, I don’t even want to move. So I blog instead, obviously. And I have a question for any of my French food connoisseurs blog readers:
When I was little and lived in France I ate this dish made with cheese and potatoes. The cheese is melted in this special little heating machine (that can sit on a table) on these little lipped spatulas and then poured over tiny potatoes and eaten. The cheese was pale yellow and quite softly and it tasted oh so good - I think it had lots of peppercorns too. So what is this food called?
Cuz I am so craving it now.
EDIT: Raclette, that is what it is called!
