Self-Indulgent Complaints; Sorry

[porphyry]

I am moving so slowly these days and getting slower every day. One day soon I shall stop and then shortly thereafter go retrograde. Everything exhausts me. It doesn't help that this child, who needs to come out, decides to do the rumba every night as I try to go to sleep, usually giving himself a nice case of hiccups, thus keeping me awake an hour or so longer than I should be.

I feel better now.

Comments

[med_cat]

Take heart, it won't be too much longer ;)

When's the big date?

P.S. And your icon is lovely :)

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. I'm just wearing out a bit. I held up pretty well until about two weeks before Christmas, then started to feel more tired. It doesn't help that I have a horrid cold, but that can only get better too, right? :)

[med_cat]

Absolutely, it'll get better :)

Lots of cold viruses around this season...:(

Take care,
Cat

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Yes, it seems to me a lot of people have been sick this year, and no matter how much I wash my cracked, dried out hands in an effort to not catch these little bugs, they still find me. :)

[med_cat]

Yeah, it's a droplet mode of transmission, so handwashing only goes so far...

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I just noticed I didn't answer your question about the big date. Sorry--my brain isn't entirely functional these days.

I am 35 weeks today. My official due date is 2/17, but I don't think, and my doctor doesn't think, I'm going to make it that far. Full term, as I'm sure you know, is anywhere between 37 and 40 weeks.

Andrew was born at 37 weeks and 2 days; Madeline at 38 weeks and 6 days. One never knows, I guess, but Dr. Dalla Riva estimates this baby to be around six pounds already.

Guess I better go buy some diapers. :)

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

I suppose you are entitled to feel that way so no need to say "sorry". It all seems merely natural, to me.
The account of hiccups made me giggle sligthly, though (sorry;). My mother once told me I was obnoxious already in her womb which can only be considered having started a bit early on this habit, perhaps. Later, I kept my parents awake night after night because I woke up at some time inbetween two and four or five in the morning and wasnt´t crying at all; they found me giggling jumping up and down in my baby bed, wanting to play...
Some things never change so I can well understand (though childless myself) how you long for this one to see the light of day!
Oh, and I got myself the habituary stupid cold too. Can´t possibly be from partying and smoking too much with all my friends in my quartier, absolutely not that.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't like to seem like I'm complaining, but even the most stoic among us have our limits. :)

Andrew was obnoxious when I was pregnant with him, so I guess this one will be just like him since they have that in common.

I wish I could drink. ;)

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Am the same (too proud, I guess) but sometimes one just needs to talk about it. Last year was one of the rottenest ever for me, tried to cheer self and others all the same and mostly it works; gives me and hopefully others energy. So much for my clown theory and meant to be an explanation for the often inexcusable silliness...
But none of us is a machine, thankfully; neither for supposed happiness nor otherwise.
I wonder which sort your new one will be? I was rather wild as a child for a girl, though that may have been a generational thing. More Pippi Longstocking than her boring friend Annika, anyway...I always came home full of bruises and blessures with torn clothes then I went out climbing the trees again (one of my fav. hobbies, something about those Darwin Awards comes to mind;) and falling off horses and rooftops I needed to be on.
What was it Hippocrate said about medicine?
The only difference between medication and poison is the amount (or something to that effect, from memory as usual)...not that I would recommend those (amounts) habituarily taken in with my outgoing gang of friends in the quartier here where I love to live. But I don´t think that one really good, nice glass of for instance burgundy wine, once in a while, would harm you or the dolphin. (I never said that, of course.)
Take care and be well, with or without it! Am now out buying medicine (at the pharmacy, ahem;)

[vonjunzt.livejournal.com]

Doesn't young Mithradates IV Ponto know he must wait to be born before he can fight the Romans?

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God I wish he did. Yesterday afternoon, he was acting so crazy all my co-workers could do was sit around me and laugh as they watched him wage war inside me. I felt like John Hurt in Alien just before the alien burst out.