Geek Habitat

Justin and I had a wonderful time at our baby shower this afternoon. We couldn’t ask for a nicer, more generous group of friends to have come together to help us welcome our little girl!

Thanks to Bill & Kim for their hospitality and planning, Joel for the photography, and everyone for the generosity and time shared with our growing family! Some photos of our baby shower loot are posted on my Flickr.com feed.

And the weather… my goodness, we couldn’t have ordered up a more beautiful day! I almost feel guilty for enjoying such a beautiful day while some folks are still slogging through ice and snow.

An update is called for since I saw my OB yesterday for my 34.4 week checkup:

MY WEIGHT:
I’ve lost one pound in the past 2 weeks (I wasn’t trying, and I can’t say I feel a pound lighter… hehe!) My OB said I’m tracking perfectly, and she’s “totally not concerned” about my weight. She said the 6 lbs. in 2 weeks that happened recently is pretty normal — baby (and Mom) go through a growth spurt in the third trimester, and there will usually be an uptick in weight at that point, then the weight gain levels off/slows down for the rest of pregnancy.

The April 2007 “birth board” I follow on BabyCenter.com gets a little heated at times, with women debating natural child birth vs. C-sections, vaccinations and such. Well, this thread isn’t one those flame-bait ones, it’s a truly funny one (caveat: it’s hilarious if you are, yourself, pregnant… maybe it’s not so funny if you’re male or not pregnant. And y’know what, I’m pregnant and don’t care — I have to share!)

“You know you’ve been pregnant too long when…“

My contributions to the thread follow (apologies to anyone that resembles any of these remarks! I still love and adore you, truly!):

(Title’s from a favorite scene in Love Actually…)

You may remember the past couple years where top notch teams have pitted their robotic vehicles against one another on complex, many mile obstacle courses. No vehicle has a driver, or at least any human, onboard during the race.

Well, this year’s challenge is a big one — the first urban challenge of the vehicles. If they thought it was hard calibrating for and avoiding obstacles like fallen tree limbs, ravines, ridgelines, water hazards, etc. just wait until they deal with the likes of downtown traffic or rush hour gridlock!

I knew I should have scheduled that dental cleaning and checkup during my second trimester. I have a toothache and I’m 34 weeks pregnant. Oy. I suspect this would be a root canal, judging from the location/origin of the toothache pain (and my dental history), so I really don’t think I even have the option of having this done as an emergency dental procedure, given the necessity of x-rays, local anesthetic (which I just read does cross the placenta) and the length of time on my back and at uncomfortable angle that I’d have to endure during the procedure.

Painting is only “fun” for a short period of time, then you wish you could just take a Photoshop paint bucket tool to the room and — with one click — be done with it already!

Thanks to Justin stepping in and painting the ceiling for me, we completed the nursery painting today. Yes, everything is white, so it may seem like nothing’s changed; however, that was our plan — primer over the purple, and then do the entire room in a durable, washable matte white paint as the final coat. If there’s time and inclination, the walls are now ready for my brother’s mural-painting talents. If not, we now have a nice, neutral white room which can grow with Sprout simply by updating/changing the room decor.