Monday, January 25, 2010
cravings
do you remember OK from uci days? it was across the street, in the same plaza as the ralphs or albertsons (some sort of grocery store). for some reason, it just popped into my head yesterday and i wished for some. they served simple and cheap and somewhat fast korean bbq dishes. nothing fancy, but good for the college budget. i just looked it up and unfortunately, it's closed! how sad...
http://www.yelp.com/biz/oriental-kitchen-irvine
the stickers of the greek sororities and fraternities totally bring me back to my college days.
ah well... it was too far to drive there anytime soon anyway.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/oriental-kitchen-irvine
the stickers of the greek sororities and fraternities totally bring me back to my college days.
ah well... it was too far to drive there anytime soon anyway.Monday, January 18, 2010
bella band
ahhhh, relief! every time i go to my closet, it's been such a struggle these last few weeks trying to figure out what to wear, especially pants. i had pretty much given up on my jeans, cuz there's no way i've been able to button them and still be able to breathe. but praise the Lord for my saving grace: Be Band!
it's given me back my closet and i can finally just let my belly out and not try to suck in in all day, especially at work. we didn't even leave target yet before i put it on and i had a huge smile on my face after it was on, such a drastic change in mood after feeling worried all day that you could tell that i was walking around with my pants unbuttoned and unzipped. oh total relief! i just thought to myself, "why didn't i buy these earlier?!"
it's a totally weird, alanganin (in between) time where i don't look totally prego, but my belly's definitely much larger. and especially after i eat, i totally look more preggy. speaking of eating, did i tell you that i eat 2 of every meal now? i'm hungry all the time, so i eat 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches (almost precisely at 4pm each day, my stomach starts grumbling). oh i guess not 2 dinners. cuz by the time the 2nd dinner would come around, i'm already conked out. there have been a couple times when i was up late enough and henry just stared at me like i was crazy. the first time was when we were christmas shopping. we had gone from borders to bed, bath, beyond and were heading over to walmart next. but i asked, "hey, can we go to mcdonalds first?" i ordered a mcrib meal and he was like, "you got a meal?!" and i just rationalized and said, "well, aren't you gonna have some fries?" hehe, when i got it, i scarfed that mcrib down in 2 minutes. and half the fries too. i'm not by any means a fast eater, and henry just watched me eat that thing like it was my first meal of the day. and it was 10 o'clock at night. poor guy, he just said, "don't get fat on me now, ok?" hehe!
it's given me back my closet and i can finally just let my belly out and not try to suck in in all day, especially at work. we didn't even leave target yet before i put it on and i had a huge smile on my face after it was on, such a drastic change in mood after feeling worried all day that you could tell that i was walking around with my pants unbuttoned and unzipped. oh total relief! i just thought to myself, "why didn't i buy these earlier?!"it's a totally weird, alanganin (in between) time where i don't look totally prego, but my belly's definitely much larger. and especially after i eat, i totally look more preggy. speaking of eating, did i tell you that i eat 2 of every meal now? i'm hungry all the time, so i eat 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches (almost precisely at 4pm each day, my stomach starts grumbling). oh i guess not 2 dinners. cuz by the time the 2nd dinner would come around, i'm already conked out. there have been a couple times when i was up late enough and henry just stared at me like i was crazy. the first time was when we were christmas shopping. we had gone from borders to bed, bath, beyond and were heading over to walmart next. but i asked, "hey, can we go to mcdonalds first?" i ordered a mcrib meal and he was like, "you got a meal?!" and i just rationalized and said, "well, aren't you gonna have some fries?" hehe, when i got it, i scarfed that mcrib down in 2 minutes. and half the fries too. i'm not by any means a fast eater, and henry just watched me eat that thing like it was my first meal of the day. and it was 10 o'clock at night. poor guy, he just said, "don't get fat on me now, ok?" hehe!
Friday, January 08, 2010
official due date
okay folks, just got the word from the doc. official due date is aug 5, so that means i'm only 10 weeks along as of yesterday. he said that i'll change weeks every thursday.
we had to go in for a 2nd ultrasound because there was a discrepancy between the date calculated through the LMP method (last menstrual period) and the size of the baby from the 1st ultrasound. the lmp method was putting me at like 11 weeks, while the size of the baby was putting me at 9 weeks. so the 2nd ultrasound was done to re-measure the size of the fetus to get a more accurate reading.
we got another picture of the baby too. it's more close up and blurry, but it was so cute. henry was looking at it and he goes, hello baby! hehe!
we had to go in for a 2nd ultrasound because there was a discrepancy between the date calculated through the LMP method (last menstrual period) and the size of the baby from the 1st ultrasound. the lmp method was putting me at like 11 weeks, while the size of the baby was putting me at 9 weeks. so the 2nd ultrasound was done to re-measure the size of the fetus to get a more accurate reading.
we got another picture of the baby too. it's more close up and blurry, but it was so cute. henry was looking at it and he goes, hello baby! hehe!
Monday, January 04, 2010
wow, some of you are still reading this after a year of hiatus eh? thanks guys!
special request... please don't post on facebook quite yet. we'd like to have the pleasure of telling people ourselves. thanks much!
special request... please don't post on facebook quite yet. we'd like to have the pleasure of telling people ourselves. thanks much!
quotable quotes
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
"we could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box"
"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
