Well, I didn't get the carseat.

I did, however, order the cloth diapering stuff.  It seems really expensive up front, but when I keep in mind that this is ALL I WILL HAVE TO SPEND ON DIAPERS FOR THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS, it doesn't seem so bad.  Also, the subsequent four months will only cost about a third as much.  I have however found another eBay carseat.  This time, I swear I'm waiting to the LAST second and I'm going to POACH IT!  Less than two days to go tho, and nobody has bid yet, so things are looking a lot more promising than last time.

I freaking hate eBay.

I am trying to get a carseat on eBay, and it makes me angry.  We do need a carseat, and this one IS a good deal (assuming bidding doesn't go too high), but really, I can't stand the suspence!  It makes me grouchy and obsessive.  So, if any of you are bidding on a plaid rear facing carseat that started at .99, CUT IT OUT!  IT'S MY FREAKING CARSEAT!  >.<

I don't post very often, do I?

But then, I question whether anyone reads this blog very often anyway, so there you go. Not much is new in any case... I am officially thirty weeks pregnant with a still-alive baby, my birthday is tomorrow, and my pepper seeds are (finally!) sprouting, and that is about it.  Also, Elspeth is trying to wrap my head in a towel, so I have to stop typing now.

It's a...

GIRL!  She is just the right size, has all the right parts, and fought the ultrasound tech every inch of the way.  Definitely a fiesty one.  I guess I only know how to grow them one way.  We even got a free 3D ultrasound (they were trying out some new equipment), and she didn't cooperate for that either!  By the end, even the tech thought she was getting mad.  Cute little chicky.

Milk is amazing stuff

We just got on WIC, and they give us about twice as much milk as we can possibly drink, so I have started making yogurt.  It is very easy, and I don't understand why more people don't do it, as it is much tastier than the store kind, and you could even make it with powdered milk if you wanted, and then it would be REALLY cheap.  But anyway, this last batch I ran out of room in the cooler, so wrapped a tupperware full in towels and put it on the stove to keep warm... and then promptly forgot about it and used the oven to make dinner.  Needless to say, it did not set (note to self: find bigger cooler).  No problem, I thought.  I will cook some lentils in it for lunch.  Lentils, a little mushrooms, yogurt, what could go wrong?  Well, it turns out that yogurt (or even liquid yogurt) CURDLES when you heat it.  So now my lentils are cooking in very, VERY runny cottage cheese.  We will see how it is, I suppose.  Never know what milk will do next.

Sometimes, paranoia pays.

We spent Sunday night in the emergency room!  Extreme back pain and a fever, no fun at all.  But you know, we have good coverage for me right now, so the midwife said "go if you want, can't hurt anything and might be a good idea if it hurts that bad... definitely go if it gets ANY worse!"  So off went the paranoid pregnant lady!  Good thing too because it turns out I have a RAGING bladder infection.  Had?  Been on antibiotics since then, and am doing much better, but I do not feel well yet.  I slept all day yesterday though and that helped.  And the morphine they gave me wore off all the way, and the pain didn't come back.  And we got to have another ultrasound!  He was so active in there, even the tech was impressed -- "look at that baby go!" he says.  "Quit pushing on my head, that's what that baby's saying."  We got some great pictures, he's got all his limbs, and a cute little nose and a round little tummy, it was absolutely fantastic, and ALMOST worth spending a night in the emergency room.

So, yeah, paranoia really does pay off sometimes.  =)

Mice!

Or at least mouse.  In our house.  I've seen a mouse on two seperate occasions now, the first of which could have been a hallucination ("it was brown and oblong and moving fast and I think it looked like a mouse!"), but now I'm SURE.  I mean, there I was, minding my own business, and it just wanders out into the MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR, looks at me, then wanders back.  YUCK.