Nine Muses

Sheesh, I haven’t updated since September?  I knew it had been a while, but this is just excessive.

So, I had a baby and she’s six months old and beautiful.  She has her own blog.  Ask me for the link if you want it.

I’ve hardly had any time to play games for the last six months.  I just reinstalled Diablo 2 this last week once they announced Diablo 3 was coming out.  I finally managed to get some time to install the expansion for NWN2 as well, but then decided to finish the main campaign first, since I’m so close and someone totally lied about the expansion not following after the main campaign.  It totally does!

I’m also waiting eagerly for Fallout 3 and Spore.  I’ll link to my Spore page later if I can figure out how to do it.

I’m also also re-reading some classics from my tween years right now: I’m about halfway through “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” and “The Grey King” (Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising series).

Oh, yeah, and I took up knitting.

More comprehensive updates will hopefully come later, as I think I’m turning the corner on being able to find the time to type up a thing or two.

It is one of the oddest things ever to be watching your belly and actually see it moving around.  If it wasn’t so neat and weird (and reassuring), it might be a little creepy.  I thought about trying to get video of it on my digital camera, but I don’t think the movements are significant enough to show up.  I might start keeping it close, though, just in case.

You know, no matter how often I read the same stuff on bash.org, it still makes me laugh.

That is all.

I had my first appointment with the actual OB this morning.  He’s great.  He kept making me laugh.  And most importantly, we saw the wee sparkling and saw its wee little heart beating!  By the measurements, I’m one day less than we’d figured by counting, which may up the odds of it being a girl.  I’m so happy, and much less worried.  This pic isn’t very good quality, but it’s the best scan job I could do.  The actual copy I have is much more clear.

I had my first prenatal visit today, with the prenatal nurse. (I won’t see the ob until June 5, when I’ll be nearly 10 weeks along. It was the earliest visit they had.) I have a pile of paperwork to read through, though the nurse often was backing up what I’d already read.

She said they’ll do a sonogram at the next visit, and warned me that it’ wouldn’t be the tummy kind like you see in the movies. Fortunately, I was already prepared for that. She confirmed that J can go to that visit with me, so if he can stomach it, he’ll get to see the heartbeat right then. If not, she says I get pictures to take home.

Maybe I’ll take up scrapbooking. Hah.

Symptomatically, I’m not that bad off. I have some queasiness, but have found that not letting my stomach get entirely empty helps with that. Really, it hasn’t been that bad anyway. I had said to some folks last week that I wasn’t having mood swings, but I seem to be today, so people might want to watch out! I am, however, shopping for a sports bra. These painful things keep getting in the way. Ouch.