[Originally written March 6th, 2010.]
Lately my dreams are bizarre technicolour movies. Last night I was on a super long train ride trying to get to a boat. And then I was a cooking show chef sharing my favourite recipe for spaghetti sauce. I woke up craving oregano and garlic.
And that’s when I actually manage to fall asleep. I’ve never tossed-and-turned so much in my life.
Plus, the bladder. It was too small to start with and now something is squishing it even smaller. I get up at least twice every night to pee and I am always thirsty. Like, always. I’ve been trying to limit water an hour before bed, but then I just wake up in the middle of the night with a dry mouth. If I’m gonna wake up anyway, might as well get up to pee.
I’ve read (aka: learned in school) that all of this water drinking is to help increase my body’s volume in preparation for 50% more blood. 50% more blood?? Vampires don’t even need that much in 9 months!
Was it last week that my skinny jeans didn’t fit? Well, imagine my horror when slipping on my biggest, baggiest jeans today and BARELY ZIPPING THEM UP.
Brandon just laughs and shakes his head and reminds me that it’s only going to get worse.
So, we’ve apparently crossed the bridge into “you can tell other people you’re pregnant now because the risk of miscarriage is low, low, LOW”. And we’re still not really talking. Well, you be the judge of that. I guess it depends on when you read this online, but right now this post is getting saved as a draft instead of published. There’s something about keeping the scariness and craziness and happ-happ-happiness of it all to ourselves for now.
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photo: This photo is out of chronological order because it was the Very First thing we received in the mail (from my mom) after finding out the big news. Yes, it’s a Husker baby bottle. And oh yes, there’s a future Husker brewing in me right now.
as you can tell by that immaculate blue sky, it was a sunny day in Waco. Brandon and i both ended up the same colour as our Husker pride gameday gear. his, a t-SUH-nami weather prediction. mine, a smaller version of Johnny Rodgers’ infamous #20. red. red! RED!
we rolled into Texas pretty late at night, expecting to pick up a couple of Omaha comrades at the Dallas airport. unfortunately, they never made it past their connection in Denver and we ended up with the hotel room all to ourselves and two extra tickets to get rid of. while we didn’t mind absorbing the extra expense of splitting things two ways instead of four, we were sad not to have another couple of friendly faces so far south.
then we headed to Floyd Casey Stadium and realized half of Nebraska is down here anyway. plenty of friendly red to go around! i thought i was going to experience my first away game, but it felt like we were back in Lincoln!
Larry the Cable Guy watched the entire game from the Husker sidelines. we were only 8 rows off the field and i imagined him shouting “GIT ‘ER DONE!” as the offense let us down on drive after drive.
this photo of Herbie (on the right) is for Dann. yes, the same Dann that introduced Brandon and i to Mr. & Mrs. Miller last summer. Dann’s good friend Kenn Kramer thought Herbie was important and so do we!
it wasn’t as pretty or thorough or decisive as we had hoped, but the Huskers prevailed over the Bears as we advance to 5-3 on the season. whether you want to blame Watson or Green or Lee or Bo, next week’s game in Lincoln against Oklahoma promises to be disappointing.
“The effort wasn’t good enough. There wasn’t any phase of what we did that was good enough today.”
~ Bo Pelini
i’ve had days like that too. thankfully, they aren’t in front of 80,000+ people.
October 16, 2009
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headed back up to Lincoln to cheer on the Huskers against Texas Tech! many, many thanks to Uncle Lodge and Aunt Donna for putting up with us us up again. it’s so great to spend time with family.
have an awesome football-filled weekend!
