No title sums up the fact that I suck at posting personal blogs

It's been awhile. I am in my 13th week...

On one hand, it seems like this pregnancy thing has been taking forever already. On the other, it has flown by. Let's see if I can update everything in one post... and then maybe, just maybe, I'll be faithful and blog more often.

1. I've not gained any weight. In fact, I've lost a pound between doctor appointments. I'm okay withthat, because I know it will soon catch up to me and I will give you two places that I know the weight will congregate... and both are my cheeks. Blek.
2. Thus far, I look like a skeleton with a gut. I have a lean frame with thin bones...so the pooch in my stomach region is probably not screaming "There is a baby behind this facade of skin!!!" quite yet, but it definitely  might make people look at me and think I'm getting a bit sloppy with a donut habit. (I actually HATE donuts. Least fave food that the rest of America likes....)
3. I've had some really rough patches. Nausea is the main culprit, though it seems that once a week I get a really really really bad sinus headache...it hurts so bad that I almost think it's reaching a migraine, but since I can't take Zomig or Imitrex like usual, I have caved and have taken Sudafed because quite frankly.... the doc says it's okay to take, and by golly, I deserve it. The things that have helped my nausea...and believe me, I've tried them all (SeaBands, B-pops, Emetrol, Ginger gum, eating when I wake up, not eating sweets, etc...)....are Preggie Pops and Zofran. And napping. Napping is nice. I am starting to feel nauseated less, but now guess what is taking its place...arthritis in the middle of my back.

SIDE NOTE: I have scoliosis...had surgery for it in 1994...it's a double curve (shaped like the letter 'S'....and right where the curve is, whenever I overeat or if I'm on my feet too long, I get super achey with arthritis. Now that I'm pregnant, it comes from just sitting too long. Or breathing. Yeah, that sucks. 

And don't let me get started on the exhaustion. Or about how much I'd like to stick a dry noodle into the eyes of any guy who ever says it's just in our heads. Do you think I WANT to feel like I am drugged with Benadryl several hours of the day? Do you think I WANT to be so out of breath after walking down the hallway? I don't even have a "full load"yet...and it's ridiculous the energy I do not have. Ok, moving on.

4. So basically, I've not really ENJOYED the pregnancy thus far.... but in attempt to look at the bright side...let's try to find things I have liked...

• I love how happy people (friends/family) get when I have told them the news. 
• I love envisioning what our lives will look like in a year from now...6 months from now...etc.
• I loved seeing the baby look like a baby at the NT scan we did this week (I'll post in the next blog cuz I don't feel like dealing with YouTube. haha)
• And I think that is it... I really have tried to come up with more, but I think me feeling like a useless pile of crap has outweighed all the other positives. Ask me again in two months... (I guess you never asked me in the first place)

5. I haven't been really craving anything yet...like as in, fervently searching for a way to fulfill a deep desire to eat or drink something. But I've been enjoying fruit a lot more than usual. And gyros usually sound like a good meal....even for breakfast. Though I do wish I could find somewhere in KC where I actually like the gyros other than at the mall's food court. 

I have had a few aversions...I don't want to eat roasted/rotisserie chicken. Fried chicken is A-ok, as well as little pieces of it in a pasta or whatever. but slabs of the meat just don't appeal to me. I can also nearly hurl when thinking about eating pork. Ham is okay...but pork chops/loin... where's the toilet? 

Taco Bell is also a no-no. My tongue now detests the imitation cheese they use for their nachos. And their tortilla chips, I can pick up on the flecks of cinnamon that somehow got on them from their dessert crisps...and dipping THAT into fake cheese is so gross!!!!

I have been needing to eat every 2-3 hours. For this reason, I'm so sick of eating crackers, granola bars and the like. I would rather have small meals, but that is just too costly. And time-consuming. 

6. I finally bought maternity clothes last weekend. Just a few shirts and a dress. I don't want to go all out yet because the majority of my "whale-costume" days will be in weather that a pregnant person might actually enjoy...not climate that is due to a dreadful heated beast that has taken a large crap on the entire month of July. Everyone says I'll be cute pregnant because I'm thin. But I know what they don't know...my face will blimp out and I will remind myself of when I had my wisdom teeth taken out. 

I think I will begin to be more peppy when I feel better, have more energy, look pregnant and know if it's a boy or a girl who will be gracing our lives. I'll post again soon. I promise. :)