5 am: get up feeling relatively good despite the power outage the previous night at 8pm, when the temperature had dropped to 106.
6:30 am: Drive to work, feeling the best you have felt in days, and actually make it to the office without an upsetting incident (like some bluehair driving 30mph in front of you all the way or losing your chapstick-trust me- a REAL tragedy)
8 am- have the first of a series of sneeze attacks, despite the clariton or sinus infection antibiotic. Get po'd because it has something to do with the "unhealthy" air quality designation of the day.
9 am- laugh hysterically when you hear that it's already 96 degrees and that a high of 113 is expected.
10 am- have a nice long chat with a fellow expectant mother, discuss everything from strollers to kicking to daycare.
10:32 - feel blood sugar dropping rapidly as you realize you skipped your 10am feeding.
10:35 - excuse yourself from the aforementioned conversation and retire to the ladies room for a 10-minute crying jag.
10:45 - make the mental connection between skipping a two-hour feeding and crying jag.
11:00 am- continue sorting forms, the most complicated thing you can manage after blood sugar drop, your crying jag,and subsequent face stuffing of Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies and a quart of milk.
11:45 am- start car and get air conditioner going for the trip to lunch.
12:00 pm- go to lunch, have another sneeze attack and watery eyes the moment you walk out into 110 degree oven, complete with smog so thick you can chew it.
2:30 pm- think you feel the babies kicking, and get excited, then wonder if that's what it really is, so start crying again.
3:30 pm - fall asleep at my desk, to be awakened by sweat dripping down my forehead.
4:30 pm- leave the office and go grocery shopping, where you buy 15 frozen dinners since you have taken a vow to not cook anything again till the babies are in junior high.
6:00 pm- arrive home and are now actually able to breathe since you are 1800 feet above the valley smog.
6:03 pm - rejoice and give thanks to God that you left your cooler on all day despite years of being "environmentally correct."
6:10 pm - feel incredibly guilty while lying under cooler eating ice cream, while listening to news reports about record temperatures and rolling blackouts throughout California, and power companies asking consumers to please turn thier coolers off, for Gods sake people are dying from the heat.
8:45 pm - fall asleep while babies are kicking, smiling, while knowing that's really what I'm feeling.
WOW!! you really felt them kick??? *T*
Posted by: Tori | July 26, 2006 at 12:49 AM