This oily skin thing is getting rediculous. I washed my face right after posting that last post, and a few hours later it was totally greasy-looking again. Ugh! I think I’m going to have to stop using the moisturizer. It just contributes to the greasiness. (I always have had oily skin, but not like this!) I am definitely noticing it a lot more today than I have in the last few days.

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Today has been a very good day, morning-sickness-wise! I haven’t felt nauseated at all! I did feel wicked hungry at around 10:30 this morning (after eating breakfast at 6:45), so soon as I got into work I put myself together a big sandwich and ate 3/4 of it (until the act of eating made me feel a little sick, that’s my cue that I’ve had enough). The rest of the day I snacked on little things of little to no nutritional value (they keep a stock of a lot of snacks at work – not so good for the health-concious!) and felt fine.

I said my work keeps a stash of snack foods… well today I was at Costco. And I couldn’t help myself… I bought several boxes of little snack variety boxes. They taste. So. Freaking. Good. All of them – the chips, the cheetos, the cookies, the brownies… seriously beyond yummy. And I’m not even craving chocolate at all right now – which is totally unusual for me. I’m a major chocolate fiend, have been all my life… and suddenly when I get pregnant, the perfect time for justifiable cravings, I don’t want any chocolate? What’s with that??

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Total aside: You may notice that I never use the term “nauseous”. Read here for an interesting explanation of the terms nauseous and nauseated and how the language is evolving. I guess either term is technically correct nowadays… a case of popular use becoming accepted proper use!

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A little while ago Den came in and plunked down beside me on the bed. I’ve been in here resting with my laptop. He said, “So you’re almost 7 weeks?? Show me what the baby looks like!)” I pulled up some sites and we looked at the photos for the seventh and eigth week of pregancy (and were kind of like, “Ewwww, weird… freaky…”). Den even surprized me by running to the kitchen and grabbing some milk for me and brownies for us to share. (More of that no nutritional value stuff.) So we both sat in bed snacking on a couple of brownies and looking at what our baby might look like right about now. It was a nice little moment. :)

Den has been patting my stomach all the time, talking to the baby frequently. I think that ultrasound yesterday really made it “real” to him. He got to see it. Not that I think he didn’t believe it before, he has been very excited for weeks, but it’s like it really sunk in. You will never meet a man who is more thankful to have a pregnant wife! He’s been waiting well over 15 years to have a baby. (He was married previous to meeting me… they never had children.)

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I have been feeling twinges in my left ovary all day. The tech yesterday mentioned that they still have a lot of shrinking to do and to expect to feel something. She wasn’t lying. All day I’ve been feeling my left side ache a little bit off and on.

One pregnancy symptom that I don’t have (yet): fatigue. I get tired, sure – when I have to get up at 6am. Then again, I always get tired when I get up at 6am. It’s a stupid time of day. But I’ve actually been feeling very energised at work lately. At home I feel lazy, but it’s not exhaustion, just I don’t want to get out of bed so I’m going to stay here all day.

But, pregnancy fatigue or not, it’s nearly midnight and I’m about to konk out! Like I said, 6am really sucks!! (But tomorrow is Saturday, the start of a new pregnancy week! Always gets me totally excited! :D YAY for belly pic in the morning!)