Right now I really really want to drink water. But every gulp of the (fresh, cold, bottled) water that I take just tastes like the nasty bile I just puked up. Gag me.

Yep, 2am pukings. No particular cause, other than “pregnancy.” Just woke up feeling bloated and nauseated. I did eat a handful of those sour gummy candies before bed… maybe they didn’t agree with me. (Although they tasted good. And I do NOT like sour candy. I don’t think I’ve eaten anything like that since at least high school!) So I’m sitting here eating baby cookies and sipping on water and coke.

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We got a new dishwasher months and months ago. Typically I am the one who loads, runs, and unloads the dishwasher. And I’ve been… slack. I do it when the sink full of dirty dishes starts to smell (although with my nose that’s been pretty quickly!)… I’ve been pretty bad… I just leave the clean dishes in the dishwasher, grabbing them from there until it’s nearly empty. So the other night when I got home from grocery shopping I brought in the first load of groceries and was just setting them down in front of the dishwasher when WHIRRR WHOOOSSSHHHH the dishwasher springs to life. I nearly yelped. For a half-second I thought the thing was possessed and had just gone off half-cocked. And then I glanced in the sink and realized… holy crap, it’s empty! Den unloaded the dishwasher… and loaded the dirty ones… and RAN THE DISHWASHER. I was shocked. I thanked Den!

Then yesterday I get home from shopping at Walmart about a half-hour after Den got home. He was, of course, on his computer. I was hungry so I went to grab a clean dish from the dishwasher…. and the freakin’ thing was empty! I swear to god, for a second there I really didn’t know where all the clean dishes had gone, I was thinking, “Holy shit, we couldn’t have dirtied all of them already…” I looked in the sink, it was empty. Then I cautiously opened up a cupboard and THERE THEY WERE!!! Clean dishes! In the cupboard! I think my jaw was on the floor at that point.

I told Den later that we obviously totally under-paid on our dishwasher, since it’s magical and runs and unloads itself!! Den’s totally getting brownie points for THAT one! I am just so very thankful that I had one less thing to do.

The other day, he scrubbed out the bathtub/shower. And ran a couple loads of laundry. And folded laundry.

Yesterday at Walmart I bought a couple of small things to help organize my purse. That was what I did during the evening – got rid of all the papers and sorted them into a little receipt filer. That’s about the extent of my energy level lately. I’m sorry to say the house is looking pretty bad.

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I got my new car! Isn’t she beautiful??

It certainly doesn’t look like a car that we had a tight budget on. It has a ton of miles on it, the upholstery could be in better shape… but it’s a 2001, it has power doors and windows, remote keyless entry… basically everything I was hoping to get, but wasn’t sure I could afford. It’s technically a mid-size sedan, it has a ton of room in the back for people (or babies!) and yet it feels like a smallish car to drive. It just FEELS good to drive. I’m just so thrilled!! After 2 and a half years it feels so good to have my own vehicle again! I’m just so excited about my car. :D