15 weeks today. I was going to post this last week (or even on week 13, the end of the first trimester I think), but things got in the way. Well, just one...

For those who knew, and haven't been contacted yet, I'm having only one baby. It's not twins. No more public information on that.

But as for the rest, here's answers to the most common questions, comments, and thoughts I've gotten!
- Yes, I'm excited! :D
- I'm due September 2nd.
- I'm not going to find out boy or girl, I'm going to wait until the birth.
- Ashley or Amanda for a girl. Ian Michael for a boy.
- I used a donor.
- IUI, not in vitro. No octo-Mom here!
- I had evening-sickness for several weeks. But it's pretty much over now, maybe once every other week or so.
- Only craving-like symptoms I've had have been for meat. Doesn't much matter: beef, chicken, tuna, just - MEAT!

The severe tiredness has also passed. Though I still need about 9.5 hours of sleep and more rest.

The biggest complaint I've been getting is about waiting to find out the gender. Yellow and green are gender-neutral! Red too. And the nursery theme is Classic Winnie the Pooh. So there's plenty that can be bought without knowing the gender! Geez. There's also something called a return policy.

So I'm back to super excited. YAY! Doctor's appointment tomorrow. Which is good.

Let the comments commence!

Labels: pregnancy

I saw this on a family member's Facebook status today. It has me thinking of two individuals especially:

I Thought Of You Today
I thought of you with love today, but that is nothing new.
I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too.
I think of you in silence, I often speak your name.
All I have are memories and a picture in a frame.
Your memory is a keepsake, with which I'll never part.
God has you in his keeping, I have you in my heart.

- Author Unknown

Labels: Quote of the Day

"These are smart people [-] We call them nerds cause we just don't get it. They're not nerds, they're geniuses. Who just don't process things they way normal people do." - Kaley Cuoco (Penny from "The Big Bang Theory")

Labels: Quote of the Day

I was thinking, and kinda surprised to find, that when I thought about my dream job (that being working for NASA)...

If I was offered my dream job today, I don't think I'd take it. I enjoy(love?) my current job too much.

What we do, and who we do it for. And that it works.

Instead of dwelling on worries. Not completely in order:

My Mom
Emily
Lisa
Sahara
My job
My education
Aunt Bonnie
My Angels
God (can the one who gives blessings be a blessing? Okay, how about)
My connection/relationship with God
My intelligence
My people/social skills
Kim & Steve
Good friends
My Nana while growing up
All the children in my life
Music
My singing voice
All the times I've been able to help people
My Dad

Labels: One A Day

Sitting here, yet again, wondering when I'm going to decide to waste $28 dollars (is that plus tax and shipping?), because I know the person who owns copies of the images I want isn't going to get them to me in any timely manner, and I doubt I can hold off my want for them until the end of May to scan them myself.

Then while looking at the pictures, the computer programmer suddenly realized how to get them now.... Duh.

Hey, sometimes I never figure out the simple answer, it has to be told to me.

Extinct: Andaman tribe’s extermination complete as last member dies

Which I found via the AOL News article Ancient Tribe Goes Extinct as Last Member Dies:

Marking the end of a language and an entire people, the last member of the Bo, an ancient tribe that lived in the Andaman Islands, has died.

When Boa Sr, as she was known, died last week, she was believed to be about 85 years old. Her husband had died years beforehand, and Boa, whose name means "land" or "earth" in the Bo language, had no children.

I remember the 2004 pictures of the Sentinelese tribesmen (not the Bo tribe, but another one of the Great Andamanese) that shot arrows at a passing helicopter. At the time it was believed an unknown tribe had accidentally been uncovered. It turned out that wasn't the case, but it was a find of more people from the ancient tribe who still lived and possibly even believed as their ancestors did.

I remember thinking how amazing it was, that something from so far in humanity's past - how we lived pre-civilization - still exists today! I remember the urge to want to protect them somehow. And the conflicting urge to want to help theoretically "better" their lives by bringing them modern medicine and knowledges. I still haven't personally resolved which would be better for them, though I believe it would be better for the world to let them exist without any interference. So we can learn from them instead of the other way around, and thereby learn about our past and ourselves.

The loss of any tribe, any peoples of the world, is sad. Perhaps even a tragedy as the loss of so many Native Americans on our own continent.