Totally Random Updates

Yesterday morning I had a little bit of a scare. As I was hanging around the house in the morning and catching up on some projects for work, I started having some odd vision issues with my left eye as well as some headaches that had continued from the night before.

After looking up the symptoms online and seeing that these were both on the ‘bad’ list and possible signs of preeclampsia (aka toxemia or hyptertension in pregnant women), I decided to head into the hospital to get evaluated and make sure everything was okay. Usually I’d wait a while to see if everything goes away before seeing a doctor, but I decided this might not be the time to be my normal, laid-back self.

So they hooked me up to a bunch of monitors for a while, made sure everything was okay, asked me a million questions, did an exam, and sent me back home. Phew! I was a little worried that something was wrong or that they would want to induce me just to feel better, but luckily that didn’t happen. I want to avoid being induced if at all possible so I was happy when they sent me home.

Anyway, I had a normally scheduled appointment today. Justin has been able to go to a couple appointments with me recently because he’s had some vacation time, but today it was back to just being me. The last appointment he was at, my doctor mostly talked to him because she was originally trying to reassure me about things and I just pointed to him and said, “He’s the one that’s worried, not me.”

So today when she was trying to reassure me about something and I just kind of brushed it off saying, “Yeah, I know, I know,” she just laughed and said, “Yeah, you seem pretty easy-going. Your husband seems like much more of a worrier. I think that’s really cute.” I just thought that was funny.

Today I have big plans of relaxing, and I mean really relaxing! I feel like I haven’t just relaxed in months because I’m always working on something, whether it’s for work or the baby, or I’m thinking about working on something. I finished up all my baby necessity shopping yesterday and actually got a little ahead on some work, so today I feel like I can give both my body and my mind a rest for a change! I’m thinking lying on the couch watching movies sounds really nice.

And just to make this post as random as possible, Justin and I went to see Zombieland at the dollar theater this last weekend. It’s kind of like an American version of Shaun of the Dead (one of our favorite comedies). For the first fifteen minutes or so, I barely saw the screen because it was just too gross and bloody for me, and Justin kept turning to me apologizing (although I don’t know why he felt responsible at all!). I seriously almost walked out, not out of some righteous indignation, but because it seemed really boring to sit in a theater ‘watching’ a movie I couldn’t bring myself to actually watch.

But then the gore suddenly dropped off (except for predictable moments where I could easily avert my eyes in time, like anytime Woody Harrelson encounters a zombie), and I was really impressed with how funny the movie was. I feel like I’ve been constantly let down with comedies for quite some time, but this one had me laughing tons and exceeded my expectations, even though I didn’t actually watch about 1/4 of the movie because I couldn’t stand the violence. Anyway, I wish I’d been warned that the opening credits played up the gore but that most of the movie wasn’t actually that bad so I didn’t almost give up on it so fast. I know a lot of people reading this would probably just say to avoid the whole movie altogether and quote some analogy about eating cookies with dog poop in it or something, but that’s just not how I choose to do things, mkay? Mkay.

Well, I think I’m going to go watch Coco Chanel (really good TV movie, except it bugs me that Shirley MacLaine (who plays the older version of Coco) doesn’t have a French accent), lie on the couch, and probably take a nice 10:15AM mid-morning nap for once.