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summercomfort) wrote2015-08-26 07:32 pm
summercomfort) wrote2015-08-26 07:32 pm
Collection of small notes
- My "buy frozen 荠菜馄饨 from local Shanghainese restaurant to make for lunch" plan is a qualified success. (This is part of my "I can't deal with the smell of heated oil so I can't stirfry things myself but boiling and reheating frozen stuff is fine" problem -- I hope it'll pass as the pregnancy progresses.) It tasted great and it was super easy. The qualified part is that I ate 10 for lunch and then I got hungry later, so I had to eat more. (They're 50 cents each so it's gonna be more expensive than I expected -- I was really hoping for a $5 meal and not a $10 meal). But! I think part of it will be alleviated if I can find something else to eat for breakfast. Ever since I started taking calcium supplements, my morning desire for eggs and cheese has dropped drastically. Maybe after parents come back from their fancy vacation I can pester mom to make me some 包子 for the mornings. :D Hers are so much better than frozen supermarket ones.
- still craving sour gummy worms. Need to go buy more
- I spent quite a bit of time yesterday afternoon and this morning looking at maternity and baby stuff. Man, that's quite a rabbit-hole that you can go down! Thus far I'm thinking:
--> get a Graco infant car seat that can click onto a stroller. Turns out a stroller is 17 lbs and a stroller frame is 13 lbs? Like, maybe I'll live with the 4 lb difference
----> That said, the Doona is pretty freaking cool. Too bad it's $500 (and the carrier bag stuff is another $100)
--> holy cow cribs are big. Maybe I can get away with bassinets/mesh travel cribs for the first bit? Especially since our current bed is on the ground anyway, a travel crib might actually be easier.
--> I should get some jersey fabric to make some belly bands, which seems like are just "convenient covering for the fact that your pants are unbuttoned." Also, some elastic to modify my pants (adding side panels sounds fun!).
----> Also: maternity fashion: something that I care 0 about, apparently. Especially the whole leggings/skinny pants thing. ugh.
- There's a lot of work to do and stuff to catch up on, and I feel like I need a break just to do all that??? *Especially* Tisquantum. I feel like I need a concentrated block of time just to draw. A LOT. Maybe I can take next week off? (Except that next week also has the Arcata trip and Joanne visiting...) Maybe I can take Monday-Wednesday off (giving me Sunday, Monday, and part of Tuesday for drawing), go back to work on Thurs, then take Friday off? (Giving me Friday-Sunday for more drawing)...
- still craving sour gummy worms. Need to go buy more
- I spent quite a bit of time yesterday afternoon and this morning looking at maternity and baby stuff. Man, that's quite a rabbit-hole that you can go down! Thus far I'm thinking:
--> get a Graco infant car seat that can click onto a stroller. Turns out a stroller is 17 lbs and a stroller frame is 13 lbs? Like, maybe I'll live with the 4 lb difference
----> That said, the Doona is pretty freaking cool. Too bad it's $500 (and the carrier bag stuff is another $100)
--> holy cow cribs are big. Maybe I can get away with bassinets/mesh travel cribs for the first bit? Especially since our current bed is on the ground anyway, a travel crib might actually be easier.
--> I should get some jersey fabric to make some belly bands, which seems like are just "convenient covering for the fact that your pants are unbuttoned." Also, some elastic to modify my pants (adding side panels sounds fun!).
----> Also: maternity fashion: something that I care 0 about, apparently. Especially the whole leggings/skinny pants thing. ugh.
- There's a lot of work to do and stuff to catch up on, and I feel like I need a break just to do all that??? *Especially* Tisquantum. I feel like I need a concentrated block of time just to draw. A LOT. Maybe I can take next week off? (Except that next week also has the Arcata trip and Joanne visiting...) Maybe I can take Monday-Wednesday off (giving me Sunday, Monday, and part of Tuesday for drawing), go back to work on Thurs, then take Friday off? (Giving me Friday-Sunday for more drawing)...