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Finally having consistently good days and not laid down and out with nausea. Just the general lethargy of it all.

But even that's improving. I do get nausea ( and its brutal) but the meds are finally able to tame the constant wobble of my stomach.

Got writing done this week, and tonight, which feels amazing to have accomplished. I have so much to do, and I just need to get on it.

Tomorrow we might go to what we hope is a larger better stocked babies r us shop, and do a simple registry, before people go bonzo buying all the things we don't need. Given the finite space of our apartment, I don't want people going overboard on the large accessory things. My mom is plotting with R's parents to get our stroller/carseat combo.

We started talking names, too. Yerk. 17 weeks till I'm full term, 19 till my "working due date" and its going by so fast now that school's back in, and I'm feeling better. Still want to get much of it done so the last few weeks I'm not trying to scramble. We have enough that has to happen AFTER the hatching that we don't have time to run all over the city.

And I think I got kicked awake from a nap. This one is a kicker. (heh, kikker: frog, in dutch. Now that's what I'll call it. The frog.)

Time to go sleep. Time change, and the weather is getting warmer, mercifully. Its been an ok winter, just windy and wet and sloppy and I've had enough of that.

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Today was a pretty damn good day, all things considered. Went for brunch, ate FOOOOOD, then we took off to a larger Babies R Us to finish our modest little registry. I'm astounded at what they try to sell parents, as if they NEEEEEEED one of everything, and we're laughing because some of this stuff wouldn't fit in our main room of our apartment without trouble. I guess they still market to the suburban Got A FULL Nursery crowd. So we skipped the extra stuff, and we're going just for the essentials. I'm sure baby will be fine if they don't have all the bells and whistles of accessories.

Picked up some clothes, and since there was a walmart, we went, for the first time in oh, 4 years we set foot in one. Well, the last one was in Shanghai China actually but we didn't buy anything there. Picked up more baby clothes on the cheap, and then home.

R went to DUndas square, and at my request brought home the first game of thrones novel for the lying around ill times, and we got soba for dinner, but half way through eating mine I felt fiendishly nauseated, so I went to lie down.

Trying to back off so much of the meds but it just may not be possible, a fact my doc acknowledged. Could be so much worse, a friend also sick with HG in the UK is being told NO DRUGS AT ALL NONE FOR YOU SO WHAT IF YOU LOSE AND ARE DEHYDRATED YOU"RE FAT ANYWAY. Seriously WTF. Granted there's still that mentality across all doctors, and I'm just really lucky, I think.

Oh yeah, girls clothes WTF. Sea of fucking neon, frills, and princess/pampered brat. What we got today is stuff we would have got if we were having a girl, some cute skulls and a rock n roll penguin, lion, birds, etc. Granted the boys stuff is considerably aggro "boys!" but the girls is a sea of stereotype. R nearly stroked out the one summer he saw a 7 yr old girl wearing Juicy Kids with "future golddigger" on the arse. I thought he was going to give the mom a fucking earful. ( he didn't but it was a pretty horrible thing anyway). Is this what we expect of girls, pampered little princess, while the boys get adventure, pirates and rock stars and safaris? Good grief. Even the catalog reinforced the "boys colors for nursery" girls colors ideas for nursery. Gotta start em young, right?

So even if we were having a girl, we'd be shopping boys wear. We'd have to, they have the unisex stuff or at least close TO.

And for the third time in two weeks someone has offered me a seat on a packed subway car after seeing the melonbelly I have. Say what you will about how Toronto's just full of assholes, but I never have to battle for a seat if I need one it seems. people seem to GET it that woozy pregnant lass could use that spot. I don't have a huge belly but its starting to be noticeable.

17 more weeks to crawl along. ( maybe 19 at the most but I'm counting to 38 not 40. I doubt I'll go the full 40 anyway.)