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An Email Exchange

This wasn’t really an email “exchange” I suppose. It’s probably more like an email update, but I’ve already entered the blog title and feel committed at this point. Anyway, here’s a message I received from Hannah several weeks ago as she is starting to realize that she is not, in fact, immune to morning sickness.

Hey.

Captain awesome here.

Feeling super awesome.

Not.

On my second bottle of 7 Up.

Should have seriously bought the 6 pack.

Only bought two.

Teriyaki chicken might rock my world tonight.

Just sayin’.

You know?

Captain Awesome.

Awesomely out.

I enjoy her entertaining funniness even though she had been feeling progressively worse as the earliest days of her pregnancy went by.  Regardless, I feel like I can describe her message then and now as ….  awesome.  Especially since the nausea seems to have passed, and is being replaced by tiredness.

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On Naps

sleep

I’ve always  mixed feelings about napping. I’m not one for sleeping during the day or even really sleeping in anymore. It hasn’t always been this way. There was a time in my life – when I was a mean, mean teenager – that I enjoyed sleeping in and staying up super late at night.

When I was a wee little one I had a hard time keeping my eyes open for a 15 minute car ride into town. The hum of the car would lull me to sleep within minutes. I remember sitting in the front seat and laying my head in my mom’s lap to fall asleep.  Seatbelt? Psst.

Since becoming an adult I’ve shunned naps and reserved them for cloudy, rainy, cold, blustery days – days where naps are nearly required and I’ve jumped into enough puddles, done enough around the house or finished a book.

Now that I’m pregnant I’ve learned that I can hardly function without a nap each afternoon. I have a meltdown like a toddler if I don’t get additional REM minutes. Napping is the only solution.  I’m not sure my students would appreciate a mid-day nap.

Today is the first day that I haven’t been in a slumber late in the afternoon. I cuddled up in bed, put on a quiet soundtrack (Barry hooked up a new speaker system for our iPod next to our bed…such a simple pleasure!) and waited for myself to fall into dreamland.

It didn’t happen.

Now I’m blogging and making tomato soup from scratch, grilled cheese sandwiches and pumpkin spice cupcakes for dinner. Jeesh. I went from needing a nap to cooking up a storm. We’ll see how long this non-nap thing works. Now that my nap is gone, I kind of miss it.

Like I said, I’ve got mixed feelings about napping.

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Dear Verizon

You’ve sent people to my house and sent countless junk mails promoting the same deal. I get it. You’ve got a great Triple Play Bundle. If I was interested in it I would have contacted you after the first 40 mailings.  I guess  you’re nothing if not persistent, but I’m not interested. I have no use for home phone service, and I really have no use for 100 television channels to surf before deciding there’s nothing on. What I really want is a great deal on just Internet service, because I can use it for my home phone and television without paying you all of the extra money.  Unfortunately, you don’t offer a great deal on Internet alone. In fact, it’s more expensive than my current Comcast deal. Until you can beat Comcast’s Internet price, please leave me alone.

I’m almost to the point of mailing each of your advertisements back to your headquarters. At least that way you could recycle the advertisements instead of printing more of them, because as far as I can tell you’ve been sending me the same piece of mail every week for the last 6 months.  Maybe that would lower your overhead costs enough to provide your customers with a real deal on Internet.