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uh oh

Posted on May 25, 2003 by wrekehavoc

my blood pressure has zoomed today. BS went to the drug store and bought a blood pressure thingy (i simply cannot spell sphygno-whatever-the-hell-it-is-called); and thanks to his years on the first aid squad, he knows how to use the blessed thing. my blood pressure is hovering around 142-150 on top, which is not fabulous. my blood pressure is usually picture-perfect. of course, it was when i was pregnant with BC, and then kablooey!, it one day went through the roof and they decided to induce me. i am going to try and rest tonight, but tomorrow, i think i will call the doctor.

of course. tomorrow is a federal holiday.

welcome to my world.

no sir, no baby today

Posted on May 23, 2003 by wrekehavoc

only rain…

precedent

Posted on May 23, 2003 by wrekehavoc

heehee, BS is living in fear that this morning, i will walk into my 39th week OB appointment and the OB will decide that i need to toddle my butt up to labor and delivery and get induced, just like what happened when i was pregnant with BC.

somehow, though, i don’t think that will happen. i don’t think my blood pressure is through the roof. but blood pressure is one of those things you can’t really feel or tell. i certainly couldn’t when, after a picture-perfect pregnancy, my blood pressure suddenly went insane with BC.

we shall see.

ok, i really must lay down and nap now before i lose more IQ points

Posted on May 21, 2003 by wrekehavoc

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julian's first mix CD

Posted on May 21, 2003 by wrekehavoc

well, i did it.

i made little boy’s first CD. it doesn’t have anything outlandish on it because i am hoping it will be a fairly relaxing musical experience. however, i am totally open to other people’s thoughts on other CDs. i just don’t feel like blasting Barney or the Wiggles or any of that stuff yet. when he is older, there will be plenty of time for that dross.

and of course, you cannot have music in this house without some bruce and without any members of the beatles. it simply isn’t done.

the lineup.

strawberry fields forever – a really lovely cover by peter gabriel
solsbury hill – peter gabriel
mary had a little lamb – paul mccartney and wings
as – stevie wonder (i wrote the entire lyrics out on a card for BC’s first birthday. when i hear this song, i think of my children. always.)
NY state of mind (live) – billy joel (if only they had a jersey state of mind. but heck, i included 2 sentimental BROOOOOOCE faves later on. that’s about as close as i will get, i suppose. but somehow, this song reminds me of home as well.)
i believe in love – dixie chicks (i really loathe the dixie chicks, but this song, off the World Trade Center benefit CD, is a very gentle and lovely little song. and the chicks did rise a little in my esteem as soon as they bashed Bush, so phhht.)
imagine – john lennon
beautiful boy – john lennon (because he, of course, is my beautiful boy 🙂
pink moon – nick drake (so his sister can sing to him.)
can’t find my way home – blind faith
i want love – elton john
the water is wide – james taylor
josie – steely dan (picked this because he is named after my aunt josie 🙂
sweet jane – cowboy junkies (he has been listening to this in utero for months, so he should have something familiar 😉
daisy jane– america
harmony – elton john (one of my all-time favorite songs. ever.)
meeting across the river (live) – bruce springsteen
if i should fall behind (live) – bruce springsteen (the only song BS ever put on and subsequently cried to. it was beautiful. really.)
evidence of autumn – genesis

baby mix

Posted on May 19, 2003 by wrekehavoc

which also reminds me…

i want to make a baby mix on CD that i can tolerate. first CD should be quiet songs that julian can snooze to (but that mom and dad can tolerate without wanting to vomit.) some candidates at the moment:

“beautiful boy” – john lennon (although this one also makes me cry when i think of lennon singing about how he can hardly wait to see sean come of age)

“imagine” – john lennon

“mary had a little lamb” – paul mccartney

“love’s in need of love today” – stevie wonder

“pink moon” – nick drake

“sweet jane” – cowboy junkies’ version

“weather with you” – crowded house

“can’t find my way home” – blind faith

any other bright ideas? i don’t want to replicate the tape (may it rest in pieces) i made for BC when she was born. i won’t even mention too many of those songs so that anyone out there who wasn’t tortured listening to it can give me some fresh, mellow ideas for babyland zzzz music. all genres welcome (although i don’t forsee too many rap/chem candidates out there, to be honest.)

why deny the obvious child

Posted on May 19, 2003 by wrekehavoc

and the obvious is that i am not getting enough sleep. and this is the time when i really need to do so. i am crying when i hear this song. i probably have put the lyrics up before, so i will just link to them now. but for some reason, it hits me today. all the car bombs. all the peace talks that go asunder. my kid’s tearful return to school – she is doing a whole lot better but she is crying as the car pulls away – she doesn’t want to go. hopefully her dad will get her a donut in the cafeteria and take a little extra time and TLC to get her back into the swing of things.

it’s all right. and i will now put on “the obvious child,” also by paul simon, which makes me smile. time to listen to happier stuff, i guess.

-Paul Simon

I’m accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I’m a dog who’s lost its bite
I don’t expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don’t expect to sleep through the night
Some people say a lie’s a lie’s a lie
But I say why
Why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?

And in remembering a road sign
I am remembering a girl when I was young
And we said These songs are true
These days are ours
These tears are free
And hey
The cross is in the ballpark
The cross is in the ballpark

We had a lot of fun
We had a lot of money
We had a little son and we thought we’d call him Sonny
Sonny gets married and moves away
Sonny has a baby and bills to pay
Sonny gets sunnier
Day by day by day by day

I’ve been waking up at sunrise
I’ve been following the light across my room
I watch the night receive the room of my day
Some people say the sky is just the sky
But I say
Why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?

Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself
How it’s strange that some rooms are like cages
Sonny’s yearbook from high school
Is down from the shelf
And he idly thumbs through the pages
Some have died
Some have fled from themselves
Or struggled from here to get there
Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair

Well I’m accustomed to a smoother ride
Maybe I’m a dog that’s lost his bite
I don’t expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don’t expect to sleep the night
Some people say a lie is just a lie
But I say the cross is in the ballpark
Why deny the obvious child?

that's a friend

Posted on May 18, 2003 by wrekehavoc

here’s a great big shout out to my friend jacks, who will probably smack me in the head (after i deliver the baby, of course) for writing about her.

we were paired up with jacks when BC and jacks’ daughter anya were in the nursery at daycare and we became her nursery buddies/mentors. BC was a veteran baby there, and anya was new in the place. how we got so lucky to be paired up with her, i will never know. some things are just like kismet, i guess. she’s a long island girl; i’m a jersey girl. i am sure we both had our stints with big hair. and despite the fact that she is italian and i am a red sea pedestrian, we are probably related. same bizarre sense of humor, same values, same hair (when mine isn’t in what might be termed as early chrissie hynde, which it is since my most recent haircut. basically my haircut from most of the 1980s. but everyone is polite enough not to say that to my face 😉 anyway, at this point, she is chair and i am vice chair of BC and anya’s school board. we don’t agree on everything (although we agree on a whole lot), but it is nice to be able to say so and not worry that she will hate me or think i am a blithering idiot. or maybe she is just too polite to tell me i am, but hey, that’s part of friendship sometimes, too 🙂

anyway, this morning, she was in the neighborhood with madame anya. because i have had such a piss-poor week, she brought over wonderful daisies and yummy thornton’s chocolates from her UK friend who is in town. (and scally, if you read this, you can add this to the things you can bring me from the UK 😉 friends who share chocolate are true friends.

but it gets better.

BS went out on the roof to clean out the gutters while jacks was over. suddenly, i heard BC screaming, “mama, there’s water coming out of the toilet!” i ran (yes, i really did, 38 weeks along) to find the toilet overflowing. i took the cover off and held up the thingy in the toilet that stops the water. jacks came in, held up the thingy while i got the plunger. then, she took the plunger from me, plunged the toilet, AND wiped up the water from the floor. now, it is awful enough when this happens to you when you are in your own house, but to do it in another person’s house, with another person’s kid’s dookie/etc in the bowl, well, THAT is friendship.

i am one lucky chick. thanks, jacks 🙂

oh dear

Posted on May 16, 2003 by wrekehavoc

BS has gotten something stuck in my head. i won’t even say what it is in reference to. but all i can think of at the moment is…

“timm-aaaaay!”

i’ll get you for that, my pretty. and your little dog, toto, too 😉

just a tad bit upset

Posted on May 16, 2003 by wrekehavoc

it isn’t a comforting sign when your OB looks at your strep results and announces, “these are really stupid results.”

not meaning, of course, that i am a pinhead and failed the strep B test because i am an idiot, mind you. but the results came back that while i am not apparently positive for strep A or strep B, i am apparently positive for some other strep. of course, the results don’t tell which strep that would be. so we will be treating this, in the meantime, as if it were strep B. which, of course, is serious enough that it could kill the baby.

i am just a tad bit upset.