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I still have morning sickness, but it's getting better. Except yesterday, where it almost killed me. I've had it for over 6 weeks. With Bert, I only had it for 5. 5 weeks of permanent nausea. It was baaad then, but worse this time around, even though it comes and goes. At it's worst, I was stuck in bed for a few days. Sweet little Bert was so good, he didn't get upset or anything and was very good at entertaining himself and putting up with bland meals and lots of pasta. I'd wake up from a delirium nausea nap to find his books and toys laid out next to me. He'd bring me this wind-up music-box lion that was mine when I was a kid. I'd wind it up and hand it to him and he'd put it down facing me and patter away. Obviously, I adore him. He is so good to me.
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:57 PM, G Kinnard wrote: You're "kind of mad" because of our last skype. Why? Because I stated my opinion & it differed from yours? I have bent over backwards to accommodate you. I acknowledged & accepted your complaints against me & apologized. Since then I have taken great care & have avoided that behavior. Still, you are not satisfied. I was willing to meet you MORE than half way & it's not enough. It appears that you expect total subservience. That's not fair, Chloe. Guenn, I am sick and tired of your little annoying insults -- you know very well that I do not like Anne and Auntie Margaret's hair, so stop pretending you don't understand why I was angry and that you were just stating your opinion. You have been making fun of my haircuts for the last year. Unlike Chantel, I cannot afford to go to a salon and get an expensive haircut -- hell, I can't even afford to get a cheap haircut! Mark and I cannot afford to squander our cash -- our income at the moment only barely meets our expenses and we cannot afford to blow our money on expensive and unnecessary things. We want to have enough money to pay the rent without dipping into our savings or racking up debt -- after all, we have Bert to take care of [-------]. We are just trying to be financially responsible. Bent over backwards my fucking ass -- after the way you treated us the last time you were here, you're lucky we talk to you at all! You were rude, embarrassing, almost permanently drunk, insulting, mean, and hugely melodramatic. You screamed at us in public and walked out on us in the middle of two restaurants. It seems like you think if you are slightly less bitchy than usual for a little while that you can wheedle your way back into our good books, but we're not the chumps you think we are. The only reason I skype you and continue to put up with your nit-picking and your little jabs is because Bert likes skype so much and I like to make Bert happy. If you want to "meet me over half way," give up drinking and stop being so mean. Before you visited us, you said you would never drink or smoke around a baby and then you were drinking and smoking a lot of the time -- I even smelled booze on your breath in the mornings! All of our other visitors here at [B----] have been less trouble and less stressful -- even when they were staying with us. I have not asked for total subservience, I just expect us to be treated with dignity and respect and will not accept anything less. Do not act as if I am being unfair to expect that. Chloe 9 comments | post a comment
Yesterday, at the grocry store -- I don't know if it's because I at too much or because the chips (fries) tasted funny or because I am just sick, but I had the most painful gas and diarrhea. I was distracted enough while shopping to forget pretzels and crackers, but when we were in line checking out, I had to give the coupons and stuff to Mark and run to the bathroom. My guts were cramping so badly. Anyway, then we have to hurry to the train station and on the way, oh, yes, I get hit with cramps again, but I know there is no toilet until the ferry. So I hobble-run, carrying Bert, to the train, consider the benefits of shitting myself on the train (like ending the cramps), hobble to the ferry.
We don't get many crafting shows with our Sky package, but there is one that I've been watching -- Quilt in a Day. www.quiltinaday.com is the site that goes with the show, surprisingly. Suddenly, I have quilting fever. The host, Eleanor, almost never uses pins and has all these great tricks for getting your corners to match up without having to hand stitch or pin and such. I had no idea ironing seams made such a difference in piecing stuff together. A couple years ago, I was given a box of tartan scraps and I am going to use the smaller ones for a patchwork/random/crazy quilt.
Also, tomorrow is our 10 year wedding anniversary. We will be celebrating it like we do every year -- by doing nothing. At least this year, one of us remembered. We couldn't remember what day it was for ages.
Why the hell was there a TICK hanging from my son's arm when I took his shirt off? We haven't been outside in over 48 hours and we live on the second floor! FUCKING nasty. nastier than my nasty fungal toe. I've never found a tick on me.
Just made Bert his first peanut-butter and jelly sandwich (on whole wheat bread) right now and he is really enjoying it. (I found some sugarless/all-fruit blueberry jam at the store and it is delicious.)
Soak cow peas (aka black-eyed peas) overnight. Drain.
So, I applied for citizenship in March and have heard nothing until Wednesday, when I received a letter that basically asked why I bothered applying when I had been arrested for assault and had a pending prosecution and they should refuse my application for being deceptive.
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Sometimes I think I lead a charmed life or something -- I was shopping for groceries yesterday and went over to have a wee nosy in the tray of the guy who marks down produce and he marked down 2 packs of bok choi and 2 packs of salad onions (like green onions with big juicy bulbs) to 10p each for me!! I also got a 20p green cabbage and 3 bell peppers (2 red, 1 green) for 20p and a bag of oranges for 25p from the reduced shelf -- the bounty was plentiful! The dude basically dropped everything to help me pick out cheap veg and was beaming when I thanked him and called him a sweetheart. I saved over £8 on veg! And made tabbouleh last night. 2 comments | post a comment
Have a butcher's: 9 May parsley-hummous 2 wild garlic pancakes, blackberry pancake tofu broccoli-buckwheat banana tropical porridge 1-1/2 rich tea biscuits (my husband Mark likes to share biscuits with him -- it is probably the only "naughty" food I let him have) 10 May avocado, shallot, and nutritional yeast flakes sandwich on w/w bread broccoli-buckwheat 1/2 digestive biscuit 1/2 small potato banana rye bread a few spoonfuls of my organic puffed brown rice (cereal) and soymilk 11 May tropical porridge banana beetroot-potato-tofu-shallot salad (w/ flaxseed oil) 1/2 digestive biscuit rice 12 May banana miso soup w/ rice rice w/ tomato sauce toasted rye w/ margarine (I use Sunflower Pure -- it's not hydrogenated) and treacle nibble of malt loaf spicy garbanzos (chick peas) w/ onion, wild garlic greens, carrot, & w/w couscous 1-1/2 digestive biscuits rye bread 13 May 1-1/2 bananas wild garlic & walnut pesto w/ nutritional yeast flakes on rye cucumber with a dab of olive oil broccoli hot pot toasted rye w/ marg and treacle a wee bit more broccoli hot pot w/ tomato sauce a few spoonfuls of my organic puffed brown rice (cereal) and soymilk 1/2 digestive biscuit oatmeal & raisins 14 May kiwi fruit banana w/w (whole wheat) couscous & tomato sauce broccoli hot pot soy yoghurt w/w pasta w/ spinach, shallot, garlic, olive oil, and wild garlic & walnut pesto 16 May 1-1/2 bananas (a TON of) tropical porridge and flaxseed oil (a TON of) spicy rice, curried dahl (red lentils) with tomatoes, onion, and olive oil digestive biscuit 24 May banana rice & tomato dahl cury sweet potato potato-pea-pesto mash 26 May pea-potato mash tofu (Bert is wild about tofu, so I give cubes of it to him as a snack) rye bread w/ marg and treacle broccoli-tomato rice apricot-peach-apple sauce soya yoghurt 27 May rye bread w/ marg broccoli-tomato rice tofu and brussel sprouts baked beans pear 28 May oatmeal-w/w bread banana tofu curried potatoes miso soup w/ rice and wakame seaweed spicy okra in tomato sauce pear oatcake 29 May banana mini whole wheat date scone (I made healthy scones for his birthday) tofu oatmeal-w/w bread spice soup (chili, tomato, onion, carrot, celery, courgette -- more of a thick stew, really) rice 30 May (his first birthday) pear banana blueberries & soya yoghurt 2 mini w/w scones spice soup and rice tofu gazpacho soup (thick -- like the way they do it in Seville) with w/w bread 31 May mini w/w scone 2 bananas blueberries gazpacho soup with w/w bread w/w toast & all-fruit raspberry jam (unsweetened/no sugar or sweeteners) tofu 1 June mini w/w scone tofu banana avocado hummous (mmm!) gazpacho soup & w/w bread cucumber smoothie (banana-blueberry-tofu-soya yoghurt) pear small potato 2 June avocado hummous on w/w bread 2 wee potatoes 1-1/2 bananas more avocado hummous stewed okra & tomatoes apricot-peach-apple sauce organic brown puffed rice & a dab of soya milk 3 June avocado hummous & nutritional yeast flakes on w/w bread banana borscht veggies (beet carrot, celery, onion) w/ olive oil, dill, and black pepper organic brown puffed rice & soya milk rice & tomato sauce pear 5 June avocado hummous on w/w bread banana beet & potato salad (w/ cider vinegar, olive oil, and ground coriander) <--this is a northern African recipe I recently discovered broccoli-rice with a smidge of tomato sauce tofu 7 June quinoa with tomatoes, carrot, mushroom, celery, cabbage, and onion w/w toast with all-fruit jam w/w toast with marg and marmite sweet potato banana garlic-ginger-chili millet with shallots and cilantro (fresh coriander) roasted beets with olive oil, lemon, shallot, rosemary, garlic, and black pepper tofu digestive biscuit 10 June w/w toast with all-fruit jam w/w toast with marg and marmite banana tofu broccoli-rice with a dab of tomato sauce smoothie (banana, soya yoghurt, kiwi, mixed frozen berries) digestive biscuit 11 June w/w toast with all-fruit jam w/w toast with marg and marmite banana tofu broccoli-rice with a dab of curried dahl Aloo Bhajia (curried fried potatoes) smoothie (banana, soya yoghurt, kiwi, mixed frozen berries) 9 comments | post a comment
P.S. Last night I had a dream that Ben from LOST picked a huge basket of strawberries for me. Mmmmmm. I like strawberries. 8 comments | post a comment
 Um.. Wow. Bert had a vaccination today and the health visitor (the one who had been worried he was anaemic) started off by asking me about rice milk -- she gave me a pamphlet that says it contains levels of arsenic that are too high for kids. Well, anyway, she has done a total 180 on the Bert-food thing! I've been writing down what I feed Bert each day and she was really impressed ("ooh, wild garlic pancakes!"). THEN she asked if I'd mind talking to some sort of student who needs to give a presentation on young children in Scotland who actually eat healthy food because Bert is a great example of a healthy well-fed kid. She said it is so hard to get people to feed their kids well and to breastfeed and that we are in the middle of a childhood obesity epidemic in this country and maybe I could talk to that student and the nutritionist about what I feed Bert so that they could pass that information along to other parents. I said if she was interested (and she was), I'd be happy to type up my baby food recipes and even try to note down "cheat" (simpler) versions for people who can't cook or don't fancy making absolutely everything from scratch. Since the country bus only comes once an hour and we had time to kill, I took Bert to a different bus stop in Kilcreggan where there was a tree and a patch of grass. I used the wrap I carry him in as a makeshift picnic blanket and we sat in the shade on the grass and shared a banana. I was worried he might high-tail it and crawl away or something, but Bert was very well behaved. Also, I am treating my mild toe fungus with tea tree oil (seems to be working, but it's a long slow process growing out a big toenail). And, as you can see, I taught myself how to knit socks. This one is from my second pair. I dyed the mostly-purple yarn myself. I made some avocado hummous yesterday (and served it in little endive/chicory boats with cucumber) and I still have some leftover. I am going to make a beet, potato, and red onion salad (with olive oil, dill, and cider vinegar) this afternoon. Hmmm, maybe I'll make a carrot-onion-beet salad with a mustard dressing, too. Or I could cook some barley and make a barley-celery salad. So many choices. Bert is being super cute, I gotta go! 9 comments | post a comment
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