In Praise of Snoogles

Last night, I slept on my Snoogle (the overgrown boppy I made mention of in yesterday's 7 Quick Takes). That's a happy pillow!


Finally something that supports my legs, my back, my stomach, and my neck (although I think I will have to add a small pillow to the neck place otherwise I'm going to get a crick in my neck from the angle the stuffing is at).

And it doesn't fall off the bed three or four times a night or require me to wake up quite thoroughly if I need to turn over (I'm a very restless sleeper--these people who never move in the night boggle my mind) in order to rearrange everything.

And I don't have to either push it out of the way or try to clamber over it so I can get out of the bed in one of my ever-frequent bathroom stops in the night (a feat that has rapidly becoming much less graceful and more difficult--I swear it's like climbing Mt Everest some nights). Instead it has this nice little cut on one side that I just leave facing the side of the bed and I can just lift up one of the arms and slip out easily!

And Chris is liking it too because by itself it takes up less room than my mound of pillows took up (I have--bless him--a very patient husband. He has put up with my pillows slowly taking over the bed because he knows I've just been trying to get comfortable. But I know that I've been slowly usurping more and more of his sleeping space).

The only bad observation I would say about it thus far is that I'm not quite sure if someone who is much taller than I am would find it quite as comfortable. It's very flexible and can be shoved into various angles and what-not, and obviously it had to have been designed with taller people in mind as I am (sadly) not considered normal (height only, thank you very much!--JJ, keep the comments to yourself), but it's such a perfect fit for my height, I do have to wonder...

Any ways, that's my Saturday morning rhapsody on Snoogles!

[Liz--you've jumped up to top three in my list of people I'm currently very, very grateful to!]

7 Quick Takes Friday (vol. 11)

1. So I started out my day with a certain number of possessions, and by 2:45pm they had expanded to quite a few more. It's kind of overwhelming.

My birthday present came in the mail today (an under-the-counter radio for our kitchen--YAY!--other than the fact that it now needs to actually be put under the counter...hmmmm...I wonder who I can get to that?) along with a very overgrown boppy which is basically a desperate attempt for me to find pillows that I'm actually comfortable sleeping on right now. Crossing my fingers and praying this will work.

Then a co-worker of mine dropped off about 5 books on pregnancy, babies, etc as well as a bag full of other goodies like maternity clothes. She just had her second baby so is not going to be needing any of them for awhile. I feel very blessed.

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2. In other happenings of recent days--Robins have been spotted in our back yard. I'm praying and praying and praying that they were not simply mistaken and are now going to freeze to death or that they weren't actually headed somewhere else and were just using our fence as a temporarily stopping place, but that they are here to stay--with SPRING! Because, frankly, I'm done with cold weather now, thank you very much.

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3. Last weekend we went to see Stomp (we also took my brother and his wife along). This is the second time (for me--third for Christopher) that we've had the opportunity to see them. And once again it was a satisfying, intriguing, fun show.

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4. For my mother. From Valentine's day. Not the most flattering picture, but there you have it--Blueberry is taking over!

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5. My brain today reminded me very much of a conversation from season 1 of Gilmore Girls:

Rory: Can brains hurt?
Lorelai: Yes, it's hypochondria hour.
Rory: No, I'm serious. Last night when I was reading my biology chapters I distinctly heard a ping in the vicinity of my brain.
Lorelai: Your brain pinged?
Rory: Yeah. It just went like 'dink'.
Lorelai: Well then, honey, your brain dinked. It didn't ping.
Rory: Well I hardly think a dinking brain is better than a pinging brain.

I think I dinked. Brain quit functioning. Very problematic when trying to get things done at work.

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6. Goal for this weekend: tackling the scary closet in our study so I can move the scariness (hopefully as a slightly less scary mass) to the current guest room/new study. Pray for me. I think I may need it.

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7. What is up with pregnancy appetites? For the first three months I thought I was going to die, or at least put on 10 pounds, because of how hungry I was all the time. And now I'm varying from day to day, hour to hour. Sometimes I feel like I Must have food NOW or I will keel over and then other times I haven't eaten for quite awhile and I'm really not hungry but I really, probably should eat something because skipping meals altogether is generally not the greatest of ideas and especially when you have something else to keep alive as well. But then of course I wake up at 1am and have to get out of bed and find a snack because I've returned to the "must have food NOW or death" stage. You'd think I could at least be consistent! I hope this isn't a foreshadowing of Blueberries eating habits to come...

Design Mania II

So along with the topic of rearranging my house comes the delightful task of setting up a nursery.

As we have decided to go ahead and do a major(ish) overhaul of two rooms, I've really had to start thinking about what I want to do, especially as we're planning on painting (and re-carpeting) Blueberry's room. But in order to pick paint colors, I had to have an idea of how I was decorating.

I decided a logical place to start would be with bedding. I examined various themes and ideas but ultimately my love of literature--children's literature in this particular case--won out. After perusing the classic Pooh Bear collections and oohing and aahing over the Beatrix Potter sets, I finally decided on a lovely set that has various nursery rhymes. This gives me a lot of license to mix and match in various other characters and stories with ease. Plus the more gender neutral colors of the set let me go ahead and pick out paint now without knowing if Blueberry is going to be a he or she. Besides, I've always known I would never be one to the do the traditional pink or blue.


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Right now I'm leaning towards an orangish/yellow color for the walls (if you can look close enough at the bedding, you'll see the color I'm looking at is incorporated in various places all over the quilt). It's bright but not too bright, and I'm just hoping it will turn out the way I'm envisioning!

So bedding is now in hand, negotiations over paint colors and carpet choices are ensuing, and as my bump gets bigger (could someone explain to me how my stomach is the size it is if I've only gained about 1 pound so far?) the fact that I'm about to have my entire existence changed is becoming more and more real. And I'm OK with that.