Morning Caffeine

… run for your lives.

Seriously. I thought women exaggerate how hormones can take over you, but in last few days, I am simply unbearable. Everyone and everything annoys me.

My work annoys me, since I am barely keeping up with it due to my ‘all the time’ sleepiness. Getting up five times per night to go to the bathroom annoys me as well, because usually the last time I get up is around 5am and I find it very difficult to fall asleep again which, of course, occurs around 6am anyway, but makes getting up around 8 a nightmare.

My closest ones annoy me. They are all happy and wish me the best, but I don’t need to be reminded of that million times a day, thank you.

Housework annoys me, because I have no time for it at all and even when I do find some free time, I’m in bed, sleeping.

Don’t get me wrong, being pregnant is a unique experience and thinking of a little baby growing inside you is simply wonderful, but when those less pleasant things hit me, I bite.

I’ve heard that second trimester is the best one, so wish me luck to get through those remaining 10 days of first one.

Note: Some of those words are written few weeks ago, but since it was too early, I’m publishing them now.

Few weeks ago, on 5th October, out of the blue I decided to take a pregnancy test (even though I promised to myself that I won’t be doing them that month). I was kind of sorry for that little test to have to wait for one more month to be used. I was already heavily PMSing, but I took it, 3 days earlier, in the afternoon (none of those things are recommendable in the instructions, but who really follow these things?!). After around 5 minutes, I thought I saw something, something that might indicate a test line. It was so faint that I don’t think other would see it, but I did, I saw that invisible line which could indicate that someone is actually trying to rent a room in me. After an hour of constantly looking into that ‘almost impossible to see’ line, I ran to the drug store to get another test. Took another one and invisible line showed up again (in my head).

Next few hours I spent comparing tests and trying to prove to myself that test lines are visible and clear. After I calmed down, I’ve decided not to rush things and wait until Monday (it was Friday) for another test. Of course, on Monday I had already taken total of 5 tests and it was kind of obvious that I’m pregnant.

My blood test on Tuesday finally confirmed that I have a roommate.

So, around that time it all began: mood swings, sleeping for 10 people, eating and crying even on tv commercials, going to bathroom very VERY often and so on.

Anyway, this tiny fella is now around 12mm long and his heart is beating which I saw on the ultrasound this Monday!

Holly cow, I’m gonna be a mom!

Is it some kind of rule that I should get sick only on weekends?

I was really looking forward to the weekend and what happened is that I woke up Saturday morning with sore throat and nose full. I tried to ignore that fact and just continued my day like nothing happened, hoping it will go away the same way it hit me, but with every hour, it got worse and finally in the afternoon and I just had to go to bed.

It’s been always like that. While I was in school I would usually get sick during weekends or worse, during summer or winter holidays. I was sure It had to be some kind of set up. I’ve never managed to find the evidence, but it must have been some kind of conspiracy deal between my school teachers and my parents. There is no better explanation really. Those people are only ones that didn’t want me to miss school classes, while I thought being sick during school time is like a little holiday for every kid.

Now, it must be my boss. I don’t know how he’s doing it, but I blame him. Maybe he talked to my teachers.

Being sick really sucks. Being sick over the weekends is a nightmare. I’m going back to bed.

Just 10 days ago, I was annoyed because it was still too hot and temperature in my apartment was over 30°C which makes working and living in general quite difficult. During whole day I would try to find the best solution to lower the temperature or to make myself a little bit more comfortable, bu none of the methods were successful and I actually was looking forward to the autumn.

Be careful what you wish for, they say. Apparently I wasn’t, because we now have cold and freezing November at the beginning of the September! Morning temperature is around 7-8°C and in my apartment, it is barely 20-21°C. Now I have to dig all of my winter clothes and wear them inside because there’s still whole month before the heating starts.

Luckily, it’s Saturday and while my worst decision I made today was to get out of the bed in the morning, there is still time for correction and I’ll do my best to spend the rest of the day covered with blankets, watching TV and reading books. Sunday shouldn’t be much different, but Monday will spoil it all and make me work. Life is a weekly cycle.

Most of you already know that, but I was too busy to post here since I had to catch up with work and with some of my offline friends first.

We had such a great time and I really wished we could stay longer than 14 days! However, we already agreed that we are for sure going away during Christmas holidays. There are few months to decide on a destination. Any suggestions?

Anyway, the highlight of our vacation was a daily trip to Dubrovnik/Croatia. Old downtown of Dubrovnik is simply beautiful. It was firstly founded in 7th century and reconstructed again in 14th and 15th century. A wall was built around the city, so nowadays, tourists can walk on the wall and enjoy beautiful view on the city and the sea. Just to get you an idea how it looks like, here are few photos we took:

I hope you liked those. Those were my best pick between around 50 images I took there.

Oh, and one day during our lunch, this little fella came to visit us and say hello. He posed for few shots and flew away

Sooo, it’s time to get back to work and earn next vacation.

Believe it or not, the time has come for me to finally take vacation after 7 years and actually go somewhere. Most likely on Tuesday evening me and my man are taking a trip to Montenegro coast for 10 days.

I feel like a kid again, because I’m counting how many nights I still need to sleep before we leave (2 more).

My plans to do there:

10 Do nothing;
20 Swim in the sea;
30 Do nothing;
40 Sleep;
50 Goto 10;
Run

I’ll probably die without checking my email few times a day or talking to some of my online friends, so if you don’t hear from me in 2 weeks, that is what happened.

I’m happy to say that little family is doing fine. It’s their day 6 and they are still in the house but I managed to see them yesterday when hamster mom left the house to get some food. It seems there are 4 of them! Hamster mom is still nervous, however I think she got used to me and see me as her food source. In next few days they should start coming out from the house to explore the area. I’m sure that will be fun to watch! I will keep you updated.

I’m sorry I have to report that my female hamster rejected 5 of her babies. After reading on the net why this might happen, I concluded that she most likely realized she can’t handle them all. She still have 2 or 3 babies in her house and she probably realized that they have better chance of survival than her other kids, so she made a selection on them. It seems that this kind of things often happen with animals. While it does seem cruel, it’s just the way nature works.

I really do hope she’ll keep remaining babies and try to raise them.

That’s how my friend Sara calls me these days. Well, it’s kind of true, as I am temporary fostering 2 little hamsters in my house. Well, since an hour ago, that was true. Now, I’m fostering at least 6-7 of them, as female hamster just became a mom, which makes me a grandma, Sara said.

The strangest thing is that female hamster was sold to us as male, and male one as female, and since few days ago, we were sure that male is pregnant. Yeah, weird.

Anyway, I really hope they all will be fine. The female is eating and is active, so I guess that’s a good sign.

Just across my new apartment, there is a coffee shop with ‘coffee to go’. At the beginning I was going there just to pick up my coffee few times a week, but after doing it for a month or two, I got to know the staff that work there, they already knew what kind of coffee I’m going to order, I would say hello each time I’m passing by etc.. Few days ago I decided to finally drink my coffee over there. In the early morning, the shop is completely empty and you would feel like it’s Sunday morning and everybody is still sleeping. I’ve talked to the girl and asked if they are going to offer internet access and she said they are thinking about it and very soon they will probably offer that kind of service as well (preferably free ), which will be so awesome! I will be able to check my email and make “to do” lists for the day in the morning while I drink my morning coffee. That will be so wonderful and hopefully will happen soon.

So, what is your morning routine?