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Jan. 16th, 2003 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThe most startling news at my most recent obstetrician's appointment (different from my ultrasound appointment but also on Tuesday) was that I'd only gained 1/10 of a pound during the last month. I was very surprised because I felt like I'd gained weight and because I really expected that all the Christmas goodies would have added up. Apparently, though, I've been better at paying attention to what I eat than I thought. I haven't been skimping on my servings particularly, haven't been feeling either ravenously hungry or queasily repelled by food, so I'm kind of assuming that I'm eating the right amounts. The obstetrician didn't mention any problems with my rate of gain, so I'm also going to assume that it's not a problem that I didn't gain. Since I started out overweight anyway and had gained more (at least in my opinion, although again nobody commented) the month before than I thought I should, I expect that it's not hurting either me or the fetus.
Last week, my mother-in-law took me shopping for maternity clothes. K-mart was having a 20% off sale, so I got three shirts and three pairs of stretch pants for just a bit under $50. Marilyn has offered to make me some jumpers as well, but the woven cotton fabrics weren't in anywhere we looked, and she needed to be somewhere at three, so we put the fabric shopping off for a later date. She told me Tuesday that JoAnn is advertising cottons now, so we'll probably try looking again some time early next week. We'll miss the sale, but she's not available before Monday. I hope we can find some stuff I like. I definitely don't want Marilyn picking it out without input from me because she tends to select really hideous stuff for me. I don't know if she genuinely likes what she picks or if she just thinks I have horrendous taste. It's not really something I can ask.
Scott and I are now seriously discussing possibilities for names. I think we know what we're going to end up choosing, but we want to consider all the options carefully. We've limited ourselves to names from our family trees. I mentioned that fact to my mother, forgetting that she's been tracing her family tree as a hobby. She promptly sent me an e-mail listing about 20 names that she says appear in her (and thus my) ancestry. Scott's mother also gave us a copy of a tree for her mother's family which we then promptly lost. We want to find it again just to see if there are any really good possibilities lurking there.
I've eliminated a couple of otherwise reasonable names because I have cousins with those names, and I don't really want to use the names of either of our mothers. That seems a little too close in and a little too likely to offend whoever we didn't pick. Both of my grandmothers' names just don't work well for me (Minnie and Edith, in case you wondered). Scott's grandmothers were Virginia and Helen which are names I like better. Well, we'll see.
We are running into a problem that I'd rather expected. Over the years of role playing and of writing, I've used a lot of names for fictional characters and so have specific connotations for them (the LARPs alone have used dozens of names). I expect that using one for a real person would overwrite all of those assumptions (It's worked for my half-sister. I'd used her name a couple of years before she was born for a particularly memorable character, but now she's the first one I think of when I hear her name. I haven't forgotten the character, but she no longer looms so large in my memory), but I want to be careful not to start with preconceptions.
Last week, my mother-in-law took me shopping for maternity clothes. K-mart was having a 20% off sale, so I got three shirts and three pairs of stretch pants for just a bit under $50. Marilyn has offered to make me some jumpers as well, but the woven cotton fabrics weren't in anywhere we looked, and she needed to be somewhere at three, so we put the fabric shopping off for a later date. She told me Tuesday that JoAnn is advertising cottons now, so we'll probably try looking again some time early next week. We'll miss the sale, but she's not available before Monday. I hope we can find some stuff I like. I definitely don't want Marilyn picking it out without input from me because she tends to select really hideous stuff for me. I don't know if she genuinely likes what she picks or if she just thinks I have horrendous taste. It's not really something I can ask.
Scott and I are now seriously discussing possibilities for names. I think we know what we're going to end up choosing, but we want to consider all the options carefully. We've limited ourselves to names from our family trees. I mentioned that fact to my mother, forgetting that she's been tracing her family tree as a hobby. She promptly sent me an e-mail listing about 20 names that she says appear in her (and thus my) ancestry. Scott's mother also gave us a copy of a tree for her mother's family which we then promptly lost. We want to find it again just to see if there are any really good possibilities lurking there.
I've eliminated a couple of otherwise reasonable names because I have cousins with those names, and I don't really want to use the names of either of our mothers. That seems a little too close in and a little too likely to offend whoever we didn't pick. Both of my grandmothers' names just don't work well for me (Minnie and Edith, in case you wondered). Scott's grandmothers were Virginia and Helen which are names I like better. Well, we'll see.
We are running into a problem that I'd rather expected. Over the years of role playing and of writing, I've used a lot of names for fictional characters and so have specific connotations for them (the LARPs alone have used dozens of names). I expect that using one for a real person would overwrite all of those assumptions (It's worked for my half-sister. I'd used her name a couple of years before she was born for a particularly memorable character, but now she's the first one I think of when I hear her name. I haven't forgotten the character, but she no longer looms so large in my memory), but I want to be careful not to start with preconceptions.
