Too Funny Not to Document

This morning I had a meeting with the professor I am a research assistant for. I got up at 6:30, ate breakfast, dropped Sawyer off at my parent's house for my mom to watch and then arrived at school for my 9 am appointment to go over an abstract I wrote for an upcoming conference. During our hour long meeting I started to feel kind of nauseated and realized I probably should eat something soon. I was planning on heading over to Starbucks to spend another few hours completing school and work assignments, but on the way I realized I needed to eat something STAT and Starbucks was too far away so I pulled into a nearby McDonald's drive through just in time before their breakfast ended at 10:30. Remember how I said I have been on a McMuffin kick? No surprise that I ordered the usual breakfast of sausage egg McMuffin, orange juice and hashbrown and before I even left the drive through I started chowing down on the hash brown. Took a sip of orange juice and not even two minutes later I realized something that hasn't happened in a few weeks was totally going to happen. At. Any. Minute. I was headed towards the freeway, but thankfully found a side street before the on ramp and quickly tried to maneuver into a parking lot, but before I could even pull into a space it HAPPENED. I threw up. All. Over. Myself. My sweater, my pants, the seat. I don't know who was more surprised, myself or the person that saw me pulling into the parking lot. Oh yes and did I mention I am driving a rental car?!! Our CR-V has been in the shop getting rock chips repaired so in the meantime I have been driving a rental car for the past two weeks. And one with fabric seats. The driver seat of which was now covered in my partially digested breakfast from earlier and a hashbrown. Siiiiiiiiiick. I called my mom who wasn't expecting me to come back to pick up Sawyer for another few hours. Laughing at the ridiculousness of my predicament I explained my situation and told her I was coming back early. That was quite a long drive back. I feel bad for the people in trucks or taller cars than mine that had to see a lady covered in vomit driving next to them. Once I got to my moms she came out with a wet rag, a roll of papertowels and a garbage bag to help me clean up myself and the rental car. I bet she never thought she would be having to clean up her 29 year old daughters throw up! Then she gave me some clothes to change into and washed my current outfit. Thanks a million Mom!!! I hope this baby appreciates me later as much as I appreciated you today!

UP

Things are looking UP. 

On Friday I decided to go Unisom free again to see how I would feel the next day. I just completed my second week of school and really didn't want to try this little experiment on a school night or even a night that I needed to watch Sawyer solo the next day in case we had a repeat experience like the last time I skipped the Unisom. But surprisingly the next morning I felt...A-okay! Which lasted all the way until the afternoon when I started to feel crummy again, but nothing like before and nothing that wasn't manageable. So for three days now I have been both Zofran AND Unisom free!! Hip hip hooray!! It's been a little over two months since I have been on this nausea medication regimen and it feels great to finally be done with that phase! Now, instead of nausea I am just ridiculously hungry at all times :) Which I will gladly take! It seems like anything I eat gets instantaneously gobbled up by the baby and I am famished again in mere minutes. It's kind of funny how often I have said to Matt "I'm starving! I need to eat (again) right. now." which unfortunately means that we have eaten out quite a bit the last week. Some of my excursions have been to get the tomato basil soup at Noodles, shredded pork salad from Cafe Rio, and I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I may or may not have had a sausage McMuffin for breakfast (or second breakfast) three times in the past week and a half. Man, their orange juice there is good too. Orange juice has been my one sustaining craving from the first trimester until now. Mmmm, so delicious.

Lately we have also been on an UP movie binge. That movie is hilarious. I love all the characters: Kevin the bird, Russell the kid, Doug the dog. Last year we missed the hot air balloon take off in Boise so I wanted to be sure we went this year, especially after watching UP I knew Sawyer would really be into watching all the balloons. We went early Saturday morning the day it was scheduled and found a seat on the grass right where they launched. It was pretty cool to watch. Sawyer was quiet the whole time, a sure sign his attention was captivated!

 I posted the photo below on Instagram with the caption "Really wanted to hitch a ride on one of them to Paradise Falls, #kevinandherbabies, #adventureisoutthere, #cawcawrawr" hoping my fellow Instagrammers would know what movie I was referring to.