:: Brinna's ::

:: Monday, April 18, 2005 ::

Well, here I am in Ft. Rucker, Alabama. I'm in my inexpensive but actually very nice motel room. Andrew brought his desktop computer over from his room, because I get free internet access included in the room.

The trip went very well, no problems...I did get pulled over once, but I'm not sure what for. I guess it's like the times when Mom was driving on the road trips and we got pulled over for no reason. Maybe they were looking for someone. The only other interesting thing was, I was passing a semi at night and nearly killed myself because another car came out of nowhere from the other direction, speeding. Hopefully it wasn't as close as I felt like it was, since it's hard to tell headlight distances at night. All I know is, they weren't there when I started to pass, and that I won't be passing at night for awhile. :) On a brighter note, I passed a cheese factory and got some cheese curds. Yumm!

Alice is doing well, and I still have no complaints about pregnancy. Especially once I discovered that my back/rib ache issue I'd been having sometimes when I sat in one spot for a few hours (like a car seat :)) could be alleviated usually completely by pushing down on my stomach. Apparently she just kept creeping upward and I didn't realize it. Rib cages may be expandable, but that doesn't make it comfortable! :) It's amazing to me how easily they can be moved. I always thought it sounded difficult and painful to try and manually turn a baby to be head down instead of breech, but now I know it can't be that hard. She doesn't do lots of gymnastics (like flips) inside of me, but it's really easy for me to shift her position if it's uncomfy. It only takes a couple seconds of pushing down for my rib cage to stop hurting. It may get more difficult the larger she gets, but at least for now everything works out.

I haven't gotten bored at all yet. I arrived Friday morning, and saw Andrew at lunch time. Then we went out to dinner with some of his friends at a Mexican place. Not bad tasting, either, considering we're really far from Mexico! I had a virgin frozen margarita. Usually they don't appeal to me at all but I've really enjoyed the taste of citrus lately. It was like a lemon-lime slushie. No cravings to speak of..apparently my vitamins are doing the trick. I only have slight changes to my tastes.

Anyway, the next day I didn't see Andrew until the afternoon because they had to clean their building. He thought he wasn't going to get to see me at all, but he was, as usual, overly pessimistic. We went to the nearest large town and his friends all got a room at a motel. It was funny, there was about 8 of us in one hotel room watching tv, and some of them had a couple beers, and everyone was basically doing nothing they couldn't on base, but the fact that they were off base made all the difference. The next day all we did was roam about town browsing stores.

Despite spending so much time outside of the room, I feel like I've gotten a few things done. I'd brought my sewing machine with me, and I cut out and sewed some fabric I got at Walmart. It's pink and white stripes with little blue and pink flowers, and it's really pretty good fabric. I got it from the discount area, $2/yd. But it feels like good decorating fabric. I made it into a crib sheet, crib bumper, and crib skirt. You'll see it when I take pics of the room. I loved working with it, it's got a great feel to it. I'm not sure if it's totally cotton but that's ok. I'm going to make a diaper stacker too, sometime soon. I also brought my trench coat to work on if I feel like it, and a Hello Kitty fleece pieced blanket kit I bought at Joann's a while back. I have plenty of handwork too though, for when I tire of sewing! It's just been so long since I've sewed very much, it's nice to sew again. Handwork is portable, but sewing isn't.

Oh, I forgot to tell what happened with my brakes...well, I told my dad about what they said, so we took a wheel off on the weekend to check it out for ourselves. He said they were getting somewhat low, yes, but I had a good 5-10 thousand miles left on them. Certainly not 'you're going to die tomorrow' or taking my life into my hands sort of thing that they conveyed. But Dad thought we might as well change them out anyway, seeing as how I was about to go cross-country. We went down to Auto Zone and bought some brake fluid and pads for all of $40. Much better than $240 that Midas wanted! So I've got new good quality brakes now. I drove them all the way to Alabama and no problems yet!

Last but not least, I'm going to post a picture of my belly, because I have no idea when I'll get around to it next or have an opportunity next. For all I know, my baby will hatch prematurely in the next week and I can say, look! that's as big as I got! :) (Although I have to say, it is starting to look pretty big.. :)) I'm getting close to my 8th month already. Today I've completed 29 weeks, and I'm in the 30th. Eek! But anyway, here you go, and until next time...

:: Brinna 8:50 AM [+] ::
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