Tuesday: quilting

Today I managed to convince myself that I shouldn't go to bed at 7:30pm (because that really is too early). I had been wanting to do some quilting again after doodling patterns on graph paper yesterday.

So after not having touched my sewing machine in over two months, I finished quilting Quilt 6. (To be fair, it was almost finished.)

Tuesday: The News

Ben and I are happy to announce that we are having a baby.

A baby! We're excited and scared at the same time.

I've been writing blog posts about it for a while now and just published them. You can follow the label "child" below or just click here.

I am due January 3rd. It was a pretty rough 1st trimester, but things are slowly improving. The last two weeks (including vacation) were better, although I'm still having some sickness. My pants are getting rather tight and if I have long enough shirts I've just been leaving the top button undone. I got a belly band but it is a bit uncomfortable and tight. I might try again if my pants actually start falling down or I'm wearing a short shirt. We are going to find out the gender, but I'm not sure if that is going to be the end of July or the end of August. I think that is really all the information that I have.

Here's a picture of the tiny bump from last week. You have to squint a little bit :)

Sunday: more relaxing

Today was another nice and relaxing day. We went to church but mostly chilled for the rest of the day. We did manage to sneak in a few chores though.

Saturday: a day with the family

Today Ben and I went to my parent's place and got to see Nathan and Liz. It was a very nice and relaxing day. I'm pretty sure that I was in the hammock for almost the entire afternoon.

Wednesday: we win

This morning in training we got to do to a hands on exercise to demonstrate continuous improvement. We started at two fake bumpers per minute (although there were a bunch of "problems" that we didnt know about). By our third pass we were making one fake bumper every 7.5 seconds. I was in charge of putting the unpainted nut on.

We beat the previously known record by two bumpers in five minutes. Because we're awesome.

Tuesday: this and that

I saw I broken down motorcycle by the side of the road today. I don't think I've ever seen that before, which made me wonder if it is because there are less motorcycles on the road or because motorcyclists take better care of their motorcycles.

I contemplated buying more underwear while I was at Target today so I wouldn't have to do laundry. Now I'm contemplating wearing used underwear if I can't drag some up from the dregs of the underwear bucket. I expect I can find something, but I don't know if it will fit well.

I went to the doctor to get my ear checked out because I still couldn't hear anything after something happened in the pool. It turns out that I just have a lot of wax and the pool did something to push it down a bit. So the doctor flushed out my ears. It was rather gross how much was in there, but there isn't much I can do about it. And now I can hear!

update: I found some clean underwear so you can rest comfortably tomorrow knowing I didn't have to reuse any.

Monday: first day of work

Today was my first day of work. It was mostly training, so really rather boring. They did have some cool desks though. When you need a computer/keyboard/mouse they can come out of this storage unit on the back of the desk. It was cool.

I also finished earlier than expected so went to meet my fellow workers. They weren't really expecting to see me until Friday, so there wasn't much to do. Oh well, it was a pretty easy day overall.