Life's like that...

I was at the office today saying farewell to another colleague. With all the economic turmoil it's getting harder and harder for people to stay at their jobs. I guess it's good to be thankful that you are employed at the moment instead of reaching for higher goals. I'm excited to be on maternity leave soon but I'm also sad that I'm going to be missing my colleagues at my external office. Since I work together with them more than the ones at my own office you tend to feel closer to them. Then I thought, hey I'm an external...there is nothing wrong with this...part of everyday process...but as a human it doesn't work this way.

I look forward to returning to my external office next year. Hopefully time and tide changes as the economy picks up. In the meantime, one just has to hold on to what one has without expecting too much. For now I'll keep this note/blog short. Just wanted to express my disappointment of good people being let go.

Just another day...

We had a show and tell and we had 4 couples coming to see the place which isn't too bad :). 1 couple came back the 2nd time...we wonder why <_<...at least my dear hubby will send out the offer one last time... if these people are interested then it's good on them and for us too...We've decided that we'll ask for some help from friends but mainly use a moving company to move the rest of the junk we have :P... The only reason why we have to move is that we REALLY have lots of stuff and the stuff ain't small because they were bought for much larger apartment/house. It would be pointless to throw these things away. In any case I'm going to miss this apartment...small and easier to clean...almost effortless. I'm just dreading cleaning something double this size x__X. This year my plan is to do nothing but watch my baby grow and try to keep sane while she cries the night away.

Two weeks ago I was still planning to travel all around in September/October but right now that passion has gone away...I'm just sort of waiting for January to see if I'm even capable in traveling to see 'Peanut's' grandma in Malaysia. Since it's going to be a long journey and on top of that there will be quite some stopovers along the way. I'll keep checking the ticket prices...It could be that we'll fly around February instead of end of January. That way I get to avoid Chinese New Year ^__^ (save on ang-pow) Yeah yeah I know cheapskate :P.

Anyways, after we've moved the first thing I'll do is get some berry bushes because this year I don't expect to get anything from them and it would be nice to be able to plant them so I (meaning making my hubby dig and plant :P) can at least get next year's harvest. Otherwise garden landscaping will REALLY just have to wait until next year...So in the meantime I'll just have to enjoy what flowers I have on photo...This is from the Lahti Balcony bunch...my stargazer lilies...

Situation check...

Okay...I'm in the middle of cleaning the oven and the stove top...but I feel so out of energy and on top of that....yep you guessed right.... laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.... We're selling our apartment and tomorrow the estate agent is coming to run the show...hubby and I got tired of wandering strangers coming to our place so we decided to let the agent show it to a bunch of strangers rather than just one at a time...This way it gets shown to many at the same time....Here's a small preview of the place:






It's 65.5 square meters, quite a comfy size but since we moved from 95 sq. m. to this...we have WAAAAAAAY too many things to fit a new comer to the house....Hence well we need a bigger place...So from now until say a month from now hopefully we would have sold the place and we can then move to our new place (that depends also after we've figured out what the hell is that weird thing in the garden on the plot we bought since it wasn't mention during the sale <.<) Anyways the add of the house is in Finnish but if you want to preview it... click here.

Ciaoders!

Sleepless in Helsinki....

I wish I could be like Nemu, able to fall asleep whenever the lights go out or whenever she just feels like taking a snooze...I've been having a belly of rocks that creates tension and cramps so it's been bothering my sleep the last two nights. Not to mention an irritating phlegmy cough that just won't go away. Some nights it's gone and only bothers me during the day and SOOOOOOOOOOMETIMES... >.< ARRRGGGGHHH! Well the kicking and the coughing combo is bad so I'm up all night...and then I'm dreadfully tired in the morning.

Tomorrow (today actually) is my first day back at work after the Easter holiday. I took an extra day off to get some of my official stuff done like closing of excessive bank accounts and checking the insurance, visit the pharmacy and etc etc....The day was too short to say the least. I should have taken an extra day. I guess I'll have to do it next week or the week after depending on what I have on schedule. I've been holding back on buying baby stuff until next month due to the fact that we will possibly be moving pretty soon. Then I'll need a few days to sort some 'OTHER' things like change of address, internet connection, blinds (don't want no snoopy neighbors) or curtain rails, gardening tools (have to start soon before the planting season is over), some berry bushes to start with and a mad rage to pull out all the idiotic plants called 'Sirens'. Yeah some old people like em...but I really hate the smell of them as it irritates my nose so much. The scent is not mild but JESUS christly strong, it's like walking into a store full of those old hags that lost their sense of scent and sprayed twenty tons of parfume ala Poison on them (or was it Poisson :P).

In any case I'll pull the plants adjacent to my yard...they can keep theirs for all I care, I just have to minimize the smellies so I don't die from being fumigated by natures old hags wearing too much parfume. Go figure the builder's wife (the people we bought the house from) loves them <.< cause she belongs to the parfumery generation. She's a nice person (so far) as I don't know them so well so can't judge yet... apart for their taste of shrub fences :P. Maybe they don't like what I'm going to do with my garden but hey! It's mine and I'll damn well do what I wanna do :P...that's the whole point of having a garden right? <.<

I should actually try to roll around in bed with this rock solid tummy... if this horrible feeling doesn't go away by end of this week I'm visiting the nearby health clinic's doctor and complaining about this....I really need to rest and not being able to sleep many nights in a row is torture.

Easter almost over and week 28 creeps close

As frightening as it is...the days pass really quickly and the kicks and punches are starting to come in stronger than ever. Baby 'Peanut' has no limitations to what she does and does it whenever she wants. It's not really much of pain but sometimes she strikes you just on the nerves that make you swear like you've never-ever...I'm starting to reminisce what I'm going to miss from work...At least my colleagues will be the first I'll miss and then the absolutely fast pace working environment that keeps me on my feet all day long. I do look forward to going back for a bit more challenge after my maternity leave.

Since it's still Easter Monday, my dearest hubby and I took a ride to Helsinki center to have some lunch-dinnerish combo at a Nepalese place we've never tried before (Restaurant Mountain). To our surprise the food was actually reeeally good. It's so out of the way everytime we go to the city that we never bothered to go all the way there just to test it out, but since almost everything is closed today except small stores (open until 16:00) and some restaurants, we decided we'll give it a go...We didn't regret it one bit as the price was also affordable... :) We would have eaten at home if we didn't have visitors today looking at our apartment, but it was good that they came so I got to eat what I REALLY wanted to eat ^__^ !

So what did we do the Easter weekend? Well, we went to visit Peanut's Grandma to be with Nemu. She was so spoilt over the weekend as she was free to run anywhere and everywhere...Literally EVERYWHERE! <_< She was so spoilt to a point that she forgot her name :P. I was happy that I didn't have to cook or clean...but it was a bit difficult to sleep on a smaller bed than what we have and being so big up front, the mattress was not very comfortable on a convertible couch bed thing. So we stayed only one night, I ended up being really exhausted after we got home that I slept until 12:30 <_< (The Tipsywan style). My dearest hubby came to wake me up so that I could help just freshen up the place before the visitors came, if he hadn't I'd probably sleep pass the Tipsywan hour :-O .

So that was what we did in Easter and dreading week 28 all at the same time. Today I'm continuing my preparation for Baby 'Peanut' I decided to order some of her things from UK but I need to figure out the logistics company that would either receive or pick and deliver. We aren't buying her pram until much later as I'm not planning to go to town anytime soon so we'll buy it sometime in August. The cotbed comes later too as she'll be placed in an Ikea cot or a travel cot in our bedroom until she can move to her own room. The travel cot is a good idea as we may be travelling around so she can be sleeping in that in the beginning saves buying too many baby furniture. I also got to know from Andrea a friend that nasal aspirator (although not used often) is a life saver, I tried googling to find out more about it but did not get a definitive answer on how necessary is that. Rather than sucking the boogers out of your little one I think opening her nasal area with a device (non battery operated) may be a life saver for a frustrated little one that is having trouble breathing while trying to feed.

I should get the mother's box soon as I left the application 1 1/2 weeks ago, I'm hoping to get last year's box since this year's option is rather meh looking. I don't want my little girl looking like a fish :P even if she probably doesn't care what she looks like at this point. Oh well one can hope. If I don't like it I can always sell it forward and buy a nicer one for her. No harm done. :), now I'll just get my things in order for tomorrow as I have one day to handle some paperwork and other stuff :).

Ciao!

Happy to be a soon-to-be-mum

Although 4D ultrasound cost me a canon and a tank, it was a big relief to see that my baby was neither an elephant, a whale nor an alien...However the distorted figures of my precious little thing did scare me every now and then as it wasn't easy to focus in on her. Yes it's a SHE!!! No we don't really have a name for her yet. We 'had' a list but it sort got spoilt after seeing her. She didn't seem to fit any of the names we liked. So now we have to redo our list and try to find something more suitable for her and not to mention easy on Finnish tongue <_<. Somethings I'm just not willing to compromise but when it comes to a baby looking almost a carbon of her dad it's just inevitable that she needs a strong name.

I guess it's best to wait until she's born, we'll still have about a month after that to register and find her an official name. Until then she'll just have to settle with some digits. At some angles she does look like her aunt Denise...maybe it's those pics when you can see through her eyeballs :P...Because Denise didn't really have much of white when she was a baby. She had black mouse eyes! :D

Being now 26 weeks and 1 day pregnant I feel that everyday is closer to the day when my little ambulance will appear. I cannot wait for that painful day however I want her to still grow well inside. I've taken a vow to work with less stress and if I run out of hours, I just have to make a habit to do it tomorrow. It is not going to be easy...Another thing I can do is to take more breaks throughout the day since I can work later from home and this way I don't tire myself too much.

These few weeks I've seen so many kids and babies that I'm wondering what I'll do wrong with my own...Everyone seems to have the perfect little angel and seem to be handling it very well. I just hope that when my turn comes my little angel will be a little angel not a fire engine or an ambulance. Anyways here's a small preview of my precious little thing...

Another day at work

I'm in a meeting...actually an info meeting that will last about an hour. So far all the information I receive have been decoded to 'blahblahblahblahblaaaaahblblablablablablablahablabee' I wonder if it's just me or is my brain just mushy today. Nevertheless, I'm trying to cope up with my mails...Thankfully only 20 at the moment...Not too many high flyers over the weekend.

I'm working from home today since I did not see a point to be at the office to be locked away in a meeting room the entire day. At least over here if I mute the phones and grab something to eat. It's a great compromise. Peanut has been a good boy/girl over the past few days although its kick still bothers me. For some reason I'm getting constant migraines...it comes and goes but it never fully goes away... :-/ I have this emulating hot sensation on my back that's causing aches but after a few days of that I'm starting to get use to it. All I can say is that I'm pretty broken to the core at the moment but I'm still doing 'cartwheels'. For some reason I feel normal... <_< If you can call being overly fat in the front normal.

I weighed myself again and to my surprise, I'm still the same weight as last week...huh? I've been eating much more and much better...It's not possible to stay the same weight with the baby's water bag growing and weight increasing... I'm either seeing things or I should throw the machine out the window.

My dear hubby on the other hand has been really stretched out at work...He's been getting headaches that linger for days and after taking an elephant dose of painkillers then it went away. The problem is, it doesn't stay away for long, it comes back after a day and in worse case scenarios it comes back after a few hours of work. I think his blood pressure has risen and I urged him to see the doctor to get some shut eye. It pains me to watch him suffer like that and still try to carry on. For now I feel like super mega mum since I'm up and about with pains that murmur in the back just like a mosquito in summer. I'm not so to say rearranging the nest since we are moving 'soon'. I'm still cleaning up pretty much without bending or climbing too much.

I found that some of the detergents I use irritate my nose so I have to avoid using them at the moment and just use regular hot hot water to clean up. The grimes don't go away so easily but if that's the case I hold my breath and squirt a few, wipe, run to the window and exhale and inhale frantically. Nemu has been a gracious dog....she hasn't caused me much trouble indoors (at least). I'm still iffy about the fact that she gets over excited over babies. So I'm planning a sort of play area for Nemu so that she doesn't come near the baby unsupervised. My 24 weeks tally is almost up (tomorrow) and I'll be counting down 24 weeks +1 day the day after tomorrow. Heading boldly into my 25th week. So far the journey has had its ups and downs. The downside was memorably tough but the up side was surprisingly enjoyable. He/she is not such a bad little one, it doesn't really know what it's doing inside, just wanting to find a comfy spot to sleep isn't being rebellious. It also gets up and jiggle and samba here and there. I mean you can't possibly sleep the entire time, I know I couldn't even if I'm dead exhausted.

So in theory I only have about 2 months and 1 week before I go on maternity leave. I'm feeling liberated and free :). Although not too free yet since I have a big project going on I have to start and get it to handover condition before I leave. In the meantime, back to listening to the 'blablablablablaaas' hopefully there is something I'll catch so that my time spent won't be too useless after all.

Cheerios! ^__^