penny August 22nd, 2010
Pity I didn’t keep track of our pregnancy week-to-week here in janep. We’ve got the odd updates in twitter and facebook, but nothing in length nor breadth. We pretty much kept ost of the pregnancy ‘milestones’ to ourselves up until now. I suppose better late than never, so I’m starting now.
We’re in our last few weekends before bub comes out. Ajay and I have been pretty low key, spending most of our free time quietly at home, strolling to the shops for our needs, walking at the beach. And we did the beach thing for the first time this afternoon by the way:
Twas good to feel the sand against the soles of our feet again.
Today bubs has been uberly hyperactive in my belly. I’ve had several times of tummy going hard as a rock: these Braxton Hicks contractions are getting pretty uncomfortable. Not really painful, but there is now and again a pinchy feeling in different areas of my tummy. It doesn’t come often nor regularly though.
Currently bubs has the hiccups. Has been a daily activity of bubs, several times a day.
Tags: bubs
penny August 12th, 2010
This makes 9-12 brownies. Depends on the pan you use. I sprinkle the end result with confectionery sugar and dark choco bits for extra sweetness.
6 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1/4 c (about 55g) melted butter
1 c sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 c flour
2 eggs
1 c walnuts (optional)
Stir in cocoa to melted butter. Mix in sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, salt and nuts. Preheat oven to 160C. Wax baking pan, sprinkle with cocoa or flour. Pour batter into pan and bake for 35-40 minutes. Let cool for a few minutes (or not, depends how you like it!)
Enjoy!
AJ Jorge June 21st, 2010
I had an idle time and thought of upgrading this long forgotten site to WP3.0.
Might as well put the site into good news now that we are entering into a new phase of life. We’ll try to revive this blog somehow. I don’t know how frequent or what the content will be.
penny February 18th, 2010
Since I found out I was expecting, I suddenly feel like I know nothing about nutrition and good health. ALmost everyone who knows about my pregnancy I have already asked what I should and should not eat.
I’ll probably update this post from time to time to collec t what I’ve found online.
Baby Center
Advice from the Food Authority
Advice from Victorian Health
Tags: bub news
penny February 15th, 2010
First day in 2 weeks that I kept food down. I think it’s lemon that helped me. I never thought I’d enjoy food again. Well, at least food that is still bland or simple tasting. But water is still an issue, and I can’t drink anything except lemon water.
penny February 13th, 2010
As if we’re not busy enough bees already, then another online toy comes along. Google Buzz is not a lot different from current social networks as Facebook and Twitter, except that it can reside along with other Google tools at your usual disposal.
It’s an interesting implementation. Most of your contacts in Gmail automatically get added to your buzz list, but they don’t get to participate unless they activate Buzz in their own Google account. At the moment, I’ve found it fun to see some quirkiness from my usually quiet contacts in Gmail. Though it might easily become a passing novel feature that people will forget like Google Wave, at the moment it looks manageable enough to be easy to understand and use for people. Like anything, the experience can be different for different people. It would largely depend on which contacts you have and how you use the tools that determines how it works for you.
A lot is wrong with it right now, with posts randomly appearing from nowhere. But I think it’s more the linking of external websites that is causing this issue, and it really isn’t surprising at all. You can enable Flickr, Twitter and other websites to update in Buzz (but I don’t think you can do the opposite, yet). A detail that may bother some is that anyone with a public buzz can be viewed by other people, and in turn, strangers can see your contact list. I’m not sure if they can actually “SEE” the entirety of your buzz contact list. But for sure if you have a google profile made public, you will appear to others even if you don’t know them. It’s important that Google makes this clear and fixes these privacy issues.
I am not sure why Google has this fancy for releasing half-baked tools. Buzz is no different, I guess. There needs to be some better way to control Buzz the way you want it to work, but I’m not sure exactly how. Kevin Rose has blogged about Buzz twice in a row now: First, he explains why Google needs Buzz, and then he outlines a few requests on what features should be added/tweaked. Perhaps he’ll be a more eloquent ‘explainer’ of what the potential is on this new Google tool, i.e. what fuss Google Buzz deserves.
Tags: buzz, google
penny February 12th, 2010
That was today at 38 degrees C, with humidity as much as 99%.
With such hot and humid weather it doesn’t help much with my demeanor and comfort while working at home. But well, can’t complain too much coz I did get to sleep a bit and escape most of the morning sickness the entire morning.
penny February 9th, 2010
Food is my biggest challenge (fatigue a very close second). Anything with complex flavor is very unlikely to be agreed with by my taste buds. The tummy is protesting hunger, but my mouth is being very picky!
I Need food which are neutrally tasting, in other words, bland, but nutritious.
penny February 8th, 2010
I’ve finally got a mommy multivitamin:
So i think i’m off the separate doses of folate, iodine and iron, or I’ll end up taking too much.
Another prescription from the GP is ice cream. Gotta get the calcium from somewhere =)