Finally Final!

Last day of summer term today! The students take an all-scantron final, I whip it through the machine and am done with grading for the rest of the summer.

Today has been a pretty good tummy day. I started off with half an english muffin with peanut butter and a cup of mint tea with ginger syrup. The ginger syrup is basically ginger juice (or essence, or ground up ginger or something) in honey. I got it at New Seasons and it was quite expensive. When it runs out, if I need more, I think I'm going to try grinding up some fresh ginger and mixing it with honey at home. That seems worth $15.

Other foods consumed today: Toasted English muffin with egg salad, my new favorite food. Also, a second cup of ginger-mint tea. I brought a small bag of rabbit pretzels to the final, but have eaten them already. I should have brought some more food.

Morning bunnies

Rabbit pretzels first thing in the morning settle the stomach. Oatmeal with berries takes a few minutes to prepare.

I had a dream about picking up my wedding bouquet. I didn't like it very much and the woman had raised the price from what she told me originally. It was a very round bouquet with blueish flowers (not what I had asked for). Then I noticed that it had hair and a face on the front. I told her it was terrifying and that I didn't want it. She got all huffy and started stomping around making another bouquet.

Morning sickness lasts all day

Mine seems to be reduced by: crystalized ginger, ginger altoids, protein+carb foods like english muffins with peanut butter or hardboiled eggs, rabbit pretzels, kombucha.

Things that sound totally unappetizing: tea or any other warm beverage, foods with more than about 3 ingredients, most sweets (until I take a bite).

Last night, I dreamed that the class I was teaching was totally out of control and wouldn't listen to me, even though I was yelling at them as loudly as I could. They left the lab a total mess, then wouldn't do what I asked them to. Oddly, it was a college class. I think the theme of the dream was frustration, but I'm not sure what I'm frustrated about.

Dream

I dreamed I was teaching at some college. There was a lot of roaming around through the dorms and buildings. I had a little single room in some hall full of doors.

Suddenly, it was time for me to be teaching. As in, it was exactly the time class was supposed to start. I didn't know where my room was and I had to go back to get my laptop so I could teach. A guy with red hair said he knew where it was and he would take me. There were several versions of this guy with red hair throughout the dream. This one had longish hair. I thought he was cute. I grabbed and held his hand as we ran through the corridors looking for my room.

Street of Dreams

My mother and I went to the NW Natural Street of Dreams, courtesy of a 2-for-1 LivingSocial coupon. My mother, who is always on top of this sort of thing, determined that the ticket also gets you discounts at restaurants and things. We went to Agave Grill and had a most excellent mexican lunch, with $10 off.

I told her I was pregnant. Actually, I said I had something to tell her and she said "you're pregnant" and I said "I'm pregnant". She said she knew that we were going to have a baby from the time I told her we were getting married. I thought she knew - I've commented to M that she's been saying little things about families and kids and making comments that she's never made before. She said she knew me well enough to know that I was going to get pregnant and I said I knew her well enough to know that she knew I was trying. It was a nice finish to an excellent lunch.

She bought the tiny squee a tiny outfit with a duck on it. Green and yellow since we don't know what sex it will be yet.

I'm just a wee bit blorky due to over-consumption of Mexican food.

Dreams again

Last night I dreamt that I got engaged to someone I hardly knew. It was kind of a Victorian era thing. He had fallen madly in love with me and got me an engagement ring. It was my actual engagement/wedding ring.

I was worried that my parents wouldn't approve of the marriage because we didn't know each other very well, even though he was a very "good match". 

Dreams and upset tummies

M says I need to write my dreams down before I get out of bed. I guess that's true, because during the course of today, I seem to have forgotten almost all of the dream I was going to write down. I'm just left with a vague sense that there was a dream and that it wasn't a bad one. 

Today hasn't been my best tummy day so far. I had an excellent breakfast - oatmeal with cut-up fresh peach. Then, we headed out to the farmer's market to get eggs. Sadly, there was no one selling eggs, but we did get delicious berries, peaches and cherries. And two large cookies. I had a lemon and white chocolate one and it was awesome. The lemon was just so tasty. However, by the end of the cookie, I wasn't feeling quite so happy about it. My stomach hasn't quite calmed down. I've been sipping water and an Izze soda (natural carbonated juice beverage) and I ate a hard boiled egg not that long ago. I'm feeling a bit better post-egg. In a little bit, I think I'm going to have some plain yogurt with raspberries mixed in.