This week

Well I had the glucose test. Upon arrival I was given 10 ounces of a cold orange flavored carbonated beverage and told I had to drink it all in 5 minutes. Typically I do not drink ice cold beverages, for some reason they're not as enjoyable. That was one of the coldest beverages I've had in a long time and because I had to drink it so fast I got brain freeze. It seemed like the stuff was extra carbonated as well, which made it really tickle my nose. After completing this task I read the label on the bottle it said pregnant women had to drink 20 ounces- that's another bottle of the stuff! Upon questioning the nurse she said I only had to drink the 20 ounces if I failed this test and had to re-take it. After playing Sudoku & reading my magazine for an hour they drew my blood. I passed the test with flying colors- they said anything less than 135 was considered good, I got an 89! Yeah, no gestational diabetes.

Last week my vacuum cleaner decided to break and since then I've been on a no cleaning binge. For some reason James was pretty impressed that I took the vacuum cleaner apart to figure out what was wrong with it, had him pick up the part, and have successfully put it back together. Maybe it has something to do with usually asking him to do these things instead of trying to do them myself. Although the task of fixing a broken vacuum belt didn't seem as daunting as some of the things I ask him to do either. I suppose I'll have to try to do this more often so next time it doesn't surprise him as much.