Jikana Damaru: 05/23/11

23 Week Bumpdate

Baby Updates

She is now approx. the size of a baby doll! More than 11 inches long and weighs over a pound.
Some noises are becoming familiar now! Such as my voice, Roxy barking, dishes clanging, or the vacuum running.
Fat accumulation is picking up pace, she will double in weight the next four weeks.
She is starting to practice breathing with amniotic fluid by sucking in and out of her lungs.

Momma Updates

*camera phone pictures due to laziness. apologies for the toilet back drop*

As much as I hate to complain about anything related to the little miracle inside me...Ouch, the back. There are days that no matter what I do I can never get relief, even in my bed or relaxing on the couch. Also the calves and ankles...what in the world? I think I stood way too long one day and had so much discomfort/pain by the evening I had to sit and prop them up. They felt swollen (didn't really look like it though). I thought it was too early for all that! I'm so in for it. Otherwise, I feel pretty good! I'm loving that I can eat whatever and I haven't gotten sick in weeks. Bad thing is I'm beginning to crave soda. The whole first half of my pregnancy I never cared for it. Now is a different story... along with a lot of sweets, eek. Not to worry I still dig the healthy stuff as well. I have my 24 week check up on Friday so I will know how much weight I have gained then. I'm pretty sure I'm not up about 3lbs total. We'll see how accurate I am though!

Other Related News

The nursery is painted and the chair rail is installed; it looks amazing! We have just a few touch ups- new blinds and fan need to be installed- and we're ready to set up the crib! I also bought her letters for her name and spray painted them. They are ready to go! I'm hoping we can finish with those things this weekend. I can't wait to show you all the start of her nursery!

Click Clack

There is just one skill that I have that I want to pass on to my children*.

Typing.

Back when I was a junior in an advertising agency they paid for me to do a speed touch-typing course. Which I hated. Mostly because I suspected they had already written me off as a really shite copywriter and were funneling me into the typing pool.

But I was wrong.

Even in 1990, back in the dark ages before the internet or email was even a twinkle in a fax's i, those good folk seemed to know that typing skills were going to come in really, really handy no matter where my career led me.

They were so bloody right they were almost left.

To this day my 100+ WPM (with about 6% accuracy, but let's not go there) touch typing skills have been the backbone of everything I've accomplished. Whether it was hammering out a 7,500 word essay through the night before a due date because, yes, I'm that big a procrastinator; or racing against a deadline at work to get an important email out the door whilst simultaneously watching Oprah on the flatscreen; or visiting and saying hello to over 100 blogs in the space of about 2 hours all up the other day; my speedy gonzales typing has always seen me through.

I'm fully intending to enrol those Tsunamis of mine in a touch typing course as soon as they can... ah, write. Soon we'll probably all be using that (very long promised) voice recognition typing thingy anyway, but I don't care. A typing course will always be an important investment in their future. They won't look back. They'll be so 99.9% accurate they won't need to!

How fast do you type?

* Oh, okay, that's probably selling myself a bit short but then again...

[I found this image here ages ago but the credit no longer clicks through...]

Inspirational Pins - Craft Room Ideas

Today in my series of posts "Inspirational Pins", I bring you some gorgeous pics of craft rooms! I absolutely adore the cute button wallpaper and the clever storage ideas! It makes me want to go and decorate tins, jars and pots then tidy my craft room... well, almost! For more craft room inspiration check out my Craft Room Ideas Pinterest board!

Have a sweet day!