Not Puking!

Hurray for me! :-) I want to thank everyone for their kind wishes, and the great info. My vox neighbours are such wise women!

I went to the doctor yesterday, and found out that the due date is currently pegged at Sept. 9, 2009. Wow! She gave me a lot of helpful information, told me to choose a hospital so she can set up my referral to an OB/GYN, and booked an ultrasound appointment for two weeks from now. Thankfully, my Dog husband will be back from Tokyo by then so we can go together. My mom came with me yesterday because I can barely string together a proper sentence in my current super-excited, easily-distracted state. Pregnant Cat can barely function.

I had a great time in Japan. We were able to see a lot of our friends and attend a couple bounenkai (New Year reunion parties), and my Japanese improved a lot! Rather, my Kansai-ben improved a lot. ;-) We traveled from my husband's hometown just outside Kyoto to a bunch of other cities (Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe, Osaka) and toured around his prefecture, Shiga. We spent a lot of time with our two nephews, Yusuke and Yosuke, and even went to the Arashiyama Monkey Park with them, which was awesome! (As soon as I can find a stupid card reader, I will post pics. It suddenly seems very ironic that the professional photographer has no card readers at home.) My mother-in-law did a lot of hand sewing with me, which was awesome. We made adorable small stuffed monkeys out of chirimen crepe, but mine didn't get finished because I got sick (Dog and I both got HORRIBLE colds and had to go to the ER), we found out I was pregnant and tried to change my husband's flight so we could come home together which we later found out was impossible, and I had to rush home alone to see my doctor. Before that, I was bitten by the family poodle four times and Grandma was bitten once, badly, and rushed to the hospital with a punctured artery. There aren't enough words to describe how much I detest that horrid beast. I also taught my mother-in-law to make a bundt cake, which turned out DELICIOUS even in the tiny Easy-Bake-like-contraption the Japanese call an oven. :-)

I also ate horse sashimi. The only thing I missed was drinking my beloved grape Chu-Hi, that drink of the gods that is alcoholic and not suitable for cats who gave up drinking a month ago, just in case. Now I'm pretty thankful that I did, and also that I've been taking folic acid every morning for the past four years. 

Tomorrow is my 27th birthday. :-)