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Mental Meanderings — What’s on my mind

Mental Meanderings — What’s on my mind

Last updated on: August 22, 2014 at 3:49 pm by Rebecca Frech

Mental Meanderings — What’s on my mind 2014-08-22T15:49:35-05:00 Rebecca Frech

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I’ve been too busy to post this week, you’ll see why.

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The kids got a stomach bug this week. They’ve taken turns puking since Tuesday night. I really hate puke, especially milk puke.

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Worse than cleaning after the kids was when it hit me. The only thing worse that cleaning up sick is having to clean up after yourself. There are days when I hate being the grown-up.

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I joined the ranks of elite Catholic nerd-dom this week by joining LarryD et al. in the season of Fantasy Bish-ball. It’s like Fantasy Baseball except with Bishops instead of players. We get points for everything orthodox they say/do publicly. My team is the Heresy Hunters made up of Bishops Aquila and Slattery and Gracida, the Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi.

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Bishop Gracida has a blog, and if you’re not reading it already, you should. It’s funny and insightful and he says things no other bishops are saying. Things like “Go Heresy Hunters! Here’s wishing the Heresy Hunters a good Bish-Ball season!”

That’s right! I got a Bishop to publicly use the term “Bish-ball”. It was sadly a very proud moment in my life.

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We move in 9 days, y’all.

I don’t think you’re properly appreciating the seriousness of that statement, so I’ll say it again.

We Move In 9 DAYS!!!!!!!!!

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I took the at home Gender Prediction Test by Intelligender this morning.
Actually I took the test 4 days ago, but apparently sex, drugs or rock-and-roll within 48 hours before you
take the test invalidate the results. Who knew?

So…ahem…I had to retake it this morning. I have pictures, but just puked half an hour ago and don’t feel like going to find the camera and its cord so I’ll describe it to you. (You don’t really want to see a bottle full of my pee anyway, do you?)

You have to use the first morning pee, so that was at 4:30 this morning. ( I’m pregnant, I have to pee in the middle of the night.) I had to pee in a cup, draw it up into a syringe and then put it into the test bottle through a teeny little hole. That’s impressive work at 4:30AM, let me tell you. Then I had to twist, not shake, the bottle for 10 seconds BUT NOT LONGER!, and then wait 10 minutes, BUT NOT LONGER for results.

Boy turns green, girl stays yellow or turns orange-ish. Let me just say that normally I know my colors, I did extremely well in Kindergarten thank you, but this morning, I kept turning the bottle and looking at the two colored stickers they provided for comparison.

I didn’t want to turn on the bright lights, it was early y’all, so I stood in the semi-gloom of the bathroom and said out loud, “Is it yellow? Is it green? Is it yellow? Is…” I finally had the realization that I should have peed in the cup at 4:30 and filled the bottle at a normal hour like 8-ish. (Although, is there a normal time to be playing with pee? Really?)

I finally woke my poor husband at 5AM to tell him that we’re having a boy, I think, but his wife might just be color blind, so I’m just guessing here. I think it was green in the semi-gloom of my 4-5AM bathroom.

For picks of what the test looks like, go here.

My thoughts on the whole thing? They gave it to me to try and blog about. It was free, so that made it fun-ish. It would be a great pregnancy funny gift, but at $39 a pop, it’s a bit pricy for that.

If you’re dying to know, or completely impatient, go ahead and try it. It’s supposed to be 90% accurate if it’s light enough in the room to actually see the color.

I won’t be doing it again. I’ll wait 9 or so weeks for an ultrasound to confirm it all for me.

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That’s what I’ve been up to this week: cleaning puke, stalking bishops, preparing to move, and playing with pee……oh, yeah, and it looks like another boy around here.

It’s been quite a week.

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