kupple.com

This actually happened a couple weeks ago, but my renewed sense of boredom reminding me of it.

As K and I moved to this wonderful city we were so excited about meeting new people and experiencing new things. "Maybe we'll get into kick ball, or go see baseball games with our neighbors who happen to be a perfect match for us," we thought. Turns out that meeting new people is much harder than I remember it being in Indianapolis. Or maybe, I'm only remembering the 50 days that I met people who later became friends, and I've conveniently blocked out of my memory the other 3602 days spent in Indianapolis not meeting friends. Meeting people is hard.

So, as Amber usually does, she suggests a brilliant web site idea, only this time it already exists: kupple.com... Where couples meet couples for friendship, not swinging... I thought of it much like I think of dating sites, there might be some desparate loser couples, but surely there'll be a few couples that are interesting and have similar tastes. I figured 80/20... 80 percent totally suck, 20 percent could be tolerable for a 1 hour dinner.

I registered for an account, waited 24 hours for activation and began searching for our new friends. As it turns out... We're the coolest couple in St. Louis. Actually, all of Missouri and most of Illinois too. There wasn't a single couple within driving distance worth having dinner with. Now I know what it's like to be the prettiest girl in a room. It's lonely.

The best part about St. Louis

I started thinking the other day... I haven't seen a Walmart since we left Indiana. I'm sure they are here, but frankly I'm not terribly interested in finding one. On the other hand there are 3 trader joes that we pass regularly, two near work and one near our house. There's also a Whole Foods and I like it, but it seems to be very expensive.

It's hot here. Hot.

I'd been told a couple dozen times about how hot and humid St. Louis was in the summer. I was starting not to believe them. We've had beautiful weather ever since we moved here. Last week, however, our luck changed. Late last week and this past weekend it was up around 95 and humid as all get-out. It's made us quite lazy honestly. Lots of relaxing and enjoying our air conditioning. The word is at work that it will keep getting hotter. 100s by early august. Can't wait!

On a positive note, K hasn't been all that sick lately. Either the meds are doing what they should or the 1st trimester is easing up on her. We're currently 9 weeks and 2 days now! Woot woot! :-)

The wonderful world of medicine!!!

I FEEL AWESOME TODAY!!!

After going to the doctor and complaining of constant sickness she prescribed some pregnant friendly pills!!! I had such a great day today! YEAH!

It was so exciting to see the heartbeat on Monday. Matt's face was awesome! The doc said everything looks great as well. I really like her. She is really nerdy, but seems to care. She lives one street over from us. She always goes to our bakery to have brunch and get delicious sweets.

Oh, as I mention streets...Seeming that our doc lives in the same neighborhood, Charley Clark of Lewis and Clark, and many other prius owners...wouldn't you think it is ok? Well, we had our bikes stolen last week(since got mine back because we caught the hoodlum riding it and he got arrested) and then today someone tried to steal my car!!!!!!!! Luckily, there was nothing in it. We have to get the steering column fixed, but it could be worse. Come on now STL we are awesome people, but I can be a pregnant bitch if I need to. Matt is always so awesome in situations like this one. Thank you Julie!!!

As promised, the photos of the tiny manatee!

The Diagnosis

After a couple weeks of vomiting, excessive weight loss and a menstrual cycle that has just stopped, we decided to see a specialist for a diagnosis. The chiropractor said he didn't know what was wrong, so after some research on the internet, we decided to see a gynecologist. She put a condom on a space aged device that looked much like the "candle" in Parenthood, and stuck it in Kristina's love tunnel. She moved it around and announced, yup, you're pregnant! It's official, we're having a little kidney bean. She even showed us pictures. It's so cute with it's oval shaped body and gestational sac attached to the head. I just wanna pinch his cheeks!

So anyway, there you have it. After a long weekend of late nights, little sleep and too much work for a three day weekend, we had great news today. The fetus is healthy, that's just one fetus for those of us hoping for twins. Everything looks normal... Eight weeks and one day. Due date of Feb 15th. The gynechologist was really nice too. She was a little rehearsed with the entire conversation -- I can't imagine how often she has to go through the same routine, don't eat this or this, but eat lots of this, etc... But really she was nice. The best part about the gynocologist is that she's one of our neighbors. Just one street over.

We'll get some pictures of the little sea monkey up soon. Love you all and miss Indianapolis terribly!

morning sickness=all day?

So as you all know...MATT AND I ARE HAVING A BABY!!! We are both pretty excited and eager. HOWEVER...2 things about morning sickness. 1. It is NOT only in the morning. 2. It should be called plague. Seriously, I am freakin sick all the time. Well, maybe that is a little exaggeration. I get a few hours of relief a day. I suppose I should be thankful:)

As I am writing, my husband is making Spaghetti and cleaning the kitchen. Matt has been so great through all of this. Some of my favorite moments are when I(or the evil inside that is called pregnancy moodiness) have a small breakdown. Matt and I make eye contact, he looks at me for approval to laugh or not, and then we roll. Seriously, I don't know what gets over me!!! I threw a fit the other day because the food processor wasn't working anymore. I wasn't mad that it wasn't working, I got mad because because when I told Matt, he told me it would be "OK". I said "What does that mean anyway? Don't just tell me it is going to be "OK" to get me to shut up. These things are expensive!!!" and then, as I was chopping the crab meat by hand with a knife that we got for our wedding and a cutting board from IKEA...Matt looked at me with those eyes again and said, "Well, isn't it?". Again....a lot of laughter!

He is so good to me!!!