© 2001-2006 Meike§ ¶Friday 16 February 2007
There. I think we're about done! As of now, the StarrySheep weblog can be found here:
Please update your bookmarks. 
I'll be adding a redirect script in the next few days.
§ ¶Thursday 15 February 2007
Nope, she didn't want to be born on Valentine's day either. Stubborn little girl. 
In other news: I'm working on a new design for this weblog, using Pivot's latest and greatest. Which means this here log will probably move to a new directory soon. I'll keep you posted! For now, I'm still struggling to get the tagcloud feature up and running...
§ ¶Friday 09 February 2007
38 weeks... and still growing.
Meanwhile, I'm slowly getting a tiny bit bored. I haven't been outside for days (no, three steps in the garden to feed the robin don't count, and neither do the five steps it took me to get the garbage can back in from the street), because walking is just a bit too much of an effort. I've finished the new baby's doll, the house hasn't been this clean in years, reading all day isn't all it's said to be, and neither is gaming. Anyone got any cool sites for me to peruse on the internet? Because I think I've all seen mine... about three hundred times by now.
Oh, and my pregnancy diabetes seems to have magically disappeared! Or maybe it wasn't there in the first place? We'll probably never know. I'm still keeping to my diet though, just to make sure. And the baby's still a bit bigger than your average kiddie. But I'm not going to think about that. Too much.
P.S. Labour's not going to be induced at 40 weeks either, now that the glucose levels are back to normal. So I could still be moaning and waggling for... weeks?! Ugh! Not going to think about that either!
§ ¶Friday 02 February 2007
37 weeks and counting...
Being monitored by internist, diabetes nurse and gynaecologist... Will hopefully have more news next week. If it were my call, I'd say: induce labour now please! I want - no, need - to be able to walk again instead of waggle, sleep instead of moan all night...
§ ¶Tuesday 30 January 2007
Bah. Don't think this diet is really working. My sugar levels were still too high! So I'm now also doing the torture-yourself-at-home routine, i.e., I'm checking my sugar levels 7-8 times a day by pricking my finger and feeding the resulting drop of blood into this little machine, which then spits out a glucose level that I have to note down. Going to have to phone in the results this Thursday, and then we'll see what happens. Also, another gynaecologist's appointment next week. In other words: I'm being monitored inside out.
Baby's already on the big side, but it should be okay, or so my gynaecologist said today. Regardless, they won't let this pregnancy go beyond 40 weeks; if she's still not born by that time, they're going to induce labour. I think maybe I'm going to go upstairs now and swap the tiny baby clothes in my hospital suitcase for a somewhat bigger size... perhaps I should take some of Olivier's spare clothing? I'm having these visions of a humongously fat baby - tiny head, HUGE body...
§ ¶Friday 26 January 2007
36 weeks pregnant today! By this time, impatient Olivier had already wriggled his way out. Not this one though. I think she rather likes it inside.
Had another blood test yesterday; we'll get the results on Tuesday. I'll keep you posted.
§ ¶Thursday 18 January 2007
Right. Diet time folks. Just to make sure, they said.
Ugh. Well, as long as it helps... Let's just hope the little lady stays in there for the diet to start doing its work! I'll be 35 weeks pregnant tomorrow - Olivier was born at a measly 36 weeks. Oh.
§ ¶Thursday 11 January 2007
In other news...
Here I am again in the middle of the night, wide awake and not feeling too well. Almost 34 weeks pregnant, and it feels like I'll never make it. To make matters worse, they think I may have pregnancy diabetes. Need to do some tests to make sure, but it's keeping me awake at night. Sigh.
§ ¶Wednesday 10 January 2007
I'm a believer... over at sellaband.com, that is! If you haven't heard of it yet, please check it out. I think it's a wonderful initiative! I'm currently supporting a band called Slim Void.
Described by one of the other believers as "You know Saybia? Well mash that with Feeder and add a little Muse flavour and you gotta right sound!" And that's exactly what I'm looking for these days!
§ ¶Tuesday 02 January 2007
Wishing you all a wonderfully happy & healthy 2007!
§ ¶Saturday 30 December 2006
Happy birthday Olivier!
§ ¶Thursday 21 December 2006
Sigh. When I read Mig's piece on orchestra rehearsals, I miss mine.
I kind of stopped playing after Olivier was born (almost three years ago, gasp!). As in: I tried, but what with the feeding and the sleep deprivation and all that, I just... couldn't muster the energy anymore. But lately (nice planning, Meike, now that you're almost about to give birth to kid number two), I've been thinking about starting all over again. It's just that we moved to another town, so I'd have to find a new teacher, and what if all the amateur orchestras around here are just too good for me, and the house is so noisy, and and and.
Well, you get the picture. But still. I do really miss my viola. It shouldn't be up there in the attic all by itself, poor thing. I'm going to get it down. No, correct that: Pieter's going to get it down for me, because however much I love it, I'm not going to risk a nasty fall. Nope. And once it's down, I'm going to unwrap it and just...caress it for a while, I think. Let's see how that goes.
§ ¶Thursday 07 December 2006
Well blah. It is very, very quiet here today at work. There's only three of us! All the rest of them are still lost in transit somewhere, I believe. Being rained on, or blown away. Sitting on trains or trams, waiting to be moved.
It's funny how when it's empty at the office, your work ethos drops below zero. Like you don't have to do anything when it's quiet. Thus I now find myself sitting here, contemplating the benefits of getting up and walking the five paces it would take me to pour another hot chocolate into my ridiculously large sheep mug. Or maybe I could even go to the loo! Or take the elevator downstairs to drop off a package at the post office! The possibilities are endless.
I'd much rather be at home though, making cakes, baking soup. O no, that's wrong (it's all Olivier's fault. He thinks one bakes tea, instead of brewing it. It sort of changed the way I see things.). Or else torturing wool & cloth into another doll. Or playing Guild Wars, or Sims 2 Pets. Wouldn't that be grand.
§ ¶Monday 27 November 2006
*fingers crossed* Is it working again? Yes? Pretty please?
*edit* Yes! We're back on air again! So to speak. My webhost moved servers and upgraded to a new version of PHP, and I'd been having lots of trouble with my Pivot powered weblogs ever since. Now, groaning and creaking, I do believe everything's getting back on track again... I hope. At least I can post again! Now for those archives that still have their internal server error...
§ ¶Saturday 25 November 2006
Sorry folks, having PHP problems here. Can't post, Can't open archives, comments don't exist anymore. Probably still the case, so why am I writing this? A tiny spark of hope, perhaps...