Under Pressure: a few life updates.

- What’s up this week?  My blood pressure (hahahaha oh I slay me).  I’m now being monitored weekly from here until D-Day ever since, two weeks ago, it was found my blood pressure was on the rise.  My blood pressure has always been smack dab on FREAKING PERFECT at 110/70 all my life and really, most of my pregnancy as well.  Now it’s at 136/89 and I am not pleased.  The doctor is not worried yet as I have no other signs of  pre-eclampsia, but I tend to worry about most things.  I am (crazy as this sounds) looking forward to labor and I really don’t want this interfering with my plans… I don’t want a C-section above all else!

-Due to the above, I may need to go on maternity leave earlier than expected.  Currently, I am scheduled to leave work June 15th.  I hate the idea of spending some of my leave (39 weeks paid) before the baby is born, but I would rather do that then blow a vein in my head over stress.

- This month marks 7 months since sending my visa application off.  I still have nothing back, our passports (yep, Mark’s included) are effectively held hostage by the Home Office.  Today we posted a letter of formal complaint about the timeframes, especially given that the indefinite leave processing time is 14 weeks.  Failing this, we will go to the local MP about it.

-I am proud to say I am 2/5 of the way finished with the final course assignment, due June 3rd.  Out of the 5 sections, I’ve completed Biology and Geosciences… leaving Chemistry, Quantum Physics, and a section on the universe to go.  Once this course is completed, I will have roughly 1/7 of my required credit hours for my bachelors.

-Everything is proceeding with the property sale and we should be looking to move in mid June. I wonder if we will actually pack this time or wing it as we did last time ie. arm-fulls and car loads. The idea of packing and unpacking is so unappealing, not to mention exhausting.  I am hoping we will have time to paint the walls in the new place and add our touches before Little Doodle dominates our lives.  The nursery will be the very first thing getting done, and I have ordered some very cute things that fit in with the jungle theme we are going with.  I cannot wait to get in there and get everything perfect for when Little Doodle is born. Yeah, I’ve become one of THOSE women.

-My birthday is at the end of the month (May 25)  and I will be 25 years old.  I am not a big celebrator of my own birthday, not due to some inherent belief that my chronological age has any real impact on my life, merely because I don’t really enjoy being the center of attention.  The one thought that has occurred to me this year is I never thought I would be having my first baby so young, but I certainly have no regrets.

- Last scan on May 28th…. last chance for Little Doodle to show us the goods!

-60 more days!!!