some things in the UK take quite a while to sort out and getting internet access happens to be one of them. however, we are now finally connected to the WWW and i'm pretty damn happy about it. i think i don't use it that much any more but when you don't have it there seems to be a million little things that you just HAVE TO look up....like hotel room availability, trifle recipes and how to watch region 1 dvds on a region 2 player. and then there are the masses of emails that come in with people getting married and pregnant and selling their apartments plus all the blogs to keep up on. it takes a couple of days to catch up with everything and everyone.
we've been very sick (particularly the cg), we've moved to a new house in a new county, i've got a new midwife and a new hospital to have the baby in, we've had 3 sets of visitors to our new place in 2 weeks (and have more coming this weekend), we start our antenatal classes tonight and, believe it or not, i drove the car today. i think that deserves capital letters. I DROVE THE CAR TODAY. ok so i only drove down one street and i did nearly cry but once i got going i was fine and i did do the return trip too. baby steps will hopefully turn into big baby steps and one day i will just be able to get into the car and drive like a normal person. i'm looking forward to that day.
11:34 a.m. - March 04, 2008
we took the train home from london yesterday and either we came a different route to usual or i've previously slept for the last part of the journey because this time we saw something that gave us a surprise. towards the end of the trip the track is surrounded by lush green countryside and the river avon runs prettily on one side. at one point we saw a number of riverside houses and apartments and i couldn't help thinking that it was a little like the place we were moving to but obviously much nicer. i even went so far as to wish we could live somewhere like that. i pointed it out to the cg and he agreed that it would be a lovely location to live and then a puzzled look came over his face. before he'd even had a chance to say anything it suddenly dawned on me too: this WAS where we were going to be living. we'd never seen it from the other side of the river and we hadn't realised that we were in B-o-A. it was a lovely surprise and has made me a million times more excited about the move. we are picking up the keys today, provided the very sick cg can make it out of bed, and i can't wait.
the last few weeks have been very eventful, particularly the 3am visit to A & E with my poor parents to check the baby's heartbeat. i keep thinking that in a couple of weeks time we will be all moved in to the new place and then i can really start preparing for our new arrival. we couldn't possibly be more excited. in fact we are so full of happy anticipation that it hasn't yet occurred to either of us to be scared stiff of the big change that is about to transform our lives. i guess that's a good thing though.
8:04 a.m. - February 18, 2008
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