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    30. Journalist. Mum. TV Addict. Baby girl born in May 2006. Despite this I still don't trust my ovaries.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Days off!
I am one of my "days off", though let's face it, there's never a day off when you are a mum.

Baby Eggs is drawing and listening to the BLOODY Wiggles (I am a bit over them now) and we're just chilling out on this beautiful ANZAC Day.

Not much is happening. We are gearing to move house in a few weeks. I am a bit scared by the prospect of paying this mortgage that is basically my salary from my three-day-a-week job. We'll be living off Mr Eggs's salary which is not very high because he has changed career to become a Div 2 nurse...noble but really crappily paid. So, I guess we are going to become "battlers", although I don't consider myself one...just normal people trying to cope with the high prices of bloody EVERYTHING in Australia!

But I have to be grateful. We had a good deposit and we don't go without anything. And we'll have a good amount of savings still to rely on if something unexpected happens.

I am in a fat phase at the moment. I am depressed about my weight but hey, it doesn't stop me eating heaps! I just feel crap about myself.

Other than that I am loving my new job. It's funny because I was really not into my career before I had a baby and now I am totally in to it. I have even thought about going to work full-time and Mr Eggs going part-time...it's still a thought though.

I know now that I could never have been a full-time stay at home mum. However it's a redundant point because I have no choice but to work. HA! It doesn't stop me from getting really jealous of women who have the choice. I was at the doctor yesterday getting Baby Egg's flu shot and the surgery is in a very posh suburb of Melbourne (my mum works at the surgery so that's why we go). I just felt inadequate among the "yummy-mummy-gym bunny-latte drinking-set" who were there waiting with their kids. Whenever I see a mum with big dark glasses and GHD-Straightened hair driving a big 4WD (especially those BMW ones) I get really riled up...part jealousy, part amusement at the living stereotype. Though at the moment I am like one of those mums you see on Trinny and Susannah who are drab and need urgent attention!

My current obsession is looking for Laverne & Shirley memorabilia to bid for on eBay. I LOVE Laverne & Shirley.

So my sad little suburban life continues to bumble along!

posted by Em at 11:45 PM | 3 comments

Sunday, April 13, 2008
Okay
I have improved considerably since the mini-meltdown post I put up a while back and then deleted.

I needed a reality check...a serious one. I have been finding it hard to settle back to Australia. On the outside everything is going great. Bought a house, great new job that I love, healthy baby etc.

Inside I have been struggling with identity and adjusting fully to my relatively new role as a mum. I wake up at night and query the meaning of my life and all that stuff. I have always been someone who thinks WAY TOO MUCH.

The stuff with Mr Eggs...well I realise that it is more a case of my thinking than any real problems. I just get caught up wanting what I haven't got or what I think I should have and not appreciating what I do have. It's my achilles heel!

No baby plans yet. I'm settling into my new job and we move soon. I think next year is more realistic.

I am back on medication for my prolactinoma. It's a slightly different one called dostinex (cabergoline). I had an MRI last week and I see the endo in June.

posted by Em at 5:17 AM | 4 comments

Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Crazy baby names
Cray baby name spelling reaching epidemic proportions!

What are people thinking???

posted by Em at 9:36 PM | 5 comments

Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Has it been 3 weeks since I last posted?

I started a great new job a few weeks ago as a reporter on a local newspaper. Love it and it is closer to home. We bought a house. Move in May. It is in a bogan suburb...go bogans! It is okay, bit rough around the edges but it will be fine.

Seeing the endo on Thursday. I'm hoping she'll put me back on bromocriptine. I am still lactating, despite having stopped b'feeding about seven months ago. I went into baby Eggs the other night and stroked her hair and I leaked on my t-shirt!

posted by Em at 12:02 PM | 4 comments

Monday, February 11, 2008
Projects
Okay, so the main project of making baby no. 2 has been postponed for a while. I am starting a new job next week (three days a week and closer to home) and we have starting looking for a house to buy so I figure it would be a bit kamikaze-ish to get preggers right now. I am still going to see the endo in March though to see where I am at with everything.

I am obsessed with a new project, which my husband thinks is completely crazy and paranoid - I am getting together a food lifeboat.

This is a 10-week supply of food in the evnt of a flu epidemic. I must admit, I go crazy when I read these kind of warnings about pandemics and all that but I kind of think it makes sense. I am buying a few things every week. I have even bought some SPAM, which is on the list!

posted by Em at 4:52 AM | 4 comments

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Crazy baby name dolls


Meet Jaxsonh and Daytona - Baby Eggs's babies. (I particularly like Daytona's Travis Bickle style hairdo.) Mr Eggs and I thought up the names. Are their kids actually called Daytona? There must be! We were particularly proud of the spelling of Jaxsonh (Jackson...maybe the 'h' at the end was a bit over the top!)

*****

I have made an appointment with the endo re. my prolaction levels. Couldn't get in until March!

Got my period today. Was upset for a few seconds that I wasn't pregnant but considering we only 'did it' once during my apparent fertile time, it would have been a frickin' miracle.



posted by Em at 11:44 AM | 3 comments

Friday, January 11, 2008
More crazy baby names
This is totally my guilty pleasure. I will say though, it is not necessarily the name I am having a go at, rather the ridiculous spelling that people use. I really think some people are on crack or something when they decide baby names!

These are from birth announcements in Aussie papers.

1. Taleigha Halle
2. Emerson Rose (it's a sweet name but c'mon...it's the exact name of Teri Hatcher's kid. Original thought, please!)
3. Jacksyn
4. Chayse
5. Matisse

posted by Em at 4:07 AM | 6 comments