Publically exploiting my private humiliation.

I was regaling my girlfriends with a fantastic poop story this weekend, & I realized that I never posted it on here. Mostly because it is borderline degrading to my digestive system, but after their encouragement, I concede to sharing it with the masses.

The other week, prior to The Plague that emptied my colon for good, I had not pooped in 4 days. This made me & my poor body feel about 10 kinds of uncomfortable, not to mention what it did to my rapidly spreading waist-line. One morning, while sitting innocently at my desk & clipping out an email to a coworker, I felt “the urge.” You know, the kick in the gut where your colon screams “SOMETHING IS HAPPENING DOWN HERE” and you realize you have about 10 minutes to do something, or you might just stay constipated forever. So quick as a mouse, I tapped down the hallway in 3-inch heels, try to look dignified in my entrance to the most secluded ladies room. Thankfully, it was empty as I like to poop in private. I spread out the seat protector (with “Provided by Management” printed all over it. thank you, bossman, for shelling out $0.20 to protect my ass) & sat down.

& with a wee bit of work, the blessed event occurred, followed by a sigh of complete satisfaction.

I stood up, flushed…and OH MY GOD, I clogged the industrial toilet at work. Sweet cheese & rice, how did that happen?? You could flush a small dog down one of our toilets & it would yip all the way to the sewer system. So by God, what did I eat to make my body undertake such an event?? It wasn’t overflowing, but it certainly wasn’t normal toilet behavior.

I had three options:
1) Run to the front desk & report it immediately.
2) Go to my office & report it anonymously on our Maintenance Director’s voicemail. Voice disguise, of course.
3) Flee the scene & figure they’d find it later.

So…obviously, I picked #3. Because I am a COWARD & because there are 500 other people in the building that could have been responsible. A few days later, I returned to said restroom to find the porcelein inside that specific toilet scraped severely. They had to snake an industrial toilet because of my bum.

I am still privately humiliated.

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Tag-team, back again.

I had an entire post planned out, plus a letter to HJ, but it turns out that my body has been tag-teamed by both intestinal outlets & I have spent the past 15 hours begging God for mercy.

Just fyi, spaghetti is not easy to clean up when you expel it into a bathtub.  & Gatorade changes the color of your poop when your system is screaming so loudly that it can’t pass Go! or collect $200.
On the plus side, I have learned that this is a massive stomach virus circling my work industry (K, write that down) & that it’s usually done with in 24-48 hours.  This is uber-comforting considering I spent the majority of last night sobbing that I was about to miscarry again after my body cleaned itself out.

::lovingly pats ute above the pubic bone:: Good thing we see HJ in just 3 days icon smile Tag team, back again.

I am alive! Barely!

Greetings, greetings to my anxious & lovely readers. Harpie Jr. and I are doing quite fine, minus the paw to the ute sucker-punch HJ endured this morning due to the exuberance of our pup. (don’t worry, there’s nothing she could do that the 10-foot dildo cam hasn’t already done to traumatize my child for life) Apologies for lack of updates — I wish I had an awesome excuse, but sadly, I am chalk full of lameness:

1) I was going to take a 9-week bloat shot, but then I got a nasty stomach bug on Sunday & Monday where I shat out the pipes for 2 days straight & subsequently could button my jeans all week. Truly, there was nothing for show & tell other than a flat tummy & a Blair that looked slightly green at the gills.

2) I came to update blogger on Wednesday night, only to find it was sucking donkey balls & not saving anything. FAIL.

3) I sat down last night for 30 minutes, attempting to tap out an update. Writer’s block occurred for the first time since my sophomore year term paper.

4) I’ve been very busy this week convincing the nurse at my OB’s office that the inescapable dizzyness should probably be checked out. She was a brat, but I am going in at 3pm today to pee in a cup & have her tell me I’m too fat.

So there you go. Lame ass, no?

I have been feeling MUCH better apart from this near-fainting shiz. I haven’t puked since Sunday evening & I am actually looking forward to cooking a few things this weekend — namely, baked spaghetti which is one of my all-time favorites. On the other hand, if I don’t get a hot steak on top of a very cold salad soon, I WILL CUT A BITCH. I think I am finally understanding what a craving truly is. MY GOD I JUST WANT COLD LETTUCE & HOT MEAT. TOGETHER. Like a French love affair minus the cigarette after sex. Is that too much to ask??? I think not.

I can’t think about that at work or my token cheese stick snack will be hurled through the window at dangerous speeds. I’ve been working on my protein intake & drinking 90 oz of water per day, on top of milk & juices. Camel baby is in heaven, but I am peeing like Secretariat & currently hold the office record for speed from desk chair to toilet stall.

I do think that a portion of my absence & silence is due to the fact that I am only 2 weeks away from when we lost Harpie. & these two weeks were the development that ended Harpie’s life. I am nervous. I did the math & realized that, with the exception of 37 days, I have been technically pregnant since the beginning of September 2008. I have been pregnant almost 6 out of the last 7 months, yet I’m stuck in the first trimester. Daunting. Some days I feel invincible with this pregnancy, so secure & positive that in 30 weeks, I will be holding my baby. Other days, I feel like I walk on egg shells, waiting for the other shoe to inevitibly drop. It’s a balancing act, & one that I’m not sure I handle with the utmost grace. I’m dying to put together my Bumbleride stroller, but I can’t bring myself to pull it out of the box — because what if I lose this baby?? I am getting uncomfortable in my pants & my dog hid my Bella Band, so maternity pants would be a blessing but I just can’t seem to accept the fact that I might make it out of the first trimester.

meh. I need to shake myself out of it. I did end up telling my cousin last night, so it feels good to start spreading the word of the new babe.

Hang in there, HJ…

Hit the deck!

So…I almost fainted in Target. Wandering around, staring aimlessly at baby clothes and I just felt…weak. & wobbly. Like I was completely going to hit the floor in 2.5 seconds. Things got fuzzy, so I scurried out the door & ripped into my granola bars.

After discussing it with friends, I don’t think it was a blood sugar issue. I haven’t puked today & I’ve eaten pretty steadily. Kept water down. Which leaves blood pressure as the likely culprit. This is unfortunate, because in conjunction with increased blood volume & flow in pregnancy, I’ve had low blood pressure problems in the past.

& I would prefer to not have them again.

Cool things. Literally.

This kid is making me sick. Ridiculously, horribly sick.   I have puked more with this baby in 8 weeks than I did in an entire 11 weeks with Harpie.  Thankfully, I have an “in” on the Zofran black market.

Which is why I don’t blog much.  Because I am too busy dry-heaving over my trash can during the day, & lying on my couch at night begging Nate for a glass of milk….or a knife to stab myself with.   But if I were to blog religiously, it would be about vomit.  & how I spent the majority of Sunday in bed, dry heaving for endless hours on my 400 thread-count sheets.  And how I keep puking up 1/3 of dinner on a nightly basis, even though cupcakes go down & stay down with ease.

Cold things are also very, very tasty.  Milkshakes.  Cold milk.  Very cold deli meat.  Cold fruit.  Cold cereal with very cold milk.  Cold pasta salad.  Chilled potato salad.  Pimento cheese, always served very cold.  Crisp, cold lettuce with Ranch dressing that’s just above freezing temperature.
These are a few of my favorite things.
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