I had to take a 3 hour glucose test to check if I have gestational diabetes.  Basically, I had to drink some super sugary drink and have my blood drawn 4 times in 3 hours to check if my body is processing sugar correctly.  The test came back negative so my love affair with Hagen Daaz bars can continue.

On my last regular prenatal visit with my doctor I ended up being 20 minutes late (thank you 405 freeway).  So I had a longer than usual wait in the waiting room and then a longer than usual wait in the exam room.  So there I sat on the exam table waiting for the doctor to come see me with nothing to do.  There weren't even any magazines in the room.  So I sat there scanning the walls in isolation...  and then I noticed some noises coming from the vents.  More specifically, I could hear some screaming going on.  Since I was on the OB/GYN ward, I could only assume that the screams came from women in the throws of labor.  Oh my. 

- Five days ago, we had no idea that we'd be going to Hawaii.

- Four days ago, Danny and I left for Hawaii.

- Three days ago, we were basking in the glorious Hawaiian sun.

- Two days ago, we said our goodbyes to paradise and were on a red-eye flight back to LA.

- Yesterday, we got home and could not believe that such a whirlwind vacation even happened.

We had planned for a while to take a trip up North this past weekend.  Our plans changed dramatically when Danny got an email on Thursday from Travelocity that detailed a crazy travel package to Hawaii.  He called me up at work and asked if I wanted to go there instead.  On a crazy whim we purchased the package and we were off the next evening.  We had good food, swam in warm waters, drove around the coast, and took in beautiful sites.  The only hiccup was the hotel that was part of the package.  It was scary ghetto.  But we survived the two night stay and can laugh about the stupefying first impression we had of the hotel when we got in the first night.  All in all it was an amazing trip and I must thank my wonderful husband for initiating this crazy trip.  We won't be able to do anything this spur of the moment when the baby comes, so this was our last hoorah. 

Joyce:  You've never written me a love letter.

Danny: I'll email you.

Aside from the fact that the Virginia Tech "massacre" that occured yesterday was so wrong... the shooter was Korean?  For a split second I wondered yesterday if the shooter could be Korean, but I dismissed the thought believing that that's just not how we do things.  I am curious to see what effect this will have on the SoCal KA communty.  All this is just upside down.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18138850/

According to the above linked article, the number of baby boys born in the US and Japan is on the decline.  I guess my baby boy will have his pick of girls when he starts dating. 

I had lots of sushi yesterday!  Some of you may be astounded at that, since I'm pregnant.  But Danny and I went to the doctor yesterday to check on the baby and the doctor told me that I could pretty much eat anything I want... and we we're like even sushi?  And he's like yeah, just stay away from the big mercury fish, and it's not like you're gonna eat enough fish to get that much mercury anyway.  So, on that advice, and a recent article about the benefits of eating fish during pregnancy, we went for it.  It was glorious, friggin glorious. 

On another note, I watched last week's episode of 30 Rock and laughed so hard.  Tina Fey is my hero.  If she and Conan spawned, they would create a new super weapon of mass destruction, killing everything in a 100 mile radius with jokes.

I saw Keifer Sutherland last night.  I was driving down Cahuenga, trying to get to the freeway and he was walking down the street with a bunch of other dudes.  I'm pretty sure it was him.  I didn't yell out of my car and ask him if it was him so it's not 100%. 

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Danny and I went to San Diego for a mini vacay.  I like it down there.  Not really, but I think I could really like it down there.  It was a much slower pace than I'm used to and at first, I was hating it.  But then I got to realize that I'm just used to the crowds and the speed of things here and that the San Diego state of mind would do me some good.  Not that I'm moving down there or anything. 

When we were at Sea World, we caught the Shamu show.  We looked at each other and realized that what we were really waiting for was for one of the Orcas to go bezerk and chomp down on one of the trainers.  We came back and found that if we went a few days later, we would have seen just that.  Bad timing?  Or did we predict/modify the future?  I think it was the latter... why?... Consider this... while we were driving up from SD, we passed by some army bases and saw some tanks roll by.  Some helicopters and planes flew overhead in what looked like some training mission.  Danny and I looked at each other and realized that what we were really waiting for was for one of those aerial vehicles to crash and burn... which also happened a few days after we drove up.  Maybe Danny and I are heroes.

I did it.  Turkey dinner for Danny's family.  I had help of course, but our turkey came out well and people enjoyed my made-from-scratch sides. Cooking isn't too hard.  It's just about following directions and doing whatever the recipe calls for.  I'm getting pretty good at figuring out the timing of putting complex meals together.  By no means am I the kind of uber cook who can throw random ingredients together and come up with a crazy fabulous meal.  I plan and strategize well in advance for any meal of consequence. 

Tonight I busted out the fancy china that I inherited from my mom and the expensive crystal wine and beverage glasses that were part of our wedding haul.  As we were clearing the table and carefully washing the china, I started to reminisce about how my family used to get together for the holidays for a meal cooked by my mom and my sisters-in-laws would clear the table and wash the china.  Now it's me and my sister-in-law doing the cooking and cleaning.  Time's flying for sure.

Accupuncture really helped out my headache problem.  I would give an enthusiastic two thumbs up to anyone who has chronic or persistant pain.  Who knew?  Them Orientals really know what they're doing.

Accupuncture was a trip.  The doc asked me a series of questions, took measurements, felt my pulse and what not.  As expected, she told me I was stressed out.  She proceeded to tell me that I needed to keep myself warm, eat "warm" foods, and relax.  "Warm" foods are not necesarily warm... por ejemplo, apples are a good warm food, but melons are not.  Meat is another good warm food so I should eat a lot of it (I can do this one with both hands tied behind my back).  When she asked me what I usually do to relax I told her I watch TV and she told me I should keep doing this (this doctor is A-OK in my book). 

The needles weren't so bad.  Apparently, I take good accupuncture, whatever the hell that means.  I mean you just lie there and get poked with needles.  The weird thing is she asked me if I wanted a box of needles to do accupuncture on myself.  I was hella puzzled by that.  She told me that she could teach me how to place the needles on myself but I should never do it to anyone else.  The idea of doing accupuncture to myself is weird but fascinating.  I just may take her up on her offer.

I did have moderate headaches today, but I didn't reach for the pain relievers.  Hopefully this is a start of better days ahead.