Club Friday! (Ticker Changers, Come In)

[steveo]

Hi gang -- you're in Club Friday if your EDD is 04/01, 04/08, 04/15, 04/22 or 04/29


How many weeks/fruit?


Symptoms/how are you feeling?


Any questions for the group?


GTKY: What is the best city / country / place you've ever visited (be selective, try to pick just ONE!)

[steveo]

How many weeks/fruit? 5 weeks, appleseed

Symptoms/how are you feeling? Exhaustion, passing nausea here and there and a constant headache are pretty much my only symptoms. MH might also say I've been a bit moody . I'm just so happy to have hit 5 weeks. Time feels like it goes backwards in first tri. I peed on my last FRER this morning and the line came up super dark and immediate -- darkest yet -- so no more pee sticks for me now, just going to try to have faith that all will be okay for the next 2+ weeks until my u/s.

Any questions for the group? Not today!

GTKY: What is the best city / country / place you've ever visited (be selective, try to pick just ONE!) This is a hard one for me, but I think Macchu Picchu. I liked visiting many, many other countries more than Peru, but the process of a hard hike at altitude for four days that kicked my ass leading to seeing the ruins at sunrise was an amazing, amazing feeling. I really hope to do it again with H and kids (when they are old enough) one day.

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How many weeks/fruit?
7 I can't figure out the ticker thing. I had one on TD but I can't get it to work here.

Symptoms/how are you feeling?
Exhausted but less nauseous.

Any questions for the group?
Not yet


GTKY: What is the best city / country / place you've ever visited (be selective, try to pick just ONE!)
Siem Reap, Cambodia... ugh and Yangon, Myanmar. I couldn't pick just one. DH & I went on our first sans DD trip to Cambodia and it was amazing, there were so many stars at night! We took DD to Myanmar during a whirlwind SE Asia trip and it was an amazing place.

ETA I was terrified of taking DD to Myanmar, I was so afraid she wasn't going to starve while we were there. Our friend was supposed to be in town to take us around but she had an emergency and had to leave. But! There were a few nice restaurants and it was so safe feeling while we were walking around. Just an incredible experience. 

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Aug 14, 2015 7:24:21 GMT -5 steveo said:

This is a hard one for me, but I think Macchu Picchu. I liked visiting many, many other countries more than Peru, but the process of a hard hike at altitude for four days that kicked my ass leading to seeing the ruins at sunrise was an amazing, amazing feeling. I really hope to do it again with H and kids (when they are old enough) one day.

Oh! We're planning to do two trips when we're in South America (travel in Asia is so much less expensive so we have to limit travel this time) we know we're going to visit friends in Chile but we've been thinking about Peru for the other trip!

[steveo]

Aug 14, 2015 7:57:37 GMT -5 @aest said:

GTKY: What is the best city / country / place you've ever visited (be selective, try to pick just ONE!)
Siem Reap, Cambodia... ugh and Yangon, Myanmar. I couldn't pick just one. DH & I went on our first sans DD trip to Cambodia and it was amazing, there were so many stars at night! We took DD to Myanmar during a whirlwind SE Asia trip and it was an amazing place.

Siem Reap was super cool, I agree. I did find it pretty touristy though -- preferred to spend our days as far into the ruins as possible. Only spent one day in Myanmar, definitely on my list to go back -- also Laos at the same time (my parents and younger siblings spent several weeks in Laos and all said it was their favorite SE Asian country -- we've all been to all the rest, so that really makes me want to go).

SE Asia travel is just so amazingly CHEAP - you can't beat it! I love it there

[steveo]

Aug 14, 2015 7:58:58 GMT -5 @aest said:

Aug 14, 2015 7:24:21 GMT -5 steveo said:

This is a hard one for me, but I think Macchu Picchu. I liked visiting many, many other countries more than Peru, but the process of a hard hike at altitude for four days that kicked my ass leading to seeing the ruins at sunrise was an amazing, amazing feeling. I really hope to do it again with H and kids (when they are old enough) one day.

Oh! We're planning to do two trips when we're in South America (travel in Asia is so much less expensive so we have to limit travel this time) we know we're going to visit friends in Chile but we've been thinking about Peru for the other trip!

Peru is definitely worth a trip, but I met a couple doing a South America continental trip while I was there who said Bolivia was their favorite country, so you should look into that too!

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Aug 14, 2015 8:01:58 GMT -5 steveo said:

Aug 14, 2015 7:57:37 GMT -5 @aest said:

GTKY: What is the best city / country / place you've ever visited (be selective, try to pick just ONE!)
Siem Reap, Cambodia... ugh and Yangon, Myanmar. I couldn't pick just one. DH & I went on our first sans DD trip to Cambodia and it was amazing, there were so many stars at night! We took DD to Myanmar during a whirlwind SE Asia trip and it was an amazing place.

Siem Reap was super cool, I agree. I did find it pretty touristy though -- preferred to spend our days as far into the ruins as possible. Only spent one day in Myanmar, definitely on my list to go back -- also Laos at the same time (my parents and younger siblings spent several weeks in Laos and all said it was their favorite SE Asian country -- we've all been to all the rest, so that really makes me want to go).

SE Asia travel is just so amazingly CHEAP - you can't beat it! I love it there

I was pretty upset that I didn't make it to Laos, Vietnam or South Korea. DH went to Vietnam after DD and I left the Philippines. I'm glad he got to go but I was super jealous! We're hoping to get back to the region though so I can get the rest of the countries. Have you been to Taiwan? I went 3 times because I just loved it, plus it was a short, cheap flight from Manila.

ETA I think the thing I loved most about Siem Reap was seeing stars. We could see like... 5 in Manila.

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Aug 14, 2015 8:03:57 GMT -5 steveo said:

Aug 14, 2015 7:58:58 GMT -5 @aest said:

Oh! We're planning to do two trips when we're in South America (travel in Asia is so much less expensive so we have to limit travel this time) we know we're going to visit friends in Chile but we've been thinking about Peru for the other trip!

Peru is definitely worth a trip, but I met a couple doing a South America continental trip while I was there who said Bolivia was their favorite country, so you should look into that too!

The altitude in Bolivia is horrifying! Pregnant women aren't permitted to move there for DH's job! So glad we aren't going to La Paz. Bogota is high enough, I'm going to be huffing and puffing for weeks. I was out of it when we moved to Denver now we'll add +3k.

[minae01]

How many weeks/fruit?
7 - a blueberry, I believe?

Symptoms/how are you feeling?
My MS is better on the Diclegis and I'm getting over the tiredness from it.

Any questions for the group?
Nope

GTKY: What is the best city / country / place you've ever visited (be selective, try to pick just ONE!)

We went to Kauai on our honeymoon and it's the most beautiful place I have ever been, so peaceful! We absolutely loved it. We'll get back there before we die, I hope.

[okiemama]

Idk if I really belong here- OB office is trying to tell me EDD is 4/10 based on LMP but I know for a fact I Oed late- FF is saying 4/15 so I'm going with that until my dating u/s

How many weeks/fruit? 5


Symptoms/how are you feeling? Nausea setting in a bit more today. Been really exhausted, bloated, and hate to say it but irritable. Excited though!


Any questions for the group? I don't think so at the moment. Maybe what are you eating for breakfast if you have small children already? I am not a breakfast person or a morning person and that's always my most difficult meal. We aren't cereal people and sometimes I I just wish I liked it- would make life so much easier.


GTKY: What is the best city / country / place you've ever visited (be selective, try to pick just ONE!) Kauai, HI! Soooo beautiful! Went on a family vacation in HS and always wanted to go back!

Eta: oh hey minae01 trip samesies!

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Aug 14, 2015 15:13:29 GMT -5 okiemama said:

Any questions for the group? I don't think so at the moment. Maybe what are you eating for breakfast if you have small children already? I am not a breakfast person or a morning person and that's always my most difficult meal. We aren't cereal people and sometimes I I just wish I liked it- would make life so much easier.

We usually do a waffle with a little honey or peanut butter and some fruit. I am such a breakfast person! DH is not and DD seems pretty lazy about eating breakfast. I have hypothyroid though so I have to wait an hour in the morning before eating and it kills me... but it buys me time to make hash browns and medium boiled eggs, I make that for DD on days that she doesn't want to eat right away.

We also make granola sometimes and then put it on honey or with milk. You might like granola more than cereal? Cereal gets too soggy for me, I prefer granola because it stays crisp longer.

We also sometimes make zucchini or carrot walnut muffins and they'll last a few days, easy to grab and go. Plus if you make them you can control how much sugar + there are some veggies in them.

[ellewills618]

Baby is 7 weeks, blueberry. Still so tiny.

Symptoms- waves of upset stomach and indigestion, ute twinges.

Questions- not now.

Favorite city- I love Charleston, SC. It's beautiful, great people, great food, lots of history. I'd go back in a heartbeat.