Watching: Vikings when Isaiah is home, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel when he isn't.
Listening to: I randomly stumbled across a song by The Fray on Spotify the other day and I had totally forgotten they existed. So, I'm currently shuffling a ton of their songs and reliving my college years.
Wearing: Non-maternity jeans! Don't get too excited for me, they're [redacted] sizes bigger than my pre-pregnancy jeans, but at least there's no elastic/fabric belly band thing on them.
Smelling: The no-bake cookies I just made. Lazy cookies, but they're quick.
Eating: The aforementioned no-bake cookies. I've been really doing my best not to eat much (if any) sugar because I'm really trying to ditch this stupid baby weight, but it's Friday...Imogen has decided that sleeping at night is a big joke and she'd rather be awake at 2am, 3am, 4am, 6am, and awake for the day at 7am after not going to bed until 9pm the night before. I don't know what's happened to my good sleeper, but I'm currently self-medicating with cookies.
Loving: My new printer! The other day a friend asked me if I could do a piece of handlettered art for her house, and of course I said yes. Coupled with the Procreate app, I now have the ability to actually print things like letter art, along with shipping labels, gift certificates for birthdays, and so on and so forth.
Laughing at: The gifts my aunt chooses to buy for Imogen. I love her and she is SO generous and has bought us more stuff for the baby than the rest of my family combined, but she likes to find things that are so not age-appropriate. This week we got a box from the National Geographic store and it was this virtual reality headset thing. It’s for, like, grade schoolers...Imogen won’t be able to use it (or care) for several years, at least. It was very nice of her but still really funny.
Feeling: Motivated. Our new playpen for Imogen came in the mail the other day so this weekend marks Isaiah’s and my official return to the gym. I’m stocked with new leggings, protein powder, BCAA and pre-workout supplements and it’s ON. I’m also considering hiring a macro coach for an 8 week program just so I can get some help fine tuning my diet. My metabolism doesn’t seem to be the same post-baby and being in my mid-30s doesn’t help either, I’m sure.
Hoping: Imogen goes back to sleeping well again. For the longest time she was sleeping about 7-8 hours, waking up to drink a bottle, then going back to sleep for another 3-4 hours. I don’t know what’s going on but I feel like I have a newborn again. And I don’t even feed her all the times she’s waking up, so she hasn’t gotten into the habit of eating all night long or anything. I still only feed her once around 4/5am, and the rest of the time I leave her to just fuss herself back to sleep. But once I wake up and have to listen to her for 20 or 30 minutes, I’m AWAKE and frustrated and I’ve been getting about 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night for weeks and I am so exhausted.
Anticipating: The new Snow Patrol album, set to release on May 25th! I've probably never mentioned this because I haven't really had a reason to, but Snow Patrol is one of my all-time favorite bands. I started listening to them way back in 2003 with the release of their Final Straw album. That's 15 years ago, for those keeping track. It's been seven years since their last album release (Fallen Empires, 2011) and I legitimately thought they had broken up or something. I'm so thrilled that they haven't, and I'm expecting their new album to be pretty darn awesome. I mean, their promo video has a dude sitting at a piano floating on a raft, what's not to love?
No bakes sound SO GOOD right now. I bought a box of brownie mix during a moment of weakness last week. I’m struggling.
ReplyDeleteThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel sounds like a kid's book, but I just googled it and it sounds good.
ReplyDeleteMmm... Cookies. What's in them?
Weren't Snow Patrol in an episode of Game of Thrones? I think I remember hearing that, but have no idea what they look like so that doesn't help.
Scott always liked Vikings, but got off track with the seasons with his time away. I know he'd jump back in, but I'm not really a fan.
ReplyDeleteI made no-bakes over the weekend, and ate them on two different days. I ended up horribly sick both nights. This is just further evidence that proves my really sad theory: I can't do sugar while pregnant. It really doesn't work with me and I used to eat sooo much sugar. I want very little to do with it now.