Well. This sucks.
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lls_mutantIncidentally, best line in Madagascar. I need to make an icon with those penguins or something.
Well, the lab called yesterday, and guess what? My 1 hour glucose tolerance test came back high. Goodie. The nurse immediately jumped into trying to reassure me that I might not have gestational diabetes, but let's look at the facts:
1.) I started this pregnancy 20-25 pounds higher than I would have liked, and 35 pounds over my all-time low, which was STILL high for my height, but y'know what? I was a freaking size six. Those weight ranges can be a joke.
2.) My mother had gestational diabetes when she had me- and I was her first as well.
3.) Diabetes runs very heavily on both sides of my family- my mom's side and my dad's side.
4.) I'm 30 years old, almost 31.
So who are we kidding? I'll go for the three hour tolerance test on Friday, but I'm gonna assume I've probably got it.
It's not the end of the world- far from it. From what I can tell, it's certainly a cause for concern, but most cases can be treated with diet modification and exercise. Most times mom and baby are both fine, which is what's really important. And while I might miss dessert, I'd rather be healthy and have a healthy baby, y'know? And besides, there is a silver lining in that I'll get myself right back into certain Weight Watcher habits (like journaling my food), and then when I DO have the baby I'll already have cut out a lot of the stuff I shouldn't be eating, making post-birth weight loss that much easier. Hopefully I won't have to take insulin, but we shall see. If I have to, I have to. If you're going to have a pregnancy complication, this is the one to have, from what I've been told.
But it still sucks.
Anyway, anyone out there have to deal with gestational diabetes?
In other news, MRFH is looking for a new writer. Which makes me think that my writing today should be a review ;) Not that I think that they're trying to replace me (not at all), but I need to get a new review in anyway, and have been meaning to write up Keeping the Faith for ages. I did get a scene I'd been having a lot of trouble with for Accidentally In Love done, which will hopefully get me moving again there. And those two overdue fics... ::sigh::
And FAP is amusing me-slash-making me bang my head on the desk again. Did you know that people who like a ship aren't allowed to post to Can't Stand threads, even if they're saying they can't stand something about their own ship? Apparently it's true, at least according to one rather scary poster. It takes away the last refuge of those of us that can't stand R/T. Because, y'know, the world is so cruel to us that we need a refuge. Whatever. And in her honor...
1.) The canine connection. Sirius turns into a dog. Remus turns into a wolf. It means nothing like what some people think it means. It means that JKR needed Sirius to be something 1.) that could wander around England without attracting attention, 2.) big enough to hold back a werewolf, and 3.) appropriate. And when Remus transforms, he wants to kill and eat people, not mate. They aren't both canines so they can have sex in animal form. That's just icky.
2.) Nauseating nicknames. You know em. Siri and Remmy. Because that's something guys would call each other. I don't mind Pads and Re, as long as it's used out of anyone else's hearing. But that's it. Unless you want to use dickweed and fuckwad or something, because that's another sort of name that boys call each other. (Although it's probably not appropriate for 1970's Britain.)
3.) Padfoot the dog and Moony the wolf. No. Padfoot is the nickname for Sirius. Moony is the nickname for Remus. It's not the name of their animagus forms... after all, the dog and the wolf (and the deer and the rat) didn't write the Marauder's Map. Opposable thumbs, people.
4.) Bad characterization. Like any ship is immune to this anyway. Remus doesn't need to be protected, and even if Sirius IS protective of him (he's not, overall), Remus doesn't exactly cling to him crying out how brave and strong and wonderful Sirius is. Remus as a blushing virgin gets old (although I admit I kind of like it sometimes). Remus as a stodgy, humorless person is really bad characterization. Sirius showing up with roses makes my head hurt. (Remus does seem to be the victim of character assassination more than Sirius does.)
5.) Wolves mate for life, so if Remus and Sirius have sex they are magically bound together for life. (One of these days I'm going to write this, have it blow up on them and them wanting to move on, and they can't without making a total mess of it. That's the only reason someone should write this stupid cliche.) Remus doing nothing but eating chocolate and reading a book. Sirius bouncing in and saying he's bored because he's got the mentality of a 12 year old girl. Perfect, magical, trascendent sex, every single time. (Although again, what ship doesn't get this?) Any other plot cliches I'm missing.
6.) The insistence that R/S is canon. It's not. Although that's pretty much stopped since HBP came out. It was strongly supported by canon, but it's never been canon. (But that doesn't mean we can't like it.)
7.) I don't mind the shippers that hate R/T. Heck, I'm one of them. I don't mind fanfic like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
krislaughs A Lesson in Holding Hands, that proposes a well-thought-out alternative to Tonks and Remus holding hands at the end of HBP. I don't mind people thinking that JKR did a lousy job with Tonks's character or the romance- I'll fight you for the first spot in line to say that. I DO mind people calling Tonks (or worse, JKR) really nasty names for the R/T ship. Also add in that I've never liked the idea of Tonks changing into Sirius for Remus (I think that's terrible to both of them), or that JKR caved to public pressure and homophobia. (I don't hate the last as much as you'd think I might, especially when it's suggested rather than accused.) I think it's more she just wrote a crappy few pages of plot. (I mean, come on. The H/D shippers must have been going insane with all the subtext for H/D in HBP. Even I was starting to wonder about Harry.)
8.) The word "puppyshipping". Referring to the boys as "the pups." Just... ick.
See? Any shipper can find things they hate about their ship. So :P~~~~~~~~, because I'm really cranky right now.
Suppose I should get something done. I really, really don't want it to involve my 95 degree lab.
Well, the lab called yesterday, and guess what? My 1 hour glucose tolerance test came back high. Goodie. The nurse immediately jumped into trying to reassure me that I might not have gestational diabetes, but let's look at the facts:
1.) I started this pregnancy 20-25 pounds higher than I would have liked, and 35 pounds over my all-time low, which was STILL high for my height, but y'know what? I was a freaking size six. Those weight ranges can be a joke.
2.) My mother had gestational diabetes when she had me- and I was her first as well.
3.) Diabetes runs very heavily on both sides of my family- my mom's side and my dad's side.
4.) I'm 30 years old, almost 31.
So who are we kidding? I'll go for the three hour tolerance test on Friday, but I'm gonna assume I've probably got it.
It's not the end of the world- far from it. From what I can tell, it's certainly a cause for concern, but most cases can be treated with diet modification and exercise. Most times mom and baby are both fine, which is what's really important. And while I might miss dessert, I'd rather be healthy and have a healthy baby, y'know? And besides, there is a silver lining in that I'll get myself right back into certain Weight Watcher habits (like journaling my food), and then when I DO have the baby I'll already have cut out a lot of the stuff I shouldn't be eating, making post-birth weight loss that much easier. Hopefully I won't have to take insulin, but we shall see. If I have to, I have to. If you're going to have a pregnancy complication, this is the one to have, from what I've been told.
But it still sucks.
Anyway, anyone out there have to deal with gestational diabetes?
In other news, MRFH is looking for a new writer. Which makes me think that my writing today should be a review ;) Not that I think that they're trying to replace me (not at all), but I need to get a new review in anyway, and have been meaning to write up Keeping the Faith for ages. I did get a scene I'd been having a lot of trouble with for Accidentally In Love done, which will hopefully get me moving again there. And those two overdue fics... ::sigh::
And FAP is amusing me-slash-making me bang my head on the desk again. Did you know that people who like a ship aren't allowed to post to Can't Stand threads, even if they're saying they can't stand something about their own ship? Apparently it's true, at least according to one rather scary poster. It takes away the last refuge of those of us that can't stand R/T. Because, y'know, the world is so cruel to us that we need a refuge. Whatever. And in her honor...
1.) The canine connection. Sirius turns into a dog. Remus turns into a wolf. It means nothing like what some people think it means. It means that JKR needed Sirius to be something 1.) that could wander around England without attracting attention, 2.) big enough to hold back a werewolf, and 3.) appropriate. And when Remus transforms, he wants to kill and eat people, not mate. They aren't both canines so they can have sex in animal form. That's just icky.
2.) Nauseating nicknames. You know em. Siri and Remmy. Because that's something guys would call each other. I don't mind Pads and Re, as long as it's used out of anyone else's hearing. But that's it. Unless you want to use dickweed and fuckwad or something, because that's another sort of name that boys call each other. (Although it's probably not appropriate for 1970's Britain.)
3.) Padfoot the dog and Moony the wolf. No. Padfoot is the nickname for Sirius. Moony is the nickname for Remus. It's not the name of their animagus forms... after all, the dog and the wolf (and the deer and the rat) didn't write the Marauder's Map. Opposable thumbs, people.
4.) Bad characterization. Like any ship is immune to this anyway. Remus doesn't need to be protected, and even if Sirius IS protective of him (he's not, overall), Remus doesn't exactly cling to him crying out how brave and strong and wonderful Sirius is. Remus as a blushing virgin gets old (although I admit I kind of like it sometimes). Remus as a stodgy, humorless person is really bad characterization. Sirius showing up with roses makes my head hurt. (Remus does seem to be the victim of character assassination more than Sirius does.)
5.) Wolves mate for life, so if Remus and Sirius have sex they are magically bound together for life. (One of these days I'm going to write this, have it blow up on them and them wanting to move on, and they can't without making a total mess of it. That's the only reason someone should write this stupid cliche.) Remus doing nothing but eating chocolate and reading a book. Sirius bouncing in and saying he's bored because he's got the mentality of a 12 year old girl. Perfect, magical, trascendent sex, every single time. (Although again, what ship doesn't get this?) Any other plot cliches I'm missing.
6.) The insistence that R/S is canon. It's not. Although that's pretty much stopped since HBP came out. It was strongly supported by canon, but it's never been canon. (But that doesn't mean we can't like it.)
7.) I don't mind the shippers that hate R/T. Heck, I'm one of them. I don't mind fanfic like
krislaughs A Lesson in Holding Hands, that proposes a well-thought-out alternative to Tonks and Remus holding hands at the end of HBP. I don't mind people thinking that JKR did a lousy job with Tonks's character or the romance- I'll fight you for the first spot in line to say that. I DO mind people calling Tonks (or worse, JKR) really nasty names for the R/T ship. Also add in that I've never liked the idea of Tonks changing into Sirius for Remus (I think that's terrible to both of them), or that JKR caved to public pressure and homophobia. (I don't hate the last as much as you'd think I might, especially when it's suggested rather than accused.) I think it's more she just wrote a crappy few pages of plot. (I mean, come on. The H/D shippers must have been going insane with all the subtext for H/D in HBP. Even I was starting to wonder about Harry.)8.) The word "puppyshipping". Referring to the boys as "the pups." Just... ick.
See? Any shipper can find things they hate about their ship. So :P~~~~~~~~, because I'm really cranky right now.
Suppose I should get something done. I really, really don't want it to involve my 95 degree lab.
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Date: 2005-09-01 02:14 am (UTC)AND THE SCROLLY BALL ON MY MOUSE IS BROKEN!!! Woe.