A Mommy Story

Have you heard the song “Sexyback” on the radio? I’ve heard it while driving in the car about 10 times in the past few weeks. I didn’t think much of it, other than it was kind of dull and one of those songs that easily gets stuck in your head. (Although thanks to Sunshine Scribe I’ve had Sir Mix-a-lot’s “I Like Big Butts” stuck in my head since yesterday.)

I’m embarrassed to admit I did not know that song was by Justin Timberlake until I heard them mention it on the radio yesterday. I had to go home and look up the video, because I couldn’t figure out how the song was his. I knew he certainly didn’t have the deep male voice on the song, and I didn’t know who the woman was singing, either.

Before yesterday, I had actually asked co-workers who the woman was singing that song. (They just gave me blank stares. Should have realized the problem right there.) So I watched the video last night. There’s the problem – the “woman” I thought was singing was actually Justin. I thought for sure his voice was a woman’s. I feel totally unhip.

Justin, dude, you sound like a chick.

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The morning sickness is slowly easing up, thank goodness. I’m now only gagging one or two times a day, and as long as I keep a slow but steady intake of food going all day long, I don’t feel too bad.

The other day I found by accident my true “preggers” food. I think most pregnant women have that one weird food combination that sounds gross to many but they can’t get enough of. I had ordered food from the deli near work for lunch, getting a grilled chicken sandwich and mashed potatoes. They always include a pickle slice with every meal – not just a wimpy pickle slice, either – we’re talking half of a small cucumber.

This time they had placed the pickle in the same side as the mashed potatoes. I pulled out the pickle to have a bite, and noticed a little bit of the mashed potatoes stuck to it. Licking off the stray potatoes, the tastes combined in my mouth, and nirvana was reached. I can’t even properly describe how wonderful it tasted, especially comparing it to other foods right now, which all taste bad to me. It was the best thing I’ve tasted in months, and so I started scooping up the mashed potatoes with the crisp pickle and eating the two together.

My only regret was that I ran out of pickle before I ran out of mashed potatoes. I ate the remainder of the potatoes without a pickle, but not before the irrational part of me gave serious thought to running out to the deli to get another pickle.

If you’re pregnant and feeling sick, give pickles and potatoes a try.

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I have a new sister blog to compliment this one! It’s called Mommy’s Must Haves, and it is a collection of product reviews, book reviews, contests I’ve found, etc. Basically, it’s stuff that just didn’t fit in here with my ramblings about Cordy, pregnancy and my life. When I come across a good product, I love to tell the world about it, and if I come across something crappy, I take a wee bit of evil pleasure in pointing out why it sucks and telling people to avoid it. This seemed like a perfect solution for me to sound off about the crap I buy.

So, if you feel like checking out some recommendations every now and then, click over there and have a look. There’s not much there at the moment, but I hope to add a few new posts each week. Right now you can check out this fun contest to win all you need for a bake sale!

Oh, and putting this new site together reminded me that back in July, due to the stresses of getting ready for BlogHer and having our house broken into and trashed, I totally flaked on sending out the books to Mrs. Chicky and Dana, who won my book contest. Ladies, the books will be mailed out to you this week!