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Her’s to Hockey

May 11, 2006

So I’m not a huge hockey fan, but I think it’s a great thing when the Edmonton Oiler’s win, especially in the playoffs. It’s good for the morale of the city, it’s good for city business owners (merchandise, alcohol, bars, etc.), and it’s good for the Franchise owners, who have invested a lot of money [...]

Posted in Day to Day, Lin's Soapbox 1 Comment »

Estrogen-ical Terror Writes:

May 10, 2006

(Post note: Since she hasn’t asked how to do this on her own – I get to make up her name when I post these.. ) So we finally found out who sent me my tummy oil and wonderfully smelly (but not too smelly) creams for my expanding belly. None other than our dear friends [...]

Posted in Family and Kids, Lin's Soapbox, Pregnancy 2 Comments »

“Excess estrogen” writes…

April 20, 2006

Well, time is passing quickly now. I am now a whopping 13 weeks along and I am feeling better. Except of course for the fact that I feel a little like I’m holding up a bowling ball with just the skin on my stomach. I hear you can get a belly bra for that too [...]

Posted in Family and Kids, Lin's Soapbox, Pregnancy 3 Comments »

La-la-la-la-la-la *plugging ears with fingers

March 27, 2006

A co-worker came up to me today and told me that her friend, who had previous troubles concieving and IVF procedures, the whole shebang, and just miscarried at 8 weeks, but it took 2 weeks for the embryo to pass in her system. Now, this isn’t the first time I have heard the horror stories, [...]

Posted in Family and Kids 1 Comment »

Is this thing turned on?

March 24, 2006

Written: March 10th, 2006 Okay, not used to this blog thing, but I’ll give it a shot, so here goes. I went to my first Ultrasound today. According to directions, you are supposed to drink 4 glasses of water about an hour and a half before your appointment. WRONG! If you are pregnant, and you [...]

Posted in At the Edge 4 Comments »