03/07 3eme semaine/ 3rd week

Semaine passee a reviser les systemes de l'avion a Flight Safety, comme tous les six mois.
Tous ca suivit par un checkride simu, apres seance de panne moteur au decollage, arret moteur en vol, redemarrage du meme moteur, procedures d'attente, perte d'un moteur au decollage d'Aspen et donc, a haute densite altitude, pose sur piste courte, etc...etc...
Si c'est un peu plus facile pour moi apres maintenant 3600 hrs dessus, ce ne fut pas le cas de mon collegue, qui lui etant nouveau sur l'avion n'avait que 100 hrs d'Excel! Pas desinterressant, car il a fait un peu de B737, un avion a qui a priori, il faut vite pousser sur le bon palonnier en cas de perte d'un moteur. Seulement voila, sur les Citation modernes, ca n'est plus obligatoire, puisque nous avons un "rudder bias", systeme qui sait tous de suite quel moteur a perdu sa poussee, et du coup, grace a une boucle cablee reliee a la derive, enfonce le bon palonnier pour nous. Mon copi avait donc l'affreuse tendance de re-pousser sur le palonnier, annulant l'effet de notre systeme donc, et on a faillit se retrouver sur le dos a plusieurs reprises!
Heureusement, c'est pour ca qu'ils sont la ces simulateurs, et on recommence de nouveau dans 6 mois...

Hello all out there in TV land. Did you know that four out of five dentists recommend chocolate to their patients who eat chocolate? No, well, frankly I made that all up and, truly, if you really read it again it doesn't make any sense at all.

So on that note, you know how my week's been going. Ah yee, the land of symptoms. FIRST! I want to say "Thank you" to Thierry for wishing us luck with the final stretch of pregnancy. Now, if only you could buy extra "luck points" off the Internet, that would be so handy dandy.

I don't know?.... Is it harder to start parenthood later in life because you are FULLY aware of just what is coming? You know, the ol' saying that ignorance is bliss. Ah well, too late now. We passed the 30 day return policy on Florence so....here we go!

(If this all sounds like just ramblings then count yourself really smart and intuitive because - guess what?!?!?! - that's what it is! I guess 9 months of sleep deprivation will do that....)

So, let's see. This week I refinished our kitchen table to get it baby proof because it just needed too much TLC to keep her pretty and that will NOT work come baby time. Plus, Richard and I do our hobbies there too and it gets too darn tiring always worrying if we're killing the table.

I also spent some time with some local Mom's groups, the 21st century version of friendship. I guess it makes sense to meet your friends online, since that's where I met el hubbo, found Pepito our dog, and do all our shopping. Imagine one day, you'll just sign onto www.futureyou.com and with a mere entering of your credit card number you can pick your future. Let's see..... Hmmm... I'll take the "slender until she dies" future, thank you.

Florence has been growing, to say the least. The best way I can define myself is as a giant, human pimple just rarin' to pop! (And, oh, what a nicer way of giving birth that would be too! :)) But I am glad, although I haven't seen my toes in three weeks, because it assures me she's growing. And now she even outweighs our adult dog! And I outweigh Richard. Egad! :O

It seems that the final stretch of pregnancy is a nightmare, at least for a lucky few. I seem to have developed RLS, which basically means that you spend all night acting like a dog dreaming of chasing rabbits, which translates into no sleep at all. Then on top of that, my feet burn so bad that I'd honestly have to say it hurts more than apres my car accident of years ago. And trust me, that's saying alot.

The acid reflux has even kicked up more to the point where I can enjoy no food, not even ice cream. And, frankly, that should be against the law.

So all this fun, in betwixt the other signs and symptoms of baby brewing, makes a very memorable experience for Mom. No wonder Mom's hound their kids with chores - it's payback!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So to keep my mind off the misery of being host to a growing lifeform I just continue to work on the lawns and gardens, keep the house all tidy, and do chores and stuff for the family. Yes, it exhausts me no end and some of my female friends think it's just nuts due to my size but I think of it as exercise and, again, as a much needed mental diversion. But I must say that it is humerous to watch a nearly 9 month pregnant woman bend to weed the lawn and scrub a tub.
Oh, behave!

But, more good news, that my misbehavin' placenta seems to have moved into its proper position (did I mention this before? Frankly, I couldn't remember to save my life) so at the very least we do not need to worry about the birth being life threatening just the 18 years afterward!

So on that shiny happy note, I will say adieu. Though, to add another thing, we just watched the March of the Penguins (Le Marche de L'Empereur) and, frankly, why can't humans just lay an egg? I heard no screaming or crying from these mommies. And we're supposed to be the more evolved????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Live long and proper!