Oh, Heyyyy....

Long time no see. You're not missing out on much over here, there's not much happening.

Last week my nausea got super over-the-top, like I literally couldn't even eat, so we called the RE's office and he called in a prescription for a nausea med. I forget what it's called, but I take it at bedtime and it has a little pink outline of a pregnant lady on it. Subtle.

Anywho, it's helping. I'm definitely still constantly nauseous and have even vomited once or twice (after a car ride or smelling something gross), but my appetite is back! We even went out with some friends last night to get Chinese food! I find that I'm full REALLY quickly, but given that I'm being drawn to carbs, that's probably not the worst thing in the world. ;)

Tomorrow we've got a "date day" planned. It'll be our first in awhillllle. E was super sick for a couple of weeks there, and I was too nauseous, and we were visiting my family after the iui... plus the weather has been insane. Idk where the time went, but we haven't gone out in a looong time, which is super not like us. So we're going to an early dinner at our favorite Indian restaurant and then we got 2-for-1 tickets to see Avenue Q since it's "Off-Broadway Week" here in NYC. 8th row, baby. We both had the soundtrack in college, so we know all of the songs by heart, but neither of us has actually seen it. We're pretty excited.

One of my best friends lives in Australia and she's coming to NYC for a family wedding this week and staying with us Friday-Sunday.... I'm pretty excited, except that she asked me what I'm doing Friday and when I told her I had a doctor appointment in the city she replied, "Great! I'll go with you. I want to do some shopping there!". Ahem. That'd be my first OB appointment, folks. So that should be an interesting subway ride... I really don't want to spill the beans to her yet (she's not exactly great with secrets), but I'm The.Worst.Liar in the world. So. Y'know.

Side note: Any suggestions for where I could get a gown on the cheap? I'd need to wear a fancy shell underneath it for Jewish modesty reasons, and I need it for March 6 (I knowwww). I'm thinking of either Rent the Runway or finding something on Amazon but I dunno. I might run to Macy's tomorrow before dinner and try on a few things, but they probably won't have anything as cheap as I'm hoping for. We have a Black Tie fundraiser to go to... I know, don't we sound so much fancier than we are?

Um, and here's a traumatic story for you. This is a really tragic story. Last night E and I got into some stupid, but epic, argument. We were up until like 7am talking it through. I blame his absolute exhaustion and my... whatever. Hormones? Anyway, we finally fell asleep close to 8 maybe, and apparently at about 9:30am a young man was killed by a garbage truck right outside our apartment. WTF. We somehow slept through the entire thing... which is miraculous in a way, because I would have absolutely lost my $#!+ if I'd witnessed it. I can't believe it.  I mean, we're on the 4th floor and everything, but there were photos of the scene on a local news website, and there must have been so many sirens and yelling. He was a mid-20s Rabbinical student from the Ukraine who had been studying in NJ... he was in town for a friend's wedding (which was today), and was actually with the groom at the time of the accident. He was killed instantly. I can't even imagine. Maybe this is why I've been extra nauseous today. I know a few people who knew him, and he was his family's ONLY CHILD and they still live in the Ukraine. I seriously feel like someone punched me in the gut every time I remember that detail. Their ONLY CHILD. It's seriously so above and beyond sad. I don't have anything deep to say. I'm just so sad for them.

I guess the only thing to take away from it is to appreciate everything we have, every minute that we have it. It's such a paranoid way to live (if done out of fear of things like this), but I don't know what else to think.