Kristie’s Pregnancy

Yes, I haven’t got a chance to talk about my honey’s pregnancy.  Isn’t it crazy?  She is more than three months pregnant now, and has gone through a rather peaceful 1st trimester.  However, ever since 2 weeks ago, she started to have a higher tendency on morning sickness, and even worse, itchy skin.  It is not the typical itch, she gets rashes and small bumps all over her waist, belly, chest, and further up to a portion of her neck; and the itch is very unbearable, as I know Kristie wouldn’t give up bearing the itch if it is tolerable.  We did some search around the web and seems like some population on the web has experienced this and it is known to be “PUPPP” (Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy)

We found Naomi’s article to be very helpful, but the common suggested solution, being “Grandpa’s Pine Tar Soap,” is not available on any of the four local pharmacies, we could only order it online.  We called Kristie’s OBGYN medical center, which has a urgent care hot line opened on the weekends, and they paged the on-call doctor to contact us within 10 minutes.  The doctor said she found this symptom to be rare and suggested Kristie to take Benadryl and/or Benadryl Cream 2%, which makes Kristie really hesitant as she insists a drug-free pregnancy…  She is now asleep, but not sure how long she could be asleep.  I’ve left the Benadryl on her night table just in case…

The conquer of a Macbook

Long ago, there was a IBM T43p.  She is very smart, and does things quite reliably, but she cannot do too many things at once, and she does not look very pretty, so her owner trade her in for a Macbook Pro.  The Macbook Pro was indeed very shiny, and she can run things much faster in parallels.  The owner was happy, and he learned quite a bit about the Macbook Pro.  It was a lovely journey, and they both had a lot of fun, but the owner was a greedy one, he started seeing this petite one when the Macbook Pro stayed home.  The petite was the Lenovo X60, who was in no match with the Macbook Pro when comparing their beauty.  However, X60 is just much lighter and smaller, she was loaded with a very open-sourced mind: Linux.  The combination of these three seems to play a very exotic role in the owner’s mind.  He became obsessed with X60′s quality and they were seemed to be together in a lot of events and circumstances.  The relationship lasted again for quite some time, until the Owner is again tired of it.  Apparently, the owner thought that the X60′s open-source mind was not yet matured enough for him.  He recognized that he wanted somebody who can be ready to work with him whenever he feels like, and stop and sleep whenever he does not need her.  X60 couldn’t do it well enough; whenever he needs her, she was a little slow on getting ready, and whenever he wants her to go to sleep, she sometimes became restless.  Finally the owner made up his mind, he started to see this hot one called Macbook.  She is the beauty with the combination of a Macbook Pro and the X60.  She had both the shininess and the  lightness. And when the owner needs her, she could be there in a short delay.  She may have a slightly closed mind than the X60, but they are very similar in terms of thoughts.  Therefore, the owner and the Macbook lives happily ever after… so far.