we had our first scan on friday. i kept waiting for the nurse to tell me that i wasn't really pregnant, but she found a baby in me after all. we saw it's arms and legs and fingers and toes. it was pretty amazing.

then there was a bit of a fiasco with blood samples, they couldn't get my veins to give up any blood. 'hands off my precious bodily fluids!' i thought it was a bit morbid as the strap that they put round your arm to make your veins stand out has a design that makes you a bit reluctant to give up you blood....vampires! with blood dripping off their fangs!

Anyway, all is well. we're going to have an anniversary weekend up in the lake district and may stop by lancaster on the way home, Sunday the 12th of August, if anyone is going to be around and wants to meet up for a pub lunch. let us know!

hmmm..... *brushes dust off xanga site* it's been a while I guess.

don't know if anyone still reads this or not. I'm sorry it's been so long. What can I say? Life Happens.

For those of you who don't know, Luke and I are expecting our first child in December. It's all very big and scary and exciting. I'm about 14 weeks pregnant at the moment and am home sick from work today feeling like crap. Morning sickness is no piece of cake and doesn't just last the morning either!!

And looking at my last entry, i'm in much the same mind set I was then. Except I've got more of a plan now and Luke has finally bought into the whole idea!

We're looking at moving back to American sometime next year. We'll put our house on the market here and sell it, figure out what stuff we're shipping over with us and then jump ship, probably to Maine. I should probably say right now that most of this plan is highly dependent on Luke finding a job in Maine as an engineer and as Maine doesn't have much in the way of industry, that may turn out to be the biggest difficulty.

But once we get over that little hiccup, we will buy a house over there, convert it to solar power and wind power and as off the grid as it is possible to do...Luke will work to pay what bills we need paying and I will work at home, raising kids, and trying to get us started down the road to a self-sufficient life style, growing our own food and all that and possibly running some kind of home craft business. If any of you are interested in that kind of thing, I highly recommend reading a book called The Good Life, by Scott and Helen Nearing. They left NYC in the 1930s to move to Vermont and start life as homesteaders and succeeding in turning a run down maple farm into a self sufficient organic paradise. Then they moved to Maine and started all over again. A truly amazing pair of people. They practiced a very strict moral code that I don't think I could ever live up to.

Anyway, I hope everyone is keeping well. Thinking of you all far more often than I get to see you.

look at the prices of land in the states today. In Maine, you could get a 10.5 acre plot for about 22,000 dollars, yep, that's right, dollars. That's about 11,000 pounds.

I want to go home and build a house and raise alpacas.

*sigh*

I'm going to Newcastle tomorrow to buy leather and things. I'm excited. I've taken the day off work to go and have some time to myself and drive around. I've got some new armour i want to make and i need the stuff to make it.

Oh and I've lost 15 lbs!

bored bored bored and a bit lonely.

going to le prevo this weekend, anyone need anything? 

been taking driving lessons, how lame is that?? i have to take the frickin' british driving test before september. *sigh* don't wanna.

work is work.

i've been bit by the crazy bug.