Feed the baby

So I read that I should have gained 15 lbs (7kg) by now, but I've only gained around 10 lbs (4.5kg). In order to gain healthy weight, my life these days is revolved around food. I eat 5 times a day: breakfast, lunch, tea time, dinner, and pre-midnight snack. I pretty much don't leave the house unless it's to buy food, eat food, or meet people over food. I'm eating something every 2~3 hours.

Lately what I've been eating is as follows:

Breakfast: Milk shake, or fried egg w/toast, or cereal w/milk, or oatmeal, or pastry, or 5 silver dollar pancakes with real maple syrup (Thanks to Larke for the mix and syrup!).

Lunch: Pasta w/IKEA meatballs or w/chicken, or a burger or two (chicken or fish), or a chicken sandwich, or a chicken burrito, or tofu soup with veges.

Tea Time: Fruit, or milk and cookies, or ice cream, or pastry, or leftover lunch.

Dinner: Home cooked Chinese meal, KFC chicken bucket, Mexican, or Japanese.

Pre-midnight snack: Fruit or leftover dinner.

That's just the healthy stuff. I'm sure I've sneaked cookies, chips, gummy bears, cakes, bakery goods and other junk into this diet every so often.

My life is so about food, that half the content in my purse is food. My purse carries a rotation of gummy bears, chips, cookies, and granola bars. I carry around a lock-and-lock tupperware so that I can carry around food or bag leftovers to bring home. I even bag up the food that our friends at the table didn't finish. I have no shame. I gotta feed this baby somehow.

My time online has been about food too. I'm browsing online sites that deliver food and cash on delivery. I'm trying them out to see how good their service is and how good their products are. I haven't found one site or physical store that offers all that I need yet, which makes shopping so fustrating. I'm not even talking about price comparing, they just flat out don't offer all the products. I hope to find everything I need delivered to me one way or another as I will be getting too big to get around soon.

Smoke and dreams

I understand smokers have rights too, but when you and I share a restaurant/café/indoor space would you please refrain from lighting it up? It’s one thing for you to smoke after your meal, but another for you to light up the cig just to have it burn between your fingers and never touch your lips again. Can I interest you in a candle? It does exactly what you’re doing with that cig and is much better for our health. Baby and I will buy you a pack of candles if you don’t light up that cig. 

Doesn't China have regulations against smoking indoors you ask? Actually, I think it does. I just read on WSJ about some people getting detained for a few days after refusing to put out their smoke in shopping markets. "...China’s new fire-control regulations came into effect May 1. Under the regulations, anyone who smokes or lights an open flame in a hazardous situation can be subject to up to five days detention."

The life of "just us two" will be coming to an end, and we’re starting to plan for the exciting life of three. Mike’s jet setting life of Asian Frisbee Tournaments might be put on halt until baby’s ready to join us. (Hope this one travels well. Do they make baby Frisbee gear? Hear that fiveultimate? Hint hint.) Our third bedroom/walk-in-closet/poker room is now cleared of table and chairs, clothes shifted to our bedroom closets to make room for baby's stuff, and soon I'm gonna decorate the walls to turn it into a nursery. We sat in the future nursery at night and talked about where the crib should go, whether or not we want to leave the shaggy green rug where it is, where my Ikea Poing chair for nursing will go, and what other furniture baby will need. It's a nice feeling, having something to look forward to, to dream about.

Now that the table and chairs are removed, the room looks a lot bigger than I had thought. Looks like baby will have a good amount of floor to drool, crawl, and play on. We’ll see if I can keep the toys in there with baby instead of all over the living/dining room. There is certainly enough shelves along the wall to keep the potential Barbie/GI Joe/Elmo/Pooh etc. toy stuff displayed. Theme? No theme yet.