and then i had a haagen dasz ice cream bar, some cupcakes, and a couple glasses of 100% fruit juice

i had my glucose screening test this past week. this will indicate whether i need further testing and maybe ultimately be condemned to the somewhat tortuous state of gestational diabetes (hungry! all the time! no carbs! no more scarfing down ice cream bars while waiting for the bus! or baking myself a cake and eating the whole thing w/o shamu!)...which my sister has gone through in BOTH of her pregnancies.

however, while my sister radiates brisk efficiency, competence, and above all, fortitude, um, i don't. that's why she's the big sister and i am not.

anyways, i did drink my syrupy sweet orange soda-like glucose and am dutifully waiting for the call. or rather, i am torn between having another red velvet cupcake and wondering if that would really destroy my chances if i have to take a glucose tolerance test next week.

(at this rate, the baby, at birth, will weigh more than shamu. just like her mama.)

p.s. everyone told me to drink it chilled, which would take the edge of the nastiness. but actually, it's not that bad. it's only about half the volume of the oral contrast one has to take for a CT scan, and the tastte is quite a bit better than the metallic fake pineapple chalky of said contrast.