(July 31, 2008) Beaba, Fuji-Q Highland and the land of tomorrows

location: 'Un Lit' today's lesson - French for bed
mood: moody
music: None - Watching Ramsey's kitchen nightmares
So. Well. However. Words that I feel I overuse in my writings. I will be perusing my thesaurus for other options so as not to sound redundant.

I'm starting off with naming my roller coaster of the day, because (I almost said well, lol) my roll bar came down at about 3am this morning.

FUJI-Q HIGHLAND

It's been different then any other day. Maybe because it was a long night. Jen's still sick and didnt sleep well. The animals were out of their minds and if you add me getting up every hour to pee, then it was mild chaos; and it ruined our sleep. Jen had to work a double today and I had to get up at 7:45 for an appointment. I'm sure you can figure it out from there. When we get our new bed, there will be no more dogs in the bed. They have a bed, I dont want to share mine anymore. Mine mine mine! And Jen's of course. :)

FUJI-Q HIGHLAND

With all of the mild chaos, my 3am wake up call to get on the coaster arrived.

FUJI-Q HIGHLAND

Someone gently gripped my stomach, squeezed like they were applying vice grips, shook it up good and said "Please be seated, keep you arms and legs inside the ride at all times......."

FUJI-Q HIGHLAND

I dont know where it came from, but the nausea hit me like a ton of bricks. I didnt throw up, but I ran to the kitchen to get an Ensure full of ice and pray that it would restore the balance to my digestive track that prevents nausea.

It worked well enough for me to be able to sack back out for a bit. This has been how my whole day's been though. I actually feel pretty good for a couple of hours

FUJI-Q HIGHLAND is this car moving up the rail?? click clack click clack click clack

and then suddenly, I'm not sure whether to run to the bathroom or for my Ensure.

FUJI-Q HIGHLAND Oh shit! we just rounded the top of the coaster and here comes the drop!

The coaster I found for your entertainment today is out of Japan. It is renowned for it's steep drops and lengthy climbs to the top of them:

Fuji-Q Highland

In Japanese Fujiyama means the "king of mountains", therefore you can infer that Fuji-Q Highland park chose this name so it could be known as the king of all roller coasters in Japan. Fujiyama is one of the tallest and longest steel coasters in the world. This megacoaster stands 26 stories tall, features a steep 230-foot descent at a 65 degree angle and a top speed of 80.8 mph. After the twenty three story plunge, Fujiyama's trains follow a double out and back layout with a number of airtime producing hills and drops that is well over a mile in length.

Roller Coaster Details
Track Type Year Designer/Manufacturer
Steel Hypercoaster 1996 Togo
Roller Coaster Stats

Height: 259 feet Drop: 230 feet
Angle of descent: 65 degrees Top speed: 81 mph
G-Force: 3.5 G's Length: 6,709 feet
Ride time: 3 minutes, 36 seconds Trains: 3 - 28 passenger
Ride Location

On to better things! I promised yesterday that I would talk about the Organic baby food maker. My sister loves it even more because it's French. It makes me wish that I spoke French so I could talk in French while I used it. When my sister showed me this little machine, I was instantly sold. Not just because you get to make organic baby food, but because of the demo. If you go to this link:

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/sku5279732/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd0m1%7C16%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Cbaby%20food%20maker&cm%5Fsrc=SCH

You can watch the demo. It's at the bottom of the page. It's called the Beaba Babycook and I love it. You can do meats, fruits, vegetables, all kinds of foods! I'm very excited. Not that we'll need this for over a year, but it's still exciting :)

The Land of Tomorrows. I've had a hard time lately enjoying the day I'm in, and not praying that tomorrow was already here in hopes that I'll feel better. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. I am genuinely looking forward to tomorrow. We have our second sonogram. We had our first last week which was a part of our 1st trimester screen (since I'm over 35), but Green Dot was too small for the sonogram to adequately see the back of the neck.

I'm really looking forward to this for several reasons. #1 - Jen gets to go. She has to go back to work afterward, but I love to have her with me anytime we see our little dot. #2 - The Dot changes so much every week, that it's always amazing to see her from week to week. I cant wait to see what changes took place this week, how much she grew and if she's active. For the first sonogram, she was SOOO active. She was doing flips and waving and kicking! Oh my gosh, it was so exciting to watch! The only negative of that appointment, was who I'll call Ralph. Ralph because it's a funny name.

Ralph was our sonogram tech. For those of you who dont know, sonograms are MUCH more detailed then an ultrasound or the dildo cam. They are clear, big and just amazing. So, when you get one early, they REALLLLLYYYYY want to get a good shot. Because of that, you have to go in with a full bladder. Oops, I just said so a sentence ago. So?? Here, I might as well run with it....Well, Ralph, really wanted to get that money shot and just about put that damned piece of equipment in my vagina, through my abdominal wall.

Ralph did smell good. I dont know what the cologne was, but it smelled good. This was surprising because most smells right now are incredibly overwhelming to me. Once Ralph was done, he called in our Dr and she brought a trainee in with her. She asked the trainee, "Would you like to try?" I kind of laughed internally, because, isnt that something they should have asked Jen and I? The trainee was a very sweet gay boy, so we didnt mind so much, other then he sent me home with a belly button full of the 'goo'. Tomorrow will be exciting, and hopefully we'll all get a better night's sleep. Until then though, I'm going to go try to make the best of the rest of today... :)