Well, I have to get more Orangina since I drank the bottle that was supposed to become jelly. I'm trying to drink more water but I just get so sick of it - and so the soda was opened and consumed. Hopefully, I'll get around to the great jelly test this weekend. If I remember correctly, the 12-week mark began the slow improvement in morning sickness/hyperemesis last time and I'll be 12 weeks on Sunday. I hope I'm not setting myself up for a letdown with my expectations of a nausea-free week next week. We'll see.


    My husband and son are off buying vacuum cleaner bags and a new dinette. The vacuum bags are the result of a conversation that went like this:


    Husband: Hon, when did you last change the vacuum cleaner bag?


    Me: I've never changed the vacuum cleaner bag.


    Husband: Oh. Do you know where the replacement bags are?


    Me: I've never seen what our bags look like.


    Husband: Oh. When was the last time you vacuumed?


    Me: You're kidding, right?


    The last several places we've lived at hardwood floors that we covered in various spots with shabby, if not chic, throw and area rugs chosen specifically for their 1) cheapness and 2) ability to hide dirt. The new house as wall-to-wall which is going to be replaced with wood as soon as there's room in the budget. For now, it looks like one of us is going to have to get cozy with the vacuum. Ain't gonna be me. I'm not the one who absolutely had to have the 195 pound behemouth. He's the big burly man, let him handle it is what I say.


    As for the kitchen table, we're currently using my great-grandparents' Lane, pecan dining room table that I've used for some time as a console table. With the leaves up, it's the perfect size for our kitchen but at nearly 100 years old and being the type of table that is very hard to get these days for any amount of money in the mass-furniture market, I'm feeling like being the daily eating place for a two year old isn't quite the best idea if we want to keep it around for another few years. So off to KMart we are for their made-in-Thailand, $175 special. A butcher-block-esque table and four little chairs. Ought to buy us a couple years, at least. Well, that's what we're hoping.

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    The Orangina jelly did not happen, mostly because being pregnant sucks. I'm thinking the worst of the morning (meaning: all day) sickness is over, but I still have these tremendous highs and lows - one minute I feel as if I could dig my own swimming pool and the next I can barely walk by the kitchen without wretching. So, while I did not actually make the jelly I did settle on a recipe and procured the ingredients so at the next "high" I'll be ready.


    I started by examining standard jelly recipes like grape or apple but realized pretty quickly that this was not what I wanted since these recipes start with actual fruit that is drained in a jelly bag. Since I'll already have a liquid I wanted to find a recipe that starts with a liquid - starting in the middle of the apple jelly recipe didn't seem quite right to me if I could find one that started with, say, apple cider. So I went out and got an apple cider jelly recipe to get some idea of the proportions. Since cider probably has some natural pectin in it where Orangina is most likely pectin-free (despite being 12% juice and 2% pulp, as the label proudly proclaims) I'm going to increase the pectin just a bit. Which means that I'm also going to put some additional sugar into the mix, since that helps keep the pectin from clumping (if you mix the pectin and sugar together before adding to the hot liquid). I'll keep you posted.


    Finally, I was reading a book by Dorothy Rodgers today (as is the Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodgers) entitled "My Favorite Things" published in 1964 by a company the name of which has escaped me. Anyway, in it she talks about the "advantages and disadvantages of live-in help" and goes on about the many sacrifices she makes to keep her cook and waitress happy. The passage concludes with a melancholy statement of missing the "flexibility present in serventless households." That's it! I will no longer think of my home as chaotic, but merely flexible. I think Mrs. Rodgers would be proud.

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