All the news coverage in the past week about the link between prenatal vitamins and childhood cancer has convinced me to start back on the damn pills. I know there were all ready plenty of reasons for taking them but somehow the following factors outweighed all of those:
- They even look disgusting; Motrin comes in a happy orange colour why do they have to look like something made of recycled cardboard.
- They are horse pills! Why do they have to make them so big, I would be more likely to take 2 or 3 little pills than face that big gag-inducing horse pill?
- It’s a pain to buy them. Why to prenatal vitamins have to be kept behind the counter when every other supplement and vitamin are kept in the isle?
- I can’t remember to take them if they are not out where I can see them, but if I leave them out people assume I’m pregnant.
- There is something optimistic about taking a pill in anticipation of becoming pregnant, after a while this optimism wears a little thin.
- Lots of people just get pregnant without all of the planning and only start taking the vitamins when they find out they are pregnant.
I know these are very lame reasons but all the same I stopped. Now that the research shows you can reduce the risk of cancer up to 47% for some types of cancer. I don’t know what it is about cancer that is scarier than all the other diseases and birth defects that were previously linked to a lack of folic acid. I just tell myself to suck it up and swallow the damn pill.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
March is coming! March is coming!
Some people just can't wait for March. The winter is nearly over, March break, Saint Patrick's Day, the anniversary of the day I met my hubby, there are good things about March but in the world of non-profit project funding March = Panic!
Like most non-profits, my organization survives on project funding. We apply to the federal government each spring but by the time the project is approved and the agreements signed we have just 6 months to complete the projects by the end of the fiscal year. Every March we are run ragged trying to ensure that all of the money is spent and the work is done.
To add to this year's chaos, this will be the second year in a row that we will be heading into March with an administrative assistant who is leaving us. The admin person we had for 3 years moved with her hubby last March and we have hired 4 others in the last year. We finally found someone who is perfect and she has been offered another job that pays nearly twice what we do. I completely understand her leaving but it still sucks for me!
Why is it that we can find lawyers to work for less than bookkeepers? Oh well, one of the perks of not practicing law is that I can supposedly leave my work at the office, so on to happier things.
I am so close to finishing my first cabled scarf! At 55" I thought it would never end but just a few more rows and it will be done. I just have to decide if I should give it to my Grampy who I know loves cabled knitting but has lots of scarves and less need for it, or to give it to The Papa (my step-father) who could probably get more use of it. I would give it to my hubby but he has made it pretty clear that the scarf he wants will have to be in Acadian colours. Complete with the yellow star.
I will post pics as soon I I learn how!
Like most non-profits, my organization survives on project funding. We apply to the federal government each spring but by the time the project is approved and the agreements signed we have just 6 months to complete the projects by the end of the fiscal year. Every March we are run ragged trying to ensure that all of the money is spent and the work is done.
To add to this year's chaos, this will be the second year in a row that we will be heading into March with an administrative assistant who is leaving us. The admin person we had for 3 years moved with her hubby last March and we have hired 4 others in the last year. We finally found someone who is perfect and she has been offered another job that pays nearly twice what we do. I completely understand her leaving but it still sucks for me!
Why is it that we can find lawyers to work for less than bookkeepers? Oh well, one of the perks of not practicing law is that I can supposedly leave my work at the office, so on to happier things.
I am so close to finishing my first cabled scarf! At 55" I thought it would never end but just a few more rows and it will be done. I just have to decide if I should give it to my Grampy who I know loves cabled knitting but has lots of scarves and less need for it, or to give it to The Papa (my step-father) who could probably get more use of it. I would give it to my hubby but he has made it pretty clear that the scarf he wants will have to be in Acadian colours. Complete with the yellow star.
I will post pics as soon I I learn how!
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