So I havent been writing actively in this blog for over a year now mainly because other more "important" inevitable priorities seemed to have taken over, one thing I'm pretty glad to have put aside since last year is coding and endless debugging just thinking about one time when I desperately tried setting up flexunit to run on headless CI hudson unix server to no avail even though it was working sucessfully on my local dev environment makes me cringe slightly now.
[artifact:mvn] [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[artifact:mvn] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[artifact:mvn] [INFO] Failed to launch Flash Player. Probably java was not able to find flashplayer.
[artifact:mvn] Make sure flashplayer is available on PATH
[artifact:mvn] or use -DflashPlayer.command=${flashplayer executable}
Well, my sole interests apart from my "fluffy" functional analysis daytime work consist of activities such as attending baby shows, parenting classes, prenatal yoga, decorating nursery, and more recently packing hospital bag- wish there was an app that could decide what you really need based on your lifestyle and personality or maybe there is already? Although to be fair there are loads of creative and useful apps out there some of which are free (atleast as at the time i got them) such as sprout, mypregnancy, pregnancy tracker and duedateclub which has undoubtedly helped the long journey to motherhood. These pregnancy apps provide recommended health tips and pregancy advice, checklists to keep you organized and handy tools to track your weight, baby kicks and contractions, now wish i was being paid to sell those apps.
There are some advantages to being pregnant, and I’m not talking about the adorable bundle of joy you eventually get out of the deal. For the six months or so that you are visibly pregnant (or not in my case being that my bump never got too big), that belly is like a free spin, the wild card, a “get out of jail free” card. Pregnancy i must say isn't a bed of roses particularly for full-time working ladies even for those of us that are quite fortunate not to have experienced much dificulties during the first trimester and beyond nevertheless i should highlight some associated few perks:
- You can get through the crowds- My baby on board badge which usually guarantees me a seat on the approx 1 hour train commute from home to work and vice-versa makes me sometimes feel like i can path the red sea. Of cause if you were Kate Middleton for example, you certainly wont need the badge in the first place.
- Free food. For some reason, people are quite concerned about pregnant women getting enough to eat, so it’s not that uncommon that family and friends might start handing you cooked food, fruits and snacks and additionally in my case the servers in my office start throwing in extras with your food order. I also experienced family members loading extra food on my plate at family functions with the words "you're eating for two(or three")
- Being able to work from home remotely to attend my antenatal classes or just when I feel too tired going into the office
- Network of other supportive and positive-minded moms2be if you manage to engage in activities such as prenatal yoga classes, mums clubs, parenting classes etc
- You get help at the grocery store- These days particularly at the end of my pregnancy the staff at my local grocery asda are always very keen to pack my shopping bags or reach out to a top shelf to grab an item for me. Going forward I will make it a point to help other pregnant woman in a similar situation.
- Everyone knows there’s an unwritten rule when it comes to pregnant women and the restroom – let her go first.
