I feel like posting!

I haven't posted in awhile, and I still have no pictures to share, but I thought I'd put a few words down anyway. (Let me take that back, I have pictures to share, but I'm not the in-love-with-my-pregnant-body type, so any picture you see of me will be from the neck up.)
Last night we took Christmas photos at my parent's house for their Christmas cards. (Again, I was seen only from the neck up:) ) It was so much fun. I forget how much fun my family has when we're all together. Jimmy took it upon himself to set the room up like a photography studio, even though Mom was just taking the picture with her tripod and self timer. Mom made delicious chili and corn bread and we all sat around and basically showered Chloe with attention. Juan and I had to leave early because he's sick (sinus infection) so I had to get home and baby him. I told him it was pretty funny that his 7 mos. pregnant wife was hauling herself off the couch to get him his little face warmy thing but he didn't seem to see the irony. Problem is, we have Kaiser so you can't just pop in and get a prescription for antibiotics. By the time he is able to get a prescription, the infection will probably have cleared up on it's own! Any nurse p's out there who want to help us out? :)
Wednesday I had a loooong doctor's appointment. I do like Kaiser's prenatal system, mostly because they have a clinic five minutes from our house and I've never once waited longer than 5 min. in the waiting room. Until yesterday. First I had to take a gestational diabetes test, where they make you drink this not-so-bad orange drink that tastes like flat orange soda and then sit on your butt for an hour while your body does something with it. While I was waiting, I went upstairs, peed in a cup, got checked out (everything's good-healthy baby- although in a fifteen minute appointment, I still leave feeling a little did-you-do-everything-you-could?) Anyway, then I'm back downstairs to get my blood drawn and then back UPstairs to get a rhogam shot, which is because I have a negative blood type and the baby probably has a positive blood type. I'm 0-, the universal donor!! The shot wasn't so bad, but it was in the bum, which was a little humiliating. Lucky I don't mind needles, because at my last appointment I had to get a flu shot and I've had all sorts of blood taken to check me for any genetic abnormalities. So far I've been AOK, so good job, Strassburg family, on the lack of genetic abnormalities!! Other than weird senses of humor and a maybe-too-quick temper, that is.
So now it's Friday, and I'm here at work. Fridays are sooo slow, I usually only see one or two people. Somedays it seems silly that I get paid to be here just in case someone comes in, but hey, if that's how Yuba College wants to spend their money, then I'm okay with it. I'm actually learning a lot here. At UC Davis, I had mostly first language English students, but here in Woodland, the majority of the students are second language learners. It can be frustating (some don't grasp even the subject/verb sentence formation) but also very rewarding. I helped one woman set up a yahoo email account and she was grinning from ear to ear-- she'd heard about email but didn't know it was something she could have!
No big plans tonight-- Kings game and pizza, maybe. Sounds delicious! I have a dentist appointment this afternoon (just a cleaning, but still, I dread, I dread) so I'm going to need something to look forward to when I get home.
Sorry for the long post. It's incredibly self-indulgent, so feel free to skim, if you even want to read at all. I don't blame ya.