Anyone Home?

Yeah, I’ve been a lazy blogger the past few days. Lots going on but not much of it noteworthy. The weekend was good, but busy. Jake’s brother came in town with his new girlfriend, whom we had never met before. So there was a lot of hanging around and chatting. Jake’s sister and her family came over Saturday night and I was so lazy I didn’t even bother to make dinner. We ordered pizza. I guess I did a bit of domestic duty by making cupcakes for dessert. In my defense, it’s like one thousand degrees outside so grilling sounded very unappealing, as did any sort of real cooking, and also, I was (and still am) fighting off the ends of my cold/allergy attack, so I’m snotty and coughing and my head hurts quite often. Not my best hostessing mood, I tell you. But it was still fun. The new girlfriend is very sweet and her stock went up in my book when she told me that she works in the handbag section of Nordstrom (oh, and that she doesn’t call the store “Nordstrom’s” which is like nails on a chalk board to me). She was able to appreciate the beauty which is my kate spade diaper bag, and how can I not like someone who speaks my language?

Other than that, life has been pretty much quiet. Well, work is stressful and it’s taking a toll on me. I can’t really tell if work is more stressful now, or if I’m just not handling it as well as I used to or should be. I just know I cry a lot, at work and after work. That really isn’t making me happy at all. There’s not a thing in the world I can do to make the work situation better, so I need to find a way to accept it and let it roll off my back. I still have a little over two months to go and at this rate, I’ll end up in a rubber room before I even have the kid.

There are some interesting pregnancy things to note. I think my astigmatism either got better or worse, because my left contact lens isn’t sitting correctly on my eye. I had asked the eye doctor about vision changing during pregnancy and he explained that vision doesn’t really change, but that the cornea has the same tendencies to retain water and swell and such that the rest of the body has. So when that happens, it seems as though your vision has changed, but really, it will go back to normal later. I could waste the money going back to the eye doctor for an exam and maybe a new prescription for a while, but I don’t think that’s wise right now. I might have to resort to wearing my glasses. I don’t want to do that because I don’t have a way to wear sunglasses that way. Maybe it’ll fix itself soon. I also have officially reached the stage where it’s getting hard to sleep. I wake up often because my back or my hips hurt, plus I have to go to the bathroom a lot more. The heartburn/acid reflux make laying flat an unpleasant proposition as well, which may cause some of my other sleep issues. I guess I am just getting used to operating on less and less sleep. My feet are now pretty much constantly swollen, and sometimes they diminish in size overnight, but usually not. Today I wore flip flops to work. I hated doing it, but I couldn’t bear the thought of putting on real shoes. Curtainrod is moving a lot, but he’s quite ornery - he’ll be practicing his kickboxing and I’ll call Jake over to feel it, and the rugrat will stop entirely. Until Jake removes his hand. Then he starts it right up again. I think the child is getting my disposition. Lucky me.

And I’ll leave you with this - we saw Snakes on a Plane on Sunday. And it was good. “I know that sounds crazy, but I don’t give a damn.” Well, ok, it wasn’t fine cinema or anything, but did anyone really expect it to be? I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Definitely a fun summer movie.

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