Intrepid Murmurings

Random thoughts....for an unproductive day
Things I did not expect about pregnancy:

• You can actually feel the damn stretch marks as they form! I did not know this until now! (thing husband said yesterday that did not win him any points: "wow, you have sooooo mannnnnnnnny stretch marks now!" Geesh. Thanks!)
• Nausea returns in the third trimester! Suck suck! (although, perhaps, this will help with the weight gain the Dr. says I might want to watch a little closer, for my own comfort. Heh.
• Maternity pants always slide slide slide on down at the waist despite the employment of drawstrings, belts, or bella bands, so you are constantly having to hitch them up and/or drag them on the wet muddy ground (while flashing everyone some stretchmarky belly). Despite this, you can still be almost bursting out of same pants in other areas and showing horrifying panty lines. Odd, yes?

What did I do today? Not Much! I went to pregnant lady yoga, ate a pecan sticky bun at a semi-chain store bakery, and bought crickets for our starving frogs. Then dozed upstairs in bed while listening to our contractor work on hooking up the toilet (hooooooraaay! I think it will be done in an hour or so!!!) What did I not do? Quite a bit! So far my taxes are STILL not done, because I dread having to add up all the Unorganized Infertility Bills to see if we have enough to get us a deduction. I am also not at all finished with the encaustic piece that ideally will be done on Sun, so my mom can deliver it to the place where the show is (a memorial show for an art teacher we had in high school) in Portland. My dilemma is finding the right kind of rice paper that can both 1)go through the printer and 2)disappear seamlessly into the wax. I know it is out there, I have seen it and used it, but just can't find it now. Lame! Okay, so here, finally, is a belly pic, since a few of you have been asking. There is no head involved, since all the photos Lonnie has taken of me in whole-body form lately feature unacceptable expressions on my dorky face. Note that this was taken about a week ago, and is noticeably smaller and less-stretched-to-uncomfortable-levels-that-I know-will-only-get-worse-with-time. We'll try to get a shot from this week up for comparison sake soon.