33 weeks down. 7 to go.

Did I do that math right? I'm suspending math to focus my attention on my rapidly expanding abdomen.

So yeah, 7 weeks--(that's almost two months for those of you not joining in the math boycott), that's a long ass time! I'm huge! I'm already getting the "wow--you must be due any day now!" comments from strangers in the store and on the street. I don't really mind the sentiment, people are generally friendly enough, I just mind that I've still got so far to go and am so big and uncomfortable. Yeah, this is my "I'm big and pregnant and uncomfortable" rant.

Oh, funny story about being pregnant; I guess I've not really mentioned it to people. I'm not very social and so don't get out much, especially these days, even though I have a pretty wide circle of "friends." But aside from this blog and my co-workers and a few other people, I guess I haven't brought it up; so now I'm randomly running into friends looking as big as a mack-freaking-truck and people are feeling a little startled. It's really kind of funny. I thought maybe I'd post about it on myspace or facebook, but I think at this point, eh, why bother...It's really kind of funny and it will be even funnier to surprise people when I'm out and about with a new little one. Though knowing me, it'll be more like I'll surprise them when I'm out and about with a toddler and they'll all just be confused and think it's Suzie... ramble, ramble, ramble...

Let's see, oh, thanks to Mim's encouragement I bought myself a moby wrap and a hotsling. Last time I just used a baby bjorn and while it "worked fine" it really wasn't ideal and I definitely wanted to try something new this time around. I've been practicing with the wrap as I get that there's a bit of a learning curve, and yeah, I'm not rocking it yet. Possibly though because I've got this massive belly in the way of wrapping it properly. I put it on Suzie and she wore a baby around for a good hour though so I think I MUST have a pretty good idea of how to use it...Also, watching a pre-schooler rock a moby wrap while she goes about her pre-schooler business is pretty freaking fantastic. I really should post some pics.

So Suzie's been in Montessori school now for a month. It's amazing. I'm in love with her school and I'm so in love with the competent little person it's helping her develop into. She sings songs about the months of the year, she uses words like "injurious" (Ok, I'm not sure she's really got the definition down, but still...), and she'll just about kick my ass if I try to clean up a mess that's her responsibility to clean up. It's a lot of money, I'm not sure how we're going to keep it going, especially this next year that I'm not working, but it's so important, and just the changes that I've seen in her in the past month are such motivation for me to make as many cuts as are necessary to keep her there. Just yesterday I told her she wasn't allowed to use any more of my NARS Orgasm blush because once it's gone it's strictly Wet-n-Wild for this mama. ;) I've got to be careful though, frugality is definitely part of my nesting instinct and once those pregnancy hormones drop off I may be hard-pressed to fight the siren song of Sephora.com.

I see idiots. They're everywhere.

I'm cooking a ham in a crockpot in my husband's work kitchen for my daughter's Montessori school picnic/potluck tonight. A co-worker of my husband jokes that he's going to sneak in there and sprinkle pot in it. He's 50.

Could he BE anymore of a moron?

I mean, I remember when I thought jokes like that were funny. I was 18.

What a day...

I've been having contractions at 3 minutes apart lasting one minute for an hour. Then they took a break, then gave me another hour of fun. Now they seem to have tapered again. I'm at 30 weeks. Total pita. John and Suz are off to the grocery store, I think I seem to be done contracting for now.

Tomorrow starts 6 hour work days--10-4 (4:30 if I need to clock out for a lunch at all). Totally looking forward to that. Especially now.