Letting go

Since I have been at home, I find no reason to put on underwear or brush my hair. I have been looking pretty wild lately. But now that we have Skype, I think I may actually have to put on some clothes and groom once in a while! Nobody can appreciate my crazy-lady hair!

Slacker

Well, it appears that I am officially off work now! Nothing new or alarming, but I am now joining the ranks of the unemployed! That means TV with commercials for lawyers and a lot of hanging around. The good news is that I am not on strict bedrest!

No Snickering - That Road Sign Means Something Else - NYTimes.com

No Snickering - That Road Sign Means Something Else - NYTimes.com

Bucket List

You never appreciate going to the bathroom the regular way until you have to pee in a container for a day! At least I had practice, but I liked the other container's design much better.

Why I hate house hunting

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Yes!

No More Bush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why I ski

We skied yesterday and tonight again. I was slower than last month, but all I care about is getting out in the snow for a while. When we finished tonight it was dark. We stood under a street light getting everything in the car, and I felt like I was in a giant snowglobe. The streetlight was illuminating the snow in a manner that made it sparkle. It was pretty cool.

Gag me with a .......

I was watching the news this morning, and an anti-smoking spot came on. NY state has been running really brutal anti-smoking ads lately that are really graphic, but so far I could handle them. The one this morning resulted in me gagging uncontrollably after turning the channel. I will not describe it to you, but if it got me gagging, it has to be bad. I think I could watch the whole series of Mucinex commercials and be fine compared to the effect this ad had on my gag reflex. I am annoyed since I will never smoke and had to be subjected to it.

Recovered

I was going through the wreckage in our apartment, and a great archaeological find happened. The refrigerator pictures!

Out of the mouths of babes...

Yesterday I was working with one of my little girls (she is 8), and she was inspecting my grey hair. She was telling me I need to color it, and I told her I could not do that right now. Then she told me my baby would call me, "Gramma". Awesome burn!

Farmy

This winter I bought a share in one of the farms I like at the local farm market. Today was my first share pickup. I had to go online to research when I received, but I got about 20 pounds of veggies. Beets, Carrots, onions, potatoes, rutabegas, parsnips, leeks, arugula, and a little pumpkin. So far, so good. Now what to do with a rutabega? I have never cooked with a rutabega in my life.

Twins?

I found it strange that people who I do not know (or do not know well) sometimes ask me if I am having twins. It is not as if I am just huge or anything. Then Mike figured out that people want to figure out if I did fertility treatments since I am on the older side of the spectrum. I still think it is a weird thing to ask, but it has happened several times now.

sweetie

I had to get some more maternity pants. I have 2 pairs, and one of them falls off of me. I have been told I will grow into them. Anyways, so I do not wear Old Navy Yoga Pants everywhere, I decided to pick up a couple pairs of pants.

I live less than a mile away from a maternity superstore. I first went there right before Christmas to buy nice pants and a skirt for the holidays. The place is extremely over-staffed, but they tend to be helpful. Anywhoo, I went back today and arrived right after it opened so I had stalkers all around me. The girl that got me (they must work on comission) kept calling me "Sweetie". Generally I am not sensitive about being called that, but it is usually old people who use names like that on me. This girl was in her 20s. I thought it was weird that she always finished verbal exchanges by calling me sweetie or anything else to the same effect. I kept wondering if they are coached to speak gently to the hormonal and emotional pregnant shoppers. It does not work too well with me since so far I have not been an emotional wreck. The hormones did not hit my brain like that (at least not so far).

Lazy Weekend

I have been a sleeping machine for some reason this weekend. I think my time off just made me really lazy. Today we went for a walk on Tod's point. Tod's point is a town of Greenwich beach that we often do runs/triathlons. It is lined with trails and juts out into the Long Island Sound (with views of the city). Mike remembered that the resident restriction would probably not be in effect since it was January. That is the beach where they fought in courts for years about allowing non-residents access. The town lost ultimately, but now you can come to the beach for a $20 parking fee and $10 a person. That will be sure to keep the riff raff out (including us!). Over the winter, they do not check, but the winter season seemed to get shorter and shorter. So we headed over, and no problem getting in. It is a clear day today and not too windy, so we walked for a long time. The place was packed. We thought it would be quiet. The beach was also over-run with dogs. We saw at least 10 Bernese Mountain Dogs out there.

Great green gobs of greasy, grimy, gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat...

NY judge: Religion aside, monkey meat needs permit - Yahoo! News

Misc

The day after Christmas, a house in our neighborhood had the tree at the curb already which I thought was sad. Now I keep imagining the Rockefeller tree lying on a corner waiting to be picked up. That would be a sight.

How do you like that??????

I spent New Year's eve with a friend that lives nearby. She has a one year old, so her and her husband were feeding us a ton of information about the hospital we are going and some disturbing facts of life that we will soon encounter. She was talking about the strangers that would come up and touch her belly uninvited. That has not happened to me yet. I am sure it helps that it is winter, so I do not show under my coat when I am out shopping. I have some stratgies that I would like to try.
1. Keep my arms folded across the belly to ward off uninvited touching.
2. Use lightning fast reflexes to defend my midsection.
3. Touch the offender back!

I think number 3 may be my best option, and may send a message to the offender they may remember.