In a turn of events that should surprise no one but somehow still surprises everyone, I am overdue. Brandon was two and a half weeks late, and my sister was three weeks late, so late babies are definitely in this little one's genetics ( Read more... )

I am no longer a gainfully employed individual as of this morning. I thought I would feel ecstatic and happy, but I mostly felt a bit anxious and unsettled when I got home from work last night. I assume once Lucas arrives I'll be too tired and absorbed with keeping him alive that I'll lose this feeling of aimlessness ( Read more... )

We assumed I still had four weeks to go -- first-time moms tend to be pregnant even past their due date. I was kind of hoping for that, actually -- I wanted to sneak in a showing of The Avengers before the first month of newborn sleepless crazy time got started ( Read more... )

This past weekend my friends Ali and Amy threw me a Gryffindor Tea Party themed baby shower. I know! I have the most amazing friends in the world, I am convinced. My parents were in town as well, and lots of my very favorite people came to celebrate the impending arrival of my son. It's a little humbling to find that I have so many wonderful people ( Read more... )

50 days until my due date. 31 more days of work ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to update in a more organized fashion, but my work seems to be trying to punish me in some way for quitting, so I've had way too much to do during the day instead of composing updates. So here are some updates in list form ( Read more... )

10. Seven Susan B. Anthony dollar coins ( Read more... )

This month marks my tenth anniversary as a runner. It's played such a significant role in my life over the past ten years, it just seems wrong to let the occasion pass without some kind of acknowledgment. I didn't start out wanting to be a runner. My dad had always been a runner, it was an automatically understood thing. Mom and sister and I, we ( Read more... )

I haven't done this list in years! But I started keeping track of my books again this year. Attempted to keep track of movies as well, but the file got corrupted sometime back in March and I couldn't be bothered to recreate it. Also, we see a lot fewer movies than we used to, and 2011 was nothing special for movies (Harry Potter 8 aside), so the ( Read more... )

Finally got to have my ultrasound on Friday. It was both very traumatic and very exciting. Luckily (!) the traumatic part of it had nothing to do with my child, who is completely healthy and normal and, frankly, getting disturbingly large ( Read more... )