there’s a theme here somewhere…
Usually I try to write something coherent, where I have a theme for each post and I try to tell an anecdote or something that illustrates that theme.
However, I regret to inform you all that pregnancy-brain has set in and I cannot coherently compose a coherent blog post about my personal experience to save my life. see, there. I incoherently repeated myself. I hope my former brain comes back hand-in-hand with my former body.
so, sit back and enjoy a rambling list of things that are going on in michelle’s head right now:
- I’ve been scheduled to do my driving test on April 27th. I feel semi-competent, but really need to work on parking, reversing around corners and uphill starts.
- I am eating all day, every day. I am an eating and sleeping machine. I also seem to have lost so much of my energy that I can barely drag my butt at a leisurely walking pace around the route that I used to RUN a couple of times a week.
- I am going to see the ballet on April 6th – a Russian Ballet school’s performance of swan lake. I feel very posh saying that I am going to the ballet, and I am really looking forward to it.
- I woke up this morning at 7am, starving and freaked out by my freaky dreams. They are just getting more and more weird and detailed, although I feel like 99.9999% of the details are forgotten even before I wake up. See preggo-brain above. Anyway, this morning I could only remember one dream in which a strange man wanted to send a hedgehog down an enormous flight of stairs in a small shopping basket. He set the frightened hedgehog into the basket, and then put the hedgehog’s luggage beside him, and was about to start wheeling him over to the top of the stairs. I was so scared for the hedgehog, because it seemed like he was already hanging on to the wire basket rather precariously, and the holes were big enough for him to fall through on the bumpy ride down the stairs. Later this morning I remembered a story told to me by a girl who fell down the stairs when she was 7 1/2 months pregnant, because she fainted while carrying a big drum of restaurant cooking oil. Yeah, scary.
- the hedgehog has started to do perceptible gymnastics and karate kicks in the evenings when I sit down to relax on the couch. Which is totally cool and one of the best parts of the Pregnant Experience so far. I started looking forward to it, and then couldn’t feel any movement for what felt like a really long time. Just when I had been starting to relax into this thing I get hit with the worry again! I have a sneaking suspicion that this will be a recurring theme.
- i saw a pair of gorgeous dolce & gabanna sunglasses while out shopping with the girls yesterday, and came home thinking about how I could possibly justify buying designer sunglasses. “They make me look like a model!!” didn’t seem to carry that much weight with my superego anymore. Today I decided that I’d rather have a rocking chair. Goodbye, carefree Michelle! See you in 25 years!!
