The week between Christmas and the boys coming back to us on Friday was a glorious week. I could nap, eat and bath whenever I felt like it, without having to tend to Joel or cook normal meals. Mike and I watched home movies, played video games and watched Baby roll around in my belly.
In an attempt to divert my thoughts away from "Will today be my baby's birth day?", I got to thinking about all my idiosyncrasies (yes, I had to look up how to spell that word...my pregnant brain can barely comprehend Archie comics at this point). I came up with the following "facts" about myself, my life or my routines/habits:
- the toilet paper in my master bath has never touched the holder...it sits on the counter by the sink for easier access
- I can never remember how to make hard boiled eggs...I need to look it up on the 'net each time I make them
- coasters are not an option...they are a rule
- I never tuck in the sheets at the foot of the bed when I am putting on fresh sheets...they are just going to be pulled out as soon as I climb in to bed
- I have had eczema all over my scalp since I was six months old...just wanted to point that out so if we meet in person, you don't think I have unmanageable dandruff :-)
- I have a horrible compulsion to back-seat drive. Someday, Mike will leave me on the side of the highway because of this.
- I cannot go out in public without make-up on
- I cannot go out in public wearing Crocs/Dawgs
- I cannot go out in public wearing stretch, sweat or yoga pants. Even at 40 weeks pregnant.
- I have never broken a bone (knock on wood)
- the only time I wear socks is during the winter and I'm leaving the house or when I go to work
- I neither forgive nor forget very easily
- in high school, my speed reading abilities were clocked at 480 words per minute. That's right...I read 8 words per second. Just don't ask me to describe to you what I've read :-)
- I need deadlines in order to finish a project
- I would be lost without a constant "to do" list
- I would also be lost without my Post-It notes
- I have hated my smile ever since I had a bone graft in 2002 for dental implants...the right half of my top lip looks dead
I hope today is baby's birthday...it was 12 years ago today that I became a mommy...:)
ReplyDeleteHope you are doing ok, can't wait to see you and the beeeeaaautiful baybee!!!
Today would be a nice day to have a baby. My mom had me 29 years ago at 2:35pm.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a quick, easy, and mostly painless delivery :)
Well, happy birthday to both Angie and Kristen! I'll do what I can to get Baby out today, but she appears to be very comfortable where she is :-)
ReplyDeleteDitto on the sheets thing, Jyl!
ReplyDeleteI totally admire you for not wearing "home suit" pants out - I am guilty as charged on that front. Though I won't go so far as some who wear pjs out and I have managed to avoid wearing pants with words like Juicy on the butt. It may be jiggly, but it sure as heck ain't juicy :)
FYI: You have one of the prettiest smiles ever.
I have absolutely nothing against people who choose to wear "home suits" out (I like that term!)...I wish I could bring myself to do it, but I just can't.
ReplyDeleteIt has to do with my OCD and germs - I don't want to drag the hem of my pants through someone's spit in the Walmart parking lot and then put my feet up on the couch and "transfer" the germs. I always change out of my "out" pants as soon as I get home so that I'm not spreading those germs. It's messed up, I know :-)
Oh god! I wore my "home suit" out last night and then crawled into bed without changing out of it...EEEEK! I never thought of Walmart parking lot spit. For the record, I did not go out in pajama bottoms (I HATE THAT) but rather slept in yoga pants.
ReplyDeleteI have always liked your smile. Smile on...
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