Monday, March 31, 2008

Creepy pants

I finally broke down and purchased a pair of those ridiculous maternity pants that have some sort of panty hose on the top that totally covers the whole belly.
I totally love them. I look like a freak with panty hose over my belly but I am really comfortable. I had really cute maternity jeans that I wore everyday for the longest but eventually the half panel stated to cut into my belly and I was afraid it was digging into my baby's head. I did not want my baby coming out with weird jean marks on her face. So even though I told myself I would not wear creepy maternity pants with the "perfect fit belly" I broke down and did it. See what I mean about pregnancy turning women into one track bore machines. I mean who Else but another pregnant lady wants to read about me getting a pair of pants? Well, to bad I don't have anything else to write about. In other news about pants I am still able to just barley wear my really great running tights that I got a few years ago when I moved from Florida to North Carolina. They are some high tech fancy pants that Addias makes and were really expensive, that's why I had to get them as a Christmas gift. I wear them endlessly and I am forced to wear them under my belly so they kind of dig into my butt checks and that is not an attractive look. I don't care I am not buying maternity workout clothes this late in the game. Speaking of working out...I am proud to say that I am 32 weeks on Thursday and still running. Well not really running more jogging and shuffling but I am still getting up getting all suited up and taking the dog for runs. This morning I actually saw Otto YAWN while we were running. WOW he actually yawned. My father thinks my baby is going to fall out if I keep running, let me say WOW again. He wanted to know if anyone ever stops me to tell me I am too pregnant to run. So far no one has had the nerve. I live in a tiny town and people have been watching me run for almost 3 years now so they probably just got used to seeing me. God knows I have gotten used to seeing them! Let me just say that a pet peeve of mine is people walking or running on the wrong side of the street. Lets review....if you are running on the road you need to be running against the flow of on coming traffic so that cars can see you. You never run or walk with your back to oncoming traffic. I just can't stand when I am running and some schmuck is walking their dog on the wrong side of the street and then my dog starts getting all excited and wants to pull and jump and say hi to the other dog and I have to look like a dick and pull my dog away while the other person says "Oh he just wants to say hi." guess what, I don't want my dog going nuts trying to say HI to everyone when we are running. Otto is 85lbs and up until last year was never walked on a leash due to the fact that he was a wild mountain dog, now he is a runner and a very good one at that and I also don't want the worlds friendliest dog (Otto) pulling me down when I am 8 months pregnant. So please walk on the correct side of the street.
Ok that is my lecture for the day.
Highlights of this blog are
1. Creepy maternity pants are comfortable
2. People need to learn how to walk on the street so that they don't inconvenience me when I am running. Just kidding (not really, it is way annoying)

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

I'm back

It has been ages since I last posted. This is because I have been tired and unmotivated to write anything. Not to mention the fact that when your pregnant that is the biggest thing going on in your life and you want to talk about it all the time and other people want to staple your lips shut because your pregnancy is NOT the biggest thing in their life. So to avoid just blabbing non-stop about my hemorrhoids and my huge belly and what color I painted the baby's room and how it feels like I have a wolverine clawing at my insides I just said eff it. But this morning I am feeling invigorated and I am going to share some of this with any people that might look at this blog, which at this point is probably few considering the fact that when I look at blogs if someone doesn't post for a while I say screw em' and never check back.
OK so I am 31 weeks pregnant. I feel pretty good. A little moody (a lot moody) and sometimes tired (like from 3 pm on) and my feet hurt a lot and sometimes my back too. I am still running even though some people think I am insane. My Dr told me that since I was a runner before I got pregnant I could run as long as I felt good. Well last week I said OK ENOUGH I AM NOT RUNNING ANYMORE I AM ONLY GOING TO USE THE ELLIPTICAL. This was because during my run I felt like I was hauling a boulder around and had a midget on my back and I thought my lungs were bleeding and that my feet were fixin to fall off AND it was freaking cold as hell out. So I told myself that running until 30 weeks was admirable and that now I could call it quits and just use the boring machines at the gym. My mother suggest walking, WALKING, no I can't walk and say that I exercised. I know that walking is exercise but unless I am sweating and breathing heavy I don't feel like I have done a damm thing. Besides she is not a runner and doesn't get that its not easy for runners to just stop running and pick up walking. I am devastate enough as it is that sometimes during my run I have to stop and walk for a few seconds. By the way when I say "run" I mean a slow jogging waddling movement, where my dog is not even really running but doing more of a fast trot and is still way ahead of me. I remember when Otto had to keep up with me, now he gets antsy and annoyed because he wants to run and I can't go as fast as him so he get bored and tries to stop a lot and sniff every blade of grass that comes in his path. So I thought it was over. Then over the weekend we had a day where it was almost 70 degrees outside and I just could not resist so I went out for a run and it was great. I felt really good the weather was perfect nothing was hurting and I didn't even feel that heavy. Running was back on. Of course when I ran yesterday it was early in the morning and the midget was back on my back and the boulder was in my belly and my feet were falling off AND it was cold . Oh well. I am just going to keep running for a while and see how it goes.
That is a little bit of what is happening with me.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Bob's story is just down the page.

If you clicked on the link in the newsletter hoping to see the story on Bob the neighbor cat just scroll down the page.
Thanks!