I believe the number of episodes of reverse peristalsis I have endured in the past year surpasses the number I suffered for the entire decade previous. Including those episodes induced by collegiate.... overindulgence ( Read more... )

The really really short form of the birth story (I plan on writing up a more detailed version, but it may be a little while ( Read more... )

OK MR UNIVERSE ( Read more... )

There have been times in the past where I have felt guilty or lazy for the fact that on a full painting day I would generally only actually have brush to canvas for 4-6 hours ( Read more... )

Still pregnant.

Arrrrrrarararararrrr.

I got soooooo plastered tonight!

I mean we made a plaster belly cast. What did you think I meant!?

Oh, and petroleum jelly is a bitch to get off.

Amazingly, throughout this pregnancy I've not had much of anything in the way of the unwanted belly pats that I was warned would be ubiquitous. Everyone has asked first, and most of those were people I would have welcomed anyway ( Read more... )

I got to reassure someone tonight that no, I was not going to give birth in their restaurant.

(If the waitress hadn't insisted on trying to talk to me while I was having a contraction, it would have been fine. Oy.)

I feel like a watched kettle.

Braxton-Hicks contractions, for those who don't know, are 'practice' contractions that prepare your uterus for labor. They start really early in pregnancy, but you don't generally notice them till the 5th month ( Read more... )