Anticipation

Is making me late,
is keeping me waiting.....

Okay, today is supposed to be the day.  Do I think it will happen today?  No.  Does The Man?  Maybe.  He says she'll be on time, whatever that means.  I just don't want to get to 2 weeks over and end up being induced.  I don't think I will.  But no temple trip for us now, even though I finally have a slip that won't squish my boobs.  I really wanted to go this weekend (of course totally forgetting it's conference weekend and it's probably closed), and we really need to go, but The Man was smart and pointed out that it wouldn't be much fun to go and end up having my water break in the middle of a session.  He knew a girl who threw up on the altar during her sealing.  How embarrassing that must have been.  Amniotic fluid probably isn't much better to clean, I don't care that it doesn't smell or have a color.  Ick.

5 things I didn't get while pregnant that I wanted:
1.  No cravings.  Of any sort.  So no midnight runs to the grocery store by The Man to accommodate me.
2.  No pokey-outie belly button.
3.  Not getting hugely big.  As uncomfortable as I am now, I'm sure that I would be a hundred times more uncomfortable if I were bigger.  I still want to be.  I think the women that get big are super cute.
4.  Thick, lustrous hair.  At least, not that I noticed.  I stopped losing it, but it didn't turn all wonderful and beautiful and easily managed.
5.  Huge boobs.  At least not yet.  I can still fit into my old bras.  Though that might be more of something The Man wants.  It's not like I'm teeny tiny anyway.

5 things I got that I didn't want:
1.  Throwing up.  I really did want to skip that part. 
2.  Itchy belly skin.  It didn't start until very recently, but it's driving me nuts.  The only time it doesn't itch is when I'm not wearing clothes.  Can't really walk around naked with my parents in the house though.
3.  Stupidity.  I was taking DHA for a while, and it helped, I think, but then I stopped.  No good reason, really, other than I didn't want to be taking so many pills.  I've gotten stupider as I've gotten farther along.
4.  Dog nose.  That ended after the 1st trimester, thankfully.  Though it was fun being able to smell my co-workers lunches and going and begging food off of them if it smelled good.
5.  Gall stones.  Yeah.  THEY are fun.

5 things I did/didn't get that I'm glad about:
1.  No stretch marks.  Yet.  I thought for sure I would get them, since they sprouted overnight when I gained weight after getting married.  But I'm still growing, so we'll see.
2.  Good skin.  It's really dry, and I still get a little pimple here and there, but no zits, at least not on my face.  My shoulders have finally cleared up too.  I think I may have gotten one or two zits the whole time.  But they went away quickly.  I haven't had such good skin since I was in middle school.
3.  Fast growing nails that don't easily break. 
4.  I didn't gain a ton of weight.  I'm not sure how I would have handled that.  Not well, I think. 
5.  Strangers didn't touch me.  I've never had anyone I don't know touch me and ask when I'm due.  I've never had anyone I don't know ask me when I'm due, period.  And only one stranger (a customer at work) commented that I was "heavy with child".  Yeah, he was a weird one, especially since I was barely showing at the time.  But he also said that my baby would be lucky to have me as a mother.

Now I'm just waiting for something else to happen.  Like contractions.  Contractions would be nice.  Only because it would be nice to finally know for sure that she won't be in there forever kicking my bladder and my ribs.