Pregnancy Benefit #47

When you are taking out your contact lenses, and drop one (due to pregnancy-clumsiness), it can bounce off your belly and directly into the sink, where it's easy to grab, rinse and continue.

This is far far preferable to the usual routine of dropping it straight down onto the floor, which causes you to crawl around for 5 minutes saying "It has to be here somewhere!"

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Saw the movie Iron Jawed Angels - at work actually (how cool is it that I can get paid to sit around and watch a Hilary Swank movie?). In case you are unfamiliar with this, it's a recent HBO movie about suffragettes getting the right to vote. My co-workers and I agreed, we want to have a suffragette-dress-up day, for which we could wear cool split skirts and lovely little hats and bloomers and lace-up shoes..... Oh, that would totally rock. We discussed how it would be even funner to dress that way to go lobby in Helena once the legislature is in session. :)

In news that is mostly exciting to just me and no one else reading this (because you don't know this person) - a co-worker told me in great secrecy today that she is pregnant. She's been trying for a few months, so this is very exciting. Her first baby was born premature, and she has had premonitions of miscarrying this second pregnancy (that was well before she even got pregnant) - so she is being cautiously optimistic, but I'm thrilled for her.

I got the coolest baby present today - it's a copy of Baby Talk magazine from 1939, bought in California by an antiquing friend. The bestest part? The article from the working mom, whose key to survival is that she has a fulltime nurse/maid. But a lot of the stuff about feeding and establishing a regular schedule and all that is pretty awesome too. (mental note: dig out thank you cards and send her one, because this totally rocked!)

I made a yummy soup tonight - Westphalian Vegetable Stew, from a Moosewood cookbook. It has potatoes, carrots, turnips, green beans, leeks, and pears (yes, really) in it, and goes wonderfully with the sesame seed bread I bought. It was supposed to snow, so I thought a pot of soup simmering on the stove would be a lovely thing, but the snow has yet to get here. Weathermen are such liars.

And it's another wonderful weekend - wonderful in that I don't have to work or have anywhere I'm required to be. And next week will be a short work week, though is does look like there may be a share of family drama/weirdness on Thursday.

I have to go read my fabulous book now. And write a thank you note. :)