Pop!

Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner, my stomach muscles decided they’d had enough.
 
15 weeks

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Hey, I’ve got a question

Can you put much stock in the long-range forecasting of a climate-change-denying meteorologist?  That’s only half a jab at him, and half an actual honest question.
Anyway, he says average temperature around 26º, and 85″ of snow for the season, with December averages higher and January-February averages a bit lower.  So it looks pretty much like [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving! And a well-timed warning.

To get a jump on the holiday festivities, we went out for a tasty dinner with some friends, then went to see some other friends open for Wax Fang.  It would’ve been nice to actually stay and listen to Wax Fang, but a) we were tired and b) the WORST BAND I HAVE EVER SEEN AND/OR [...]

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Still pregnant!

I had my third prenatal appointment this morning, a quick once-over to make sure there was still a baby in there, and if so, that it was doing all the things a 14-week-old fetus should.  So far, so good, unless of course the “baby” in question is actually a tumor that has a heartbeat and [...]

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To. Do.

If you have a Mac, you’re aware that there’s this awesome thing called a Dashboard that’s like a second desktop, except with instantly-available mini-programs called widgets that range from games to stat trackers, from the totally useless to the totally productivity-oriented.  Because I have an unrepentant love of the latter, I finally got around to downloading a [...]

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11 to 14 weeks

    
A subtle difference, but it feels like miles.  I’m especially amazed at how, at the end of the day, I ease into bed thinking, “Jeez, I don’t remember doing any crunches today.”  And I didn’t do any crunches.  I just sat around expanding.

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Birds!

I didn’t take many pictures this time, 30 to be exact.  But I did get a few good ones of the seagulls, et al at Stephen’s Green on Saturday.

They were swarming and making quite the racket, over what I couldn’t tell.  Not that we should expect super-rational behavior from animals whose brains are only slightly [...]

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Home again.

Huh.  There was less snow when I left.

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My luck.

I’m three for four on rainy departures.  This shouldn’t be surprising, because I’m departing from Ireland, for heaven’s sake, but last year it was dry for the whole month I was here, then poured cats and dogs the day I left.  It’s been mostly dry for the last week and a half, and that’s less [...]

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Bring on the weird!

Today marks 14 weeks.  The little sucker that’s starting to push my guts out of its way is about 3 1/2 inches long and does all kinds of bizarre things one might not expect a 3 1/2-inch-long human bean to do.  

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