Girls On The Gridiron

Spent most of today just hanging with the hubby. After a morning’s slow start, I realized we probably won’t get too many more of these (mostly) lazy days….

It’s nice and cold and I’m loving it. My little guy keeps my internal temperature burning, so it’s nice to feel cold.

Things are ok. 3 weeks from the freedom of maternity leave, trying to stay out of the way of the second worst boss I ever had, who couldn’t manage her way out of a paper bag.

Lost fingers in my fingertips, and couldn’t sleep most of last week. These weekends are really important to me, give me the ability to feel human again.

I know I want the next kid as soon as possible after our son, due to my age. But I also think I need a few months to let my body recover, and just feel a little bit like my old self again. Even to just weightlift, and sleep on my stomach. And like food. I really, really, really miss just eating normal food and enjoying it.

So we’ll see. If I feel like the way I feel just being pregnant with my little guy, I think I want to fill our lives with as many kids as we can afford, before I get too old to do so. Even if mother nature wrecks havoc on my own systems. I have a feeling it will be worth it.

And my hubby is a supportive sweetie. I wouldn’t be surviving this without him. The work hours have been brutal, but under it all, I know he cares about our son as much as I do.

In the meantime, 6.5 weeks and counting. I can’t believe it - feels like forever and a second since the first day we knew we were pregnant. I can’t imagine what the remaining weeks will feel like.

Blame it on the pregnancy..

I just realized my other half’s work obligations have occupied him my entire second trimester, the only one of the three where I felt like a human being. Now, I’m back to being tired and nauseous again. So we missed our opportunity to actually go out and do stuff.

And now the last trimester is turning out like the second, and I’m barely seeing him. All this work better pay off, because some nights, it really doesn’t feel like it’s worth it to me.

So I, like many, have finally come onto facebook. Along with that, I’ve been using Twitter. It’s short, easy and let’s me lay out by thoughts quickly.

That, combined with my unwillingness to access my liberal little blog from work has led to a dearth of posts here. I’m exhausted by the end of every day (welcome to the third trImester) and except to balance the weekly budget, barely turn on my laptop. I can basically do everything from my iPhone, except cut and paste links. (and I am sure that’s coming.)

But now I have this nifty little wordpress application on my iPhone. So I will probably update more. Maybe.:) If I don’t get stuck in a Twitter induced haze of laziness.

So I apologize for not blogging on Obama’s reversal on off shore drilling. Or the fact that he’s hugging McCain at a convention for evangelical Christians. By now, I am sure you know how not thrilled I am.

He still will get my vote. And I will half hope that in office, he will find his spine again. I believe he is in a position to do great things and has some refreshing ideas. I would vote for him on the gay rights issue alone.(though if he changes that, I am done with him.) But as time goes by, I am less excited about his candidacy and more viewing the election through my usual filter, of voting for the lesser of two evils. He is much less evil, at least so far. But what kind of stances will he hold by November, at the rate he is going.

The one good thing, he’s not allowing those swift boating sons of b—-es smear him. It made me so sad during the election of 04, when the democrats rolled over and showed their belly. He will not be bullied by a party dumber and more corrupt.

As much as I am venting, I am still very happy he is running. I hope by the time my son is born, I can save the newspaper for when he is older and let him know he was born the same year our country elected it’s first African American leader. That would make me proud, and let me put a happy spin on explaining what happened in the eight preceding years.

I admit, I am curious as to how my son’s textbooks will eventually describe the bush administration. I hope factually, so I don’t seem like a raving liberal crazyhead to my own kid. Not that there is anything wrong with being a raving liberal, of course:)

Yes, because Nascar is just so good for the environment….

It’s really my fault, I let my ideals get carried away…

when I’m not using my iPhone and less sleep deprived. I will write a longer post about how dissapointed I’ve been in Obama and his latest stances on telecom immunity and faith based organizations.

My mom says he has to do these things, in order to win the election. I say this is not the man I voted for, who I thought was finally a proponent of change I could believe in. I will vote for him, of course, because to put a republican into a third term in office would guarantee the ruination of our great country. Buy I will vote for him with a heavier heart, less hope and less excitement then before.

I can only hope once in office he will have the courage to stick to his comvinctions from the primary. At least, that’s what I can hope.

I haven’t had a hero in a long time. Now I remember why that is.