An alert meerkat

Birth

 

 

Soon we'll be heading to the hospital for my c-section.  Night-before-birth events:

• Pint of Peanut Butter Cup ice cream consumed
• Mystery Diagnosis watched
• Observed cat lurch drunkenly around the house after getting a tumor removed from her ear
• Crunching sound outside investigated: possum on back deck; back door left open to let in unusually cool night air (through screen door) subsequently closed
• Blog post written
• Finished reading The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne.  I thought it was good.
• Watched last half of movie Field of Dreams
• Thought: huh, these seem to be actual contractions.  Interesting.
• Hoped for the best

Looking down while wearing a blue polka dot shirt - 36 weeks pregnant

Looking down while wearing a purple shirt - 35 weeks pregnant

Babes R Us

If you have a question about your baby registry and you go to the Babies R Us contact page, you will see two phone numbers.  Both of which have the thing where the number is a word (ToysRUS or BabyRUS) and not the actual damn numbers, so you are forced to search stupidly for the letters on the phone.  No one knows the letters so they can just dial, can they?  Surely not.

Anyway, so you note that you must figure out the number and are focusing on that and then you are done and it is ringing and a woman's voice answers and starts talking about 'hot, wet pussies' and you are startled by this.  And then you hang up.  And then you realize that while the ToysRUS number has 1-800 in front of it, the BabysRUS number has 1-888 in front of it.  And then you think of all the women who must make the same mistake.

Evidence

Co-worker: I can tell you're having a boy because you are carrying all your weight here [grabs own ass with both hands].