80% done!?

Today marks the 32^nd week of my pregnancy – that’s 4/5 or 80% done!  Even crazier, I’ll be considered full-term in 4 or 5 weeks (depending on who you ask/what book you’re reading).   It seems like this pregnancy went pretty slowly at first, maybe because we had so much going on, but it’s really picking up momentum now – though I’m sure it will feel like it’s dragging at the end.  The baby still has plenty of room in there and has been kicking/jabbing like crazy, I’ll be kind of sad when those big movements stop because she’s gotten too big!  I must say, though, that it's getting pretty freaking uncomfortable; it's hard to sleep at night, my joints hurt, I have a permanently 'tweaked' spot in my lower back, and I have a crazy waddle-limp going on.  Totally worth it, but not fun.

Yesterday I basically finished unpacking.  There are a few boxes that just need to be moved into a closet (mementos, class notes, etc) and two boxes of out-of-season clothes that will go straight into storage bins, as soon as we buy those (oh, how I miss all the shelves in our old closet!).  Most of the rooms look really great, and the nursery is just…empty.  We have a recliner in there and all of the stuff we’ve received is in her closet, but it’s pretty bare.  I guess sometime soon we need to pick up a crib, dresser/changing table, and a bunch of little tiny baby hangers.  That will be fun!

Today Jeff’s boss is having a BBQ at his house, so I drove Jeff to work in order to go later.  Now I have the car (yippee!) so I took the car for emissions testing (way faster and cheaper than in MD) and as soon as I get this load of laundry into the dryer, I’m going to go get my hair cut and stop at the grocery store for a few items, plus snacks for the BBQ.  The really exciting thing today though…we get internet!  They said they’ll turn it on ‘by 5 p.m.’, which is maddening – we already have the modem, can’t you just go ahead and flip the switch now?  (nod to Brian Regan there)  So even though I’m composing this in Word ahead of time, I will be posting it from HOME and not Starbucks.  Ah, it’s the simple joys.