it's Friday!

Amazon sent me an email letting me know that Kindle covers are on sale. They then proceeded to link me to the ones that are on sale and the first row of them are all designer covers and they are on sale for $85.00.

LOL

sorry but who has/spends $85 on a kindle cover? even if it IS some kind of uber trendy sparkly animal print cover?(which by the way, i kinda think are getting overrated...animal print has seriously lost it's appeal to me)

here, look:



and hahah omg this one is even MORE expensive:


$165.00?? for a kindle cover? That's more than my kindle cost! ahh! hahah

so yea, that was amusing.

another thing that I found funny was this little gem from thebump.com....

so every Friday they send me an email announcing what week I am in my pregnancy. Typically i delete those emails because, as you know, I do my own little weekly thing and find all the information that way and whatever.

this time i clicked the email and it took me to my checklist of stuff that has to be done before the baby gets here. I don't know which of you guys are familiar with thebump but it's just like theknot but for baby stuff. So anyway, they have a whole countdown/checklist for me to go by and typically the stuff is pretty helpful overall i would say.

But then today I was looking through the upcoming things for this checklist and i saw the following item and i just had to LOL



Get an easy to maintain haircut?? like that is SO important that it is one of three things on the checklist for week 32? hahaha and i enjoy the assumption that we can't figure out how we want our hair on our own or that we can't come to the conclusion that we might want to change our hair or something without this list telling us to? it's so funny/bizarre to me!

like who was the editor writing this that thought, "okay, so in week 31 we'll discuss the signs of preterm labor and then in week 32 we MUST remember to remind these moms to get an easy to maintain haircut. Who knows what chaos and mayhem might ensue if we leave that off the list!"

lol so funny and SO WEIRD to me!

also, as a note while we're on the subject, i am not planning to get an easy to maintain haircut. I am super obsessed with my hair being long and it's a big part of how i identify as myself, i think it's important for me to still feel like ME once the baby is here and not completely give myself over to this role that i made up of "mom" that includes a haircut and Lee jeans or whatever. I really want to let the mom thing just organically become a part of me, not something that i try to put upon myself.

And not only that but i LIKE having long me hair. I like how it looks when i actually take the time to do it. I know that the odds are that typically my hair will be a scraggly mess for a while (like how it often is now) but that's fine. I'm sure once a month i will be able to pull out the straightener and still feel like myself. And to me, feeling like myself means having hair at least to my shoulders or longer.

so there annoying checklist, i will not follow you!

okay, i'm gonna go. I want to finish writing a few more thousand words and then i have things to do (including making my 29 week update! Emma has already reminded me haha) aaaaand tonight is super exciting because me and Ryan are going on an ice cream and movie date tonight!!! it doesn't get much better than that, i don't think! YAY! We hardly ever have the time or money to go out together on dates so I'm reallllllly excited and looking forward to it! hooray!

what are you guys doing tonight/this weekend?

"I'm not fat, I'm pregnant!"

So a new thing happened to me this week....

I got asked if I was pregnant.

This is crazy to me because all of a sudden I went from looking like a (slightly bloated) version of myself to a definitely PREGNANT version of myself overnight. Seriously, it was overnight.

I had a good friend staying with me this weekend and on Monday I woke up and got dressed and suddenly none of my clothes fit me and i had a definite baby bump where there was no bump before.  Thinking I might just be paranoid and my hormones could be playing tricks on me (trust me, it happens...a lot) I went out into the living room, turned sideways and said to her, "do i look more pregnant today than I did yesterday?" she nodded and said, "Yea, wow you definitely do"

How weird is that?

Answer: SO WEIRD.

So i did the only thing I could....I wore a maternity shirt that my mother bought me (you know, one of the ones I was convinced I wouldn't be needing for "quite a while" (you're right again, mom)) and I hoped that it did a good job of hiding things. And for the most part, I think it did.

until.....

we went to the nail salon.

It was while my feet were submerged in water and a woman was scrubbing my legs with exfoliate that the subject was causally brought up:

The lady rubbing my friend's feet said to me, "So are you married?" and I said, "Yes, I am!"

she nodded and then said, "So how long have you been married?" and i said, "i think about 14 or 15 months now?" (real answer is actually more like 16 months).

She replied, "That's nice, do you have any kids?" I grinned and said, "Not yet but we've got one on the way!" and I patted my stomach which I realized I had already been resting my hand on.

she said, "Oh congratulations! We were wondering if you were pregnant but we didn't want to ask and be rude!"

I laughed but inside I was like, oh my god, i really DO look pregnant!

Looking pregnant is something I'm used to avoiding. I'll try on shirts or dresses with empire waists and say, "Yea it's cute but does it make me look pregnant?" when it billows out and away from my body.  Now however I am wearing regular clothes and I STILL look pregnant anyway! This is totally weird and something I'm not sure I'm ready for (not that I have a choice!) but I know that the more that time passes, the cuter my baby bump will become and the better I'll feel about it.  Because even though the nice lady at the nail place had the courtsey to ask me, there are tons more people who probably look at me and just assume I never lost the freshmen 15 or something. And that kinda sucks.

Though it's all for a good cause, I know that.

In the meantime, my sister gave me a good tip...I asked her, "what do i do when i look somewhere between fat and pregnant?" and she said, "oh it's easy, just stand with one hand on your back and one hand on your stomach all the time! it totally works!" and she proceeded to model the pose for me. And she was right! She looked pregnant! Well, really she looked like a super thin girl pretending to look pregnant but still, i got the message. So now I kinda try to stand like that just in case.

here I am modeling The Pose on the day in question (and don't ask why I'm standing in front of a Chick-fil-a...it's so not an interesting enough story)

See though? The Pose totally works you guys!

In light of all of this, I kinda want to get that t-shirt that says "i'm not fat I'm pregnant!" but I think that's a little too aggressive for my taste.

 (available on cafepress for $23)

Even if it DOES have those hearts on it...

And anyway, this phase will only last a little bit longer. From what i've been told in no time at all I will be unmistakably pregnant and my plan then is to wear all of those ambiguous little sun dresses and frolic around proud of my cute little baby bump.  Well, hopefully anyway...if I'm up to frolicking that is of course.

So in the meantime I think I might hide out in my house or wear a bunch of flowy stuff or walk around with my hand constantly rubbing my belly and just make due. Cause honestly, who really cares what other people think anyway? And isn't it EXCITING that I'm starting to show?

I should start some kind of movement, Early Pregnancy and Proud! or something lol

maybe not.

So there we have it, my first encounter with someone who didn't know me knowing I was pregnant. This is the kinda stuff that's noteworthy guys, this is the kinda stuff that there is to blog about.

I'll be back tomorrow I hope, i have something else i've been wanting to talk about :) oh and an early ultrasound picture to share too!

Thanks for reading and yay for starting to show!

Love and Baby Bumps,

Rhian