2008 March 17 — slackermama . com

I know I promised you all a pithy post. But you DO realize that I am having a baby in less than THREE DAYS from now, right? I don’t think “pithy” is on the menu. It probably won’t be on the menu for quite some time (on the other hand, here in THREE DAYS I should have lots of scrumptious baby pictures to make up for my lack of pith). So what you’re going to get instead are some of the things that are rattling around in my head right now. Needless to say, I’m a little concerned that the rattling is due to the fact that it’s rather empty in there. I’ve been watching way too much “Big Brother 9″ (OMG, don’t tell me how it ended last night cuz I had to DVR the rest due to hanging that tarnated wallpaper border).

Speaking of TV, anyone watching “John Adams” on HBO? We watched the first hour last night and hope to watch the other episode tonight (but “How I Met Your Mother” is on! And “Dancing with the Stars”! GAHHH!!) and so far am digging it v. v. much. I think I love Abigail Adams. She rawks. I cannot wait to see more. Am such a history nerd.

Reading this post of Julie’s reminded me of something. We haven’t done a darned thing to prepare Liam for this baby. Is that bad? I mean, yeah, the kid is only 20 months old. He has the attention span of a GNAT. He is in that delicious self-obsessed toddler stage where if it doesn’t relate directly to their own amusement then it doesn’t exist. He was slapping my belly in Home Depot yesterday, but I think that was becasue he liked the delightfully hollow noise it made and the fact that it made me giggle at his cuteness (what can I say? I’m a sucker.). So let me have with both barrels here, people. Am I in for it? Have I ruined this child and doomed him to years of expensive therapy sessions by not trying harder to prepare him for That Which Will Usurp Him? I’m guessing it’s too late now. I mean, even if I have caused Irreparable Harm, it’s too late to “fix” it, I’m guessing. I think the fact that Liam is a pretty easy going sort (except when you piss him off. Then you better watch your back, yo) will work in our favor. I imagine our biggest challenges will come from him being annoyed and jealous that someone else is sitting on his Precious Lap and taking up his Precious Time with us. Which will pretty much be, oh, all the time. So yeah. Good times ahead.

In completely unrelated news, I saw this link on MamaPop and just HAD to share it with you because it made me laugh so hard I cried. If you are a “LOST” fan (or even if you aren’t… MICHELLE!), you must check this out and love and enjoy it as much as I did. It may have even made me forget for a second the agony I experience whenever I think about how I’ll be in the hospital on Thursday and HOW WILL THIS IMPACT MY “LOST” VIEWING??

I didn’t wear green today. Neither did Liam. Of course, Liam is too wee to realize that he could have pinched me for not wearing green. And me, I could not resist his juicy thighs and neck and he was pinched thoroughly. I’m thinking that I’ll escape a good deal of pinching today because who really wants to risk pinching an enormous pregnant woman? That’s just ASKING FOR IT.

Speaking of enormous, what’s for dinner? I’m suddenly starving (go figure). I’m a little bummed we don’t have a corned beef brisket to fix up as those are yummy and delightfully Irish (plus they make good leftover sandwiches). We’ll have to figure something out and I’m thinking it should include potatoes in some shape or form because that’s just being true to my heritage (all 1/4 of it!).

So… yeah. Sorry about the lame post. I’ll try harder tomorrow.

Get the word out:

So, we’ve got like fractions of days left here. According to my handy countdown in the sidebar, that translates to THREE DAYS. Which means I have TWO DAYS until my mother in law comes. I’d like to have some things done before she gets here, even though everyone keeps telling me not to stress it. But shoot, the poor lady should at least have clean sheets on her bed, right? This is not an unreasonable expectation, right? Tell me if I’m wrong.

I have an insane To Do List that keeps growing and growing… But I keep having darned back spasms which render me limp as a jellyfish and aren’t conducive at all to getting chores done. Plus, you know, I’m big as a house and exhausted and sore…

The nursery… is not done. But it’s close. We need to paint that other coat yet, but the wallpaper border got put up at least and it looks awesome. After the paint is done, the window valance goes up and the furniture gets put back in place. Hooray!

I feel very much at odds, today. I’m restless and tired and excited and… well, you get the idea. There is so much to do and no time to do it in. Yet I want to just go ahead and have this baby already. I’m a contradiction in terms.

There’s so much to talk to you guys about. I have about a million topics buzzing around in my brain. But right now all I can focus on is a) the fact that my feed reader is backed up YET AGAIN and I’m so behind in my blog reading and b) it’s nap time and I want to go kiss the sky a little bit.

So until I’m able to return, clear out some of these blogs from the reader and pull myself back together, I’ll have to leave you with this picture I took of Beetoe last night. She’s wearing a onesie. 18 month size, to be precise.

^{This is what I do when I’m nesting, apparently.}