A Day Off

Frank loves snuggles

I have today off of work. My Friday family had their new baby this week! So exciting. It's really amazing having a regular workday off...like, I get overwhelmed by everything I want to do, and usually end up doing a lot of nothing except snuggling with the cats (well, with Frank...Millie only snuggles at night)...and Frank fully takes advantage of having me home. My favorite thing about having a workday off is dropping Brian off at work, getting a Starbucks drink and breakfast sandwich, and then watching Kelly and Michael and The View. It's actually something I have been looking forward to about staying home after I have the baby. Having the actual baby to take care of is still a little abstract to me, but watching Kelly and Michael and The View...that I can picture and look forward to!

I don't want to talk about pregnancy a lot...but it does kind of rule my life. I'm 19 weeks along, and in this amazing second trimester bliss. That sounds dramatic, and I think it is so great because it was so awful at the beginning. I don't feel sick at all, I don't have the crazy exhaustion (I am still going to bed early-ish). I am still sleeping well. I'm just starting to kind of show...like that phase where you would never mention pregnancy to someone because you definitely can't tell. I only have one pair of my regular pants that are comfortable at all....but I still don't fit in maternity clothes...it's a fun little phase...getting dressed in the morning isn't my favorite. I'm not overly emotional, although I did have an awful sobbing fit a couple of weeks ago...I was listening to the radio and they told a seriously AWFUL story about something that happened to a cat. Like, so so horrible. If I wasn't pregnant, I would have cried and been really upset...but because I am, I SOBBED...uncontrollably. I had to pull over. And I continued getting unbelievably upset throughout the day, and throughout the following weekend. I still have moments (this was two weeks ago), and I have to force it out of my head. And really all animal stories, happy or sad...I really try to focus on the happy ones, make me cry. Just animal stories though, not people stories. This video was the latest cryfest for me. Ha.

I've been feeling the baby move since 13 weeks...which is super early. They say you don't feel it, especially your first pregnancy, until 18-22 weeks...but I definitely felt it early. And now it is super regular...all throughout the day. And last night I SAW it, and Brian could feel it. SO.WEIRD. It's really early for that...I've read that doesn't happen until like 26 weeks...so I'm afraid it is a giant Twilight vampire baby. 

nails are brighter in real life

I painted my fingernails last night- I never paint my fingernails because they always chip so quickly and look awful...plus, I have hangnails and don't take care of my nails at all. But I decided to paint them anyway, and I am so distracted by them while I type. They are a bright orange-ish peach-ish and I love it.

We have been letting the cats go outside for about half an hour a day when we get home from work. We sit outside and keep an eye on them...make sure they don't leave the yard. They LOVE it. They seriously sit at the door and meow for an hour after we bring them in. Yesterday Millie would not come back inside...she waits until I get close to her and then bounds across the savannah (she hops like a little antelope, it's adorable) to the other end of the yard, and then when I get close to her, she bounds back the other way. It took me ten minutes to get her in yesterday.

Okay...The View is almost over. I need to get ready for the rest of my day!