Work has been more than crazy lately. We’re opening two new locations at once, and one of them has serious opening issues! Two days before our deadline, we’re all forced to spend the entire day and evening working on the vinyl floor and assembling furniture. I try to help out as much as I can, but after working on two small cabinets my back hurts so much I have to stop. I’m put on babysitting duty for my sister’s kid who’s stranded at the work site like myself. But after a while it’s getting hard to even pick him up. I feel exhausted and no use. Working shifts like these are simply not doable anymore, I finally realise. Another lesson learned.
Like my good old friend overseas pointed out: I’m expanding in all directions at once. My diameter is increasing weekly, it seems. Reminds me of Violet Beauregard, the girl in ‘Charlie and the chocolate factory’ who ate too many blueberry-pie-gum at Willy Wonka’s. Another friend suggested I start keeping weekly measurements to see how fast I’m growing. He’s a guy, of course. As is the friend who told me to look up pregnant Heidi Klum pictures online to see how lean she stayed almost up until the end. Women approach the big-belly-complex much more tactfully: they all tell me how I’m pregnant in a beautiful way, they tell me you wouldn’t guess I’m pregnant when they see me from the back, they feign amazement when I tell them I’m almost six months. I tell you this: it ain’t hard to love the girls these days!
In the meantime, I still have way too much on my to-do-list-before-baby. Still have to buy the buggy, all the baby furniture, most things on the baby-necessities-list. Still have to paint the room, assemble all the stuff, go to the breastfeeding-information-night. Still have to visit the day care centers where I hope my baby will one day be accepted. Still have to finish the kitchen and the terrace so I won’t be in any mess once I’m in another one altogether. Oh, and announcement cards. But first I really have to stay on this couch with my book for a little while longer.
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