Today marks 20 weeks! Oddly enough, it still doesn't seem quite real, even though it's becoming more and more obvious! I've been wearing other people's clothes and getting lots of compliments on them--It's nice to have generous friends with good fashion sense!
I'm kind of (or maybe I should say REALLY) annoyed with people making assumptions about me. The latest thing to tick me off was when I mentioned that I had cried during an assembly, and someone INSISTED that it's pregnancy hormones. Now, let me paint you a picture of this assembly. It was our prom assembly about drinking and driving. There was a mock accident involving four of our students. One student was arrested, one was air lifted to a hospital, one was taken away by ambulance...and one died. After the crash scene portion of the assembly was over, we all went indoors where there was a funeral for the student who died, and another student read the eulogy, which is when I really got choked up. The student doing the reading was crying, which just slayed me. (For the record, it made me cry when we did this assembly four years ago, too.) Then the principal got up to speak to the kids, and he also started to cry. I can usually manage to hold it together until I see someone else cry, and then when that happens, all bets are off.
I know myself pretty well. I certainly know myself well enough to know that my tears are not hormone induced. I have cried a grand total of three times since I've been pregnant, and all were for very valid reasons.
I know I seem really snarky when I complain about this stuff, but I hoped to use this blog as an outlet for my joys as well as my frustrations. And the joys outweigh the frustrations by a long shot. I'm very relaxed, very content, very excited, very much in love...all of those good emotions. But I feel like people are forcing negativity on me. If I were counseling myself, I would tell me to put an end to it at the source rather than to let it go on or to talk behind the person's back, so I'm about to send a very blunt e-mail asking the person to knock it off.
Being assertive does NOT make me a bitch.
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You know, sometimes people say stuff just for the act of talking. They just have to be involved in some type of no-nonsense jabbering. Hope this is something that will put a smile on your face: A lady once asked me when was my baby due (I haven't been pregnant for years), so I said to her that it's due at the same time that hers was due. She was like, "well I never...." I laughed so hard at that one. I thought then to keep all my big shirts like the one I was wearing that day just because I can.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like everyone's an expert on other people's pregnancies, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteWow, your story is GREAT! Not so funny that she asked you when you were due, but your comeback and her response are priceless!!! It definitely put a smile on my face!