As Andy and I say, "I'm in a bad way." Other than my one-day flu thing at 11 weeks, I have been feeling healthier than ever. My asthma hasn't acted up at times when it normally would (when it's cold out, when I'm eating ice cream,etc.). Even now, though, I have this cold that's not that bad. Normally when I have a cold it's like an all-over misery. It really hasn't been - I started out with a sore throat, and the only reason I felt miserable for a day was because I just happened to not sleep the night before. Then it all moved up like colds typically do, but it's only been one symptom at a time. Right now it's just a stuffy nose, no more sore throat. Annoying, but not keeping me down.

A few people have pointed out that it must be the prenatal vitamins; they say your immune system is compromised during pregnancy, but the prenatals must do a real good job of compensating for that and then some.

My belly button is driving me crazy. I'm just like, make up your mind already. It's been poking out around the top for several weeks now, but just recently it really started popping out on the northeast side. I keep trying to pull the rest of it out just for some consistency, but apparently that does not work. I do look forward to my old coin-slot belly button. I wonder if it'll ever look that way again.

Maybe the biggest mistake of starting a new job pregnant was the fact that no one in the office knows me as anything but pregnant. I had a little bump when I started there, and since then, and as I grow increasingly larger, I have become like the circus attraction. It's like, can I make my way across the office without someone marveling at my tummy or entitling me to the entire table full of Christmas snacks in the break room? Seriously, if anyone catches me looking at food it MUST be because I'm pregnant and that's what pregnant people do (and I'm the one who was known for eating all the GBI agents' food that they didn't finish at lunch during my internship).

Again, it's been done before! No one is going to know what to do when I don't have a kid in there. What? Abby hasn't been pregnant her whole life?

Ahhh, 7.5 weeks or hopefully less and hopefully not more of it, and then I can be NORMAL again!!