Random Notes From The Crazy House

- Nesting has officially begun. Last weekend all the dressers in the apartment switched bedrooms and were rearranged. I started putting wedding photos in actual photo albums. (Wedding was four years ago.) Last six years worth of photos are arranged and sorted and ready to leave their shoe box.

- As a side note, why are replacement sheets for photo albums five for four dollars, but a photo album of fifty sheets is 7.99?

- Putting the hamster cage in front of a mirror is apparently the same as having two hamsters. Either that, or my hamster is very, very vain and has fallen in love with his own reflection.

- I am so pathetic that a free jumbo container of laundry detergent can make me smile all weekend.

- Although I only managed to stomach twenty minutes, "The Swan" has just won the "most appalling show ever" category.

- Has anyone else seen these new plastic flip flops with the tiny high heels? What exactly is the point?! Seems about as attractive as those platform running shoes someone tried to convince the world was a brilliant idea several years ago.

- Apparently some of my friends were laying bets on when I would graduate to the "small tent" style of maternity fashion. So glad I could make it past 30 weeks, and that my fashion hell amuses someone. I live to entertain. (Insert eye rolling here: ______ )

- Speaking of fashion, I really didn't anticipate it being this freakin' hot this freakin' early, and I am beginning to worry that I won't have anything to wear for the next eight weeks, but I don't want to buy yet more maternity clothes. This could be interesting.

- The belly that ate Manhattan and a few other boroughs (31 weeks):