Someone told me to make this a "do date": get out and conquer everyday things that have nothing to do with a baby so I could keep my mind off of not ever going into labor. Made some sort of sense to me so I went to get a haircut, do a tiny bit of window shopping, and meander over to the eastside to take Jamie to a work meeting at the office.
That's when we got stuck in bridge traffic:
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| That'd be the longest floating bridge on Earth. There's a drawbridge portion that lifts when tall boats need to get through. This halts traffic for an unknown amount of time - we got there as soon as it went up and they were quoting ~30min. |
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| Cracking up at Jamie pleading, "hey, don't go into labor NOW, ok?" We were stuck about 2/3rd of the way across the flat part on the left in the photo above. |
Don't worry, I didn't.
Remember? Because I'm going to be pregnant for the rest of my life.
People who are pregnant for the rest of their lives do NOT go into labor. Like, ever.
But speaking of things that could make you panic, don't read this wikipedia page on the bridge.
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| A regular ole Tuesday lunchtime event at work. |
I do have to say that casually responding, "today," when people asked when I was due was all sorts of amusing. Mostly because of their reactions. Nobody mentioned being "health inclined" like devon's eyebrow lady when she was pregnant with piper, but my hair lady did ask if I was wearing a pair of Depends in case my water broke in her chair. She thought she was sooooo hilarious. On a side note about my hair lady, she had just flown in from working on a music video shooting in LA for Seattle's own Macklemore. There were all sorts of fun stories about her celeb-filled weekend accompanied with v.entertaining photos/videos. Between the crazy stories and the flowy hair-cutting cape, I forgot about my belly until I stood up again. That was a little weird.
Ok, back to the rest of the day:
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| Free lunch? Score! |
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| Thanks, T-mobile, for the t-mobile-pink cupcake. And don't worry, I've eaten nothing but kale for every meal this week, so this caffeine-free Diet Coke and cupcake = totally fine. :) |
Jamie went to his meeting, I cruised around enjoying the warm weather and people watching. We took our time in the late afternoon meandering through some unexplored neighborhoods on our way back home. Post dinner, Jamie headed out to the driving range and I curled up on the couch to do a little bit of reading (ended up chatting with Amy for awhile instead - she sounds like she's loving her summer in New York). A little bit of casual planning for the rest of the week (business as usual is how we decided to approach it), taking the dog out, heading to bed early....and that, my friends, is how we handled the due date that came and went.
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| Window shopping in a Barney's. Figured I'd try putting myself in hilarious places for dramatic movie-like water breaking. Should've brought a water bottle with me to act it out. Just for my own amusement. And devon's. She keeps offering $$ to have me prank Jamie. |
4 comments:
Smart lady to wear black. You know, just in case the water breaking thing became real. (Was it Devon who had the soggy cargo pants story? Forever engrained in my mind.). Nothing but black bottoms from due date, onwards!
I was wearing *white* jean shorts (hey, it was the hottest day of the year in SF) when my water broke - but it was more like a water trickle than a Hollywood splash. :)
The best was when I went out the weekend after my due date (my mom & I went to lunch downtown and to Anthropologie after) and people would ask me when I was due I'd say "Oh, last Thursday." They would be astonished! The morning I went into labor I drove Todd to work, and was sure that I would go until the very last day they'd let me before inducing. Then, SPLOOSH! (Or rather, trickletrickletrickle.)
Your hair looks fab btw. Good call on getting it cut before the babe arrives!
You are still managing to look adorable! And we can both wear Depends since your water might break any minute & I'm not sure if I'm ready for potty training. :)
hahahaha that woulda been a funny prank. i'd have kicked in some money too :)
your hair looks fab, you look totally fab and i really like that traffic photo for some reason. tho i am really glad that baby ivy decided to stay put right then and not be born on the bridge. tho i bet that totally would have made the news! and that would have been kinda?! cool.
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