28 weeks


Finally, I'm in the home stretch at the start of the 3rd trimester! Do I feel ready? No, and from what other parents tell me, I'll never really be ready. I keep having these anxiety dreams that I am totally forgetting to take care of my baby. Yesterday I went and bought a baby manual at the bookstore. Hopefully this will help stave off those dreams. Physically, my back is still killing me. My pelvis feels like it's going to break apart and I can still only eat tiny hobbit meals. Last night I had two dinners. First dinner was 5 fake chicken wings, a couple of asparagus spears and like 3 bites of left over paella from Aioli. I got hungry a couple of hours later, so I sat down with an apricot, goat cheese and crackers. I could be having it a lot worse than I do. Here's the flickr stroll through other ladies at 28 weeks. All I'm going to say is that if baby continues to make my belly swell and not my ankles, upper arms, butt or love handles, we're totally exchanging high fives soon as I squeeze him out.

Miss you dude


Leon's at a trade show in SF geeking out this week and I'm all by my lonesome. Well, I have Heylove, but she misses him already, too. That mopey dog wouldn't even get out of bed this morning. I might be a total wuss and ask my mom to stay over. Oh no, too late! I'm a wuss for other reasons.

Saturday night before Leon left, we had Aioli. We'd never been there in the summer time so I reserved us a spot on the patio. It was sweet out there, though Leon had complaints about the air conditioner being so loud, but I thought it was fine. We had a chunky gazpacho to start, which was very fresh and had a little bite to it. Then we had my favorite tapa there, the portabello al jerez: the most tender portabello mushrooms simmered in garlic-sherry sauce. It's served by itself, but it would have made a really good polenta or mashed potato topping. We also ordered the vegetarian paella. They put so many colorful veggies in it, you just want to stare at it until you remember that it's what you came there to eat. For dessert we had chocolate mousse with berries. Delish!

On Sunday, I made my first pizza with our new pizza stone. It worked so well, I am totally stoked to use it again. The cornmeal crust from TJs came out wonderfully crispy and held up to all the toppings I loaded it with (olives, mushrooms, asparagus tips, cherry tomato halves). This crust is seriously the best deal in town. You can get a ball of premade dough for about a dollar. Add toppings from whatever you have in the kitchen and you have a super cheap pizza dinner. Eventhough you can probably make your own dough for cheaper, I'm willing to pay a buck for the convenience of the premade one.

Food now


Lately, baby has been squishing my guts up into my upper chest cavity, totally compromising my stomach space. So instead of eating hearty meals, I have to eat tons of small ones throughout the day, like a hobbit. Today for work (not allowed to blog about it), it's someone's last week so we're going out for sushi. Hooray for veggie sushi and it's tiny little pieces, perfect for hobbit-sans to nibble on now and snack on later. I sure wish Taka's was open already.


Listening to DJ Quik "Live at the house of Blues" today, solidified my opinion that live rap records should never be made. Too much audience participation. And man, Quik's hair looks terrible!

27 Weeks, or I Don't Think You're Ready For This Belly


Yes, I'm still pregnant. Though, sometimes it seems little Neon is trying to kick his way out early. Here's a medical mystery: I weighed myself before I went to bed last night and when I woke up this morning, I was two pounds lighter. How on earth did that happen?

I almost forgot the 27 week flickr stroll!