*my brain is clogged. Last week following midterms I was going to blog about how well I felt about them. That pregnancy has actually cleared my mind...I was wrong though. I am totally forgetting names and at work I am making all kinds of ridiculous memory errors. Today I discharged the wrong patient in the computer, consequently all of their orders-tests, meds etc. got cancelled the doctor had to go through and re-order everything. I kind of feel like I am being forced off of work in a few weeks, maybe this is why. NEways I thought I was clear headed because I was able to sit down and study for hours on end without my mind drifting off into other things. In previous semesters when I sat down to study my mind drifted off into babies. One semester I was really into how I wanted a baby and then the next semester I was really distracted by how I wasn't pregnant yet. Now that I am pregnant my classes have nothing to do with pregnancy and children. Last fall I took a Children's Literature and Child Development course because it was when we had just started trying to start a family, and I thought it would be a good idea to start my mommy education and just how cool would it have been to take a child development course while I was building a baby? A few of my classmates had the same idea, except that they actually did get pregnant that semester.

*Food- can't get enough buttery, salty and sweet foods! Can't get enough food in general. This morning I made pancakes, usually it takes me quite a few sittings to finish them all. But at work today it occurred to me that I had eaten the whole batch in one sitting this morning...oops! I do not like cooking, especially in my porky the pig mood I want to go out to eat every meal, every day. The food at home does not seem appetizing in the least, and it involves effort to prepare. But restaurant food, now that is something I enjoy sitting around day dreaming about. I want pumpkin pancakes at IHOP, I want Olive Garden, I want a Snicker's Cheesecake and a Chicken Salad Sandwich at Cheesecake Factory, I want a HUGE creamy pesto salad at Spaghetti Factory, I want french fries, french fries, french fires, I want to have a Mcflurry or yogurt every night. Tonight at work I really, really wanted an Alan's Black and Tan following a hamburger and fries at Leatherby's. It is such a dissapointment to come home to the crappy food we have. I only have a few weeks left in this pregnancy and then I might start depriving myself of yummy things again, so is it wrong to want to splurge and "eat my heart out" for the next few weeks, despite the cost?

Hot flashes-I turn all red and sweat profusely many times a day. It happens randomly throughout the day, but it is guaranteed to happen while I am sleeping. I insist upon sleeping with the windows open for this reason, which Mark does not particularly care for.

*Packing-Mark has started packing for our move. I really dislike packing, I wish we could pack the boxes and imediately take them and un-pack them in the new place. I don't like having boxes just sitting around waiting.