Perusing the pregnancy boards

I’ve only just started perusing some pregnancy boards and gee whiz, some of them are a bit scary. An awful lot of women on them have four or five kids, which they boast about via signatures containing glittery ticker-date thingies with their ages, names — typically ending in “i” (miiiiaoooow) — and the estimated due dates of their latest. Yet despite what must surely be mayhem at home, some seem to spend most of their days posting. And if they do work, what are they doing posting all day long?!

And they have strange little polls: Would you want your partner to be a stay-at-home dad? Horror! What if he’s already going to be one?! Having said that, they’re also quite useful — I had a query that was answered well by a couple of people quickly and was able to answer an obscure one or two myself… So I’ll be back… but maybe not by the time baby number five rolls around.

Absent-minded things I did today: I forgot to feed the fish (they did get dinner but it was too dark to tell if any were dead). I again left medicine in the fridge that I was supposed to bring home from work on Friday. Things I managed to do: Feed the cat (we’ve had her many years longer than the fish). Get to work.

S (the male one) is holed up in a Vietnamese hotel with karaoke blaring and a bad stomach which “could have come from any of the last 20 noodle dishes I had.” But there are consolations… “Food is good”. Yes, apparently.