Here's a pic of me and Trav after the first day of biking. Keep in mind how unbelievably skinny he is for some perspective on how huge I am. My sister said it looked like I was trying to smuggle something under my bike jersey. It's pretty tight across the middle, but I wore it two days out of the three that I biked! It was pretty cool to represent Team Petting Zoo out there.
Those of you who are familiar with the bus will recognize homage paid to it by the jerseys with the stripes and flames. The animals on the back of the jersey were slightly more suggestive than the front, because what do you see while biking?? backsides!! There's a sheep, a beaver, a monkey, and a goat, to go with the rooster, cow, pig and donkey on the front. We were going for technically innocent but suggestive by including the slogan on the back "Why look when you can touch??" We also included a nontrademarked Cy leaning on a bicycle on the back pocket, and on one sleeve it says "Beware of the Goat" with the most innocent-looking goat. If you have never been on the receiving end of what Team Petting Zoo considers a "goat," you're lucky (it's a moon with a little extra, and it takes a Y chromosome to perform, or to think it is at all amusing). Considering all that, I think my friends who did the designwork for the jerseys did an awesome job of keeping it "PG," and I'm really pumped about wearing it next year.
For those of you with incredible internet astuteness, I will explain why you're getting a funny feeling about this entry. No, it's not that I spent a large portion of it raving about semi-suggestive item of clothing I won't wear again until next summer - it's that I'm reporting from the basement! Travis got motivated last night to move his desk downstairs, and although he grumbled about it, I think he's really pretty excited. He said this morning that we'd better hurry up and put a crib in the nursery so he feels like there was a reason to "banish" his computer to the basement, which I interpreted as his way of admitting he's excited about buying a crib. It's so cool. :) Of course, the next nesting project is to gather up all the excess stuff we have around, sort through it, then pack it into storage. Sounds awful, but it'll be worth it when we'll actually have a baby's room and a guest (grandmother's!) room upstairs. I think the front piano room will be kind of a playroom until we decide how to do the basement - fix the water issue, new carpet, and paint over this fabulous mural that I'm looking at as I type. Maybe next posting I'll include a picture of it. It is so lovely, I don't know how the previous owners were able to part with it when they moved.
I'm still feeling enormous. Much of yesterday afternoon was spent trying to dislodge a foot (?) from my ribcage, and today was particularly bad for the stretching sideaches as baby plays and plays and plays. I'm really starting to feel heavy now, and although I've managed to avoid such fun side effects as hemmorhoids and heartburn (so far), I have a morning headache that likes to stab me right above my left eye until about 10:00 each day. And most notable of all - I have finally identified that really tight, uncomfortable feeling in my belly that I get when standing after sitting for a while. Yeah, that's a contraction, dummy! I've felt them before, but finally just this weekend I figured out what it is. I'm getting pretty worn down as it gets harder to get restful sleep, and I'm wondering if I can really withstand up to 11 more weeks of this. Ooof.
And yet, I just cannot wait to meet this person!!
Those of you who are familiar with the bus will recognize homage paid to it by the jerseys with the stripes and flames. The animals on the back of the jersey were slightly more suggestive than the front, because what do you see while biking?? backsides!! There's a sheep, a beaver, a monkey, and a goat, to go with the rooster, cow, pig and donkey on the front. We were going for technically innocent but suggestive by including the slogan on the back "Why look when you can touch??" We also included a nontrademarked Cy leaning on a bicycle on the back pocket, and on one sleeve it says "Beware of the Goat" with the most innocent-looking goat. If you have never been on the receiving end of what Team Petting Zoo considers a "goat," you're lucky (it's a moon with a little extra, and it takes a Y chromosome to perform, or to think it is at all amusing). Considering all that, I think my friends who did the designwork for the jerseys did an awesome job of keeping it "PG," and I'm really pumped about wearing it next year.
For those of you with incredible internet astuteness, I will explain why you're getting a funny feeling about this entry. No, it's not that I spent a large portion of it raving about semi-suggestive item of clothing I won't wear again until next summer - it's that I'm reporting from the basement! Travis got motivated last night to move his desk downstairs, and although he grumbled about it, I think he's really pretty excited. He said this morning that we'd better hurry up and put a crib in the nursery so he feels like there was a reason to "banish" his computer to the basement, which I interpreted as his way of admitting he's excited about buying a crib. It's so cool. :) Of course, the next nesting project is to gather up all the excess stuff we have around, sort through it, then pack it into storage. Sounds awful, but it'll be worth it when we'll actually have a baby's room and a guest (grandmother's!) room upstairs. I think the front piano room will be kind of a playroom until we decide how to do the basement - fix the water issue, new carpet, and paint over this fabulous mural that I'm looking at as I type. Maybe next posting I'll include a picture of it. It is so lovely, I don't know how the previous owners were able to part with it when they moved.
I'm still feeling enormous. Much of yesterday afternoon was spent trying to dislodge a foot (?) from my ribcage, and today was particularly bad for the stretching sideaches as baby plays and plays and plays. I'm really starting to feel heavy now, and although I've managed to avoid such fun side effects as hemmorhoids and heartburn (so far), I have a morning headache that likes to stab me right above my left eye until about 10:00 each day. And most notable of all - I have finally identified that really tight, uncomfortable feeling in my belly that I get when standing after sitting for a while. Yeah, that's a contraction, dummy! I've felt them before, but finally just this weekend I figured out what it is. I'm getting pretty worn down as it gets harder to get restful sleep, and I'm wondering if I can really withstand up to 11 more weeks of this. Ooof.
And yet, I just cannot wait to meet this person!!
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You look great! And its so awesome you did Ragbrai, I'm so impressed!
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