Nesting

I think I have hit the "Get this child out of me NOW" stage of pregnancy. I am uncomfortable and in pain all the time. While we're not exactly ready (in more ways than one) for Baby Girl's arrival, the next five weeks are looming ominously. August is my least favorite month anyway, now it just seems like it is going to be the LONGEST month.

Himself asked last night when I thought I might be feeling well again, because it was getting old (this when we were wandering around Circuit City trying to find regular telephone cord that was longer than 25 feet - the joys of living in the post-War Hobbit Hole). Once we found the telephone cord, I was tempted to string him up by his ears with it and say, "YOU are tired of it? You don't have a head, two feet and an arm crammed into one side of your ribcage. Give me a few months - it might be best to not repeat this conversation until Valentine's Day."

I restrained myself, however, and kept silent.

I've also hit the nesting point. Unfortunately, the nesting combined with the pain = very little productivity in real life. I stare at the disaster in our bedroom, the boxes in Baby Girl's Room and the "Himself has obviously taken over the den" disaster every day and sigh. I am itching to set up Baby Girl's bed (yes we have one, no it isn't set up yet). I am drying, two months after signing the lease at the Hobbit Hole, to feel like I live there - to have things on the walls, to have a place for things, to be able to FIND things (like my blender and the bathroom trash can).

Himself, however, is quite content to live in the two rooms of the house (living room/kitchen) that have been settled into and just avoid any other area until it's dark. I told him last night he was the anti-nester. I think the meaning was lost on him. He is flying back to the East Coast with Son this weekend to take him home (a topic that is not to be discussed ever again), so I made him a deal: He helps me "nest" this week by getting the heavy stuff re-arranged (we have to move our bed, now that we have AC, I freeze all night being under the vents) and set up (ie our shelves we bought weeks ago), and I will "nest" on my own time without driving him beserk.

We start tonight. We'll see what happens.