"Dire Rear" of the brain...

In honor of Thursday ticker changes and reaching the 14week lemon today, here's a late HDBD/early BPF belly shot:

and yea, I think I'm still in the "Did-you-just-have-Thanksgiving-dinner?!" stage...

Speaking of eating a whole lot - my binging schedule is every 1.5-2 hours... like clock work.  My office is so loaded with snacks: 3 boxes of oatmeal, 2 boxes of breakfast bars, 1 box of Belvita cookies, 1 apple (more at home!), 1 string cheese (more at home!), cupcake goldfish, chocolate covered Acai/blueberries, a box of instant cream of wheat, sunflower seeds, cashews - I think that will last me til next Friday...
(And sincere thanks for all the support when it came to defending my eating enough to DH - he still likes to leave treasures for me to find in the morning though:

So I am so glad, what with it appearing to be midnight by the time I get home from work with the dark and cold winter nights, that we now own an elliptical.  We picked it up two nights ago, and I am already into the stage of "Oh, I'll just do it tomorrow night - tonight is the last night of sitting on my ass..." because then I fell asleep last night while trying to read at 8pm... Go me.  (TONIGHT I will get on the elliptical... I think... because first we have to go and pick out appliances for our master bathroom to be redone and you know, we'll get home late and I'll be tired... so, TOMORROW I will get on the elliptical...)

And I dont feel the urgent need to keep active now that I've got more options than the leaving-everything-unbottoned-under-a-long-shirt look which has cut down on the I-feel-like-a-stuffed-sausage-in-these-pants.. I got full-panel maternity slacks for work in black, and the grey ones I got are too long (what?!?! too long?! I have never ever in my life had this problem at 5'10"...) so they need to be returned for grey regular length pants... and then I'll have two pairs plus all my leggings and hopefully this freeze-the-insides-of-your-nose weather will transition nicely to spring and I can start rocking the millions of sundresses I have!


Also just a quick pregnancy brain story, because I have a feeling they're just going to get better and better...
This morning I am in the kitchen with a goal of feeding our dogs, whose food is above the fridge.  I find myself in the cabinet (across the kitchen) looking for a water glass... I redirect myself to the task at hand.  And realize I'm digging in the fridge.  For dry cereal.  (Dry cereal was not in the fridge in case you were wondering...) Silly me, I start pouring a bowl of Q.uaker Oat Squares and look down at my feet at 2 hungry dogs.... oops...