If I wasn't an honest person, we'd be over $200 richer.

I found myself in Safeway today (they have carts with ride-in toddler cars attached to the front - seemed a good way to entertain Leif for a while), and decided to get a pumpkin. Apparently when you buy a pumpkin, you get a coupon for a free pumpkin spice latte. While digging my coupon out of the cash register drawer, she removed some large bills along with it. Then she tried to give them to me as change. I explained that I had overpayed by less than a dollar, not with a $500 dollar bill, and that I'd already received my change from the little coin dispenser.

It was very bizarre. Who finds themselves with several hundred dollars in their hand, and tries to give it to the customer as change? For that matter, do I really look like the type of customer who would accidently forget several hundred dollars worth of change?

On second thought, I probably do look that absent-minded enough at least.

Oh well. I still get free caffeine.

ATT Wireless is screwed up.

According to four different bills, all covering the same timeframe, we owe around $100, $200, nothing, and have a $12 credit. And they just sent me a check for $500 (my security deposit plus interest).

At least my email is working.

I should be doing my prenatal yoga video. I wouldn't quite call it enjoyable, but it seems to take about 20 minutes, even though it's a 50 minute video. I think that's a good sign. Usually exercise videos feel like they take an hourr, even if they're just 30 minutes. It doesn't leave me feeling overly sore or exhausted, either. Just nicely stretched.

My jeans still fit. Well, as long as you consider "fit" to mean "I can button them reasonably comfortably first thing in the morning". The good thing about long shirts is you can wear your jeans unbuttoned and no one will notice. Thankfully I get paid soon, which means I can go shopping and get more pants. I have two pairs of pants that I can wear in public (only one of which I like), two pairs that "fit", and several pairs of pajama pants which are perfectly comfortable, but not really appropriate for work (like the cow pajamas I'm wearing currently).

I'm curious how much longer I'll continue to be able to wear the pants that "fit". When my mom was pregnant with me, no one was able to tell at four months. I think I'm in the same boat. My stomach is sticking out a bit, but it did that before, and I can't really tell how much worse it is now. Anyways, in my typical loose clothing I don't look pregnant.

The online class seems like it will be fun. The majority of work is a web discussion board - the kind of thing I'd sign up for just for the fun of it. (Let's see if I still think it's fun in another few months...)

I'm playing with GnuCash, because I really need to start budgeting. My goal right now is to get my savings account back up to the point where I have at least a month's worth of living expenses, and then not drop below that for any reason short of not having anything to eat. If we're careful, we should be able to have that much saved by the time we actually need it. But we tend to not be careful, hence the need for a budget.

I'm really pissed at myself for not doing this a year ago. If I had, we'd have enough money to buy land, build a dome, and probably have money left over. As it is, I suspect we'll have to get a loan. Oh well. It won't be a *big* loan.

Speaking of eating, my appetite is still pretty shot. Half the time I don't feel serious food aversions, and I feel hungry, but I can't eat that much. The other half I don't feel like eating anything at all. It may be residual yuckiness from the cold. At least today I'm not feeling as dead tired as I have been for the past two weeks or so.

I hope it picks up soon. I'd lost more weight at the last doctor visit, and I should really start gaining soon. (This must be the first time in my life I've actually been worried about *not* gaining weight).

I experienced another "Is it baby or is it just gas?" moment last night. I'm looking forward to the time when I can tell for sure - even knowing it may be just gas, it takes my breath away feeling it.

Essentially everyone thinks we're going to have a girl, including my co-worker who claims 100% accuracy (she won't tell me her guess until we find out for sure, but she wrote it down to prove she really knew ahead of time, and I got too curious and peaked :). I hope we're all right, though at this point I kind of expect her to be a boy, just to prove everyone wrong. If she does end up being a girl, I think we're getting to some kind of consensus on name. koyote wants a Scandinavian name, and I've found several that I like and would be willing to name a kid. He hasn't made strong objections to any of them, though he wants to revert to more traditional (and therefore odd-sounding to US people) spellings. But anyways, I'm not feeling quite so hopeless today about working something out. As long as she's a girl, anyways.

Not that I'd tell them to put it back if she ended up being a boy. I'd just prepare myself for an extremely onery kid.