In the summer, although I know, intellectually, and even remember it happening, that there are times when I have to leave the house wearing not only a sweater but also a heavy coat, scarf, gloves and hat... it's practically inconceivable to me to wrap my head around it.
The flip side, of course, is that, in the winter, I can't possibly imagine ever leaving the house in just a sundress...
I can only imagine how pregnancy would map onto my short-term body-memory.
What I find disconcerting is the simultaneous feeling that a) I've been pregnant forever; and b) it's going really fast -- surely it was only a couple of days ago that I was 14 weeks, and good lord, November's so *soon* and I'm not even remotely prepared!
It IS almost here, isn't it? I mean, holy crap! Tabernac! This is so fast! So much to do, so little time! And yet, it's been happening forever, and 9 more weeks is a long time.
Three (jeez, almost *four*) years later I look back at that pregnant time and shudder; now I can't really remember what that must have felt like. At the time, though, I was sure I'd be pregnant forever; I couldn't imagine what would come after.
I remember that feeling. I don't usually remember what it's like to be pregnant, but every now and then I'll get a gas bubble in my lower abdomen and it'll feel just like the early kicks, and that's kind of creepy and cool.
I'm not sure I want to be able to say "and I haven't looked at gas the same way since!", but it's certainly true that early kicks feel like some kinds of gas bubbles. So, whether or not I say it, I'll probably think it.
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Date: 2005-09-09 02:58 pm (UTC)When are you due, anyway? I don't think I caught that.
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Date: 2005-09-09 03:04 pm (UTC)Due date: November. So, I've got a way to go, yet, but I'm in the home stretch.
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Date: 2005-09-09 03:12 pm (UTC)The flip side, of course, is that, in the winter, I can't possibly imagine ever leaving the house in just a sundress...
I can only imagine how pregnancy would map onto my short-term body-memory.
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Date: 2005-09-09 03:16 pm (UTC)precisely!
Date: 2005-09-09 03:22 pm (UTC)Re: precisely!
Date: 2005-09-09 03:32 pm (UTC)That was after I figured out it was, in fact, *my* shadow rather than a passing zeppelin's.
Re: precisely!
Date: 2005-09-09 05:42 pm (UTC)Heh, I sympathize. I should take a belly-shadow photo! Maybe I'll do that this weekend.
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Date: 2005-09-09 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-09 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-09 05:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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