Too Many Books

In this photo: I don't have any pants on!! I had my first ultrasound yesterday. I thought they were going to squeeze some KY Jelly looking stuff on my belly and roll this video camera contraption around on me groin. Oh, no. Instead, my doctor inserted a dildo-ish device right up in my you-know! FYI. That chair contorts. I was all high up in the air, legs splayed open and feet resting in oven-mit covered stirrups. Next to me, hubs says, "We need a chair like that!" My mind immediately went to sexy time games, so I got all blushy. Anywayspice. Hi, I'm Leigh's uterus! I have a visitor. Well, there is -- in fact -- a baby inside me. Baby is 1.01 cm long and we got to see the strong heart beat. Doctor mentioned there is only ONE baby in there. Hallelujah. My due date is officially December 16, 2010.

Here's my rewrite of my WIP excerpt, originally posted on  Roni's Beta Club . Let me explain that there is a prologue which details the events of May 2005. The "present action" in chapter one takes place in February 2005. Have a gander. Let me know if you think I'm on the right track for infusing flashblack. Chapter 1      One might assume that if Laurel was going to have a near-mental-breakdown that it would have happened after David's death, after his vague and -- what could only be alledged -- suicide a la slap-in-the-face.      No.      Instead, it was three months prior (eerily, almost three months to the day) when Laurel nearly went bat-shit crazy. __      "Tell me about your childhood, Laurel," said Dr. Mian as he settled into an oversized chair. He turned to face her. She thought he had kind eyes.      "Ah, yes. Childhood trauma. Don't all our stories reall...

Morning sickness is crap. It's like being hungover on a daily basis, except I didn't do anything fun the night before. I got sick for the first time yesterday morning, after composing my post. Then, this morning right after I woke up, I had the urge to dry heave. Blech! Yesterday, when I told hubs I'd gotten all pukified, he said, "Good." I was all, "Padon?" Hubs explained he learned on the internets that morning sickness means mommy-to-be is expelling toxins, so that it is a good thing for me to be praying to the porcelain god right now. I don't know his sources -- hubs isn't really a senk-ya-the-link kinda guy. However, two evolutionary biologists from Cornell agree with him. (I'll bet they are dudes.) Telling pregnant people morning sickness is good... bravespice. Now, where the hell are my saltines?! In other news, I had a strange dream last night. In said dream, I was driving around Pennsylvania with my parents looki...

Hubs is on vacay this week. What a lucky dog. Of course, hubs being in the house all day throws a wrench in my lunch-time blogging routine. So, here I sit, at seven in the morning... I don't write as well in the morning. I've done plenty of posts about how much I am not a morning person. I'll spare you another. Plus, I have to get used to life without much sleep by December, when my little niblet gets here -- or sooner than that, since I hear it will get harder and harder to get any shut eye once the belly really swells up to some ungodly size. Well, this is going swimmingly. I think I need a random five: Those always help. 1. Watched The Lovely Bones this weekend. Adored the book, abhored the movie. Isn't that always the way? 2. When to bed at 10:00 on Saturday night. I couldn't hold my eyes open! I slept like a baby until 8:00 Sunday morning. When I woke, I parked myself on the couch to indulge in the Sunday sit-in. As much as hubs likes to remind me ...

Home alone on a Friday night, I've indulged in Moe's chicken nachos (not as good as Qdoba!) and the SATC movie. Unthinkably, I hadn't seen the entire film until tonight. In October of 2008, I watched the majority of it at my gal pal's house the morning after her bachelorette party -- didn't get to see it all because hubs came to pick me up about the time Big and Carrie were supposed to get married. Hubs had to take me to retrieve my car from some dank alley in downtown Louisville, as I'd cabbed it back to said girlfriend's place at the end of that night with the drunkest of them. In truth, my car was parked in a gated lot at my uncle-in-laws office. I'd  began that evening at a posh party for Underwired magazine, which hub's aunt and uncle also attended. While drinking free wine and eating fancy food, I met two fabulous lady writers, the wonderfully feministic Javacia Harris and the ever effervescent Maisy Fernandez Draper . I was the teensiest...

Oh, Thursday. I relish it when you roll around, you with your TMI Tradition. You allow me to open up -- to be honest, and to have an excuse to overshare. You drape me in bravery, in robes of full disclosure. (That reads like an oxymoron, doesn't it? Robes of full disclosure .) #1. I've been semi-scared to poop ever since I found out that I am with child. Mostly, this results in me holding it until I no longer have the need to grunt or squeeze. You're welcome. #2. Hubs hasn't once tried to get busy with me in the bedroom. Instead, when I (gently) push on my bladder-area and tell him it feels different -- harder -- he's like "don't push on it too much!" #3. In an diversion from the norm, hubs said the sweetest thing last night when he got home. He said, "I read online that the baby's spinal cord is developing right about now. I almost cried." (Wait. I'm back: Hubs is such a girl .) #4. I've had zero spotting. #5. I think ...

So, I've been hoarding blog awards like they are leftover Easter candy. (Let's be honest, who hoards candy? I usually eat it all in about 1.5 sittings.) So, I've been hoarding these awards like they are... high school memorabilia, or episodes of LOST on my DVR... or something. Yeah, so I got the Awesomesauce Award from a few peeps. (You know how hard it is for me to refrain from changing this to the awesomespice award, don't you?) It was bequeathed to me by Jen, a new blogger over at Unedited , who inexplicably has amassed 400 + followers in two months. What is her secretspice? I don't know... it must be in her awesomesauce! I also got the awesomesauce love from the lovely and talented sarahjayne at Writing in the Wilderness . (Update: Nicole at One Significant Moment gave it to me today, too! I just went to link her blog to give her another award... see Sunshine, below... and there I was! Spewing awesomesauce. Again.) ;) (Thanks, ladies!) I'm passing ...