Big Important Developments, Parts 2 & 3

I know, I've been neglecting the old blog again. What can I say--I really have been very busy. For example, I started a new job two weeks ago. Yes, after a year and a half of freelancing from home, I decided to return to my natural environment: a corporate cube farm. Oh, how I had missed staring at the fuzzy beige walls of those familiar enclosures, and it's hard to feel a sense of satisfaction about your day if you haven't had to navigate through a little rat maze of cube villages to find your desk.

I kid, I kid. Honestly, I'm happy to be back at work. Our less-than-frugal lifestyle pretty much demands two incomes, and more importantly, I didn't want to put my career on the shelf permanently. So the job is a positive development, even though it doesn't always feel that way when the alarm goes off at 6:45 a.m. As for details about this job, well, I am aware that almost everyone who reads this blog knows me personally (hi, Mom), but I still believe that it's bad policy to post things about your employer online. So I won't mention who I'm working for. You all know, anyway.

So that's Big Important Development #2. Or if I go chronologically, it's really B.I.D. #3, and B.I.D. #2 is this: I'm pregnant! Again, not news to practically everyone who reads this blog, but I'd held off posting about it because you never know who will stumble across your blog, and since I was trying to land a job, I thought it smarter to stay quiet about it online until I had signed a job contract.

And really, the pregnancy is what's killing the blog. I've been feeling pretty sick and very tired for the entire pregnancy, and I'm still not out of the woods. I just haven't had the energy to sit down and write. My notes from pregnancy #1 say I started feeling normal again around week 18, and I just hit week 16, so I'm hoping the nausea, headaches and exhaustion will lift soon. My energy level has been improving already, so the signs look good.

Okay, that's it for updates. I'll get back to real-time blogging and get some new photos up soon.