Randomness

I tried to put together a coherent, transitiony post but my brain is just too all over the place for that, so instead here are the random thoughts that keep floating through my mind:

• At my doctor's appointment, last Monday, I found out I was 4 centimeters dilated and 80% effaced, so why the phat have I not gone into labor yet?
• Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, which I am currently reading, is alternately fascinating and boring. I love the overly dramatic fascination the narrator has with the titular character, but at times the long, detailed, and specific discussions about what originated in Ireland (not in England or Greece as the narrator believes) are extremely tedious. They may make more sense if I understood all of the allusions, but I just don't have the time to look everything up.

• I am geeking out something fierce over Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (which I am also reading at the moment) and it's getting me really nostalgic for 80s music and video games, especially the video games - which I rarely got to play as a kid because my mother would read my Christmas list and see Atari or Nintendo and she would buy books (I'm not complaining now :) ).
• I recently found out that milk is like super high in sodium which may be why my feet swell up to unnatural proportions from time to time. Prior to the pregnancy, I didn't like milk and never drank it except with cereal. Now I can plow through like three or four glasses a day. Luurrrvvvee it.
• Other foods I now like that I didn't before include eggs, Chinese food, and red meat
• Other foods I love now that I liked before but tried not to eat include vanilla malts, graham crackers smothered in peanut butter with hershey's kisses on top, pretzels and pub cheese, and oreos with aforementioned awesomeness that is milk.
• I haven't dyed my hair since I got pregnant because I am being super freaking careful because of the past miscarriages. So now my hair is my natural, mousy, completely dull, not vibrant brownish color. What color shall I dye it after the baby is born?
• How soon after giving birth can I reasonably leave my newborn child with her grandma so her dad and I can finally go out and get some freaking sushi!!!!????!!!!
• The past two Thursdays - the day on which I teach - the snow's been a'falling. Both days, my mother and grandmother were all "but you can't drive to work in this....you're pregnant." Two things: 1) we are not talking storms here, gentle snow fallings accumulating to 1-4 inches; not a big deal where I live and 2) I'm actually closer to the hospital at work than I am at home. Just saying. :) Love it that they are worried about me, but definitely ready to be treated like normal and not like an invalid.
• On a side note, my 70 year old grandmother keeps trying to "help me walk" when there's snow on the ground - or even if the ground is just wet. She's adorable. If my manatee self goes down, she's not stopping it! She's coming down with me. :)
• And seriously, I'm like practically in labor already, what is taking her so long? Let's get a move on here.

So there's a few of the thoughts that have been percolating in my brain this morning. How's everyone else doing this morning?