I should have worn heels -- life at 5'3" - The Weirdness of My Head

10:59 am - The Weirdness of My Head

Another weird pregnancy dream. 

Our dreams are so obviously our subconscious trying to work out stuff while we sleep.  Of course, being that it's our subconscious, it's sometimes hard to piece together what the heck is going on inside our noggins.  But I think this one is fairly clear cut.

I woke up this morning from a dream in which I couldn't find any maternity clothing stores, so I embarked on building my own.  I picked a plot of land in the middle of nowhere that had too many trees growing close together to erect a building.  The trees had to go.  Now, here's where it gets weird.  I didn't hire a lumberjack or even pick up a chainsaw myself.  No, I enlisted the help of He-Man's Battlecat, and while riding in the big cat's saddle, we tied rope around the trees and used his super cat strength to pull them out by the roots.  The dream never progressed beyond that scene, because I think my conscious mind kicked in and said, "Battlecat?  Really?"

So yesterday (and over the weekend too), it became apparent that I could no longer squeeze into my first round of maternity clothes.  (Btw, when the sales person says to just buy your normal size because the special elastic will grow with you, DON'T BELIEVE her!)  My jeans and two work pants are now in the "Loan to My Sister" pile.  (If you recall, she is pregnant too, about 5-6 weeks behind me, but only having one baby, so might not get as ginormous as me.)  I did a Google search for maternity stores in Portland, and I swear, you'd think that I was trying to locate Osama Bin Laden.  I did get 4 hits in the greater Portland Metro Area, but they were these upscale boutiques that sold pants for $80+.  (Considering where I work, I really shouldn't talk.  But still.) Or, it was that one store that stills holds on to that classic maternity look:  Frumpy Mu Mu Chic.  What I've discovered is that many stores have these unadvertised hidden areas with small collections of maternity clothes, but you have to know which individual stores carry them.  It's a serious scavenger hunt out there.

To make a long story short (too late!), I see a clothes shopping hunt in my future.  Unfortunately, I won't be able to take Battlecat.  Most stores don't allow animals.