Killin' it.

With Ben out of town, it's just us girls around the house. That means we get a LOT done. Hours that I'd usually spend gazing longingly into Ben's eyes are now spent on the trail, or the balcony garden, or the dvd workout, or shopping for a new pillow.

Saturday I did indeed get to Kettle. After dropping Ben off at the airport at 6am, I wasn't so sure- nobody had shown an interest in coming with and driving 3 hrs round-trip to ride my pregnant ass around alone didn't sound quite smart or pleasant. Last minute I get a text from Al saying the boys wanted to come, and by 11am we were a full car headed North. Jason Henry met us there, and so Al and Jason slaughtered it on their singlespeeds while Jacob, Evan, and I hung back and just enjoyed the day. I hadn't been on the blue loop since the WEMS race last year and liked it a lot- I forgot, though, how some areas just have no good line through the rocks. There was some new build-up of switchbacks down to a sweet rock jump where you could just whip the bike through the turns and fly... that I liked. Oh, and we got custard afterward. SCORE.

Sunday was get-it-done day, which included trips to collect sundry small items that had been on my list forever. I had a preggers moment at Old Navy that was pretty funny, though. Went to exchange a bday gift from my sister at Old Navy and they credited her card for the item without asking me. I clearly wanted to EXCHANGE for the pile in front of me, but now not only did my sister know I had a problem with her gift, I also no longer had the $ to get the stuff I was exchanging for! Didn't take long and the manager came, looked at my irate/edgy self and the pile of maternity clothes and said "we'll just take it as a loss." In other words, refunded my sister AND me! Are we THAT hard to deal with?

Either way, I'm about halfway done being pregnant. I laugh every time I use the Wii fit because my fitness goal was "gain 25 lb." Every time I gain a pound it says "great!" Well, it all seems great till you have to haul that weight around on a run. 4 this morning, and little pinches and pains in various leg tendons and joints tell me that the extra weight is going to become taxing.