Anouchka Talks

If you've ever been pregnant before, you know full well that, somehow, your pregnancy brings out the best and worst in total strangers.  As I've mentioned in previous posts, this isn't necessarily a result of people being malicious or anything, but sometimes they just say rude and thoughtless things. Or they just plain weird you out. Today was a normal day of lifting at the gym.  As I readied for a second set of pre-natal-wicked-she-man-iron-pumping, I removed my earbuds to readjust them.  The moment I popped them out of my ears, a sweet, little, old lady rocking a seven-and-a-half-pounder (I say this without sarcasm:  Good for her!!!) approached me and said some very kind things about my belly in comparison to the rest of my body.  After finishing our short conversation, I popped my earbuds back in and resumed my workout. So far, so good. No sooner had I stepped back to my bench when a squirrely man in his early-ish sixties approached me, pointed at my stomach and

Whew!  It has been a busy month!  Correction:  It has been a lazy  month.  Prepping for Hulk/Annyong's arrival in December has taken quite a lot out of me and, as a result, I have been neglecting a lot of things.  In fact, here are a few things that have fallen by the wayside since my last post: Writing and posting on Anouchka Talks Anything not involving  New Girl, Breaking Bad,  Parks and Recreation  or Christmas music Regular showering Vegetables Keeping up with long distance friends and family via email and/or Facebook Wearing my retainer (Shut up.  Bet my teeth are straighter than yours, you old hag.) Baking/making ridiculous amounts of dessert Imaginary band practice for my imaginary band, The Backyard River Shrimp (Buy our album on iTunes in Novembruary) Herb processing/dehydrating for the winter To give you an idea of how this pregnancy has taken over our lives, let me tell you what Habibi and I did to celebrate our fourth wedding anniversary:  We went to a ch