What I’ve been reading

I’ve managed to read a lot lately (or at least I think so) — it might be because of not being sure whether I’ll be able to find time to read this much a few months from now, but James and I are still in denial about our lifestyles changing that much. Anyway, I still thought I’d note what I’ve been able to read in recent months.

Novels finished reading since September 2009:

A Walk in the Woods
The Thorn Birds
The Night Watch
Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris
Julie and Julia
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Plus I’ve read or skimmed various books related to pregnancy. But, I’m behind on my book club reading!

So I’ve put on a little weight…

Well, I think this is actually the most my weight has ever increased within such a short period of time (4-5 months). I don’t really feel all that different, and I would say that most people that see me don’t even guess that I’m pregnant. The people who work with me everyday can really see the changes, though! And every time my family sees me, they can tell just how different my shape is from what it has typically been.

Here’s a photo from about 2.5 weeks ago, the day we had a 19-week ultrasound done:

I guess we should tidy our apartment a bit!

James took another photo tonight, for comparison:

(And I had thought I wouldn’t look any different in this picture — I guess I’m getting used to the shape.)

Catch up

I haven’t written much in my blog over the past couple of years (pretty much since I returned from my trip in 2006, the trip where I wrote as often as I could). So I was thinking I’ll go back and add information now from the past 2-3 years just to have a record of what I’ve been up to. I’m planning to post-date the entries, so they should show up in the right chronological order. Wish me luck!

Flags!

For the past couple of years now, James and I have been playing a lot of board games. It’s neat, because most of the board games are more fun than we remember games being when we were kids. One game I keep telling James about that I really liked when I was younger was a memory game where you had to match flags from around the world. My family still has this game in our basement, but I’m sure it’s missing some of the tiles and we haven’t been able to find a recent version (our one was probably circa 1982 so some of the flags will be outdated).

Anyway, today I found an online game called Guess the Flag! This quiz doesn’t end, but it’s a good way to review how many flags you can recognize. If you don’t already know all the flags of the world, the game itself is part memory game, part process of elimination, and part good guessing. It also serves as a bit of a history/geography lesson, since you get to see which islands belong to which countries.