There is Truth to Pregnancy Insanity

According to the bible—What to Expect When You’re Expecting, of course—it’s common knowledge that one of the symptoms of pregnancy (in addition to nausea, fatigue, water retention and other lovely afflictions) is “pregnancy insanity.”

As much as I would like to think I have been one of the lucky ones, and managed to escape this syndrome, it was clear today that I am starting to lose my mind.

Two nights ago, I sat down to watch “Legally Blonde 2.” And since it was on TNT, I had purposefully paused the movie for about 20min so that I could watch and just fast forward through all the commercials. Ah, the beauty of having a DVR.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, the cable box just shuts off, therefore automatically catching me up to real-time in the movie.

“Motherf---er!” I yell, and slam my fist into the pillow on the couch, nearly scaring the pants off of Corey who was innocently sitting there, reading a magazine. As I launch into a tirade about how this TV and entire home-entertainment system sucks ass, Corey’s looking at me with this deer-in-headlights expression, hoping not to get hurt in the crossfire.

Regardless of the fact that the movie is probably one of the worst I had ever seen and I wish I could get those 2 hours of life back, the whole thing just set me right off. Smoke was still coming out of my ears even when the stupid movie was over. By the way, I’ve lost a lot of respect for Reese Witherspoon after seeing this.

Now, I can’t say that typically, I wouldn’t be upset by something like this, but my reaction probably wouldn’t have been so extreme.

Not only am I an emotional rollercoaster, I have no memory. Which isn’t too far off from the normal me—I have to write down most stuff or I’ll forget—but I’ve accepted this symptom and started carrying around a notebook and pen with me. Smart idea, right?

Well, it would be smart except for the fact that I wrote something down and must have used some sort of code or abbreviation when I did so, and now have no clue what I meant by “Call AW.”

If anyone has any idea what that might stand for, I’d appreciate some help.