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FlyLady is right: I do have more energy when I wear shoes around the house. Especially this house, where there is hardly any carpet at all. I remember how hard the floors felt at first, when we were moving in from our carpeted apartment. Plus my feet are supporting a whole load of pregnancy/baby weight now.

Anyway, things are getting done around here. Every so often I get a real burst of nesting energy. I even managed to get a window washed, after wanting to all summer but not really having the energy. I suppose it helps that it’s cooler now, nice Octoberish weather. Our bedroom is looking much more spacious without the futon mattress on the floor.

I got myself a crossword puzzle book, for something interesting to do while resting. I have an old one around, but the puzzles are too easy–the first word that pops into my head when I read a clue is almost always the right one. The new book is much harder, New York Times puzzles going back to the 40’s. The editor wasn’t kidding when he said in the foreword that crossword puzzles used much more obscure clues back then. Even with our reference library and Google, I still haven’t finished the first one.

We’ve finished our infant CPR and childbirth classes.

I helped MFH make a big batch of chili to freeze and eat postpartum, but afterward he got all food-safety-paranoid about it, because the pot spent all night cooling on the porch, being too hot to go into the fridge, and some of it was still warm in the morning. (Sometimes he doesn’t think ahead very well–like in getting freezer containers ahead of time, and in the divide-and-cool-quickly strategy.) We had a long argument about food poisoning risks, and came to the painful conclusion that we would pitch it and start over. I would have put the chili to the test and tried some, if I wasn’t pregnant–I survived my mother’s cooking, after all, including leftover Thanksgiving turkey that was starting to taste spoiled. But I know that MFH doesn’t have the same tolerance to marginally safe food and general bad cooking that I do, and I don’t need a sick husband with a new baby in the house.

By the way, check out this list of weirdest items pitched in FlyLady’s Super Fling Boogie (decluttering spree). Why do people keep used pregnancy test sticks in the first place?!