The vending machine at work running out of animal crackers.
Reading Love You Forever.
Blog paranoia. Not familiar? It goes something like this. "Gosh, Suzie hasn't commented on my blog in a while. Actually, Suzie hasn't responded to any of my comments on her blog in a while either. She must hate me. No, wait, she's just really busy. No, she hates me. I'll bet Katie said something bad about me to her and now she hates me. Or else she really is just busy. No, I'm positive she hates me." Repeat daily, or more often if needed.
My husband. He shouldn't be making me cry, right? He should be psychic and able to tell precisely at any second the exact right thing to say to me to make me not cry. I think he just isn't trying.
My job. I mean, they want me to do actual work. I can't work, I'm pregnant.
All the ice cream vending machines at the zoo being broken.
All the bananas this morning being either too ripe and mushy or still green.
Knowing that I have to have another sonogram on Wednesday, because clearly they screwed up last time and this time will find something terribly, terribly wrong.
Getting a sunburn. Not because it hurts, just because it is unattractive.
Every single baby I have seen.




Comments (38)
Am I the first to comment today? Crying is good for you. Unless you are crying at work because of the animal cracker shortage, they may look at you funny.
Posted by alfredsmom | April 18, 2005 9:31 AM
I hated being weepy while I was pregnant because I didn't used to be a weepy person. Being a parent has changed me though and the waterworks turn on a lot more than they used to.
Posted by Kristie | April 18, 2005 9:41 AM
Ohh, "Love You Forever." That is the sweetest book!
Posted by Stephanie | April 18, 2005 9:44 AM
Wait a second, is "Love You Forever" the book where the woman constantly goes in to check on her son and hold him when he's sleeping? And then later after he's grown and married, she gets into her car in the middle of the night, drives across town with a ladder on top of her car and climbs in his bedroom window, takes him out of bed and holds him on her lap?
Not to make you cry again or anything, but unless those tears were due to the overwhelming weirdness of that book (or from laughter), I'm not sure why you would be crying... That book is SO creepy! I mean, she drives across town with a LADDER ON HER CAR AND CLIMBS IN HIS BEDROOM WINDOW TO WHERE HE IS PRESUMABLY SLEEPING WITH HIS WIFE! What about that doesn't give you the creeps?
Anyway, please don't cry. Here, I'll give you a compliment to make you feel better: You're having a great hair day! Yeah, that's it.
Posted by erin | April 18, 2005 10:09 AM
That's okay. I have a new niece and I almost cried because she's so beautiful...and because I want one (a baby) of my own.
Posted by Milly | April 18, 2005 10:35 AM
This is all typical behavior for a woman in your "condition". Ha, I love how back in the day being pregnant was a condition....like a sickness. Anyway I was gonna say something about Love You Forever being so cute and that it makes me cry too but then I read Erin's comment and I'm still laughing and pondering the whole thing now :) And wow your take on blog paranoia...so stunningly right on....only I never get a MILLION comments like "some people" so it's on less grand a scale.
Posted by Kate | April 18, 2005 10:40 AM
My honey made me cry when he said that if I was to be a "real Mom" I better start keeping pocket Kleenex in my bag for all my cry-fests!
Posted by bd | April 18, 2005 10:50 AM
Hee. I'm crying from laughing so hard because I'm not the only one who thinks that book is hella creepy. My mom LOVES it, though. Maybe you need to be a mom before it's more sweet than creepy.
Posted by Fraulein N | April 18, 2005 11:01 AM
I'm always like that, only its a lot stranger when you can't just gesture vaguely to your pregnant belly and everyone nods knowingly and buys you candy. When you aren't pregnant people just roll their eyes and say "Jesus! There's medication for this kind of thing."
Posted by Michele | April 18, 2005 11:04 AM
"Love You Forever" always makes me cry.
Posted by Busy Mom | April 18, 2005 11:15 AM
I would comment more often but, I hate you. And I bought all the good bananas at the store. And broke every icecream machine I could find at the zoo.
At least you have pretty eyes when you cry, Beth.
Posted by Jon in Michigan | April 18, 2005 11:18 AM
Crying is a good thing. It is bad to keep it bottled up.
Here's another book to stimulate your feelings... "Guess How Much I Love You".
Posted by SueBec | April 18, 2005 11:38 AM
I Love You Forever... oh, now I'm a little weepy, too!
Posted by bmh | April 18, 2005 11:50 AM
The first year I read my son "I Love You Forever", I cried. BAWLED. He always just looked at me funny, and finally, quit requesting it for Story Time before bed.
He's six years old now, and I still can't get through it without choking up a little bit.
Posted by Queen of Ass | April 18, 2005 12:02 PM
I'm sorry you have the weepies, but hopefully that will abate, soon. And yes, Chris should be psychic. It says so in the hubby handbook. Did he misplace his again?
Posted by etherian | April 18, 2005 12:25 PM
My mother gave me I LOVE YOU FOREVER after the birth of my first son and now two more sons latter and one more on the way.(I'm 30 weeks, so it could just be my hormones actually typing this) but i had to hide that book from myself becuase it makes me cry like a crazy woman.
There is nothing creepy about that book its beautiful, beautiful I tell you!
Posted by hotmama | April 18, 2005 12:34 PM
I'm crying for you right now and I'm not even pregnant!
Posted by Irene | April 18, 2005 1:00 PM
At least you have good things to cry about... and good excuse - hormones!
Posted by Amber | April 18, 2005 1:02 PM
OMG, Love you Forever should be banned while going through a swarm of hormones.
Posted by kat | April 18, 2005 1:35 PM
I'm not even pregnant but I cry over all the same things. Also, when I see the ocean or the snow-capped mountains, or a butterfly or hear Life is Sweet by Natalie Merchant. There are worse things than being hyper-emotional. At the moment, I can't think of any.
I have a really bad blog-inferiority complex, too. I haven't even made it to your blogroll which totally means my blog is lame which I already knew and I am going to quit blogging any minute now anyway so don't bother!
Posted by Ms. Q | April 18, 2005 1:55 PM
Oh yeah, you're pregnant alright.
Posted by Sheryl | April 18, 2005 2:29 PM
in case i am either a suzy or a katie, i don't hate you.
i love you.
don't cry, little fish. we think you're awesome.
Posted by Sarcomical | April 18, 2005 2:33 PM
that book makes me cry too. Infact we've hidden it from our children so we don't have to read it and cry anymore. I made my mother read it while she was here last time (She bought it for them)but she's SO cold hearted that she didn't understand how it made us cry.
doy.
No commercials making you cry yet?
Posted by Pamalamadingdong | April 18, 2005 3:11 PM
I cry when ice cream vending machines are broken too. And I'm not pregnant. Should I seek counseling?
Posted by Lori | April 18, 2005 3:58 PM
And every single one of those things you listed deserves a tear or two.
Best of luck at the doctors.
Posted by cassie-b | April 18, 2005 4:12 PM
awwww... so sweet.. i feel you on the banana thing...
don't watch commercials either, they usually make me bawl when I have raging hormones, and I am sure being prego makes them raging... :)
Posted by mojavi | April 18, 2005 4:48 PM
ah!! Love you forever gives me the creeps too!!!
but, you should check out the other Robert Munsch books...(my company publishes them...) and they are quite entertaining.
:)
Posted by ali | April 18, 2005 6:23 PM
Love You Forever always makes me cry. And we used to have a Robert Munsch tape, so I know how the song goes and everything. I'm so singing it to my children.
Posted by Heather | April 18, 2005 8:00 PM
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Posted by susannah | April 18, 2005 8:24 PM
It is so natural and it doesn't go away after the baby is born. You just cry at more things...first poopy diaper, first skinned knee, first loose tooth, first day of school, and of course many more. I suggest you stock up on the tissues!
Posted by Nicole | April 18, 2005 8:33 PM
at least you have bean to point to as the trigger, I've been crying like crazy lately for no reason what so ever except udder frustration, and PMS I think, which of course isn't a good enough excuse for most men
Posted by Casey | April 18, 2005 8:54 PM
Oh yea, and tell suzie that if she doesn't start commenting more I'll beat her up, and then I'll cry on her....so yea
Posted by Casey | April 18, 2005 8:56 PM
I am so paranoid about the blog thing I wonder why I do it...I hardly have any readers that leave comments...and I think man I suck! And then I cry a little! *Hormones can be a bad thing!* You make me feel better because you actually admitted it!
There you are not alone either! We are all neurotic!
Feel better?
And on the baby thing...every movement from the babies made me cry...feeling like I was going to screw them up forever made me cry...wondering how I was going to ever afford it made me cry!
Posted by Gypsy | April 18, 2005 10:40 PM
Those Damn hormones. I cried at the Full House E! True Hollywood Story and a coffee comerical all in the same day last week. The joys of pregnancy are never ending
Posted by annie | April 19, 2005 12:28 AM
I cry about the whole blog thing... and the husband thing... except you know, i mean boyfriend.
Posted by Mary Jo | April 19, 2005 4:52 AM
I still cry while reading that book to my girls.
Posted by Tricia | April 19, 2005 12:03 PM
that book is just plain weird, i work at a daycare and try to avoid reading it....spooky! crying is good for us, i think...cheer up, maybe the bananas will get better soon :)
Posted by lizabetty | April 19, 2005 3:16 PM
Oh, my...how I am loving the blog paranoia comment....my husband actually goes through this every couple of days. And ever since I have had kids, I cry all the time...ALL the time...Hallmark commercials, songs, books all make me cry. And that book, although I have never read it, is on my must read list now because it sounds too bizarre to miss.
Posted by sprinkle4 | April 20, 2005 4:16 PM