Journaling and Pregnancy

I love to blog.  I love to journal.  I have a box packed full of handwritten journals I have filled up...  :-) 
Also, I really enjoyed Xanga before I decided to go with MySpace instead, because it was all about the blogging.
Sooo...  I decided to give LiveJournal a try!

TWENTY WEEKS PREGNANT and the aches and pains have begun!  My lower back hurts constantly (because of the extra weight all out in front, maybe?) and I've started to have these sharp pains that run down my thigh- it hurts to walk!  People have been telling me it's pregnancy related.

20 Week Fetus:
He's about 6 and a half inches long, crown to rump, according to internet research.
He kicks me ALL THE TIME!  Every time I am lying still he kicks around in there.  This is so comforting, although, since he moves around so much I actually start to get worried when a few minutes go by and I haven't felt him.
On Friday night he was kicking really hard, and I thought that just MAYBE I'd be able to feel it with my hand.  I laid flat on my back for several minutes with my hands on my abdomen, and YUP!-- He kicked my hands and I FELT IT!  :-D.  It was so amazing!

ULTRASOUND ON MONDAY!!!!!!!  I really, really, REALLY hope they can find out the gender.  If it's a girl I'm going to have to get used to NOT saying "he".  After about 16 weeks of saying "he", "she" is going to be so weird, though.  ...I'll get used to it.

I love it when random people you've never met look at you and tell you what you are having.  The other day this cute little (French?) lady came into the store where I work and told me (in her cute little accent) that I was having a girl because my face was puffy.  HAHA- Thanks a LOT lady-now I know it's obvious to strangers who've never seen me before that my face is swollen!  Plus, I've never heard of a correlation between swollen faces and baby girls.

THINGS THAT ARE NOT FUN  ABOUT PREGNANCY:
1) headaches.  yuck.
2) I eat TWO jr. bacon cheeseburgers and a Caesar side salad from Wendy's and am still starving
3) I will randomly gag and loose my appetite in the middle of meals
4) the aches and pains, of course
5) worrying.  all the time.  'Is he healthy?  Am I lifting too much?  Is my shower too hot?  Why isn't he moving?'
6) My  balance has been completely thrown off.  I was a clutz before and now I am super clutz.  My drinks end up on my shirt and I trip over air. 
7) I walk SO FRIGGIN SLOW.  I feel like a slug.
8) air-headedness.  seriously.  I will look for something that is right in front of my face and won't be able to find it.  I've always been a ditz but it is worse now.  And, yes- this IS a pregnancy symptom.  Not sure why, but it is.  I'm not just blaming it on pregnancy; it's a really real symptom.

I gotta get ready for church!
-Jess