The fair

We did our annual trip to the county fair yesterday. Before we left, I stopped off at the grocery store and bought lunch supplies, including some goodies, so the kids wouldn't be tempted by all the terrible food.

The older kids basically don't want to go anymore. It was too hot, and I ended up sitting down a lot.

I had to make sure I drank enough water. And rested, of course.

I was aiming to go on a cool day, but I think it hit 90 degrees yesterday.

Appearances

I'm sort of a bad blogger, I know, in that I don't get into making all these online friendships. Oh, I have my bloggy favorites and plenty of blogs I like and people with whom I've developed pleasant relationships, but I prefer real and in-person contact.

So, although I've gone through phases where I'm buddy-buddy with the weight-loss bloggers or the running bloggers or the fashion-y bloggers, I'm very bad at maintaining these "relationships." I also don't expect all that much.

Recently, there was an issue with one of the fashion bloggers being accused of doing some really dishonest things. There's been a lot of understandable hand-wringing over the situation. Because I've never gotten into that particularly bloggy clique, I was surprised, but not particularly upset by the situation. The blogger in question wasn't one of my personal favorites, and we had never had any contact whatsoever. One of my blogging friends was an apparent victim, but I hadn't heard about the issue ahead of time.

So I'm a bit distanced. Part of that is that, of course, I'm older than the majority of the fashion bloggers (and fashion's not really the focus here, although I do talk about how appearances/fashion affects how a person is treated). I also had a real-life friend pull that kind of stuff and get away with it in a similar way. If you have a reputation for being sweet, people don't believe it the evidence that is right in front of them. I definitely questioned the evidence right in front of me for while. No one wants to believe that a sweet woman could be lying and stealing. But they do.

When I worked for small newspapers in the Midwest, lots of women would be charged with embezzling from companies or from the small governments for which they worked.

Women don't usually hold up banks or convenience stores. White-collar thievery? Pretty darn common, unfortunately.

Losing mobility

I'm at the place in pregnancy where it's getting pretty difficult to move. I was a lot heavier in the past, but my weight was distributed more. Now, it is completely centered in my belly, so it's even more comical than usual to try to watch me roll over or get up.

Here's a dressing-the-thinner-pregnant-body challenge: I really need a Size Large to cover the belly comfortably. My shoulders are a Medium. What that means is I'm having to worry about having wardrobe malfunctions with v-neck tops, as they come down too far, showing too much. Plus, I still have no butt to speak of. The large that covers my belly falls off in the back. The medium that fits my butt is uncomfortably tight on the belly. So, basically, nothing fits -- at least not like it used to when I was a consistently XL pregnant woman.

Of course, I have only about 2.5 months to worry about this anyway.