17 weeks pregnant.
This is our first pregnancy and Jon and I cannot be any more excited!!!

My pregnancy so far, I think, has been pretty manageable. Besides the short duration of morning sickness a month or so into my pregnancy, I've been feeling quite content. Lately I'm super tired all the time. Almost to the point where the minute I sit down.. I doze off. My belly has finally popped and I now feel tightness or pressure around my abdominal area. I can't complain, I've got no right. My wonderful hubby has been doing everything he can for me. Busy with long hours at work and taking care of things around the house, he still finds the time to pamper me. Oh and our little bohk-soong-ah gets a story or chat from daddy every night.

*bohk-soong-ah means "peach" in Korean and this is what we call our little bun in the oven.

But all this..It's got me thinking about where I am now in life. It literally feels like it was just yesterday I was trying to make sense of both my economics final and my relationship at the time. Both seemed hopeless. I can't speak for my final but as far as my love life, I did all right.. and RAN! You see, I had this little checklist I wrote out to myself to make sure I wasn't being blinded by love.


You see, there are three things I hope I survive in lifetime

1. jumping from a plane flying over five thousand feet in the air
2. letting a gallstone the size of a small bowling ball pass through me
3. meeting the one person in the world that will ever see me for who I am inside and out

I thought to myself the first two items on this list are highly attainable. Whether I'm conscious or unconscious, that's another thing. But if the third thing ever happened, it was preferably wiser that I was conscious of what was going on. So I came up with this mental checklist for all my senses in order to aid me in recognizing such an occasion should it occur.

Though I have no use for it anymore, seeing that I've found the love of my life, maybe, just maybe, it'll be of some use to you.


Checklist

- Is my vision flawed to the point where I can't make out shapes or sizes? Or is it so dark I can't accurately depict facial features?

- Are my ears buzzing from an excessive volume of earth-shaking sounds in a crowded smoke filled area?

- Have I consumed anything within the past 24 hours that tasted funny?

- Have I inhaled anything within the past 24 hours that normal people usually don't?

- Am I legally impaired and discouraged not to drive according to provincial laws?

- Is my heart fluttering for any other reason than medicine related?

- Did I just recently escape a traumatic experience due to the efforts of the person standing in front of me?

- Am I still crying, cursing, or plotting revenge against my last significant other?

- Was my last meaningful relationship so long ago that there was another president in office?

- Are the voices of telemarketers starting to sound remotely appealing, am I anticipating their calls?

- Is this the first person I've seen since I was last stranded on a deserted island (or anywhere else that has a population of less than two)?

- Did CNN just report a meteorite will collide with planet Earth in the next 24 hours or so?

Proceed to apply these same questions to the other person. With this simple checklist in mind you'll have a more accurate way of determining whether item three is in fact happening and not merely a false alarm resulting from any one of the above heightened conditions.

I hope this will mean the difference between crying from joy at your wedding and lamenting before a judge in the most pathetic divorce case ever.

Cheers.