Ahhh, just takin' it easy

Well, today is the big day, the day I've been waiting for for months, August 1st and no baby yet. When my mom was pregnant with me the doctors said I should be born sometime around the end of January and I wish it was with the same nonspecific estimate that I knew to expect my baby to come - sometime around the beginning of August. That way the excitement could be spread out over a few weeks and not concentrated on one passing day on which nothing happens.
This sort of reminds me of the feeling after graduating college, all this work and anticipation with the expectation that once you have a degree the rest of your life would just fall into place. Yet you graduate and move back home and look for jobs and... nothing, the edge of a cliff, waiting for this 'real life' you've heard so much about to begin. That's sort of how I feel right now, as though I've done everything I was supposed to do like eating healthy and doing yoga and waiting and preparing and learning and now that my to-do list is completely crossed off it's as though time is standing still. I'm done with work and all my birth preparations are in place, this is the first time in a very very long time where I can just... do nothing. I can sleep in and nap some more if I feel like it, I can bead and knit or read and eat, take walks around the neighborhood eating italian ices, or lounge around watching movies.
Hmmm, come to think of it this is pretty freakin sweet! It's sort of the calm before the storm isn't it? I should enjoy every minute of this waiting time because from the minute I begin to labor probably until the day I retire my time will be stretched thin and all planned out again. Yeah, I'm gonna go do some of that relaxing right now, here's a funny picture to hold you over.