Superpowers

I have been silent (and therefore golden) for several weeks. As my fan club, (thank you, thank you very much, I love you all), have been duly occupied with the affairs of life (congrats to Syn and CP btw on their little Samgee), I figured I could sink quietly into the background with little fuss. But now, I feel I can blog again. There are several reasons for this.

First, I am 500 words shy of finishing my essay, and it looks like it might be finished by the due date. Second, most of my other projects are now complete. Third, I don't have to worry about accidentally mentioning that we are expecting a child, because now we are telling people. Being us, we're doing a fairly pathetic job of it, with a long list of people on the back of our study door whom we have yet to contact. But it means I can say it 'out loud' here. Most of you already knew anyway, but hey.

Which brings me to the point of this post. I really enjoy being pregnant, not just because I really want a baby, but because it gives you superpowers. I also haven't been sick, which probably has rather a lot to do with it. But the superpowers I have are cool... I have:

1. Cat napping ability
I get tired. So, I lie down and go to sleep. I wake when I am rested (it was three hours the other day!), and get up. I am not groggy or sluggish, but I'm ready for the next round of whatever. And it doesn't disrupt my sleeping patterns. This is how cats live. It's a great way to live.

2. Idiocy identification
I can spot an idiot from a distance. I knew there were idiots before, and occasionally I ran across them and would experience frustration and annoyance. But I never knew they were everywhere. There should be warnings! Even Levor commented the other day that I was quite irritable, demonstrating that he has moments of idiocy. I am surrounded by idiots.

3. Carniverosity
I like meat. I have never liked meat. And now I don't just like meat, but I like meatlovers type meat. I eat rissoles, steak sandwiches, chipolatas and even pick the bones clean of the other meat I eat. It's not just that I can eat it, which I do with vegetables as I force the necessary 5 serves down my throat each day. It's that I like meat. I even rang Levor at work just to explain how good a steak sandwich was.

4. Heat generation
This is one of my favourites. I wander around cold in winter. I have a doona on as soon as Autumn starts to cool the weather down. I actually quite like winter, but I just get cold. Now, I'm not that cold. This is good, because if things go well and we leave for England in September, we will have only autumn and winter for a year. So, hopefully for a huge chunk of that I will be cosy.

I'm not sure the Fantastic Four would accept me, but I enjoy my superpowers.