Alright, here's a long explanatory post on everything happening in Casa Price recently, in Random Bullets form:
-I will be 21 weeks pregnant tomorrow. I look very pregnant, but my lack of showering skillz makes me not photogenic. If that changes, I'll let you know. The baby is now big enough to give me more distinct pokes, which is fun and only slightly annoying. The ante-natal care here has been *amazing*, a fabulous mix of caring and professional. I am no longer puke-tastic, so am eating everything that I can manage to find.

-We moved! This kind of happened quickly, or we would have let y'all in on the process. We had put our name on a list for a 2-bedroom uni flat a couple of months ago. The allocations people had assured us that we might be in for a long wait, and we were okay with that, since we didn't really need a bigger place until the baby was crawling, y'know?

Well, a couple of weeks later, they emailed me to say "There's a flat for you!" We looked at it, thought it was perfect, and... offered it to our neighbours. You know, the ones with the two toddlers and an infant and a dad who finds stairs challenging? The ones who were previously on a 3rd floor walk up? They definitely needed the ground floor flat more than we did, so we showed it to them and they took it. Yay!

We had resigned ourselves to staying on Guthrie, and then on Wednesday 28 March, they emailed again to say they'd had a surprise exit from another flat. I was working at the poultry farm that week, so Matt went and checked it out and recommended we take it. So we did.

We started moving in with A.J. and Rachelle's help (thanks, guys!), finished moving while simultaneously house-sitting 40 minutes away and working at a dairy farm (Matt= Rock Star), and got to sleep in our new place like we really lived there Tuesday 17th April. It's so cool! It's a basement flat, right next to The Meadows, close to the Dick Vet, and 200 steps away from Rob and Emma's new place. Wahooey! It is huge and quirky, and we'll try to take some pics or make a video or something.

-Finals are here. I had 4 finals this week- 3 Animal Handling/ Husbandry practical exams (horse, exotics, and cattle), and one written Animal Husbandry essay exam (nutrition, genetics, grassland management, etc. are included in this course). Next week I have an oral for my large animal anatomy class, then I have a week of neuroscience lectures (randomly placed in the midst of finals), then a week of immunology/pathology/parasitiology/bacteriology/virology finals, then my repro/neuro/anatomy final. I'm done 31st May. Whew.

-We've been rocking the house guests lately. First, A.J. and Rachelle, then Andrej and Sarah came (some acquaintances from L.A.) for 10 nights with their 17 month old son. It was a party. We're looking forward to establishing a routine in the new place that doesn't involve house-sitting for other people or having longish-term guests.

-We'll be back in L.A. in just over 6 weeks!

-Some funny quotes will almost certainly follow later today.
Edit: Quotes up!

-I think that's it.

So, Blogger was hating me and thinking I was Mary for some reason. It wouldn't let me access my blogs or anything, so you guys got no love from me.

But I'm back! I don't know how I fixed it; I just kept clicking things and it eventually gave me my beloved blogs back.

This is all to say that this is the first week of finals, so I'm ridiculously busy and probably won't post until the weekend. But I love you guys!

So as you've gathered, we've moved flats. I've been enlisted to write a post about that fact, but it's not coming atcha tonight. Instead, enjoy these comics about our adventures in Scotland.

Man, I am exhausted! A.J. and Rachelle had a blast here, but they leave tomorrow. Boo. Also on the list for tomorrow is that we must be moved out of our flat (and have it clean), I begin a weeklong internship at the dairy, and we are housesitting in the boondocks for my classmate. We will have only sporadic internet until Tuesday the 17th when we are one housesitting. Pray for me, as I have had little sleep and less rest since starting the poultry EMS on the 26th of March.

A.J. and Rachelle arrived safely and promptly last night. Unfortunately, their luggage was less considerate, so it shoudl be getting to us sometime today or tonight. In the meantime, they are really loving wearing the same clothes on 16 hours of flying, then sleeping in them, then wearing them the next day. Yes!

I am so happy that they are here. When I was waiting with Matt in the baggage claim for them, I kept jumping up and down like a puppy. Friends! Family! People we love!

Anyway, this morning I type this as they sleep in a bit and Matt helps our upstairs neighbours move. I'll try to keep you updated to all the marveloud and wondrous things we do this week.