Week 39: Must do some work, but I don’t waaaanna

38 weeks: part II.

So there are these curtains – roman shades, really – I’m supposed to have been working on forever. We have this house, you see, with very oddly-sized windows, and since the outer walls are just masonry – outside brick exposed to the inside directly, in fact – mounting regular curtains into what are effectively cut-outs for the windows seemed to be a real pain-in-the-butt idea when we first moved in. In retrospect, I was on crack, but what can you do? Anyway, I have in fact finished many of them (our living and dining rooms, for example, and all done finally – they were mostly done a year ago, but I didn’t finish the raising-and-lowering mechanisms until a few weeks ago), but the ones for our bedroom have been on hold for some time, and with as cold as that room gets, it’s about time to get them done, hopefully before Small Monster gets here. They’re nice and insulated and keep out light well, and I know that’s going to be important, since he’ll be in our room for some time. We do not want a Small-Monstercicle.

Now you may be asking why it is that all of the curtains in the front rooms are done before our bedroom, when one might think bedroom curtains were *ahem* a bit more important, but let’s just say I had a guest last Christmas that was demanding in no uncertain terms that they be up before s/he arrived because s/he was staying in the living room. And since I have always had some fear of this person’s wrath and irritation (and I was trying to be as good a host as I could be under the circumstances), they got done.

And now here it is, a year later, and I haven’t bothered with the shades in our own room, and we like, need them. Yesterday.

Thing is, I just don’t want to do it. And pregnant me wants to do it sooooo much less. I don’t really want to do anything, to be honest, except that sitting still hurts. So does moving. Late pregnancy is fun, folks!

I mean, regular curtains are easy (or easier) – line a sheet and hem it – but I am hardly a seamstress, and I have real trouble cutting out large rectangles of cloth evenly. Seriously. I suck at it. I’m not even sure how it’s really supposed to be done. The sewing part I don’t mind as much, but the cloth cutting?

I suck.

And since I have to lay out these rolls of lining on the ground and get down on my hands and knees to measure and cut – great position for baby, rotten position for heavy mama whose wrists hurt – I have totally been putting it off forever.

A great friend of mine mentioned yesterday that maybe the novel was my pre-labor nesting, but this strong internal command that I get these curtains done in the next couple of days sounds more like it to me. With my luck, my water will break all over the place while I’m cutting out material tonight, but I don’t think I’d complain except that the curtains just wouldn’t get done.

Bah. So anyway, there will be little blogging tonight, and no noveling beyond the 1k I pushed out earlier just for the Hell of it. I’m gonna get these MoFos done, darnit.