Ok, so I'm almost 30 wks. preggie....and I can't call my stomach a "bump" anylonger....no sirree, it is definately a belly....people are funny about it. Some people who have not seen me for a while think its wonderfully large and healthy, other's who don't even know me throw me a look of shock...while muttering stuff like, "You sure you're not having twins?" or "You're due in a couple weeks righ????" When in reality, I still have 2.5 more months to go....

Yesterday I had a friend of a friend, a rather strange guy (will go into that description in a sec...) come right up and rub my belly without my consent.....now books and people in the beginning of my pregnancy told me that there would be this sort of thing happening frequently and to not freak out....whenever I read about it, I thought, no problem. Since then, it has usually been women or friends OR people who ask if its ok to touch my belly....and of course it has usually been fine. But for some reason I felt a bit invaded yesterday. The person who "invaded" my boundary is one of these bohemian types who lives out of his van on the beach, he teaches kiteboarding and probably only baths in the ocean. A bit ferral and a bit too hippie for my taste. Not knowing the individual also makes it a bit strange....needless to say, on the way home, I knew that the only way to get it out of my system was to write about it here....