As Promised...

Wow. Things have been crazy around here, and by around here, I mean in my mind and body. An update on baby and mommy will follow, but first of all, I have to talk about... MORE PREGNANCY information!

This is about... pregnancy hormones. On one hand, I am very grateful to the pregnancy hormones, because they have balanced me out emotionally. My depression has been virtually non-existent. I have felt excitement when it is necessary to feel excitement. I have felt heartache when justified to feel heartache. This is the exact opposite of how March 2008-March 2009 was.

So...

Hormones. Pregnancy hormones. Pregnancy hormones without a partner. I don't think I need to spell it out, but it's been forever since I've:

...cuddled on the couch

...held a hand

...been kissed... on the MOUTH (gasp!)

...felt a hand on my face

...had a full-body hug that lasts for more than 30 seconds (that's probably also because of my giant belly)

I feel like Carrie on Sex and the City, when she feels this way and wants to grab men by the collar and desperately shout, "Can you just lie on top of me for awhile?"

I know you are probably rolling your eyes or laughing, but take someone who is already physically clingy (me), add pregnancy (me again), and then subtract your normally attentive boyfriend (He Who Shall Not Be Named) and blend it together. What do you have? Extremely lonely nights, pathetic days, and a hatred of all romantic movies/books/people. I found myself glaring at Hannah and her boyfriend on Halloween night, when he was dressed in her Cleopatra costume and she giggled and hugged him... Something in my heart twitched and I thought, will I ever get that again?

Yes, the answer is yes. It'll just be awhile.

So. In the meantime, I have made this list of crushes... Some fictional, some very, very real. As you can see, I don't really have a type. These are my consistent, non-stereotypical crushes, some of which I've had since I was too little to know what a crush is. Of course, I love Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, and all your other typical hotties. This is my atypical list...

Mad Martigan (Val Kilmer from Willow)I've thought he was dreamy in that greasy, manly, warrior way since I was five. I've tried other Val Kilmer movies to see if it is a Val Kilmer crush, but his chin just keeps getting bigger and bigger, so it's definitely Willow-exclusive.
Dr. HouseYeah, yeah, yeah. I've mentioned my Dr. House crush several times. I can't explain it--there's just something about a guy who thinks he's smarter than I am that's attractive.

Brendan Fraser in anything goofy

I'm talking stupidly scripted, box-office failing Disney movies where he dances around half-naked and makes his sad Bambi face... Gets me every time.

Antonio Banderas (especially his eyes)
There's something evilly sensual about them, like if I look into them for too long, he'll hypnotize me and take me away into his private plane and fly me to an exotic Latino island and do... things...
Laurie from Little Women (portrayed brilliantly by Christian Bale, but I mean the actual character)
He's the typical best-friend-who-falls-in-love... Funny, kind, good listener, someone who will lend you books, someone who will lose his temper with you and apologize with opera tickets, someone with a hot body... If you're lucky.

Tim Curry

This is another one of those childhood crushes, but it started with his voice... His voice, oh, his voice. Fern Gully, dig it? Remember how he was the voice of POLLUTION? And how he made it sexy? I was 6 when I first saw that, and every time Emma watches it, I still remember how I felt when I first heard that voice... that voice... Tim Curry dressed as a pirate is just a bonus.

Max GoofWhy can't I have a crush on a cartoon? Why?

Do you have weird crushes that just do something to you? Are you like Miranda from Sex and the City (ooh, two references in one post)? Do you have a crush on a sandwich and don't know why? Tell me.
In the meantime, please don't be shocked if you hear of me running off to Vegas with some weird Parisian guy with a pregnancy fetish... I have sore feet that need to be rubbed and I am way overdue for a romantic evening with candlelight and Jack Black. (Hey, to each his own...)