The weight game

So I don't know how much weight I've gained since I got pregnant. I don't know what my current weight is. This makes me an anomaly among pregnant women.
I'm not being careless - at each OB appointment I ask the doctor if my weight gain is OK. So far, it has been. I just don't see the point in knowing the numbers.
Why do we care so much about the numbers? Average weight gain is just an average - by definition it means that half of us will be above and the other half below.
I know my body is changing - that I won't be able to fit back into my pre-pregnancy clothes for many months. Why do I need to know an exact number? Even if I lost the exact same number of pounds, I might not fit back into the same clothes.
Weight gain during pregnancy is just a game that I'm choosing not to play.

24, the Real Life Edition

The TV show 24 has come up in a couple of conversations recently, which got me thinking. What would the Reality Show 24 look like? I'll model it on my own very exciting life, naturally.

Midnight - 1:00 am, Monday June 13:
Dale and Elaine asleep in the bed. Slight sounds of snoring from both individuals. The cats are prowling. Pipsqueak goes to the litterbox and digs for about 10 minutes. Duchess is curled up in a ball next to Dale. Shadow sleeps at Elaine's feet.
1:01 - 2:00 am: Elaine slowly lurches out of bed. Night vision camera shows very messy hair. She stumbles into the bathroom and returns in a couple of minutes. Dale moves away from Duchess. Duchess moves next to him again. Shadow goes into the kitchen and makes French toast. He hisses at Duchess when she appears to eat some. Then he serves some to Pipsqueak.
2:01 - 3:00 am: Duchess cleans up Shadow's mess and picks the back door lock. She grills a t-bone steak and eats it by herself. Dale and Elaine snore.
3:01 - 4:00 am: Everyone sleeps.
4:01 - 5:00 am: Elaine goes to the bathroom again. Shadow creeps up the bed when she returns and she pets him.
5:01 - 6:00 am: Everyone sleeps
6:01 - 7:00 am: Dale gets up and gets ready for work. Elaine sleeps. The cats begin to annoy her in an effort to get breakfast.
7:01 - 8:00 am: Elaine gets up and feeds the cats. She eats breakfast.
8:01 - 9:00 am: What? I've fallen asleep. I've got a whole season of this to write?

Abilene TX, Top ten

10. Due to it being graduation weekend, one morning when my sister-in-law took my nephews for an early morning swim, there was a naked woman in the pool. She pulled on a tank top when she saw them.
9. Every time we went outside, we got to experience what it's like for food in a convection oven.
8. In Texas, they don't have sheep dogs. They have sheep donkeys.
7. The interstate roads have entrance and exit ramps that literally go across lanes of opposing traffic.
6. "Guardrail" is spelled "Gardrail" in Texas.
5. In my family cemetery, Round Mound, I found a relative nicknamed "Commie." His full first name was "Commodore."
4. We got to cross a creek known by the college kids as the River Jordan.
3. The "River Jordan" leads to the "Holy Hump," the hill where the campus for Abilene Christian University can be found.
2. There is a Bible Hardware store in downtown Abilene.
1. To the author of the Fort Phantom Hill pamphlet: well done! You really should pursue a career in romance novel writing!