planning

So, far from planning what I will do when my baby arrives,  I have been planning fun activities and projects for my last trimester, which happens to be right after my graduation in December.  I'll be completely free to do whatever I want with no lingering thesis imperatives hanging over my lazy head.  Of course, many of my projects involve planning on planning for the arrival of my baby.
Three months is enough time for that, right?
But, I also have been planning some yoga, some cheap novel reading, some television show DVD rentals, like Madmen and Dexter (my dad and my sister swear it's a good show), organizing and adding to my iTunes playlists, and the latest and most exciting addition to my list of pre-birth to-do's is, wait for it...... reliving my childhood by playing old Nintendo games!
My sister just revealed to me that she went through her own nostalgic craze of actually hunting down an NES (yep, that's the very first one) and all the old games we used to play, Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3, Duck Tales, Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong Jr., and so on, on EBay and has them hidden away in her closet collecting dust now.
She promised she will give it all to me for Christmas (I told her not before then, or I'll never finish my thesis).
So form a mental picture, because I've certainly got one, of me, my large pregnant belly, and my large orange and white striped cat hanging out in my future nursery and playing Super Mario Bros.  Oh, it's probably safe to include some sort of delicious snack in that picture, too.
God bless all the little sisters of the world.  They keep us young.