Am I really pregnant?

When I called to make my first doctor's appointment the receptionist did nothing to try to confirm my pregnancy. All she did was ask me if I took a home pregnancy test. She just took my word for it and asked me when the first day of my last menstrual cycle was. I proceeded to tell her some random day (which turns out to be a week later than what it actually was), and she said I should come in on March 25th.

The time between finding out that I was pregnant and going to my first doctor's appointment was about three weeks. During that time, I kept questioning, "am I really pregnant?" I think it must be because you don't feel all that different...aside from all those pregnancy symptoms, most of which can be accounted for by really bad PMS.

I remember going to a sushi restaurant a few days after my pregnancy test. I was trying to convince Mike that I could eat sushi because I'm not that pregnant. But he made me order a california roll.***

***Side note, here's an interesting conversation that happened while writing this blog:

• me: do you think california roll should be capitalized?


• me: like California roll


• friend: huh


• friend: capitalized


• me: because we capitalize California because its a persom place or thing


• me: but california roll is just food


• me: like we don't capitalize Hamburger


• friend: capitalize California


• me: even though its from Hamburg


• friend: i dont understand


• friend: you ok over there


• me: yea


• me: oh, like caeser salad you don't capitalize Caesar even though he's a person


• friend: what


• me: you're funny


• friend: who is this


• me: itsa me, mario!


• friend: you may have a hormone imbalance or something because of the baby


• friend: you are not making sense


• me: ooh! maybe you thought i meant capitalize like capitalize or expense


• me: i meant capitalize like upper case or lower case!


• me: mystery solved!


• friend: ...