24 Hours!!! I have been having strong, USELESS contractions, 5 minutes apart--for 24 FRIGGIN' HOURS! They aren't doing anything other than annoying me (and forcing me to stop whatever I am doing). I made some progress yesterday, when they were 15 minutes apart, but none since they got closer together. The midwives call it "prodromal labor." I call it f*cking annoying, stupid chinese water torture bullsh!t. Amazingly enough, though, I was able to sleep very deeply last night, despite the contractions. Weird. Now I am well rested AND pissed off at my body.

On a lighter note, I know I have ranted about my friend's crazy wife here, before. He called me yesterday and asked if it was okay if his wife could come by this morning and give us something. I've been withholding judgement and promised my friend that I would give her a "second chance" once I had the baby, because I just didn't want her drama in my life while pregnant (she accused him of being the father of my baby, too). He says that she is over herself, and the few times our paths have crossed since we last intentionally socialized (last spring), she has been quite pleasant. She came over, brought us a baby gift, and we talked for about 10 minutes. I wanted to run a couple of errands, and didn't want to have her here too long (baby steps, ya know?), so I told her we had to go to the store while I could still walk. Funny, we ran into her at the store, too. I totally feel like she has done a great, and sincere, job at extending the olive branch and I can put the past behind us. She's still quite young (late 20's), had a rough childhood, and I know people can grow and mature. Either that, or she wants to be able to see the baby and make sure the baby doesn't look like her hubby. I'm bad... But, I am going to choose to believe the best, and not the worst.