I feel like a real person!

Albeit one who has trouble buttoning her pants.

I don't think I'd really fully appreciated how out of it I've been the last two months. I'm not sure how much is the fact that I've moved into second trimester and how much is the fact that I spent a ridiculous proportion of our do-nothing vacation literally sleeping, but I feel like I'm actually awake for the first time in months.

It's a revelation. I'm not nauseated! Vegetables are appealing! Dried fruit tastes good! I want to eat something other than captain's crackers! I could sit upright in my chair at work instead of slumping to the side! I could follow entire conversations in the weekly meetings! Now, I'm home and I want to do something other than curl up in a ball on the couch and wait for it to be bedtime! (I've managed to exercise a little bit up until the last few weeks, and I managed to continue baking for gaming group, and for that matter, participating in gaming. But it was an enormous force of will--I didn't even really want to be at gaming, I just wanted to sleep. I hadn't written in a month when we started vacation.) I feel like I have a brain again.

I really don't think I'd realized how awful I was feeling until I suddenly felt normal again. (Will this last? Who knows!)