I'm officially a big phat pregnant lady

I even got the doctor on my case, because I gained 5 pounds this month which she thinks is too much. My total weight gain at 28 weeks is 18.5 pounds. Which i (and my mama and the midwife I talked to) think is just fine for weight gain at the beginning of the 3rd trimestre. I think the doctor was just pissed at me because i refused to take the sugar shock test.

The bean is apparently now a jumping bean. Not only can I feel him moving, about half the time I can see him moving. He seems not to like it when my bladder is full and seems to kick it on purpose just to remind me not to cramp his space with my urine, but maybe I'm just imagining that.
Shit is stressful with the house and the f'in' neighbours, and they still haven't found a substitute for me at work. But i keep on keepin' on, and honestly I'm feeling better than i was. The psychologist I'm seeing is pretty cool, and I started my birth preparation classes- run by the hospital, and another breathing/stretching class that's run by an awesome young hippy mom- who now gives me catalan kisses when we see each other as if we were friends. It's possible that we COULD be friends, in my opinion.
Here's the progress that we have made recently on the house. This is the room where motorman re-hung the window and rebuilt the wall.

try to ignore the water heater, we're waiting for our plumber friend to move that to the bathroom.
This room is definately the most daring so far in terms of colour choices, because It's got two bright green walls, one pale yellow wall, and one wall that's half brown and half yellow. Then the combo windows and doors as you can see. I think it's awesome. Some day this will be the children's room, but for now we'll use it as a multi-purpose guest room until the actual multi-purpose guest room is ready (sometime next year maybe).
Ignore the unpainted lower part, we have to put some paneling or dry wall on the lower half of the walls here, because they're covered with some kind of plastic to try to keep the humidity from coming up them (the previous occupants did that). We haven't decided exactly what to do and don't have the money to buy anything for it anyway until next month.
So that's what's up in mandalynnland.