I keep interesting links in my sidebar under the heading, “Also Worth Reading.” Feel free to admit if it’s the only reason you visit or subscribe to this site. I can take it. Normally, I enjoy discussing our declining culture, women’s issues, and practical theology, but with a baby due in six weeks, I can’t seem to gravitate toward subjects other than Maternity and Babies. It’d be on your mind too if you had a 25-pound watermelon stuffed under your shirt, could barely walk, and considered a handful of Tums a great breakfast.

The tool that I use to publish the sidebar links, del.icio.us, is a quick, one-click step. I wouldn’t bother with links otherwise. The problem with this tool is that, so far as I know, users are restricted to just a few lines of commentary under the link. (If you’ve a javascript patch to forward, please do.) Often the available space is enough, but in this case it isn’t.

In order to appreciate the linked video below, you have to know the setup, which I can’t explain in one sentence.

So…Greg calls me over to the love seat for a surprise. He is working on his laptop. I sit down. He says, “Honey, I’ve got just the thing for you after this baby is born.” Knowing about all the nausea and vomiting, sciatica, labored breathing, painful walking, acid reflux, exhaustion, insomnia, low iron, dizziness, and other unmentionables this pregnancy has wrought, I thought, “Wow, he’s seen my pain and wants to give me a gift. What a guy!”

I waited for him to click on the Amazon link or something to show me the gift he’d bought. Would it be a feather mattress? An herbal basket of girly stuff? Well, no. Instead. Pause. Instead, this is what my husband wants to give me after the baby is born (some RSS readers need to click over to my site to view):

No, I didn’t clunk him on the head. I was too busy laughing because if you know me, this is just so…opposite and other than anything about me. I am not that cool.