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26 Weeks

Once again I am a few days late. The truth of the matter is, there aren't many new exciting updates on the pregnancy front (aside from the gross ones — see below) and it's almost becoming a drag writing these weekly updates. HOWEVER, I know that there are readers who look forward to these posts AND I know that I will treasure them later down the road so I will do my best to keep truckin'. This week is the last of the second trimester. I am not looking forward to the third trimester for various reasons (becoming a whale in this horrible heat & humidity, general discomfort, etc) but at the same time, grateful for each day that brings us closer...

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Google’s “Graduation”: A Commercial Guaranteed to Bring Tears to Your Eyes

I may be pregnant and hormonal, but I TOTALLY CRIED watching this Google commercial and I'm not ashamed to admit it. This video holds special significance to anyone like me whose parents sacrificed everything to immigrate to a foreign country — a land where they did not know the language, where they were (and continue to be) ostracized for being a minority, where they work 80-hour weeks in the service industry, where they do not take a single vacation in YEARS — in order to provide good education, more opportunities and a better life for their children. I love you, umma and appa. Via Angry Asian Man. ...

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