+ Added bonus +
Another added bonus of doing something - anything - different at work is meeting new people. I don't just mean friends or romantic others, of course, I mean just encountering people you might never have had a chance to meet otherwise. Pumping has been like that for me. Even though I'm done, I know the other mothers better now (hey, I know where their boobs have been!), and they're women I probably would never have met.

One of those moms wanted to do lunch "sometime." Well, that sometime was today. And guess what? I really like her. She's smart, funny, well-traveled and we have OODLES in common. I think this might be a start of a beautiful friendship!