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after all that template work

Merry Christmas!

I'm not going to PC it up and say Happy Holidays instead, but I will say it as well, so that whatever your affiliations or lack thereof, you can feel free to enjoy some time off to spend with family, or watching tv, or playing xBox, or whatever you like to do.

It's really late, and I have to go to bed. I hope Santa found you!

is it funny cause it's not true, or cause it's true?

A sign in the Bank Lobby reads: "Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through teller machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles. Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts. After months of careful research, MALE & FEMALE procedures have been developed. Please follow the appropriate steps for your gender."


MALE PROCEDURE:

1. Drive up to the cash machine.

2. Put down your car window.

3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.

4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.

5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.

6. Put window up.

7. Drive off.

*********************************************************************


FEMALE PROCEDURE:

1. Drive up to cash machine.

2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.

3. Set parking brake, put the window down.

4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.

5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up.

6. Attempt to insert card into machine.

7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.

8. Insert card.

9. Re-insert card the right way.

10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.

11. Enter PIN.

12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.

13. Enter amount of cash required.

14. Take a quick peeky at yourself in rear view mirror.

15. Retrieve cash and receipt

16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.

17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook.

18. Re-check makeup.

19. Drive forward 2 feet.

20. Reverse back to cash machine.

21. Retrieve card.

22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.

23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.

24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.

25. Redial person on cell phone.

26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.

27. Release Parking Brake.

like I need another time-sucker

thanks to my sister for this one.

WebSoduko

Good luck! Default is easy, I'd highly recommend starting there. And reading the rules, it actually makes it easier.

seriously though, cutest baby ever.

I've managed to not post any pictures of my dear boy on this site so far, but that time is over now. I think, upon seeing the picture, you'll understand why I felt the need to share it with everyone who might stumble across this page.

enjoy.

With all that mistletoe hanging around (haha, hanging...)

You'd better get primed for some serious lip locking.

Mastering the French Kiss

You're welcome.

mystery rodent!

I think it's a weasel, but I'm not sure. Mort was chasing leaves at the window, or so I thought. His mewing and pawing the glass were a little more insistent than usual, so the baby and I went over to investigate. We saw a small white rodent-y type animal scurrying around the yard. Very exciting. We went out and took a picture of it, as it was diving under ground.



From my extensive research on GoogleImages, it's a weasel. They turn white in winter. Who knew? They're a lot cuter than I had imagined a weasel to be. Weasel's a pretty negative image, but they just must be very sneaky little animals to have earned their nickname association. Anyway, that was my excitement for the day, I put up some more pictures on the baby's site to keep the relatives happy, and am now going to get showered to keep myself happy.

Later skaters.

hooray for Primus

I got the whole Rogers thing sorted out, so that's good. It took 45 minutes on the phone, largely on hold, and 3 people to sort it for me, but the 3rd guy actually knew what he was talking about (odd, I know), and explained what had happened in about 15 seconds. Nice of him. His name is Jeff. Thanks Jeff. I still hate Rogers, but it's nice to know you're not all a bunch of useless tits. I've also switched my long distance and internet over to Primus. It's still dial-up, but comes with an accelerator, which actually works. Hooray again!

I've retouched the gift blog. There are actually some things on there that I hope to get, as well as my dear, sweet laptop. I'm not taking it off the list. Feel free to post your lists, it's fun.

In other, unrelated news, I went to check out my old preggo blog, to find that it has been taken over by somebody else. Jenn was right when she said I should save it somewhere else to make sure that it was safe in case Blogger exploded or something, and I think in fact it was doing just that which allowed this other woman to take over the site. I republished the whole thing on another server, and never changed the publish-to address back to blogspot. Ah well. I had a mini heart attack in the 2 seconds before I rememebered that though.

Hmm. 23 days until Christmas, I should get this site all festive looking again. I was going to count the shopping days, but it's the same number here since we have Sunday shopping. Just you po' folks in NS don't, I think. I have lots of plans for my time, but all I generally end up doing is surfing around and playing minesweeper. I have a gift I'm supposed to be making though, so I really do need to get on that.

On that note, the shower and my project are beckoning. I cleaned the tub this morning, with new Lysol cleaner (new to me) and it has the most disgusting smell ever. "Summer Breeze" or some such foolishness. It smells like...I don't know. Something really gross. I'll either have to get new stuff, or the fiancé will have to do the cleaning. Somehow, I'm thinking option A is going to be the viable one.

damn blogger hacker assholes

I received an email about a week ago "in response to my account query" or something, about how I can go about changing my password. Why the hell would someone want to hack into a blogger account? Useless much? Anyway, so I had to change my password, and I couldn't remember what it was. I do now though, thanks.

We're in Maine for the American version of Thanksgiving with my aunt and uncle and parents and the bebe. I'm anticipating much the same thing as Canadian Thanksgiving, but perhaps with more candied yams and green bean casserole. I've never had either of those (although the first one apparently involves marshmallows, so I'm hoping for that) but they're always on TV Thanksgivings, so it follows that they'll be here in real life. Obviously.

Aliant dial up is so frustrating I'm actually thinking about cancelling the account and just using the fiance's work account in the evenings. So slow. Also, with the monitor not working, it's just not worth the mental anguish.

In other, "companies that suck" news, Rogers does. They keep sending me my bill, even though I paid it off and closed the account 2 months ago. Nicely done, boys. I can't be bothered calling them, because it takes a year to get through to a person, and the automated guy doesn't respond to swearing. I emailed customer service instead.

Hmm. Might go shopping in Augusta tomorrow, they have all kinds of exciting stores like Gap and WalMart. lol. Better than sitting around doing nothing though, and there are all kinds of ridiculous sales the day after Thanksgiving here. Being in Sugarloaf, should probably be going skiing, but that's not in the cards this time around. Wasn't the last time I was here either, since I was all pregnant and stuff. And it was October.

Alright, I've abused the highspeed internet (seriously, am I the only one who doesn't have it? not fair.) enough. Later skaters.

oh yeah.

by the way, one month and 13 days until Christmas. WTF??

I'll be updating my buy me stuff page, and if anyone else would like to have one, I'd be more than happy to host it for you. Honestly, if anyone else wants any kind of page, I can probaly host it for you, so long as it's just a small guy like mine.

whee, highspeed!

we're home at the fiancé's parents' place for the weekend, and they have highspeed. How is that fair? They're a good 45 minutes from the nearest big city, and they get fast internet. We, a measly 20-25, no such luck. Aliant and Rogers are mean.

I'm afraid there hasn't been too much to update on, hence the lack of updating. That combined with the wonky monitors (I have mine back now, but it's not cooperating either. it blacks out, and sometimes comes back normal, sometimes with garbage. annoying.) and a 7 month old crawling baby, not much time to do anything worth talking about.

I'm beginning to realise that my maternity leave is dwindling. The boy is 7 months old now, craziness. That means 5 more months of paid leave, 3 weeks of full pay after that, then I'm effed. I am going to meet with someone at the district to see what they realistically expect from me, if there's a possibility of not doing the regular "I just graduated and will need to day-to-day supply for a year" thing. If there isn't, I'm not sure what I'll do. Stay home and start up a naked webcam site or something. Don't think I haven't thought of that. I've had one woman offer me her baby to take care of when she goes back to work in the fall, but I don't think that'll pay the bills. If I had a couple it probably would, and that's more appealing than opening a daycare option, because a daycare would be lots of kids, so I wouldn't actually get to spend a tonne of time with my dear boy anyway. We'll see. I'd be sort of stuck home though, and I'm not sure how it works if, say, I have an appointment with my little guy, or just want to go away, or something. Sorry, daycare closed for today!

That's about it, I really have to find new things to talk about. I actually had a really productive day the other day, I put up a shelf in one of the cupboards for glasses, put up mini shelves under the stairs, did laundry and dishes, and took the baby for a walk. Good times. It makes up for the other days when we do nothing all day except watch Poko and Ellen. We had a power outage for a few hours, which is not very cool this time of year. Or, actually, it is cool, because our heat is electric. It came back on just after 6 though, so the house didn't get too cold. The fiancé will never again complain about my collection of giant candles in jars though.

sweet merciful crap

I don't know if I can keep up this page on dialup with a 6 month old, it's just not working out. I will keep posting whenever I can, but the time, patience and subject matter just so rarely occur simultaneously that it's getting increasingly sporadic, as I'm sure, loyal reader, you have noticed. I'm trying to keep my poor boy from going crazy with teething, he's got 6 teeth through and another on the way, which is just cruel for such a tiny boy. He hasn't had a break since the first one made its appearance almost 3 months ago. There's a craft fair type thing in just over a month that I'm thinking of getting a table at, it's only $8 and I'm sure I can get some photography or something together by then. We'll see. I'm also realising that my sweet boy is almost 7 months old, which means I have about 5 months of mat leave left, and no definite plan for what's to happen after that. I'm planning to go meet with somebody at the district office and see if they can do anything for me. I understand and can respect that they want people to start out with supplying, but the day to day thing just isn't going to work. Even if I can find someone to watch the baby on extremely short notice, they'd have to live next door in order for it to be on the way to work, and with only one car, it'll be tricky for the fiancé to live up to his end of the carpooling agreement, unless I'm strictly at the high school in town and can ride along.

Come on lottery, I don't need $54 million, just maybe $1 million would do fine.

That's all my news and rants for now! I miss blogback. I'm turning on blogger comments, and will make it so you don't have to sign in for now, until I get spam crap.

because it's not bad enough being on dialup

my monitor doesn't work, so I'm without computer altogether. This is being posted on the fiance's laptop which I made him bring home so I could surf and pay some bills. I apparently forgot to pay the phone bill last month, which is generally frowned upon. After much hassle, we finally got our satellite installed. It took some doing, they thought we were in PEI, then perhaps near Woodstock, which we are just not. I got a free month of movie networks as compensation, so I'm relatively happy. Also, I can now watch Ellen, which is also good.

Anyway, tiny laptop keyboards are annoying, so this is short and sweet. Just wanted to let you all know I'm alive, in case anyone was wondering.

later skaters.

via Trinity again

List the top 100 songs from your grad year. Bold the ones you actually like. Pick a favourite and underline it. And strikethrough the ones you loathe. Italicize the ones that were guilty pleasures.

1. Candle In The Wind 1997, Elton John
2. Foolish Games / You Were Meant For Me, Jewel
3. I'll Be Missing You, Puff Daddy and Faith Evans (the beginning of the 'who needs to write new music?' phenomenon, I think)
4. Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton
5. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down, Puff Daddy
6. I Believe I Can Fly, R. Kelly (in his pre-molester days)
7. Don't Let Go (Love), En Vogue
8. Return Of The Mack, Mark Morrison
9. How Do I Live, LeAnn Rimes
10. Wannabe, Spice Girls
11. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), Backstreet Boys
12. MMMBop, Hanson
13. For You I Will, Monica
14. You Make Me Wanna..., Usher
15. Bitch, Meredith Brooks
16. Nobody Keith Sweat
17. Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind
18. Barely Breathing, Duncan Sheik
19. Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Az Yet Featuring Peter Cetera
20. Mo Money Mo Problems, Notorious B.I.G.
21. The Freshmen, Verve Pipe
22. I Want You, Savage Garden
23. No Diggity, BLACKstreet Featuring Dr. Dre
24. I Belong To You (Every Time I See Your Face), Rome
25. Hypnotize, Notorious B.I.G.
26. Every Time I Close My Eyes, Babyface
27. In My Bed, Dru Hill
28. Say You'll Be There, Spice Girls
29. Do You Know (What It Takes), Robyn
30. 4 Seasons Of Loneliness, Boyz II Men
31. G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T., Changing Faces
32. Honey, Mariah Carey
33. I Believe In You And Me, Whitney Houston
34. Da' Dip, Freaknasty
35. 2 Become 1, Spice Girls
36. All For You, Sister Hazel
37. Cupid, 112
38. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?, Paula Cole
39. Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin
40. It's Your Love, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
41. Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit, Gina G
42. Mouth, Merril Bainbridge
43. All Cried Out, Allure Featuring 112
44. I'm Still In Love With You, New Edition
45. Invisible Man, 98 Degrees
46. Not Tonight, Lil' Kim
47. Look Into My Eyes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
48. Get It Together, 702
49. All By Myself, Celine Dion
50. It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion (seriously, how many songs does one woman need on the countdown?
51. My Love Is The Shhh!, Somethin' For The People
52. Where Do You Go, No Mercy
53. I Finally Found Someone, Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams
54. I'll Be, Foxy Brown Featuring Jay-Z
55. If It Makes You Happy , Sheryl Crow
56. Never Make A Promise, Dru Hill
57. When You Love A Woman, Journey
58. Up Jumps Da Boogie, Magoo And Timbaland (can't say as I know that one...)
59. I Don't Want To / I Love Me Some Him, Toni Braxton
60. Everyday Is A Winding Road, Sheryl Crow
61. Cold Rock A Party, Mc Lyte
62. Pony, Ginuwine
63. Building A Mystery, Sarah McLachlan
64. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis
65. Your Woman, White Town
66. C U When U Get There, Coolio
67. Change The World, Eric Clapton
68. My Baby Daddy, B-Rock and The Bizz (seriously, what are these songs?)
69. Tubthumping, Chumbawamba
70. Gotham City, R. Kelly
71. Last Night, Az Yet
72. ESPN Presents The Jock Jam, Various Artists
73. Big Daddy, Heavy D
74. What About Us, Total
75. Smile, Scarface
76. What's On Tonight, Montell Jordan
77. Secret Garden, Bruce Springsteen
78. The One I Gave My Heart, w Aaliyah
79. Fly Like An Eagle, Seal
80. No Time, Lil' Kim
81. Naked Eye, Luscious Jackson
82. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
83. On and On, Erykah Badu
84. Don't Wanna Be A Player, Joe
85. I Shot The Sheriff, Warren G
86. You Should Be Mine (Don't Waste Your Time), Brian McKnight Featuring Mase
87. Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Madonna
88. Someone, SWV
89. Go The Distance, Michael Bolton (oh, my, barf)
90. One More Time, Real McCoy
91. Butta Love, Next
92. Coco Jamboo, Mr. President
93. Twisted, Keith Sweat
94. Barbie Girl, Aqua (so catchy, evil, evil!)
95. When You're Gone / Free To Decide, Cranberries
96. Let Me Clear My Throat, DJ Kool
97. I Like It, Blackout Allstars
98. You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
99. You Must Love Me, Madonna
100. Let It Go, Ray J

go find your songs, and do up your list. Scroll down a bit to find the top songs.

via Trinity

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying, 'Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.'

'OH NO!' the president exclaims. 'That's terrible!'

His staff is stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits, head in hands. Finally, the president looks up and asks, 'How many is a brazillion?'

ha ha ha!

minesweeper queen

on this computer anyway. I've beaten all my dear fiancé's best times. He's pretty excited. Minesweeper is funny. If you know how to play it, it's ... not easy to beat, necessarily, but easy to know how to beat. Like pool. But if you don't know how to play, it's really hard to understand.

My sweet boy and I went for a walk today, it's absolutely gorgeous out. We saw a butterfly and a bluejay. I did anyway, he goes into sort of a trance and usually falls asleep on walks. Oh, I saw a tiny, tiny snake too. I thought it was an earthworm who had been in the sun too long, but then it moved, very un-wormlike. Sort of neat. I've got to remember to bring my camera on walks, being out of the city, I actually see nature worth taking pictures of. The fiancé is just getting over a nasty cold, which I and our dear boy managed to avoid, until yesterday. Poor baby is all stuffy and coughing, although he seems more just stuffy and whiny today. And tired, he was up lots last night. Good times. I just am stuffy and have a sore throat. I've started him back on cereal, we tried it last week but he got so gassy, he was having farts that would rival any grown man's. It didn't seem very fun, so I gave him a couple of days off, and we're having just like, a teaspoon of cereal a day for now, until he gets used to it.

That's about it. I'm tired, but am going to try to work on this family-type website I keep talking about. I promise though, and if I go back on my word you all have the right to verbally berate me, that I won't have a baby blog, where I type entries pretending to be my son and tell you all about the exciting things "I" did today. I promise. You can even slap me around a bit if I do that.

jallapenno out.

not really all that exciting, I'm afraid

It's raining, I have to take my car in to get the bushings fixed, or replaced, or something. What is a bushing? I don't really know, but when they're broken, it's apparently bad news. Luckily it's under warantee for another like, 4000kms, so I'm not having to pay for this. The fiancé is home sick, and my dear boy is sleeping, after being a whiney jerk for a good part of the morning and yesterday. Maybe jerk is too strong, but definitely whiney. It's fun, I guess, to be learning what kind of noises you can make. Just unfortunate that they're mostly really loud. heh.

anyway, I'm going to shower, I just paid my mastercard bill and now feel like crying because I officially have NO money again, after having my line of credit almost paid off. such is life, I suppose. I do have some cake though, that my mom made for me, so that should help. I also actually have some cake that my mom made for my sister. We've been having the same birthday cakes (each of us has our favourite, I get chocolate with boiled icing, my sister gets angel cake) since we were old enough to have opinions. Some things are just always good. There was only one year, I think, where I didn't get my chocolate cake with boiled icing. It was a rough one, I'll tell ya.

Hope you're all enjoying my birthday as much as I am!

effing effer monitor

or computer, I'm not sure which. Twice now, the computer has gone to sleep, taking with it the monitor, and the computer will wake up when prompted with a keystroke or pushing of buttons, but the monitor will not. Both times it eventually has, after much restarting and just waiting, but I fear someday it will not. What to do?

Because I could not play online (not that I do much anyway, these days), I painted the bathroom. I primed and did most edges yesterday, so finished up with the main painting and a re-do of the edges. Looks pretty good, I think. It's a yellow that's a bit darker than I would have liked originally, but it goes perfectly with the wood, tile floor, and the wall tiles that we've picked out, so it's great. We also got our first mail in the mailbox today, very exciting. 2 bills and a Marks Work Wearhouse flyer. Weehoo.

I'm really tired, so I'm going to go nap until my honey gets home to cook me supper. Hehe. I had a productive day of painting and dish-doing, so I get supper cooked for me. Not a bad deal.

it's that time of year again!

that's right, time for you to buy me presents. No, sillies, it's not Christmas. In case you're blind, or just really, really unobservant, it's my birthday! Soon, anyway. It's also what is apparently called my champagne birthday, although I can't find any info about that on Google. Disappointing, I must say. Anyway, I'll be 26 on the 26th, which is pretty fun.

I'm on my own for a bit longer than usual today, the fiancé is going to see a scary movie, and thus I am not. I just don't really enjoy being scared. Call me crazy. I like movies with some suspense, but not jumpy or gory movies.

My sweet baby and I are going to put up our mailbox today, which could be a bit of an adventure. We put up the post to sit said mailbox on already, so I should be able to manage screwing the box on top. I'm pretty handy. I also had to put the mailbox together a bit, with no instructions, and it seems to be working, so I've gained confidence in my mailbox abilities.

Back to my birthday. I've been asked to post a wishlist, so I'm going to revive the buy me stuff page. I've actually got some ideas, but not many. I have a hard time. There are lots of things we need for the house, but since, with the baby, I have a feeling that all other gift-related holidays will no longer revolve around me, I feel like I have a right to just ask for me things on my birthday. It's not so much about the presents, (although who doesn't like getting stuff?) and it may change as I get older, but I really like the recognition, people knowing it's my birthday and wishing me well. You don't get that on a regular basis, and I enjoy it. Pay attention to ME! Thanks. You guys are great.

I really am going to make a page for the baby, I just have to think of a name and like, create it. It'll likely be something like meandthefiance.ca with a subpage for our dear boy. I don't like ads and hassle, and I want to be able to split it into pages for each month, so I'll just spend the $20 and get a new full site. That way I can have all the family going there too. I know some of my family reads this site, but I also know they do that with the understanding that I may rant and roar every now and then. I don't necessarily want my WHOLE family, and the fiance's, to be reading about all my little adventures and annoyances.

Alright, off to update the gift page.

5 months

wow. Happy 5 month...birthday? Anniversary? Who knows. My little man is that old today. I can't believe it. His hobbies to date include chewing on stuff, making b-b-b-b-b-b and farty noises, as well as weird grunting sounds that make him cough after a while, waking up screaming in the night(why? I have no idea.), smiling at everyone he lays his beautiful blue-ish eyes on. He does have hair, but it's super light, so doesn't show up too well in pictures. One more month til we start on the food thing, I won't say solids, because they're really not. Good times.

I posted some more photos in his folder, go take a look. Here's a sampling.


(yes, I do put him to sleep on his back, but he flips over almost immediately.)


(I'm not actually sure what he was so surprised about here)





On a completely unrelated note, but sort of related, because it shows why I am worried about the kind of world my sweet boy will be growing up in...:

"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005

yeah, that's the family alright.

wow, dialup

soooooooooooooo slooooooooooooooooooow.

We're in, as of last Monday night, so it's been a week. In that time we've had lots of visitors, which is nice. I was on a mad rampage Tuesday and Wednesday, trying to get everything put away before the in-laws came to visit. I think I did really well, but apparently everything wasn't perfect. Whatev. Have to measure the bedroom furniture to see if there is any other way to organise it, our room is full of windows and a patio door, which is lovely, but doesn't leave much wall space for a variety of arrangements. We've also failed so far at the hanging of the pot rack, because the beams on the ceiling make it hang too low. May have an idea to fix that though.

I'll tell ya though, moving with a 4-month old, not a good idea. FYI. Next time, there'll be a babysitter or something involved. I underestimated how long it would take to load things, the packing wasn't so bad. When we rented the cargo van to bring the big stuff like the baby's furniture and our bed, it was not a good time. We learned as we were trying to load the crib that it had, of course, been assembled in his room, and was too wide to fit out the door. We then had to disassemble it, having no idea what we were doing, and no allan key to do it with. Good times. My poor sweet boy is teething also, and so wasn't really in the mood to be set down for any amount of time without screaming.

All's well that ends well though, I suppose. We have a lovely home, with lovely new appliances and bedroom furniture, and new to us livingroom furniture (it's giant, and red, but comfy). We still have a lot of work to do; I think there may be a landscaping party in the works. Wooh! You're all invited. I'm sure there will be beer involved, if that helps.

I'm going to go shower while my dear boy is napping. He has his 2 bottom teeth through, which was pretty traumatic for me, I have to say. It's early for that stuff, 6 months is average. Since this occurance there's been even more of the 'well *now* you'll stop breastfeeding?'. Um, no. I don't know how you guys drink, but there's not usually a lot of teeth involved. I know it happens, but we'll deal with that if/when it does. I figure my doctor knows more about what's best for my baby than most of the people who are suggesting that I stop breastfeeding, so I'll go with her counsel to not introduce anything else until 6 months. Then we get rice cereal, wohoo! Should be fun. He's doing well other than that too, he's a beast at about 18lbs, and I'm still not sure what colour his eyes will be, other than that they won't be blue.

The cats like the new place, they can sit on the stairs and peer through the railings to keep an eye on things, and there are lots of windows to paw at. Also no carpet to barf on, which is a bonus. They spent the first few days growling and hissing at eachother every time they came around a corner, but have gotten over that. Sure was fun.

Anyway, this is probably going to take an hour to publish, so I'd better stop. If anyone knows how to speed up dialup, I'm open to suggestions. I've heard of browseblast, but it costs money, so is a no go. I'm off to shower while my dear boy finishes his nap.

moving moving moving

packing sure is fun! I'm having a packing party, come on over! you can help move boxes too, once packed. It'll be a riot, I swear.

Our house has floors now, they're super swank. Well, maybe not swank, but definitely nice. I'm really tired from moving stuff daily and just trying to get everything done by the end of the month. It's coming together though, and it'll definitely be worth it in the end.

In other news, we're losing Rogers, so if any of you fools email me at that address, stop doing that. Get me at either hotmail, or, preferably, gmail. I haven't made the switch, even though I've got the account set up. I'll send out a mass email with all my new pertinent info when we get settled. We're going to have to go back to dial-up, I'm not looking forward to that. I've had highspeed since like, 1st year university, so this is definitely a step back.

In other, other news, my sweet boy is getting a tooth. I'm traumatised, it's too early. He can feel free to progress mentally as fast as he wants, but I don't want him to like, grow up faster than normal. Not cool. He's not really enjoying it either, it seems. I guess it's probably not very fun, I can't really remember. I don't think my wisdom teeth coming in hurt too much, and I don't remember anything before that.

Anyway, back to packing boxes, whee! I'm looking forward to packing clothes, they just go in garbage bags. Much easier. Doesn't work for dishes though.

good heavens

H.E.R.B. - Had Enough Religious Bullshit. That's about all I can say. The quotes are...astounding, to say the least.

Before you get all angry or anything, go see the page. It's not that I have an issue with religion, per se, but I think you can't impose your beliefs on your nation, let alone the world.

enjoy.

funnest website ever

What does your phone number spell? Mine, our new one, since despite what the Aliant guy told us, we can't take our Fredericton number with us to our house, spells a bunch of fun, random things. If your number isn't full of 0s or 1s, you're all set. Our old Freddy number was 455-flog, which was fun, but the Moncton one and this Freddy one don't spell anything, all full of 0s and 1s. Anyway, go and see what yours spells. It'll brighten your day, I promise.

We're starting to move things to the house, and we have floor in one room, the master bedroom, and it looks beautiful. Today I hung out with my dear boy while the Aliant guy (Aliant guy #2, who told me that Aliant guy #1 was a liar) hooked up our phone. It was quite a process, involving trudging through the woods and stuff to run the line. See, *that* I don't mind paying the requisite setup fee for. Flipping a switch, I mind paying for. We officially can't get cable, so once we get a little more settled we'll be getting a satellite I guess. Should be fun. Aliant has some deals. I'm actually glad to have a good excuse not to stick with Rogers, because I hate them. ha.

holy, heart attack, batman

I gotta tell ya, when you sign into your banking, and see an account measuring into 6 digits, not including decimal places, it's a little alarming. Especially when that is money that you now OWE, not that you actually posess. Mortgages sure are fun. Whatever, bring on the PC points!

girls' night out

My parents were up for a few days to visit and see the house, and to keep me company while the fiancé is away in Winnipeg. I took advantage of this by going out with my dear friends for an atrocious amount of Mexican food, not-so Mexican food, and even a drink or two. We ate until there was a very real danger of vomiting, because it's ok to make a total pig of yourself every now and then. I had TWO drinks, because my dear boy was home being bottle fed by his doting grandparents (also apparently he was doing a lot of screaming, which I, unfortunately, missed). We had special-ordered dessert that was, as restaurant desserts tend to be, a little disappointing. We made social commentary on everyone around us, trying to decide who was gay, straight, on dates, and whether the French gentlemen at the table diagonal to ours were talking about us and looking our way because we were cute and entertaining, or loud, or maybe both. We fed the pigeons bits of our tortillas, because they were there anyway, so we didn't figure it would hurt. We shocked and saddened our waitress by telling her that gas had gone up to 112.9 (regular) the day before. She thought we were joking. We weren't. I had luckily, on my way out to the house the day before, filled up at 98.9. I'm not sure what the highlight of the evening was, but one of the high points was definitely the carwash. It was one of the old, full-touch (as opposed to touchless) carwashes, with the scary giant brushes and weird dangly things that attack your car. A good time was had by all. Last night Jenn came over and we watched the Office marathon, because I had never seen it and I enjoy Steve Carrel. Tonight I'm not sure what my big plans are, but I bet it'll be exciting! I think today we'll go out and buy some fabric to make a sling for my dear boy. I have some, it used to be a duvet cover, but I think something less rainbowy and a bit stretchy would work better.

because I have nothing to talk about

I give you, loyal readers, the fall tv season premieres list. I only put the shows I think are good though. New ones that have interesting titles, or that I think I've heard of, I left too, but if it's crappy, in my opinion, or I have no idea what it is, it's just not gonna make the list. so if you want more, go here. I bolded the ones I'm most looking forward to.

Times are EST, I presume.


THU., SEPT. 8
8PM – 'The O.C.' (Fox) (you do SO watch this show.)

SAT., SEPT. 10
8PM – 'Cops' (Fox)(just kidding!) (well, that's really when it's on, but I could not, possibly, care less.)

SUN., SEPT. 11
8PM – 'The Simpsons' (Fox) (isn't the premiere usually like, really late? the Halloween episode?)
9PM – 'Family Guy' (Fox)
9:30PM – 'American Dad' (Fox)

TUE., SEPT. 13
8PM – 'Bones' (Fox) (looks kind of lame, but I'll give it a shot.)
8PM – 'Gilmore Girls' (WB)
9PM – 'House' (Fox)

WED., SEPT. 14
9PM – 'Head Cases' (Fox)

THU., SEPT. 15
8PM – 'Survivor: Guatemala' (CBS) (this is right up there with the O.C., and even at the same time, so you have to choose your guilty pleasure)

FRI., SEPT. 16
8PM – 'What I Like About You' (WB)
9PM – 'Threshold' (CBS, two-hour premiere)

SUN., SEPT. 18
7:30PM – 'King of the Hill' (Fox)

MON., SEPT. 19
8PM – 'Arrested Development' (Fox) (if you're not watching this, you really, really should be)
8PM – 'Surface' (NBC)
8:30PM - 'How I Met Your Mother' (CBS)
9PM – 'Las Vegas' (NBC)
10PM – 'CSI: Miami' (CBS) (he's so bad, it's good. his one-liners are just nowhere NEAR as good as Gil's though.)
10PM – 'Medium' (NBC) (she's annoying, and I hate the way they left the season as a cliffhanger, not because I'm so wanting to know what happened, but because the show isn't THAT good, with that much of a following, to pull that off. but I do like it.)

TUE., SEPT. 20
8PM - NCIS (CBS) (I can't believe they killed her!)
9PM – 'My Name is Earl' (NBC) (I think this is the one about the guy who has to apologise for all the bad things he's done? it looks funny, if it is.)
9:30PM – 'The Office' (NBC)
10PM – 'Nip/Tuck' (FX)
10PM – 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' (NBC)

WED., SEPT. 21
9PM – 'Lost' (ABC, new time) (so exciting!!)
10PM – 'Invasion' (ABC)
10PM – 'CSI: NY' (CBS)
10PM – Law & Order' (NBC)

THU., SEPT. 22
8PM – 'Joey' (NBC, one-hour premiere)
8PM – 'Everybody Hates Chris' (UPN) (I don't get this channel, but it sounds intriguing)
9PM – 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' (CBS) (I have a crush on all the boy CSIs, even Gil, cause he's wicked smart, and has good one-liners. Nick also, along with the chiselled jaw thing, now has the appeal of being a really good character, played by a guy who can *really* act. Warrick's just a hottie.)
9PM – 'The Apprentice' (NBC) (I don't watch this, but a lot of you probably do)
10PM – 'Criminal Minds' (CBS)
10PM – 'ER' (NBC)

FRI., SEPT. 23
8PM – 'Ghost Whisperer' (CBS)
10PM – 'Numb3rs' (CBS) (a show about math, with Fleischman from Northern Exposure, sweet!)
10PM – 'Inconceivable' (NBC)

SUN., SEPT. 25
7PM – 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' (ABC, two-hour premiere) (how do you not cry while watching this show? I need to know.)
8PM – 'Cold Case' (CBS)
8PM – 'Charmed' (WB) (yes, really)
9PM – 'Desperate Housewives' (ABC)
9PM – 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' (NBC)
10PM – 'Grey's Anatomy' (ABC)
10PM – 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' (HBO)

MON., SEPT. 26
all day - it's my birthday! wooh! buy me presents, please. No show premieres? wtf?

TUE., SEPT. 27
9PM – 'Commander In Chief' (ABC)
9PM – 'The Amazing Race: Family Edition' (CBS)
10PM – 'Boston Legal' (ABC)

WED., SEPT. 28
9PM – 'Criminal Minds' (CBS, time period debut)
9PM – 'Veronica Mars' (UPN) (I hope a channel we get picks this up, it's really good and super addictive)

THU., SEPT. 29
8PM – 'Alias' (ABC) ("First of all, my name isn't Michael Vaughan...")
8:30PM – 'Will & Grace' (NBC, live 90-minute premiere)

TUE., OCT. 4
10PM – 'Close to Home' (CBS)

WED., OCT. 5
8PM – 'One Tree Hill' (WB, new time)

Galadriel

Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.



Which fantasy / sci fi character are you?

via Jenn

I scored as Geek/Nerd. Haha! ok. go computer geeks! Geek/Nerd 40% Loner 33% Punk 33% Hot 20% Goth 13% Emo Kid 13% Prep 7% Jock 7% Stoner 0% "Ghetto" 0% What Highschool Clique Do You Belong To?

joys of messenger

I was out picking some tile and hardwood for the new place, and I came back to this message, from Jenn

JennX says:
Random funny thing.. there's a place at the market that sells your typical mid easter type stuff.. tabouli, samosas, hummus... We were there on the weekend, and I think they their sign maker needs help with their english, cuz they were selling "homos" for $2.50 a container.

too funny.

warning, mushy post

so, my dear boy has been a bit difficult the past few days. He just, every now and then throughout the day, generally when he's tired, will go from happy-giggling baby to screaming- as-if-we're-pulling-his-arms-off baby. This is a bit hard to deal with, since there is no apparent cause for his distress. He's not hungry, dirty, wet, or in pain as far as I can tell. He's not teething, and if one more person suggests that to me, I'm going to slap them. Either that or this is the longest, strangest, randomest teething session ever. Anyway, that coupled with the still not sleeping through the night thing, which has also been worse the past few days, and I'm feeling pretty sorry for myself. I know it can be worse, obviously, but it can also be better. I think that the moving / house stress is probably not helping either. Anyway, I'm watching Today, because it's the only thing on at 8am worth watching. There is a story on about this woman, a photographer. A few years ago, her sister gave birth to a baby, and was told that the baby was not going to survive more than a few days. This woman offered to do anything she could to help her sister out, and was asked to come and take photographs of her tiny neice so that they could always remember her clearly. She did, and although she admits it was the hardest day of her life, the fact that it helped her family so much led her to a career of sorts, taking pictures of babies and small children who are not expected to live very long. So, I'm sitting in the chair with my cranky boy, who has calmed down some and is eating and dosing off, and I'm watching all these poor parents with their poor, sick children, smiling and laughing in the pictures, or pictures of their babies who have died, and I'm just weeping.

Sometimes you just don't even come close to realising how good you have it.

edit:

just a little sidebar to that last post, I didn't want to make it any longer. After discovering his new talent of rolling from front to back, I go in to my dear boy's room last night, or this morning I suppose, at about 3:30, he's crying because he's rolled himself onto his stomach and has apparently forgotten that he is able to flip himself back over. Silly rabbit.

frigging productive day

and I'm effing tired. I did 3 loads of laundry, changed kitty litter, vaccuumed the kitchen and bathroom (the kitty litter will not be in the bathroom in the new house), unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, washed a bunch of pots and pans, made banana muffins, bought a new tv stand (we're trying to downgrade some of our enormous furniture), looked for a dvd stand, and priced hardwood flooring and ceramic tile. Not all in that order. I also tried my dear boy on some apple juice, which he just didn't really know what to do with. He made some pretty funny faces, but didn't drink much. Apparently you can give them apple or pear juice twice a day to go with their age, so at 4 months, he can have 4oz twice a day. It helps them get used to different flavours and makes introducing food later on a bit easier. I think I'll try the pear tomorrow though, it's a milder flavour so might be better to start. Honestly, I have no idea how any of us survived past babyhood. We slept on our stomachs, weren't all breastfed, were given food before 6 months. I'm going to ask about a few things like that at his next appointment...more needles, I'm not looking forward to it any more than my poor baby would be if he had any idea what was coming.

Also, he rolled over today, front to back, which was pretty exciting. Now, theoretically, he can roll over and over, since he rolled back to front a few weeks ago. It could take time for him to figure that out though. The fiancé and I were playing with him and put him on his tummy, as babies are supposed to do when playing sometimes, and he worked and worked and flipped himself over. Between the surprise of landing on his back and our clapping and cheering for his having done it, the little guy just kind of laid there for a minute with a look of 'what the HELL just happened??" on his face, but then realized we were happy and smiled and wiggled his happiness in response.

Random sidetrack. A few nights ago I made my version of East Side Marios linguine (linguini?) chicken amatriciana. It was fantastic, I'm proud to report. Thus, I figure I will post the recipe. Makes lots, enough for 2-3 with leftovers.

5-6 mushrooms, sliced
2T butter
1/2lb bacon, cut into 1/2" pieces
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
1 clove garlic, squished / diced / pressed
1/2 bottle marinara sauce and 1/2 bottle alfredo sauce
OR a bottle of rosé sauce.
linguine, enough for however many people you're feeding
salt, pepper, parmasean cheese

This is good to do all in one pan, that way all the flavours mix together and you have fewer dishes.

brown the mushrooms a bit in the butter, just until they start to turn transluscent. take them out of the pan and set them aside for later.
cook the bacon, not crispy, just done. put it with the mushrooms.
start cooking your pasta.
cook the chicken pieces together with the garlic and some salt and pepper, in the bacon grease. mmmm.
put the bacon and mushrooms back in with the chicken, and add your sauce. I added a bit more marinara sauce than alfredo, but you can frig with it until it's to your liking. once the pasta is cooked, drain it, do NOT rinse it (sauce sticks better to unrinsed pasta) and add it to the pot.
mix everything together and serve to your guests. use pasta bowl-plate things if you can, they're fun. Serve with parmasean cheese if you like. If you want to get really fancy, make some garlic bread, I really like the PC frozen u-bake stuff, it's delish. Don't make too much though, since the linguine is really filling.

enjoy!

recent searches

people are interesting, and weird things lead them to my site. Searches for the following:
during exam" pee wet (ok, that's just funny)

sneakers (I actually get a lot of searches for sneakers, I'm not sure if people have like, sneaker fetishes, or if they're just looking for fashion tips)

what kind of rides at the FREX (in answer to that one, regular carnival type rides, I suppose. Ferris wheels, that kind of thing. One year they had a super fun hang-gliding type ride, but I didn't see it last year.

Most of my other referrals come from my lovely amigos over on the sidebar there, from people looking up my Blogger profile for whatever reason, and from people looking for spicy things, the sort of which I do not have here. My apologies. I don't get nearly the variety that Jenn gets though.

funny

I got this a while ago from my mom, who thought I'd see the humour in it, now that I'm a mom. It's pretty big, almost 2megs, so I'd recommend staying away if you're anywhere near a dial-up connection, but if you have a few minutes and are or have ever known a mother, this will be pretty funny to you too.

enjoy

p.s. It took me a really long time to type that last line, as I have apparently forgotten where all the non-letter keys lie on the keyboard. Unfortunate.

so, it's official

pretty much. Our bid's been accepted, with the conditions we put on about things found in the inspection needing to be fixed (nothing big, since it is a new house), there's no ecoli in the water, and we close August 15th. Go have a gander, I made a movie. It's broken into 2 parts, and ends rather abruptly because I was trying to make it small enough for my parents to see on their cottage dial-up account.
downstairs and upstairs. Enjoy my sweet narration at the beginning. Apologies for the format, I don't know if everyone will be able to see it, but the only program I had to change the ginormous .avi file into anything more manageable was Windows Movie Maker, which of course saves in its own file format.

In other news, I'm up and posting at 7am because, as some of you may be aware, babies don't understand about weekends and sleeping in. He's up, happy as ever, gnawing on the edges of his excersaucer, which he's actually not quite big enough for. I think he's not teething, because he's been gnawing on stuff for a couple of weeks now, but he really does put everything he comes in contact with into his mouth. And tries to gum it to death. We also had him in the jolly jumper yesterday, which he enjoys, even though he's also not technically big enough for that either. Well, he's *big* enough for both of them, he weighs about 17lbs, but he can't sit up on his own, so he's not supposed to be in them. Whatev, he likes it, and I'm not going to leave him in either while I go get a spa treatment or anything. We're going to have to buy him a new carseat too, because he's almost too big for his infant carrier jobbie. I'm pretty sure they're supposed to last more than 4 months, but maybe not. He doesn't really seem big enough for the stroller without the carseat in it, but I guess he must be.

That's about all my news. I can hear my dear boy putting a great deal of effort into soiling himself, so I suppose I had better go take care of that.

all grown up

sort of. we may have just bought a house. That's pretty scary. I'm not going to post any pictures or anything yet, because I want to wait until we get all the inspections and everything done before I get too excited. It's outside the city, really pretty location, with a yard and stuff. Not huge, but we're a pretty small family, so it's perfect. Really nice, cedar shingles, all pine interior, loads of windows and glass doors and well insulated so that we won't cook all summer. I'm excited.

man...within a year, get pregnant, get engaged, have a baby, buy a house. If we actually end up getting married, we'll have done like, every major stressful life event inside of about 15 months. That's just silly.

as promised

the missing cat poster.

hmm

edit: sorry the blog was all buggered, blogger is being difficult today...


Apparently that last post about the 26 things project was for June, and there's a new list out for July. If you, like me, didn't take a single picture for the June list, you can pretend you didn't know about it, and just start fresh with this new list.

discarded
sunday
sleep
round
light up
important
profile
unkept
impressive
layers
eat
celebrate
clear
baby (gee, I wonder what that picture will be of...maybe I'll surprise you!)
six
stamp
faux
photographer
publication
storage
floppy
parking sign
entertainment
mixed bag
aged
down the street

Have fun!

I did get a picture of that lost kitty sign, I'll upload it later when the babe is napping.

two days in a row, wow

I just had to though. I was out and about today, getting a gift bag and tissue paper for my dear fiancé's birthday present, renting a movie, buying things at Superstore. On my way home from the movie store, I saw the sweetest and yet heartbreaking thing. There was a missing cat poster on the lamp post, but rather than your standard photo and phone number, this was a work of art. By, I'm guessing, 4 year olds. It had a hand-drawn picture of possibly the ugliest cat ever, described as grey, coloured in solid black with a white face. His name is Radar. The kids had written all over it things like "we love Rabar" and "I (heart) Ray" and their phone number with backwards 4s in it. The grown-up in the house had written in small but very clear letters in the top right corner 'if you have any infomation please call 455-xxxx'. I wanted to take a picture of it, but all I had on my was my cell phone which can take pictures, but not great ones, and then the light changed for me to cross the street. I'm very seriously considering going back to take a picture with my camera. I really hope they find their cat, it's so sad to lose a pet, you just never know what happened or where they went for sure. We lost a cat when I was 11, but we (a friend of my sister's actually, while babysitting) found him a few months later living with another family. Weird eh? What are the odds? We lost a couple of other cats too though, and didn't have such luck.

baby you can drive my car

seriously, you can. I think I'm going to sell it and lease something a *little* bigger with a/c. I like my car, and it still has warantee and everything on it, but I think with the amount of stuff we need to lug with us now, it's not going to work very well. I have discovered that I can fit my stroller in the trunk, but it has to go in just so, and the handle still meets prematurely with the trunk when it closes, but it will close. Also, then I can't fit anything else in, like a playpen or, say, luggage. Good times. I don't know why, it's a good size trunk and a normal stroller. Clearly not a family car!

As I've been thinking of selling though, I've been thinking more about the car itself, and when I was driving back from Moncton the other day, I decided that a person could tell a great deal about me by going for a drive with me in my car.

For example:

-I couldn't afford a really sweet car when I bought this one, but it's decent.
-My favourite colour is blue, so that's what colour my car is. I think the colour of your car is very important, you shouldn't just get whatever colour they have in the lot.
-I like to drive about 15 over the speed limit. I've basically convinced myself that the limit is actually 120, not 110, so I don't feel like I'm speeding much.
-I generally eat something unhealthy while driving, as evidenced by the chip bags in the little holder thing on the driver's side door
-I like doo-dads, but not too many. I have a flower that I won at the FREX a couple of years ago wrapped around the rearview mirror, and 2 bobbleheads in the back.
-I become emotionally attached to my belongings. One of the aforementioned bobbleheads, a dog named Bob, is broken and no longer bobs, but just sits by the rear windshield with his friend Lester, the bobbing lobster, who does indeed bob. They're both sort of old and faded, and Bob is a good 3-4 years old, but I just can't bear to part with him.
-I enjoy a variety of music. My sunvisor cd holder has cds by Coldplay, Fiona Apple, Maroon 5, Sheryl Crow, Robbie Williams, John Mayer, Tragically Hip, Sam Roberts, the Garden State soundtrack, and several homemade mixed cds with everything from Donovan to the B-52s to John Lennon.
-I still buy cds, I haven't downloaded more than a couple of songs in the past year.
-I have a baby. I care about said baby, so I have a carseat base, window shades, and one of those mirrors on the rear windshield so I can see him while I'm driving.

that's all I can think of for now, but that's a lot to tell about a person just from their car, isn't it?

money well spent

we bought the baby a mobile yesterday, and he digs it. It's all fancy, it plays classical music, lullabyes, or white noise (except that the white noise you have to turn up a lot to hear, so then if you switch back to the music you'll be deafened), and has things with apparently interesting patterns that move around, but pause every now and then to let the baby focus. This is all apparently good stuff. And he likes it, and it comes with a remote, which is also cool.

In less fun baby news, yesterday he had such a giant crap while we were at Superstore that I had to wash everything he was touching at the time, including the carseat (which luckily has a removeable, washable cover), and had to rinse him off in the sink, which he did not enjoy but seemed to get used to as I explained to him that it was just like a bath, but with moving water. All that poo, and he hardly kicked up a fuss until I took him out of the seat and was like, hmm, your pants are wet...that's odd. Maybe he sensed my grossed-outedness and was just responding to that.

Either way, gross.

on a more serious note

the Moncton SPCA has way, way too many cats. There are way, way too many really stupid people who don't understand that you shouldn't own pets if you can't afford to properly care for them (get your pets spayed or neutered, Bob Barker agrees..), and they're getting about 30 cats a day now. Sick. Because they need so badly to get these little guys adopted, they're waiving the fee for adopting adult cats, and you just have to pay the spay/neuter deposit if you'd rather a kitten. Go on, get one. Or 2, they like to have a friend. They may try to kill each other at first, but that will stop.

non-baby post!

I only ever did the 2003 one, but there was one last summer too. You should play, no prizes or anything, but it's a fun sort of photographic scavenger hunt. Check it out.

The list of things to photograph. Use your imagination and discretion to decide what each thing means to you.

Direction
Used
Carry
Falling
Permanent
Connection
Unfamiliar
Silence
Pile
In/Out
Amazing
Sometimes
Everyday
Can't Live Without
On the Move
Holding Back
Out of Control
Awe Inspiring
Just a Sample
On the Edge
Do You See What I See?
All Grown Up
What The?
Making It Official
In Two's
Unfinished Business

for your reassurance

just so you don't think I only take mocking pictures of my dear boy, here is one I made that I think is pretty neat.

oh my gross

I think I just saw my first Junebug (sorry I couldn't find a bigger picture, lol), and do I ever hate those giant, swarmy, stupid bastard bugs....barf. I love summer, but I could definitely do without this particular harbinger of warm weather. Is that spelled right? Or even used right? whatev, I'm tired and going to bed.

picture time

enjoy!

new linky-love

random factoids to keep your days interesting. I'll put it on the sidebar too, in case you're too lazy to bookmark it yourself.

also, from Mitch, StoreWars. Odd, but entertaining.

funny

also, 2 people in recent tracking history have stumbled across my site because of my link in a previous post to the Ronco Yogurt Maker and Beef Jerky Machine. That still makes me laugh. And shudder a bit.

some of you may recall

I got engaged a while back. We've been fairly busy what with the having a baby and moving to Fredericton thing, but that's all relatively settled out now, so we're thinking maybe we should actually start planning this wedding thing. Since I've only been to like, 4 weddings (1 park, 1 church, 1 catholic church (yes, it's its own category) and 1 in a home), and the fiancé is a man, we're sort of hard up for ideas. Going away is nice, but we both have broke friends who wouldn't be able to make it anywhere exciting. At the same time, I don't want to have a lame-o wedding that I'll regret for not being cooler.

We sort of thought of having it at my parents cottage, but there just isn't space there for people to hang out / stay over, or at their house because they have a nice huge yard, but we'd have to decide that really soon, because I think we're aiming for a fall wedding, and the decorating in my parents' yard is courtesy of hurricane Juan. That guy was a jerk. It's totally do-able, but would take a little time. So basically, I'm looking for ideas.

I've been watching Wedding Story on TLC, but the weddings on there are almost exclusively churchy, and we're just not. We're also not the "Life's Weird Weddings" type though, where they get married underwater and whatnot. I may not be the princess type, but I do want to have a nice dress and flowers. So any ideas in general, or locations, or good places to have receptions, I'm all ears. Or eyes, in this case, since I'll be reading. I feel sort of silly, like that as a girl I should have all this stuff planned out, but I just don't. I don't even know where to begin.

Eloping is tempting, but out of the question as our parents would quite literally kill us.

I think also we should involve the cats. They can wear little kitty tuxedoes or something.

Just kidding. They wouldn't wear tuxedos. Just fancy collars.

how do you expect me to post

when you don't come over and hold the baby?

just kidding, I did have some visitors, and it was a good week overall. it's quite something though, the difference it makes to have someone else home, even though it's only for a few hours at night.

I went through all the digital baby photos and chose a bunch to print off; I figure the guy should have a proper album, not just pictures in folders on the computer. I'll have to get Mitch to show me how to do his fancy photo pages, then I'll do up an online album too. I also took black and white (well, colour printed in black and white) pictures of like, his feet, ear, tummy, etc, and am looking for a frame to do a sort of baby bits collage. I can't find a nice frame though, it needs to hold 8 pictures, and I'd rather they not just be in 2 rows, that's boring.

Ever hopeful, I rented 3 movies today. I'm too lazy for links, look them up yourselves. Birth, This Girl's Life, and After the Sunset. An ecclectic collection, I agree. They're all full week rentals, and the baby has been having longer stretches of being awake but not crying lately, so we should be able to watch them. Madagascar starts this weekend, I'm so frigging excited. Somebody has to come babysit so I can go...I don't think tiny babies and movie theatres mix very well. A friend of mine mentioned something about family movie days, which sounds very promising, and I think Madagascar is a fine movie to have for that sort of thing. Apparently it's afternoon or early evening movies, the sound is turned down and the lights aren't all the way off, and you don't have to feel bad if you have a screaming infant. Well, not as bad as you would at a normal movie, anyway.

ah, the boy awakes. later skaters.

who wants to hold the baby??

I'm all by my lonesome this week, until Thursday anyway. The fiancé has gone to Halifax for work, so it's just me and my small / furry boys here. Open invitation to anyone who wants to drop by and visit me / hold a generally happy but lately less so (gassy and growing pains and whatnot) baby.

Things are still going pretty well, the baby spent the night in his crib last night, he had been sleeping in a bassinet in our room because it's just easier for the nighttime feedings and stuff if he's right there. He's getting to be on more of a schedule now though, and also getting to be a noisy sleeper, so those things lend themselves well to him sleeping in his own room.

In non-baby news, I had to let my school know that I'm most likely not going back next year, which was hard. We can't find work for my sweetie pie though (really, not being all that picky or anything) and he really likes his job here, and I can't really go back to Moncton by myself with or without the baby to work. I've been playing Set For Life lately in the hopes that I won't have to go back to work anyway. It's worth a try, yes? I really do hold a legitimate hope that I'll win the lottery someday. You just never know.

I have no idea what I used to think about or talk about before the baby came along, because he occupies literally every moment of my thoughts now. Probably doesn't help that I'm not working or leaving the house much. My apologies for the suffering of the blog.

pictures

of course there are more, he has his own folder on the computer for heaven's sake, but these are good for now.

in answer to Mitch's question

no, the baby doesn't really sleep all that much. Except at night, but then so do I. He's going through his 2 week growth spurt right now, which apparently involves eating a lot more and being generally unhappy, but should only last a couple of days. I haven't updated earlier because for one, I have very little going on that doesn't involve the baby, and he really isn't very exciting to anyone but us, he's adorable but just eats, sleeps, and dirties diapers. He's getting to have more awake / alert time now, which is fun, but isn't generally up for much beyond cuddling and being walked around. Also, this taking care of an infant thing is quite time-consuming. It's very much moment-to-moment, like, ok, what does the baby need now? Food? ok. Ok, what does the baby need now? New diaper, check. Now? More food? Ok. We're starting to get into more of a routine, he's starting to go a bit longer between eating times, so all is pretty well.

Like I said, nothing else going on. Haven't seen any good movies lately, have been watching tv and staying up until about 11-12 at night because that's when the baby gets up to eat his bedtime snack meal, so I might as well stay up as be woken up shortly after going to bed myself. The cats are dealing with the interruption to their lives pretty well, they entertain themselves most of the time, and one of us is always available to pet them, so they're fine. They haven't quite figured out what this new little alien creature is, but don't seem to care too much either way.

My dear fiancé is going to do the bedtime snack feeding, so I'm going to go to bed myself.

baby!

posted this on the olde preggo blog, but just in case anyone hasn't wandered over there yet, here you go..

ok, so short and to the point, because I'm tired, and frankly would rather be hanging out with my sweet boy or napping than sitting in this remarkably uncomfy chair at the computer.

woke up at about 2am Saturday with contractions, they were far apart though, so we just sat tight and I went back to sleep. Woke up at about 3:30, they had progressed to what I would say is fairly painful and about 5 minutes apart. Woke everybody up and headed to the hospital. 12.5 hours, GBS antibiotics, phentenol, laughing gas, and a pedundal block later, I have this to show for it.


Robert Kieran (Kieran, not Robert)
8lbs 9oz
Born April 9, 2005 at 6:24pm


I wouldn't rush out and do it again, it was really painful and incredibly tiring, and every part of me aches still. It wasn't absolutely horrible though, and I think I managed pretty well. I'm amazed at myself, and what my body knows how to do, and what the last 9 months have given us. I'm way more hormonal now than I ever was while pregnant, my stomach is just...horrific, lol, but that's to be expected, and I'm so tired I could fall over. And it's so worth it. I'm going to go look at my baby. He's so soft and perfect and I just want to look at him and touch him and sniff him all the time.

More later when things settle down.

update

No baby yet...so, if nothing happens before Sunday (I'm still hoping, but it's looking less and less hopeful), I'm scheduled for an induction Sunday morning. It's kind of scary, since I don't know what to expect exactly. I mean, I'm going to have my water broken, but I mean as far as the whole labour process goes.

I rented Sideways, and just was not in the mood to watch it. I feel bad, because I'm pretty sure it's a really good movie. I got just over halfway through, and then gave up. It was a really nice day out, so I went for a walk and sat out on the deck instead. What can you do? I'm excited for Fever Pitch, it came out today. I know it's going to be predictable, but hey, Ebert and Roeper gave it "two thumbs WAY up", so it must be decent. I'm hoping Jimmy Fallon is good, he was SO good in SNL, but his movies have just looked...terrible.

yeah, update for real, baby is here, I'll add more later, he was born Saturday evening and is absolutely gorgeous. We're all home safe and sound!

(that first part was supposed to publish like, last friday, but didn't)

finally (or, most links ever)

some good stuff on video! 3 movies came out today that I'm excited about. Or at least happy about, and will be watching. One, Spanglish, I've seen, and recommend that you all see also. Adam Sandler also has a new movie coming out, a(nother) remake of The Longest Yard; it looks pretty funny. I'm very excited about Sideways, because it never came to theatres near me. Fredericton is the worst, Closer came to the theatre here 3 weeks ago, the movie came out on video last week. Nicely done. They overlapped for almost a week. Idiots. Anway, I'm also looking forward to watching Suspect 0, because it looks cool, and has Ben Kingsley, who's one of those respectable type actors, as well as Aaron Eckhart, who I just really like, and Carrie-Ann Moss.

Today is the day I find out if they're going to let me be pregnant forever, I'll be sure to update you on whatever I find out.

My hair is getting really long, probably the longest it's been in years. I've actually stopped automatically putting it in a ponytail every day, and I think it apprecitates that. It's also looking pretty good, considering I've only dyed it once, with a washout at that, the whole time I've been pregnant. It's not that I need to dye my hair, but I have been since high school, and I enjoy it. It's been just about every colour, but not black. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go with my 'yes, actually, I do go outside, but no, you can't really tell' complexion.

Noah, no!

all over the world...or at least continent, women's hearts are breaking. I know my sister's is for sure. They do have a new cute doctor guy on there, but still. Noah is the only guy left who's been on ER the whole time. It's kind of sad, but he's leaving for legitimate reasons, so that's good. Bring on the new cute doctors!

This is kind of a pathetic update, but there's just not much going on.

I (heart) spring in Canada

yesterday, it was +13, sunny, beautiful. No jacket required. Presently, it is freezing raining / hailing / wet snowing and definitely not +13. April Fools, it's not really spring!

I (heart) Google

no need to ask why, really. Gotta love a company with a sense of humour. Also check out your gmail account today, fun things going on there. My favourite is the graph, so sophisticated looking! If any of you want / need gmail, I have invites still, or again, or something. I think everyone I know has it though.

Happy April Fools! nobody pulled any pranks on me today. It's also spring forward weekend, which is significantly less fun than fall back weekend. Unless you're working on call or something, in which case it's fun to lose an hour of time.

mmm, virusy

hey. so, some time in the fairly recent past, my computer got that about: blank virus. I got rid of it, but now my sweetie pie's parents have my computer and it seems to be infected again. I had gotten 2 programs to get rid of it, I believe one was called something like Browser Hijack Blaster or something, but I can't remember the other one. I'd like to remember so that I can get them and fix my computer, even though I don't have it anymore. They're going to bring it up next time they come so I can fix it. Good times. I'll also be able to get my files and stuff off it though, which is nice. Anyway, if anyone has suggestions for really good spyware / virus removing software, that'd be great. I have adaware, but it just doesn't do it all the time.

thanks.

archives, nice and organised

haha, not really, but what the hell do I care. It took me forever just to get them all to display, I'm not sure what's wrong with what I had before, but it stopped working. Blogger doesn't really like when you tell it to republish the entire site, it tends to just say 0% for like, an hour, and not do anything. So for now, that's what it's going to look like.

edit: apparently my making it a list thing *did* work. it was all just bunched up before. whatev.

I put up a thingy on the right hand sidebar that shows how people get referred to my site, it's pretty fun. It has kind of an ugly giant advertising button that I can't get rid of, but it's interesting to see how people are finding my site. Some people are just searching 'moderately spicy', (come on, bookmark me!), while others are doing searches for totally random things. I hope they're finding me useful.

This is annoying, because I wanted to post this morning but Blogger wasn't working. I'm liking it less and less lately, but I do so love it when it's working. I tried to set up some other programs, but I'm so used to having Blogger do everything for me, that I have no idea how to do anything in the more advanced-type programs that expect me to think for myself. Anyway, so I have no idea what I was going to talk about, but I did have a couple of things, and now, obviously, I have crap.

It's super nice out, so I think I'll go clean off the deck chairs (how DO they get so scummy from being snowed on??) and have a sit outside for a bit. The windows in this apartment are really hard to open, so that in itself was a bit of a workout. I'm hoping to induce labour. I was out and about today, and every single cashier asked me if I was due soon. I said yes, today actually. That's fun to do, you should try it. It's true though, and so not really fun, because the baby was supposed to already be here. He's a jokester.

Hey, it's Van Gogh's birthday, check out Google. They're so fun, I wish I got to design the logo things.

"Then they had some kind of emotional reaction and vomited."

It's one of those things that's funny, and yet not funny at all, at the same time.

I thought it was interesting to know that they make their chili from scratch though. Good for them!

"Somewhere, somebody is missing a finger."

See what I mean about funny and not funny at all? That line is worthy of Horatio Cane himself!

super funny

I had a hard time with some of the answers, I've never really thought about what kind of food my dream man is like, but it's fun regardless.

dream date finder

leave a comment telling me who you got, and I'll tell you who I got.

technical difficulties

Why don't I have archives for Feb / March? Since you can't just republish your archives any more, I republished the whole gd site, so it's probably all the new colours now, not really what I wanted, and still no archives for Feb or March. Weird. Or, I just checked, and it didn't even republish everything, it just pretended to and took a really long time, but only redid the March page, which doesn't show up on the archives link page, and the index. Useful.

My printer turns on and makes working noises, but when I try to print something, the little icon comes up and says it is offline. Not helpful. We unplugged it from the computer and plugged it back in, and it 'found new hardware' and installed, but now is not working again.

It's spring, and almost Easter! I need to get myself some tulips I think. Not lillies, they're bad for kitties.

Speaking of kitties, for those concerned, it seems George may have a small ulcer in his stomach, which would explain his random barfing since it would get irritated from time to time. We're treating that with delicious medicine that he loves (ha), so hopefully this'll do the trick.

a note to (stupid) pet owners

Just because it's still technically winter, doesn't mean that you can lock your dog in your car with the windows up. It's about a million degrees in the sun today, and it will still get quite warm in the car. You are an idiot, and deserve to be kicked squarely in the face.

Would I have gotten in trouble if I had broken a window in that guy's car? I don't think I should. I'd probably get in more trouble for doing that than he would for endangering or killing his dog, because that's the super effective way that animal cruelty laws work.

random updates

I had possibly the worst sleep of my life last night, and have been wide awake and starving since about 5. I've eaten lots, but am still hungry.

I'm worried about my cat. He's at the vet, getting xrays, a barium series, and bloodwork to see why he keeps barfing. He's so tiny and cute, it makes me sad that he's sick. Animals being sick is always sad though, because they can't tell you what's wrong, and most of the time don't even show that something is. I'm also a little annoyed that my other cat doesn't seem to care that George isn't here. I feel awful leaving my cat at the vet's, I can't imagine how I'm going to deal with like, dropping my son off at his first day of school.

I want to meet my baby. I'm going insane. I am not, nor have I ever been, a patient person. This is worse than waiting for Christmas, because at least you know exactly when Christmas will arrive. It can't just show up 2 weeks early or a week late.

11am and 2pm are the worst times for daytime tv. Even HGTV and TLC don't have anything good on. I'm not sure how TLC can get away with being called that, it's totally non-educational. A&E is also, as MadTV put it, now neither artistic nor entertaining. Dog the Bounty Hunter? Come on.

Ever since I was in the hospital, I'm far too aware of what's on tv at any given time on any given weekday. Not good.

I bought the new Jack Johnson cd the other day, while I was out to get The Incredibles on DVD. If you haven't seen it, you really should, at least rent it. Also, as expected, Jack's new cd is great. He's mellow, but not so mellow so as to make you want to shoot yourself in the face. I think I may start a sidebar column here for my sister's musical recommendations. She's usually way ahead of the game, and right on the money.

It's St. Patrick's day, and I'm wearing red. That's not right. Did you know he wasn't even Irish? He was born in Wales and kidnapped by Irish pirates, and sold into slavery in Ireland. Looks like things worked out alright for him after that though.

I got paid today, finally. I'm pretty happy about that. I still don't have any money, but at least I have less no money than before. Does that make sense?

It took me 21 minutes to write this post. I'm easily distracted.

It took another hour before I was able to post it, because Blogger is being a piece of shit.

edit: Georges is ok, apparently. This is good news, of course, but still frustrating, because we don't know why he barfs. Apparently some cats just do. Also, Mort keeps hissing and growling at him because he has vet / medicine smell on him still. Poor guy!

blockbuster

I've been wondering what exactly the deal is with this 'no more late fees' thing, so I looked it up. I thought I'd share it with you, since most everyone I know rents movies. I've actually been thinking of joining zip.ca or something similar to the US Netflix, but haven't yet.

Anyway, so if you rent a movie at Blockbuster, you can keep it a week past its due date. On the 8th day, they charge you the price of the movie - new price if it's not available as a pre-viewed sale yet, and pre-viewed price if it is, and they subtract the price you paid to rent it. If you end up returning it sometime in the next 30 days, you'll get that sale price money back, less a $1.75 'restocking fee'. I had heard bad things, but that seems like a totally reasonable system to me. If you're going to keep the movie for over a month, you really do deserve to have to pay for it. I'm one of the 'oh, crap, the movie was due back at noon' customers, who gets it back, but maybe a few hours late or the next day occasionally. This is great for me.

domestic goddess

hells yeah. I made turkey pot pie last night for supper, and it was effing delicious. The hardest part was making pastry, but it wasn't too bad. If you're ever looking to make said pie, basically you just mix all of your leftover turkey dinner stuff - meat, veg, gravy, and put it in a pie shell, and bake it. Mmmmm.

In other news, my cat has been barfing a lot, so we're taking him in for some tests this afternoon. I took him in on the weekend and the vet said she couldn't see anything wrong, but could run tests if I wanted. I opted for no, because apparently I'm a bad cat-mom. She did say though that her cat does the same thing and there's nothing wrong with him, so I felt not bad about not testing. So, hopefully they'll find something, but it won't be anything serious, and they'll fix it.

We have everything put away in our apartment, basically. I know I said that a while ago, but everything is organised now and looks good. We got a closet organiser that took the fiancé's dad the entire afternoon to install, but now we have shelving, which is very useful, since we only have one dresser between us and I currently have 2 wardrobes. The office needs some shelves or something, it has this giant desk thing attached to the wall, with one drawer and no shelves, so all the computer stuff is just scattered all over the place.

The baby continues to mambo daily, showing that he's not running out of room like he's supposed to. I just keep expanding to accommodate his giant-ness. Very thoughtful of me, no? I'm officially full-term now, and am hoping to go into labour at any moment. My sister's coming up tomorrow, that would be a fun way to welcome her! Anyway, see the preggo blog for full deets on preggo stuff, and some whining.

2 things

part I: so gross

I toasted myself a bagel this morning that I had bought on Wednesday. Seems safe, yes? I then ate half of aforementioned bagel before noticing spots of mold growing on it. Not cool.

part II: why I'm a dork

Because I find stuff like this really interesting.

I rrrrolled and won!

I think that's a good sign. My first rrrroll up of the season, and I won a coffee. It's no thousand dollars, true, but it's better than a re-essayez. I gave it to my almost father-in-law. He was up here yesterday painting the nursery, and had a bit of an accident where the gallon bucket of paint knocked over and spilled all over the carpet. No good. Somehow though, he managed to get it out, and you'd never know anything was there if you didn't know. Even though I know, I can't tell. Mr. Clean and Shout Oxy Power did the trick. And lots of scrubbing.

My cat barfs a lot. The vet thought it might be worms, and gave him medicine for that, but he still barfs, so as I suspected (how would an indoor cat get worms?) it seems not to have been that. My vet said it could be hairballs that won't come up, so I'm now trying "intensive hairball treatment". It's basically normal hairball stuff, from the vet so it's a little stronger, given en masse for 3 days. Poor George. He hates it, so I have to squish it into the fur on his front leg so he'll lick it off. I feel bad using his natural instinct to be clean against him, but there's not much else I can do. I'm not cleaning up barf daily, that's just gross. I'm giving some to Mort daily too, he likes it, and it can't hurt. I'll switch to weekly after a bit.

Hmm, what else is exciting. I soaked my showerhead in vinegar and scrubbed it with a toothbrush so that water will shoot out of all of the holes, and in a relatively straight fashion. Who needs CLR? Not me! I also read reviews of a bunch of stuff on the Shopping Bags website, you should too. They've reviewed everything. Even cats. I also went with a friend to the Clay Café and painted a dinosaur piggy bank. All in all, a productive day, and a damn interesting one.

rrrrrroll up the rrrrrim!

I love it! I very rarely win anything, but whatever. It means that spring is coming, for one thing, and it does make drinking your coffee / hot chocolate more exciting. I had another ultrasound today, and am still not very impressed with the hospital here vs. the hospital in Moncton, but this will just have to do!

things are still a bit of a mess here, but there are a couple of piles of empty boxes, so when they get dealt with it'll be slightly better. I have roughly 8000 pieces of old mail, bills and such, that we don't need, but I have to go through them and see what's old and what's recent, and shred the old stuff. Good times. I also have a good-sized pile of cds and disks with no labels on them, so I have to go through them and see what's blank and what's useless. I just got my final bill from NBPower, apparently I've established an excellent credit record with them, and they thank me very much for my business.

OK, survey time. I hate Rogers. It's just a fact. They just sent me my final bill for our cable / internet service at the old place, since I've closed the account. Thing is, 2 things. One, the account isn't in my name, and they hassle me *every* time I call in, even though my name is attached to the account so that I'm able to call in and change things. Two, we didn't ask to have the account closed, just moved to here. Thus, them sending a bill to me personally, telling me to contact them soon to pay it before it gets sent to collections (pardon?) sends me into a near rage. I know I overreact a bit, but I just can't stand stupidity, especially when it's making me look bad. So, I don't really think I want to deal with them. We have to for cable, we have no options here other than sattelite, which is no better and no cheaper. I was going to downgrade my internet to hi-speed lite/express, which is still faster than dial-up, but only $30/month instead of $44. For the amount of downloading etc that I do, should be fine. Aliant has a deal on right now, that if you sign a year contract, their regular high-speed is $30/month also. Would be faster than the Rogers lite hi-speed, and I wouldn't have to deal with Rogers for internet. Which is good. They say there's a $35 installation charge, but I'm hopeful that I could work my way out of that, since I'd be switching to them and signing a contract. If not, I'll tell them to eff off, I'll stay with Rogers. Who has Aliant, is it good? I haven't had it for a long time, not since it first came out and was super super fast. I know it's not that way anymore, they (as well as Rogers) cap how fast you can download and upload. I think I'll just switch, it can't be worse, and their service is so much better. At the very least, they haven't truly pissed me off lately, and Rogers has, several times. They sent someone to our apartment to do the move, install the cable here, and the next week had no record of any of that, the request to move or the guy having been here. What? Just awful.

This post is random, I apologize.

good news / faith in humanity restored

Well. When I went to the hospital many moons ago...or a month, whichever...I did not think I would be staying long. I drove around a bit trying to decide where to park; I didn't really consider myself to be an emergency, so that was out, nor am I a visitor or a physician. That left only the street for parking. So I parked, smiling to myself that it was late enough that I didn't have to pay the meter. Then, well, I ended up staying for 2.5 weeks. I was able to get my car moved the next day, but it already had a ticket on it. Not for an expired meter, as you might expect, but for being parked overnight on the street in the winter, which as you know is strictly verboten here in the Maritimes.

I sort of forgot about it, since I never actually saw the ticket myself, until I got a friendly reminder from the City, telling me that if I didn't pay within 30 days of the violation, I'd get another notice and the fine would go up. No good. So, today, day 29 I think, haha, I call to pay my fine. Just on a whim, I ask the woman if I can possibly talk to someone about the ticket, since it was really unavoidable. It's $30, after all. She says sure, and sends me to the commissionaire. He's a super nice guy. I explain to him exactly what happened, that I know very well not to park on the street, but I didn't know where else to park, and didn't think I'd be staying for any length of time. He agreed that there was very little else I could have done, and changed the ticket to a warning.

Happy camper. I was fully prepared for them to tell me to shove it, but they didn't. That was nice of them.

floor space!

well, we're not quite done, but we put a good dent in the stuff that needed putting away today. I got all my clothes except sweaters away, which is no small task. I helped a little with sorting of boxes of junk collected from the computer desk and coffee table, and, well, floor, of the old apartment, so we've got most of that done too. The cats are very helpful with all of this, with their jumping in and out of boxes and whatnot. They've actually taken quite a liking to the nursery; it's nice and sunny in there most of the day, so they just laze around in the sun pools. I would too, if I were a cat.

I haven't showered yet today, and on any other day I probably just wouldn't bother, but I figure since it's poker night here tonight, I should look somewhat presentable. Does anybody want to buy an xBox? If I have to watch one more game of NHL 2005 I'm going to vomit. Seriously. It was very helpfully pointed out to me that I'll soon be surrounded by boys, except for some of my fish, but they really don't count. I'll be needing lots of girly visitors.

funny, and yet really offensive

weird how that works out. go ahead, click. via Kim.

Man, I'm still super bored. I'll be done bedrest on Wednesday, but I'm not even sure I'll make it that long. I start to feel really gross after a while of just lying around. Lack of movement and fresh air is no good for me. I saw a woman on the View this morning who's been on bedrest since November though, so I really have no right to complain.

Still working very slowly on getting things put away. It's a bit tricky to get all the clothes away, because I have basically 2 wardrobes now. At least one and a half. I don't want to store the regular stuff anywhere, because hopefully I'll be wearing those clothes in the not-too-distant future. I obviously also have to keep the preggo clothes out, because I'm ENORMOUS. I now have only 1 box of clothes in the nursery, but only because we moved the other one into the bedroom. Meh, whatever. I'm on my own all day today, which is brutal. I do have the cats, and they follow me around whenever I do get off my ass, which isn't often. They like having someone home all day to follow and sleep on. I'm interested but not worried at all to see how they'll react to the baby. The little experience they have had with babies, they are either afraid of them or just show no interest, since the little ones can't pet them or anything.

The couch and something more substantial than mini eggs for lunch is calling, so I should go and answer one of them at least. I may get adventurous and put some clothes away later, but no promises.