saw an old man shopping for lettuce in the grocery store.

i think he forgot his pants. all i could see were boxers. at least he had that going for him.

someone should tell him that it's snowing outside.

it has been a strange day.

someone is cutting their nails. in the office.

is it just me, or is that a little weird?

let's just take a minute to revel in the genius of cookie exchanges.

...

great. we had a cookie exchange at work today and i had committed to making the butterscotch toffee cookies. how great is it that by making a couple batches of one kind of cookie, you will get 18 other kinds of cookies???

i am a zombie. no thoughts at all in my head. i need to be inspired...i'm afraid that i am in a boring lull. (boring lull as in i am boring, not so much that i am bored. if that makes sense.) sorry for the boring posts...

maybe i will be recharged after overeating this weekend. i actually heard a meijer ad on the radio today: "just because there's a lot of food at a low price, doesn't mean that you have to eat it all." basically, meijer is telling us to not be big fat piggies at thanksgiving. nice.

all the managers are sitting in the conference room discussing our raises. you know what that means? i'm going home! yay!

thanksgiving is next week already. that was quick.

i had another random thought to blog...but i forget....

once upon a time there was a baby boy...

...who got swallowed by a baby chicken...

the baby boy cried and cried. he cried so much that he turned into a pumpkin!

fortunately, this was not a permanent state. at midnight *poof* the pumpkin turned back into a baby boy, and the baby boy went home to play with his puppy.

the end.

big day today.

did you vote?

nba opening day. gooooo pistons!!!!

the baby chicken costume didn't work out. he cried and cried. so he was a jack-o-lantern instead. still cute. despite the crying and crying there are pictures of isaiah in the baby chicken costume. cute! i just don't know how to post them....help?

last saturday, playing madden 2k5:

me: you guys are making yourselves [players]?

guys: yeah! and you're a kicker.

me: i'm a kicker?! cool!...hey, you can see 'A. Agustin'on the back of the jersey. why did you guys make my mom a player??

guys: that's LORIE.


hahahahaha...

ran half a mile yesterday...first time running in 10 months. yikes. it hurt. still hurts. that was only half a mile. i'm scared to play soccer. i foresee barfing during my first game back. don't know if that will be on thursday...we will see.

unlimited skips while listening to launch is essential when streaming all day. commercial free is key as well. loooove launchast plus.

i get to work from home tomorrow. actually, i get to work from home on fridays until further notice....isaiah will get to hang out with me while i work. =D i miss hanging out with him all day. ten weeks went by so fast...going back to work and leaving him for the whole day for the first time was so hard (i cried and cried on my way to work). you would think that it would be a relief to get out of the house and escape the constant diaper changing/feeding/soothing the baby. i guess it is, but i hate that i will inevitably miss the first time he does something cool, like crawl or roll over or speak...ugh. i would be so sad if his first word isn't in front of me and eric. anway...next to isaiah..i miss sleeping the most. it amazes me that millions of people do this all the time. it's so hard to stay awake and energized....

...zzzzz........

yesterday, i heard a story on the radio about michigan's attorney general cox. his first name is mike. they kept saying his name over and over. mike cox.

i thought that was funny.
(hi, i'm twelve years old.)

it's nice when all you have to do is sleep and eat all day.

i will miss it when i go back to work. only a few more days left...

they lied. your pictures aren't up yet. boo.

got peed on today. it's been a while, so i guess it was due.

oh, well. gives me an excuse to change the little man into a new overalls outfit. baby clothes are so cute.

there is potential for a cider mill trip this saturday. what fun! it's that time of year where we get to go to cider mills!!

it's my first time on a computer in a week. i haven't been away from a computer for this long since we went to hawaii last year. isaiah is growing and growing...can't believe he's almost ten pounds. i think he's super cute, even when he cries. so sometimes i just let him cry because he's so cute (but not for too long).

a couple weeks ago, eric and i rediscovered the greatness of $1.00 movies. i mean, how many movies would you go see if it only cost $1.00? you might even get me to see garfield for $1.00 if you catch me in the midst of utter boredom. aaand if you go to the first matinee, it's only $0.50. two quarters!! you can't even get candy bars at regular price for that cheap.

i have to go back to work in two weeks. =( i don't wanna go.

happy two-two birthday, bunso!!!

i'm so scared of bugs. i totally just ran away from a HUGE creepy crawly really fast moving bug. i totally fell in the process. hahahahahaha. i can't believe i fell.

my phone is broken. the screens are blank, and i have no idea who is calling me...no more caller id, no more voicemail notification, no more missed call notification. i'm basically taking a chance when i blindly use the search function in my address book...unless of course i've memorized your speed dial number. if you're super special, i actually have your phone number memorized. so look out for a mass email from me requesting your phone number....

...it's been awhile....or maybe it just seems like that because i've been spending my days indoors?

ryan and lorie are married...finally! woohoo!! what a great day. i love them so much. they're wedding was so gorgeous. i was doing so well, totally ready to not cry at all...happy day, no reason to cry, happy day, i'm not gonna cry. then there's my stupid brother. seeing any member of my immediate family cry will instantly send me into tears. so since i saw his tears right before kris and i walked down the aisle, i ended up crying all the way down the aisle. dangit. lorie did better...she made it all the way past the vows before she partially messed up her makeup. i was totally prepared to not cry during my speech, too...who am i kidding? i'm such a baby. i totally cried...lorie went down with me. our theory that getting our makeup professionally done by suzanne (who will make you look like a STAR, btw...) was shot down that night. oh well. it's just what happens when you're so happy for people you love so much. they're in fiji right now, which i think is pretty cool, since they are the first people i know that have been to fiji.

saw babbs today. i wish i knew how to post pictures, cuz then i would post the picture of him holding isaiah. such a big guy holding such a little dude. it's cute. i can't believe how fast isaiah is growing. he's starting to be chubby! chubbers...hehehe.

the aches and pains of giving birth are starting to go away. i totally want to start exercising, but i'm on restricted physical activities until october. booo. i can't even vacuum or climb the stairs a lot. i'm not even supposed to lift anything heavier than isaiah. you would think that the tremendous amount of physical pain of giving birth would put an end to all the discomforts that come with a pregnancy....nope! it kind of gets worse before it gets better. and it kind of sucks that the belly doesn't go away right away....at least when you're pregnant there's something in there making your belly big. i'm totally waiting for someone to ask me when i'm due. i will cry when that happens. when people say that you forget the pain of labor and delivery after you have your baby...it's totally true. i mean, you don't forget that it definitely sucked to go through...but it's not like you re-live it and suffer through it over and over. you have all the new hurts to go through anyway. but we won't go into detail...i wouldn't want to gross anyone out....=P

and i definitely just babbled.

i'm so sad the olympics are over. i looooove the olympics. i love that the games were on 7 channels so you could watch them all the time. i love even more that i was home the whole time so i could watch all the games i wanted and all the soccer games were broadcasted commercial free in their entirety. i only missed one u.s. women's soccer game and i think it was because i was in labor. a couple comments:

the u.s. women's soccer team is so awesome. i think they are so great that i totally want to be friends with them.

in general, the u.s. women's teams were awesome. chicks rule. i'm kind of glad the u.s. men's basketball team didn't get gold.

i don't understand the modern pentathlon. why is it called "modern"? last time i checked, fencing and riding horses wasn't all that common...

i've been spelling "triathlon" wrong my whole life. all those multi-discipline events...decathlon, pentathlon, triathlon....none of them have a second "a" after the "th"....so i guess that means i've been adding an extra syllable to all those words, too?

okay, i'm done. time to feed the baby.

i am in love all over again.

seven years and one night ago, my sister and i sat at my dad's bedside really late at night, unknowingly watching my dad fight through his last breaths. it was scary. we were crying and crying and didn't know what to do. i didn't consider God to be a great ally at the time, but all we could think of to do was to pray. so we did. "Our Father, who art in heaven...." it's amazing how comforting prayer is, no matter how small your faith.

i remember being woken up before 7am the next morning by my mom. "you guys? ryan?...come down. i think...he's not breathing..." he was gone. our relatives came. i was numb. i was supposed to go to the smokin' grooves concert that night. the first thing i did was wake up my friend up at 7:30am to tell him i couldn't go anymore. i don't know why that was the first thing i thought of. people came and took my daddy away. it was 11 days before my 18th birthday.

the thing that strikes me most about the memory of that day is that my mom specifically called for my brother. see....he's getting married in a couple weeks, and he's gonna be an uncle very soon here...and over the last seven years he's been a rock for my mom and me and my sister. he's dependable. if something goes wrong, i can call him, he'll show up, and i'll feel better. 'ryan's coming, everything will be okay.' he has been strength in our family that goes without saying...and no doubt it has been hard for him, and yet he does it. he so quickly took over the things my daddy would do that we didn't even notice that he did it. again, he's a rock. and it's time for him to put us second. he'll be a rock for lorie in their marriage. she's a lucky lady to have found the someone who will love her and support her forever in my brother. God has blessed them with that love for each other, and i'm thankful that He brought them together. that's really what that comes down to...

seven years after that night my sister and i cried and prayed together, i cried with my brother. i can't remember the last time i cried with him. it's like we never saw any tears because he was being strong for us. but we can be strong for you, ny. we'll be strong together. you're the best big brother and i love you.

due date: august 16, 2004.

status: still pregnant.

updates: to come...

bleh. i just erased a whole entry because it's that uninteresting. i think i've reached my limit of idleness. two weeks is about all i can take before i need to be useful again. there is only so much sleeping and tv watching and running errands that i can do without anything else to fill in the time.

hmm...not much to blog about. household chores can really fill up your day. it's amazing that it's normal for both parents to work these days.

i've discovered that i like watching 'revealed with jules asner'. i don't know why. but it's on every morning on e!...just in time for me to enjoy my breakfast.

pretty cards ALL over my living room. i love it!!!!

it's amazing what plastic sleeves and plastic boxes do for presentation.

oh, i'm kind of sad. this morning, it felt like the day before summer vacation (except for not really, right, suj?)...pretty exciting. still pretty exciting that i don't have to come into work on monday. but everyone here is so nice, and i didn't even think i would really miss them much. not that i'll miss them a ton, but there will be some missing going on....so many people stopping by...making sure they see me before i take off for a couple months...making sure i'm gonna come back after a couple months (hehe)... it just surprises me, i guess, that people care as much as they do.

don't get me wrong. i'm totally not working for the next 10 weeks. yeah!!

last night on the world poker tour, the winner donated all his profits to charity.  he won close to $1.3 million.

i thought that was nice.

it makes me happy to see that kind of generosity, particularly in the realm of poker.  fill in the blank:  if i made $1 million in a poker tournament, i would _______.

whenever i go out for breakfast i always struggle with getting eggs and bacon or pancakes or waffles.  pancakes and waffles don't come with anything else, so i never feel like it's a complete breakfast.  therefore, i hardly ever order them....BUT!  there's this restaurant that eric and i think is so great because when you order eggs and bacon they ask "do you want a side of toast or a side of pancakes?"  pancakes?!!!  how GREAT!  of course i'll have the pancakes!  (i think they might do this at ihop, but ihop is not so good.)  i only bring this up because i'm working at home (please note the lack of quotation marks) and i'm debating whether or not to make pancakes for breakfast....

my hands smell like garlic.  i forgot to get the smell off with stainless steel after i cooked last night.  not having a stainless steel sink sucks.  our kitchen sink right now is porcelain.  it's like having a bathroom sink in your kitchen, but bigger.  i can't wait til we get a stainless steel sink.

to fit an 11"x17" page in a 8.5"x11" bound report you...
 
1. fold 11"x17" page in half lengthwise, with the right side of the page on top.
2. fold the right side of the page in half in the opposite direction of the initial fold.
 
voila...the page gets folded to fit in a bound report without having to reduce the page to itty bitty print.  the great part is that it allows you to peek at the title block conveniently located on the bottom right hand corner.  they even have machines that do this kind of thing.  now for almost all of you, you probably don't care.  i, however, am dealing with inadequate folding.  can someone pleeaase tell me how hard it is to fold a piece of paper in half and then half of the half in half again?????  i wish i wasn't so anal.

neat-o.  user friendly formating.
 
whenever i finish a task at work, i like to reward myself with a break--check a blog, check my email, etc... when i finish a big task (or when i just don't feel like working), i check everything.  all my email accounts, all the blogs.  i even check my gmail account...(which i might get yelled at for having one because i think some people may have tried to get me to start one when they were first available).  regardless...i have a gmail account and i check it even though no one has the email address.  isn't that silly?
 
happy monday everyone.  begin two week count down of when i will be off of work for 10 weeks.

i found a michigan quarter! i had one when it first came out, but i lost it...and i almost just spent this one in the vending machine. phew!! i haven't been very good about keeping up with the new quarters. it's hard to collect them when you don't use cash. i hate it when you give the cashier change so you'll get quarters back, and they give you your change in nickels and dimes. argh. i want the quarters!!

this kid can't grow any bigger. there's no more room in my belly!!!! i thought it was crazy before when i could see little bumps here and there. but now...we're talking full on tummy distortion.

and i'm gonna stop talking about the baby. i sometimes feel like i talk about the subject too much, and i don't want people to think that i don't wonder about them. =( it's just so out there (literally), so i guess it's easy conversation, but really...what's going on with YOU? how are YOU doing? tell me about YOUR life because i really really want to know. so if you catch me babbling baby baby baby, feel free to stop me and change the subject. =)

people need to blog more. (perhaps this will make me more productive?) and my heights girls need to come back. we have no girls to play soccer with. and my random banter buddy is gone for soooo long. come back!!! (again, more productivity?) oh, and we need to stamp. august 7 is not so far away...

the doctor is pretty sure the baby's postitioned head-down right now (yay! we don't want a breeched baby - pray that he stays this way!) which got me thinking....i wonder what it's like to be upside-down all day. i'm thinking that it's not as uncomfortable for isaiah in my tummy as it would be outside of my tummy. anyway, now that i know how isaiah is positioned, i can name the movements: 'oh, that was his foot. that must have been his elbow. dude, his knee is protruding from my stomach.' you get the idea.

i am convinced that ice cream is one of the best ways to cheer people up. what is it about ice cream that makes us so happy? we went to my church's ice cream social last night and people were literally skipping in the parking lot. skipping like they were five year old girls. tangent: we got graded on skipping in kindergarten. how does that have any bearing on our ability to learn?

i just spent the last 10 minutes of my work day trying to figure out how to change the clock on my radio. i always forget how to change the clock. last time it took me a half hour to figure it out. i think i'm getting better.

i have a crate underneath my desk to prop my feet on while i work. my feet are looking like pillows with toes. i really need to get different sandals. the ones that i can fit my pillow feet into are brown, which doesn't really match a lot of my clothes. i wish a certain bunso hadn't broken all my black sandals. or stolen them. =P i used to have so many shoes. i tend to find them on my sister's feet months after i stop looking for them.

blah blah blah.

pointless blog.

i'm gonna go home now.

this is the song that i can't get out of my head:

down by the station early in the morning
see the little puffer bellies all in a row
see the engine driver pull the little handle
puff puff toot toot!
off they go

i am partial to gala apples. however, not all gala apples have the same texture or taste. why? perhaps the little sticker on the apples are not the rignt ones?

one a different note: don't you hate when people give you crappy work and then get pissed when you keep giving the work back to them with corrections? ugh.

i'm such a pack rat. i found my new kids on the block 'hanging tough' tape amongst my junk the other night. why why why do i still have it? and why why why did i not throw it away? hehe...anyone want an nkotb tape?

...and for some reason i can't bring myself to throw away the programs from all of the shows and musicals i've seen.

to take off the whole two weeks or not to take off the whole two weeks before the baby is born??

i kind of want to. why am i even struggling with this? i should take advantage of it, yes? they'd even pay me for it as part of my "short term disability". (that's what they consider maternity leave, btw..) and my manager doesn't care...

me: my doctor said i can work up until the baby is born.
mgr: oh, don't do that.
me: but he usually recommends that his patients take off the two weeks before the baby is born.
mgr: oh just do that. just work to the end of july.

how cool is she? such a blessing that she doesn't want me to work too hard. but two weeks by myself? will i be bored? i might. i don't want to sleep *all* the time. but i would be able to sleep. mmmm..sleeeeeep. i love sleep. especially now. do you know how annoying it is to wake up in the middle of the night/very early morning because you have to pee? it ruins a good night's sleep.

who am i kidding? i'm totally taking those two weeks off. you know what that means? i only have to work for another month!

let's talk about the pregnant maternal "glow" and how it's not so much a "glow" as it is the reflection of the light off of the excessive amounts of oil oozing from the pores making one break out as if she were 12 years old.

i forgot my lunch at home.

=(

this is potentially upsetting to someone with only two dollars in her wallet. there is always the option of charging...but when you have to charge a meal at say, wendy's, don't you feel somewhat inclined to buy more to justify the fact that you have to charge less than five bucks? or you end up going somewhere where you end up spending much more than you would want. and i know there are dollar menus...but my lunch was WAY better than the dollar menu options.

*ten minutes later..

good news: vendors are coming in to give us a presentation on tanks or something.
better news: they're providing us with pizza and pop! yesssss!!

WOOO
HOOO!!!!!

i can't remember the last time i felt well rested. i finally finished up these reports that have been looming over me for the past three weeks. *exhale* i can finally clean up my desk. i want to clean my desk and then go home and sleep.

the baby's moving a ton these days. it's really funny because you can see my tummy move when he does. i guess it's not that funny...but i'm pretty easily amused these days (more so than usual, haha). i think it's the hormones. (although it's probably because i'm a big dork.) eight more weeks til isaiah's e.t.a. eric thinks he'll be early. eight weeks!!! that's nothing! think of how fast the year has gone by already...memorial day feels like ages ago, and the first session of outdoor is already over. (i got sunburned again, btw...not doing so well for the non-tanline look i'm going for for ny and lorie's wedding.) i hope the rest of life doesn't go by this fast. i do like time better when it slows down....

argghhhh!!!

note to self: save often.

what am i doing??? i have so much work to do and yet...i'm sitting here checking blogs. ahhh!! i'm so stupid!! i'm a bit overwhelmed. all. i want. to do. is. sleep. i'm not about staying late for work on gorgeous fridays. i'm really not about being at work on most days. i feel a little stress. something i haven't felt very much while working. i don't really stress...least of all about work....yet looking at these huge piles of papers and binders on my desk makes me want to crawl into bed and disappear under the covers for a while.

i think i want some bubble tea.

is it supposed to rain?

my leg hurts.

i feel old. it's 9:30pm and i want to go to bed. must say i'm relieved the pistons made it to the finals in six. that's one more night this week that i don't have to go to bed late because of the game. it begins again on sunday. beat l.a.!!!

-my jaw hurts. i hope i'm not getting extra wisdom teeth.

-i value number pads. there isn't one on my laptop.

-how do people just dive into work and focus focus focus? i wish i could do that right now.

-it's dumb that we don't get tomorrow off and other people do.

-i don't understand why they say this last season of american idol was the best one yet. i thought it was awful. i would be so happy to never hear or see fantasia perform ever. the finals should have been between jennifer and latoya.

-GO PISTONS!!! they sure aren't getting love from anywhere else but detroit.

-we went to a baptism class last night. i wish the people that were teaching the class made a bigger deal out of the fact that all these little babies were going to be reborn in Christ. it's a big deal! it's a really good thing and a happy event! it kind of seemed like this is just something we did. i mean, they showed us what *i* thought was a good video, but i have a feeling that not everyone watching it thought it was a good video. bleh.

pringles were on sale at meijers for 88 cents. i bought some. they are addicting. i should not leave the can of pringles next to my computer or i will eat them all.

can i go home yet?

weekends are too short.

isn't it great when you think something is due very very soon (and you are nowhere close to being finished) and you find out you have two more weeks to finish it?

*exhale*

the kings just got sent home. i'm not sure how i feel about that. i wonder if chris webber was thinking of that time out/technical foul after he missed that three pointer and put his head on the court. i wonder if he thinks that whenever he fails to make the big play. "oh man...i did it again." =P

ahhh...much better. i don't know why my blog kept showing january's entries.

so i went to my doctor for my monthly appointment today and he asked: "so what are your strange cravings?" (figures. why is this the first question people ask pregnant people??? why???) so i oblige and give him the story about me loving ice cream even though i didn't before....and whaddya know?! they just happen to have a selection of ice cream at the doctor's office. first of all, what doctor's office keeps a stock of ice cream? not yours, i bet. and what doctor offers you ice cream upon departure?? MINE! my opinion of my doctor's office just jumped up 5,000 notches. i got a vanilla fudge drumstick and left the doctor's office happy. =) WAAAYY better than one of those sugar free suckers any day.

this is one of those weeks where it is so busy that you just want to stay in bed under the covers. i hate that i the first thought in my head when i woke up this morning was about work. yuck. it should never be like that. ever ever ever.

so my little niece (my cousin's daughter, not my brother's or my sister's) looooves the cat in the hat. she just got the dvd. one of the bonus features is this dance that the cat in the hat teaches to all these little kids.

sidenote: it is really cute to see a little four year old and her one-and-a-half-year-old brother bounce around "dancing".

anyway...so there's this awesome asian kid that is infinitely better than all the other kids dancing on this dvd...and i think it's that little kid from formality. (remember, jon? we wanted to kidnap him at the culture shock show last year?) cute kid. crazy style.

that's all.

oh! and we moved into our house over the weekend. we have a house! it's so great. and it's not at all sad that we're leaving the condo because our house is that great. if it weren't for loving friends, we definitely would not have been able to move in over the weekend. it would have taken months and lots of trips. you guys rock. well, i should say eric would not have been able to move in over the weekend since i was basically useless because i can't lift anything heavy, which stinks.....i'm soooooo thankful to everyone for helping. we still have cake, guys! come on over!! it's so yummy. and we should have electricity today, so we won't even have to eat it in the dark. =P

if i didn't remind you already, and if i you didn't see conehead's blog...

today is definitely free ice cream day.

there's another free ice cream day tomorrow, too, if you forget to go today.

there's something about the promise of free ice cream that makes the day so much better. ice cream in itself is great...especially when it is served to you. and FREE! free is GREAT.

it's really funny because i'm not really that big on ice cream (um, unless it's on a warm brownie or chocolate chip cookie and then you've found my weakness)...at least not before the baby. and NOW...oh my gosh...ice cream, milkshakes...for like 2 months i ate so much ice cream. i gained soooo much weight in 6 weeks....enough to evoke a "whoa! you gained a lot since the last appointment!" from the doctor. wow...that was a little humbling. it's funny that people think that you can eat whatever you want when you're pregnant....so not true. i mean, you definitely eat a little more and more often...but more healthy stuff (fruit, veggies, lots of water) is definitely encouraged. they even have a pregnancy diet so that you get all the nutrients that the baby needs. it's like a list that a dietician would give you if you were to go on a diet to lose weight...and in case anyone cared, the target weight gain for the average pregnancy is between 25 and 35 pounds.

i just realized that my last few posts have been about food. *sigh*

more on m&ms...(gold star to anyone who can guess my current craving =P)

is it just me, or does it seem like they are phasing out the brown m&ms? there are so few in my medium bag.

oh wait.

on the back of the bag it reads: "chocolate is better in color".

nevermind.

hahahahhaha. i'm so dumb.

i think i ate myself stupid with m&ms.

it's true. you can get a stomach ache from eating too much candy.

ahhhh! it is too beautiful outside to be working. everyone go home! or just leave work! go play outside! yeah!

whew...

(or phew...as amit would say).

...it's friday. at last. we like fridays.

*exhale*

my throat is really sore. i wanted to stay home from work today, but we have our house inspection tomorrow morning and i'd have to miss half a day for that...and then there's the pistons game tonight with chrissy...i couldn't really miss out on that, could i? i haven't been to a pistons game in forever. so i'm sticking it out at the office so i won't feel bad if i go to the game. yeah! i'll just make sure i bring some work home in case i have to *work from home* tomorrow.

i was wrong!! i totally thought it was going to be a girl!!

it's an isaiah instead. =D

isaiah like the prophet, not the former Bad Boy.

what a relief...no more "it". just beautiful isaiah that we can refer to as "he". the ultrasound even shows us his face. isn't that amazing???

they weren't lying when they (whoever "they" are) named charleston the friendliest/nicest city in the u.s. people are SO nice there. what is it with southern hospitality? why does all the hospitality have to be in the south? maybe it's something in the water....

today is ultrasound day. boy or girl? any bets? hehe...

i feel that there are so many big changes going on.

i had such a great time in new york. so much love. so much quality time (for once!). so much good food. so. much. fun.

thinking about last weekend makes me smile.

=D

unbelievable.

alvin calls me to tell me that my way home from work is a parking lot for like 10 miles because of an accident. (what a good friend. thanks, man!) okay. so i wait it out. i'm about to leave and i hear that there is "breaking news" on eastbound 696.

the freeway is closed right smack dab in the middle of my commute.

i hate that there is no other good way home. yuck. i hate traffic.

i should not complain. it's practically friday. we will be in nyc at this time tomorrow. =D

an event for the books:

Jedi 43
Pearl 35
Final

that's right. jedi rocked today. woohoo!!! go jedi!

don't you hate when you stop on a bad movie on tv and you just can't stop watching it? horrible acting and all.

people at my work make a big deal about st. patrick's day. people even took vacation days today. they aren't even irish. is it really such a great day to celebrate by drinking beer and eating corned beef all day long? i don't get it.

two things i learned this weekend:

1. paolo is really smart. i actually already knew this. it was just re-affirmed by his extensive knowledge of everything from body fat to whatever question was on the red cranium cards.

2. it is possible to laugh so hard that you are close to throwing up. perhaps this only happens when there is a lot of food that has been consumed. regardless, it is possible.


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i just noticed that the blogger ad at the top of my page corresponds to the day's post. like for my last post...there were ads about swimming with dolphins and personlized pregnancy calendars. creepy.

i'm picking up lorie from the airport tomorrow. that will be my 6th time in two weeks that i've been there. that's a lot.

i just got back from mississippi. memphis, actually. i was barely in mississippi. but i feel i was in mississippi long enough to mark it off on my "states i've visited map". my hotel was really close to graceland, but i didn't go. i did eat fried pickles and a bbq sandwich and a mississippi mud pie. i felt it was appropriate, being in the south and all. fried pickles are interesting. think blooming onion (including the sauce) but pickle instead of onion. like i said: interesting. who would ever think to fry a pickle?

i think about food a lot these days. i'm gonna have to buy new pants soon.

i totally got nothing done today.

this is an unsettling feeling.

i hate having unsettling feelings. it means you know that you did something wrong or didnt' do something you know you should have done. ugh.

at least it's friday. tgif.

it was a year ago around this time that eric proposed.
six months later we were married.
and now i'm 17 weeks pregnant.

that is really weird to see written out.

after 3 more weeks we'll be able to find out if it's a boy or girl, and "legolas", "yahyah", "ice", and "it" will no longer be necessary (although affectionate) when referring to the baby. it is still so crazy to me. good crazy. mind blowing that there's another person in my tummy. lorie once told me that they don't really like for pregnant women to be in the water when a group is swimming with the dolphins at discovery cove. apparently, the dolphins can hear the baby's heartbeat and are drawn to it, therefore playing favorites with the pregnant woman. anyways, tangent.

we're gonna go watch the passion tonight. i really wish i got to see it in sd...

who knew monkeys and apes and orangutangs and gorillas were really that much fun to watch? last friday i realized just how much eric is entertained by primates. it is instant laughs when it's the real thing and not puppets. we're talking tears, people. who knew? i thought it was a guy thing...but after a sombering conversation with these old lady volunteers about saving the sun bears, visiting monkeys sounded like a good idea to get cheered up.

i miss my san diego buddies. good trip. made buttons. lots of buttons. dumb ones and dave's son ones. (it was probably a good thing that hong's computer broke or else i feel many many more dumb buttons would have been made.) one of the very good things was that i finally got to watch gene perform. yay! watching friends doing what they love makes me happy. and playing soccer with friends is a very good thing. watching jon attempt a header when the ball was on the ground was a bonus. the "don't hurt the pregnant lady" rule made it infinitely easier to bring the ball up from the back. hehe. =P

i'm gonna go eat subway now in honor of hongk and him letting us crash at the hotel this weekend.

hi.

i'm about to go to the san diego zoo with eric, galvez, and james.

happy friday!

feet still hurt from standing for 3 hours in high heels on saturday night. yuck. glad i can wear sneakers to the office.

the trailer that eric and ny and joel put together for the emagine theater contest won first place. woohoo! all i want to say is how great it is to have your very own medium popcorn and medium drink for FREE at the movies. (thanks, guys!) although....it may not have been so wise to actually FINISH the entire medium popcorn we each had to ourselves. especially if you asked for extra butter. hehe. i can still feel the butter in my throat. ewwwww. but at the same time...yummy!

and guess what? i'm hungry! heehee. time for lunch. =D

do you think they (whoever "they" are) tell us to drink eight 8-oz. glasses of water a day because we really need that much water a day or because they know we won't drink that much a day, and any feeble attempt to drink that much water in a day would be sufficient water intake for the day? *exhale* i'm just saying that it's really hard to do. they should keep a supply of lemon wedges next to the water cooler at work. and why does restaurant water taste so much better than the water at home?

i sneeze violently. i'm pretty sure i've talked about this before. but it's the kind where you have to relax when you're done because it was so intense. definitely not very lady-like. i think i scare my co-workers when i sneeze. and i've been sneezing so much that they've stopped saying "bless you" after. =/

people in this part of the office don't steal my box of kleenex like they did when i sat in the back. i like that.

i'm totally eating a girl scout cookies right now. i know you're jealous. (well not you, ameer.)

don't you hate it when your boss comes up to you and says, "hey, you got a minute?" and then gestures for you to follow her (or him) to her (or his) office and closes the door.

yikes. =/

in my head i'm thinking "wow, this is either very serious business or very serious gossip." turned out to be a little bit of both.

i have a lot to think about. (which i guess is a nice change from the non-thinking that usually goes on in my head.) it's all very strange. i'll have to talk more about it later....

i'm definitely hypersensitive to my clothes smelling like food. i ALWAYS think my clothes smell like food, and i get paranoid that other people will be offended by me because i smell like food. apparently, i'm crazy.

people in my office keep talking about the atkins diet/low or no carb diet. i think it's strange that people would just want to eat meat and fat all day long just to lose weight. why would you put yourself through that? i think there's something to be said about a well-balanced diet, aka eating regular food with a few fruits and vegetable thrown in every day and drinking water (think the food pyramid). there must be a reason that doctors keep telling us to do it, right? it couldn't be because it actually works?? =P AND you get to eat all the food groups. not just the cows and pigs and fish and chickens and their fat. it's so crazy how widespread this diet has become...so much that restaurants and fast food chains have added it to their menus? i think that people also tend to forget that part of the deal with a lot of diets is that you have to also exercise. *gasp*

remember when we could eat and eat and eat whatever we wanted and never have to worry about it? that was nice.

i feel like i should blog because i seriously have nothing to do here at work. i can't check blogs anymore because it's no fun to read the same entries from forever ago. hint, hint. i have resorted to checking the grocery store ads to see what stuff i need to buy because it's on sale. so sad.

did you know that h&m has a maternity section? what a relief. you can get cute pants (and ajustable!) for super cheap. i don't understand why so much of the maternity stuff you see in the regular stores assume that pregnant people will want to wear piping and floral patterns in pastels. or just ugly clothes. hello. these are the same people that were shopping a few months ago in the next section over with nice clothes for normal belly-sized people.

hong is funny today.

and my blog is done.

i hate that blogout is down. i can't comment on any of your blogs that use it. =(

random: which would you prefer? ny strip steak or prime rib? and what do you think about chicken wellington? i was never really fan of meat wrapped in puff pastry....

aaaannnd.....

happy birthday lorie!!

sooooooOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOO bored. how does one become productive with nothing to do?

my computer is set to lock out after 20 minutes of sitting idle. i set that like two years ago, and now i can't figure out how i did it. i keep getting back to my computer after 19 minutes and 58 seconds of idle-ness pass. it's just annoying. i have to wait for the computer to lock, and then i have to log back in. help? anyone? and it's a network lock-out, not a screen saver one. i tried to get in through the network properties. nope. no good. this is the excitement of the work day. woo. hoo.

cold business.

it's cold here.
it's cold in the south. (north carolina is the south, right?)
i have a cold.

i actually stayed home sick today. staying home sick when you're actually sick is not so fun.

however: despite the cold, i might never exchange four seasons for one long summer (sorry, cali people). at least not anytime soon. =D

it is snowing. and it keeps snowing...

...and snowing...

...and snowing...

...and snowing...

...and snowing...

...and snowing...

....

it hasn't stopped since this morning.

the end.

i'm really bad at eating apples. i'm definitely an apple slices girl...but here's the thing: if you cut your apple before you go to work, the slices are gonna turn brown by the time you want to eat them. thumbs down on brown apple slices. i mean, you could rub them with lemon to keep them from oxidizing, but who wants to take time to do that? thus, the apple stays whole and is difficult to eat. it gets stuck in your teeth and apple juice is flying everywhere. why is it that fruit tastes so much better when chilled? mmm.

wow. the guy in the next cube just left. he's always here really late, making me feel guilty for leaving early (early in my office = before 6pm). i heard my manager leave, too. hmmm....do i stay or do i go? ahhhh! i must say that i was actually productive today. i learned stuff, too. it's kind of exciting to learn new stuff. i might actually be smart in my conference call on thursday. i hate being the junior engineer that just sits there not being able to contribute. although...it's scary to say anything conclusive in front of a client...they're gonna spend money based on what you just said, and wow, it would suck if you were wrong and cost them 50 grand.

decision: i'm going home.

so

sleeeeppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

happy friday!

finally.

this is me leaving early. woohoo! have a good weekend!!

i feel really bad. i sent a report to one of the project managers that always gives me work...and he called back: "is there something wrong? usually your reports are impeccable and i'm sending you a lot of comments." dangit. first of all, i didn't think that he thought my work was impeccable...especially since i felt he was pretty hard on me when i first started doing work for him. and second, i hate disappointing people. he thought i was suffering from a concussion or something. well i'm suffering from being constantly nauseated and crazy hormone changes, but i haven't told my manager yet and i didn't think he should be the first to know. bleh. work stuff. i'll get over it. and just to add to my day...i finally get my butt out of bed early enough that i'll be on time for work and it takes me two hours to get here. *sigh*

my mom is the cutest ever. this is an email she sent to my uncles and cousins:

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Subject: Good news!

I'm a future grandma. I'm so excited! rah rah rah

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who says rah rah rah? so cute. i love her to death.