Monday, November 29, 2004
OK, I finally put up an official pregnant picture of myself in my Monday Night
Pic of the Week. That's it, no more, I'm done.
Saturday, November 27, 2004
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I discovered a few things this
year. I don't like raisins in my stuffing or with gravy on top, and the
only way to eat yams is with marshmallows.
I put up a couple new Diversions pages. You might want to check them out since there's a picture of a very fat and pregnant me. Now quit bugging me!
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
We got free turkeys at work. When I went to pick one up I thought, "Boy,
this thing is puny, what a rip-off." Then I dropped it on my little toe.
Holy shit, that thing must've weighed fifty pounds! And it was as hard as
a rock.
We ate at Baja Fresh, and as I was sitting at a table while Jerome ordered, I watched this young couple walk in. The guy sat down at a table while his girlfriend went to the counter and ordered. She paid, then went to the soda station and filled up drinks for both of them, brought them to the table, then went and got salsa. Then she sat down and when their number was called, she went up and got the food. All this time, the guy just sat there, not really paying attention to her. I never even heard him say, "Thank you." I mean, he wasn't handicapped or preoccupied or anything, he just sat. And I was thinking, what a useless, moronic waste. They were young, maybe still in high school; the girl was attractive, and he was nothing to brag about. In fact, he looked like a punk; skinny, wearing a beanie, slouching in the chair with his baggy jeans halfway down his butt. I couldn't imagine what he would have to offer her...why do young girls let themselves get used by guys like that? I wanted to pull her aside and tell her, "You can do so much better! Don't waste your precious youth on this loser!" Oh well, some lessons you just have to learn on your own. When Jerome came over with our food I said, "See that guy over there? He just sat there while his girlfriend ordered, paid, and brought their food." He said, "Oh, is that how it's supposed be done?"
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
From the Frontier Hotel and Casino sign. As my
boyfriend says, "Now, that's my kind of place!"
Sunday, November 21, 2004
I took a day trip to L.A. and there was a snowstorm on the freeway. It was
crazy. On the way home when we got to Mountain Pass, around the CA/NV
border, we could see about a ten-mile stretch of cars leaving Las Vegas; they
had been stopped for hours while the road was being plowed. I have no idea
how much longer they had to wait, but there was more bad news because we heard
on the radio that they were about to shut down Cajon Pass too, which is further
down on the same freeway going into L.A. This kind of thing may be normal
in other parts of the country, but it's virtually unheard of in Southern
California.
Saturday, November 20, 2004
We took a tour of the hospital where I will be having my baby. Man, there
are a lot of pregnant women! They had a tour every 15 minutes, and
we had about ten couples in our group, and there was about the same amount in
the group before us and the two groups after us. I hope we're not all due
on the same day. They have really nice rooms, all private, and there are
built-in beds for the fathers. They also have really good security, with
wrist bands, and if someone gets too close to the doors with a baby, the alarm
will go off. So don't try to steal my baby!
Friday, November 19, 2004
I was watching TV and this diamond commercial came on, the one where the guy
hands the girl a jewelry box and inside is this beautiful diamond ring.
She hugs him and says, as if he gave her a kidney, "I love this man, I love this
man..." Disgusted by this sappy commercial, I turned to Jerome and said,
"Do you know how pissed I would be if I found out you wasted thousands of
dollars on a diamond ring? If you ever hand me a jewelry box there had
better be keys to a house inside." Jerome, who was fixing me dinner,
didn't miss a beat and said, "OK, honey." Suspicious that he was just
placating me and didn't even hear me, I said, "Did you hear what I said?"
He said, "Yes, you want me to buy you a house." Wow. That was pretty
good.
Thursday, November 18, 2004
I went to a Salty City candle party. Yeah, this is what life is like for
me now...doctor's appointments and candle parties. I got Garden Lilac...mmm!!!
An update on that weirdo I had talked about before (Daily Rounds, Sunday, September 5, 2004), he got fired a few days after. Turns out I wasn't the only one who felt that way about him, although he was fired for more substantial reasons. Apparently, you can't be fired for being a creep. Too bad.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
OK, my computer crashed again, so I lost all my e-mails and addresses again.
I just got it fixed, so if I haven't replied to your e-mail by now, I've lost it
and you'll have to e-mail me again. I know, I'm such a loser.
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
We watched the implosion of the Desert Inn building - it was pretty cool!
I had never seen an implosion in person before, and I was a bit surprised at how
fast the building went down. I'll be putting up pictures of it on my
Diversions page soon.
Thursday, November 4, 2004
My kitty gave me a baby shower gift this morning. I opened my eyes to
something very gently touching my cheek. It was the cold, stiff claws of a
very dead, very headless body of a bird, lying in dried blood and feathers on my
pillow right next to my face. I screamed bloody murder and jumped about
fifty feet in the air. I couldn't wash my face fast enough, and I think I
scraped off my skin. My kitty sat at the edge of my bed ignoring me,
chewing on the head. His one paw held the head down by the beak, as if it
would escape, and I actually saw and heard him crunch bone. My puppy was
pacing back and forth beneath the kitty by the bed, whining. It was like a
scene from a horror movie. I was screaming at them both to get out, but
they have no respect for me, so I had to hit them with a pillow (a clean one) a
few times before they finally obeyed. Then I ran out of the room, slammed
the door, called my boyfriend and told him to come home right now because the
kitty decapitated a body on our bed!!! He was in the middle of a photo
shoot so he said it would have to wait. Unbelievable. If that doesn't
bring on labor, I don't know what will.
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Had my doctor's appointment today. I won't disgust you with the details,
but suffice it to say that my worries were, once again, unfounded.
Everything is peachy keen. Interesting fact: a Catholic hospital will not
perform tubal ligations. I'm assuming that goes for vasectomies too.
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Tell me this isn't the cutest bunny in the whole world!
Monday, November 1, 2004
Happy Birthday Hello Kitty! OK, since I'm on my maternity leave now I
won't have any ramblings about my work to keep you entertained, so I thought I'd
bore you with what I'm doing while awaiting the impending birth of this Mexican
jumping bean inside me! So tonight I saw the movie Ray, which was
so, so good. We had three pages of movie coupons from The Entertainment
Book which expired today, so while I was buying the tickets, Jerome was playing
the Good Samaritan and passing out the rest of the coupons to people in line.
The lady who was helping me kept glaring at him, but what could she do?
Anyway, I didn't know much, if anything at all, about Ray Charles, and I learned
that he was smart, driven, and human. At first I felt really sorry for
him, that he was poor and was discriminated against for being black, and for
being blind. But I think the line in the movie that summed it up for me
was spoken by his wife, "How can I feel sorry for someone I admire?" And
it was really cool that he and Quincy Jones hooked up when they were both
starting out. It was a really long movie, and I had to run to the restroom
right afterwards, but it was worth it. Wow, I didn't know Jamie Foxx was
such a great actor, he'll be nominated for an Oscar for sure.