4 Things

Thanks to Gina's webpage... I found a fun thing to post (it's quite possible that I've posted something similar recently.. but I don't remember so I don't really care.)

4 THINGS you may not have known about me.....

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Warren Theatre - cleaner, concessioner and box office attendant
2. Best Western Reservation Center phone rep
3. Marketing coordinator for an ad agency
4. Traffic director and sales assistant for a radio network

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Pretty Woman
2. Moulin Rouge
3. Wedding Singer
4. Dirty Dancing

C)Four places I have lived....
1. Andale
2. KU Campus dorms in Lawrence
3. Daisy House
4. Apartment with my hubby

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. American Idol
2. Friends reruns
3. Jeopardy
4. Seinfeld reruns

D2)Four Shows I miss--Loved to watch:
1. American Idol in the off-season
2. Friends
3. Brady Bunch
4. Muppet Babies

E) Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Montreal and Toronto
2. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
3. Alamosa, Colorado
4. Florida

F) Four websites I visit daily:
1. Gmail
2. My yahoo
3. My blog
4. Pregnancy update websites

G) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Mom's Lasagna
2. Andrew's Grandma's spaghetti
3. Andrew's Salmon
4. Homemade fried chicken and mashed potatoes - Ma & Pa style

H) Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Hugging Andrew
2. Playing with a puppy
3. Chilling with my parents
4. On squishy the couch taking a nap

Nobody puts baby in a corner.

Hey fabulous readers!!! Guess what?

Andrew and I have a baby who is in the same week as this one:



Isn't that like the most amazing thing ever???!!!

This little tiny itty bitty child (who is someone between 1 and 2 inches long) is muy adorable!





I just had to share. Yeay for 8 week old babies!!!

She's a...

Grand Ole Flag
She's a High Flyin Flag
And Forever.. in peace.. may she wave!

WOO PAA... that song gets stuck in my head like peanut butter sticks to too-fresh bread.

Last night the hubby and I and the Brendan family went to see the fireworks downtown. It was most fabulous. Prior to that we went swimming which is WAY fun when there's an 8 and 4 year old along. I was throwin kids around like my dad used to do to me and that made me happy. All in all... it was a neat 4th O' July.

In other news... is anyone else a little freaked out at these missile launches that N. Korea is doing? Seriously.. yuck.

Also... I guess the space shuttle had a good takeoff since I haven't heard anything... but the whole thing makes me nervous and I'm pretty sure we need to update our NASA-mobiles or get the heck out of the space program before we blow more astronauts up.

And it turns out we get to elect a new governor this year. I, for one, will NOT be voting for our current governor. This mostly has nothing to do with how effective or ineffective she has been as a governor... but more to do with the fact that she lives a publicly hypocritical life when it comes to being "Catholic" and "Pro Choice"... which are two things that absolutely and positively CONTRADICT each other... and that bugs me A LOT. It also bugs me that dear Sebelius gets a majority of her campaign money from Tiller, notorious Wichita abortion non-doctor. It grosses me out that the blood of babies helped her get into office. YICK!

Chew on that for awhile, dear readers. You want controversy?... you got controversy. Discuss.

BIG PIG

Are you hungry for a piece of fat and juicy meat?
Eat my buddy here, you that he'll be quite a treat.
Come on down and dine on this tasty swine,
all you have to do is get in line!

Are ya achin' (glub glub glub)
for some bacon (glub glub glub)
He's a big pig! (glub glub)
You can be a big pig, too! OOY!

:) Okay... so that's quite possibly my favorite part of the Lion King ever. I mean c'mon... Timone in a grass skirt?! FABULOUS!! :)

Here's the real question though... why is it that when I have nothing to blog about, THAT is the song that comes to mind? Perhaps I need some bacon. Perhaps I need to Luau. Perhaps I'm just a little crazy.

Yes... crazy... hmmm.

Let's play a game called what's on my mind RIGHT NOW:

1) Work is over in 20 minutes.
2) The Daisy House will be no more in a very short amount of hours and that makes me want to cry a lot.
3) I haven't yet figured out what craving I'm having for dinner.
4) I think the last line of that song should have said "i'm a big pig... you can be a big pig too." because I find that eating makes me less sick so I tend to do it quite a lot (after noon that is because before noon, food just makes me want to vomit.)
5) I get to see my mom on her birthday tomorrow! YIPEEEE!

Kiki Out.

Is this normal?

SO WEIRD.

Okay, so like twice this week I have had these crazy dreams in which I am like IRATE... LIVID... UNDESCRIBABLY ANGRY with random people in my life (or in my past life).

Like last night I dreamt that I spent about an hour just screaming at two of my guy friends from high school. They didn't really have much reaction to my screaming other than their usual "hmmm... Kristi seems mad for a stupid reason" reaction. But I'm very perplexed by these dreams.

Quite honestly, I can't even tell you what I was mad about because it's very strange but I think it had a little hint of me feeling oppressed about religion or NFP or breastfeeding.

Now the actual topic of the dream does not weird me out as much as HOW ANGRY I am in the dreams. Like... I'm never hardly ever that angry in real life... why is this happening in dreams lately? Last week I woke up from a dream of being super mad at someone and felt like my blood pressure was super high. I don't remember who I was even mad at in that one.

Anyways... it's freaking me out. It seems I have pent up anger and I don't know why. What's the deal with this?

Things that make you go "hmmm"...

I remember when I was growing up that my mom would ALWAYS say that the one time you look totally scuzzy to go shopping or to the grocery store, is the very same time that you're going to run into someone you know. It always seemed to work like that too.

Well... I have a story.

Last night Andrew and I decided to run some errands. Morning sickness hadn't plagued me at all yesterday until about supper time when my stomach decided to just start growling and feeling very odd. So... before we left for the errands, I informed my dear husband that I would be wearing my baggy pants and giant WSU t-shirt out. I left my fairly dirty hair pulled back in a pony tail.. and per usual... I was not wearing makeup at all. I did not look even remotely nice. And if you didn't know me already... you would have probably said "wow... that girl looks like she's been sick."

So hubby and I are moseying around Target's grocery section picking up some things for dinner the next evening. We were about 3/4 the way down the dried goods aisle when LOW AND BEHOLD someone turns the corner that I know!

She says "Hi, Kristi!!!" (big smile on her face as she probably realizes this is my new husband next to me.) In the half of a second that it took me to realize who she was, I also thought... boy I look like crap... good thing Andrew looks cute... I hope I can avoid an actual conversation.

So I heartily smiled and said "Hi!" to her and her son behind her...and we all kept walking in opposite directions. (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE NAUSEA PILLS!)

Now... if this woman had been like an aunt... or a friends mom... or a coworker... or pretty much anybody other than who she was, I would have been 100% okay with looking like a big piece of smelly poop. But this particular woman was the MOTHER OF MY EX BOYFRIEND followed close behind by his little brother (who is like almost in his 20's now I think so he's not a kid by any means). And for some reason... this was an experience that I care not to repeat any time in the near future. And don't get me wrong... this ex's mom is like SUPER COOL. She was always very nice to me and so wonderfully friendly even after we broke up... but there's just something about looking like total crap in front of an ex's mom that makes me feel icky.

Can I get some agreement over here from some of you who've had a similar experience?


(By the way... as soon as we rounded the corner and I informed Andrew who she was, he was like wiggling to go talk to her and get the scoop about this former relationship. But I put the KAIBOSH on that one FOR SURE.)

2 Sides of the Coin

Heads or Tails?

That is my newest impression of pregnancy. It's like a coin toss and you don't know whether to like it or hate it. The two sides of the coin that stand out right now are

Heads: Wow... I get a TON of attention now that I'm pregnant. I mean we all knew that I was way addicted to hugs before this... but I get so many more now. It's flippin awesome! Plus, everyone is all concerned every time I start looking green or puny or any other such thing that morning sickness tends to impart on my facial expressions. And attention for a child who is the youngest and only girl in her family is like STRIKING GOLD. I do love attention. And it's even neater attention than ever before because it's not even all about me... it's about the little baby inside me. So I don't feel so selfish for taking compliments or words of encouragement because it's more about the little one that me anyways. That part is neat.

and

Tails: I've always sucked at being sick. I'm such a stinking whiner and I just want to feel better RIGHT NOW. Well... pregnancy is pretty much kicking my butt in this area. I feel weird or sick or tired or moody basically ALL THE TIME. But mostly I just feel sick. I go from being unbearably nauseated to incredibly hungry. And it's gotten to the point that I'm afraid to go to sleep at night because when I wake up I will feel like poop all over again. I find morning sickness to be very humbling. I've tried home-remedies out the wazoo... I've prayed my butt off to get God to take it from me... and though it could definitely be worse than this... it's still sucking monkey butts. Plus... since we're only in week 6 of the pregnancy, I have about 6 more weeks to look forward to of this vomitty nauseous hungry stuff. BLECK.


So that's my story for this lovely afternoon. I say BRING ON THE SECOND TRIMESTER... this pukiness is for the birds.

Hugs from KU and Baby U!