Great Weekend.

What a wonderful weekend I've just had.

Friday evening, Andrew and I spent at a game night with a bunch (and I mean a BUNCH) of little kids running around. There were like 10 kids there all under the age of three. It was fun. We didn't really play a lot of games, but we totally did some parent-talking and ate a lot of yummy food so that was great.

Saturday brought a dreary day which was just what Andrew and I needed to motivate us to clean out our apartment closet. The exciting part about this was that I got to dive into my giant tub of maternity clothes, and even though I don't really need them yet, they are SOOOO comfy and I'm way excited about wearing them again.

And then came the highlight of at least the month. Andrew and I attended "A Night of Romance" put on by the Natural Family Planning and Family Life Office in our Diocese. It was wonderful. We got all dressed up and carpooled to the place with some of our friends from Church. The night was filled with a fancy dinner, some singers, lots of doorprizes, a comedian from Connecticut and then dancing!!! Plus a TON of our engaged and newly married friends were there so it was neat to get to see everybody and catch up. On top of that we won these 2 handmade swarovski crystal rosaries which are super pretty. Don't ask me why we need fancy lookin rosaries... I mean I'm pretty sure a rope with some knots works great... or heck... even your fingers... but they're pretty nevertheless. Anyone want to buy them from us? I'll make you a deal!! :)

Sunday was totally a day of relaxation. We went to Divine Mercy Sunday Mass (my favorite Sunday of the Liturgical Year), and then spent the rest of the day seriously chilling. KU made it to the final four after a very nail-biting filled performance against Davidson. Then we made a yummy dinner.

All in all... GREAT WEEKEND! Oh yes... and also ROCK CHALK!!

I Am Legend

Okay, so Andrew and I rented "I Am Legend" last night. I think I liked it. It was delightfully frightening and Will Smith was as hot as ever (he's totally in my top 5). But it was also kinda icky because I realized I don't like being frightened nearly as much as I used to. Also... it seems as I've gotten older, I've really started to not like sitting down for 2 hours to watch a movie. I think it has to do with how engrossed I get in them. When the flick is over, I feel all out of sorts and it takes me awhile to get back into real-life. It kinda freaks me out. Plus, I Am Legend made me think about mortality and the end of the world and all that jazz and that stuff also freaks me out. I think I'm way more paranoid when I'm pregnant.

Did I mention Will Smith is totally hot?

By the way, I'm 9 weeks pregnant... almost out of first trimester!!!!! Yeay!

PB on Bread

I hate eating Peanut Butter on toast late at night... especially when my husband buys this super- duper-fiber-rich-whole-wheat-make-you-feel-like-you're-chewing-on-tree-bark bread.

But, thank God for small favors, because eating this yucky concoction at night is helping to ward off the early morning morning sickness that tends to plague me these days.

BLECK.

Also... feeling icky during Holy Week seems pretty fitting so it's all good, right?

Excuse me now while I go finish my tree bark.

Sweet.

It's official. I have a tiny Irish rock band in my uterus.

Baby U2 is itty bitty, but definitely there and he/she will join us in the out of utero world sometime around Halloween.

Mia's a big sister!!! YEAY!

Wow... This place needs a new post

But I don't know what to post about... so here is a video of Mia singing for your enjoyment...

Andrew's Fashions

So you all may remember my commentary on my husband's style picks for Mia this past Summer. That was when he chose to dress her like this...

























Well, you'd think with 8 months of coaching from his wife and some positive encouragement, perhaps his fashion picks may have improved. However, I returned home from work the other morning to find Mia dressed like this...


































Improvemet from July? Maybe a bit. He insisted since both items had "stars" on them that they definitely matched. I think she looked a bit like a bruise covered in snowflakes.

What does it all mean?

I'm weird.

I know that's not really news to any of you all... but let me tell you what brings up the topic this week. I've always kind of known this, but have really begun to realize in the last few weeks that I have serious issues with letting people go.

It seems that old friends, former coworkers, random people who have come in and out of my life, and even exes (to a smaller extent) are rather continuously on my mind. I'm always wondering what these people are up to... or why I've lost touch with them... or what kind of jobs they're doing now... or what would happen if I ran into them... or why we don't seem to have been good enough friends or acquaintances to actually keep in touch and whether that's my fault or theirs or both.

Here's a few examples of how this haunts me:
1) I frequently google people's names just to see if I can figure out what they're up to or if they're at least still alive.

2) I've searched facebook and myspace for all kinds of random people for the same reason. I still may or may not add them as friend cuz I never know if they would even remember me. They may, for all I know, think it kinda creepy that I even remember them.

3) One of my former coworkers from job #3 after college, I've just recently heard as a dj on one of my fav radio stations and I was SOOOO excited just to discover that he was still out there. (I keep thinking I should email him at the station just to say "hello"... but again... just feel it might be weird to do so.)

4) I recently found a coworker from job #2 after college by searching for her son, because I figured he probably had a facebook account being in that age bracket. I actually emailed her son who I knew verly slightly when I worked with her. Turns out she'd (according to a return email from him ) love to get in touch with me again and I now have her phone number. I just have to muster the guts to call **due to my serious phone-a-phobia**

5) I still worry about a bunch of the guys I dated in college and hope they're doing okay.

6) It randomly upsets me that no matter how close I thought I was to most of my high school friends back in the day and how much I thought I'd be friends with them forever, I'm not really close to any of them anymore *save one or two* (other than blogging or random weddings or baby showers.)

7) I promised my boss at job #4 after college that I'd not lose touch and that I'd randomly call or pop in. That has happened approximately 2 times since I left that job... I suck at that.

8) For those of you that know the Iowa boy story, he's still someone who I feel like I should be in more constant contact with, but we just can't ever seem to have any regularity of emailing or talking without some sort of strange drama involved in it. This bugs me.

Hmmm... seriously, I think this must be some sort of pychological disorder. Should I really be that invested in people who I haven't seen in 2 years or more?

I think the major causes of this disorder is that I have this weird idea in my head that God puts people in my life for a reason, and I'm always wondering if I learned everything I was suppose to from them or vice versa.

What do you think?