Quickly, I'm 33 weeks now and measuring in at 34 weeks. James is a big boy. I can no longer bend over. And sitting down and getting up are challenging. I think he's dropped into position, though I'm sure he'll move again. Right now his head is in my pelvis. I can tell because it feels like a hard skull is pushing out from between my hips. It ( Read more... )

James is doing well as far as we know. He is kicking and moving and punching like crazy. But overall a very easy pregnancy. I'm 26 weeks along, so I'm in my 6th month of pregnancy. Time has flown by. I've been trying to take things as easy as possible. So far only minor swelling of my feet as is normal with pregnancy ( Read more... )

So I just read a report that David Tennant, the guy who played the 10th Doctor in Doctor Who is engaged to marry the actress who played his daughter in one of the episodes in season 4 (i believe). Here's the headspinning part in who-ville, because in real life its just two actors marrying one another ( Read more... )

My cousin Jaime "Bino" Zapata passed away today at age 35. He had brain cancer. He has 5 children. The youngest one was about 2. He had adopted kids from his wifes first marriage.

He will be missed terribly.

He was a good man. A firefighter in two cities and previously worked in the criminal justice system.

Grandma Janie, passed away on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. She was 86, almost 87 as her birthday was December 20 ( Read more... )

So, okay, I AM a bit leery of the x-Ray machines at the airport. Especially having had 2 separate x-rays this month, getting another no matter how minescule didn't appeal to me. I thought long and hard about whether I should just opt for the manual pat down, should I be asked to go through one of those things. I decided that on Thursday, I would ( Read more... )

For the first time in ages, I had lovely dreams last night ( Read more... )

Last night Andrew and I celebrated our 7th anniversary ( Read more... )

Well, Another decade is gone... my twenties... and before I go on, let me say overall, this decade BLEW. From a current events standpoint... it spewed shit from all points right up till the end. Some perpective? We elected a president who within his first year in office was awarded the nobel peace prize for simply not being the previous president ( Read more... )

Maybe I can finish this post before Olive wakes from her nap. Things have been crazy. Olive says "mum-mum-mum-mum" alot. Yesterday at the party store I swear she said "hi mum" it was more like "hah mum." Officially, her first word was quack... at the ducks ( Read more... )