Conversation with Kim yesterday:
kim: Last night you fell asleep on the floor while I was playing video games.
josh: Weird. Talk about roll reversal.
kim: Yeah, it was too weird, I had to quit and go to bed.
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The ever expanding belly, the ever shrinking mind
Published September 21, 2006 Funny , Pictures , kim 5 Comments
So yesterday Steve mentioned on his blog that he wanted to be funny, and if there was a lack of activity on his blog it might be because he has nothing amusing to write about. To him, I give this advice: Just start saying really stupid remarks to strangers while out in public. Sure, it may be humiliating, but it’s certain to bring a laugh.
Here are just some of the stupid things I have said during this pregnancy (yes, I am blaming pregnancy hormones and such even though I’ve been saying dumb things ever since I could talk).
In order, from most to least embarrassing:
1. Josh, Kyra and I are at Petco. We stand and observe as an employee helps a customer select and box some mice. The customer suddenly jumps back and shakes his hand while saying, “Well, I guess that one got a little excited.” He steps over to a Purell dispenser, and I say, “Oh, you got peed on.” He says, “Ah, no.” Then I take it a bit further, “Ew. Poop. That’s the only other option, right?” By this time he had taken a couple of steps back and decided to ignore my remark so I could ponder the third, more obvious option.
2. Last week I was in line at Einstein’s ordering a Spinach and Egg sandwich. Except without the spinach due to the E coli scare. It was something I hadn’t heard about yet, and instead of talking to the kind but very busy bagel maker about it, I turned to the person next to me in line and said, “E. coli? I thought that was from raw chicken? How does spinach get infected with E. coli?” He just gave me a blank stare, which I should have taken as a cue to shut up, but I had to redeem myself with, “Ooohhhh, nevermind, I’m thinking of salmonella.”
3. This one happened this morning. A woman approached me while I was picking mushrooms in the produce section. She was smiling and seemed to be saying hello. I smiled back and said, “Hi! How are you this morning?” somewhat more enthusiastically than usual because sometimes you just want to be that really friendly person in the grocery store. Only she wasn’t talking to me at all. She had on one of those tiny phones attatched to her ear and completely ignored me (thank goodness).
So that’s it. I know there’s more, but those should serve you well for the time being
Squawk is the name Kyra gave our new baby. It came from one of her puppets I had named the day prior to her naming our baby. She really likes that puppet, hence, Squawk.
Anyway, I am 16 weeks along today, which means I am somewhere around 4 months pregnant. We’ve done a poor job of photo documenting this pregnancy thus far and only have until the end of January to bring things up to speed. How else will we fulfill Josh’s 100 snapshots a day for the first year quota?
Note: I blogged this picture since it was the best belly profile choice. However, if I were going for sheer cuteness, I would have picked one of Kyra giving Josh a huge hug or giving my tummy a gentle kiss. Go check them out on our Flickr page!
Kyra gets ready to swim to mommy. She jumps and momentum takes her to her target. Her head goes under sometimes, and when she comes up she blows water out of her mouth like a whale clearing it’s blow hole. It’s cute.
It’s official, though most of you already know. Our family will increase by one early next year. Oh, and no we’re not getting a dog, or a fish, or any pet for that matter. I’m pregnant with an official due date of January 25th! The excitement is heightened both by Kyra’s understanding of what it means to be a big sister and the fact that my sister, Michelle, is also pregnant. Michelle will be having a baby girl sometime in late October. We’ll let you know when we find out little Calma’s gender. If you ask Kyra, though, she’ll say she wants a brother.
The first picture is a picture taken (who takes the picture when you use a timer? The camera? Or the person who set it up?) on Kyra’s 2nd birthday. The second was taken in the same place exactly 1 year to the day prior.
(And by strange coincidence: Yes I am wearing the exact same shirt.)
Lesser of two evils
Published April 17, 2006 Phoenix , baseball , diamondbacks , josh , kim , lame 2 CommentsMe and Kim went to a DBacks game on friday. And to be honest I had to read that review to figure out exactly what happened. It wasn’t the most exciting game I’ve ever been too, what with me wanting both teams to lose. But irregardless it was fun. There were maybe 50 people there total so we walked up 10 minute before game time and got field level bleacher seats in right (I didn’t get to really use them because Jason Lane was in right, and the only insult I could think of was calling him Lois (Lois Lane, get it?) but I can’t use Lois as an insult so it kind of fizzled).
At one point we were talking about catching a home run ball, and I was saying how I wanted to throw it back if the other team hit it because I’ve always wanted to do that. And kim suggested I should throw it back if the DBacks hit it. While that would be cool, I’m not sure I would be ready for 24,510 people to boo me, I’m a fairly self confident person but I’m not made of stone.
I had a great time (and I got a great Nascar hat for free) but downtown phoenix is so lame it hurts. All I wanted to do was get a pint of Guinness before the game but none of the bars around (and there aren’t that many) had anything on tap beyond bud/miller products and the bar closest to the stadium didn’t have any taps at all. Then after the game we wanted to go to Oregano’s for some pizzookie, but downtown phoenix couldn’t support an oregano’s. It closed down. Downtown flagstaff can has an Oregano’s, Mesa Community College can keep an Oregano’s pumping out hot pizza and cookie dough, but the heart of phoenix arizona couldn’t quite make it. And there is nothing else in downtown phoenix. Friday night and the only thing even remotly interesting happening was the doorman at a bar spinning a revolving door around while a kid on healy’s held on inside.
And lastly: Drinking Miller at a baseball game feels like sacralidge. It’s not right.
So maybe I won’t be able to lead by example when it comes to sportsmanship, but I’d like to think Kyra sees me as a honorable woman who does not need to retaliate in anger to feel good about herself. One character flaw that I will have to work on, however, is my weakness for bribery. If any of you want to know what Josh is dying to keep hidden from you, the information may be available to you….for a price.
Oh, and a word of advice: Never, I repeat, never own the game Settlers of Cataan. It will consume your life.
Tuesday night I crashed. Big time. I almost fell asleep while reading Kyra bed time stories, and I dragged my sorry carcas to bed at 9pm. And then Kyra slept in so I didn’t wake up until 7. 10 hours of sleep, easily a post Kyra record. Unfortunatly it was short lived: Last night me and Kim were both so well rested we stayed up until 1 am.
Kim has been threatening to write something not to flattering about me here so I’m going to preempt her: I won 2 out of 3 games of Settlers of Cataan continuing an incredible win streak I’ve been on (Yes: We started playing settlers of Cataan again, we had stopped for a while because the game tends to breed antagonism or as Kim put it: Who’s going to teach Kyra to be a good sport? But it’s a fun game and we got pulled back in.)
So keep in mind that Kim is bitter if she starts slandering me here.
A conversation we had while watching the Ring 2:
Kim: Are you asleep
Josh: No
Kim: You’re breathing deep
Josh: I know
Kim: How come?
Josh: Because I can.
Kim: For fun?
Josh: Yeah.
That’s my review: A movie so bad breathing starts to seem fun.
