baby, miley cyrus, internet, games

well, all is well here, nothing big to report. kieran & andie are great, we're all gearing up for summer around here and i admit i'm looking forward to just hanging out and siting in a waist-deep kiddie pool myself.

i'm about 13.5 weeks along and doing just fine, even that is pretty boring. i'm happy to be done with the first trimester, i was a little queasier this time around and alternately barely ate at times or had to have a quarter-pounder and fries. and i've been in the drive-thru pretty much every other day.....somehow i still managed to lose two pounds. i think i've discovered the perfect diet pill--it would be something that made you just a tad bit nauseous after you had about five bites of a meal. anyway, you still wouldn't even know i'm pregnant yet, i'm not showing at all, still in my same exact clothes. but i'm pretty sure i'll go from nothing at all to absolutely huge--i'm the kind of pregnant woman that when i'm six months along people are asking things like "are you sure it's not twins?" or "are you due any day now?"

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i've been looking at baby names which is really fun and i'm reminded of how frustrated i am by that stupid miley cyrus with the disney show. in years past one of my favorite names was miley, it was elvis's girlfriend's name in blue hawaii (though spelled 'maile'). but *now* there's no way you can use that name, that cyrus girl is everywhere! darn it. and what really makes me mad is that her given name was destiny (puke). wish she'd just kept that one and i could use my not-so-popular blue hawaii name. if the baby is a girl, that is. who knows and we're hoping to wait until he/she is born to find out......it's going to be hard though.

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our internet is driving us crazy. for almost a month now we've been having problems and it seems to be getting worse. we've replaced our modem and router and it still just suddenly goes out in the middle of something. this morning it was fine for hours but in the afternoon and evening it will go out every other minute! the crazy thing is that it shows that everything is still connected and we shouldn't be having a problem, yet pages just stop loading. if i were stronger i'd heave the computer out the window and be done it. .....well, no i wouldn't but it's nice to picture in my head.

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i'm addicted to solitaire on my computer. now that i type it out i realize it makes sense--with the internet constantly going down my useless laptop has to serve a non-connected purpose and good 'ole fashioned solitaire has found me again. i've gone through solitaire phases before but i'm really hooked now. it's the only card game i know how to play and i can't say i'm very good at it, but it passed the time until our 'net starts up again. i've started picturing myself playing in some fictitious solitaire tournament and winning the whole thing. and before you go thinking about what a huge geek i am, let me turn your attention to aaron. i think it's time i out him on his webkinz addition. for those that aren't aware, webkinz are cute little stuffed animals that you purchase and then you go home and login to the webkinz site and care for your virtual pet. you play games to earn "kinz cash" or something like that, and then you can feed the thing, buy it stuff, etc. the thing is--it's for kids. and aaron plays the webkinz games all the time. he's earned kieran's frog so much money he should be retired in florida by now. i support him (but totally make fun of him) as long as he's not competing in these games with ten year old kids. he isn't but when he starts to tell me about the jewels he's collecting for "the legendary crown of wonder" i start to wonder.......it's definitely geared toward kids. but damn those enticing computer games.

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