Wednesday, June 29, 2005 09:40 a.m.

Life is so much like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. T tracked down an old friend from Hawaii only to find out that he and his brother both live in WA. His brother lives in Seattle and guess what. He's friends with our old friends. NNNOOOOOO!!!! I don't want to be connected to those folks no more, it was bad enough spotting them on MySpace but this is a bit more intimate. T decided he's just going to say he don't hang like that no more! Sounds good to me. I don't want to know there drama. I don't want them to know where we live I just want to live life as though I never knew these people. We didn't really burn bridges but I wish we had, nah, it was just much to much drama and these people are 30+ and still living life as they are invinceable and they are 19 (when we knew them and we were all fearless). Oh brother!

Have I recently mentioned that I love my new laptop. It's pretty, shiny black (not silver like the Dell), it has pretty bright blue and green lights, the sound is beautiful, the picture quality is beautiful and man is it fast. No more slow, sluggish start ups. No more being the only one not being able to connect to our wireless whatchamacallit and i'm even getting the hang of this XP thingamajig.

I downloaded Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning yesterday and am enjoying myself this morning listening to their tunes while I prepare for a day of back to back meetings. I need to rebuild my music library. I've been trying to do so but it's tough. I should back track a bit. My entire mp3 collection was wiped out. No details here, to painful to relive. Those of you who have had hundreds, upon hundreds of mp3's completely deleted know the horror and pain and that's that. I did however have 99 percent of the stuff backed up at home but I will not load them back on here. I'll do the free download thing for now.

I've worn my small maternity jeans for the last two days and man are they comfortable! I guess its time to pack up all my good jeans for the next few months. At least I haven't had to resort to billowy maternity tops (yet)....My C&C california tanks are like tunics so they are nice and long, cover my belly and cover the big 'ol elastic waistband of my maternity jeans. I'm hoping my body takes the shape it took with Kai where it was all belly. Who knows what the months ahead will hold for me.

I'm really looking forward to going to hawaii in august. I really need a vacation. Don't want to do anything but veg, go to the beach and just chill. I think we both need it. I gotta remember to tell my mom that she needs to seriously child proof her house. Kai will get into everything. He's a sneaky little boy, so mischivieous to the point that T and I are a little worried. I don't know how I can stress it to her that he will find the littlest thing and especially loves chords and wires. They will have a lot of pre-baby arrival clean up. I feel sorry for them.

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Monday, June 27, 2005 08:20 a.m.

I finally feel like we had a busy and productive weekend. Saturday we looked at a few home stores, not really a Home Depot, but more interior stuff then construction. We were looking at cooktops, fridges, bathroom fixtures that kind of stuff. I was a bit dissappointed by the fridge selection and I'm not totally set on buying a new stove/oven. I really like my stove/oven its really cool. It's a rehabbed vintage piece. With four gas burners, griddle top, two ovens and two broilers. It's so cool, the back panel lights up and in the middle of each burner are these great stainless steel stars. Why are we looking at this stuff? Well, the house market, for those of you in SoCal know, is completely and utterly mental. I'm not willing to spend close to a million bucks for a bigger home, nor do I have anything resembling a million bucks for that matter. What we have decided to do is to add on another bathroom and bedroom to make up a master suite and to renovate the kitchen. Ideally we would like to start construction in about two months but we'll see how things go. So that was Saturday with some errands at Target as well. Sunday we drove down to Costa Mesa for a home remodeling show which was interesting but I'm sure T enjoyed it much more then I did. Later on Sunday afternoon I went cleaning organizing crazy. Cleaned the kitchen, did a bunch of laundry, scrubbed all of our pation furniture then set it up, took out my small maternity clothes and began to clean Kai's pool but T stopped me in fear that I would collapse. Once Kai went down for a nap we started watching the Machinist but I had to shut my eyes cause the site of Christian Bale at 120 pounds really grossed me out. Unfortunately I returned all my other Netflix rentals this weekend so I'm down to the Machinist for now and I will force myself to watch it. We did watch T's copy of Shaun of the Dead which was really funny, he has a thing for any type of zombie movies.

I bought a great CD this weekend. I bought The Dan Band live. This CD, for some strange reason, really cracks the mench up. It's not a kids CD but it is as bunch of chick covers done by a group of guys. If you've seen Old School or Starsky and Hutch then you've seen The Dan Band. In Starsky and Hutch they play the cheesy lounge band and Vince Vaughn's daughters Bat Mitvah. Anyway, the CD is great it's worth the 12 bucks or whatever it cost.

And lastly the 50 Coolest Web sites according to Time.

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Friday, June 24, 2005 08:29 a.m.

I finally got my new laptop yesterday. I traded in my dell, which was causing me numerous problems, for a new HP. I love it. So much faster then the other one. Not to say the other one was slow but i think it was infected and it was just never getting fixed. So I traded it in. I took the new laptop home to check out the DVD quality. Holy shit, its clearer then my TV and I have a flat front tv which is suppose to be nice and crisp. I'm happy with this one but I just need to get used to XP.

Amber, the Balenciaga motorcycle bags are all over the place. The big size is massive, I think a small dog and a very small child could share the bag space. I think the medium size is pretty cute. Balenciaga came out with some summer versions at Barney's that are a little to much for me, bright, nearly flourescent colors. I should take some photos with my phone and email them to you next time i'm there. They are pricey little purses but so pretty. That is my total downfall, purses. Shoes are up there but definetly purses. Purses and jeans.

I'm starting to feel a bit better, no so barfy anymore. Slightly nauseas but two days and no barf! Yes! I am counting the days for this sick feeling to go away I have so much that I want to do on the weekends and I can't bare laying on my ass all day feeling sorry for myself. We drained Kai's pool two weeks ago and since its warming up I want to clean it out, buy some chlorine and fill that sucker back up. He loves that giant pool and so do I!

Another summer and once again we've killed our lawn. We do not deserve to have a yard. We constantly forget to water it and we have gardners that mow a dead lawn its so dumb. I want to rip it all out and buy sod and start over. T is convinced he and his friend need to install an irrigation system in order for the lawn to get watered. He's probably right but if we're planning on doing construction on the place that will need to wait to see how much of our lawn will get built over. Right now our lawn is a tan color and rather crunchy it makes the back area feel ten times hotter then it really is. Its quite depressing. Just for that I will water this evening and early tomorrow morning. We have a sprinkler system in the front yard and do we routinely water....nope. We are pathetic that way and we need to just make a deal to just do it before we end up with the ugliest lawn on the street!

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Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:56 a.m.

Without going into to much detail I had an awful post-lunch experience yesterday. It was the worst ever, I should have gone home and gone to bed! To bad cause it was a really good lunch from NaNa, I had some really nice tasting Pad Se Eew and didn't get to satiated for very long. Oh well.

So my obsession with this Y! music is growing, i seriously need some sort of intervention. But it is nice to be able to listen to songs on demand. This morning I've been reminiscing. Listening to some mediocre 80s like Howard Jones and some old English Beat and The Specials.

For the last 15 hours or so my right leg has been getting increasingly cramped up. I need to rub some Tiger Balm on the muscels. I just really hate the feeling of leg cramps, its uncomfortable and I have a hard time taking my focus away from it. I would much rather have these leg cramps then the type that sneak up on you in the middle of the night. Oh brother that was the worst ever! I just remember waking up yelling out in complete pain! I definetly do not want to relive that.

Today I'm getting myself some non-fish sushi and edamame for lunch. And yes, I said non-fish sushi! I was going to get a california roll but i don't think crab will agree with me so i'll be opting for a couple of orders of tamago and inari. Cold food, that isn't fruit, sounds soooooo good! I've been craving the sushi for a couple of days now. I hope this satisfies my craving. The other place I need to eat at this week is the tea room. They have a prix fixe menu but they also have other things as well. I typically get the tomato cream soup with some tea sandwiches (typically one punjab and one chicken with lingenberry sandwich) mmmmm....that chicken sandwich is making me very hungry. It is so yummy. If you're ever around pasadena check it out. One top of all that they have hundreads of varities of tea that you can order either hot or iced. When you order it iced you get a lovely carafe of your tea with strawberry slices in it. So incredibly yummy!

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005 08:27 a.m.

I stayed home from work yesterday. Yes, I was sick! Sunday and Monday I could not hold down any food. So gross! I'm hoping today will be different. I'm easing into my morning with some water and oatmeal. I'm hoping that this will be okay. Im hoping I can get a lighter lunch today like miso soup and some non-fishy sushi, like inari or tamago. We'll see, as i'm having lunch with friends my choices may be a bit limited.

I finally did it. Much to my sadness (but I know its not the end of an era) but more for practicallity I traded in my BMW. And this time not for another BMW. I said practicallity. T and I had reached a conclusion, spending about fifty dollars a week on gas was not practical and with our ultimate goal to pay off all debt and clean up our credit report in the next 4-6 months and T hated, hated, hated my car. So we got something that we think is cute, practical, economical and saving us a hell of a lot of money. After a bit of research we narrowed it down to two cars and choose the less expensive one, which is this. I drove it for the first time today and it was great. The only thing we want to do is get the windows tinted which we'll do soon. At the time of trade-in my BMW needed a lot of work, we'll it needed routine service (it was due), it needed new brakes, something was rattling in the engine that needed to be fixed, it was riding on the spare cause the real tire was flat (ulitmately a new tire was needed since the real one could not be patched) and the two front tires needed to be replaced cause they were getting a bit suspect. Needless to say, we didn't want to invest the money in the repairs and I was starting to get a bit freaked out driving kai to and from the sitters everyday. So I'm happy with my car and when we're ready we'll buy another car, its just that we really don't need to at this point since we will still be sharing a commute and everything.

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Friday, June 17, 2005 09:15 a.m.

This week flew by! I've been so busy this week that I have yet to grasp my mind around everything that I did in order to sum it up in a weekly meeting. Oh well, i'm sure i'll do fine. I have no plans for the weekend. We're postponing any father's day type activities for a week or two. The only thing wants to do is go to dinner and a movie. Simple? Definetly. But we NEVER get to do this so it will be a major deal when we do! We may hold out for the War of the Worlds opening weekend for our Father's Day outing. Funny T didn't want to dinner and then see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, go figure.

I keep getting this headaches, almost like a juniour migrane. It's so uncomfortable and it sucks that I can't take motrin. I have some no-asprin, asprin (as I like to call it). I'm loyal to my pain relivier but I will need to reach for some of the 2nd rate stuff. I hate headaches!

Kai's been having some tummy issues. On Wednesday night he woke up crying and when T went to check on him he had thrown up all in his crib and all over himself. T cleaned him up a bit and brought him into bed with us and guess what, he threw up in our bed. Yum! All three of us moved to the living room and Kai was just a mess. It was hard for him to get to bed, he kept tossing and turning (but then again, he does do this when he isn't feeling crappy). He finally got to sleep and slept pretty soundly. When he woke up in the morning it was cause he was trying to throw up but he couldn't. There was nothing left for him to throw up so the poor guy just had dry heaves. Once that gagging was over he seemed all better. Laughing and playing like normal. All thorugh the night and yesterday, no fever, he was totally alert and active like he wasn't even feeling sick. We kept him mostly on liquid yesterday, the sitter was afraid to give him formula cause when he did puke it was after drinking a bottle so he was drinking pedialyte and juice and some rice cereal for most of the day. We tried giving him some formula yesterday evening and he did fine. Thank god. T did give him a bottle in the middle of the night last night cause Kai was getting fussy in his sleep. He drank, maybe, an ounce and threw up. We're a little confused why this could be. We did buy a new formula, so that could be it. We're planning on sterilizing all bottles and nipples to make sure they are totally clean. Other then that it could be a little stomach virus or something. We're keeping him on lots of liquids and really simple foods. I'm hoping today will be the end of it.

I downloaded two great albums from The Selector the other day. They are two albums from a three album series but Vol. 1 was kind of screwy (not the album but the download) so I ditched it. Anyway, The Selector recorded a three album series of the Trojan old-school ska collection. It is so good! I may have to actually find a burnable version so I can play it in my car. I'm still obsessing over my Yahoo music thing. Okay. i gotta read a power point....

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 08:30 a.m.

It's funny how little things can really change your attitude about certain things. Case in point, I bought a new bottle brush a week or two ago. It is heaven. Washing Kai's bottles are such a joy now, so much easier, faster and I think the bottles look even cleaner then before. Wow! what a difference. I had been given a bottle brush at his baby shower and it was defiently fancier looking then what I have now but the brush was a little to wide and big for the bottles. I mean, it cleaned but when I would pull the brush out of the bottle soap suds and sometimes water came squirting out with it getting soap all over me and anything else nearby which typically meant the clean dishes normally received a nice spray of soap suds. It was quite annoying. But not anymore. Oh heaven.

My brother-in-law emailed me yesterday for my cousins phone number. My cousin was in Boston yesterday playing the Red Sox and C wanted to take him out for a drink or somehting. I wonder if he got a hold of him? I'll have to shoot C an email and find out.

I've recently downloaded Yahoo's new music engine/unlimited and I simply love it. I also have iTunes but the Y! engine is a ton better. I've been downloading music like a maniac. The selection is awesome. I've been able to find a ton of stuff. Another cool thing is you can even listen to you Launchcast radio through the console. Yes blatant plug but who cares. If a product is good, its good there's no denying it. I downloaded the entire Swingin' Utters Live in a Dive albume and I love it. Yes, I already own all the songs on other albums but I don't have any live versions. I've seen them about 10 times live and it was always awesomelicious and this live album is like being there. Okay, so that was cheesy so I better stop talking about that.

So 12-weeks have already gone by so I guess its safe to now say that I am pregnant AGAIN. Yes, AGAIN! My feelings are still mixed, I'm still stunned and a bit freaked. T on the other hand is more then ecstatic. It's a bit weird for me to see him giddy like this. The last time it was switched and he was the freaked one. I think parenting has come very naturally for him. So weird for me to think that. Today is the day that I brake the news to my dear boss. It's so visually obvious that it shouldn't be a shock to him. People have been looking at me weird for the last couple of weeks, cause no way can anyone gain weight like that so quickly and in such a centralized area. My body is changing a lot faster this time around. My doctor said that this is pretty typical for second+ births. Great! That's what I told her Great! She just laughed. My doctor is cool as hell. I think i'll be moving into maternity clothes a little quicker this time around. I had a lot of borrowed maternity clothes last time and those are staying in the box in my garage. I have a few bottoms that I can wear (over and over and over) but I think I need a few more tops and this time i'll be pregnant during the completly opposite season as before so I'll need to invest in some sweaters or something. More on that as time progresses. But it feels great to finally get this off my chest. Outside of family only a few friends were privvy to this info so to share it is great.

My manicure is starting to look like crap. My polish is starting to chip. I need to take the polish off. I want to walk down to Delacy Beauty on my lunch just for a polish change but that seems a bit extravagant. I can just as well paint my own nails but I can't do a french on myself. Trust me, i've tried and it was all crooked and jacked. My toenails are still pretty but my nails are cruddy.

I was listening to the radio this morning and they were saying Pac Man's 25th birthday/anniversary is just around the corner. I can't believe its been 25-years. There are just somehtings that I don't associate a time period with and this is definetly one of them.

Here's some lyrics to The Dirty Sea Nothing Comes over me nothing like inspiration. Not even on the seaside No Fantasies to ration The swell looks mighty slim, And the water level's down The dirty sea adds to the junk I'm in Until the sun creeps up the sound
And then I'm outright broken Disgusted and outspoken.
My drinks are watered down and sick, Like my old man's tired convictions Nobody has a hold on me
At dusk it looks mighty dim. And the lights fire up the beach. I don't feel much like a swim 'cause I'm afraid of the dirty sea. The swell looks mighty slim And the water levels, they're all down. The dirty sea adds to the junk I'm in Until the sun creeps up the sound
And then I'm outright broken Disgusted and outspoken.
My drinks are watered down and sick, Like my old man's tired convictions Nobody has a hold on me.
I wake myself hastily In time for the break of day. The air smells sweet by the sea It stinks of my old memories. I try to grab hold of things Of anything I can reach But I'm only swatting at air Staring blankly at the dirty sea

And then I'm outright broken Disgusted and outspoken.
My drinks are watered down and sick, Like my old man's tired convictions Nobody has a hold on me.

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Monday, June 13, 2005 07:49 a.m.

I ate a medium sized bowl of honeydew melon and cottage cheese yesterday and within an hour or two I puked the entire thing up. What the? I notice when I OD on fruit it always ends up coming back up. So gross! From now on i'll stick to a normal sized serving and try not to gorge myself on it as I normally do.

I've had the same headache now for about 2-days. I don't know why i'm at work and since I'm here how long I will actually last. I'm going to try and hold out until lunch and see how things are. I took a tylenol yesterday and then took a nap, thinking that would help but it didn't. I did nap however for about 3.5 hours which was wonderful considering i'm so not a napper. But the headache is still sticking around. Sometimes when I have a headache just eating or drinking something usually helps. So I ate a bagel and am drinking apple juice but will soon be moving on to my can of Diet Rite.

I spent way to much money at Target yesterday! So many things I normally buy were on clearane that I went beserk and formula was on sale so I bought a ton. I love, love, love Target but its been so long that I've gone there to actually peruse the aisles for me, when I go now its strictily for getting household and baby items and then I am outta there. It's so sad. Yesterday while we were there, everyting fit into one cart but when it came time to check out we needed to have to carts to fit everything. I never want to experience that again! I did buy myself some Fig Newtons which were so yummy! I wanted some junk so bad and I had a hard time deciding between Fig Newtons and Nutter Butter's (yum!). Honestly, it was surprising to me that I opted for the Fig Newtons since I'm a big Peanut Butter junkie, cause you know as well as I know, most everything is yummy with peanut butter!

So I'm a bit of a sucker for free samples. I'll search online for brands that offer free products by mail. You know, toothpaste, laundry detergent, allergy pills stuff like that. Such a sucker. Another thing I love is downloading coupons online. I don't buy the Sunday paper so its perfect for me. I just subscribed to this site that have links to coupons and samples. Yippee.....So I'll be ending for now as I need to obsess over this site for a few minutes.

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Friday, June 10, 2005 08:20 a.m.

Last night was great. I got to hang out with a friend from college. We had some yummy grub at Fred 62. T and I cheated a little and ate my lunchtime leftovers before heading out to dinner. He was good and ordered some sort of southwestern chicken salad while I, on the other hand, ordered The Bearded Mr. Frenchy! So good. You're probably wondering what the heck is The Bearded Mr. Frenchy? Well, I'll tell ya. It's corn flake encrusted french toast. I couldn't resist, its always so yummy! After an hour/hour and a half we had to wrap things up as Mr. Kai had some explosive poop that we needed to get home and get cleaned up right away. The smell in the car was horrific, and much to our chagrin we HAD to stop for gas on the way home. He didn't seem to mind, maybe it was keeping him warm? But when we got home I had to watch T change his diaper in pure facination. T screamed a little and upon stripping Kai down to his birthday suit and cleaning as much as he could with wipes he ran to the bathroom and dunked him in some water to clean him up. I had to rinse of the track pants Kai was wearing to dinner. It was awful! Poor baby, I'm surprised he wasn't crying at the restaurant, like I said maybe it was keeping him warm. GROSS!

Did anyone watch Hit Me Baby One More Time? That damn show is really addictive. Although I could have done without Vanilla Ice. The Knack did a great cover of Jet's Are You Gonna Be My Girl. Yeah, anyway, I may now have a new Thursday night TV show. Great! Another show!

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