A List

Things I need to accomplish before November:

• Organize the linen cabinet in the bathroom
• Paint the bathroom. Yes, a color has finally sort of been decided on: chocolate brown for the walls and white for the cabinets
• Put contact paper down in the kitchen cabinets
• Unpack the remaining boxes in the basement

City Garden

In an effort to become more like a real city and attract people to the downtown area, St Louis has completed a green space project. It has fountains and crazy sculptures you can climb on. All that good stuff. Plus its great for pictures.



I foresee many more trips out there in the near future.

A Text Message

"I Had a dream you were a really badass undercover cop."

It Needs to Be Said

There is a disturbing trend in facial hair for relief pitchers in major league baseball. I like to call it the tumor beard. Observe. This is Jason Motte of the Cardinals and if I could think of the name of that other pitcher I would link to his picture as well, but alas, his name escapes me at this point in time. Perhaps the husband will think of it. I would like to shave all of their beards.

It just needed to be said.

It's Too Hot

Sunday Brian and I went to the drag boat races at Creve Coeur Lake. It was full of hoosiers.



This is both incredibly patriotic and incredibly unpatriotic at the same time. Anywho. It was about 100 degrees outside and despite the fact that I guzzled Gatorade like it was going out of style, I felt horribly sick the next day. Oh well. Got some great pictures for my class.





Actually, Brian took the second one, but the colors are really nice, aren't they?

Unnecessary Cat Photos!

So...I bought a new camera. A fancy new camera. So now I can take even better pictures of the kitties. Like this:



And also this:

I Should Know Better

One of the "great" things about being pregnant is the prenatal vitamins. Yes. I do so love trying to swallow two horse-sized pills everyday. One of which is a fish oil supplement. Since fish contains mercury and I can't have more than two servings per week, I get all those excellent nutrients from the vitamin. Unfortunately, if I don't take it within about an hour of eating...well, let's just say that bad things tend to happen. And this happened on at least two other occasions so I really should have learned my lesson by now.

So that was my night last night. /end whine

It's Been Awhile / Welcome Back

Is anyone still out there in reader land? Probably just the husband. I have a very good reason though: I'm pregnant. And while that is not a good excuse for not writing since it's one of the least strenuous activities in the world, the first several months would mostly have been me complaining about how crappy I was feeling and frankly, no one wants to hear me whine everyday. Not even Brian, although he does put up with it. So welcome back and I promise I will try to keep whining to a minimum.

Moving on. Tuesday I will be 18 weeks. Check out my big belly:



In non-pregnancy related news, I'm taking a photojournalism class this summer. The professor is a little scattered but I can deal and I think its going to be pretty fun. Unfortunately now I covet this.

Thank You Neil Gaiman

Without you I would not know that the galaxy tastes of raspberries and smells of rum. My life is now complete.

Musings on My Inadequacies as an English Major

About three months ago I decided to take the plunge. I decided I was going to go back to school. Let's put this in some context. I graduated almost five years ago with a degree in Marketing. Why, you may ask, do I want to go back to school for an English degree of all things? The thing is: I really really hated my major by the time second semester of Senior year rolled around. At that point it was too late to change: I'd declared my intent to graduate, I'd rubbed it in my brother's face that I was graduating the same time as him and he was two years older than me. So there I was. Just graduated with no idea what I really wanted to do. I started working in food service and was so good at my job that I seriously considered restaurant management as a career path; however, I get way too stressed out for that to work for me. Back to square one.

Square one just happened to be my original life plan: to be a writer. In all honesty, an English degree is not really going to make me more qualified to do be an author, but I like to have some sort of plan. And I love school. (Right now, in fact, I am happily pretending that I'm an undergrad again hanging out on the top floor of the library not doing homework, just like I used to do) So I enrolled in a 300-level lit course. No big deal, right? I've taken 300-level courses before, how hard can it be?

Apparently, a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I have spent the better part of two days working on my take-home midterm which boils down to two mini-papers about two pages apiece. And I think I've made some really intelligent and good points. But man. I do not know how to write papers anymore. My prose has gotten extremely lazy in the last five years and I feel like I sound like an idiot. Which I'm sure I don't. But maybe I do.

Am I really cut out for this?

If I don't get a good grade in this class I think it might destroy me.