7 Quick Tuesday Takes
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 11:02AM 1. Check out my latest post over at We are the Real Deal: Oh boy, a boy, where I talk about my happiness at finding out we're having a boy and guilt about being relieved we're not having a girl.
2. Yesterday I went to the storage facility I used to keep my stuff in when I lived with my parents after grad school. It's the easiest place to buy moving boxes from when I need to pack things up for basement storage. Little by little, the "house to home" project WILL happen. I fear that it'll get sidelined when my grad classes start (January 26th) but this semester should be lighter than last semester since I'm not teaching (either at my day job or as an adjunct) so I anticipate being far less busy and stressed.
3. Have you seen the video of the little boy rocking out in his parents' car? I watched this yesterday and literally laughed out loud. I sent it to my family saying this will indeed be our son if the hubby has his due influence over our child in any way:
I've already watched it twice this morning and showed it to one of my tutors. I usually have a bad knee-jerk reaction to playing loud rock music around babies/toddlers, but this is just too funny for me to have anything bad to say about it.
4. I've had two friends in the past 24 hours talk about being mistaken for pregnant when they're not. Most overweight women are familiar with this issue (I even had a friend be mistaken for pregnant when she was 14 or 15), but thankfully I never had that happen. (Note: the friends this happened to aren't overweight at all, oddly enough.) And now that I am pregnant - 21 weeks tomorrow - still no one has said anything! But my pants are a bit tighter when I put them on in the morning, so I know that period is ending. Pretty soon I'll be showing and will enter the "Oh when are you due??" phase where even strangers will feel it's necessary to ask such things. Should be interesting.
5. Fan of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind"? Then you might enjoy "Garden State of Mind"
Eh. Or you might not. The hard-rocking toddler is way funnier.
6. My sister told me yesterday that she and her husband call The Force "Owen" because one day her husband said, "Well, you know, they're going to name him something like Owen." Not really sure exactly what that means, but it's funny anyway. Owen doesn't go with the middle name we have picked out, but it's a good name, regardless.
7. I overheard a student today say something about how when he was little, he looked like Harry Potter. My first thought was, "Okay, but that's anachronistic because those books came out after . . . " and then I thought, "Oh wait, he's probably 19, so he was born in 1990, so he was 6 or 7 when the book came out, which is younger than Harry is in the book . . . oh god, I am old."
