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Where I have been

So, these handy little maps show me I am not as well traveled outside of the United States that I thought I was. I have been to 4% of all countries and 54% of all of the states.

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Shocking!

I am shocked, I tell you, shocked to hear this. I mean, if those two crazy in love kids can't make it work for the sake of publicity for their movies, then what does that mean for the rest of us? ;)

Little bit dead?

First Response pregnancy test has started a new commercial campaign that emphasizes that they can detect the pregnancy hormone up to 5 days earlier than before. That's great, but I really think that they need to rephrase their tagline which is something like "for even when you are a little bit pregnant". Hahaha.

Did she?

Okay, my first thought when I read this story was that Britney had gotten an abortion. Well, it was also my second and third thought, too.

At the movies

I took the child to see "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" yesterday. I took him right after school to a 4pm matinee and we were the first ones there. Nate picked out seats in the middle of the front row of the second section to put his feet on the rail. Which of course means that an older couple would pick seats one seat away from Nathan, out an almost entirely empty theatre. Oh well - they get what they deserve sitting next to a 6yo in a 3 1/2 movie.
But, Nate was reasonably well-behaved for such a long movie - enough so that the older woman complimented me at the end of the movie for having such a good kid. He was scared in some parts (the spider), bored in some parts (we're walking and we're walking) and excited thru a bunch of it (Fight! Fight!).
Me? I thought it was a really good movie - my Rudy love continues to grow. If he doesn't get an Oscar nom, I will be disappointed. But..but..I saw a few holes in the movie. The biggest one being the eagles. I'm just saying...why didn't they just fly Frodo and Sam to the pit, let them throw it in and fly them back? Woulda taken, what..3 days? And just think how many lives would have been saved? Yeah...I know...sacrilege. Not that it stopped me from sniveling thru most of it like a big sissy girl.

That foot tasted good

Note to self: When asking a receptionist for some Kleenex's and she asks if you just want a few or a whole box, and you want the whole box, do not say "because we will prolly be dying later" when you are referring to your allergies. Especially if you are standing out side of a cancer center waiting room.

Yeah...I'm...just...going to go now......

A new job

This job title looks really interesting - oh, and there are benefits, too. hehe

What did you do for Christmas?

So, the child and I went Down Under for Christmas this year to visit Beau and had an amazing time. He put up alot of great pictures of the child being all touristy and cute as always.

Speaking of touristy, you can climb the Harbour Bridge, which I did. It was so amazing up there. That picture was taken at around 1:30am Sydney time (7:30am cst), so I had basically stayed up all night to do that, but it was so worth it. The weather was amazing, and the city looked beautiful. It was two nights before New Year's Eve, and they had started placing the fireworks on the bridge, next to where we were climbing. It was cool to know that when they went off we had just been up there. They were also going to be having a light show on the Harbour on NYE, and while we were up on the bridge, they turned off all of the lights and did a run thru, which was really neat to watch from up there.

We also got the chance to go to the beach and to ride a train up to the Blue Mountains to see the Three Sisters rock formation. Which we didn't get to do because it was rainy and foggy. We just had to laugh at that point and continue with our tourisy games, pretending there really was something to see in the vast whiteness.

It was a wonderful trip, and like all wonderful trips it was far far too short. Hell, even my legs weren't screaming in pain by then. Even after getting off to a rough start by United Airlines shitty rerouting, rebooking ass, and the horrid gate attendant in San Francisco threatening not to board me on the plane due to me being a "disruption" to the other passengers because I had the audacity to bitch about them changing my hard worked for seating assignment, it was worth every single minute.
My only regret is that I didn't get to stay long enough to see the fireworks (and that the phones had worked since I didn't get to be there).

Happy 2004 everyone!