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Saturday, October 04, 2003 ( 6:47 PM ) Lostcheerio I just burned up the garlic bread! It was an actual fire with flames! Leaping! Out of the oven door! Dan had to come and save me as I screeched and leaped about in a panic! Then had a total nervous sobbing attack over the ashes. AHHHH it's good to be pregnant. Stupid enough to burn the garlic bread and emotional enough to feel it was a real tragedy. # ( 11:28 AM ) Lostcheerio Church people just brought me a beautiful wooden bead maze, a play gym arch toy, a portable baby swing, and a rolling bassinet that vibrates. It is SOOOO COOL!!! It's like Christmas! They were garage sale shopping and made TWO TRIPS to my house to bring me presents, they are so cool, the end. Now I want the baby to get here right away so it can go in its cool bassinet thingy. AWESOME. THANK YOU BEAUTIFUL LOVELY PEGGY AND HUNTER. # Friday, October 03, 2003 ( 8:17 PM ) Lostcheerio Want to see a picture of me pregnant? 
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( 7:31 PM ) Lostcheerio Me: Do you want to look at the baby? Dan: Right now? Me: Yes. Dan: The baby looks like a carpet. Me: CARPET! OUR NAMING PROBLEMS ARE OVER! # Thursday, October 02, 2003 ( 7:57 PM ) Lostcheerio Product Recommendation: Burt's Bees Parsley Blemish Stick Not that I *have* any blemishes, or ever have, or ever would. I'm just saying, that *if* someone happened to have pregnancy related *irregularities* of the skin, perhaps around the middle of the brow or chin, then this product would certainly give *that person* complete relief and an absolutely gentle mild solution to the problem. The hypothetical problem. # ( 9:23 AM ) Lostcheerio Why do people say "literally" when they are introducing what is clearly a metaphor? I know it is meant as an intensifier. But when someone says, "It was literally a roller coaster ride" I expect them to be on an actual physical roller coaster. And when someone says, "It was literally tearing me up inside" I expect them to have shredded internal organs. Otherwise what the blazes can they possibly mean? Open letter to everyone: Dear Everyone, Please stop using the word "literally" to serve a purpose for which it was not intended. You can indicate the intensity of your feeling in other ways. Try the word "monstrous" or "critically" or gape your mouth open a little bit or slam your fist into your other hand. Don't be irresponsible with the word "literally" or when you really want to communicate that you are actually being torn up inside, everyone will nod sympathetically and no one will call the EMS. Love, The Committee To Protect Figurative Language # Wednesday, October 01, 2003 ( 5:25 PM ) Lostcheerio Me: I'm wearing a tent. Dan: That's not a tent. That's a baby awning. Me: Welcome home, Dan. # ( 2:59 PM ) Lostcheerio Okay, apparently I'm not going to write a lot of little diverting quips about hurricane Isabel, so I'm just going to wrap up my coverage and then move on: Everything's all fine now. We were without power for 4 days... pretty much all of Norfolk was without power it was INSANE. People were driving around, no traffic lights, lining up around the block at the one 7-11 that was open on a generator and had hot coffee. Women walking around looking strange because they couldn't do their hair. People searching for milk / gas / saws / batteries. We discovered this really neato chocolate milk that is organic and comes in some sort of nuclear wrapper that means it lasts on a shelf for like a month. Thank goodness for that or Benny might have died. Radio stations the day after were announcing what stores were open and what they had - people were driving around in their cars just to be in air conditioning and hear the radio, but the lines at the few functional gas stations were amazing. All our phones require power so we also had no phone for a few days. It was very shocking to see all the trees down -- huge trees lying flat -- whole neighborhoods uprooted with power wires dangling and people's houses caved in. Many streets with trees blocking them had signs by the main road -- "TREE DOWN" so people wouldn't try to drive down. Lots of people outraged because of gawkers but what was there to do except drive around looking at damage and trying to find someplace with hot food? We went to Home Depot to get a saw so Dan could dismantle the branches in the backyard and the line for generators was around the parking lot. Dan nearly went crazy without a working computer -- Mr. Workaholic was headed for a nervous breakdown within like half an hour of the power going out. He paced, he worried, he fretted, he rolled his eyes back in his head and frothed -- OKAY NOT THAT. But he was acting a leeetle bit disturbed. Fortunately after the storm passed he could break his head open on being the first person on the street to have all the debris neatly sawed up and bagged or bundled on the curb. After that was done he sort of paced around looking hunted and wild. Having the power come back on was SOOO AWESOME!!! We decided that from now on any day we can wake up and see the numbers on the alarm clock is a good day. Took a few days to sort of readjust. The storm itself wasn't too bad. It was pretty cool actually until the power went out. The downtown area in Norfolk was like 3 feet underwater, that was exciting, but it didn't flood our street. We didn't have much damage to house/trees/cars either. I had been thinking that the difficult part would be getting through the storm -- no, that was a breeze compared to the long aftermath. No more hurricanes for me thanks. # |
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