"Breaded Veal Cutlett" and "Freedom Waffles"
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: booty music--not by choice, but not so bad
Topic: Minda's entries
we ate at Wienerschnitzel tonight (translation above). i've never eaten there before, never wanted to eat there before. i had a italian sausage hotdog, and a chili cheese hotdog. i'm almost to the point of shame here, but why? see, that's the cool thing about being quasi-grown up. you make you're own money, and you buy whatever you want to buy(that you can afford). it's your choice. i realized this when we were walking past the freezer section and i saw toaster waffles with blueberries in them a few months ago, and i said to colby, "Do you like those?" he said he did, but neither of us grew up having them in the house, so it had never occured to us to buy them. i always wanted them as a kid, but i couldn't have any because my parents paid for the groceries. now we buy them all the time, not necessarily because they're the best thing in the world to eat in the morning, but because we can. because they symbolize something bigger, something better, something about responsibility, liberty, and the american eagle, that escapes me right now. we should call them freedom waffles.

FINISHED WITH TRAINING!
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Loosy-ana fella complainin' 'bout his phone
Topic: Minda's entries
i just made a 100% on my last training test for cingular customer service (there are 7). monday we start "transition", where we're in a little area and answering phones, but there are more people around to answer our questions. not so looking forward to that. there are so many programs i have to have up at once to see all the parts of their account. i just hope i can remember everything about the 15 windows i have up on my monitor when people are yelling at me.

we're trying to pick out a doctor. really really stressful. colby called a few people this morning/afternoon, and the first one, that our general dr. refered us to, scheduled us an appointment for when i'm already 12 WEEKS pregnant. i know they probably don't need to check me up or whatever til then, but i have just a *few* questions, if you know what i mean. like eleventybillion. AND she said i wouldn't see her until later on, but the nurse instead, and then, if she's not available to see me when i make my appt., then there are other doctors there i can see, which would help when she's possibly too busy to actually deliver the baby, and then the other doctor can deliver it, and i can already be aquainted with him/her. if she's too busy for me, (i was napping when colby called, or i would have told her this right then) then why doesn't she just say so, and i can take my money and firstborn somewhere else. the next lady (i'd rather have a woman ob-gyn, but apparently so does every other mother, but there aren't as many women as men-- on my insurance list anyway) said the hospital fee would be 5 to 8 thousand, and the dr. visits with the sonograms and other tests would be about 4500. we have insurance, it covers 70%. but still. and colby still needs a studio. women used to have babies in the bathtub, and the solution to every problem was "bring hot water". not that i want that, but at least it fits my budget.

still going on the names
Mood:  smelly
Now Playing: an old girlscout medlyelody
Topic: Minda's entries
how about Jaxon Wallace? well, we don't really care if you don't like it, but tell us if you do.

the announcement
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: top 40 crap
Topic: Minda's entries
well, the celebratory icon thingy isn't quite appropriate for this one, because you're not supposed to smoke when you're pregnant. yep. colby's gonna be a daddy! probably around december 5-10...somewhere in there. we'll see the dr. and get an accurate date on thursday. So on that note---we are in desperate need of BOY NAMES. girl names too for that matter, but boy names more so. i was thinking aurora for a girl, but might that be too many 'r's in the whole name? morey likes the name mirian. i like it too, and maybe gideon travis for a boy. hmmmm...maybe miriam? gwendalyn? well, that's about all we have right now, that we both like. morey also thinks it's going to be a "woman child", so i've already got my first prediction! but then later my mom said it would be a boy, because she thinks she's been sentenced to a lifetime of infinite grandsons. that's 2. also, i feel like i should be DOING something, something big, but all the stuff i've read thus far says, get on a prenatal vitamin, and don't smoke or drink, and get some excercise. but i realized that subconsciously i feel like i have some kind of medical condition that requires big horse pills that won't go down. mayhaps i'd feel better if i had those. even if nothing was in them but, y'know, whatever. sugar, vitamin C. weird. i think i'm also going to give up caffeine altogether. i'm still working on scrounging up phone numbers to call and tell people, but i don't have a lot, so if i haven't called you, please don't take it personally!

happy good friday
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Sublime songs
Topic: Minda's entries
a great song. today is hat day at work, and we forgot, but rachel forgot her purse at our house today, so we had to bring it by her house on the way to work, and we happened to remember, and then isaac let us borrow two cat in the hat hats!!! now we're the stars of this boring show.

i've been a day behind all week (ie it's tuesday, right? -no, it's monday). but today it's friday and i thought it was thursday. like i was really sure it was thursday (i blame colby, he thought so too). weird. i kinda wish it was thursday (that's a first), because today rachel and my mom asked me to play a song in church on sunday, and i'm really not ready--so i was thinking, "oh i'll have 3 days to practice, it's okay", but now i only have two. it's a hard song on some parts. then rachel brought me some music, with the bottom line of piano music chopped off!!! (due to a poor printing job on my mom's part). oh well.

there's an easter egg hunt tomorrow at 10:00am. in the morning. ridiculous. i really want to go, it might be the last one i see with the its for a while, but that means we'll have to be gone by 9:00am. in the morning! that means i'll have to wake up at like 8. AM. BAH!