Big news indeed!

Well big news…we’re having a baby! We are so excited! It’s due on April 21 and I’m 12 weeks along! We just had an ultrasound today and everything looks great! I haven’t felt too sick so that’s been nice.

Rat poison

So Cody and I were having a great day yesterday hanging out cause he stayed home from school on account of the fact that he’s sick. I was doing laundry in the basement and brought moby down with me, and I look over at him and he was eating rat poison! We had to take him to the vet and they gave him hydrogen peroxide to make him throw up and did some blood work. He’s going to be fine but it was sure an expensive visit to the vet! He will no longer be going down to the basement with us that’s for sure.

My front door has two peepholes?

I just noticed. My front door has two peepholes, one on either side of the door. What’s more, both of them are functional, so it’s not like one broke so someone installed another. I checked, and none of the other apartments have two. Here are some ideas as to why someone would want something like this.

A) There used to be two peeping toms who wanted to peep with their peepers through the peephole at the same time. Apparently they were not quite getting the whole sharing idea.

2) One peephole is about half an inch lower than the other, so maybe a previous occupant refused to go up on their tiptoes, even for a minute.

D) Maybe a previous tenant wanted one facing out and one facing in (the eponymous “Reverse Peephole”) but they were incorrectly installed by the super. This sort of person worries some thug is waiting to hit them with a sock full of pennies, on either side of their door. Don’t worry, they are always ready with the double peepholes.

Interesting, but not really that interesting. I should be studying for a Biochemistry test, but I am distracting myself. On a very cool side note, I got my first dose of patient interaction in Medical School today; I worked as a phlebotamist in a free clinic today. It was really cool, like 8 poles came in for lab work who didn’t speak english, so I got to talk to them. And then stick them with needles and steal their life juice. No one died, and whatever enjoyment I may or may not have gotten out of it was cancelled by the fact that I had to deal with a lot of urine analysis. Peace out.

Fresh Feeling – Eels

Update

Hello all. Cody and I are having a great time here in Chicago. We are all settled in and our apartment looks great. Cody is really enjoying med school and is super busy. He has a test almost every week but is loving school. I found a job at a clothing boutique a few days a week and it’s cool except one of my bosses is a perv and it’s pretty awkward. I don’t have to work with him that often though. My sister just got engaged! And we are so excited for them! I’ll post some pictures in a little bit.

Back from Mexico, hopefully swine free?

So Beth and I got back from our cruise in Mexico, and it was wicked. We narrowly missed a run-in with a severe tropical storm, and no one got kidnapped! Once one factors in the great food, beaches, and other cruise ship amenities, I can safely say that we had a pretty good time. Here are some photos that we took. Also, here is a link to a seriously awesome hi-res video of Beth dancing on the ship.  Everyone was staring while she was dancing. This week we are babysitting Beth’s six cousins, aged 3 to 16. It is quite a handful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXM0xz2Q3tI

Peace.

New Apartment

Good news, Beth and I finally got an aparment in Chicago! We just signed the lease yesterday, so I guess it’s official. It’s a two bedroom, one bathroom with hardwood floors and it’s newly remodeled. Finally.

“Never thought I’d see the day, when a big boat’s coming my way!”

So Beth and I are here at the port, waiting to board the mariner of the seas. The good news is that the ship is HUGE. Like crazy big. The bad news? The weather forecast says that it will be thunderstorming all week in Western Mexico. So if the threat of kidnapping and swine flu isn’t enough, now we get to worry about typhoons! Sweet. Beth and I are not surprised: every time we try and take a subtropical vacation, it rains. Honeymoon in Hawaii? Yes. Surfing in Costa Rica? You betcha! Were still excited, however. It’s gonna be awesome. Poseidon can suck it!

Moby, the Eunuch

It was a sad day for testicles e’erwhere, today our dog Moby was neutered. No longer will he be able to sew his wild oats. The line dies with him. On a plus side, the surgery was done semi-laparoscopically (sp?) so the recovery time will be minimal. He’s pretty tired, but the vet says that he shouldn’t even notice the difference.

On a different note, after Ashley got a new camera for our upcoming cruise, Beth decided to get one as well. This photo was not taken with it.

New Blog

Since Beth and I are moving across the country, it has been suggested that we should blog more. Fair enough. However, Beth doesn’t seem to like our old blog that I made (shame, really) so we started a new blog. WordPress lets us easily post from our phones as well as a computer, so hopefully we will put more on there. Anyways, starting next week our summer gets crazy, with a cruise, baby-sitting, California, Disneyland, moving, and more trips to Georgia and possibly the East Coast. So stay tuned?