Obviously there is more to this story and I will tell it all. A little later this week. I promise. For now, just be thankful that you are tall and you don’t look like you are 6 months pregnant when you are only 3 months. Yes I said 3, and no I am not having twins.

I haven’t been writing much lately. It isn’t for lack of material, just the time to put pen to paper…or the computer I should say.

We went to Monterey this weekend and did a little sightseeing. It was wonderful to think about living there sometime soon. I felt like even though we were at the Wharf, the beach and the Aquarium like every other tourist, we weren’t tourists. We were locals just looking like tourists. We had a great time and I took a lot of  pictures. When I have more time I will download them. Tonight I am lazily sitting in bed, sore from my run and exhausted from a severe lack of sleep.

Which brings me to my next topic. I am not sure what size tooth Joshua is about to birth from his little swollen gums but I think it has some serious girth. He is drooling buckets, he won’t stop crying and baby orajel is the only thing that helps. He has never had this much trouble with teething. Needles to say, he hasn’t been sleeping because of the pain…ergo, I am exhausted.

On another note, I got picked in the lottery for the SF Nike Women’s Marathon! I am only running the Half, mostly because I am a chicken but I am nonetheless very excited to participate in this race. In preparation for this event I got a new watch that my sister informed me was “lesbian-ish” as it is of a digital nature. Either way, it helps me time my miles and do intervals. I am running a 10 minute mile right now but I want to get it down to a 9 minute mile before the race. I need some new shoes as mine actually have holes in the inside on the heel. However, we are in major money saving mode right now so they will have to wait

As far as all the excitement with the move….well, no offers on the house yet which is okay. I realized that I am not in a hurry, even though it won’t be fun to have Kevin gone three nights a week for a couple of months. We really can make it a few months with him commuting and it will help save some money in the meantime. So, if the house doesn’t sell until July or August, the sky will not fall upon my head. However, check back for updates on this as I am sure my opinion will change 73 times between now and May 19th (his start date). Good thing I have meds.

All right, you now know what I know. Well, not really everything that I know because I know everything. 

So, with the new camera the quality of my pictures makes this site load painfully slow. I know there is a way around it but until I figure it out, go see my birthday pictures here.

 As you can see, I also added a tab for my Flickr account, as I will be uploading more often on Flickr now.

So, I am 31 now and I realized these 5 things below DID NOT make me feel good about this birthday:

1. It was the 10th anniversary of my 21st birtday.

2. I graduated from high school 13 years ago.

3. I am now in my 32nd year according to my Dad.

4. I am halfway to 62, and Social Security!

5. I am now in a new voting block according to political polling. Goodbye 18-30 year old slackers, hello middle age consistent voters!

I will post more later about how I got to have my main sewage pipe “snaked” for my birthday. It was awesome. However, all was not completely lost because my bomb husband bought me a Cannon 40D!!!

I went to Borders yesterday and had a little one on one time with the books. I love books. I love to read. In elementary school I made friends with the librarian (Mrs. Klaumann) and she would tell me when new books were in, because I had read all of the existing inventory (insert snickering here about what I nerd I am).

I have a tendency to think about and analyze my life ALL THE TIME. So when I read, those thoughts are quiet and I can just escape. As Reading Rainbow once proclaimed…

Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high Take a look, it’s in a book – Reading Rainbow.

I can go anywhere! Friends to know and ways to grow – Reading Rainbow.

I can be anything! Take a look, it’s in a book – Reading Rainbow.

Reading Rainbow, Reading Rainbow, Reading Rainbow, Reading Rainbow!

I have noticed that I have a rather eclectic taste for books, as evidenced by my purchases yesterday. I will read such a wide variety of things that I am sure my collection looks like it belongs to several different people.

So this is what I bought yesterday:

1. The Second Civil War by Ronald Brownstein

2. Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

3. The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner

 The first is a book all about modern politics, the second is a fiction best seller and the third is just flat out chick lit.

I am so complicated……