Click on the pictures to see them better. I'm sorry I'm not better with photo software to make them bigger and resize them. I will try to mess with that at some point.

I will write more later but right now I have some things to do.

We just saw the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin. It is really funny, you should go see it. The funniest part for me was they very end, because I cam silly like that. I love Paul Rudd and he is awesome in it. Go see it! Then leave me a comment and tell me if you liked it. I like comments.

Strange day at work today. Got some pretty good news and then got some not so good news. I'll just say this; they are the most un-family friendly companies I have ever heard of. Working there and getting pregnant is like putting a target on your back. Your days are seriously numbered.

Good news, the air conditioning saga is finally over. It is fixed and we should never have to worry about it again as long as we are in this house because it is all under warrenty. The bad news is, we are broke and will probably be living on PBJ's and mac & cheese for a long time, at least until the fetus is ready to come out. I always think of that song that Pheobe sang on Friends - "are you in there little fetus? In 9 months will you come greet us?"

Big ultrasound this Wednesday, looking very forward to that. Hopefully the fetus will reveal it's gender to us. However, I don't know if we will then make that information known to everyone. I kind of like the idea of having a secret.

I can't get into too much detail, but there are things going on at my job right now that make me want to rip my hair our. I have been aware of a situation for a while, and on Friday I found out something else that made it even worse. The blatant favoritism and crap that is going on make me not want to ever go back, but I have to because I need my benefits. I just don't kow how to handle things right now. I don't know how I'm going to handle dealing with certain people in the coming weeks. It just seems that the most undeserving people get exactly what they want, while the people that work hard and just do their job get shit on (that being me). I am incapable of ass-kissing and sucking up. I am not good at it and I just can't do it, even if it does mean getting a big fat raise. Therefore, I do not get raises, I do not make enough money for the amount of work that I do and the length of time that I've been there. There used to be 8 people doing my job, and now there are only 2 of us left. All of the others have moved on to better things, and I am still there for some reason. How stupid am I?

Lobstah is wicked good!

I'm back. I am not happy about it, but that's the way I am. Anyone who knows me knows that after a vacation I go through about a week of severe depression, and eventually I get back to normal. It sucks.

Anyway, it was a good time. The weather was perfection! Low 80's during the day, low 60's at night...awesome. Sunny, blue skies, nice trees, all good. Here are a few observations that I've made about Mainers:

1. The people are very enviro-friendly and animal loving, which I love. Lots of great outdoorsy stuff going on, and the city is very clean.

2. They take lobster very seriously. I know that Maine is famous for lobster, but EVERYONE there eats it all the time. It is like an everyday thing for them, and everyone has lobster pots. I like lobster, but not after I saw how they eat lobster. I like my lobster tail all nice and pretty on my plate, ready to eat. They boil the lobster whole, then they tear it apart with their bare hands. Literally, ripping this lobster apart. It really turned me off to watch that.

3. The people drive slower, but not in a bad way. They seem much more patient on the road, and a lot more courteous. That is always a good thing. Also, I have never seen so many Kerry/Edwards stickers. LOVE THAT! These people are my kind of people.

We camped out every night except the last night. My camping tolerance is about 3 days, and then I am done. I needed a good bed, a long shower, and TV, so we got a hotel room in Portland. This was a great idea on my part. However, we were awakened at 6:30am by the screeching fire alarm. In a half sleep we got dressed and had to trek down the stairs from the 3rd floor and outside. Of course, it was a false alarm, but all good because we had to get up at 6:45 anyway to get the plane. We had rented a Chevy Trailblazer and Nicole, Jacob, Chris, Brent and I spent most of the days driving around, checking things out. My favorite day was Saturday when we went to the lighthouse in Pemiquot. I am totally spelling that wrong. At night, we hung out with all of the party-goers, listened to the bands and observed all of the drunk people. We had a fire down by our campsite and hung out there a lot. Can I just say that while I know we get on eachother's nerves, I love my sister. I love hanging out with her.

Here are some pictures:



Someone brough 93 lbs of lobster to this party, and Brent decided to pick one up. The thing is, Brent finds pretty much all seafood disgusting, especially crabs and lobster. He can't even watch those shows on the Discovery Channel about crabs because they freak him out so bad. Anyway, he picks up this lobster, all proud of himself, and then the thing moves and Brent freaks and drops it.


My sister. We all spent a lot of time in that hammock.




View from the top of a lighthouse


Setting up the campsite




Portland street

Here we go again...

This Thursday we leave for Maine. I am really looking forward to it, mostly because I am getting out of work for a few days. We are flying in to Portland and going to a town called Litchfield, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Friends of my parents have a week long party, people camp, there's a big horshoe tournament, white water rafting, bands...it is a lot of fun. I am not looking forward to the camping part and sleeping on an air mattress, but I'll make do. I'm going to take lots of pictures and post some of them when we get back. On our way from Portland we have to stop in to the LL Bean store in Freeport, I'm sure I can kill a couple of hours in there.

Orange kool-aid is the absolute best beverage of all time.