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A few monumental and potentially life altering events have occurred for me recently.....
First, foremost, and primarily important was my baby kicking. I realized that I've been feeling this for the past week or so, but it was only over the last few days that I actually figured out what it was. It's so neat, it's like this tiny little tapping coming from inside me, and if I can position my hand over my belly in the same place he's kicking, I can feel it from the outside too. I grinned like an idiot and held my belly for hours once I figured out what it was, and now I keep poking, trying to get him to poke back at me. It's pretty much the coolest and most exciting thing that I've ever felt in my entire life.
Still don't know what I'm having, I say 'he' for convenience purposes. I had quite the tummy troubles on Thursday, when I was supposed to go for the ultrasound, and there was no way I would have been able to keep down the amount of fluid I was supposed to drink... and it would have been awkward to throw up all over the tech. So I'm rescheduled for the 29th. A few more weeks of suspense.... Arg!
The second important and supremely exciting thing is my reconnecting with someone who was and is a huge part of my life, someone who makes me feel complete just to know that sometimes I'll log on and find an e-mail waiting. Someone who can make me feel like everything will be ok, despite being stressed out, broke, terrified, essentially homeless, lonely, and cranky, which is not, by any means, a small accomplishment.
Lastly, my little cousin had a birthday this weekend, and we had all put together and bought him an iPod Touch. That's what he had asked for, and although we all felt it was a little unnecessary, we got it for him. So I, being the only one even somewhat technologically inclined, got it set up on the laptop, downloaded iTunes, and put together a playlist from the music I already had on the hard-drive from my Sansa...
All I have to say is..... I want I want I want I want I want. It is so cool. It's so easy, user-friendly... I'm a fan of Apple products anyways, but had seen the iPod as a pretty basic MP3 player with a name attached. I was soooo wrong. I will eat my words, gladly, and at the same time lick Steve Jobs' boots clean to have my own. Everything about it is amazing, it's got so many superfluous and unnecessary features and graphics and funky little things... I would have murdered my cousin and buried his body in the yard if I hadn't already registered the thing under his name... and if the ground wasn't frozen. I'm trying to figure out if I can put one on my baby registry... for, you know, educational and developmental purposes...
And that was basically my weekend.