so the weirdest thing happened to me the other day.  the phone rang, i answered, and this guy starts talking to me like we were the best of friends.  i had no clue who it was, and he quickly realized this and made me guess.  turns out it was a guy that i hung out with in high school one summer.  i haven't talked to him in about 8 years.  sometimes you think it would be nice to talk to someone you haven't seen in a very long time, but there was something exceptionally weird about the call.  i mean, he basically just wanted to relive those glory days when we had no responsibility except to be home by midnight.  but i don't know, something was just off.  i have felt really odd since the phone call, and don't think i really want to do that again.  i mean, that was a loooooooonnnnnnngggggg time ago, and i was a completely different person back then.  and i'm not one of those people who looks back at high school and wishes i was there again.  i love my life now--i would absolutely want to shoot myself if i had to go back.  but i keep finding people who just sit on those days thinking that was the best time of their lives, and would do anything to get back there.  if those were the best days of our lives, we're pretty much damning the future.  and i have had so many better days since then.  sure, i may have a heck of a lot more responsibilities now, like a morgage and a baby on the way, but i'm excited about it.  i mean, isn't part of growing up moving on?

yeah, yeah, yeah, too long since the last post....

it's really funny, this whole pregnancy thing.  i mean, i was excited when i found out that a close friend of mine was due 3 days after me.  then i met another girl who's due at the same time.  and my friend from milligan is due in august.  and i just got a letter from my cousin telling me...you guessed it, she's pregnant, too.  this is the cousin who was born 2 weeks after me...it would have been weird if we weren't pregnant at the same time like our moms!  thank goodness i'm not alone!!

i think i'm finally getting over the whole morning sickness bit.  i can actually eat meat without running to the bathroom to puke it all up.  it's quite nice, actually.  and i don't feel so queasy all the time anymore.  i never thought i would hear myself saying these words, but now, if only i could gain some weight!

in other news, i'm beginning to believe that las vegas is having a negative effect on my brother.  well, i was worried from the very beginning about him being there, but what could i do?  it's not like i do the assigning for the air force or anything.  but anyway, it seems that my brother has taken up with a girl who he told us was a cocktail waitress at this club that he met in february.  after the night she left him stranded in the middle of a store with no way home (claimed she went home to get something, would be right back, but ended up falling asleep?), we thought he would be smart enough to kick her to the curb, even if she was the only girl who has actively pursued him in his life.  but instead, he tells us he's dating a girl by another name, and is spending oodles and oodles of money that he does not have, only for us to find out that this other girl is actually the same girl, but she gave him her real name instead of a stage name.  she has a stage name because she's a stripper.  and my brother is paying money to see her.  and she's convincing him to give her exorbitant amounts of money for whatever it is that she's doing.  i'm sure she's probably hot, and probably really convincing, but i think if i met her, i'd punch her in the face.  i mean, she's totally taking advantage of my sweet little brother who will believe anything you tell him.  it makes me absolutely sick.  and i want to bean my brother over the head and try to knock some sense into him.  i guess that's a little hard when it comes to matters of the heart...

but anyway, that's just a little bit frustrating!!  i wish i was a confrontational person and could just go tell my brother to his face he's being stupid and taken advantage of.  it just makes me sick that he's so lonely out there, and i can't really do a thing about it.  it's not like i have the money to hop on a flight to go spend the weekend with him or anything.  maybe God will strike him with a lightning bolt or something.

i hate morning sickness!!!!

especially when it lasts ALL DAY LONG!!!!

so i just don't understand the whole issue with snow around here.  last night i waited all night for the snow to fall, and the morning shows on every channel were dedicated to the fact that the world as we know it would stop because the snow was coming.  at 5am there was no snow, and people were still freaking out.  i understand it can be dangerous to drive around in snow, but come on people!!!! we're not gonna die, it's just a little precipitation!!

on the other hand, i can't get a hold of my husband.  he left work a while ago, and isn't answering his cell phone.  traffic must be really slow.  for now i'm just gonna chalk it up to him being careful and not talking on the cell while trying to drive.  good thing our bible study was cancelled tonight because we'd already be late :)

oh good.  there's the garage door.  i'm so glad he's home!!!

so in other procreation news, i just found out today that one of my good friends is pregnant.  not only is she pregnant, but due just 3 DAYS after me.  another friend and i had just recently commented on her recent stomach bug and frequent fatigue and laughed about how funny it would be if she were pregnant too.  CRAZY how things work sometimes!!!  but really it is very exciting because now i have 2 friends to go through all the fun and crazy changes together with (and who can be completely sympathetic too).  we're even going to the same doctor/hospital.  i've been all smiles all night for them!

word is slowly breaking out at work now.  i've had two night where i was taking care of babies who needed X-rays (which i can absolutely not hold for right now), so i've had to throw it out there.  only one person has really asked, but i think people were starting to suspect anyway. 

james, if you're reading this, the cranberries rocked my face off.  daffodil lament was one of my favorite songs.

i have come up with one problem with working more nights a week now.  i just can't seem to sleep at night anymore.  it really really stinks.  i've just been going to bed and laying there for hours.  that's why i'm up at 5:15am writing on here.  i figured i ought to be a little more productive or something.  not that this is exactly productive, but it's definitely better than not sleeping.  maybe i'll go finish one of the several books i have waiting for me now.  i'm still not tired, which is really weird anyway because i've been fatigued beyond compare for the last 6 weeks.  last friday, after working all night thursday, i slept until 4pm, went out with justin and my parents, came home, went to bed at 12, got up at 4:30am, went back to be at 11am and slept til 3pm.  it was one of those times where i think i was asleep much longer than i was awake.  maybe that's why i can't sleep now.