Queen of Rambles

How often is it that I post a post with zero rantiness? Not often. I’m just not a Little Mary Sunshine. I like being around happy people, but I always seem to find the irony in any situation. I don’t really think irony is the word I’m looking for, but I’m too lazy to look it up.

Anyway. . .

Today there is no cynicism to be found here. I’ve had a spectacular day and would even have photographic evidence if the camera cord was connected to the computer.

Helloheather is in town for a family reunion sort of thing, so we met up with her, her hubby (Cetan), her sister, her sister’s boyfriend and her cousin. The other three people all have Livejournals as well, but I don’t remember their user names and I’m told they are LJ slackers, so I’m not going to give them a link.

It was a great day for meeting up in DC. Last August was completely unbearable with the heat, but today was an overcast day that kept us just cool enough. I even wore long pants! August. DC. Long pants. It makes no sense, but it was good. We had lunch in a little cafe by the sculpture gardens and had great conversation and fun. I wish I lived near Heather. She is a hoot and a half, as is the rest of her family.

Before we met up with them, we visited the local Target and I SCORED! They had a beautiful, beautiful shower curtain that I had to have. I loved it so much that I did a cartwheel right in middle of the aisle*. You’ve not lived until you’ve seen a pregnant woman do a cartwheel.

They also had plus sized maternity clothes!!!! Not just one or two butt ugly things that I would never wear, but SEVERAL semi-cute tops and pants!!!! I bought two tops and a pair of pants and am soooooooo happy that I was able to look presentable while meeting Heather and co. I don’t think they would have appreciated looking down my shirt and seeing large amounts of breastage (maybe the boys would have. They are boys after all). Nor did I want them to see me in my tent dresses. I could have worn one of my prettier dresses, but I knew we were going to be doing some walking (we took the metro in) and it looked like rain and even though I am often a fashion victim, I just can’t quite reconcile skater boy shoes, white socks and a pretty dress.

You know what’s funny? I was going through some old pictures and found a few of me before I moved to Astoria. It was so weird to see how all my clothes were perfectly matched and accessorized. I had earrings and necklaces and rings and perfect make-up and curled hair. What the heck happened? Astoria was just not conducive to make-up waring and hair curling. The rain. . . oh Lord the rain. . . . You’d walk out the door and be soaked five minutes later. It was just not worth the effort. Since that time I’ve had very few occasions to go ahead and make the effort (I did make the effort when I’d sub in the high school here).

And now I do believe it is time to put away this silly computer and go to bed. We’ve spent a large chunk of the evening fighting with the router, but it turned out that the modem was our actual problem. The Comcast people in Virginia didn’t seem to understand that I was transferring my service and not just totally cancelling it and that seemed to screw everything up. I finally called tech support this evening and talked to a guy who didn’t seem to understand my problem either. He said to leave the modem on for 30 minutes while he did something and I figured that was just an excuse to make me call again in 30 minutes and talk to a different operator. I guess he did understand the problem, though, because when the 30 minutes were up we were able to connect and we’ve even got the wireless going. Now, if we can just get our Vonage phone system going we’ll be set. We haven’t even tried it because it looks complicated. The phone adapter is actually a router that has a place for phones to plug into. It does not have wireless. Our wireless router does not have phone jacks. Can you have two routers connected to the same computer? I don’t know how it’s going to work out, but I would hate to cancel the Vonage. I’ve been using my cell phone like a mad fiend and it’s actually not too bad, but it acts just screwy enough that I’d like a regular phone. I can’t figure out how on earth I’m supposed to retrieve my voice mail. Every time I try I end up leaving myself a new voicemail, which is just annoying.

And now for the grand finale! Mike was a good boy and just now uploaded the Heather/Carrie picture for the day. I believe some of you will recognize the rabbit from Donnie Darko. I don’t because I never saw the movie. Those are my new maternity clothes. I don’t like the tightness of them, but that seems to be the style. It seems like I should just be able to wear some fat clothes and get the same effect. That’s what I did in Toronto. However, my belly is just big enough that those shirts show my pale belly if I lift my arms at all. Six weeks till the due date! Let’s all cross our fingers that Thumper gets impatient and makes an early appearance. I think I should probably figure out the number I need to call when I go into labor and program it into the cell phone.

*And if you believe that, I’ve got some ocean front property down in Arizona.

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