Not So Famous…

Man, it’s been awhile since I posted what’s been happening in our lives on here.  I always seem to post about whatever is bugging me, or interesting me at the time.  Temporal things, usually.  Sometimes, of a more permanent nature.  :)

It occurred to me that I don’t believe I’ve posted one of the most important announcements of all time on here.  It occurred to me that there is at least one person who never really hears about us except when I post it on here.  :)

Kim and I are pregnant.  :-D  YAY!

Ok, now that THAT is over with, I can post about something that happened this morning that was more than a little uncomfortable.

I like to talk to people on MY terms.  When people come up and just start talking to me, it makes me a little uncomfortable, I’ve found.  I don’t like talking to people in grocery stores, etc.  I just want to get my stuff, pay for it, and get out.  When I go to church, however, I have to suspend this uncomfortability, because it’s the nature of things that people are just going to come up and talk to me.  It just happens.  And in all honesty, I like these people.  It’s just that I don’t like talking to people sometimes.  I’m weird.  When people find out we’re pregnant, they come up and talk to me ALL THE TIME.  It’s unavoidable.  They ask if we’re going to find out the sex of the baby.  They ask how far along Kim is.  They ask how she’s doing.  They actually ask if I’m excited.  (Nope….bored stiff, thanx for asking.)  Today, someone said something that caught me a little off guard.

Me: (silent)
Lady: CONGRATULATIONS!!!  ARE YOU EXCITED?  HOW FAR ALONG IS KIM?
Me: (Short answers, trying to smile.)
Lady: (wink) Good work!
Me: (Somewhat stunned silence.)

I really didn’t know how to respond.  So I sort of smiled and mumbled.  When I woke up this morning, I didn’t expect to hear that at church with reference to us being pregnant.  (Plus, I wouldn’t exactly call it work.)

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Yesterday was a fun day.  I had to get up, mow the lawn, blah blah.  Same old Saturday stuff, which I’d really not had time to do for a month or so. The plan for the day, however, was to help my grandmother pick out a TV.

Grandma recently (4 months or so ago) got a TV.  It was the largest TV we could fit in her entertainment center.  Her entertainment center is not one of those “buy at Target, put together yourself” entertainment centers.  I would not be surprised to find out that her entertainment center is made of solid mahogany.  Darn thing is heavy.  It was created when TV’s were not really the focal points of rooms.  They were hidden behind sliding doors, and were definitely not wider than they were tall.  Grandma, however, was dissatisfied with her new TV, despite the fact that it had a DVD player in it.  Her sister had recently got an LCD TV, and she wanted one. Bad enough, in fact, that she was willing to part with her entertainment center to get one. (Keep in mind that her primary requirement when we picked out the last TV for her was that it needed to fit in her current entertainment center.)

So, after mowing the lawn, playing some Wii Boxing, cursing at my TV when a little Mii with a mole on his face wiped the ring with me, and showering, we departed for Grandma’s. When we got there, we realized Grandma had some grandiose plans for the day.  We were to start out at Costco, because she’d heard they had good deals on TV’s.  (They do.) She was also excited because it turned out that she had a lot more in her savings accounts than she originally thought.  She was pretty sure she had enough to get her a TV.  (She did….by a LOT.  Grandma thinks TV’s are made of platinum and diamonds, and are hand-assembled by Donald Trump and the Getty’s, apparently.)

Kim had decided to stay at Grandma’s and have a little nap.  (Probably mistake #1. For the reason she’s tired, see the announcement above.)  On the way to Costco, Grandma informed me that because she had more in her accounts than she thought, if I wanted anything, we should get it.  (Mistake #2, which is exponentially bad, considering Mistake #1.)  Was there something I wanted?  Well….YEAH!

We get to Costco and pick out the TV that would be the best fit for her.  Nice 46″ TV by Samsung.  I like it….a lot.  Took me about 6 minutes to figure out which one I liked.  Another 10 minutes to answer the questions of the people around me, who apparently thought that because I brought a tape measure, and seemed to know what I was talking about, I worked there.  I answered them, because I like to act like I work places I don’t work.  Then Grandma said, “Let’s walk around and look.”  (This, by the way, constitutes Mistake #3.)

I find something I want.  I take it up to the front for a price check, and Grandma informs me that she’s going to walk around, and that I should be able to find her.  I nod, and she leaves.  I don’t see her again for about 40 minutes. Why 40 minutes, you ask?  Well, you see, it’s not because the price check took 40 minutes.  It’s not because Grandma left the store for 40 minutes.  It’s because it’s Costco, there are about 2.8 million people there (not including the amount of people in line, which is roughly equivalent to the population of China), and my grandmother is 4′11″, and EVERYTHING in Costco is taller than her.  I did finally find her (after running into one of my cousins and a co-worker from my office, which is located about 45 minutes away from that particular Costco), and we got her TV and left.

It was actually a fun day, and we ran into some really fun people in line.  This is crucial in Costco, because people have been known to die of old age in Costco lines…when they enter the store as a teenager.  If you have people around you in line with which to pass the time, it can only seem like an eternity rather than 10 eternities.

All’s well that ends well.

What did I get, you ask?  Uh….er….an XBOX 360, Rock Band, and Grand Theft Auto IV….(I guess I’m a little spoiled.  She made me take it home….I swear.)

Oh, and Gina Carano fought last night against Kaitlyn Young, and WON!!!  WOOT!  (6-0 Gina…Good JOB!  12-1-1 in Muay Thai.  Awesome!)  It was a great fight, too.  So was the fight between Lawler and Smith.  Too bad it was stopped because Lawler accidentally jammed his fingers in Smith’s right eye.  It really could have gone either way, and it was a TITLE fight.  That’s gotta suck for them.