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Last night was false labor trip #1. I guess it could be worse. I could have flown across the country to find out my daughter was just kidding as some have. All the same, I think I was just as disappointed. Not only am I still scheduled to work on Monday but I was also looking forward to meeting my daughter.

I am also VERY tired. I know you are thinking "haha just wait until the baby is born." Yeah right. I can't be any more tired than I am now. My wife is on bed rest. That means I am stuck with all the chores, shopping, and arranging of baby furniture. Not to mention anything else she wants. We aren't one of those families where I bring home the bacon and she does the housework while I relax with ESPN and a beer. We both work and we both do chores. What I am up to now isn't completely foreign to me. There is just a lot more work to be done by one person. I also have to give Henry 1-2 hours of attention and exercise per day. On top of this I am still working my dreaded 7-3:30 job at the hospital. You can say that I have no idea. You can say I will become even more tired. You can tell me to get my sleep now. I am, trust me. Here's the deal. Babies sleep. Babies sleep a lot. I have been told I didn't sleep much as a baby and I was still sleeping 12+ hours. I realize these may not be consecutive hours of sleep. 12 hours is still 12 hours. I can catch cat naps anything over 6 hours is like bonus sleep anyways. Just the fact that I won't have to be away from home everyday from 6:30-4:00 is going to give me MUCH more time to do chores, sleep, play, and hang out with Shanna, Emma, and Henry. You can say "We will see about that smart guy." Yeah, we will. Look forward to a post entitled "I told you so!"

Dear God, PLEASE let this baby come soon.

Shanna is beyond 37 weeks now. I have been told that this means the baby can come at any time. She was informed today that she is on bed rest from here on out. Not the "confined to bed" bed rest. The other kind. More like house arrest except she isn't really supposed to be up unless she has to. She can still cook for herself and shower and stuff. She just can't do any housework. I upped our Netflix subscription to 5 DVDs out at a time so she won't be bored out of her mind. Maybe I will try to get her to take some pics of Henry or the baby's room so I can post them. I won't have much time to do that stuff since I am busy doing the dishes and washing clothes. These are about the only chores besides the garbage we are going to keep up on for a while. I hope you guys won't be too repulsed if you come over and the baby's room is the only clean room. I have dishes to do and Salmon to cook. Have a good night.

My wife has been pregnant for almost 9 months. I have been told that is how it goes with this pregnancy stuff. Don't ask how, but we knew she was pregnant since about day one of the pregnancy. I was ready to have kids. I thought so anyway. This was a planned pregnancy at least. It has always been real for my wife. She has been full of excitement and a whole lot of other emotions since we found out. It never really seemed as real to me. Maybe it was because I had nothing but gas in my belly and she was the one with the weird kicking inside her.

I was excited but you probably couldn't tell. It is also hard being so excited when everyone you meet wants to ask you the same thing and tell you about when they had their kids. Too bad for you. This is MY kid. Time for ME to be excited. You had your fun now let me. I may be able to understand more after the event, but until then, to me, your pregnancy is just your pregnancy. If I don't ask then I probably don't care, not to mention the guy before you told me the same thing.

Anyway, I am excited now. I actually looked at some of the "cute" little girl clothes and smiled today. The due date is coming in around 3 weeks and I really can't wait. I am even hoping she is a bit early so I can get out of work and get my wife back. I mean this in the sweetest way possible and she will back me on this. It is really hard dealing with someone who is always right and always able to say "I changed my mind" after you have gone to three different grocery stores looking for the right kind of ice cream flavor. At least my wife is cool enough to laugh at herself later, apologize, and tell me she still loves me. Hope this last part doesn't make me sound too whipped. Actually, I think I am going to get on Halo 2 and kill something.

-Later

Now this is Good Eats. 

What did you think I was gonna say? Interpol was incredible. They were better than when I saw them in October. The only thing I don't like about Interpol shows is that they seem to go by too fast. They played almost 20 songs and it was 60-90 minutes which is a decent concert. They just don't do much talking and I enjoy it so much that the shows only seem like 20 minutes. They played one song that they said they had never performed live before. I only know the titles of 4 Interpol songs. This is because I bought the CDs and haven't seen the cases since. The CDs haven't really left my CD player since day one so there is no reason to use the case. Interpol shows are pretty cool. You can't really see the band because they keep all the lights of. No spotlights or stage lights are on the band. Instead they shoot colored lights out into the audience. It is the only show I have been to were we couldn't see the band and they could see us. I know this isn't much of a review. I don't really do them. Haha I lied in my last post. Go see them yourselves. You won't regret it.

I think my only complaint about the show is that there are dummies there who have to whip out there cell phone to try and record the concert. They only seem to record for a minute or so at a time so they are constantly messing with the phone pad. This is stupid for a couple reasons. It is distracting to have little blue white screens lighting up the room. The sound quality can't possibly be that great. Because of the lighting Interpol uses it just looks like flashing lights set music. And finally, these idiots are actually watching the show on the screen as they record it! Why would you pay to go to a concert and then watch it through a low res screen with a 1.5 inch diagonal? The real thing is happening right in front of you! It is an amazing thing that some people are able to use a camera to capture life or even add to it by filming or photographing it. These are the people who aren't missing life by watching it through a lens. But for the average joe with his free cell phone it is a waste of time!

I was watching Garden State last night. I haven't finished it yet. Garden State is obviously a pretty deep movie and this post isn't about that. It is about "that guy" that is in the movie. He is in almost every teen and twixter movie. When you watch a movie you can watch it as pure entertainment. Just a story. Or if it applies to your life in someway you empathize with a character. It always seems to be the main character or no character. Sometimes a movie just make you say "That is exactly how I feel" or "that is my life." No one is ever that guy in the corner smashing beer cans against his forehead. No, he is "that guy." Everyone always knows "that guy." I can name a million movies such as American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait, Dazed and Confused, or even Garden State. I always see a couple people who think, "Dang! I went to school with that guy!" I can be in a room full of people and they all seem to think that. No one ever looks at the "MILF guys, "Stifler," or "Beavis and Butthead" and goes..."Dude, THATS ME!!!" I have less than 5 hours til Interpol is onstage. Of course, I'll have a review of the show tomorrow.

I was listening to The Autumns the other day. I guess I should really say I was trying to listen. I just don't "get" it anymore. You probably don't know who they are. I accidentally found them when I was an emusic subscriber. I don't even think that emusic has their albums anymore. I should never have even found them and I guess that made it cooler that they made music that meant so much to me. My brother found a rapper who makes the most obscene raps ever! The important thing here is that he makes crappy raps. I mean real stinkers that no one can take seriously. I was looking for more of the same and I stumbled onto The Autumns. They were the only non rap band on the label. It was really wierd and I am sure there is a story behind it. Maybe I will try and look it up someday.
I was hooked right away. The singer has a kind of haunting voice. The guitar is deep. Together they moved me. I don't know if I was depressed or if I am just happy now. But I do know that I was looking forward to hearing this album and now I just don't seem to care. Everyone has albums you put on when you just want to lay around and do nothing. Or when you aren't in the mood to be around people yet you aren't mad. The stuff you listen to when you want to think. Deep thoughts. What am I doing? Where am I going? This is what the Autumns were to me. I was pretty much done with SPU but not graduating. I was living back at home.

I was taking classes at a community college with frustrating teenagers. Here I am four years later and I guess I am a lot happier. The Autumns are the same. I should like the new album. I should love it. I can't even listen to the whole thing. Someone :) said I should post more pics. Here is one of Henry and my room. He made a mess so I better go clean up. I guess I'll have more thoughts on music later.

I watched I Robot the other day. I know it has been out for a while but who could blame me for not getting excited about another Will Smith movie. I’ve already seen Will Smith Vs aliens twice (Independance Day and MIB…I didn’t bother with MIB2) . Next I saw Will Smith Vs giant robot spider in Wild Wild West so forgive me if after seeing a preview for I Robot I dubbed it Will Smith Vs robots. As if repetitive plots aren’t bad enough every one of his action movies is also filled with his “I make this look good” attitude. The sad thing is that Will Smith can act. Just watch one of his dramas. I guess in the end he does do a decent mix of crowd pleasers and critic pleasers. Too bad all the money is in the crowd pleasers.

Anyway, I Robot was intriguing and I put it on par with other futuristic who done it movies such as Minority Report and Blade Runner. I still think I like Minority Report a littler better but I Robot is easier to get into and requires a little less thinking while still being intelligent. The ending is a bit hippyish and almost too feel good but overall I liked it a lot more than I ever thought possible. Not to mention the CGI and animation of the robots is cool.

Not too much going on here. I have most evenings to myself since Shanna works late. I am greeted by Henry at the door and I spend the next two to three hours playing with him. Once he is tired I sneak upstairs to see about a logging a bit or time in the World of Warcraft. Lately Henry and I have been reading up on and watching a lot of Whiplash. He is pretty cool and I am trying to teach Henry to give my daughter rides when she arrives. Henry has doubled in size during the last 6 weeks so I figure he should be able to handle the load of a baby. Whiplash is probably a bit smaller than she will be but Henry is much larger than his ride so I expect things will go smoothly. That's about all for tonight.

Well.



Not Well comma or even Well (creative and funny comment regaring my first blog). Just Well. I don't have a lot to say, which is funny cuz if you know me, I do have a lot to say.



Seems like everyone I know is getting a blog going so I may as well hop on the wagon. I do have a couple things that I think are cool going on in my life. In fact, since this is my blog I am gonna talk about whatever I want to. If you don't like it go to Burger King.

We are in the final stages of pregnancy, 34 weeks, and the begining stages of preparing for the baby. I am 25 and going to be a dad. I shouldn't be too nervous. I think my dad was a year or two younger than I am when he had me. I think I turned out ok. Right now my plan for this blog is to keep an up to date log of the pregnancy. This will quickly turn into updates on my daughter. I also hope to keep tabs on my 6 month old puppy "Henry." I am currently tracking corelations between Henry's ears and the weather. We have strange weather in this state and I have drawn some conclusions but need to conduct further studies before I publish any findings. I hope to list and possibly review whatever books, music, or movies I am taking in too. In the future it will be interesting to look back. Finally, I expect to do some ranting. Why? Why not! Thanks for reading.