Life Updates of a Larger Magnitude

the fowler girls all managed to return in one piece from our 4 day cruise to the sunny carribean. i know, you're amazed. not only that, but we had a fabulous time. i thought for sure that when i saw our little cabin and bunkbeds, we were destined for a rumble or 2. apparently you CAN grow up and not fight with your sisters :) even though most of our time at sea was overcast and windy, that didn't stop us from having fun. lisa and i got to indulge our inner gambler, and lisa even managed to make the roullette table give her lots of money. i, on the other hand, chose the opposite route and gave my money to the tables. but i had a great time doing it and got to play texas hold 'em against actual people (who i suckered into believing i was a clueless girl. mwahahahahaha!) when we weren't at the casino we were... EATING! i thought that not being able to drink would put a serious damper on my weekend, but having tasty food readily accessible (and sorta free!) mostly ...

Today is a much better day. I realized early on today that I only have one more day of work left this week, which makes it a Thursday in my world, and Thursday's are always a good thing (being right next to Friday). Half of Matt's company got laid off yesterday, but he's one of the lucky ones that gets to stick around for the next 3 weeks or so. This week he has about 3 job interviews, and hopefully one of them will pan out. I'm surprisingly not worried. He's good at what he does, and all of his references will say the same. Heck, he gets paid less than me and is a way better employee. I'm hoping he gets a big fat raise out of this :) We filled out all of the paperwork to put our house on the market last night, which is a relief. Actually my husband filled it out after seeing that I was not having the best day, and just told me where to sign. And today it actually goes in the MLS. So, another small step towards progress. Tonight I'm going to pull ou...

I don't know how so much time has passed since my last post... Life has gotten pretty stressful over the past few weeks. I don't think I really acknowledged it until this weekend. Aside from being pregnant, Matt's company is most likely going out of business so he needs to find a new job, we weren't able to rent our house in VA for like 3 months so we decided to just sell it and take the loss (which is actually more stressful, but for a shorter period of time), and I've been told repeatedly in the past few weeks that I need to find a daycare ASAP as they all have 6 month to 1 year waiting lists. I'm currently "transitioning" into my new job at work, but my old boss refuses to come up with a gameplan for my old projects. And I know that isn't technically something I should be stressed about, but I am, because in the end it means my coworkers are going to get screwed, and I feel that reflects badly on me. Now, this could just be the hormones kick...

I realize that most of my faithful followers have already received this news, if not by phone or email, then at least in my Christmas card (Unless you were one of the 8 cards that got returned to me. Still working out some kinks with this whole "snail mail" process.) but.... (drumroll.... drumroll? can't a girl get a drumroll?!?!?!?!?!) Matt and I are going to be parents! In July, if all goes according to plan. I've posted some belly pics on my shutterfly page (link to the right). Enjoy :)

I've been really intrigued by this "Fair Tax" notion that is part of Huckabee's platform. I don't see how it could possibly ever come about, but it makes me happy to think that smart people out there are trying to come up with better ways for our tax system.... CNN just ran this article that I think does the best job of explaining the concept in easy to understand terms.

It's the day after the Iowa caucus and the political world is in a frenzy. Obama and Huckabee upset the entrance polls, and I think that is a good thing. I hate polls. Hate. I'm putting them on my list of 5. I like that Huckabee won, because I was pretty annoyed a few months ago with the media telling me who would win the primaries based solely on the $$ amount they had raised. Apparently you can't be President unless you're a millionaire. After last night's political zoo, I decided to start researching the candidates. I used this little poll-thing to start... www.smartervote.org. I don't know how much bias there is in it, but I plan on finding a few others just to check. Then I went online and started reading about some of the candidates, and WOW. There is a lot of acidic prose out there regarding just about every candidate. It seems like people are not content to pick the best candidate for themselves, they need to express to the entire world just...