Warning - TMI - Read at your own risk!

So I am late - about 2 months late. And if you don't know what I am late for, maybe you shouldn't read farther.

I don't think I can be pregnant since Phollower has been "fixed". And I am not the most regular kind of gal, so I am not too worried, but all the same, I phoned the MD office. They told me I do not need to see the doctor until I am at least 3 months late, but to take a pregnancy test just to set my mind at ease.

So off Phollower and I go to the local CVS to buy a test. I was not going alone. And I figured CVS would be quickest, less store to walk through and run into someone I know. I prefer to post these kinds of personal details on the internet.

When we cash out, the guy running the cash register says "Good luck!" Just struck us funny! I guess at CVS you learn to say "Good luck!" rather than "Hope it's positive!" when someone buys a pregnancy test.

Those were a LONG 2 minutes, but it was definitely negative.

Christmas cookies

Phollower and I were going over the list of supplies for our Christmas cookies this year. I am going to make a new cookies which is a chocolate dough and has a peanut butter cup in the center (like a peanut butter blossom).

Me: We need 36 mini peanut butter cups.
Phollower: Peanut butter cups?
Me: Yes for the new cookies.
Phollower: I thought maybe you meant peanut butter chips and said the wrong thing. Peanut butter cups seems to be a complete treat already - just unwrap and eat.

I tell you - that man has no cookie creativity! But I guarantee he will LOVE the cookies.

Strictly Verboten

I keep my car keys in a particular drawer. I never put them anywhere else. That way, when I need them, I don't have to search for them. If they are not in the drawer, I know that you know who was using them. A few weeks ago....

Me (looking in the "key" drawer): Honey, do you know where my car keys are?

Phollower: Yes, they are in my jacket pocket, which I realize is strictly verboten.

I started laughing so hard, I just couldn't stay mad at him.

Which Would You Rather Be?

While watching the French Open today, Phollower and I saw Max Afinogenov sitting in the stands. He is a hockey player on the Buffalo Sabres and one of my favorite hockey players. In fact, his is the only jersey I have ever purchased. Well turns out he is dating Elena Dementieva, a tennis player. He was there watching her match.

Phollower: "Afinogenov is banging Dementieva. It is good to be a professional hockey player!"
Me: "Actually, I think it is good to be a professional tennis player."

You should have seen that hot hockey player body, especially the arms. Wow! It put Nadal to shame.

Pay Attention, Will You!

Me: Honey, what is this thing (gesturing to a latch sticking out of our laptop)

Phollower: It's the thing to make the thing come out.

Me: Ummmm, what does that mean?

Apparently, it means it is something to make whatever you have in the PCMCIA slot come out, although I still have no idea what goes in a PCMCIA slot (and frankly, don't care).

Don't Say...

Phollower (to me): "What are you planning to do this evening?"

Me: "I am going to do whatever you were going to do."
(Note how sweet I can be - wanting to spend time with him and not caring what we are doing.)

Phollower: "Well in that case, I was planning to give myself a hand job."

I guess that is what I get for my sweetness.

Ahhhh....Dominance

The clownfish are cute together. Zeus (the male clown) won't stray more than a few inches from Rose (the anemone) without Hera (the female clown) with him. He spends most of his day rubbing against the anemone, enclosed between her little arms, like this:


But Hera goes all over the tank on her own. But sometimes, it seems to us that Hera takes up the entire anemone, not allowing Zeus in. When that happens, Zeus just flutters around the outside of the anemone, rubbing against the outside of the anemone, kind of waiting for a chance to get in again. It is kind of sad since Zeus is the one who feeds Rose, not Hera. Zeus brings little pieces of shrimp in his mouth to Rose and spits it at her mouth - very cute. He is much more of a "caretaker" than she is. I mentioned this to Phollower who responded "huh." I wonder if he is trying to say something.

Renovation Dreams

One day a while back, Phollower, Zoe, BP, and I were all sitting around talking about how I could get a larger master bathroom. The master bathroom in our house just has a shower, no tub. I want a tub, a jacuzzi tub, to be more specific. Our bedroom closet shares a wall with the bathroom. And at that time, there were high shelves in the closet (above my 5'3" head) and then the hanging rack under them. None of the other space was useful. Since the space in front of the hanging rack was open and not being used, I was thinking we could move the hanging rack forward, take out the shelves, move the back wall forward and make more room in the bathroom. At the time, I recall saying something like, "We don't even use those shelves for anything." Phollower looked at me agast and said "except all of my clothes." This just cracked BP and Zoe up. In the same vein, one day I was complaining about lack of drawer space. We have two dressers in the bedroom, not huge ones, but ok ones. I asked Phollower if I could have some space from his drawers. He was a bit aggravated at this request. After he reminded me that heonly has one drawer, actually a 1/2 drawer, in the bedroom, I understood. I use the rest of the drawers in the 2 dressers we have. As you can imagine, this brought peals of laughter from Zoe and BP. In fact, even the mention of either of these two incident results in lots of laughter. They think it is a good thing I am married to a man and not a woman. Needless to say, the bathroom is still small. But we have installed new closet equipment and racks so the whole closet is useful and there is more "Sylvia-reachable" shelves.