Monday, January 30, 2006

IT'S A........

BABY!!!

So it turns out we didn't go to the ultrasound appointment after all. Amy got really sick and we had to reschedule it. Sorry to keep you all in suspense for the entire weekend.

We're not scheduled to go back in for 2 more weeks. Apparently we have been unwittingly cast into the middle of a battle that is constantly being waged between the doctors and the ultrasound clinic regarding the correct time to send pregnant couples in for an ultrasound. We were at 17 1/2 weeks, which, according to our doctor, the pregnancy webpage we signed up for, and the 4 or 5 prego books the hospital hands out like candy, is far enough along to get a good reading. The ultrasound blokes disagree, and apparently they wish the doctors "wouldn't send them in so early". All of which is kind of funny in that they had no problem signing us up for the first appointment.

Ah, the baffling wasteland that is our health care system.

Anyways, we'll find out Feb. 8th and I'll post it then. Still think it's a dude.


PS- extra points for anyone who got that "It's a...baby!" reference. Mike Brady, I'm looking to you.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Tomorrow is the day...

Tomorrow is our ultrasound appointment. We'll find out if it's a boy or a girl. Honestly I am pulling for a girl just for the sake of variety (I grew up with 5 brothers and no sisters). I think it's going to be a dude though.

Don't get me wrong, I totally want a son or two in the future as getting beat up and learning how to punch are important for any child to learn in life. I'm just hoping for a girl first.

By the way, I just did a Yahoo image search for "3D ultrasound". Umm....I wouldn't recommend it.

I'll post the gender as soon as we find out. Toodles.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Would you like a nine with that Big Mac?

So not even a week after my first posting, Marcus Vick is arrested for pulling a gun on some teenagers in a McDonald's parking lot. Outstanding. I almost feel sorry for the guy.

Friday, January 06, 2006

This just in...Marcus Vick is an idiot


(**Disclaimer- Before you read this entry you should know that I am a fan of college football and that's what the following post is almost entirely about, although I suppose it has some appeal to those who feel that many athletes today are spoiled, uneducated, immature imbeciles. If you are one or the other, you will find this post interesting. If not, check out Wessman's page)

So Marcus Vick has just been kicked off the Virginia Tech football team for what will, from this moment on, forever be referred to as "the Vick Stomp".

After getting tackled by the other team's defensive end (a man named Elvis Dumervil, no less) Vick, a shining example of sportsmanship and self-restraint, stomped on his calf as he walked by. The refs never saw it, so no penalty was called. Later on Vick claimed it was "an accidental play, and football is football." He then said he had apologized to Dumervil. Dumervil said he never heard anything from him.

Here's a video of the Vick Stomp, so you can see how "accidental" it was.

Isn't this great? Have you ever seen such a thinly disguised temper tantrum from an athlete before? (McEnroe doesn't count. His weren't disguised at all.) Who does that? I mean, it's like an angry little boy sneaking up on his big brother and dropping a bowling ball on his groin while he's sleeping. Fantastic.

Speaking of classless revenges you're likely to see only on a kindergarten playground, how about Kobe's elbow to Mike Miller's throat a week ago?


Miller had accidently made contact with Kobe's face during an earlier drive and made him bleed. So Kobe, paragon of virtue that he is, decided to elbow him in the throat during a subsequent play. Best part of this one: Kobe's explanation-

"You can't let anybody come down the lane, you gotta hit them. You can't just let them come down the basket and lay an easy basket in."

Why is it so great? Miller was at the free-throw line and had passed the ball two steps before when Kobe decided he better stop him from "lay[ing] an easy basket in." Priceless. Wouldn't expect anything less from the Mamba...

And these are the most famous, idolized people in our country.


Anyways, good for Virginia Tech, I say. They had to decide whether to do what was right for the team or to turn a blind eye in order to keep an uncontrollable yet talented player, and they went with the former. It's the old "Terrell Owens" dilemma.

Wonder where Ron Artest is going...