Wow, an actual update in the month of May. Go me. I don't know what's worse. The fact that I'm too lazy to update for almost an entire month, or that my life is so pathetically dull and drab that it takes a month just to save up enough interesting shit to write about. I'd say both.

Sometimes I wonder if I was born on the wrong continent. 3 of my all-time favorite movies are British movies (Snatch, Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, and Mean Machine), my favorite author is British (Terry Pratchett), my favorite magazine is a music magazine from Britain (Terrorizer) and I can whip out a very good British accent at the drop of a hat. Yes, I know, incredibly good reasons all, eh? Right up there with "just because", wouldn't you say? I don't know what it is with me. I mean, I'm not un-proud (is that a word?) of being an American. It's just that sometimes I find myself longing to live where people talk funny, the weather is bad and so is the food. You know, a "Bad food, worse weather, Mary fuckin' Poppins" kind of place. My ultimate goal is Ireland.

I've become quite the Doctor Who fan lately. My bud 'Topher would mention the show once in a while when we would hang out at his place and he had a ton of paperback novels based on the show (or vice versa), but I'd never really seen it (except for The Five Doctors). Then I renewed my membership to Netflix and went on a Doctor Who binge. I searched the site and rented every Doctor Who I could find and I'm hooked. Did you know that the show originally was made as a children's show? Fascinating. So far I've seen one series The Aztecs (4 episodes) with the first Doctor, William Hartnell, and one series Tomb of the Cybermen with the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. Before we moved into the house, I rented my first ever Doctor Who Spearhead from Space with the third Doctor, John Pertwee. At the time, he was my favorite, but since then I've seen all of the Key to Time series (a total of 26 episodes over 6 discs) featuring the fourth and longest running Doctor Tom Baker, and must say that he's my favorite Doctor now. Most of the Doctor Who's that I've seen have been with him. There's the Key to Time series (The Ribos Operation, The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood, The Androids of Tara, The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor), as well as The Ark in Space, and The Robots of Death. I've also seen The Caves of Androzani with the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, and Remembrance of the Daleks with Sylvester McCoy, the seventh Doctor. I think he's my second favorite, but all in all I still like Tom Baker the best. I'm going to have to start my own Doctor Who DVD collection. Maybe I can get one a month or so from Amazon.com.

I want to buy a set of bagpipes. Really I do. I love the sound of bagpipes. In fact, I'm listening to a CD called "Bagpipe Classics" right now. If you don't like bagpipe music, well then, you can just go shag off. 's my diary. Like I was sayin' I want to buy a set. Problem is, a half decent set will set you back at least $700 and a good set will set you back over $1000. A great set...well...let's just say that you can either buy a used car or a new set of African Blackwood bagpipes. The most expensive set I've seen was listed at over $2700. Of course, they were totally custom with all the bells and whistles, no pun intended. The sad part, however, is that, even if I did get a set, who'd teach me how to play them? Oh well. Something best left for another day.

Finally got the wife to the bloody doctors on Tuesday. Her first appointment was actually scheduled for last week, but when we went in, we didn't have any of her insurance information. I knew, from the whole "been there done that" thing that all she needed to do was give them her SS# and they could call United Healthcare, our provider, and get her account information. Of course, I was wrangling (more like strangling) the kids and she was the one at the counter. Next thing I know, she's storming past me, waiting at the office door with tears in her eyes. It wasn't until we got to the car that she told me what happened, but by then it was too late. So, when we got home, I called the insurance company, told them to send us new ID cards (since they never had sent us any at all) and then printed out a temp card for the wife's next visit, which we rescheduled for Monday at 3:30. Yes, there's a catch, always is.

We're on our way back from Home Desperate when it hits me, that we've missed her appointment. It was at 3:30 and it's 4:15. We rush to the Dr's office, which was thankfully not too far away and asked if they could still fit us in, but no luck. Fortunately, they had a 10AM opening the next day so we took it. Got her in and all was fine. They figured that she's 9 weeks along and the doctor said that she is exactly where she needs to be (meaning the size of her uterus) for 9 weeks and everything looks great. Except for Icebear Jr. being a complete and total little monster, it was a great visit all around. They told us that it was too early to hear the heartbeat so we didn't get to do any of that cool stuff yet. My cousin, however, who's wife is pregnant and only 8 weeks along, got to hear their baby's heartbeat, but he said that they used a special ultrasound other than the normal one they use. And he's a doctor so I figure he knows what he's talking about. So, in another 7 months and 3 weeks, we'll be having a bouncing baby girl. Yes, I'm being positive, it's going to be a girl.

It's kind of funny, but everyone wants us to have a girl. Everyone we told about the baby has said, "It's going to be a girl this time, right?" Heh. In fact, my mother-in-law did this old wive's tale trick thing. Take a wedding ring and a piece of string (about 24" long) and dangle the wedding ring over the pregnant woman's tummy. She should be laying down or reclining for this. Hold the ring until it's totally still, not moving at all. Then watch because it will gently start swinging. If it swings North to South (head to toe) then the baby is a girl. If it swings West to East (hip to hip), then the baby is a boy. She did this to the wife's cousin, who is also pregnant and it swung side to side, for a boy. Lo and behold, she's having a boy, ultrasound proved it. She did it to the wife and it swung head to toe. So, we're having a girl! Woohoo!!! I've already got a nickname picked out for her too. She's going to be my little Boo. If you've seen Monster's Inc. then you'll get it. If not, I feel sorry for you.

Well, I'd best get to bed. Tomorrow is Saturday and our house is a total wreck. I've got my work cut out for me. I'll have both kids helping out, but that's kind of like leaving a dog to guard your food. Doesn't really accomplish much but to get you really pissed off. Oh well. Wish me luck. Take care.

Da 'Bear

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