Phew

Turns out I am still not pregnant. Amazon sent an apology for sending the wrong email.

What a relief.

I'm having a baby

Well at least Amazon thinks I am. I received an email that informed me that Jeremy and I would be receiving a baby gift from our baby registry. I didn't know I had a baby registry or a baby on the way.

News to me. We'll see if we actually receive something. Perhaps I can make the cats put on whatever cute thing we get.

Home Sick

I feel there should be some law passed, that if a person is home sick they should be able to call the cable company and request what will be on television that day. There is nothing on. Perhaps my lack of interest has something to do with the fact that I feel like my glands are trying to eat their way out of the throat.

Can't a girl get a chicken?

I want to raise chickens. Well, not really. I want to have a couple of chickens and eat their eggs. I don't want a rooster. I don't want any baby chickens. I want totally organic, free range, wonderful chickens that I can name and love and call my own.

But when you type, "Buying Chicks Las Vegas" into Google, surprisingly enough, you don't come up with chicken breeders.

If anyone knows how to obtain, legally I might add, a few chickens to house and feed and love, let me know.

I'm Singin' in the...CRUNCH!

Yesterday Las Vegas held its monthly First Friday. It is an event where the local artists can show off their work. It is about the only cultural event that Las Vegas has, and it is usually really fun. But last night the weather was not in our favor. It was cold and wet and windy.

The reason I went to this particular First Friday was the Finals of a Karaoke Contest. I do love myself some karaoke, and any chance to get up on stage is fine by me, especially when I could potentially win some cash.

There were 20 singers I think. I would say more than half had really incredible voices. So we all sang, and the top 7 were announced. There were 7 cash prizes to give away. As they announced, some really great singers were down in the low spots and some average singers were up near the top. I thought, "hmm...why was that guy number 3?"

Then they announced the $1000 winner, and the entire crowd went, "Wha?" He was a totally forgetable, mostly average singer. I mean he had a nice voice, but some other people who didn't even place totally sang the socks off this guy and he won? WTF?!

I didn't win anything. Not the end of the world. Some other people who I thought should have won, didn't get in the top 7. Perhaps the judges had some weird way of judging that left out really good singers, and gave all the average singers of the world some cash.

I'll live though. I always like to sing. But when Jeremy and I got back to my car, a woman popped out of her apartment and said, "Someone hit your car. I was sitting in my house and I heard a crunch. I tried to get his plate number, but I couldn't see it before the car drove away."

Sure enough, the front of my car is scrunched. It looked like a big SUV sat on the front of my car. (grumble grumble grumble) Can't a girl get a break?

So far, off to a good start

Here is an update on my stick-to-it-iveness so far in '08:

1. Do some sort of exercise or stretching every other day
I did a 40 minute Yoga video. Go me!
2. Pick up a hobby and not give up on it immediately. My new idea is sewing.
I have ordered my new sewing machine, and it should be here Monday
3. Eat better
I have worked my way through half a gallon of icecream. Oops.
4. Cook more meals each week
Not bad. I made Stuffed Peppers and tuna helper. I never said they had to be from scratch.
5. Audition for a play
Give me a break. It's the 4th.
6. Win a karaoke contest (There is one on Friday. Keep your fingers crossed.)
More on this later
7. Have a kickass vegetable garden. Go compost go!
I stirred the compost. It's looking good.
8. Work on being more environmentally friendly. I have almost entirely given up plastic bags. Sometimes it is all they have and I have forgotten to bring my canvas one. Maybe convince some people at work to stop being so wasteful or not throw away their cans/bottles.
Still throwing off the baggers at Albertson's. When I say, "I don't need a bag." They lok at me as if I am speaking some foreign language. "None at all??"

Go resolutions!