Hooray and Halloween

Yesterday one of my friends called me - she's pregnant! There were lots of Yay!'s and much high-fiving with Mike (not that he had anything to do with the impregnation - he was just around when I got the phone call). So congratulations to her, and in her honor my Halloween costume this year will be "pregnant lady."

<>Oh, just kidding. I already did that one time, and all it got me was horrified looks when I punched my belly pillow to get it to lay right. Apparently I was really convincing in my role as a pregnant lady. Or my role as a terrible mother.

Anyway, I've pretty much decided on my Halloween costume. It's "crazy cat lady." I figure I'll get a sweatsuit, loosely sew velcro onto the sweatsuit and some plush cats, and then velcro them onto me so it looks like I have several cats hanging off of me. I also want to get a wig that I can sew a cat onto so it looks like I have one in my hair. After Halloween I can snip off the velcro and donate the cats to a thrift store. I'm gonna keep the sweatsuit.

Of course, there are those people who say that I don't need to dress up to be a crazy cat lady, that it would be like dressing up as "a speech therapist" or "Christine"...it's what I already am. To them I say, shut up. Five cats does not a crazy cat lady make. The limit is twelve if you treat them like cats, and seven if you treat them like babies. It's a scientific fact.

Mike is going as a pirate. I think that'll be cool.

So, apart from the pregnancy news, things are settling back to normal quite nicely after the wedding. I'll post pictures when I get 'em, but for the most part I'm really happy to sink back into the quiet life with Mike.

Well, as quiet as life gets around here.