Blog-a-log

Okay, so I'm not keeping up my end of the 'prepare to be amazed' deal. Sorry. I thought about y'all several times in the last couple of weeks, but it just hasn't made it onto the world wide web. What's been going on in our life, you may wonder? Well, Mary and Russ finally made the leap and loaded up all of their earthly possessions (and a few of ours) into a 26 foot Penske rental truck and drove themselves to Ohio last week. They left here at the crack of dawn (possibly even before the crack, I'm not sure because I was sleeping) and drove the 26 hours to Ohio in about three days. I'm told they now have the truck unloaded, and although I haven't spoken to them, I assume the remodel officially gets underway today. I hope all things go well there, because my family will be arriving to stay at their house in approximately 2 months and 4 days. Yup, that's right. 2 months and 4 days. When I bought those airline tickets, not all that long ago, I thought "Three months?! That's forever! I have TONS of time to get the 200 things that I want to do before I leave Utah done." After 1 month passing? Yeah, not feeling so confident. I have done almost nothing on that list of 200 things. I think the list is down to 183. It's quite paralyzing to realize that I am leaving the only home that I have ever known for a place that I have never even been. However, we have planned one last, massive 'bring down the house' barbecue at our place on July 4th. We figure most everybody has that day off work, and since most everyone here will probably never see us again, we thought they'd be willing to take the afternoon off from other festivities and come spend it with us. Guess that's one way of finding out how many friends you have, right? Like, if you REALLY loved us, you'd come to our house and have lunch the day before we fly out.
Anyway, that's what we've been up to. That, and I have a huge cold. The kind of cold that makes your head feel like it's going to explode into tiny pieces and scatter brain-goo all over the room. It comes with the added bonus of extra juicy, super green phlegm. Phlegm, coughing and morning sickness all put together in one pitiful soul? Not a pretty picture, I tell you. Yesterday, Jeremy's Sunbeam teacher informed me that he announced in church today that Mommy has been throwing up a lot. How do I respond to that? Yes, Mommy has been throwing up a lot. Luckily, I have announced in our ward that I am pregnant, so hopefully people will assume that it's related to the parasite growing in my uterus, and not some over developed, completely obvious case of bulimia.