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Proof she's growing: this onesie didn't fit last week.

Current Music: "Whole Lotta Love", Led Zeppelin

...for the bike ride.

Current Music: "New, New Minglewood Blues", Grateful Dead

Maya's birth announcement came out in the paper yesterday... they got D's and my last names reversed.

Current Music: "Light Years", Pearl Jam

She's just the girl for me, and I want all the world to see we've met
mmmm mmmm mmmm, la la la



Falling, yes I am falling, and she keeps calling me back again.



I have never known the like of this, I've been alone
And I have missed things and kept out of sight



But other girls were never quite like this
mmmm mmmm mmmm, la la la

Current Music: "I've Just Seen a Face", the Beatles

Well, we had an OB appointment yesterday, and even though D had four contractions ten minutes apart during the appointment, we got set up for an ultrasound and a non-stress test tomorrow. They'll check the amount of amniotic fluid and check Maya's heartbeat. Unless D goes into labor on her own, they'll induce Monday at the latest.

Me personally, I'm hoping for tomorrow, as it's Maya Angelou's birthday. How cool would that be, to have the same birthday as her namesake?

Current Music: "Domino", Masters of Reality

Today is D's original due date from before they rolled it back a couple days. OB appointment tomorrow afternoon if nothing happens today. Day ain't over yet.

Have I mentioned I hate waiting?

Right, not today.

Current Music: "Hard Sun", Eddie Vedder

Still waitin'.

Current Music: "The Waiting", Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

How incredibly queer. No, really. That's some incredibly gay-ass shit, right there. I can't make heads or tails of what these idiots are trying to accomplish by STICKING IT TO THE MAN, but good luck with that. From the landscape of my friends page, looks like it ain't working out.

Anyway.

I've posted before about waiting... waiting for concert tickets or the new season of a TV show, crap like that. This is not like that. I've got no idea what the actual date is I'm waiting for, aside from the arbitrary "due date" the doctor gave us. The nursery and everything's set up and ready to go at home, we just need a baby to put into it.

I am no good at waiting. I've never been any good at waiting.

Current Music: "Polly", Nirvana

Last night I went to sleep with one cat sprawled on my head, another lying across my belly, and a third curled between my feet.

I'll post the rest of the answers tomorrow. I noticed from some of the rest of you that did this that when you use a line that's not an immediate giveaway, it can be tough. It's why I didn't use any of the "I am Jack's _____" from Fight Club or "They're coming to get you, Barbara!" I even rejected a few movies outright because all the lines were too easy.

But anyway, just for fun, #1 is a reply to this line:

"Do you know what the Ark is? It's a transmitter... a radio for speaking to God."

I figure a couple days is good enough. Unguessed in red.

Grabbed from yamo

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions to answer!

1. "You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to do."
--Raiders of the Lost Ark

2. "Oh the family, well that's bad news. The screwheads finally came and took my daughter away. Let me ask you a question sir, what is this country doing for the doomed?"
--Where the Buffalo Roam

3. "With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know."
--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

4. "I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."
--The Player

5. "Sure he's an asshole... Sure he's dead... Sure I'm just imagining that he's talking. None of that stops the bastard from being absolutely right."
--Sin City

6. "Okay, who brought the dog?"
--Ghostbusters (come on, you guys...)

7. "Shit! The chicks are packed! The chicks are packed!"
--The Warriors

8. "Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him."
--Jaws

9. "I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it."
--The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

10. "Oh, my God... Uh, Oh, my God! We thank you for... all this food that mom has put in front of us, and STOP!... the Devil, from doing bad things? Go on! Get out of here!... Uh, Satan? Go, so that we may live in peace. Amen."
--The Iron Giant

11. "Profit? Fiscal year? Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Beware, my dear Zilkov. The virus of capitalism is highly infectious. Soon you'll be lending money out at interest!"
--The Manchurian Candidate

12. "I'm sure there have been amazing technological advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. It seems unfair to presume I won't be able to learn."
--American Beauty

13. "Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never... your dildo."
--Fight Club

14. "Now get the hell down in the cellar. You can be the boss down there, but I'm boss up here!"
--Night of the Living Dead

15. "This is glue. Strong stuff."
--The Blues Brothers

Poking out the top of my V-day bag were two cards... couldn't figure out why, until I got to work and dug them out. "Happy Valentine's Day, Daddy", one of them said.

Oh. That's how.

Happy Valentine's Day to you, too. Hope you're with the ones you love.

D: I'm hungry. No, wait... your daughter's hungry.

Me: What can I get you?

D: I'd like a whole lot of bacon. Whatever else you feel like making.

(A pile of bacon and some cinnamon rolls later)

Me: How was the bacon? I'm kind of 50/50 with frying bacon.

D: It's hot, greasy porkfat. I'm good.

The partners who own our company are retiring in the next few years. They've been looking at all sorts of options for what'll happen to the company and they basically came up with three: sell the business outright, sell it to a few key employees, or open it up for employee stock ownership. They chose the third, and now we're all in a program by which we're buying shares of the company from them over time. Net cost to us? Not a thing. Instead of matching our 401k contributions, the company will repay the loan that's being used to buy out our owners. Pretty cool stuff.

It's all a bunch of financial stuff I didn't go to school for, but the bottom line is this: we all make the company productive and prosperous, we all profit.

So, for my daughter's future, I have:

-Grown the hell up and gotten a driver's license
-Re-financed the house to a fixed rate mortgage
-Gained a small but growing share of a small but growing business

So excuse me if I'm all proud, but I rule.

So, I'm in the fan club and all that. For Christmas we get a single (on vinyl), and when there's a tour we get first crack at tickets. We also get this nifty magazine, and in the last one were rules for a poster contest. Make up a show, pick some openers, and send it on in. I am so jazzed about the whole idea of just doing a poster for a band that is famous for truly great show posters, to get my work in front of people who've been picking great art for years, well... I don't give a damn if I win. The prize is really nothing special... a poster for a show in Hawaii, signed by the band as well as the members of U2. I just wanted to create something. So I did. And here it is:

Current Music: "Too Many Puppies", Primus

It is just some crazy horseshit trolling. Nothing to do with anything more than bored autistics with a computer.

That's nice. What's even nicer is that I checked my jump to the obvious conclusion and didn't go off for another six months about stuff I'd given up.

Have fun, kids. But play nice.

Remember that Simpsons episode where Homer gets the demotivational plaque that says "Don't Forget--You're Here Forever" and he blocks some of the letters out with pictures of Maggie so it says "Do It For Her"? Well, that's at the head of my list of New Year's resolutions: do it for her. If you think you can't keep resolutions two through whatever, see resolution number one.



It's a weird thought, all at once my daughter will be born this year instead of next year. Only three months to go.

After three "oh, just one more thing"s*, I'm signing the closing paperwork today. Hooray!


* Is it just me, or do all home finance people talk like Columbo?