It's a waiting game now...

My sister-in-law is 38 weeks pregnant today. I could be an auntie any day now. I'm totally excited. I can't wait to be an auntie, and I'm excited to see my brother as a dad and my parents as grandparents. Hurry up and get here Chloe Nycole. Can't wait to meet you!

PS: the pics are from the baby shower I threw for her. =)

On the road to recovery...

I just got back from spending the night at my grandparents house and thought I'd take the time to update everyone on how my grandma is doing. (For those that aren't aware, my grandma had to have surgery 2 weeks ago and has been requiring a little extra help at night so my mom and I have been taking turns spending the night to help out) So grandma is doing better. She doesn't really need help at night anymore, I think its just reassuring to her to know that someone is there if she does need help. But I think she's gonna be ok on her own now. She's going to start having physical therapy next week, and is going for ultrasound next week as well to see if she needs to have the stent placed in the other kidney. We are hopeful that she won't need this. She definitely seems to be in better spirits and is definitely trying to get better everyday. We're continuing to pray for a good recovery and are waiting for word on when she can have the next surgery that she will need.
On a similar note an old friends mom had surgery on wednesday and had an amazing outcome, so praise God for that good news.
PS: The pics are my little cousin while we were waiting for my grandma to get out of surgery. We tortured the little guy to keep us entertained. Don't worry he got his revenge by making all of us ride up and down the elevator for a couple hours. =)

The road to socialism...

I recently discovered Glenn Beck, a newscaster on Fox News. I think the guy makes alot of sense. So I went to check out some of his past videos. I thought this one was totally appropriate for the news of today. The white house is trying strongly to nationalize our banks. They are starting on universal healthcare. They have capped salaries for business people. We truly are going down the road to socialism. And like Glenn Beck says in the video...the road to socialism leads one way...to communism. We'd better get our acts together as a country and start speaking out against this. We need to hold our government, and our fellow citizens, responsible for their actions.

Thanks Mr. Prez.

So our fine president passed the stimulus bill today. Yippee. He obviously didn't watch the above video. I wonder how much further in debt with China this bill is gonna put us. What? You didn't know we were borrowing this money from China for the stimulus package? Well newsflash, we've been borrowing money from China for years. Hope they don't come looking for their money anytime soon. But I'm looking forward to my extra $13 a week in my paycheck. That'll help pay the extra taxes I get to pay because I live in California. An extra 12 cents per gallon of gas, and an extra cent sales tax. Oh and don't forget increased vehicle registration fees. Oh and the 5% income surcharge. Yup that extra 13 bucks a week should just about pay for that. Thanks.

8 days and counting...

Until the first spring training game. Yay for baseball!!!! I miss my Anaheim Angels during the off-season. Although I'm gonna miss GA this year. Kinda sad that most of the World Series champions are no longer with the team. I guess thats just how baseball goes. Hopefully they 'll do well this year.

Started my new job today. It went well, seems like everyone is really nice. But I sure hated getting up to that dang alarm clock. I'm definitely not a morning person. And I have to do it again tomorrow. Ohwell that life I guess. =)

If I were a cartoon, I'd have a lightbulb over my head

So I watched the ABC news program about children living in poverty in Appalachia and couldn't believe that people are living like that today, in America. It really made me think about something that I could do to help. I'm working on an idea. It really is just a little seed of an idea at this point but I think I'm really gonna try to make it work. Stay tuned for details....

By the way, go here to watch the whole program. I urge you to watch, its very interesting.

Things that make you go hmmm...

So I was watching the news this morning while eating my Lucky Charms and a few stories caught my attention and made me wonder. So I thought I'd share them here...

1. The House passed the stimulus bill. The official bill was still being written last night. The final draft is 1000 pages long and 8 inches thick... how did anyone read this to know what they are voting for? How do they know that something that they are against didn't get stuck in there at the last minute? How do we know that we are not paying a million dollars a day to relocate endangered ants or some other stupid thing like that?

2. What happened to Obama's campaign promise to put all bills that cross his desk on the White House website for the people to view for 5 days before he signs anything? This bill is not on the website, and the child healthcare reform bill was not on the website either. He's been in office for a few weeks and he's already breaking campaign promises.

3. The state of California is going to vote on its budget this weekend. Which means maybe I'll finally get back the money I've been loaning the state in the form of overpaid income taxes. But anyway... they say that taxes will be raised and programs will be cut. So if I'm paying more money and people are getting less services, where is the extra money going? More money is coming in in the form of taxes, and less is going out in the form of government programs so somebody must be stashing alot of money under their mattress for our collective "rainy day", right?

4. One of the increased taxes in the California budget is a 12 cent gas tax increase. Oil by the barrel is at the cheapest its been in YEARS. Down over a $100 a barrel from last summers high price, so why am I paying more a gallon than I was last month, or the month before (50cents more a gallon than I paid in December). Shouldn't gas prices be the lowest they've been in years as well? I'm thinking we should be paying around a buck a gallon, not more than 2 bucks. And now OPEC is gonna have a meeting and slow down production? What the hell? If they can produce that much oil then why not produce it? Why cut production, just to raise prices? Ridiculous

5. So the doctor that implanted embryos in the Octo-mom is under fire for implanting 7 embryos in another lady who is now pregnant with quadruplets at age 49. The woman is in the hospital now on bedrest. This one is employed but doesn't have health insurance. So how did she pay for the implantation? And yeah maybe she didn't want quads, but she had to know that was a possiblilty implanting 7 embyos. And how was she planning on paying for the delivery and care of the one kid without insurance? Now not only are Californians paying for the Octo-moms kids, we are also gonna be paying for this lady's kids, who having a 49 year old mom, and being quads are gonna be at huge risk for developmental delays and probably need lots of healthcare. Ridiculous.

Anyway just a few thoughts for today. Hope someone has the answers...