Babies & Books (Not in That Order)

An hour ago I had decided I would get into bed with a book and just read away until I was ready to go to sleep.  This is ironic of course, b/c anyone who knows me knows I RARELY read.  Typically if I read it is out of extreme boredom or random coincidence.  I do not recall the last time I went to a book store or library for an adult book as opposed to one for Jack.  In fact, even the few books I browsed while pregnant were given to me by those with good intentions.  Once I was at my mom's and happened to pick up a book on her end table and just somehow became so involved in the story that I ended up finishing it by the next night.  In the 2 days of reading my husband decided he did not like for me to read.  I guess he felt neglected or something, watching TV by himself in our 1100 square feet of impossible-to-get-a-moment-alone condo bliss.  Maybe he thought me reading was too close to an escape of the mind and was worried I would be able to shut him out, and perhaps that would be unfair since in his peripheral vision he could still see my reflection in the episode of Cops whatever else he might have been watching.  None the less, the reading subsided with the end of that book...until a beach trip with my family.  My sister's friend loaned her a few books for the trip, and I, just coming back from a different vacation where everyone and their mother had a "Kindle" or the like and spent hours at a time reading on the beach, decided that mabe I would borrow one of these books with the idea of just seeing what it was like to read a book on the beach.  Well, the book was good, until it ended with a cliffhanger, and upon returning home my sister got the sequel for me from her friend so I could at least know what happened.  It was a lame story too, but really folks, that is 3 books now in like 6 years. 
Anyway, I am so far off track here.  As I was getting ready to pick out a book from another loaner collection from my sister's same friend, my sister called and told me that some friends of ours were in the hospital about to have their baby.  I was immediately moved and emotional.  On the inside.  I didn't say much to my sister, but I was a little jealous that she got an email...then I checked Facebook and the couple both posted it so I knew it wasn't really private, and my sister was really on ly emailed b/c she doesn't use Facebook, and I am sure they wanted her to not be the last to know.  Anyway, the jealousy ended and the tears of joy began.
I am so happy for this couple.  The husband has been a dear friend of mine since adolescence, and we have had our ups and downs, but I truly adore him and wish him nothing but happiness.  And the wife is someone I feel really likes me the way I am, and as I continue to get to know her better I feel more and more comfortable just being myself around her.  They are having a girl.  She will be the first girl in "that" group of friends.  It is such an exciting night!
As I sit here and type this, Brett is snoring on the couch, fast asleep after not even getting home until almost 10 from a ridiculous day of working his ass off.  (I wrote "behind" instead of "ass" first, but then remembered this is the "Uncaged" version of my writing, so I turned off my censor and let 'er rip!)  I have a feeling there will be a lot of posts ending with my saying something about my husband snoring on the couch.  His snoring drives me nuts, and it wakes me up and I find myself jabbing him several times throughout the night to get him to stop snoring or at least roll on his side.  The other night I even moved myself out to the couch after he had come to bed and woken me from a sound sleep with his snoring.  Ugh.  I love him, but I hate the snores.
Jack and I had a great day today.  We started by meeting my SIL and the McQ-Ts at Lenox for The Pink Pig, which didn't happen b/c the line was too long, but we still had a nice lunch.  then we went ot Gymboree and then back home for a nap for Jack, which was a miracle when it happened.  Afetr his nap we ventured to the park for a little while before running some errands and coming back home for dinner and playtime together.  I love that baby.  I mean...toddler. 
Yep, well I am still new at the blogging, and right now, no on follows me anyhow, except myself.  I guess I follow me.  Haha.  Okay, well goodnight reader.  I mean, goodnight self.   
 

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Just a Few "Quick" Thoughts

I finally got a new computer.  I am irritated to say the least at the amount of stress that my old computer caused me, or rather that I allowed it to cause me, but I am glad I have a new machine.  It is frustrating me right now though b/c my printer is too old I guess to connect to Windows 7 and I find myself wondering how would someone with any "less" computer knowledge even know where to start to address an issue like that.  I also have a wireless router that I spent 2 hours trying to connect last night, unsuccessfully, I might add, but I am just crazy enough to try again tonight after J-Bo goes to bed.  All I can hope for is that I once again have a machine that I can trust to play with all my pictures and create videos and stuff for my family memories.  Oh yeah, and I guess so that I can FINALLY start to blog the way I intended when I set up this site in the first place.

I want to write more.  I feel like I see all these blogs and read them and think to myself, wow, that person read my mind, or what a great writer she is, or I had no idea that was like that, or countless other thoughts that enter my mind when passing through cyberspace in a few short available moments.  Then I tell myself that I will write more and that I will find the time to do it "soon." 

But what the heck is "soon," people?  Soon my son will be in college; at the rate it feels like time is passing me by, that may as well be tomorrow.  It just feels so abstract to me, this whole time thing, I mean.  Like, why do some days really "go by faster" than others when they are all the same 24 hours?  Why does it seem like work days drag on forever and yet the 15 minutes it takes ot get out of the house easily turns into double that before I can even check the clock again?  Yes, I know the saying "time flies when you're having fun," but it also flies when you are stressed and trying to do a million things that need to get done in an hour while your toddler *finally* naps. 

I need more time.  I need an extra day in the week, or weekend, and yes I know I have Mondays off, but my Monday "Fun-day with my Son-day" is not for errands, or chores or all that crap that comes with life - Mondays are for me to make memories with the little man that makes me want more time in the first place!  To think I used to wish life would hurry up already!  Now I just want to stop and smell the roses and dilly-dally through each day so that I don't miss a second of it when it counts.  NOW counts.  Now is not soon.  It is NOW...

So, instead of saying I want to write more and I will soon, tonight I said I will write NOW.  And here is this little excerpt that I am happy to say was done without a ridiculous amount of proofing or thinking, but just a 10 minute window of opportunity that I demanded from my life. 

What is next on tonight's agenda?  I am going to take my favorite person on a little bike ride before his bedtime.  Sweet dreams!

Who came up with THIS?

Okay, so I just tried to edit my profile - I haven't had much time to explore this whole blogging site yet, so I apologize in advance that my site is pretty boring so far, but it will get better - anyway, so apparently there is this "Random Question" section of the profile page, like under your interests and faves it asks a random question. If you don't like your question or if you just feel like something different you can tell it you want a new random question. Well, my first 3 tries were things I have no interest in figuring out, like what the real name of my favorite author was when she was born, or what I propose for the Panama Canal, you know, random questions. But on the 4th one, I got this:

"Whoops! Your tongue is now a magnet. Whatever will you use for silverware?"

My answer? Chopsticks!

1st "Official" blog?

So I decided that my Shutterfly share site (www.bbmquilken.shutterfly.com), although awesome for pics, is maybe not the best forum for my writings. Alas, I have joined the bloggers of the world in an actual blog site, and this, my friends, is my 1st official blog. I don't have any special topic. I probably should not be doing this right now anyway b/c I am at work, but I was inspired by a work-related blog to create one of my own, so here it is. I have a feeling that some of my other projects may take a backseat while I explore this new "toy" of mine. Now, I am going to click Publish Post and see what my site actually looks like!
~BLMcQ