Three new editions.

After spitting the first one out before 2pm and then waiting about an hour for the second one, Mama cat relaxed for a while. Then around 10pm the third little kitty... the cow looking one arrived. Awww.... fucking stupid asshole cats.

KITTENS!

Our pregnant stray cat is having kittens right now. Let it be known that I am not a cat lover and in fact I sort of hate cats. Cats are assholes. I love dogs. I love my dog. She is my angel. She is an angel with that stupid asshole cat. Eric fell in love with this stupid stray cat and some how he managed to convince me to let it in the house. I think what might have been the final blow is when that poor cat was in heat there were at least eight other cats trying to get with this asshole cat.

Well she has had two kittens so far... which might be it because this is probably her first litter. I can't wait to go home!

Pop those kittens out already!

The stray cat that Eric adopted is pregnant. It feels like she has been pregnant longer than me - an exaggeration of course. But when the hell is this kitten birth going to happen?! I realize that the likelihood of me being home for the event is rather low but it would be awesome if happy occasion does not occur during 8am - 6pm.

I didn't have to work today and Eric took my jeep thus forcing me to stay home. I really needed a day to do nothing and go nowhere. But I somehow did a lot of things. I finished the scarf I made for Mary that matches the baby blanket I made. I did two loads of laundry. I cleaned out my desk. I cleaned out some more of the baby's room. I watched several episodes of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. I played Call of Duty 4 with the boys. I relaxed. I cooked dinner.

Now I am going to continue to watch some exotic meals being eaten - for example Ghana looks like a really cool place to go! This baby of mine has been kicking up a storm a lot lately.

Black Ale & Chocolate Stout

Alright, in an attempt to be more organized I am going to blog today. We brewed a Black Ale and a Chocolate Stout. Yum. We started around noon and were done before 5pm. Crazy! After over a year of brewing we learned that we can make a super concentrated wort and add more water once we put it in the car boy. This cuts down on time it takes to boil the wort. KP made a wort chiller out of copper pipe and tubes - we cooled that wort down in less than twenty minutes! Holy Shit! Thats a crazy record! Hell... we did two batches in one day. I think I am going to order another kit tomorrow once the hinged bottles are in stock. Yeah, I should by paying for my taxes but beer is way more fun.

My feet and baby blanket

I brought a camera to work last Sunday. I only brought it out once but you can at least peek into the world of the box office. These photos were taken during the calm before the storm that was a sell out of "Lyle Hovett" during which the true wise ass appeared. A patron asked when the show would be starting and I replied "7:02". I also told someone that his seats 101 & 103 were not together and that 102 would be seated in between them.

This baby blanket is now complete. I added a blue/brown border. I am super excited that I completed it in less than a week. Now onto another project, or maybe some Super Mario Galaxy.

Coffee and Snow!

Alright, the way it looks out my window right now - I am going to have a snow day! An actual day of not leaving my house and getting snow dumped on us. I have been thinking about the last time I had an "official" snowy day that I could call a SNOW DAY. The last time might have been in high school. I never missed a class in college due to weather at SUNY Orange or at MSMC. When I worked at ETC, I was the dork in at 6:45am getting ready to answer the slew of calls from the entire United States about the (non)delivery of the Financial Times. Now at my wonderful loving fun job they told me to stay home last night because of the snow. Now I feel a little bit guilty about having the day off when others might not - but I know that I need to take advantage of the snowy day and the growing belly.

I plan on watching a movie, cleaning out more of the baby room, cleaning the bathroom, making jello, buying a coffee maker and a quilt, and bugging Eric once he gets home. Speaking of coffee makers, it seems as though ours took a shit. Yep. Clock works. Lights come on. Nothing happens. Now I am looking at a new Hamilton Beach coffee makers but at the same time I am hesitant. I truly loved the last HamBeach coffee maker we had but if it is going to just stop working one day five years later I will be unsure if I want another one. It has a removable water reservoir for easy fill up and easy cleaning. Thank goodness we had our trusty French Press so we still had the yummy nectar of the coffee gods. Anyone want to suggest a coffee pot? I will be ordering one today from Amazon.com so I can get it by Tuesday. (Brilliant feature that Amazon Prime and the "free" two day shipping...)

In all honesty, the coffee maker that I have had my eye on for a while is a bit more expensive and wasteful that I would like it to be. The Keurig one cup coffee maker seems awesome. I love the idea of no more coffee grinds to deal with and a quick and easy way to make a cup of coffee and a cup of tea in minutes. I don't love the waste it creates - you know those little pod dealies? I guess it is time for me to shop around and read customer reviews.

Gonna make some bread...

Alright, so its been at least 5 months since we brewed out last batch of beer. Let me remind you that it is a group effort. KP, Eric and myself all throw a hand in at brewing. While some of us scrub more bottles than others and some of us lift the wort into the sink more than others, it is a group effort. I have been hesitant to scrub bottles because I can't drink any! In fact, I think we will need more bottles for the batch we plan on brewing this Sunday. I realize we have time to get the bottles because I am sure we won't bottle for at least a month or so.

Hey, you are wondering, where do you get all that nifty brewing stuff? Well... I love organic beer but Austin Home Brew has a standard shipping that one cannot ignore. They also have a huge supply of all sorts of brew. I still have no desire to clean bottles but really wait to get some beer on deck. Yes I will be breast feeding and yes I will have a beer while I do it. I hear the brewer's yeast is good for breast milk production.

Winter Blues

I hope that I don't turn into the girl that can only talk about babies and pregnancy and storks and things. The topic has consumed me a little bit lately - yet I really am in the mood to hang out with friends at a summer time BBQ! Oh I am sick of these winter blues... I was so happy to run into Jen at the Newburgh Mall. I am done hibernating, Where is Spring!?

Sold out show.

We were completely sold out but some how had to deal with 100 comps... pain in the ass. More importantly, this morning Eric asked me to buy fake bacon. Yep. He said that he would like to taste something sort of like bacon since I haven't bought any in a really long time. It was adorable.

Baby Borman is a Boy!

My co-worker Donna has always known it was a boy. We went to the doctor on Friday and they confirmed the presence of a winkie!

I had watermelon. It was fantastic.

Mom playing golf

Isn't she just the best? Loving the golf on Valentine's Day. I spent the day with loved ones, not just my love. It was fantastic. My mom and I got errands done during the day, went to lunch and had time to play a game or two on the Wii.

For dinner we all ate Chinese food and had screaming debates about a cell phone and calling 911 when the person in the next room is getting chopped up into little pieces with a cleaver. Mary seemed to think that the guy trying to help the person getting chopped was stupid for not calling 911 on his cell phone right away. Which I guess could have avoided said rescuer from getting hacked. Ryan and I seemed to think that one might not have time to grab the phone and call - or did call but still got chopped.

It was a fun filled day of silliness.

Crocs, the other white meat.

I realize that Crocs are ugly. There is one gentleman who clearly has issues with the Croc. While I do see his point I can sleep well at night knowing that I would never drink Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Oh, yeah... Happy VD.

Craving.

I want watermelon.

Icky Weather.

What in the hell is wrong with Mother Nature? Why would you drop four inches of snow... then add an inch of ice then make it rain? We have piles of snow that is thick and heavy and soggy. We have puddles of water forming over the ice so there are tons of flooded streets. Hell, my parking spot had three inches of water covering it!

Thank goodness that driving in was not so horrible - but the roads were a wreck. I don't know how anyone could think otherwise...

What A Day...

Today was the member on sale day for Hairspray and while it was really busy we only sold a few tickets to the musical. My brain was so on top of things yesterday... but today? Today? Nada. My brain was on Mars or maybe at least Saturn. Hell... I think my brain could even have been up Uranus.

I would really love love love a snow day tomorrow. It will be the first day that the Bardavon closed on a weekday for weather and I wasn't already scheduled off. But given my luck as of lately, it will get twenty degrees warmer and it will rain buckets.

I finally opened an account with HVFCU and now I need to stop by to fill out a signature card to complete the process. And given that I am twenty weeks pregnant I should really start filling out paper work for the hospital and look into childbirth classes... ugh... do I really have to be there for that? Guys have all the luck... their crotches are stretched out and torn AND they can pee standing up.

Mountain Jam 2008

Alright, Mountain Jam is May 30 - June 1 this year. I will be eight months pregnant. I want to go. So, if I don't have to work and it doesn't rain and its not 100 degrees and I can get a ticket I want to waddle my prego-ass to the show. There are a bunch of "ifs" mixed in with this show. I realize that after the baby life does not end but - I can't remember the last show I went to and Eric is not going to want to take a little baby to a show. I am down as long as we get a hotel room and have a blanket and a sun shade and we sit in the back... well... in the back if its at the vibes. I don't think the Mountain Jam show is very baby friendly with that huge hill and all... damnit.

I just want to have some summer time fun! Damn you, Winter!

Thank Goodness for a Slow Day

It was really too cold this morning. I think I want to move to a warmer climate. I do love my friends and family in New York but the older I get the more I hate the winter. Don't get me wrong, I do love a good snow storm or two. I like the sort of snow that will keep you inside for the day and melt cleanly away from the roads by the next morning. Oh! And winter should only last about two months. Any cold snowy weather lasting longer than two months should go to hell.

We are finally going to brew another batch (or two) of beer. It will be the first of 2008. We haven't brewed anything since we heard we were prego. It is mostly because Eric wants to avoid that sort of thing while I want him to avoid that sort of thing... does my air-headed ramble make sense?

Speaking of being pregnant, I really need to get a few more prego shirts... and a pair of dressy black pants. Old Navy.com where are the bargains?!

Avoiding mycrack...

I have to admit that I miss having an online journal. I was just not happy with wordpress... hopefully my love with blogger can be re-kindled. I just like everything to be simple and most of these push-button publishing dealies are overwhelming over coded (in my eyes). I have been able to start cutting down the code.

After nearly four months of no energy, I finally have the desire to write about my life. Who knew that being pregnant could make you so tired? Who knew it could make me lose interest in knitting and crocheting? I truly want to but never seem to pick up the needles... Who knew it would make me want jello, grapes and green pears?

I also need to give a ton of credit to Eric - he has nearly stopped drinking. I asked him to stop with me for these long, er, short nine months. I just can't stand to be near drunk people when I am sober. I don't mind a drink or two or three but drunk people really piss me off. I have always felt this way which is one reason why I would sooner walk across town to the bar than offer to be the driver.

Who knew that this baby would eat my brain and make me such a scatter-brained air head? Who knew it would make me shave just one arm-pit several days ago?

Now I just need to decide if I want to add links to the side or the bottom... I think maybe the side... but then I will have to fiddle with the stylesheet... ack!

All quiet on the Western Front

One of my last weekends alone... I am feeling the baby a lot more lately. It was great fiddling around the house and on the net. Eric and I spent time together and apart all day long. It was snowy but it didn't mess up the roads... the perfect snow.

Push button whore.

I have switched away from wordpress and am back to blogger once again. I seem to be a push button publishing whore. Now I have to re-do all the archives once again...

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Baby...

My scanner has been out of commission (of sorts) for a while now. I finally took a quick snapshot of my last sonogram. I was 12 weeks pregnant. On February 15, Eric and I will go back to see the baby once again! Hopefully he or she won’t be shy and let us take a peek.

Working on a little side project.