anonymity

in the interest of maintaining as much anonymity as one can on the internet, i’ve decided to refer to my wife as firefly. she is, after all, a volunteer firefighter and emt, so it fits her, and i’ve gotten clearance to use it from the lady herself. here she is training:

she truly amazes me sometimes. a few years ago my sister had a collision during a softball game and firefly was right there to help–well, until she was sent off by the team’s resident nurse at the time to tend to me because i was freaking out. well, you would have too if it was your sister lying in the grass, not moving and covered in blood. it was so scary.

so there you have it. herein is the story of bluedaisyus and the firefly. do with it what you will.

well how about that?

things have been a little weird in my circle of friends since the breakup of a couple who were together for quite a few years. one of them is involved with another woman now, and it’s caused some issues with a few people. the new couple went on the camping trip this weekend, and the other half of the former couple decided not to come along (did you follow that?), which i think made the birthday girl a little unhappy. what can you do? i certainly understand her reasons for not coming. if i was her i don’t know that i would have been able to either. there is another couple who is very close with the other half and also didn’t come on the trip, which my wife and i attributed at least in part to the breakup and the discomfort caused by the whole situation. well, this weekend we found out the real reason: they’re pregnant.

they’ve been trying off and on for a very long time, even going through the adoption process and getting as far as driving halfway to another city to meet their baby, only to have to make the call that they wouldn’t be able to come up with the $15,000 to complete the process and turning around–made all the more painful by the mother’s insistence that she didn’t want any other couple, she only wanted them. needless to say i’m thrilled for them.

this makes the second couple i know in as many weeks that i’ve found out about. my ex and her husband are also pregnant, which is very exciting. her husband always jokes that our kid is going to beat up their kid, so one of the first things she told me was that we need to get on it so ours is big enough. i can only hope.

wow

i am so lucky to have the family i do, given and chosen. it’s been an amazing day.

huh. who knew?

apparently i get a signal out here in the middle of nowhere. hooray for technology. it’s beautiful and i’m in great company, although it’s in the upper 80s and extremely humid. that’s summer in ohio for you. tomorrow it’s supposed to be in the 90s, sunny, and just as humid. should make for a fun day on the river. it’s almost too hot for a fire. but not quite.

i downloaded the donor list from the local bank and started looking through them last night while waiting for laundry. i’ve looked at it before, but it’s so daunting–especially now that we really have to make a choice. there were a lot of them that were a definite no, but this is going to be a crazy difficult decision. i have visions of us just pulling one out of a hat and saying “ok, this is the one.”

and now i leave you to your regularly scheduled friday.

busy busy.

well, we can officially cross one of the to-do items off of our list. we finished the demolition in the bathroom today and they’re picking up the dumpster from our driveway in the morning. my sister is a little worse for wear having fallen through the floor, but other than a bruised and scratched face and a banged up hip bone she’s fine. we’ll see how sore she is tomorrow, though…

this is our last big blowout weekend before we start this thing. we’re going on an annual camping trip that will be two nights of drinking and frivolity, with all day saturday spent on the river. i’ve been working a flexed schedule over the summer so i was only supposed to work four hours tomorrow, but i decided to just take the day off. i was going to surprise my wife by not telling her, which is always nice when she gets home in the morning and i’m still in bed, but of course she asked me point blank when i was getting home and i’m a terrible liar.

now i have a million or so things to do to get ready for the weekend. i’ve promised to do some laundry for her, i need to go to the grocery and start packing, and i’d like to get the tent and everything pulled out so i can make sure we have everything and we can get it into the totes easily in the morning. i had wanted to get some schoolwork done, too, but i don’t think that’s going to happen. i’d better get to it!

darts and rainbows.

she had darts tonight, and i stayed home as i usually do to work on some things. her work schedule makes it so she has to go straight there afterward, and it just seems silly to take two cars to the same place. although i love going along sometimes, i also don’t mind staying home. i got a new computer a while ago and am giving my old one to my sister, so i finally got around to taking all of my files off and cleaning things up before i hand it over. this is twofold good: it will make my sister happy because she’ll finally get her computer, and my wife happy because it’s one more thing out of my office and a step closer to some modicum of order in here. now there are only about a million more to go.

but she called me on her way there just to tell me she saw an amazing rainbow. damn i love this woman. they won five out of the seven games, just in case you were wondering.

it’s true.

i must admit that i’m feeling rather silly starting this blog thing now. we’re still two weeks and two days away from our first appointment, we have a bathroom that is half way to being demolished, and i should really be focusing on schoolwork. but i’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a while, and this seems like as good a time as any since we actually do have an appointment. tearing out that bathroom is one more thing off of her list of must-do items before we start this thing, and my schoolwork is getting done. i’ll be graduating in december, long before any arrival even if we were to be one of the lucky few who make it on the first few tries. we’re getting there slowly but surely, although at the moment it feels much more like slowly and not so much like surely.

and we’re off!

well, we officially have an appointment with our family doctor to get checked out and get our referral to the re. i think my heart is going to drop out of my stomach.

more later…

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