Dish and the Bank
I got a message on the answering machine from Dish Network. Seems my check card, well, they know it as my Visa, is going to expire in April. Uh, like Thursday. And since we have our monthly stuff automatically drafted off it, I'll need to get them a new card number. Well, I'll have Alison do it, since I don't have another one. So, I have to call the bank. Not a biggie, but I thought I'd mention it since it's looming over me. Doesn't take much to loom me.

Dentist Looms Too
I think the biggest loomer today would be the dentist. I'm getting the second legitimate filling of my life. I had one illegitimate filling from some cheesoid dentist that I don't go to anymore. He filled a developmental defect that I've had since I was 11. Well, the last filling I got was in my stinkin' wisdom tooth. It's hard to get back there. This one is closer up, so maybe I'll get the nice amalgam rather than silver. I've not had an MRI since I've had the metal implanted in my head, but I understand it makes it much louder.

Oddly, though, Alison didn't feel bad about the last MRI. She came out of her MRI last week saying things like, "I think my favorite part is when it went..." And then tapped a pattern on the dashboard of the car until I said, "Quit it, just quit it. That's irritating."

Parenting Class Looming Also
I think this is another case of looking forward to being a parent. Alison signed us up for a parenting class that Huntsville Hospital puts on. Yesterday, she started regretting that, as our first class is tonight. It runs from 6:30 to 8:30 every Tuesday until June. I asked what the topic today was. Bathing baby. Oh, I'll be in hell. I'll have to get my mind set in that special way that you have to do when setting out going somewhere and you've heard that the roads are backed up and it'll take two hours to get through.

More Alison Shopping
Last night we bought more clothes for Alison. I went along as I have veto power over any item of clothing and Alison is on both Black Restriction and Denim Restriction. She got two really nice skirts, three V neck T's, and one shirt that kind of makes her look like she works for an optometrist. We also did this last week, but last week Alison managed to get me to agree to a black skirt with strange abstracty berries on it. I mean, how can you complain with abstracty berries.

The reason that Alison is on Black Restriction is that about 50% of everything she owns is black. That may not seem like a lot to you, but sometime when you have all your clothes washed and put away, look at them and decide that half of them are black. That's a lot of clothes. She has some killer black skirts though. And, because of that, she's on Black Restriction. She's on denim restriction since it doesn't flatter her, and she tends to wear it with black, and I'm sick of seeing her looking like that every weekend.

I've been paying attention and Alison has worn a black shirt every day except for the latter part of Saturday. Then, she wore a green shirt and blue jean.

MP3ness
My mini-CD mp3 player came in. At times, I wished that I'd bought one that could play full sized CDs full of MP3s. That was until I made one to take to work. I desperately tried to get 700megs of stuff on it. However, after piddling around with my MP3s for an hour and a half, my directory that I was temporarily storing them in only had 530 megs. Sure, fine. I burned it and am listening to it now.

I'll have to make some Mini-CDs for Alison, as she's going to start walking in the morning and lose weight so all her newly bought clothes will be too big for her.
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 7:39 AM