So, I'm sitting here at the airport...fun stuff I tell you :)

Gate A32 out of Denver. Currently...the flight is leaving to Omaha, Nebraska...next flight, Seattle, Washington (yay!!)

I had to purchase this little Internet connection, but oh well...$7.95 for unlimited access for 24 hours was pretty reasonable in my opinion. I just took my aspirin not too long ago and I'm trying to stay hydrated as I am going to need all of that for the flight. I think it's about 3 hours or so that I'll be on the plane...so that works for me. Can't be too bad...I can watch Underworld if I do so choose (since that's what's loaded on the computer)...for some reason, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is on there too, but I really don't want to watch that. He's also got Deathclok on there and I really don't like that show...lol...what a selection :)

The chairs are so uncomfortable here...my butt has already fallen asleep!!! Oh well...it happens

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Yay...I've been waiting for over a month now for this trip to come, so I finally get to leave tonight! I'm excited, but scared at the same time. The last time I traveled on a plane was in June and I was only a few months pregnant at the time and I felt all crappy on the plane...now I'm almost 7 months pregnant and I hope I really really don't feel crappy. Not to mention, I'm going from one extreme altitude to another (mile high to sea level)...I hope that doesn't effect anything either. I'm sure I'll be fine...just nervous as hell, that's all. I'll eat my baby aspirin like the doctor said an be ready to go!

Brian's meeting me for lunch today...we'll see if he wakes up. I'm sure he will, but sometimes I wonder. Supposed to be out here about 11:45 or so. I'd like to eat a big meal or something at some point prior to going to the airport as I already have to spend $5 for a fucking bottle of water because I can't bring one through security screening (SO STUPID!)...maybe I can get Brian to go to Chipotle or something and we can scarf down one of their monster burritos...I really only care for the steak ones and I've not eaten red meat since we went camping at the end of August. Maybe I shouldn't do that.

Anyway, got all my shit packed for the most part...maybe throw a book or two into the check-in bag. I get home about 5pm, so I'm gonna take a shower and clean out the sink. Melissa's gonna come over and pick me up and then it's off to DIA.

I'm going to be constantly on the go today...I'm going to be so worn out. I think I'll be running on 20 or so hours since by the time I get into Seattle, it's going to be 11:30, but it's going to feel like 12:30 to me as they're an hour behind...I hope my mom was able to call in sick today or at least have them let her get out early (she works the graveyard shift at her work...7pm to 7am she works). As much as I'd like my brother to meet me at airport, I'd love it even more if my mom and my brother were going to be at the airport (my dad too...but he has to work tomorrow, so he'll be sleeping).

Anyway, I should have time while I'm in the airport to at least ramble on about something or other before I actually get on the plane :) YAY!

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I was perusing the Internet at lunch and came upon this article about weird things that mess up your credit.

Weird Things That Mess Up Your Credit

I read through the article and was quite surprised at some of the information it provided. For instance, Capital One does not report credit limits to the credit bureaus...so they just use amounts from other cards that you have and assume that your limit is around there. I have 2 Capital One cards with relatively low limits ($200 and $750...I think) and they are current on there...imagine if they were not current and they were reporting that the limits were a few thousand dollars...my credit report would be hella fucked up!

Anyway, I'm not going to go more in depth about it because I don't know crap about credit and money (other than the fact that my credit is not so hot...and I never EVER want a credit card EVER again)...hehe

Thought you guys might find it interesting though...

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Well, this evil snow they predicted overnight really didn't come...and if it did, they put mag chloride (I think that's short for magnesium chloride...but don't quote me) all over the road so it didn't stick one bit. Roads were clear...grass was covered in a few inches of the white stuff...the mountains looked AWESOME! I love when the mountains are all white! With the sun reflecting off the clouds and whatever to make the skies all pink and purple, it makes the mountains all pink and purple because it reflects off the snow. Absolutely beautiful!

Today is my black day...got 2 black shirts on (I'm cold), a black pullover, black pants, black socks, and black shoes...had to top it off with a red beanie, but I can't exactly wear that in the building...so I'm not counting that. Who knows if I'll be mourning today, so I have to come prepared ;) Okay...I'm just being cynical right now...I'm sure nothing bad will happen.

Anyone else like peach oatmeal? I LOVE peach oatmeal :) enough so that I bought an entire box of just peach oatmeal. I happened to bring it to work one day and was eating it and then totally forgot about it...so, yum yum...having some this morning. I eat my oatmeal very strangely. I like to eat it cold...with milk. Warm with milk instead of water is good too...but I especially like it cold. I think that's why I didn't eat the oatmeal I had left over. I forgot I even had it because I didn't really want to eat it with hot water...lol

Tonight is power cleaning night (not in the weight lifting sense either...and if it was, being pregnant and power cleaning, probably not a good idea...if you have no idea what I'm talking about, continue to be confused..it'll be good for you). I have to get all that laundry and shit done and picked up before I leave. I somehow have to pack a bag that I don't have at my house (my suitcase, I gave to my mom...and my dufflebag is at Brian's house, full of books)...I'm debating just bringing a backpack, but I know that won't fit. I know! I'll see if Melissa has a suitcase I can borrow...I'm such a tard...I didn't even think of that until now. Second on the agenda after the laundry is to clean the kitchen up. Get rid of the pile of dishes in the sink (that is so not like me...I'm never that lazy, especially when it comes to food containers)...then pick up the living room a little bit after that...OH, clear a path to my bathroom (it's in my bedroom)...Melissa's coming over to do her laundry while I'm away and I don't want her to have to sit in a garbage dump while she does it. I don't think that would be very apetizing...and well, since it's just me...I've somewhat let my house go to the birds :( I'm just happy she'll be over there at some point while I'm gone, so she can keep an eye on my car and my apartment.

Anyway, gotta finish this oatmeal and get going...*crossing my fingers nothing bad happens today*

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Okay, it was wing night again...lol (I think I said that earlier)...but tonight, it wasn't so excellent. It took them forever to bring the wings out, and I am not even that sure they were cooked all the way...everyone sort of had a stomach ache when we left there.

Oh well...we'll see about next week.

Wednesday tomorrow with heavy snow predicted...ugh...not enjoying that part right now. It's 28 degrees about now and when we were driving to get wings, the roads were really shitty. By the time we left though, they had plows on seriously every road, so they were clear and no slushy! What I just said really didn't make any sense...lol

Hopefully tomorrow goes better than today did. It was okay at work and all and then I got home and it was better. Just one day I'd like to leave and feel good about leaving and not feel like I'm leaving some HUGE burden or anything.

My computer got a spyware cleaning today :) Brian's in the Geek Squad, so I get the Geek Squad perks at a low price...hehe ;) My computer didn't have as much spyware as we thought it may (since it had been running sluggish), but it did have a trojan (that's really sucky)...it's all cleaned up now though...yay!!

Ugh...political commercials. That's all they're showing now between shows...I'm tired of hearing about it. Can voting time come and people vote so these ads can go away??

Oh well...sleepy, lazy...

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It's snowing and I'm not enjoying it!!!!

I went out driving at lunch and it's more like a wet snow/solid rain type thing...I figure it can only get worse tonight (ugh)...oh well. At least Denver is prepared for this :) Plows are probably warming up as we speak...hehe...and my friend Melissa is jealous because it's snowing along the front range up north here, and she's downtown and it, I guess, hasn't made it to her...poor thing. She's all about the snow...I'm all about the autumn days that are chilly, but clear as day :)

I'm freezing my butt off in this office though...damn deciding to wear a skirt on the day that it decides to be arctic! Just my luck!!!

On a lighter note, was in the breakroom and noticed some yummy breakfast foods, so hehe...I indulged. Grabbed myself a cinnamon appleish type muffin thingy. If the cinnamon roll is still in there at about 3pm (when I feel like snacking again)...I shall go and retrieve it! I think it has my name on it...

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Well, it's finally here.

I went to bed a little earlier last night (11pmish) and was trying to do something constructive like writing and ended up falling asleep with the pen in hand, notebook wide-open, light still on...guess I shouldn't start things like that when I'm exhausted huh?

Woke up this morning and slammed the snooze button yet again (they should really rid the world of this device...it's obviously contributing to the laziness of the American nation...thus my screenname, but yeah...) and lazily rolled out of bed. I had to look pretty today as there are special guests in the office...in other words, put on a nice blouse, a skirt, brushed my teeth, brushed my hair better than usual...and out the door I went. That constitutes better than normal in my opinion. I don't have time to glamourize for work...I'm working, not participating in a fashion show. I suppose I probably look like Ugly Betty or something from that show...oh well...lol

It's supposed to rain today...the clouds make it appear so, but the precipitation when I left. I'm sure it will come later today, when I'm driving home and getting off work or something. That's how it usually goes.

We're going to wings tonight...again...I think it's a Tuesday night ritual or something. Last time I didn't play trivia, but I don't know...I really REALLY want to, but then I'd be ignoring Brian and Melissa at the table. I don't think that they like me to force them to play trivia. Brian doesn't even get a box, but Melissa...she'll play with me even though we both suck...and sometimes she sucks worse than I do. When the retro trivia came on that one night we were there, she kicked my ass at that. I don't know crap about the 70's! I wasn't even here!! Granted, she just barely made it into the 70's being born in December of 1979, but still...lol...who know, who knows...

Just today, tomorrow, and Thursday to work...I can't wait! I called home the day before yesterday to make sure my brother was going to come pick me up at the airport and he was. Hopefully I'm not inconveniencing him too much. He'll have to be there at midnight basically to get me and he's gonna have to carry all my bags too...the joys of being pregnant. I swear, it's like 9 months of letting people do stuff for you. Is this why I feel even lazier than I did before I was pregnant? Quite possibly...

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This is just horrible...I can't see how anyone could do this to a baby:

Carson GI jailed in baby's shaking injuries

Colorado Springs - A Fort Carson soldier told a Colorado Springs police officer that he shook his 7-week-old daughter and knew he had hurt her when she became non-responsive.

Johnathan Christopher Klinker, 21, a soldier with the 43rd Area Support Group, is being held in El Paso County jail on suspicion of felony child abuse. His daughter, Nicolette Klinker, born Aug. 23, is in critical and stable condition at Children's Hospital in Denver.

Klinker told a nurse at Children's Hospital that he was home alone with the baby on Friday. He fell asleep with her on the couch in the living room after he had taken two Percocet painkillers that were prescribed after recent shoulder surgery, according to an arrest warrant.

Klinker told police the baby was "fussy" when she woke about 9 a.m. Later that day, Klinker and the baby's mother, Amanda Redatsky, drove with the child to Trinidad. The baby vomited when her mother tried breast feeding, and the child was taken to a hospital in Trinidad, then transported to Denver.

At the hospital, Klinker told Colorado Springs police Detective Rebecca Arndt "he held Nicolette Klinker with both his hands and then shook her four to five times. When he did that she became non-responsive and he tried to wake her up because he knew something was wrong," according to the arrest affidavit.

Klinker told the detective he held the girl in his arms and "spun in circles in the living room" and then, with her head in his hand and her back against his arm, he "moved her up and down a couple of times in an upside-down position."

He said he laid Nicolette on the floor, held her hands and pulled her to a sitting position and let her fall to the ground four to five times, striking her head and back, the affidavit says.

He then said he knew he had messed up "and he had hurt Nicki," the affidavit says.

The baby suffered visible bruising to her face, brain hemorrhaging, retinal hemorrhaging and seizures, the affidavit says.

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I am just shocked that one, this happened so close to me...two, a person serving our country could do this to his own child...and three, the amount of abuse that baby suffered. It's just absolutely horrible!

I usually don't illwish on anyone, but I seriously hope this guy gets what's coming to him...if his daughter doesn't die, she's going to have some serious brain damage and I'm sure the worst punishment might be knowing that he messed his daughter up for her whole life...DISGUSTING.

Okay...I'm done now...I hate hearing news stories about cruelty to animals and kids. As much as I like watching the news, it's so depressing sometimes...

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