Jon: ...what are you doing?
Me: Oh, just noting you've got a raised mole on your back.
Jon: ....
Me: Something to probably keep an eye on. *pokes some random spot on shoulder* MOLE *ala Austin Powers*
Jon: You do that, you're pressing my fart buttons.
me: I wasn't poking a mole. Besides, you don't need any incentive to fart.
Jon: What? WHat'd you say? *faux mean tone*
Me: That you don't need any incentive to fart. You use any reason. *mumble* Gaseous anomaly.
Jon: *randomly lets one rip*
Me: *frantically stuffing blankets between us* YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE! *ends up laughing right along with him*

I swear, my marriage is made up of 12 year old toilet humor.

In other news, Welcome to the third trimester. In bringing in this lovely stage of pregnancy, I had an asthma attack. My first in 4 years. This does not bode well. u.u Tried to stay upright as long as possible, but I have no comfortable chairs to sleep in so ended up having to go back upstairs to lay down. My ribs were hurting, and the baby was awake.

Sleep is going to be elusive the next couple of months. I know it.

So, apparently, the name "Aidan" (Though spelled Aiden) is really popular. I apparently live in another world since I know of /no/ new babies that have this name. It's so weird.

While I said I didn't want an OMGUBER popular name... I'm completely sold on it. First it was mentioned my mind zoned in on it and went *CLING*, to the point where when I'm idle, I'm trying to find a middle name to go with it. Something tells me that unless something shows up to knock me off this course, this'll be the name I'm choosing, despite it's popularity.

Maybe because I'm thinking of Aidan Quinn or something, but I think a middle name with a hard-C beginning will be best. Too bad our last name is 'Swift'. Aidan Scott sounds nice LOL

Bored, so I shall attempt, the best I can...

Name a fandom, and I'll tell you my:

One True Pairing Ship:
Canon Ship:
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:
"You are one sick bastard" Ship:
"I dabble a little" Ship:
"It's like a car crash" Ship:
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship:
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship

So, even though I missed like, all of the season, I still watched the Avatar finale.

( Behind the cut so not to accidentally spoil. )

Pain is: Having /both/ of your CTS-ladened wrists flare up (Likely due to pregnancy-related swelling), and being unable to take ibuprofen to calm them down. Tylenol makes the pain manageable, but it's done nothing to help the inhibited motion of my fingers and wrists.

I need to go put on my bra. /random

Nostradamus, which is the new album by Judas Priest is... Interesting.

"Interesting" is used because 1) It's a concept album and 2) a lot more attention's paid towards orchestration etc. Both of which are unknowns to Priest. This album is their first. So, even knowing this (I RED TEH WIKIZ), it still threw me for a loop the first time I heard it. Completely out of left field. If Tipton and Downing's guitar style wasn't so familar to me, and it wasn't for Halford's Epic Vocals, I wouldn't have realized it was Judas Priest. STylistically, it's very new. There are a few pieces that are similar to Painkiller's 'Touch of Evil' ('Visions' leaps out at me in this category), and maybe a few isolated older songs here and there. Nostradamus does have a certain epic feel to it (Again, likely helped by halford's vocals).

Despite "interesting" I have listened to it, start to finish, about 4 times since I got it day before yesterday. Definitely not a bad album. Just... interesting, considering the new territory.

HALFORD IS EPIC...and now I go put on my bra.

don't ask about the logic with mentioning my bra in the same line with a gay man

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make yourworld a better place just because they exist, and who you would nothave met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post thissame sentence in your journal.

OH GOD VA YOU SUCK SO MUCH.

SO FUCKING MUCH

(i seriously need a pissed icon i don't really ahve one >( )

Man, you know you're an emotional wreck when someone's emo-whining puts you in a sour mood that is then immediately set off by someone's comment, and now you're close to tears.

Haha.

AS of just a minute ago, I cancelled my wait list position. This means I am not spending the entire weekend at Otakon. I am still planning on attending on one of the days, likely saturday. I'll keep people informed

However:

SEPTEMBER 23 RAMS HEAD LIVE BOOYAH!!

(posted to the right place, demmit)

Bored. Stolen from karasu

Without looking at my current and past character directories, whatpatterns do you associate with my roleplaying? For example, with HarryPotter RPing, this can include things like gender, house, blood status,physical details, PBs, family, personalities, eras, specificcharacters, etc.

And get really bored with going through name sites, I'm going to open up this here post.

Suggest names for the baby. I've only got 15 weeks left and Jon and I've not settled on one yet. I refuse to be one of those parents who argue about names in the throes of labor :P

Stipulations: Must go well with "Swift". Our last name is insanely plain and one-syllabled with ending on a hard note. Most names sound funny with Swift, believe it or not :( It can not be "Christopher" "Thomas" "Joseph" "David" or "James". These are either 1) Family names or 2) Names I hate (which incidentally are family names for me, sigh). I would PREFER it to be not so OMGCOMMON it'll be on the Top 10 names for 2008. On the other hand, I don't want it to seem like I had Paris Hilton consulting my name choices :P We're American, while I don't mind names with origins to another country (I have a fond preference for the Gaelic/Scot/Irish and Germanic names), if it sounds like something /exclusive/ to Country A, it might be weird. Neither of us are overly religious. If this factors into your name suggestions, it's out there on the table (Jon is agnostic, and I'm pagan). And... It must be a boy's name. Because it's a boy. Alice for a boy only works if you're a Shock-rocker.

If I do pick something, I...will do a free request? Or something? I JUST NEED HELP OMG I AM LAME HELP PLZ.

(If it was a GIRL I wouldn't be having this DAMN PROBLEM I HATE YOU JON'S GENETICS)

Bored. z.z

Boredboredboredboredbored...(etc)

It's not often I remember my dreams. I either don't have them (I have gone insane amounts of time without hitting REM sleep), or I just don't remember. But when I do remember them, it's always like what I had this morning.

Being on a sinking ship (I think it /was/ the Titanic) fighting vampires.

And I was the one who was most qualified because "Don't owrry, I"ve watched buffy." WTH. Good thing I woke up before I met my mostly certain frozen doom with a leech stuck to my neck.

Funny, though, the sinking ship metaphor got used. Sooo feeling like that right now.

I could just break down right now. Tears and all.

Why does the suck keep coming? u.u

And ugh, my da expired. Blargh. Also, did not realize the orange chicken I ordered from the chinese place was 'hot and spicy' and therefor, didn't adjust the order to say I wanted no spicy. I ate about a quarter of it anyway, 'cause I felt stupid and didn't want money to go to waste. The acid production in my stomach has not stopped. u.u

Thank you, Life.

Seriously, Thanks.

You couldn't let us have the break you were giving us. You had to go and fucking ruin it.

Thanks.

Edit: Now that I'm cooled off, let me excplain a little bit. VA, for some reason, wants a signed by the commander letter stating Jon plans on reenlisting, as well as his eligibility. This has something to do with whether or not they'll back the loan (Jon's commander is confused on this, for he believes they should do it regardlesss).

Another background point: Jon has been putting together a package for the Med-board. Jon's last update of this, it had not hit his records. So he was trying to get everything done before that happened as far as this eligibility,whatever letter.

Que today: Jon comes home, hands me a ltter. The package hit his records, and they're frozen. He can not be kicked out, /or/ reinlist while this med-board is in progress. He is ineligible for reinlistment as of right now. THerefor, he likely can /not/ get a signed letter saying he's reinlisting.

Which may completely fuck up our house-buying.

Jon's at least talked to the commander already, and again, the commander's confused on the entire thing. He wants jon to talk to whomever he needs to and see if "Yes he plans on doing it, he just /can't/ right now" will work. Especially since odds are /very/ high that the medboard will end with "Retention on permament profile" (Every official medical ruling has recommended this, as well as the Commander has recommended this).

We just don't know. Both Jon and I feel like we've been kicked in the teeth right now.

I'd thought about maybe trying to see if anyone was willing to share tablespace at Otakon. I even almost made a post about it. But then I guess it's the 'responsible adult' in me, or just a gut feeling, turned it's head and said that probably would be not a good idea. Otakon's timing in general with other things are just... iffy. In a lot of ways, I've been treating the 'no table' deal as a sign I shouldn't do it. Which, from what I hear from potential roomies, is likely the best thing anyway.

Besides, dropping 200 bucks in combined table/hotel fare is probably better in the long run for our moving expenses.

Speaking of which: 22 days left til closing!

Last I heard (thanks to soltian kicking the boards about it), they were going through the wait list's first 25 people, and waiting to see if there's any cancellations, etc, before working through the list. As I"ve not heard anything, I'm assuming I was not one of the first 25. Realistically, this means I"m likely not getting a table.

I'm going to wait until the 15th, though, to actually make the decision to cancel the Hotel room (Unless any of my roommates want it), and shift to Plan B. Plan B is merely spending some time at Otakon, probably on Saturday, so I'm not /completely/ wasting the 55 dollars I put forth for the registration. Why not just still use the HOtel, and do the Con that way? For the last few years, I've managed to pay for my conventions (more or less) from the table-sales. Manning a table insures I don't put myself completely in the hole financially with a convention. This is one of the reasons why Jon lets me attend more than one con a year. If I wasn't /moving/ and /pregnant/ at the same time, I likely wouldn't be caring about this so much. Moving means; I can't just throw money willy nilly around (Hell I even signed a contract that says I can't spend mass amounts of money prior to the house closing). Pregnant means; I need somewhere to plant my ass on a regular basis that isn't the ground. No table means: No place to plant ass, and no means to make up financial loss. Weekend stints at Otakon are out of the question this year.

And I blame the mismanagemental fuckup at AA for it :P

But yes, like I said, if I don't get a table, I still plan on attending on one of those days to say hi to people who are there, etc. I keep saying I'm going to drag Jon to getting a day pass and he can look at all the bad cosplay with me :3

Anyway, sorry if this seriously puts a craw in anyone else's plans. This is stuff I've thought about at length, and talked with Jon about. I'm really sorry.

Dear Otakon Alley Peeps:

Get your head out of your asses.

No Love.
Me.

(This is me being all >( because there's still no word on the wait list issue. And I"m in a seriously bitchy mood and it's a convenient target)

Yesterday was a good day. Mainly due to Jon's making the promotion list. Probably by October (as he'll be in either the first or second batch to sew on, and he thinks sewing on starts in August), he'll be Tech Sergeant Swift. The timing is absolutely /divine/, for lack of a better word. His base pay jumps up by about 225, and his BAH, by about 350. In total, it's nearly a 600 dollar increase. What makes this even better is the BAH will now nearly cover our new mortgage, allowing us to only dip into his actual pay for about maybe 100 of that, instead of close to 4-500. And still have left over from the pay increase to devote to utilities (We don't know how much this'll run us as we've yet to pay utilities as civilians here). And on top of that, due to the VA saying he has to reenlist (and thus, he will be come November), he'll get a small chunk of change for reenlisting that we can either 1) devote to bills or 2) devote to holiday shopping. This will be a little bit larger due to his base pay increase. Yay. And looking a little farther ahead in the future; the turn of the year will bring about a slight increase of pay as well, and then once he hits August next year, we should see another increase, as his Time in SErvice bracket'll move from 10+ years, to 12+ years.

Though, naturally, as those that know Jon, he's bitching >D He's happy about the promotion but 1) he didn't really want to stay in (though he knew it was the best /responsible/ decision, really) and 2) AF's reenlistment only goes for 4 years at it's smallest. He hits 11 years this august. Throw another 4 down, and he'll have already guaranteed 15 years to the USAF. He's always said if he reenlists for a second time, he might as well do the full 20/22 (His initiall enlistment was 6 years. at 5 years, he was able to reenlist, and he did another 6 year enlistment; totaling his current 11 years.). And with this second term landing him square on 15, he's not really seeing a point to getting out then. Due the remaining 5 and get retirement benefits for the rest of his life :P

Another thing he's bitching about: They're already in the process of assigning him a supervisee. He hates it. >D I teased hima bout that at dinner last night. REalizing he was sewing on another stripe, I was like "Oooh, does that mean you get a new underling?" and he just gave me this look. Haha.

In other news; Otakon's AA finally has gotten off their asses and posted the table assignments as well as making nods towards the wait list. There's only 26 'on hold' spaces, which makes me nervous, but the news article said that we "should hear something from them this weekend".

I swear, that whole messwas a mismanaged clusterfuck.

Oh also, since I've not talked about WoW in ages; Our guild downed Hydross in SSC last night. Yay us! We tried Lurker but he pwned us at 80% Sadface. Tonight another group of 'n00bs' are going to attempt ZA. Meh. I'm hoping we can make up Tuesdays' lost Mags run this weekend. Momma needs her chest token!