Up periscope.

Alright. It has been an intense summer to say the least. As a result I have decided to never take an overload of units over a summer ever again, in fact I don’t ever want to take summer classes if I can help it. I have spent as much time over the last two months sleeping in my car on my breaks or on a desk at school as I have in my own bed. I have not had time to do anything except homework, which has been insightful, but somewhat dull and very stressful. I though I was going to die. But I didn’t. However to kind of let my self decompress after such an intense summer, I have not touched my computer at all since my final. As a result, my book has been suffering. Hmmm… Let’s fix that shall we.

My baby is gonna be a little chickee-doo. Her name will be Clover Anna Marie, this is by far the most exciting development that has happened over the last couple weeks while I have been off the radar. Kristin and I went in for a level 2 ultrasound and were able to see what the precious little creature is growing in my wifey’s tummy looks like. I am still working on getting the pictures in a digital format, but I will, and you will all see them, and then you will say: “she looks kind of lumpy, not precious, you lied to me Pete.” Then I will say, “Yeah, I guess I can’t argue with the lumpy part, but she I going to be precious even if you don’t know it yet and it made me cry when I saw her cute little wiggliness on the screen and then her little face and toes and she was cute and it was strange like I’ve never had and I’m going to be a dad and I still have not quite been able to feel like I am the man for the job but it’s going to happen anyway and holy crap. Clover Anna Marie.” *phew* I think I forgot to breathe for a minute.

Thanks mom, for not naming your dog clover, even though Sarah tried to make you do it. I’m glad that none of the pet name changing kids live at home to change the name clover instead of autumn or peanut brittle or what ever its real name is. I am also glad that I don’t have scoop the poop anymore. Strange enough I was thinking about that the other day on the way to work, because I see so many people carrying their dog poo around in bags here and it makes me laugh and I’m glad I don’t have to clean up dog poo. Then I think about how I am going to have to clean up after a complete pooping machine here in a couple of months and get kind of not excited about that part of having a precious little baby.

So, there it is that is what has been on my mind aside from Harry Potter over the last couple weeks.

As kind of a tradition after a semester like the one I just had this summer, I read books that make it so I don’t have to think for the first bit of my break before I start my “summer reading list.” This break I chose Harry Potter. I finished the series. I liked it. Again.

The other day at work I explained to somebody how I am a compulsive mess maker. There are times when I just can’t help pushing the syrup pumps, especially the one that says “push gently” on the handle. I wonder if Clover will do stuff like that. Sometimes I hope she is more like her mom.

Okay. It has been a pleasure. I forgot how fun it is to write, and am excited to write more later.

-p