10:42 and my stomach is growling at me. “Feed me! Feed me!” Not until 11. If I eat before 11, I’ll be starving again at 3 which, even after a snack, makes exercising at 6 very difficult.

I’m subscribed to 44 RSS feeds. 16 of them are wedding blogs. I like reading about fitness tips, interesting recipes, geeky gadgets, stupid things people say… but wedding blogs are my favorite. I was looking at them before I even started dating Bryan, but I have become quite in love with the wedding industry lately. Everything’s just so pretty! Plus, it’s great fun taking my favorites and blogging about them. My absolute favorite blog at the moment is Weddingbee. The girls tell such great stories with pictures to match.

I forget sometimes that not everyone is as into weddings as I am. I told Bryan’s brother’s fiance that she should join weddingplans on LJ. Yes, that’s right, Bryan’s brother is getting married and now him and Rae think I’m a wedding obsessed freak, but that’s OK, because I am.

Their wedding is next October, on Halloween which sucks a little for three reasons. I get my period that week X( Bryan and I definitely can’t get married until the following Spring at least and his family will be having wedding déjà vu for the next two years. Ah well, at least I’m an only child! The only family member I have that’s close to marriage is getting married this year. Yay! Hugs for Chrissy!

–edit– an article that fits with my post a couple blogs ago about the not so selfish act of not having children: Scientists: Save the planet—have fewer kids –/edit–

Friday, we had a status meeting. I stupidly raised my hand when asked if anyone knows Teradata. I explained that I don’t know how to write the code that actually connects to the database and do all that fancy stuff, but apparently knowing simple SQL is enough to get stuck on some Teradata project that will possibly be written in perl. Great. Not that I have anything against perl, but I don’t really know perl too well.

Saturday, my mom and I went to my cousin’s wedding shower. I found out my other cousin is having a sweet 16 party next weekend and no one bothered to tell me. Bryan’s birthday is next Sunday and we’re supposed to have dinner with his parents. Everyone was saying, “see you Sunday!” as we were leaving. X( I also found out that relatives tried asking my dad for my new address, but he told them I might not be staying here… yeah.

The shower was fun, I won playing Bride Bingo and it was nice to see family that I haven’t seen in over a year since no one tells me when people have parties.

Oh and I learned that I can’t do brown and pink for my wedding because those are Chrissy’s colors. And even if they weren’t, everyone was saying how weird a color choice the brown is. Actually, I was rethinking my choice anyway since I’m not too fond of brown and well, there’s no way I’ll be able to replicate this. I think I’ll stick with pink and black.

Bryan’s birthday party started at 4, we left the shower at 5:15 and got back around 6. The party went well I think. We played Rockband, ate, played games, and generally had a merry time all around. Bryan found out I was funny. ??? We were playing “Why Did the Chicken…” and I made him crack up a few times. What was so funny? I couldn’t think of anything so I wrote down something completely random. I said that the old saying about the armadillo and the flat tire was, “an armadillo in a flat tire is kind of like a cupcake.” The other one he liked was the lawyer went to heaven and the tiger went to hell because “the tiger didn’t eat as many lawyers.” Bryan thought I meant in a cannibalistic sense, which wasn’t really my intention, but it got more laughs.

Today I woke up waaaaay to early. I didn’t fall asleep until maybe 3am last night? I had a lot of caffeine. I woke up at 8 though. I don’t know, I didn’t feel like sleeping anymore. I’m not really that tired, but I’ll probably crash around 11. That’s not really good since we have to go to Bryan’s brother’s today. Maybe I’ll nap while my clothes are washing :-/

There seems to be a bit of a debate going on around Shine today over this article. The author has six reasons, not the best reasons ever, but valid reasons why she doesn’t want to have children.

Some people left lovely comments calling this poor woman selfish. I say, wtf??? How is not wanting to have children selfish? Just because she can and doesn’t want to? Does this mean we should all have ten children because we can???

If anything, I think the opposite is true. Having kids is completely selfish! Introducing more people into the world when there’s already a strain on resources?

Of course, if everyone stopped having children, that would be disastrous. And the more people who have children, the more diverse the gene pool, which is good. The thing is, no one has children for these reasons. People have children because they want to have a family, they have a biological need to pass on their genes, they want to care for someone, they want someone to care for them, they don’t use birth control. They don’t have children to help society.

I think the world could use more people that realize what a big responsibility raising children is. They certainly aren’t selfish, they’re smart.

And if you’re curious, I am not one of these people, I have selfish genes, I want a baby one day. That’s what I want because I know that’s what will make me happy. Just like not having a baby will make this woman happy. Isn’t that the important thing?

Group squee!

–edit– I was counting the number of stories submitted to digg about it. I gave up after 50 X( –/edit–

So they’re doing this new thing at work where they’re blocking websites, like Facebook, Livejournal… Digg and some of your blogs were blocked yesterday, but they seem to be unblocked now. It really wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t have this ugly warning page with big, bold, red text. It’s like OMG, WARNING, YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!!! 50% of the time when I click on a link I see that stupid warning page yelling at me for visiting a blog. Seeing that every ten minutes or so has a way of STRESSING YOU OUT!

Carpooling is working out well. I figure I spend about $20 on gas every week going back and forth to work. Cut that in half and I save about $40 a month. … In theory. Of course I’ve been spending like $30 every week eating out lately. It’s always something. Happy hour, ice cream, someone’s birthday. I spend more money on food when it’s someone’s birthday than I do on the gift. And the added calories X( That’s a few dozen workouts I can’t skip.

I have actually lost weight, though not off my tummy. Seems to mostly be off of my arms and boobs. I tried on the dress I wore to Bryan’s cousin’s wedding last year. It’s too big up there. I’m going to have to buy a magic bra or something this weekend.