I'm Back!

Welcome to 2005!

2004 was a real crapper of a year, but it is finally over and a new year has started. It is going to be a good year, I can just feel it!

To sum up the remainder of 2004, it is pretty simple. Celebrated my five year anniversary with my girl, welcomed the arrival of my mother for Christmas and listened to all of my friends complain about how sick they were over Christmas holidays. All I am complaining about is that I have gotten too fat and that I really need to stop neglecting my workouts.

Marn celebrated her 30th birthday at a party put together by me and her friends. She had a great time and she really enjoyed the Palm Pilot we chipped in and got her. Spoiled Brat she is.

Christmas was good. Tons of presents and food...always a real treat since when Marn and I have Christmas by ourselves, we feast on Kraft dinner and hot dogs. We are sooo traditional.

New Year's Eve was very quiet. A couple of friends came over early in the evening and then Marn headed to bed around 9pm. I stayed up, watched some TV and avoided watching any TV New Year's Celebrations. How fun is it to watch other people having a good time? Anyway, I went outside in the freezing cold and listened to the fireworks going off downtown. Couldn't see anything, but I could hear them. It was nice. Yeah yeah, I am sooo boring!

New Year's Eve also started the ball running on "starting a family". Marn and I are planning on having a baby and while she gets into a doctor, I am working on donor agreements and reading up on adoption since I will want to adopt the baby.

I am so very excited about this. I mean any other time that we have talked about having a baby, I shyed away from the subject because it freaked me out terribly. I would be happy and excited, but the excitement was quick and gone. This time, I am excited but not to the point of it getting stale. I am reading up on things, taking the time to get used to the fact that in a couple of months time, we are hopefully going to be conceiving our child. I couldn't be happier. This is a good thing. I swear my biological clock started ticking with the New Year's rung in because I have never felt this way before.

I am freaked out about how mother will take it, because she hates the idea of us having children, but the child is for us not for her and I have to keep reminding myself of that. This is what we want and my mother's opinion, although it really doesn mean a lot to me, isn't going to change our decision...especially since she won't be told until Marn is about 3 months along. By then, she doesn't have a choice.

Well I have to run and get started with my work day. I wish I could be at home in bed because it is sooo cold out.

Hugs y'all!