Surprise...

Okay, ok... I know it's been awhile. I apologize - life has gotten busy lately.

Anyways, big news: Matt's brother emailed him. That seemed big to me, but it turns out his brother & wife just had a baby - so that's much bigger. His name is Nathaniel Levi Hinton, so now we're an aunt & uncle again.

I feel a little weird about it - I was so happy for Jeff & Kristina (and Lucas and Addison) and worried and I felt really involved with them. This one seems really abstract to me - well, I guess I've never really met any of the players (parents), so it's understandable. Matt's family is so weird, I don't get them.

On the home front - oh, dear, the worst thing just happened.

Last night, we were at home, Matt had worked late, but we were playing the LEGO Indiana Jones right before gonig to bed, when all of a sudden I realized that there was a gargantuan bug crawling up the wall. Icky icky icky icky.

And here's where Matt made an incalculabe mistake - he said "it'll just make it's way outside, c'mon let's keep playing the game."

WHAT?!?!?

I wouldn't rest until the vermin was exterminated (and Matt didn't get to play the game until it was gone, either...) but for one of the first times in my life I wussed out and acted like a girly-girl. I didn't exactly scream, but I have to admit I freaked out, which freaked Matt out.

And in my defense the bug was BIG - like three inches and then plus a huge antenna. Matt said it's a...shudder... cockroach. He also claims that because we are close to the tropics, we're going to get bigger bugs and more of them. He claims that it's normal to have them in the house in NOLA, but I don't know if I believe him - I still have that NoDak mindset that the only way a bug gets into your house is if it's really badly messy.

So I bleached the kitchen last night and made sure all of the food was in ziplocks. Today, after work, I forage for bug spray.

Definately not an overreaction, right?

Anyways, I'm going to try and be a better poster - let's see how that goes...
Barb.