:: Brinna's ::

:: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 ::

Well, here I am on election day, and I haven't written in months. Who will win?? :)

Anyhows, I've had lots of things go on. I'm living here in beautiful, scenic, expensive Monterey, California. Er, well, I'm living in Seaside, 2 miles away from Monterey. In old Fort Ord. Which isn't a fort anymore, officially. It closed in '94. So it's just military housing now.

We've been kinda trying to conceive a baby ever since Andrew got out of Basic, and I'm happy to say that after 6 months, we've succeeded! All seems to be going well, and I'm due July 4th, 2005. I'm 5 weeks pregnant. My doctor is awesome--he wears an earring all the time. I have my navel pierced and when he saw it, he told me he used to have his pierced too! He never once mentioned me taking it out now that I'm pregnant (my last doctor saw it when she knew I had started trying and immediately told me 'that has to go'..). He gave me a doctor's note saying that I can't be around smoke (my waitressing job has outside tables--in CA you have to smoke outside), so I can work where it's warm and smoke-free--AND, saying that I can eat whenever I want to, 'including at work'! That just thrilled me..at my job the manager is super strict, he has a cow if he sees you eating on duty. He's okay most of the time, but he's way too much a stickler for rules. And some of the rules he's made!! He's the only drawback to the job I have. More on my job:

When I got here, I almost immediately got a job at the Portola Plaza Hotel in downtown Monterey, right next to the Old Fisherman's Wharf. I started out in room service (which I figured would be my dream job--what could be more difficult than delivering food to someone's room?), but ended up in the hotel's sports bar/brewery, called Peter B's. Room service was absolutely dead and boring, and the sports bar needed people, so I transferred over. Now I average $75/night in tips, and my best night was $155. Woohoo! And to top things off, this is the first job I've ever had that I like every person there and everyone there likes me. Other than that the manager is way too strict, but that's a different story. Besides, that issue's over now that I have the doctor's note, so I get to eat whenever I want!!! (insert evil/mischevious laugh)

Oh, and my sister is doing loads better. She moved back to Colorado to live with our parents again, and is in college now. She's learning to play the guitar, snowboard, and other social things. She's joined a good Bible study.

Speaking of the guitar, I'm in a punk rock funk lately. For Halloween we dressed up for work, and I wore a hot pink punk Hello Kitty tee from Hot Topic, with rocker Hello Kitty arm warmers, knee-highs, and shoelaces, and a black and pink pin-striped skirt that had lace on the hem. And, I put pink streaks in my (blond) hair, then put them in two pigtail/braids. It was awesome. Not too busy that day and I still made $80! ;) I've always liked punk/goth stuff, but I probably got started off with the electric guitar interest from watching Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday. I know she prolly didn't really play the guitar in it, but Jamie Lee Curtis did...and Lindsay's just cool so I'll forgive her. I dyed my hair light red like her, and it doesn't even look that bad. :)

Okay, I'm going to post a belly pic. I think I'm going to start posting preggo belly pics every couple weeks or so, just cause preggo belly pics are so cool. :) The first one is me back when I was size 3 (I'm size 5 now), trying to become a model (I wasn't tall enough). As you can see, my belly is completely flat. Following is my new, 5 wks pregnant belly shot. Granted, I have a bit more meat on my bones, but 2 weeks ago my belly was still completely flat. I'm not saying that the baby is big enough yet to do that, but the uterus is getting bigger, and my body's making room for when it DOES grow. Cool, huh?

:: Brinna 3:37 PM [+] ::
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