bob dylan is still performing?

-post by amber -

call me ignorant, call me rude, call me musically-challenged and beatnik-deprived, but is bob dylan really still performing? i didn't even know he was still alive until a few months ago. my husband is in teluride, colorado right now with is equally-music-obsessed friends watching bob dylan perform tonight. i'm trying to hide the resentment, really i am, but is this man - of which i have posted a picture so you can all see the quandry i am in - really appealing enough to leave your pregnant wife for? let's be serious. :) just kidding, wes. i promise i'll get over it.

i was all for him going until i realized just how much i miss my husband when he's gone. not to mention the fact that we haven't progressed at all on our house-fixing-up because we've been out of town so much lately. and

meanwhile, i am reading harry potter the 7th and trying not to finish it too soon or i'll have nothing to do for the rest of the weekend. thus my blogging. :) maybe i'll clean the house....

Anna - this is for you

About Me:

4 jobs I've had: marketing director, PR director, research assistant, editor, waitress, hostess, oh wait that's more than four. i was never an accountant you'll see....

4 movies I can watch over and over: Ten Things I Hate About You, Pride and Prejudice (all versions), Mean Girls, Jon Tucker Must Die = mostly all brainless but humorous girl movies

4 favorite movies: Mean Girls, Pride and Prejudice (BBC), Brick, and I can't decide right now...

4 random places I've lived: New York, Texas, England (for a summer) and Ghana (for a summer)

4 favorite TV shows: I'm obsessed with Gilmore Girls. And anything on the Food network channel.

4 favorite reality TV shows: Hate them, sorry

4 favorite books: (I added this one because it's easier for me) The Brother's Karamazov, Alice in Wonderland, Tess of the D'ubervilles and every single book written byt he Bronte sisters. Oh and everything by Jane Austen. And Harry Potter - all of them, and Twilight. Sorry - I told you I'm not much for counting correctly....

4 of my favorite places I've been: Amsterdam, Florence, Sofia (just kidding I'm not a masochist), Cambridge and Manhattan

4 favorite foods: Italian anything, Sushi in any way, shape or form (of course now that I'm pregnant my cravings are stronger than ever and I can't have what I want!), Steak and potatoes and chocolate cake.

4 websites I check daily: Wells Fargo - I'm a woman obsessed with finances - Hotmail, various Blogs and a bunch of boring ones for work.

4 favorite hobbies: being jealous that my husband actually has hobbies, freaking out over finances, planning my next vacation and avoiding the reality of what i'm going to do when i have a baby.

pregnant in las vegas

-post by amber-

right after wes got back from scout camp, we took off and drove south. i stayed in st. george and worked for a few days and he went on to las vegas for a gold's gym international convention.

the second night i was in st. george without him the entire city's power got shut off. there was NO WHERE i could go. the dealership i was working in got really hot, movie theaters were closed, stores were closed, no one had air conditioning and no one had any idea how long it would last. i was staying in a tiny cute little mobile home that was stifling! i lasted all of 3 minutes in there when i called wes and announced that i was driving to las vegas for the night.

air conditioning is a beautiful thing. his bosses took everyone out to dinner at the four seasons, i was the only female of the lot and they were all very nice about the fact that i was crashing their boys night. i had to take off again in the morning to go back to st. george and work for a couple more days and then turned around on wednesday morning and went back to las vegas to spend the day with wes. he and his friends and i went to fashion show mall, ceasars palace (where this picture was taken), went to the cheesecake factory (i wish cheesecake appealed to me right now but it doesn't), laid out at the pool (well i did, wes played poker in the beachside casino) and saw wes give his presentation. it was fun, but driving so much took its toll on holden. he didn't like it very much and made his sentiments known the evening we got back. :)

fencing fencing...

--post by amber --

we've been working really hard on our house to get it ready to sell. and when i say "we" i mean wes. and his dad has been a huge help. our goal is to put it on the market by august. wes and his dad put up a fence around our side yard and it looks so good! i try to help but realize i'm just in the way - so i just sit around drinking a lot of water and pretend that i'm working hard....

Holden Hawkins Warren

--entry by amber ---

we had an ultra sound this week - i am 20 1/2 weeks along - and found out it is indubitably a BOY! we were excited but not surprised. it would have knocked my socks on their behinds if it had been a girl; i have totally just "known" it was a boy.

so ultra sounds are strange - the doctors and radiologists point out all these blobs on the screen and say, "oh that's his thalamus" or "these are his kidneys" - it's so weird because i didn't recognize anything. i am just taking their word for it. i mistook his heart for his mouth and his stomach for his head. i was all turned around.

the things that did actually look remotely recognizable were his hands. he had them all clenched in a fist and moving around. he punches me a lot i think. it's cute now while he's 12 ounces but when he gets bigger those hands are going to be full-on weapons.

so we already have the name all picked out. it will be Holden Hawkins Warren. the middle name, of course, being my maiden name. and holden being from holden in The Catcher in the Rye. though possibly one of the most well-written and defined characters in literature (in my humble opinion), it isn't because the character is super heroic or anything. we just really liked the name.

whelp that's it for now. we're going to st. george and las vegas again for work. maybe we'll take some pictures there.