It’s Friday. That’s a good reason to smile.

Yesterday it was a year ago we moved into our house. Man that was a rough day. But hey we got a story out of it. I find I experience a lot of things and most of the time I just walk away with a story. Sometimes a lesson learned.

I’m officially at the halfway mark of the pregnancy. There is a misconception that pregnancy is 9 months. It’s actually 10. A normal pregnancy is 40 weeks. I’m at week 20.

I was surprised that news of the tragedy in Bailey, CO made the news in Canada (while it was happening). It’s a very upsetting thing, and I don’t have any explanation for why sick people do these things. I have a lot of friends who are teachers, I have friends who have kids in school. All I can do is pray that all schools can be safe places.

On a lighter note, I’ve had I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ by the Scissor Sisters playing over and over and over in my head. For two days straight. It’s really catchy, and I don’t even like the Scissor Sisters.

I’m very excited at the idea that Lexi might come to visit. The plan (before we got pregnant) was for the 3 honorary Kroliks to meet up with some number of Kroliks in NYC, March ’07 to help Lexi get settled at school. Obviously not as easy to do with a newborn in tow. But now I may just get time with Lexi after all. Nothing is in stone yet, so we’ll see. I hope, I hope.

I guess I’ll close with a quote from Gattaca.
Vincent: I’ll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God’s hands, rather than her local geneticist.

Our friends in CA participated in the Breast Cancer walk, and in 10 days, Geoff & Elijah will do the Denver run. Geoff has already reached his goal, but if you’d like to donate, you can do so here.

My mom is participating in the walk being held in Edmonton on Sunday. I am so proud of everyone who has gotten involved on some level, be it participant or supporter.

I read some of Dante’s Divine Comedy a while back, but ran out of time to finish it. Roland posted this quiz, so I took it for fun.

The Dante’s Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Take the Dante’s Inferno Hell Test

Purgatory
You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven.

You know it’s going to be a long week, when it’s only Tuesday and I just want it to be Saturday.

Elijah is going through a frustrating phase. The doctor has been warning me since 15 months that the terrible twos could start anytime. He’s definitely in them. I know it’s not as bad as it could be. We have boundaries and limits that we’ve set in place early, so I hope we’ll survive this.

Saturday night we did UFC and it was pretty cool. The fights were better this time. The next UFC is October 14, and Athena is cool with us having people over for it. 🙂 It is more fun to watch in a group.

Sunday, worship was excellent at church. Geoff did some much needed chores, and I got to have a nap in almost complete silence. It made for a very nice weekend.

I don’t have a lot else going on. Just keeping it low key, saving my energy for Athena’s visit (two weeks!). I am borrowing a double stroller from Myrna and Amy is lending me her playpen for Stephanie to sleep in. So I think we’ll be set.

On the tv front, Studio 60 was really good last night, better than the pilot. House airs tonight (and the episode looks awesome), then it’s off until Oct. 31 so Fox can show baseball. The Contender ends tonight, I’d put my money on Forbes. Y’know if I had money to gamble. G4 is showing reruns of Arrested Development, which cracks me up. And next year, they’ll be showing the animated Spaceballs show. Cool!

I’ll close with a quote from Arrested Development.

Lucille: You tricked me.
Michael: I *deceived* you. “Tricked” makes it sound like we have a playful relationship.

Oh man, we are so eating at Jim ‘N Nick’s all the time! The food was excellent. Geoff said he could go there and just smell the air. When we left we smelled like we’d be sitting by the campfire.

Since it was free and we wanted to get a good feel for the food, we ordered the half dozen cheese biscuits to start. I had the chicken fried chicken (which is essentially, fried chicken) with baked beans and fries. Brown gravy too! Geoff ordered the half rack of baby back ribs, with baked beans and collard greens. He would have liked to have the creamed spinach, but as I’m sure you’ve heard, you can’t eat spinach anywhere right now. Our meals also came with cheese biscuits. Elijah just shared our food, and it was a fine place to bring kids. He got two purple balloons (asked for purple himself). For dessert, they brought us chocolate pie (they were out of pecan). They gave us a fake bill at the end so we could see what that meal would cost.

I told Geoff I want to go for my birthday. It was just a really neat place, and boy oh boy, I could have gone there for dinner that night. It officially opens on Tuesday. They are going to be popular I’m sure.

Now that the weather is definitely Fall, we’ll start making those yummy comfort foods. Like baked macaroni, and stew. I love Fall.

Fell On Black Days – Soundgarden
It’s My Life – No Doubt
Anything, Anything – Dramarama
I Love Rocky Road – Weird Al Yankovic
Float On – Modest Mouse
Do You Want To – Franz Ferdinand
Canadian Skye – Spirit Of The West
The Humpty Dance — Digital Underground
Under My Thumb – Rolling Stones
Got Your News – Easily Amused

Don’t rely on the police.

What?

Sigh. (shaking my head) I left the house for 5 minutes, and the alarm went off. The alarm company called Geoff, who had no idea I wasn’t home, and said yes, send the police. So he called me and told me go home, the police are coming. What happened? It’s a frustrating story I don’t want to divulge. Needless to say, I spent 45 MINUTES waiting for the police to show, in the cold. I couldn’t wait in the car, Elijah was crying and it was starting to drive me batty. He hates being in the car, strapped in if we aren’t moving. So the police finally show up, and I explain to them what happened, and I show them my ID to prove this is my house, and I am able to go get Geoff and have to push my errand until after I get him. It made for a later than scheduled evening, so we went to Chick-Fil-A for dinner.

This is why Geoff wants a gun. Because if we get a burglar in the middle of the night, and the alarm doesn’t scare him away, Geoff wants the security of being able to defend his family. You know, rather than wait 45 minutes for the cops to show up and do something.

In my experience the fire dept is much faster. We live down the road from a fire station, so I know they are our firefighters. Where we live we sort of border two cities, so we’re not sure the correct police dept is being sent.

I can’t totally agree with Flavor Flav. But 911 is a joke, sometimes.

quote from Tennille

Amy & I were at caribou (shock!) and as we were leaving I noticed the parking lot at Jim ‘N Nick’s BBQ was packed. So we swung by and a guy in an apron was in the parking lot. I asked, when do you guys open? He said the 26th, but hey wanna come by for a free meal on Friday? Uh, yeah! So I got a coupon for a free meal, up to 6 guests. Amy got one too, and we got menus to look over. A free southern bbq lunch? Does life get any better?

Hopefully Geoff will be able to get some time off to join us. I’m pretty excited. I don’t think I’ve ever had a southern bbq before.

Sorry to make you all hungry and drooling.

So I watched the Studio 60 premiere on Monday night. It was pretty good (I loved that Felicity Huffman was on). I had some problems keeping track of who did what job, but perhaps it’ll be more clear next week. I don’t know if I can say I’m committing it to “must see tv”.

The Contender was good, I’m glad K-9 is gone, and I had hoped Bravo would have beat Brewer. But it will be Forbes (my pick to win) vs. Brewer.

House was awesome, as usual. I am very interested in seeing where this plot with the underaged girl will go. Also, when is Cuddy’s search for a donor going to pick up again?

Zach Braff has said he’s leaving Scrubs after this season. Will the show go on without him? Who knows, but I’d tune in to see how it fairs without J.D.

Saturday night is UFC fight night (again). We’re having anyone over who wants to watch, so if you’re interested and will be in town, email us. 🙂

I’ll close with a quote from Scrubs.

Elliot: J.D., I really don’t wanna do this. Can’t we just go home, and put on our PJ’s, and watch “Grey’s Anatomy”?
J.D.: Oh, I do love that show. It’s like they’ve been watching our lives and then just put it on TV.