Things That Must Go

Sometimes it just feels better to write them down, so here are the latest things that need to go:

• This. Winter. It snowed Monday and Tuesday. GO AWAY WINTER!!! No one likes you!!!!
• Marvel stuff. The Avengers was fun, and I liked the first Iron Man. But the rest of this junk (who really wants to see multiple Captain America movies?)  Blech. Just way too much. They're even trying to shove a TV show down our throats now? Way too greedy Disney. Show some class and restraint.
• Those automated customer service lines where you have to tell a robot why you are calling the stupid company, and then have to repeat yourself three times because the robot lady keeps being dumb "I'm sorry, I couldn't understand you" after going through eight different menus and options, and then when you actually do speak to a human being you have to repeat everything you had to enter in the first place. And then they have to transfer you to someone else and then the whole process repeats itself. The worst.
• The U.S.'s crappy, non-existant laws and programs for working pregnant women. All we have is the FMLA?? Really??? Which, by the way, is not specific for pregnancy.  How has some idiot politician not jumped all over that for the female vote?  Honestly, though. Plus we don't have anything for paternity leave. That's pretty messed up and sexist America. Get it together. (Luckily, my work has a pretty great maternity leave policy, but I still think the laws need some updating.)
• The fact that Two-And-A-Half-Men was ever and is still on TV. How???? Why????????
• Finding out that a place you used to eat lunch at fairly regularly, recently failed a health inspection. Just ew.
• People asking whether I'm going to deliver naturally.  First of all, it's none of their business, but secondly, I am a slacker and don't really have my complete 'birth plan' figured out and the question stresses me out and makes me feel even more freaked out about the whole thing.

And of course, I don't want to be completely negative, so here are some goodies too

• The cherry blossoms should be blooming in a few weeks! Poor little guys have had to wait forever for this beastly winter to pass. I feel your pain cherry blossoms. We all do.
• Brody's finals are a month away!!! And then he will be done with school forever! I think I might be even more excited than he is.
• Is there anything better than free shipping both ways? There's no risk!
• As of Wednesday, our apartment is finally finished.  They installed our carpet on Tuesday and finished up all the loose ends Wednesday. I must say, being able to walk barefoot in our bedroom after three months of having to put on shoes just to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night (which is a regular occurrence for me) feels like a luxury.
• Brody found his wedding ring today! It had been lost for a long time. My theory is that is had been lost under the shelves in his closet and the carpet guys found it and put it on one of the shelves in there. Yay!
• For the most part, people are really nice to you when you're prego.
• It's Friday!!!!! And my cute ward is throwing me a shower tomorrow :)

Happy weekend everyone!