Okay, I'm sorry it's been so long since last I blogged...I've gotten some feedback that some people actually check back here from time to time, and I'm not giving them any new news! Perhaps it's because life has been somewhat ho-hum of late....I just turned in my final paper for fall semester yesterday! So now at least I have no school worries to be concerned about (until I get my grades!). My paper was on the impact of Sarbanes Oxley on Innovation in Corporate America...thrilling, huh? (If anyone would like a copy, please send a self addressed stamp envelope and $3.95 IP fee to... oh forget it!). My conclusion was that even though SOX is harming small companies, the SEC will likely not do anything about it. And today, the SEC is doing something about it! A day late and a dollar short, the SEC decided to absolve small cap companies of some of the SOX requirements. So there goes my thesis.
If you've been bored with the previous nerdy sentences on accounting theory, please click on for jucier stuff...
...okay not much jucier. I went in for a blood test today to check and see if Baby O will have any issues later in life. Normally the taking of my blood doesn't bother me that much (years of watching vamps try to suck Buffy dry has hardened my stomach), but today it was more difficult. The tech asked if I was nervous, and I guess I was because this test is such an important one! I went to my first prenatal yoga class last week, and I felt like it was the first time I had really bonded with my baby. I mean, I know there's a baby in there, but I can't really feel him move yet, so sometimes it just business as usual. But at yoga, I got a chance to really imagine what it will be like. Other women there were in their 9th month, so I was imagining how I'll look in five months. When we were meditating and supposed to imagine a happy comforting place, my first thought was to imagine my little guy in the womb, how warm and soft it is in there and how happy he is (hopefully!). So anyway, getting a bit sappy here, we'll just say I'm looking forward to everything, swollen feet, sleep deprovation, the whole nine yards.
To get even more sappy, I was thinking this morning that I think I'm entering kind of a second Renaissance. I really feel like the best times for me are going to be the next 10 years, the "childbearing" years if you will. I know it sounds hokey, but in the past, once I started work and was trying to continue to live up my twenties, all I could focus on was how great college was and how those were the best years of my life. Before that, high school was pretty great too. Not to discount meeting Cory and our previous four years of marriage together, they've been pretty great too, but I guess I just always thought college would remain "the best time." It's changing now; I'm about to become a mom, and watching Cory become a dad is just the greatest thing. I know it won't necessarily all be good (there were shitty times in college too), but I'm just so excited about what's going to happen the next few years. I've got a good job, school has been great, and now I'm going to have a kid and find out what all of that is about. I feel closer to my family and Cory's, and it's just really all good!
Okay, enough sap. I'll leave you with these ramblings for now, and will make a new years resolution to blog more! Stay tuned....the first week of January I'll be posting sono pics, as well as the sex of the baby! We'll see if my inklings that it's a boy are correct, if he lets us see his twig & berries. :) Happy Holidays to everyone!!
