Posted by Robbie on February 13th, 2011 | 1 comment
Today I woke up and per usual peeped out Facebook. The first thing I saw was a post from my girl Kathy saying that she (finally) had her baby! Too bad it wasn’t 3 days earlier or else I would have won the baby pool, damn! She checked into the hospital on Friday night at roughly 8 PM and then at approximately 5 AM Melanie Anne was born. 9 lbs, 5 oz, 21.75″ long. If you know Kathy, you know she is a tiny girl, I can’t believe she pushed out a 9+ lb baby (ALL NATURAL BIRTH STYLE TOO!). I talked to Kath today around 2:30 PM (EST) and everyone (mom/dad/baby/mom’s parents) are doing well, all happy and healthy. I have to say I am absolutely thrilled for Kathy and Andy considering all the circumstances involved in this little miracle. I cannot wait to meet Melanie!
Posted by Robbie on February 6th, 2011 | 1 comment
So a few posts ago I was talking about Mexico or whatever and I said I couldn’t go because of reasons that I could not say. Well, the news is out. My BFFs of Utah, Bobbi and Matt, are preggo – thus no Mexico. The due date is mid-September, although I’m hyping a Sept 9 bday so their child and myself can share a birthday. I am super excited for this and I am oddly hype on witnessing the whole pregnancy for Bobbi (is that weird?). I’m not sure why, I just think it’s going to be real cool to watch the entire progression and I unfortunately missed all of that with my home girl Kathy in Michigan.
Speaking of Kathy, her due date was today and as far as I know she hasn’t gone into labor yet. I’m trying to make her hold off until the 9th as that was my date in the baby pool and I really want that dead president. Only 3 more days Kath, you can DOOOOO ITTTTTT.
Posted by Robbie on January 17th, 2011 | 0 comments
I just got back from “vacation” but I feel more than ready to go on a real one. Sure, Michigan is great, seeing the friends, the fam, it’s wonderful, but it’s 20 degrees and snowing. I really could go for some beach in my life! In my previous post I mention Mexico or Caribbean as a question on where I/we should go. Unfortunately, the “we” is really no longer happening due to unforeseen circumstances that I am not at liberty to discuss publicly at this juncture (not for a few more weeks anyway). I really don’t want to go on vacation alone, although I certainly could, I’m fairly certain that none of my friends are able or willing to go due to being broke or getting married this summer. I could always not go on vacation and wait until the summer to go to Hawaii with my parents if they go to visit my cousins, the problem with that is the billion weddings that I will be attending this summer will undoubtedly get in the way of this. Oh decisions, decisions!
Posted by Robbie on January 12th, 2011 | 0 comments
GET IT! Those are the two words fueling me right now. Last week I started my new career as a QA analyst for a subsidiary of a very large health care company and so far it’s going really well. I’m lucky because a guy that used to work with me at my former job is on my team and he’s a cool dude, helpin me out and getting me up to speed on all the stuff we gotta do. Speaking of my team, they’re all crazy, in a great way. There are a lot of making fun and practical jokes on the regular so it makes the days easier to deal with. As a sidenote, I love working downtown (minus the traffic going home but read next paragraph about that).
As I said above, the drive home from the new job is ROUGH. I mean, I guess it isn’t that bad, it certainly isn’t as bad as 696 westbound in Southfield or Ferndale at 5:30 PM in Michigan but it is a pain in the ass. I get off at 5 and apparently, so too, does the rest of downtown SLC so I figured it was about time to start going to the gym after work. First, if you honestly think that I hate traffic that bad, so much so, that I would join a gym, you’re wrong. No, I joined the gym because I’m trying to work out on a regular again. It just so happens that going to the gym at 5 and staying till roughly 6:45-7 really opens up my drive home. See, everything works out. I got a membership to Planet Fitness downtown, it’s literally like 3 doors down from my work. This is actually the first REAL gym I’ve ever been a member of (as in paying), previously I worked out at my parents house and the free gym at my old apartment complex. It was $23 bucks (one time fee) and it’s 10 bucks a month, not bad and I think the gym is really nice actually. They have a ton of cardio machines, lots of great exercise machines and a pretty amount of free weights. As of Monday I started hitting this up after work, I can tell you right now my arms/chest/legs are beyond sore. GET IT! Oh yeah, Mexico or Caribbean? Because one is happening in April/May! GET IT!
Oh yeah, I’ve put some photos taken during the Michigan trip up in the gallery, if you don’t have Facebook you can peep um there.
