argh. what a day. actually, just the first half of the day was bad. i thought i had to get blood drawn 3 times, but i was wrong - 4 times. once when i first got there, then i drank the yucky sweet stuff again and had blood drawn once an hour for the next three hours. apparently i have veins that don't want to cooperate, so after getting poked twice in the left arm, twice in the right arm (one was no good, though), i also got stuck in the back of my right hand. OUCH. my damn hand is still sore. thankfully rob got the day off so i had someone to hang out with & be bored with for all that time. i also had my monthly exam while we were there. i don't like this whole business of getting poked & prodded & probed all the time now just because i'm pregnant. in fact, i hate it. there's a reason i hate going to the doctor. any doctor.
... morei started feeling really funky when i was finally done with all my blood-giving, so we went straight to eat lunch. rob took me to some italian place that's out close to where he lives and it was really good. of course i was also really hungry, but i feel it's safe to say that the food was quite yummy. after that, i was all zonked so he took me back to his apartment and i napped while he went out to run some errands. i woke up about 3 1/2 hours later, and noticed that rob had returned and was also napping. he woke up shortly after i did, though. we hung around for a while, and then went to eat dinner. i was wanting to order about 5 different things on the menu because they all sounded good and i couldn't decide which one i wanted most. rob was all "order everything you want!" because you know, rob is insane. i did end up ordering two things, but he split the 2nd one with me. i still brought leftovers home, though.
they're arguing on politically incorrect about a show they had on nickelodeon earlier in the week. ok - what in the hell is wrong with people? the traditional value coalition (ha) says that the program "proves that this network has been co-opted by homosexual activists who are targeting children. Sodomy is not a family value. Nickelodeon has now lost the trust of parents." sodomy isn't a family value - i don't think anyone said it was. however, i don't think hate is a family value, either.
i actually ended up watching the show. my mom wanted to watch it (she'd read about it in the paper or something) & i didn't even know what she was talking about. then she passed out, though, so i'm the only one who ended up watching it. then i wished i hadn't watched it, because parts of it just made me so angry. there were a couple of children on there that did their best to say they were open-minded and tolerant, yet had obviously been brainwashed by their ultra-conservative ultra-religious parents. i'd want to get angry with them and then i'd realize how young they were - they weren't coming up with this stuff on their own. it had obviously been drilled into their heads. so sad. Falwell says he decided to appear on the show because he "felt there needed to be a kind and gracious voice from the other side." when i think of jerry falwell, the words 'kind' and 'gracious' don't spring to mind.
i'm just so sick of being told that it's a given that a child will have a more stable life within a family led by a heterosexual couple than they would in a family led by a homosexual couple. i grew up with a mom and a dad, and my life wasn't so stable. i think my parents did the best they could and i don't think they would have done any better or worse had they been gay. i think the thing that matters most is what's in your heart.
so, yeah. sorry about my ranting. i just needed to get that out of my head.