49 Days: What's on my mind

49 days to go. Holy crap! Yes, somehow curbing my swearing is on my To-Do List. In fact, in the next seven weeks (seven?!?!), I hope to:

• stop swearing
• baby-proof the house
• cat-proof the nursery
• clean out nursery of painting paraphernalia
• set-up nursery (baby furniture assembly, clothing & toys & book organization, decorating, etc)
• finish organizing, cleaning upstairs office, bathroom, bedroom
• celebrate anniversary
• shop for/make presents
• hit every Seattle used book store for out-of-print Stephen Cosgrove's Serendipity series
• pick pediatrician
• attend birthing classes
• attend baby shower
• attend Heidi's birthday party
• pack hospital bag
• agree on Kailea's middle name
• recover from cold
• stop getting sick
• stop cheating on diabetic diet
• gain more weight
• remember to eat veggies
• remember to take vitamins
• make decisions on medications
• episiotomy avoidance training
• cats to vet
• start clipping cats' claws regularly
• kick cats out of bedroom at night, leading up to permanent 24/7 ban
• deal with whiney cats
• finish downstairs "cat haven"
• stop contemplating chopping off my hair
• enjoy regular showers
• stop paying so much attention to politics
• stop having such high expectations of blog and just WRITE
• CALL MY MOTHER
• stop singing the "I'm having an alien baby" song, no matter how freaky it is when she re-enacts scenes from the Alien movies
• somehow eliminate the wound-care scene of the movie "50/50" from my memory
• remember the 500 other things I have to do before baby arrives that I can't seem to recall right now

Stuff on my mind that I can't stop thinking about, but will probably never find the time to actually write about:

Rick Santorum is stupid.
Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: ‘It’s Not Okay, It’s A License To Do Things’
Santorum: no apology needed for Quran burning
Santorum: Separation Of Church And State 'Makes Me Want To Throw Up'
Santorum's stone-age view of women

Rick Santorum is dangerous.
Santorum's policies would have killed my daughter

Rick Santorum is offensive to non-Christians, believing that theology not based on the Bible is phony.
Santorum: Obama's worldview upside-down

Non-Christian values and religious views that include environmentalism and helping each other are not phony, nor are they non-Christian.
Kwanzaa (see: Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics)
(Christian) Stewardship

Marriage Equality was declared a right by the Supreme Court back in the 60s.
Constitution Day: Marriage Equality Is A Right The Constitution Demands

The Defense of Marriage Act ignores the Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause.
Defense of Marriage Act
Full Faith and Credit Clause

Correlation and Causation are not the same fucking thing.
or
Gestational Diabetes is has nothing to do with being fat, and implying it does is offensive, cruel, and dangerous.
Exaggerating the Risks Again
Gestational Diabetes, Weight Loss, & More!
I Am Sure You Have Gestational Diabetes Because You Are Overweight
You Did NOT Eat Your Way to Diabetes!

Hallelujah I have not yet run into any offensive breast-feeding nazis, pregnancy worshippers, parenting saints, or tummy-rubbing personal-space invaders!
Don't Carpe Diem

My mother-in-law is awesome.