tgif, too much to do

I have a confession to make. I don't know what "emo" means. I see people using it as an adjective and it just confuses me. It makes me think of a guy I used to work with whose name was Emo. It's a mystery.

I went to Walgreens and picked up some cute baby-shower invitations. ($3 for eight invitations?? Yeesh.) Tonight I'll go over to my mom's place and we'll watch the Sox game and put addresses on invitations. It'll be fun. I'm also going to look at an apartment tonight, but it's on the fourth floor (with no elevator) and I think it might be out of my price range anyway. But what the hell, it can't hurt to look I guess.

Tomorrow we're going to set up my baby registry at Target (much wandering around and "shooting" things with the little scanner gun ... should be a party) and then I'm going to a friend's Star Trek TNG viewing marathon party. I'm tired just thinking about the day, but I know it will be fun. Maybe I'll get some actual sleep tonight, who knows.

( Friday Five, on organization or lack thereof )

I've been wondering whether being a mom will force me to get more organized. It didn't really do so for my mom, so maybe it won't. ;) Who knows?

( in which I blather about the difficulty of choosing a stroller/car-seat )

I'm sad that the guy who ran the choir/vocal-ensemble programs at my high school for many years, a great guy with lots of energy and enthusiasm, has quit and gone off to do other stuff. But I'm also endlessly amused to know that his replacement is a guy named Gene Kelly. Really, I swear, that's his actual name. LOL!! :)

further randomness

Yay! They finally announced the Mother's Day event at Fenway Park. They're going to let moms and their families walk on the field! And throw balls in the bullpen! For only $10 per person! Super-cool! My mom works right near the park, so she just walked over and got us tickets. :) We're all excited, cuz we've always wanted to take one of the tours where they let you walk on the field, but we've never gotten around to it. So, yay.

When I was looking at baby-shower invitations yesterday (btw, most of them are SO tacky!), I also accidentally found myself looking at baby-shower cards, like the card you'd buy to give to someone along with your shower gift. I read a couple of them and got all sniffly. I'm going to embarrass myself on the actual shower day, I just know it. ;) I'll probably be a big gooshy mess after opening the very first present. Better bring a mop. ;)

The other day someone was telling me that I shouldn't name my kid Max (not that I was planning to, but apparently he wanted to tell me this anyway) because, according to him, Max as a kid's name is totally passé. I was thinking, "well that's not true, my cousins named their son Max just a couple years ago," and then I realized that particular Max is eighteen and starting college in the fall. *groan* Augh! I'm old!

In related news, the list of most popular baby names for 2002 is out. Emily and Jacob top the list for the umpteenth year in a row.

The full lists:
Girls: Emily, Hannah, Madison, Ashley, Sarah, Alexis, Samantha, Jessica, Elizabeth, Taylor.
Boys: Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua, Christopher, Nicholas, Andrew, Joseph, Daniel, Tyler.

Is it kind of weird that the #10 names are so similar Taylor/Tyler? And some people reverse their genders; at least, there are boys named Taylor, don't know about girls named Tyler. Also, it strikes me as a little odd that almost all the boy names are very sturdy, traditional names (hell, most of them are biblical) whereas most of the girl names are trendy ones. Not all modern (Hannah and Sarah are biblical, and Emily and Elizabeth have been around forever), but still what I'd call trendy.

Anyway, I'm glad to see that none of the names I've been considering are on the list (although that's only because I already discarded Hannah *because* it was on the list) and at some point I'll have to track down the longer top-100 list and check it out too. I wonder if Max will be on it. ;)