Welcome to Pending, Population: Me and Some Friends
First off, stop reading me here and go read illmatic, Kat's on a tear and writing beautifully right now and deserves some wider recognition even if she did slap my profession around. Hey Kat, you journos wouldn't be anywhere without flacks like me feeding you stories! At least Ryan's gracious enough to pretend he appreciates me!

It occurred to me while I was in the shower this morning (once a month whether I need it or not!) that P and I are currently in a holding pattern as we wait for life to catch up.

The house? Waiting for the final inspection and then escrow and then we get to move in.
The baby? We've obviously got to wait until the little sprogger's good and ready to make his or her entrance into the universe.
Christmas bonus? Gotta wait just a few more days for that and then I've got a whopping five days left before Christmas to get it all done. Sounds like fun? No, it will suck because there will be hordes of freakin' shoppers out this weekend and fighting through them will suck donkey nuts.
My dog? Gotta wait until we've got the house secured before we move forward with that because what happens if the deal falls through and we've already got a dog? Bad things.
My little communications venture? On hold until the New Year when things are clearer although I am continuing to work on my messaging and what it is I expect to be able to offer to clients. I guess its not entirely on hold but it feels like it. The other part of the reason why its on hold is because I have no office space to work from right now but will have plenty of space in the new house.

Others that are in Pending too:
Helen because she's got a dilemma between travel tickets already purchased and a job interview in the wrong country.
Sedalina who's awaiting a "minor" surgery tomorrow that she won't talk about.
Kat is awaiting the start of a clinical drug test trial that she's taking part in (or it may just be a story she's concocting to keep herself going in between freelance assignments).
And there are more, I'm sure. Just waiting for the clock to turn enough to get to that day and time when they can stop waiting and get to living again.

On the positive side, I replaced the huge lava rock with a hole through it in the fish tank and the fish are excited (though its hard to tell with fish, ya know? It had been suffering from a kind of algae called Horse Hair but it didn't look like horse hair at all, it looked like the fastest growing pubic bush ever. But it didn't stand up to high pressure hose washing and what's left has died and turned pink instead of the coarse black it had been. I still feel guilty about confining the fish to an only 20 gallon universe but that'll change when we move to new house as well as I'm certainly not stupid enough to get a 50 gallon tank all set up (and filled with all that heavy, heavy watrer) and then move it into the new place. Maybe I could get the tank just before we move, get it set up there and then move the fish in one quick trip and not have to move the 20 gallon tank with any water in it at all. That'd work.

In Bizarre My-Life-Was-An-Utter-Freakin'-Farcical-LIE News
I just saw Strom Thurmond's daughter on TV. Come on, you remember Strom, the asshole who thinks queers are evil and black people are scary and should be kept in their own areas and not allowed to mingle with whitey?

Hmm, yeah, right. His daughter is a 78 year old mixed breed woman, half white from Senator Thurmond and half, drum roll please, half black from his SIXTEEN year old maid that he had sex with almost 80 years ago.

Okay, so let's just count up the charges here.

This incredibly hypocritical asshat of a man had the audacity to raise his fist (both physically and metaphorically) against the mixing of the black and white races and he'd porked his black maid waaaay back in 1924 or thereabouts? Oh yes, let's not forget that she was sixteen years old at the time so let's toss on a statutory rape charge as well as very likely coercion because, come on now, he was a powerful white man and she was a 16 year old maid. You don't think it was true love, do you?

Everything this fucking liar has said and has stood for is a boldfaced lie and he should be castigated from the public record for the lying scum he really is. No, not because he impregnated a black woman and hid it for 8 decades, not because he used his position of power to coerce a 16 year old girl into sex but because he was so blatantly two faced about it and was a voice for segregation and a racist and an asshole.

[Update: There's a rumor that Strom died last June but I'm pretty sure he's been dead for a few years now and his body was carrying on through the pure power of his hate. What a scumbag!]