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Well it was a good ole Christmas. We go to visit my folks and Adams folks + Softie. It was really great seeing everyone, even though I’m sure I’m hard to be around. I tend to be snippy at times lately. I can’t imagine what’s making me psycho like that.

Oh right. Little peapod. Here is exactly 1 month after the first sonogram. Peapod is about 2.5 inches long now, per the Doc. I still can’t feel anything wiggling around yet and we still don’t know the sex. I think we’ll find that out around February or so.

I’ve gotten the most amazing gifts in the last month. I got a new camera for my birthday. My first digital camera ever and it’s a damn good one. A Canon S3 IS. Love it. And one of my Christmas presents from adam is a pool stick! It is so awesome, I love it. Other than that I’ve just been having a pretty crappy time with headaches and nausea. I don’t believe the nausea is from being pregnant, but from the headaches. I think the headaches are from being pregnant. It sucks. Doc says it’s not unusually to go through a period of regular headaches, but that it should pass. Waiting for that to happen. I’m not really experiencing any other big stuff. Just random bouts of hunger, sleepy all the time, yadda yadda. Speaking of, it’s near bedtime.

Holla.

So, I just heard the recording from Verizon’s bad math. This guy was going to Canada, so he called to see what the rate was for data. He was quoted .002 cents per kilobit. When he got his bill, he was charged .002 dollars per kilobit. He then spends long amounts of time trying to resolve this with multiple customer service people, who each say, yes, we quoted you .002 cents, which is correct. We then charged you $71.79 for 35,893 kilobytes of usage.

I understand their screw up in my head, but I wrote it down to play it out to myself. The main problem with all of the representatives he spoke with assumed that .002 represented the decimal point that separates dollars and cents when describing our currency. However, the quote they provided did not. The quote described the decimal representation of a percentage of a cent. .002 cents is .2% of one penny. (Just as .2 is 20% and .02 is 2%.) If you do the math to figure the percentage difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars, it’s very clear. Doing first grade mulitplication, to figure .002 cents, write down $0.01 times .002.

$0.01
X .002
______
$0.00002

You will get an answer of $0.00002. This is .002 cents represented in dollar form.

Now to figure .002 dollars, write down $1.00 times .002.

$1.00
X .002
_______
$0.00200

You will get an answer of $0.00200. This is .002 dollars represented in dollar form.

So the problem was, Verizon quoted and its representatives quoted .002 cents per kilobit, then their system charged .002 dollars per kilobit. The end difference being $71.79 for .002 dollars per kilobit or $0.7179 for .002 cents per kilobit.

I don’t know if this explanation was any better than how he explained it, but it’s really sad that the people he spoke with couldn’t grasp the idea that there COULD be a difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents. Sad, really. Here’s the audio.

Here’s little Peapod as of 1 week ago. Peapod is the little white dot in the middle of the dark, black eyed pea shaped thingy. The heartbeat was basically that little dot blinking like a flashlight. Really weird.

Today, Peapod should have little webbed fingers and toes sticking out in the appropriate places. It’s not really that pretty, so I wouldn’t suggest Googling it. Just imagine tiny hands and feet in your head and keep it that way. That way is cute.

Next appointment is December 21. Will probably update then with another sonogram.

Well apparently everyone read it this morning before they left. Huzzah secrets!

So, fun news. I’m hoping that the family coming here tomorrow for Thanksgiving won’t read my blog tomorrow. I want to tell them in person, so if you do read this or if you already know, don’t tell the people you’re riding with!

Adam and I are having a baby!

To answer frequently asked questions I’ve had thus far:

Are you excited? Yes.
When are you due? July 13, 2007.
Were you planning this? No.
Are you going to breastfeed? No. La Leche League, be damned.
Are you going to wear those revealing shirts that show your entire pregnant belly? A huge hell no…
When can you tell the sex? 20 weeks, so she says.
Are you going to find out the sex? Yes.
Are you feeling okay? For the most part.
Have you picked out names? Yep.
Do you want a boy or a girl? Don’t care.
Do you have any cravings yet? Yes, Jalapenos.

I’ll answer more as I get more questions to answer. We had the first sonogram last week. I will scan one of those in as soon as possible. It has an incredibly likeness to a black eyed pea, so the nickname at the moment is Peapod. It’s also technically a parasite, so the full nickname is Peapod Parasite. Thems jokes.

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