When we bought our house four years ago, we bought it because when we drove by it, I determined it looked just like Lorelai Gilmore’s house.
In hindsight, maybe also subjecting a home to more realistic criteria?
We have since out grown the Gilmore house. Too many kids. Too many toys. Too many people needing to pee in the very small single bathroom. Not enough places for mommy to have alone time.
I mean, the basement is creepy, and I am pretty sure the sump pump hole is haunted.
So.
My sketchy attendance this past month can now, publicly, be blamed on us finalizing the details of our new, bigger, mutli bathroomed, mommy getting off friendly, home. Oh, and it has a pond.
Which could not come at a better time, because on Thanksgiving, I determined I was pregnant.
Now wait.
I already know what you are going to say, so hear me out.
Andy had a vasectomy, I know. I mean, he totally remembers that as well.
And it’s safe to say…Andy is pissed.
It kinda went like this. I was supposed to be upstairs bathing the kids and getting them dressed for Thanksgiving at my parents, only I wasn’t. I was super dizzy, and crampy, and headachey, and hurling in the toilet. And, as I lay on the the cool, sticky bathroom floor wishing the room would stop moving, it dawned on me. These were my symptoms. The symptoms. The ones I had every time. So, I dug through the moving boxes until I found an unused dollar store pregnancy test that I kept around because, I don’t know, sometimes those things are super fun to pee on, GET OFF MY BACK, peed on it, popped blackheads on the mirror for the three minute wait time, and then realized, if I squinted my eyes hard and held it up next to the light bulb above the sink, I was clearly pregnant.
Fuck.
So, I was like, Andy, we need to talk…
Andy: We are not filling up the pond with dirt, I already told you there aren’t dead indians in the bottom of it.
Me: It’s not even about that, and, I don’t see why you need to rush to judgment on this, dead bodies are in ponds all the time, and you also aren’t supposed to call them indians anymore.
Andy: I can’t have this talk with you again.
Me: Why, because you are clearly a zombie bigot?
Andy: …
Me: Whatever. Oh, and I am pregnant.
Andy: Nope, I had a vasectomy and I have the co-pays to prove it.
Me: Well, you apparently have the vas deferens of Kevin Federline, you should have married a pop star with daddy issues.
Andy: I may throw up.
Me: Dude, I totally already did.
Andy: I don’t understand how this happened.
Me: OMG, I know, sex is confusing, and we are obviously doing it wrong.
See folks, after vasectomies, you need to have have a few tests done to make sure it took. And, after our first failed attempt to make magic happen in the sterile jerk off room of our urologist’s office, we decided to collect the specimen at home, in the comfort of our basement, next to a running washing machine, like all people that have three kids with privacy issues and ears like bats do.
Except, like my brilliant plan to sell HerbaLife vitamins in college and be rich, we never actually followed through with it.
I mean, he had knives in his balls, ya know?
Sigh, I am clearly old if a game of catching jizz in a cup sounds too exhausting.
Like jogging.
Or flossing.
So, Andy barely spoke to me the entire Thanksgiving.
I bet Tom Selleck doesn’t act this way when his wife gets accidentally pregnant even though he had a vasectomy. He’s always so super classy.
So, anyways, the next morning I went to the store to buy Rolos, because I am pregnant, and can eat whatever the fuck I want for breakfast, Andy, and I also picked up a two pack of those super pricey digital pregnancy tests.
Andy wanted a second opinion.
And, I like to pee on robots.
Apparently, I am not pregnant. Technology wins again.
But I still ate those fucking Rolos.









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Yay?
Congrats on the new house. When I saw you mention it on FB yesterday I was wondering how much closer we are now. I’m thinking quite a bit. After you get settled in and through the holidays we should totally do sushi. Or margaritas. Or something.
Closer as in proximity to each other.
Yes! ONE town (village?) closer!
OMFG I was in tears for you. I am CRYING. So you’re NOT…right? OMG.
No.
Right?
I think no.
Hopefully.
I just re-read because in my nausea at the thought of a failed vasectomy and pregnancy, I totally missed the new house news. SO JEALOUS. Think of me, crammed in my 700-square foot abode with one bathroom, Just think of me.
OMG…..I was totally overwhelmed for you there for a second.
And, remember Dr. Cox from Scrubs, he had a vasectomy, and Jordan still got pregnant from him. And they named her Jennifer Dylan after JD.
I also had a pregnancy scare a few weeks ago. You know, because that’s what I needed with a 4 wk old baby. But I had the same cramps I had with my 3rd pregnancy. Those God Damn blue dye pregnancy tests leave that faint line behind. I took two and it happened on both. So I cried until I threw up and sobbed and puked and was a mess. Hubs came home and I made him go back to the store and buy a digital one. He took our three year old son with him. You know, because he’s probably going to be buying them for his girfriend in about 13 years anyways, he might as well practice now. Never thought I’d be so happy to see the words ‘not pregnant.’
AJ! You just gave me a whole new fear! Now I need to worrying about buying pregnancy tests for my sons.
WOW! You had me at the puking. Whew!
and YAY about the house!
AND…congrats on the new house! The potential baby news had me all flustered! I am so jealous. We continue peeing in ONE too small bathroom.
DUDE! I would freak out too. Are you SURE SURE SURE? Until you get your period, I wouldn’t rule it out!!! It took 3 negatives before I got a positive w/ the last (LAST) one!
Well I am still nursing, so NO PERIOD.
Now I am kinda freaked out again.
Dammit.
Two words:
Blood test.
Yay!!! Wait… what? I am so confused… about everything but the zombie pond, cause that shit is totally real Andy.
Thank you. He’s so ignorant about life.
We have a pond. Never seen a zombie. I don’t go out there much though, so I could be missing something.
So, are you sad or relieved you aren’t pregnant?
Relieved.
Totally.
–>OH MY GOD, I was totally shocked for you about getting knocked up again. Why were you throwing up then? Was it all the Jack Daniels the night before?
I feel like I need a drink now after reading that.
~deb
I’m glad I read to the end because I actually sat straight up in my chair and screamed out loud, “NO FREAKING WAY!!!!!!” Haha. And I love Rolos too.
Dude. Is it bad I did the math immediately in my head and was like, OMG I AM DUE DURING BLOGHER!?
OMG! Are you trying to give us all a heart attack? Where’s my drink? I mean, we are my pills?
Ok. So to summarize, you are not pregnant and you are moving into an awesome house that may or may not have bodies in the bottom of the pond. And you spent a shit load of money on a robot when you could have bought a month’s supply of Rolos… or Ensure
You’ll let me know when the Ensure thing get’s old right?
Cuz I have delayed reaction. I might not even realize it’s not funny anymore!
Um, I still do the “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” joke. In my opinion, humor has no expiration date. Unless it’s about that guy who’s wife got cut his penis off. That was never really funny. Penises are so gross.
HOLY FUCK BALLS Britty B!!!! That was a close one ….
Haa haa…ROCK on with the Rolos!!
CoNgRaTs on the new GINORMOUS house!!! WOOOT ~ WOOOT!!!!!
Congrats on the new house!
You scared me with that pregnancy story. My husband & I are talking about him getting fixed. Please do not tell us that I could still possibly get preggers. He is not happy about getting fixed once, if he had to do it TWICE, that would be all sorts of bad.
It’s not so much as him having to get it done TWICE. It’ more like having to use protection longer until all the sperm work their way out of his balls.
OMG I am so good at explaining medical things!
So, is Andy planning to never touch you again? Bc when I thought I was pregnant my hubs didn’t come near me for like 6 weeks.
My parents had a pond behind their house, it wasn’t their pond but it was back there, and my friends were going to go swimming in it one time. I didn’t feel like swimming that day, so I was just watching. But before they even took a step in, a guy came out and said “Don’t swim in there! That’s where we bury the dead cows!” So you know, cows/Indians, whatever. BAD THINGS lurk in the bottom of ponds.
Oh, Congratulations!
Are you kidding me?
That is almost the scariest story I have ever heard in my entire life.
Do they just sink dead cows to the bottom? Like the mafia? Only with cows?
You made this whole story up to scare my husband into finally getting is jizz tested (16 months after his vasectomy), didn’t you? Thanks for being our cautionary tale.
Um, consider me the ghost of vasectomies past. THIS IS YOUR LESSON, LEARN IT.
And also, buy toys for that crippled kid down the street.
OMG, I would have curled up in a ball in that one tiny bathroom and cried.
Glad things worked out the way you wanted them to, and congratulations on the new house!
Shut up… I read you all the time (well, lately ’cause I found you a few weeks ago). I was,like, *effing barefoot foodie* (that’s your name at my house) now my husband will never get a vasectomy. I had to show him the post about you talking to the other guy jacking off cause it was hilarious, and then he wanted all the info on the vasectomy process. We’re considering getting one after having 3 kids; you know anything about that? And he doesn’t want professional medical details. He wants *real life* scenarios. So… you’re freaking me out here with your pregnancy scare. I held my breath through the whole post. haha. Totally dying over Kevin Federline.
Ok you are awesome.
Tell your husband vasectomies totally work.
It’s my ability to comprehend my reproductive system that is suspect.
I mean, I watched all the vasectomy videos on youtube, and Andy would never admit this bc he is clearly a drama queen, but to ME, the whole procedure looked like it tickled.
My best friend’s DH had the “snip”, he moped around feeling very sorry for himself for a few days, and Wifey, being all sympathetic asked him what it felt like.
“oh, it just feels Heavy ya’know”.
Heavy? It feels Heavy? Oh honey, we feel “heavy” once a month. The sympathy promptly ended right about there! I think “tickles” is a pretty acurate description!
Ya know it’s now been about 16 years since John had his vasectomy and we never went back for a follow up either…. I wonder if I could pull off what you did?
Dude. Those stupid blue dye tests are horrific. My husband and I are trying for our first, but since I took birth control pills for 2 years straight in hopes of convincing him that I was a fucking reproductive unicorn before we got married….well, I haven’t had a period in the 7 months since I’ve been off of them either. So he still thinks I’m not “icky” like most mammals. He’s got some ugly truths coming his way when we finally do conceive. Anyway, the blue dye tests told me I was preggers two weeks ago, after 2 minutes of waiting post-pee. I got really excited, then took a digital just for good luck. The robot said “Fucking Genetic Dead-End”. Kidding, it said “not pregnant.” So no blue dye tests ever again.
Anyway, I’m happy for you and your currently barren uterus. Gigi shouldn’t have to share you so soon.
Oh my god I just Laughed so hard I cried. Because my mom and I tend to laugh in completely inappropriate situations. I mean we knew you were fertile, it was right there in the header for ever, but seriously?! Anyway, Congratulations on the new house! And omg that cow story has like, forever ruined ponds for me.
I’m worried for you with that pond. Zombies aren’t something to mess around with.
Congrats on the new house and on not being knocked up.
So…. is he going to do the jizz in the cup test now just to be 100% sure that this won’t be a problem in the future?
Re: can’t say “indian” anymore: I still remember my oldest coming home from Kindergarten talking about this mysteriously new seating style called “criss cross applesauce.” It took me forever to realize that he meant sitting indian style!
OMG! That’s what that is?
I took three digi tests and they all said “NOT PREGNANT,” and I totally was.
So don’t count your eggs so quickly!
LOL!!!! I thought “indian style” referred to actual Indians from…India?
You just made my day a lot-a-bit happier with this awesome post.
Congrats on the house & hey.. fill the pond in, you never know when you might need to dump cows/Indians yourself, eh?
Although, its alot more likely to get a false negative than a false positive so maybe you still have hope of having immaculately conceived with Tom Selleck!
Wow.
Talk about an up and down post.
Congrats on the new house (I’m SUPER jealous).
Congrats on NOT being preggers.
Fill the pond with sand because there are probably dead bodies at the bottom—ponds freak me out!
uhg, ponds are gross and scary. fill it. with something cool like jello.
glad to hear you’re not pregnant. ok, that’s a lie. i totally got excited when you said you were pregnant. but i’m glad you’re happy you’re not pregnant. if that makes sense.
OMG–readining that post was like riding a roller coaster! Pregnant–not pregnant–new house–dead Indians…Uou have a very exciting life!
Big congrats on the new house!!
I feel kind of bad that I was hoping you really were pregnant because the upcoming posts would be soooo awesome. Kind of. Mostly I wish you really were pregnant. You know, for my entertainment purposes. Because that is one of the best reasons for having a child. It’s right up there with “getting more welfare money” and “now my married lover will HAVE to leave his wife!”.
So I definitely want to see a picture of your (old?) house because I am OBSESSED with Gilmore Girls. =)
Hooray for your new house and for not being pregnant…I assume you didn’t want to be….but assuming just makes…oh never mind. =)
I read your blog, faithfully. I love you and think you are absolutely hilarious!
Holy fuck, I nearly shit my pants! I have 4 kids and let me tell you there should be a warning, “you must be rich or crazy to have a fourth child”. I’m the latter. Oh and so jealous about the new house, congrats!
Congrats on the new house. I would fill in the pond too, be it dead cows or zombies I hate ponds. I made hubs fill ours in and it’s only like 3 feet deep by 2 feet wide….it could have been a very small zombie…
I feel you on the blue dye test. I too recently sat on a bathroom floor in the fetal position with one of those. Except when I peed on three of the robots they said “PREGNANT” then again, my hubs hasn’t had a vesectomy…yet…
I was soooo about to cry for you. I will only ever EVER use a digital test. Robots always win.
Rolos are WAY tastier than digital pregnancy tests.
Oh fuck dude. I was worried for you for a sec, lol! Glad to hear your dollar store pregnancy test lived up to its expectations.
My husband never went through with the follow up tests either. So i got an IUD. Now, I turn up pregnant, I don’t know how that happened.
Dude, I was gonna say. There will be no fourth child. You’d have to be outta your fucking mind. (No offense o people with four children. I’m sure they’re all beautiful…)
You bitch.
I was jealous of your new house until I heard about the zombie cows. Dude, can you imagine zombie cows walking toward you on their back legs with their front legs out in front of them and their udders all flaccid going, “mooo…brains…mooo.” Zombie milk probably doesn’t taste very good, but at least it’s cold.
Also, I sometimes wonder what will happen to the robot pregnancy tests when we reach the Terminator Era.
isn’t really confused, but wants to pretend to be for the sake of this post. lol
I took the digital tests FIRST when I thought we were pregnant with our fourth. It said “Pregnant”. I took another. It also said “Pregnant”.
So I sent my husband to the store for the old fashioned kind with the lines that show up, because I was convinced that the factory messed up the digital ones and the “Not” wasn’t working.
My husband’s vasectomy came four months into that pregnancy – the minute I could peel myself off the bathroom floor long enough to go with him and watch the cutting (and burning – don’t forget the burning) take place with my own eyes. Had to make sure it happened…
So was it one of those no fail pregnancy tests that you failed? Or was it just old?
I am not sure how…but I am pretty sure your new zombie pond is behind that pregnancy scare.
Well, congratulations on the new house and the not being knocked up and all that.
And I can’t believe he didn’t speak to you. What a bone head. You must really like him anyway though if you are still able to get it on with the reminder or laundry roaring in your ears next to the haunted sump pump.
So the good news is the vasectomy took. I’m guessing. You know, since there are no buns in the oven. Oh, and congrats on the house!
Dude, WTF???
You really had me going. I was getting ready to write you this long letter about how sometimes these things happen and that I would babysit half of your kids if you ever wanted a night out (only 2 because 4 would push me over the edge and Mr. Call Me Crazy would shit if he came home from work to 7 kids – not that you would ever allow me to watch them after reading my blog). Well, anyways, I would still babysit for you and Andy with 3 kids. I can hadle 3 more. That’s it. After that, all bets are off.
Oh, and I also totally had an Octomom joke for you, but I guess I can save that for later (just in case). Or maybe you could save it for me since Mr. Call Me Crazy REFUSES to get tested because “If this shit didn’t work, I am not getting cut again. Ever. So let’s just pray it worked.” Let me tell you, the Good Lord has never heard so many prayers from this girl.
Congrats on the new pad! You should get a stripper pole in the bedroom just because.
so sometimes your comments are almost as funny as your post.
Zombie cows?
I die.
also there really were indians buried behind my house as a child.
DUDE MINE TOO! We have so much to talk about.
A sigh of releif and a hearty congratulations.
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